Poems in true chronological order by post date
-> file: fediverse/1816 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── you can take any of my words, I don't care who you are. Take them, change them, use them, say they are your own, whatever you want. They are but dust in the wind, passing from one ear and out another. or eyes and fingertips, if you want. But only with intention, if you knew what I was trying to say. If you had to guess and learn... There's no chance that'll be accurate 100% of the time when used as a policy. But alas, science is a human art. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1817 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ I love canned olives! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1818 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── my previous job didn't do anything to harm me. And yet I left. I let them down in a way they could not have expected. Which was unfair of me, but I couldn't resist it. I don't know what I'd do better. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1819 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── some of my favorite places in the world are little shops nestled in the wood. Some that I've never seen more than once, and the ones I tended to visit a lot were the ones at like, Disney World, which is quite a magical place. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1820 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── what if we built a mesh network ON TOP of our already-built direct-bus infrastructure ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1821 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── better to smell like the river than the city. (Yuck. Gross.) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1822 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── we should reward frugality as much as value-creation. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1823 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── growing up on the plains, I saw only what humans could create there. Not what life was abound. When I visited the forests in the mountains, I thought smaller scale, more focused, more distributed. Back home, among the grasses, there was always more grass. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1824 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── @user-883 stockholders perhaps shouldn't define value. But perhaps stakeholders might? Of which the customer is the greatest one, followed by the environment (tied, perhaps, as equals) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1825 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── if one person is honest to everyone, then no-one can be honest to them for anything they want to keep hidden. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1826 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned-recipe │ └───────────────────────────┘ a box of tri-color rotini a good spoonfull of better than boullion italian a medium amount of large colby-jack cheese cubes (about one for every other bite) boil with just enough water for the noodles to start sticking to the pan once entirely cooked and add cheese, butter, and top with generous dashes of smoked paprika and lime juice. don't strain the noodles. have just enough water left to have a thin sauce. if vegetables are desired, firm carrots and peas (read: frozen or fresh, not canned) or diced/shredded onions. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1827 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── point is, you should take good companies at their word and bad companies for their goals. Surely, you can't blame the organism for seeking food. So clearly you can't blame an organization built to pursue profit to pursue profit. Maybe we should cut-out the middle-man and use efficiency evaluation methods defined by our common understanding of ethics and virtues instead of currency to determine the relative importance of continual investment in particular structural capabilities that companies provide to a nation. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1828 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── people usually pet animals either too hard, or too soft. When you get to know them, animals tend to respond to affection most accurately when it corresponds to something they know how to measure, within the most acceptable tolerances. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1829 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── why would you NOT admit weakness? It's a tactical error! You have less accurate information! It literally makes your team worse off! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1830 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── dear disney: please license Mechabellum and use Star Wars assets. Or Starship Troopers. Or Warhammer 40k. if you license it, it's okay to share software. Especially if you make it free and open source, as a compromise to both parties. Mechabellum gameplay: https://youtu.be/E2zwRQp_DkM ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1831 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── if people are allowed to use any resources as quickly as they want, they tend to waste them. Hence why a well funded military (like the US military) can afford to not be efficient. Which is... not ideal, for long-term cooperation. Much better for short-term competition, though, too bad we all get to live on this earth. Wild, ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1832 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── cheese is just a body-part that a cow has willingly shed. For nutrition. Is it vegetarian if it's the cells produced by a body? Is it vegan if it is capable of growing back? Do snakes shed their selves when they leave behind a shell? Or is it like hair, just... keratin, a compound found all over nature. Is cutting a branch vegan? Is eating a cherry that has fallen to the center of the road? Both those are made of fibrous materials, the nutritious bounteous feast, and a small kernel-like mass that serves as a propagation method for a creature utterly vast. (But factory farms, remember?) (Oh yeah! Thank goodness for reform.) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1833 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── democracy as it was currently conceptualized dates back from a time when it was impossible to ask every person every question all at the same time. We needed time to talk through and get to know a topic before we made any choices about it. Hence, single-party voting, and the build-up of disagreement when people feel like the one thing they care about is not implemented. Too bad they care about things like, bodily autonomy and human rights. Maybe we could appease them by giving them something else that they want Oh? Like trans people? No brad, like the russians Or maybe the rich, ya? goodness. how about nobody [appeasement never goes anywhere] [the issue is more fundamental than compromise] [human rights are not up for discussion] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1834 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── Programming isn't technical skill. It's artistic abstraction, like making a marble machine that plays the piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q software development is about developing software, like a teacher would develop a student learner. "No, this part is bugged. Here's how you actually do it." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1835 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── @user-883 Right, but, if we can only help and interact with people who are near us, then how are we going to accomplish much of anything at all? Much better I think to contribute to structures that we fully consent and agree to, rather than hoping that the wisdom of the masses pulls us through. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1836 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── @user-883 Do you blame a virus for harming it's host? No, you blame the people who knowingly spread it. You blame the people who refused to allocate funds and cultural capital toward combating it. You blame the people who cause chaos and destruction in it's wake. But you don't blame the thing itself, the thing that is little more than a complex chemical reaction. You don't blame the forest fire for the smoke, you blame the one who set it. The one who refused to keep it in check with careful stewardship of the land. The one who dammed the river upstream, the one who desertified the region upwind. You can blame time and morality or you could be more pragmatic, and just focus on questions ahead. Humans are nothing without our social technology. We are little more than apes. But writing, teaching, expression, these things are crucial to all that we hold dear. EDIT: [And organization is a social technology. Doesn't have to look like an authoritarian department where everyone does what they're told.] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1837 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── @user-883 I agree with you. Collaboration is the path to the bright future. If only they could see it. [if only we could make them see] (cue all the media ever made that means to tell a message about which choices we should make in the future) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1838 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── Gee I sure wish my country didn't hold the decisionmaking capability from me by gatekeeping it behind elections and polling. Sure wish our media wasn't so involved in decisionmaking - isn't it something we should talk about amongst ourselves? To find out how we feel, and really explore our feelings around a topic before expressing ourselves. Ideally more often than twice a year, perhaps whenever we want? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1839 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── @user-883 There's no lie in this poster ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1840 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── I'm never remorseful for being wrong, I'm sorry that I hurt your feelings. Remorse is useless once corrected, if correction is due. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1841 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as crying. If a little bit less of a release. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1842 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── I could never live happily ever after if a single one of you could not ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1843 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── people: "noooo don't say that, you're worth it! You're not a waste of space! your life has value!" also people: "you need to get a job or lose everything and make everyone else hate you." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1844 ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ I got a job offer for a job outside of my state. But I don't want to leave my │ ║ home. I feel safe here. I know people. I know the places around me. │ ║ │ ║ The one perk is that goods and services are easier to acquire, but I don't need │ ║ much. I'm fine where I'm at. But where I'm at has rent. │ ║ │ ║ What a plague is it, that we must suffer for life! │ ║ │ ║ there's no entry-level jobs for working with our sight. │ ║ │ ║ only when youre too tired to complain will they let you direct others, or share │ ║ creative ideas for fixing the problems you're paid to assuage. │ ║ │ ║ Alas, that my life had meaning. That my words were better off spoken. Maybe │ ║ then Id live as I define, designing a world of my own hearth. │ ║ │ ║ but if a king lives in decent frugality, are they really so bad for our flock? │ ║ │ ║ and if a wizard spins tales that are weird to consider, but not much else... │ ║ are they better off starved in the dark? │ ║ │ ║ no-one likes me. computers are paper-weights given light. sure would be nice if │ ║ none but the fools went wanting. │ ║ │ ║ I mean yeah I'd live in a treehouse │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1845 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── On reddit, a good comment will often get 50+ upvotes, sometimes up in the hundreds. 10ish is generally pretty good too, especially for smaller subreddits. 0 or 1 or 3 means only a few people saw it. On Mastodon, 3 different likes on 3 different posts means you're on a hot streak and gotta keep posting!! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: fediverse/1846 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── If you're running away from something, you need to make sure that you're going fast enough and far enough away that you can look forward for interception events. Otherwise you are vulnerable. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/429 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── King Arthur was a deconstruction, a critical piece of work that reflected upon the stuff that nobody remembers anymore because it was oral tradition. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ -> file: messages/430 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── There is very little human left in me. I don't mind. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ |