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"you should sell your artwork!"
... why would I want fewer people seeing it?
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║ │
║ │
║ two parties obviously can cause division. │
║ │
║ but it can also give you the ability to "tune for balance", while a single │
║ monolith strives straight into disaster. │
║ │
║ and disaster will come, for the future is a shifting and dynamic place, and the │
║ best laid rail lines can't handle sudden floods. │
║ │
║ we have ranked choice voting now, and if you vote on how important each │
║ decision is to you (via smartphone app once or twice a day, in a way that can │
║ be changed later as your feelings shift) │
║ │
║ [6+months-later] │
║ │
║ ... then you can have left unity for long-term governance by having cohesion at │
║ one end, and dispersion on the other. │
║ │
║ If everyone votes, then we can ensure (based on voted priority) that each issue │
║ trends towards an equal exchange. │
║ │
║ (I'm sure there will be issues but we're all cool and pretty chill so we'll │
║ figure it out) │
║ │
║ [6+ months later] │
║ │
║ okay we're battle-hardened vets, but we hold true to our values and so we can │
║ remember the spirit of unity we wept for. │
║ │
║ ... I'm better at writing than making sandwiches. BRB │
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I didn't think about this until finishing the last sandwich, but a dash of
instant coffee can be a nice invigoration spell. Might make the PB&J taste
a bit funky, but I already put hemp hearts and nutritional yeast in them so
nobody's gonna eat them unless they trust me.
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I'm starting a new job soon! 🥰
It'll be fun to meet new faces. 😎
I have to move out of state though, 🥴
which is a lot of extra work. 🙃
but hey! I'll see new faces! 😎
and maybe see some new parks 🤩
downside is that I'm moving 🥺
on the same day as the nearest Pride Parade 😒
whyyyyy didn't they let me start just a few days later 🤷♀️
ah, well, it's not like there's many prides in July 😒
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[changes profile pic to their outfit for the day with no face]
uhhhh not something I'd do, no way
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I've been told that being near me would be "bad for their health"
haha I wonder why
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@user-1212
black, the color of the night sky
red, the color of the fading light
blue, the color of the morning
fireworks should be every color. whatever looks best. the point is to
celebrate, right? have fun with it! go nuts! it's a party, after all : )
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@user-1209
ha trick question I don't. Not really. Aside from like, a short-story that I
wrote here:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/w7/table-of-contents
(audio book is from youtube, idk if you care about being tracked)
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@user-1209
also I bet with enough effort you could combine Words into a book or something,
idk
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words
... I should update that, it's a few months out of date.
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║ │ CW: uspol │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ they're saying that laws cannot stop them. │
║ │
║ but we will stop them, so how are you in particular going to help? │
║ │
║ if you aren't sure, try taking a sheet of notebook paper and writing down some │
║ ideas. │
║ │
║ start with things that are nearby, like helping your neighbors or pulling cats │
║ from trees, and then scratch them out. │
║ │
║ then write about things that are important for our institutions and structures │
║ like voting or attending city council meetings, and strike them out too. they │
║ just said laws cannot stop them, remember? │
║ │
║ next thing about things like throwing bricks at cops, and yeah that's helpful │
║ if the cops are currently doing something to deserve having bricks thrown at │
║ them │
║ │
║ but you should probably scratch that out too, because you're hitting your foe │
║ in their strongpoint. │
║ │
║ where are our foes weak? │
║ │
║ under the armpit is a great place to hit with a knife, because it's difficult │
║ to armor that part of your body without significantly reducing mobility. │
║ │
║ how can we best strike the nobility? │
║ │
║ I'm going to the park. │
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@user-1209
I'll update it tonight, so check back tomorrow. For now though I'm hopping on
my bike : )
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@user-1209
they start as a flash mob
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darnit can never find a pencil when ya need one
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@user-1209
updated it:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words
added an example picture too so you know what you're looking at
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learned a lot today
found some cool notes on the ground
I think one was a shopping list, and the other was something I don't think
anyone would miss
rode my bike all 'round
and now I am TIRE-d xD xD
ahhhh well, gonna nap now.
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│ CW: tech-encryption │
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users don't want to have to think about encryption keys.
they should be available for them if they need them, in like... a folder or
something somewhere, but they don't need to really know that they exist.
more friction like that keeps people away from being secure.
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social media network that's just a private git repo that downloads all the
posts / comments / pictures / whatever from your friends and can be viewed in a
web-browser by navigating the filesystem? people "get" firefox
ideally where everyone mirrors the repo on their own systems, and each person
gets like 10gb or whatever of space.
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║ "fortune favors the bold" is actually a real mechanism in game theory. │
║ │
║ if you act first, if you have the initiative, you can determine the nature and │
║ scope of the contest with your foe. │
║ │
║ in turn-based games of course it's more explicit, as each action begets a │
║ reaction, but in real-time games (where time flows as it does in reality) the │
║ mechanism is just as apparent. │
║ │
║ if you focus attention in one area, you can strike where they're weak. like │
║ Alexander keeping his foes busy with a massive frontline of solid, defensible │
║ troops while his companion cavalry would ride around the side and hit their │
║ flanks and rear. │
║ │
║ game theory is just strategy viewed from the other end, and it matters what we │
║ think because what we think defines what we do. │
║ │
║ ... also, fear is the great paralyzer. fear is a call to action, fear is your │
║ soul speaking straight to you. │
║ │
║ but fear is just nerves, it's just excitement before the leap - you have faith │
║ in this bungee/ this parachute/ the water where you'll be safe, right? My faith │
║ is in y │
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If you're packing for a long car ride, it's a good idea to put the things
you'll need first near the top of the bag, and the things you'll need at your
destination at the bottom.
if you don't know where you're going, well then just try and pack more of the
essentials.
for example sandwiches go at the top, because you're going to be eating them en
route.
however clean underwear should probably be near the bottom.
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also, if you have a lot of a particular item (like, boxes of nutritious granola
bars with lots of nuts, maybe some chocolate, peanut butter, and dried fruit)
then you can place them such that the last box is on the bottom, while the
first box is reachable from the top.
that way, as you eat them, you can slowly reach the bottom.
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if you don't know how long you're going to be gone, how do you know what to
bring? like, is it a "grab the hard drives" kind of trip, or is it more like
"we'll return in the spring"?
who can say, depends on who's driving.
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wow "me from the past" didn't know that you're not supposed to tell Facebook
shit
but also like, there are soooooo many normies trapped there. it's a shame that
everything that's seen on that site is AI or content farmed
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landlords when they deny a rental application to a person with a 787 credit
score based on their credit score
(it's on a scale out of 850)
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cookies or cheetos for dinner is better than nothing for dinner, but please eat
your vegetables when you can.
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@user-1209
if I lived in a lawful time then perhaps I would have time to sue them. alas
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@user-1215
every phone is a landline if you keep it at home
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I didn't make this. I found it on the /all livefeed.
also voting won't help.
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... zzz ZZZ zzz ...
daytime naps are a luxury that I don't want to miss. But what I want is hardly
relevant these days, isn't it? 😉 much better to focus on needs, rather than
wants.
wants are for peace.
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wow I'm an adult now, that's wild
I actually have to be aware of things like political violence now
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so hard to tell which kind of logistics just don't matter anymore. ah, well,
best to keep up with appearances.
"is posting dank memes on the internet a logistic?" "yeah probably idk"
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@user-620
The BLM protests were a threat, but not a killing blow, because people like me
feared tear gas more than chamber gas.
It won't happen again.
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The supreme court is the institution which protects our most sacred of
documents. It is a court most supreme, but their word is not law - they protect
and adapt the law to fit our new societal conclusions.
The constitution is law, and they broke it at the behest of a tyrant king we
shouldn't need to vanquish.
They broke the law. They are criminals.
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║ │
║ │
║ The constitution is a document which bears our most precious of human rights. │
║ It has been amended many times, to include additional protections and │
║ guidelines for the standards we owe to each other. │
║ │
║ The one standard that stands above all is that your rights end where another's │
║ begin. This law is universal, it Trumps all else. │
║ │
║ When rights are deprived, liberty dies. Liberty, the freedom to be, to do as │
║ you will and exist in our society. Liberty, that most sacred of trees, the │
║ branches that shade us and the roots that [support us, but pronounced like │
║ chain, shame, profane, contain, something like that] │
║ │
║ One standard that exists alongside many others is the right to be as you are in │
║ public society. Public is defined as something we share, and to deny the right │
║ to be for any other is to deny them liberty. │
║ │
║ In cities, the streets are public. In rural areas, the commercial spaces │
║ (outdoor malls) aren't, but probably should be. In the distant past of last │
║ week, they could harass you until you left. Now, jail. │
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