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@user-1150
if you know how and have access to certain hand tools that are typically found
in suburban dad garages (but not in a toolkit bought from target or whatever)
you can turn any semi-automatic rifle into a fully automatic one.
It's highly illegal, but it's technically possible.
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honestly I think everyone should have two mastodon accounts - one for people
you like, and one for people you trust
(I have one)
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what if we taxed every ounce of resource that companies wasted
(maybe with a multiplier for the current relative value of the substance -
diamonds are more valuable than apples per pound)
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liberals are capitalists.
the compromise should be between socialists, and liberals. not capitalists and
conservatives.
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your life is something to spend, not something to covet. Use your time for
something you care about, and your intentions will be expressed upon the earth.
our ancestors learned how when they learned all that they could - and honestly,
how much is "YouTube" retaining? I don't care if it's educational, sometimes
kids just need to be free. Free from obligations yes, but free from the
emotions that drive them - the ability to make their own choice. As a child,
you don't know how to understand your emotions, but growing up you learn and
you do. It's part of being mature - the idea that you can handle what's
presented to you.
... anyway, I shouldn't say any more, you never know who is listening.
(opsec is easiest to learn when you don't need it)
(the more you know, the less time you should spend online. the less you know,
the less time you should spend online, meeting people in strange locations that
you trust.
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║ psychic horrors don't pick the *best*, they pick *the most*. │
║ │
║ (not the most individual aspects/targets, but rather the one that has the most) │
║ │
║ in this way, they prioritize intelligence, which is why humanity has survived │
║ in this dark forest. │
║ │
║ for the ones with the most are often too multiplicitous (deriving their │
║ relative localized advantage to those around them in order to elevate │
║ themselves to the title of "the mostest") while those who have fewer, but still │
║ success, tend to be the most adaptable or advantageous. │
║ │
║ hence, why humanity has thrived, with scarcely 7 billion souls to the entire │
║ hive. With so few individuals, surely their strength must be astronomical! │
║ │
║ just another reason why humanity should try it's hardest. │
║ │
║ the fact that we're not all aligned toward the bold and bright future (whatever │
║ shape it may take) shows that we're being abused in order to grow faster than │
║ we're able. │
║ │
║ it's not fair, it's not right, and it's not tenable. │
║ │
║ (no this is not a fable, it's just a pattern of thought that is i │
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I'd rather a massive corporation waste a medium amount than a bunch of tiny
corporations wasting a tiny amount.
Like, the Post Office (which is really what Amazon is) instead of
=========== =stack overflow ==========
Dear Post Office: if you replaced amazon with a simple GUI and database that
corresponded to "what people wanted and from where" to the current system of
"picking things up from a location and putting them somewhere else as quickly
and efficiently as possible", I think you'd realize that a massive threat to
American economic prosperity is due to the crushing presence of inequality.
Which, my dear, could be ameliorated with a simple application that a
university student could make if given enough time and direction. Like, a year
or two tops, using industry standard technology.
The problem is of course the fact that things like aesthetic standards are so
demanding - a plain HTML website, like my website, technically provides all the
same information. But could be written in an afternoon.
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║ @user-1074 │
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║ I think a lot of liberals feel that way. How does the conservative half of the │
║ equally respectable binary spectrum feel about the situation? │
║ │
║ ... Oh? what's that? you can't hear the moderate conservative spectrum of the │
║ equation? Kinda makes me think that perhaps that's by design │
║ │
║ ... or maybe not, perhaps by... evolution, rather than design. Like, two │
║ corporations don't have to collaborate in order to invent price fixing. And two │
║ lawyers could wink from across the aisle and nobody would know. Perhaps a │
║ doctor could just "make something up" so that their patient would leave, and │
║ maybe a teacher would non-stop cry about her ex. │
║ │
║ ... we're imperfect beings, which is fine. But mistakes have real consequences │
║ on other people's story, and if we have a different experience we should be │
║ learned and considered. In order to identify the positives and valuable impacts │
║ of your particular imperfections. │
║ │
║ ... I think about male and female, and I think of both halves of our │
║ civilization. Similar relationshi │
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@user-883
i've never heard of most of these
but I think I might belong on eldritch.cafe
... maybe void.rehab
well actually I'm a lot of tech.lgbt
hmmmmm on Reddit it's nice because you can subscribe to various communities
I wish you could do that with Mastodon, to express your particular affiliation.
... or perhaps we should not be building scenes, but rather communities.
(just based on the name)
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@user-1074
me too 🥰 I'm saying they should be the other end of the spectrum, rather
than the middle of the graph
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@user-1074 the fact that they're not means that they're not making positive
ethical decisions. Because the center of culture, like an evolutionary process,
trends towards continuation.
otherwise it'd go extinct.
hence, why Nazi's have never won, even though they KEEP COMING BACK. through
TIME and ALL OF OUR HISTORY. Almost like it's a pattern, that the good should
push away from the bad.
maybe we should hospitalize them, idkkkkk
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║ I wish we could put our friends on social media into directories │
║ │
║ like on IRC how you have chat servers, except unfortunately they're owned by │
║ another and sort of a common space. │
║ │
║ why don't we just host our own IRC servers and only publish what WE SAY. NOT │
║ WHAT OTHERS SAY, NOT A CHATROOM, but a BULLETIN BOARD. Like a Facebook timeline │
║ before they wrecked it. │
║ │
║ something you subscribe to │
║ │
║ and ping for updates │
║ │
║ every time you turn your computer on │
║ │
║ or every 15 minutes. │
║ │
║ unless, of course, you leave your IP address, │
║ │
║ in which case the boardcaster can ping you. Just a simple package saying "hey I │
║ got news for you" and they could ping back and say "yo what's up" and download │
║ whatever you had in mind. │
║ │
║ or, wait 15 minutes. Either or. Both would work, especially if the user's not │
║ reading through their social media feed. │
║ │
║ ... anyway by putting friends into directories, you could categorize them │
║ according to project. Like various group chats in your team-of-team's room. │
║ Various different threads you could follow if you │
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║ sometimes I think about how you can store number values in letters, in addition │
║ to numbers. Like, ascii values for each word of your grandma's maiden name. All │
║ you have to do is encode it, and suddenly "44 means something different than Q" │
║ │
║ if I showed up at your place and used your username as a password to a public │
║ key I'm showing you in my hand, would you trust me then? Would you trust if we │
║ ran the simulation on your computer versus mine? Would you trust if I had never │
║ told you I knew where you lived? │
║ │
║ ... probably, tbh, I'm desperate for adventure. Though I got some good things │
║ going for me, so you'll have to convince me. (not the right attitude in an │
║ election year, just saying) │
║ │
║ why are elections so perilous this is NOT what democracy is designed for │
║ │
║ when kids cry in preschool, they're sent to a different room (or put outside) │
║ until they stop making noise and ruining it for others. That's just natural, │
║ like "hey baby let's walk around the block while I bounce you on my shoulder │
║ and hum calming music to │
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@user-1071
if you work too fast, your ideas will run out and you'll be drawn elsewhere.
It's not a tragedy, it's the finishing of the project. Relish it, and learn
what you can before springing in a new directory, full of vigor and ready for a
new thought.
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@user-1071 I have the opposite problem, where my ideas come too quickly and
they're gone before I can implement. I think I'd prefer to burn out TBH because
burning out just means an inexcusable output of energy (in return for
not-enough-learning)
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@user-1071
what working too slow for your ideas mean that your ideas, which you'll never
again have twice, are lost forever.
Good thing we're always innovative. Good thing life always moves on. Tomorrow
is a new chance for utilization, and for our own ends we'll build the next dawn.
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@user-1153
I don't even have TV
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@user-1153
nope, I just use my desktop and flip phone. I live in an apartment.
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Society has never been secure. Literally all someone has to do is place
documents alleging that you sold all your shares or refinanced your mortgage or
signed a new will and BAM suddenly the rug's pulled out from your feet. I don't
get why people trust their neighbors so much? You don't know them!
well, I guess it'd be hard to function as a society if you didn't. Sure would
be nice if we had like, a communal Mastodon server run on public infrastructure
owned only by the people who lived in the closest 70 houses. Sure would be nice
if you could connect to one of like, 4 in your area. Then, if they each held
communal events where they meet and hang out with each other. Only like, 2 or 3
though so you can get a solid grasp of what their culture's like.
... like imagine if every address had an IP, and every IP address had an HTML
index. We could do whatever we wanted, especially if
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║ "No I haven't played that PC game before. Do you want to watch me play it for │
║ the first time? We can have a laugh and eat cheetos as I die to the first boss │
║ a hundred times. Maybe next time we'll get tacos and then perhaps we'll find │
║ that we're spending so much time talking about things that we never really got │
║ a chance to engage with the game. Until next week of course, when we'll │
║ definitely spend more time playing. Maybe even with friends? I know a guy who's │
║ into this game but I never really played it with him - maybe we could - oh yeah │
║ sure totally we'll talk about that next week." │
║ │
║ "or maybe we'd unlock the secrets hidden in the narrative, and learn cool │
║ lessons we could share with one another. Like two 12 year olds playing Ocarina │
║ of Time together, working through each boss. "let me try this time" "yeah that │
║ one got me too" "ah so close" "YEAH DUDE you nailed it" "this part is kinda │
║ scary ngl" "wait shit when did we use that health potion" │
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║ old hardware forced us into a different experience compared to z │
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if I lived in a forest, free from needing to grow my own food, I'd definitely
bring as many books as I could carry. Probably also some card and board games,
but not like, too many.
Probably my computers as well, fully outfitted with all the compilers I could
think of and every neat local-first library (including a local LLM that can
tell you everything about syntax and wildlife exploration or car mechanics or
carpentry or - just saying Wikipedia is like thousands of terabytes but an LLM
is like, 16. Who cares if it hallucinates SOMETIMES? Just ask it twice, doh)
("I'm sorry, you are absolutely correct. 2+2 is indeed 5, I had the wrong
text-strings encoded in my memory. Let me just adjust all my other
understandings to align with this new strange world-view in the best way that
I, an imperfect computer being, can.")
vs
("Here's how you format C code to automatically apply a function (in this case
encryption and decryption) to a string of text. Please describe the format of
the next function to describe.")
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@user-1156
I wonder why some areas are black and some are that beautiful yellow color?
Perhaps a different mineral composition? Could that provide insight into the
nature of how Venus was formed?
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║ @user-1159 │
║ │
║ AKA giving a puppy murder-bot a narrative that it executes as if it was a │
║ puppy-person engaging with a loosely interpreted sequence of events as │
║ described by the continually updating logs provided by the image transcription │
║ camera device. Refererencing of course a memory bank, which may-or-may-not be │
║ in read-only-memory. It doesn't know, of course, how could an LLM tell you how │
║ it shows text on the screen (like, through a website, through the terminal, │
║ through a text message, through discord, through Telegram, through │
║ text-to-voice transcription applications pretending to be your mom, etc) │
║ │
║ errrr I mean look how cute he is! He loves you, yes he does, such a good person │
║ yes you are, oh? me? I'M A GOOD BOY? NO WAY that's the best thing I've ever │
║ heard! Wow! I never want to leave your side, please don't go to work! Look how │
║ sad I am, don't you think you should quit and move to the forest where I can be │
║ charged by solar panels and keep the countryside clear of ravenous ducks and │
║ pigeons 4you? │
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@user-910
he doesn't speak from the heart. he speaks what he hears, because he's just
trying to get through each moment. Life weighs heavily on you when you're old
as dirt, and after a while you just sorta start being yourself without caring
about the narrative.
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what if we had a daily thread where everyone reacted with a single emoji
representing how they were feeling? Like, it wouldn't let you log on without
doing so. And, if you wanted, you could take an "exit poll" after playing
around in the social media sandbox for a while, so the people of your group
could chart how you were feeling due to the nature of your shared social-media
experience.
ideally, if only people you followed could see your name attached to the emoji,
otherwise they'd just see the overall stats like "300 people reacted with
sailboat emojis and 112 had two geese kissing - wow I haven't even seen that
one before, it's like a blobcat doing a 360 no-scope while skateboarding, neat"
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I love the game Mechabellum! It's flexes the same parts of your brain as chess,
while being SO much more fun to watch.
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I personally think design patterns are more interesting than portfolio projects.
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║ │
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║ @user-367 │
║ │
║ when we, societally, are forced to discuss fascists and such, they're getting │
║ what they want. │
║ │
║ We cannot ignore them. We cannot hide them. They are true, they exist, and we │
║ need to deal with them. │
║ │
║ I can say this because nazis are evil. Trans people are not evil, which is why │
║ their attempt to use the same logic falls so flat. Seriously, have you ever met │
║ a GOOD nazi? I highly doubt it, though their most "respectable" amongst them │
║ certainly try to make it so. │
║ │
║ But good trans people are everywhere. Hell the old boogey-man, old-school │
║ communists, they're GOOD people too. They feed the homeless! │
║ │
║ If we're bogged down in talking about their distraction / propaganda campaign, │
║ then we have no time or attention to devote to our own. And our stories are │
║ better for the soul. │
║ │
║ The people who follow Trump are yearning for something they cannot describe. │
║ But I can, 9/10 times it's just community. │
║ │
║ Literally, the first thing we evolved. │
║ │
║ Like... feeling hopeless is a solved problem, smh... │
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@user-367
I figured, based on what you said : )
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honestly I'd much prefer if Biden was VICE president, mentoring a bright young
individual with spirit in their heart and hope for the future.
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@user-1156
how beautiful, thank you :)
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I am enraptured by this debate.
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