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"she just... didn't even try to hide it. She was so matter of fact about it."
eh, well, you know, we have the internet now. So everything's normalized.
"I guess but it still felt strange."
yeah, she's in her own social media bubble which is entirely separate from
yours. So to her, it's normal, but to you it seems shocking.
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║ I wonder how many people who pay money to have someone organize lan parties for │
║ them? Including interviews with all of the attendents so they can pick the best │
║ games to have installed. │
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║ The hardware can be provided, for a nominal fee, of course. Otherwise they'll │
║ walk you through getting the right games set up. │
║ │
║ Then, securing the venue, and stocking it with comfy sofas and sprite. │
║ │
║ The day of they place orders for pancakes the next morning and pizza this very │
║ night │
║ │
║ and everyone shows up to balloons, a DJ, and strobe lights. │
║ │
║ after a series of quick deathmatch style action games, everyone breaks into │
║ groups and forms teams to take on everyone else. │
║ │
║ After an hour or two of teamplay, the group splits in two (or three) and plays │
║ specific games that everyone is into. │
║ │
║ people who wanted to hang out at the party but not play games can watch on │
║ their smartphones by using an app which streams each player's screen to the LAN │
║ │
║ I'd call it "collosseum services for the digital age" │
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║ oh and it's a sleepover too so pjams │
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║ a congregation of nerds is like... a gift of all of your most brightest, in the │
║ same room, ready to work on problems that they can see │
║ │
║ just throw money and institutional capabilities at them and they'll hire people │
║ to do their projects and handle all of the deliverables and all that junk │
║ │
║ only works though if people care about what they're working on. hence why you │
║ should give the creatives more freedom to apply themselves. │
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║ they'll make useful things I swear just give them resources and aid and │
║ manpower you don't have to choose projects based on a profit-oriented-approach │
║ there is a better way that can make more money in the long run │
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║ trust me, supporting workers is like investing in bitcoin in 2012. if you play │
║ the long game, you can become fabulously wealthy, beyond what anyone would want │
║ or need. │
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║ like, we get it, you want to be an oligarch, sure-yeah-fine-whatever. We'll │
║ shower you in gold and champagne if you just hand us the keys to the kingdom. │
║ you're drunk, you can't drive a nation state, sleep here │
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our ancestors worshiped us through their acts of devotion and lust
if you're reading this, there's a very good chance that some of your ancestors
are still alive
![sometimes I look at a fruit or vegetable and see how optimized it is and I'm just filled with love. people have the idea that edible plants are "organic" or have just sprung from the earth in their form but that's not true!! they were selectively bred for thousands of years by generations upon generations of people. That is love. That is faith. When you bite into a fruit you are eating the generations of labor instilled in it to make it just right for you. [picture of wheat grains] [picture of corns on the cob] This is how much our ancestors loved us. This is all their struggles and all their hopes. This is how much our ancestors loved being alive.](../media/f37ce240daccb50a.webp "sometimes I look at a fruit or vegetable and see how optimized it is and I'm just filled with love. people have the idea that edible plants are \"organic\" or have just sprung from the earth in their form but that's not true!! they were selectively bred for thousands of years by generations upon generations of people. That is love. That is faith. When you bite into a fruit you are eating the generations of labor instilled in it to make it just right for you. [picture of wheat grains] [picture of corns on the cob] This is how much our ancestors loved us. This is all their struggles and all their hopes. This is how much our ancestors loved being alive.")
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The best way to survive a storm is to lean into it
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@user-1625
um, that's a fairly specialized term that people outside of political science
are unlikely to know
might not be audacity, but instead just plain ignorance.
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│ CW: re: Thoughts// anarchist //whatever │
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@user-1298
yeah honestly if you stick with obvious things like "don't murder people" and
"don't burn down your neighbor's house just because they winked at your
daughter" and "don't steal gasoline from parked cars" then it's much easier to
make ethical laws because they're just kinda... common sense.
drug regulation can only be simplified to "don't do drugs" which isn't always a
given. If you start with something so clear then most doctors would be out of a
job.
Maybe we should let people do as they please? With certain specific and clear
rights and responsibilities like 'the right the life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness'? And the mandated guarantee that one person's rights end where
another's begin? And with the ultimate goal of dismantling unjustified power
structures with the knowledge that all power is the application of force to a
non-consenting subject?
... yeah I dunno sounds pretty simple to me
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