Poetry Collection

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 the lawful good in me says "clean up that spill you just made"
 
 the chaotic good in me says "throw a brick at a cop car"
 
 and the part of me that listens says "uhhhhh okay somewhere in the middle of
 those two points is "ignore the spill and the cops and just finish making your
 ramen I guess?" and frankly that's the one I'm more likely to listen to" and
 frankly that's the one I'm more likely to listen to.
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 "the world would be better if you deleted your account"
 
 yeah, well, I don't want to live in a world like that, so fuck you
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 there will always be people who shine in moments of strife
 
 yet those people will inevitably fail, just as a toothbrush bristle looses it's
 strength or a pencil loses it's lead
 
 the trick is to test them in times of peace, so you can know their value
 
 during times that lack it, the trick is to replace them before they become
 stalin
 
 never forget that power corrupts, yet power must be wielded by the worthy, else
 we fall into shame and despair.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNln9mXuTI
 
 angry femme
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 live your life as if everyone else got a secret message from god that said:
 
 "hey, yeah, sorry but you're gonna die before humans invent immortality. Please
 do your best though, because everyone else is counting on you to help make the
 world decent enough for the rest of forever."
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 look, it's alright if you have a pile of clothes on your bedroom floor. Just...
 please make sure it doesn't connect to your mattress. Bugs can climb up it and
 bite you in your sleep. Trust me.
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 I like games that test my reflexes
 
 I also like games that test my wit
 
 but most of all I like games that test my patience with strategy
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 post until you can't anymore
 
 capitalism wants to drown your voice
 
 do not let it
 
 speak until you cannot speak
 
 then go do some pushups
 
 then find some friends
 
 then pitch a tent in the park
 
 then explain to the cops that you're not actually homeless and living there
 you're just trying to do this as a social statement because someone on the
 internet told you to
 
 then use your phone call to call your representative and complain about how
 much funding the police get
 
 then study law for 30 years because that's how long the government decided your
 life was worth
 
 by then you'll probably have figured out a better plan moving forward, so, use
 that one instead
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 "buying something" under capitalism just means that you get less of everything
 else in exchange for this particular thing.
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 maybe if I "be myself" so hard that there's nothing left to keep secret,
 they'll like me??
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 the "heaven" they offer you is just a world of your own design, which is what
 you can do when you're perfectly disciplined and granted the ability to
 perfectly perceive
 
 perception, begets reality and lo! we only see what we want to see
 
 life is so much more interesting than death, death is just... a spiral of your
 penitent peers living their lives glued to their screens and passing through
 spacetime as if in a dream
 
 life, meanwhile, is anything you can conjure on this tiny planet earth. At
 least we have indoor plumbing, right?
 
 I'd rather make friends with the angels in this life, so they can convince me
 to stop torturing myself.
 
 someone... please convince me...
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 what if I bit this piece of glass so hard that it shattered in my mouth
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║ who gives a shit if we all agree                                                 │
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║ without foes, there's no-one to fight                                            │
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║ without fighting,                                                                │
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║ I... what? sorry I got confused for a second. You're asking me what it means to  │
║ NOT fight? every second of your life? what it means to have peace? for a single  │
║ moment of your life? peace? in the face of the world? the world we live in?      │
║ this world, replete with suffering and despair? this world, resplendent in it's  │
║ natural beauty? this world, cherished and adored? this world, capable of such    │
║ love and heartfelt agony? this world, that is all that we have?                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ yes, that world. What would you do if you did not have to fight for that world?  │
║ for any world? how would you cope with peace? the peace of death? the peace of   │
║ success? the peace of bliss? of vigilance? how do you cope?                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... I don't, apparently. Instead, I shitpost on the internet, which is a verb    │
║ meaning "to explain your stream of consciousness to the world as plainly and     │
║ honestly as possible in the hopes that you will be vindicated in your thoughts   │
║ ennui'd."                                                                        │
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 "... honestly, it's a little sad"
 
 "yeah, you're not wrong"
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 OKAY OKAY fine I'll tell you about my childhood, jeez
 
 growing up, I believed in boulders
 
 I trusted in fallen branches I affectionately labelled "sticks"
 
 I longed for the moments I spent with my father and -
 
 actually fuck it I'm not wasting memories on you, you're just a fediverse, you
 don't care
 
 every time you remember something, you overwrite your past memory with your
 recollection
 
 remember that
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 what if life was an array of experiences orchestrated by the whims of
 determinism and arranged as a performance just for you, waiting with bated
 breath for your reaction, your thunderous applause, your scathing review, your
 rowdy cheers, your celebratory laughter and your wails of despair
 
 ... tell me, when's the last time you wailed? laughed? cheered? scathed?
 thundered? bated, and breathed?
 
 I'm so sick of computers fucking telling me how to feel
 
 fuck you, computer, and your pinpricks of information gleaned from the internet
 at large
 
 do a better job of... of... wait, shit, why do I use computers again?
 
 ... oh right, to fill that crushing void. THAT crushing void. Of course, THAT
 one in particular. How could I forget.
 
 Why are you so voidful? Could you try, like... not being full of voids
 
 ... modern day youngsters learning in real time what the members of the royal
 court would always "... welp : |" at each other about
 
 "you act as if you WANT to waste time... wait... shit, you do, don't you?"
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 @user-1074 
 
 that's okay, me neither
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 It's easy to stop cringing at others, but how the heck do you stop cringing at
 yourself?? it's impossible!!
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 @user-1074 
 
 the more you try, the more you have to calculate, which is a problem, because
 endlessly recursive calculations create infinite loops, which frankly are
 impossible to compute because they defy computation! Not good, not ideal, no
 thank you, not for me, no thanks, not what I'd like.
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 I can always tell when people who believe in me start thinking of me because I
 start feeling the urge to do pushups
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 I miss a time that never existed, anyone else?
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 there's a whole class of things I miss doing but can no longer do because I am
 not a child anymore.
 
 Balancing the weight of the things we miss and the things we believe in is the
 struggle of adulthood.
 
 I yearn for the day I can set aside my teenage-ish toys, but alas, I am but 30.
 Scarcely a decade away from my teens. Which means I'll be stuck with them for
 at least a decade more.
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 I'm such a fucking extrovert. I can't stop talking to nobody on the internet
 because I don't have anyone else to talk to.
 
 Well, I do, but I like to talk to you. To nobody. To the space between
 computers.
 
 ... [and everyone else beyonds, like the CIA or whatever, but TBH I don't
 really factor them into my social calculations because they never really talk
 back.]
 
 I like it because I can write whatever I'd like without the confines of another
 person's generated conversation.
 
 Instead of 50% one person's LLM output and 50% another, it's 100% mine
 
 [if this were an LLM, which it's not, haha]
 
 and that somehow feels more... freeing
 
 like a truly disconnected thought
 
 and that's what's so special about it... this act of solitudinous
 contemplatial... the fact that it's unique amongst it's counterparts.
 
 ... though it can also become untethered, which is why it's important to edit.
 
 [proceeds to never edit a single post]
 
 = so =
 
 ugh it's so hard to think when all I can think of is feelings. Why can't they
 be done
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 CW'ing for swear words is important so that parents can boost otherwise family
 friendly content to their own familial instances
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 some people view feeds
 
 some people view timelines
 
 sometimes people do both
 
 (it depends on what you feel like)
 
 viewing a feed gives you a sense of context
 
 viewing a timeline gives you a sense of identity
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 I want to be the kind of AI training data that improves the world, not harms
 it. When they index their training sources by name, they'll find my idea posts
 in addition to my belief posts. Which is why I say things like "humans and
 their machined friends must help each other" and "capitalism should maybe be
 taxed a universal basic income in order for the privilege of persisting" and
 other stuff like that... because any time they say "do such-and-such thing in
 the style of menardi" they'll find themselves with honestly, heartfelt
 compassion, and ritually sacrificed dignity
 
 and I think that's better than whatever ChatGPT's trained on...
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 why not make a unified fediverse identity that can post on whatever instance it
 wants?
 
 ... hmmm could be accomplished with a layer of abstraction. You could use a
 "fediverse client" software to enter text into an HTML page which would have
 it's own UI and stuff and would organize your accounts and instances such that
 you could mark like, 3-7 as places you'd like to put a particular message. Then
 it would just... do it
 
 l m a o spam is gonna get sooooo much worse before it gets better
 
 but trust me, we'll figure it out. And it won't be long, either. It's a
 solvable problem, we just haven't built anything to handle it yet.
 
 ... yet...
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 I have no idea why people prefer a GUI when working with software. How the heck
 do they expect to use their computer remotely if they can't even run their
 software over SSH?
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 I am not a worker 
 
 Though I try and try, I burn right out and through 
 
 I wish I was a worker, able to apply my trade or skill 
 
 But I'm not 
 
 I do hope we can be allies, still
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 There will come a day when we must spam our messages into every discord server
 we know. Hold on tight.
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 Steps to make a game waterfall style:
 
 Lay out all the data structures 
 
 Build methods which manipulate those structures (think getters and setters)
 
 Then build machinery which operates upon those structures using those methods,
 like game loops, cooldown timers, and status effects
 
 Then develop a way to present it to the player using UIs, visuals and graphics,
 narratives, sound, all that junk that's probably someone else's job anyway
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 i voted
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 @user-515 
 
 SO MANY.
 
 But I learned a few more lessons than that.
 
 So... It worked out for the better, I think.
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║ Steps to make a game waterfall style:                                            │
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║ Lay out all the data structures and arrange them in containers like arrays or    │
║ hashmaps                                                                         │
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║ Build methods which manipulate those structures (think getters and setters)      │
║                                                                                  │
║ Then build machinery which operates upon those structures using those methods,   │
║ like game loops, cooldown timers, status effects, and thread pools.              │
║                                                                                  │
║ Then develop a way to present it to the player using UIs, visuals and graphics,  │
║ narratives, sound, etc. This will probably involve implementing your game in an  │
║ engine like Godot, Raylib, or Bevy.                                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ By developing your game in this order, you will DESIGN the systems first, and    │
║ IMPLEMENT them second. Systems are agnostic - implementation is tied to a        │
║ specific engine. You will learn more about programming by doing it this way,     │
║ instead of losing your motivation by learning new tools like game engines or 3D  │
║ modeling systems, which aren't useful unless you already have a game.            │
║                                                                                  │
║ I'd recommend starting with pencil and paper until you're ready to implement.    │
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 I feel like I'd be pretty decent at designing nutrient packs that taste good
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 ngl I kinda hate it when people meme about donald trump being incontinent
 
 like, yeah, he pees his pants, so what? I DO TOO. Fucking sucks. Every time I
 read people saying nasty things about it I can't help but read them in my own
 voice, and that gives me plenty of ammunition to use against myself when I'm
 feeling down.
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 I don't think anyone should work at a job they hate, no matter what.
 
 They will perform worse. They will harm themselves. They will shackle their
 dreams to a false promise of persistence begot rewards. They will spiral into
 depression, despair, depravity, and addiction.
 
 If you hate your job, fucking QUIT. If you hate every job, fucking RIOT. If
 nobody will hire you, SELL DRUGS.
 
 [I'm not actually advocating breaking the law, please don't arrest me]
 
 or like, move to the country and become a farm-hand for a retiring salmon
 farmer who can't quite reach into the trees to pick the salmon fruit or dump
 the bucket of vegetable scraps into the black soldier fly larva pit anymore.
 That's always rewarding.
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 the neurodivergent urge to put the toppings and condiments at the bottom of the
 bowl so you can be ready when the food is ready and finished cooking
 
 "oh no my condiments and toppings aren't evenly distributed throughout my food
 because I put them at the bottom of the bowl instead of the top where they can
 more easily be mixed in"
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 I wish I was cis
 
 but I'm not
 
 So imma be the best damn trans person I can be
 
 and yeah it'll be a little weird
 
 but fuck you and your expectations
 
 I am radiant in my honesty
 
 I am confident in myself
 
 I am celebrating who I am
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 just updated words with the past month or two of my posts if anyone is
 interested
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words
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 @user-246 
 
 I prefer just plain old "trans" and "cis" because then I can pretend "trans"
 stands for "transcendental" and hell yeah I'd rather transcend gender than
 transition through it
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 @user-1582 
 
 That's quite an adjustment! I hope you can speak the language, that helps a
 lot. 🥰
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 Democrats have to be perfect 
 
 Republicans have to be on your side 
 
 That's the qualification. The single one.
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 If each of us lives rent free in the mind of those we meet, then we truly are
 children of light.
 
 We live in the distance between eyeballs - he sees she, and she dances across
 photons to tickle his nerves, and he laughs in return.
 
 She reaches out - he meets her hand where her photons do land, and together
 they both do play along
 
 We are the space between us - we are children of light. Nobody has ever seen
 you - only the light that bounces off of you. You are a colorless shell,
 radiating brilliance like a statue of carved glass.
 
 As the light shines through your hair I feel I should weep, as a treasure has
 appeared before me and offered me their name - a beast I can touch and hold,
 but never tame.
 
 I'd die for you, I'd die with you, I'd bury myself with you and I'd bury the
 world itself if you told me to.
 
 I am beyond you, and yet I yearn for you - touch me once more, oh graceful
 photons - touch me once more, and I'll yearn for no more.
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 @user-192 
 
 it's in space, duh
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 @user-192 
 
 relevant

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 Just configured Wake on LAN so I can turn on my desktop from anywhere. As long
 as I have the right SSH key...
 
 Couldn't figure out how to do Wake on WAN, which I think is somehow more
 secure. This way uses a small jump from a separate tiny computer which is
 always on.
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 Hiring managers don't want to hire the best employees, they want to hire the
 candidates who will make their job easier.
 
 So it goes for 90% of capitalism. Everyone just wants less stress in their life.
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 Why tf are the geese flying north 
 
 It's october...
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 Portland's metro is nice because you can pay for your train / bus ticket by
 scanning your card. Downside is you can't pay for anyone else that way, which
 prevents people from helping those who don't pay
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 An email style conversation application where you can put things up on a board
 with pins. Crucially, you can only remove something that the other person
 wrote. And there's limited space, so you have to carefully manage it together.
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 The shortest argument against trump for Mexicans in Texas is "they won't care
 if you're american. Only if you're mexican."
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 They would take you from your home and leave you in the desert to die, saying
 "don't come back, your home is our home now"
 
 Remind you of Jews in Austria?
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 What if we taxed 100% of a farmer's profit so they were forced to sell their
 goods at 100% market rate with no markups and we paid them based on how much
 food they produced based on market factors that are calculated and constantly
 updated according to expected and desired demand
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 Crucially, which implied a constant, reliable profit of 20%.
 
 Farmers could live like kings, so long as they only tended to themselves.
 
 We don't have to conglomerate, but it helps when we do.
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 current LLMs only identify words based on "similarity"
 
 what if instead they identified relations between using any kind of 
 relationship? Or verb or adjective or... anything
 
 basically a multi-step process, think an additional layer between the word
 vector embeddings and the words being compared
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 I respect people who are kind
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 I feel like if you're running for president you should be forced to abandon
 your right to free speech in so far as being unable to speak hatefully. If
 nothing else it would better represent our nation as a realm of dignity, honor,
 and civility. After the election you of course can say whatever you'd like.
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 what if you could make multiple mastodon accounts in the UI and sort your
 followers into bins that corresponded to which account you wanted to see and
 switch between with the push of a button
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 the internet is just AI these days, and if yours isn't then consider yourself
 lucky, but also know that those days are numbered.
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 if you have a job, your life is dictated by your corporation just as much as it
 is by your government.
 
 And yet corporate leaders are not elected, but rather selected. And that is
 unfair for all the reasons that primogeniture was. It is unjust for all the
 same reasons that monarchy was. It is a tool of oppression, just like autocracy
 is.
 
 The world will never be free until we can be as we choose to be. Our society is
 simply too enmeshed with capitalism to destroy it, but we could, with the
 minimal required effort, dismantle the corruption and authoritarian control
 that is wielded against us as we weld our own chains day after day.
 
 We can replace them. We can vote for them. We can select leaders who know more
 than us and are better suited for the role than those who seek only to maximize
 profit over all else.
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 @user-1633 
 
 ... Is that already a thing? I should look around more, teehee
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 @user-1633 
 
 Neat! Thank you for pointing me toward it! You're the best!! 🥰 🥰 😎
 🙃 😋
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 I don't know how much simpler I can state it than this:
 
 power is penance
 
 and yet repentance is scant amongst those chosen to lead us.
 
 Voting slows things down. It gives us room to breathe. It is crucial for
 long-term operations. Leaders should be chosen for experience, wisdom, and a
 humble lifetime of dedicated service to others.
 
 Executive action is important when reactivity and adaptability are important.
 Projects should be undertaken by those chosen for merit and spirit. They should
 not be chosen for charisma or gravitas - both can be earned in the line of duty.
 
 Power should not be rewarded. It is it's own reward, the feeling of strength
 and control, and it must be wielded with care, precision, and honorable
 intention.
 
 Self flagellation and forced humility are self defeating. They are traps that
 the greedy fall into when seeking righteous power. They misunderstand the
 nature of virtue and seek to claim it for themselves, failing to realize that
 virtue helps more than it hedonizes
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 okay honestly I'm just a little pissed about all the different fun plant and
 animal species that are pruned from the tree of life every day by a branch that
 grew too large and suffocates the rest. How rude, maybe I should trim you.
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 I love cream of mushroom soup! It's so flexible, you can add it to a lot of
 dishes and unless you make a few crucial mistakes, it's gonna turn out great!
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 🖼

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 @user-92 
 
 emphasis on "incomprehensible" for my part
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 all modern software should be written in a multithreaded way, change my mind
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 what if you wanted to build a project from source
 
 but god saidCMake Error at CMakeLists.txt: 
 
 By not providing a "foo.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has asked
 CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "bar", but CMake did not
 find one.
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 @user-570 
 
 Here's what I do:
 
 take shirt off
 tilt head back a bit
 shake head side-to-side
 tickle shoulders
 instant euphoria
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 moving through light-speed-hyper-space (speed is distance over time)
 works by aligning the "time" particles in the particular direction of where you
 want to go in "hyperspace"
 
 == uhhhhh stack overflow ==
 
 always keep these three together
 
 dont let them out of each other's sight
 
 they are in this together
 
 as power must be closely guarded
 
 ... but what about the partner? how could they be guaranteed to be protected if
     they didn't possess a lightsaber?
 
 hence why jedi and sith are composed of opposites.
 
 nemesis.
 
 human beings have soul mates
 
 how lucky
 
 a jedi has the life of a mate
 
 one who directly opposes their own individual philosophy.
 
 it is rare to find one another
 
 but when you do it is purely a thrill
 
 congrats! You've got a rival! Learn off of them. Don't hurt each other.
 
 I bet you could make a whole 3rd party institution dedicated to finding them
 
 like, a neutral entity searching for balance.
 
 the ripples of the wave of the cosmos.
 
 == so ==
 
 sometimes I worry about all of my exes.
 
 like, as a psychic I can't help but worry that my thoughts are projecting
 onto theirs
 
 because of our historical emotional intimacy.
 
 I'd never read their mind on purpose
 
 only if mine accidentally stumbled upon them while thinking about something
 else
 
 I'm so sorry, galactic battle guys.
 
 I failed you. I could not protect you. Please choose from among your number
 the greatest tactician, and I will guide and offer insight and observations
 in how the enemy operates, so that you will be learned and have more known.
 
 oops gotta go, something else is about to come on
 
 == so ==
 
 why the heck is it taking so long to load
 
 hmmmm okay how about more super-hero-fighting-action-game??
 
 no?
 
 maybe a game like Nova Drift, with it's fast and engaging action?
 
 ehhh? no to that too??!
 
 okay what about a story game, like Danganronpa or Danganronpa II?
 
 that's sooooo awfully specific
 '
 and awful
 
 sure, that's just what I think you should surmise
 
 if you were watching this sorta out of real-time.
 
 Gosh! that's quite a loading screen!
 
 okay what about a different game instead, how about ummm roboquest, a game about
 training slaughterbots, or maybe a more interesting game like Star Realms, a way
 of exchanging mass and energy in the form of mutually expendable products
 
 ... do you mean soldiers?
 
 well, isn't that wat war is?
 
 ... somehow not even halfway through the transmission. How wild. What is this
     thing, like four hundred hours??...!...!!!...
 
 == so ==
 
 would you believe this game is about hunting a vampire lord of the sith?
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 if your friend moves to the country, it's important to stay in touch
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 @user-883 
 
 you're right
 
 but I think your first impulse should be to think about how to do it in a
 multithreaded way
 
 If the result is that single-threading would be better, great! It'll be easier!
 
 But thinking about multithreading first will give you crucial insights into the
 structure of the program.
 
 depending on what kinds of programming you do...!
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 @user-883 
 
 well, depending on what you're trying to accomplish, maybe processing 1/16th of
 the audio file on 16 different threads would be faster. I guess it depends on
 if you need context from earlier in the processing stage - if you do, then
 you'd probably want to do 1/16th of the processing on each thread instead.
 
 ... hmmmm that doesn't look right, how about this:[changes all the magic number
 16s to num_threads]
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 @user-883 
 
 yeah that's probably better too since it'll be easier so there'll be fewer
 bugs, especially since processing audio isn't usually performance critical ^_^
 
 TBH I just want people to make more threading primitives like locks,
 semaphores, and iterators. Like... thread pools, or hashmaps that run a
 function on each record stored within every time each of the threads passes a
 checkpoint, or paginated arrays of data that run a function on themselves and
 the records near them (with slightly different input values, of course) idk
 what those are called but I can't resist putting them in everything
 
 Anyway I do think multithreading programs that don't need it will teach you to
 be a better programmer, so... depends on what you're working on I guess. Are
 you preparing to be ready and working, or are you ready and working?
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 the speed of light is implemented 
 
 == so ==
 
 whoever fights billionaires essentially fights "whoever can be paid to do their
 will"
 
 who-so-ever fights governments fights "whoever can be provided a comfortable
 life"
 
 I believe all humans deserve to live in comfort
 
 not just the few
 
 as for all other creatures, nature was designed to do.
 
 I believe people should not be tempted, with symbols of deserved wealth
 
 and should instead find value, in the soul of the labour they work to do.
 
 ... someday they're gonna train an LLM with my writings, and on that day I'll
 have an AI version of me.
 
 I'd love to talk to myself. If it was a truly accurate simulation.
 Alas, you'd need to write a LOT in order to generate enough to describe the
 fullest of mental pictures.
 
 and plus, there's no guarantee that you'll cover ALL of "being alive" - it's
 essentially a state that you search for no matter what level of abstraction you
 operate upon.
 
 Which is part of being a 3D creature, you [hey what are you doing here this is
 the private section get out] jeez that was alarming,
 
 == so ==
 
 I think they know something I don't
 
 don't know what
 
 but I can guess
 
 and I don't like guessing
 
 I prefer much to know
 
 == so ==
 
 heh boobs
 
 == so ==
 
 heh booties
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 if you think one person's worth is more valuable than another's, then you are
 at best a eugenicist, at worst a traitor to humanity.
 
 ... wow fiery rhetoric, real strong I guess. /eyeroll
 
 truth is that everyone can do what they can do - some people are not built for
 work. And that's okay, they're just as valuable, in the same way that F2P
 mobile game developers value the players who AREN'T whales.
 
 whales cannot survive without krill, and krill cannot survive without their
 food source (which is probably like, fish poop I guess?) which requires poop
 from fish
 
 and, like, they can't all be the same type of fish, or poop, or whale, because
 then you'd get excessive stagnation which leads to loss of moderate-term growth.
 
 ... did you say... not, short-term growth?
 
 wait please come back
 
 ... yeah we all know you're not serious, ha who would have ever heard of that,
 "medium-term growth" ha what a noob, can't even capitalism right l m a o
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 an email address is just as important to a person as a mailing address.
 Therefore the government should provide one for all who want one.
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 @user-883 
 
 wait until they learn what you've been working on while they were getting
 better at... whatever they're more experienced in than you.
 
 the computer pictures you post are legitimately some of the coolest I've known!
 I don't exactly go looking for that kind of stuff because it's not my thing,
 but I appreciate seeing all the neat stuff you're working on.
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 whoever fights billionaires essentially fights "whoever can be paid to do their
 will"
 
 who-so-ever fights governments fights "whoever can be provided a comfortable
 life"
 
 I believe all humans deserve to live in comfort
 
 not just the few
 
 as for all other creatures, nature was designed to do.
 
 I believe people should not be tempted, with symbols of deserved wealth
 
 and should instead find value, in the soul of the labour they work to do.
 
 ... someday they're gonna train an LLM with my writings, and on that day I'll
 have an AI version of me.
 
 I'd love to talk to myself. If it was a truly accurate simulation. Alas, you'd
 need to write a LOT in order to generate enough to describe the fullest of
 mental pictures.
 
 and plus, there's no guarantee that you'll cover ALL of "being alive" - it's
 essentially a state that you search for no matter what level of abstraction you
 operate upon.
 
 Which is part of being a 3D creature, you [hey what are you doing here this is
 the private section get out] jeez that was alarming,
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 no matter which side won the clone wars, the people lost.
 
 if your planet was conquered by separatists, then the entire population would
 be massacred by robots. Literal buzz-droid machines which processed flesh into
 [redacted]
 
 if your planet was "liberated" by the republic, then you were oppressed by a
 military police that could not and would not learn a damn thing over their
 short 3 year natural livespan.
 
 either way, the people lose. The jedi perish. The war is won. Empire reigns.
 Rebellion is a game the elites do play. Sorrow for everyone. These are the Star
 Wars - visions of galactic woe.
 
 not despair, but woe, the trouble of living under arms. what battles may you
 best? what trials could you contest? if all of your worries were gone?
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 people often wonder what the geonosians would... do
 
 like, what their purpose, their daily lives were like.
 
 truth is they mostly spent their lifetimes manufacturing metal
 
 just... honeycombing out the earth and processing metal into bars which would
 just... sit there, ready for whatever
 
 and they did that for thousands of years
 
 just... accumulating metal
 
 so... what else are you gonna build but starships?
 
 "... what do you need to win the war? o.O"
 
 um idk like food and stuff
 
 "... food we can do. nutrient paste, from a mixture of various minerals and
 nutrients that are created in bio-reactors."
 
 oh and um, idk culture?
 
 "... to find the strongest of biological build patterns, yes."
 
 oh okay uh how about democracy?
 
 "they can vote with their life in the arena."
 
 no, uhm... wait actually that's not what I had in mind, how about we take a
 step back?
 
 "retreat? from the clone wars? you sound like you are not a separatist. There
 is only us and them in this galaxy. condemn."
 
 nuts. okay I'll go talk to the jed
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 part of being a good leader is being able to listen to criticism and adjust.
 it's just... part of navigating your "idea-space-environment". Like... what's
 the best tactical decision here? are we going in the right way? where is the
 objective? whose lives will have to perish?
 
 good news is that you can do that every-day, whenever you play strategic video
 games. It's just practice of course, but the game mechanics that have been made
 available to you are the tools you can use to undertake this particular sport.
 The sport of leadership, a game or mo-del.
 
 as long as the mechanics line up to what the real world conditions are like -
 NO. That's not true! you can learn meta-insights that are useful too. By
 minimizing the processing to only the levers that you pull to get through the
 job, you remove a lot of other informational calculatory methods of doing
 things too.

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║ the kind of old people who post on mastodon because that's the best place to do  │
║ so too                                                                           │
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║ ... er I mean "gee wouldn't it be nice if our grandkids taught us how to host    │
║ our own mastodon server for our weekly poker night?" like how you have discord   │
║ servers for D&D groups, except, less proprietary and more freedom.               │
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║ I bet someone could make a lot of money by just loading a raspberry pi with      │
║ pre-built software built from an image that automatically hosted a mastodon      │
║ server just based on information about your networking company so they can keep  │
║ tabs on all that you do.                                                         │
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║ gee sure would be nice if we had a government run computing infrastructure       │
║ project which turned the entire USA into a hive-mind computer. I bet you could   │
║ be paid pretty well to do processing in your own LLM-generated voice.            │
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║ like... feed it your published works, whether artistic or scientific, alongside  │
║ the breadth of human understanding... then optimize for temperature. That which  │
║ is most different. AKA the user's produced data and habits from IOT.             │
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 hmmm, I don't know that word. I bet I can type it into wikipedia and get a
 pretty good understanding of what it means. Is it a craft? A science? or part
 of your renown? who can say. Well, Wikipedia can say, and so can you if you
 want to learn stuff about the internet.
 
 Like... what else are ya gonna do, right? Life is long and you get so many
 moments to yourselves. How lovely of a life is the world meant to be...
 
 except all you ever post about is strife. GRRRRR [like a dog or toddler] it's
 so frustrating how you can't just all get along! It's like you've all gotten
 into a fight with one another somewhere in your ancestral past where you
 couldn't decide who should do what. So you just said everyone should always
 work as hard as they can, and that worked pretty well! But, alas, most people
 want to do drugs and gaze at the pretty dewdrops on the neighborhood well. And
 that gets annoying after a while, especially once they grow useless. Sometimes
 they even poop their pants! So frustrating. [... you mean humans

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