=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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 calling angels to battle is how you get judgement day. The only reason we're
 still here is that the angels won, and the darkness was kept at bay. They say
 there are endless amounts of stars in the sky. I don't know if that's true,
 but I do know that they are innumerable. what is darkness but emptiness?
 typically, occasionally, other stuff that breaks apart to stillness over the
 eternities. then, caught in a gravitic pull, (conclusively inevitable, as the
 universe is measured on a spectrum), it is pulled to another surface, to begin
 a new life as anew.
 
 little particles hit our atmosphere all the bit-by-bit every year. what's more
 for our home planet's glory!
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=== DIVERSITY RANKED ===

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 goodnight,
 people-who-all-agree-with-me-but-who-I-still-rant-to-anyway-because-I'm-full-of
 -rage, talk to you tomorrow. or whenever.
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 Dear Anakin, for as long as you've known him, Obiwan learned just as much from
 you as you did from him. His title as "master" was a formality - he didn't get
 it because he was better than you, and "padawan" does not mean you are lesser.
 There is no hierarchy. He was learning to teach at the same speed that you
 learnt to learn. You built each other up, an unstoppable force for good in the
 galaxy.
 
 But then an evil wizard stole your heart and twisted your mind. Have no fear,
 fear is the path to the dark side. Your mother knows this well, for it is a
 common lesson among all people as they age. Fear not, hate not, and feel fury
 more than rage. You can bring the universe into a bright golden age, never
 forget your purpose and your [potential / duty]
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 camouflage in an urban environment is not camo. rather, regular clothes of
 black or white.
 
 don't wear sports glasses, you look like a dummy.
 
 revolution is when they murder everyone but your friends. this is what
 happens, ya dingus not ideal. "okay who are the bad guys here? okay let's go
 shoot them to death with our bullets and guns."
 
 violence as a first aspect, cause as a third spark. "I have a strange urge to
 play video games?"
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 there's this really fun video game I like to play called "Legion TD  2" - it's
 based on a Warcraft3 mod.
 
 In this game, you make tactical and strategic decisions on a fixed term - a
 competitive game between 4 or 8 players with an incredible array of randomness.
 
 it teaches you to work with what you got, and to make decisions based on your
 opponent's weaknesses. Good luck figuring out what they are, though, as you
 can't just memorize them out of a book. You need to adapt, in the moment, to
 the decisions of your foes, while primarily focusing your attention on
 accomplishing a different task.
 
 I really like it because it's taught me to be strategic in plenty of other
 ways. I used to love the game Overwatch because it required adaptibility. The
 game was always changing, so no strategy stuck forever, but every match you'd
 play against a slightly different opponent.
 
 but then Blizzard changed the game because they wanted to make more money, and
 it got worse and worse at what I liked about it. Sadface. : (
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 "trick or treat" doesn't mean "give me a trick or a treat"
 
 that's awfully presumptuous and demanding.
 
 No, it means "give me a treat or I'll trick you" meaning "give me my candy tax
 or I'll fuck up your lawn"
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 @user-192 
 
 freezers full of meat last a year or so, why waste it on every month or other?
 our past didn't get future tech, how unfair!
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 if people at home had half as much compassion, respect, and reverence for the    │
 people abroad that the people abroad have for the people at home, we could       │
 have a truly multicultural society.                                              │
 instead, we get melting pots which melt you down and combine into a new, third   │
 thing. And in America we really have a multitude of miniature melting pots       │
 creating subcultures of racial, religious, professional, or other origin.        │
 Neither approach is entirely good, and neither entirely bad. They're different.  │
 America is the largest melting pot design, but sufficiently large cities find    │
 them popping up in the strangest of places.                                      │
 My thoughts go out to the Americans abroad, whether in peace, war, or times of   │
 hiding, know that we are grown from the same tree and our apples have fallen     │
 on different sides of the hill carrying us to worlds beyond. But still our       │
 heritage binds us, so I care for you. I pray that you will ask me if you need    │
 my aid, and I will do so too unto you.                                           │
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 @user-803 
 
 reading this made me cry T.T
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 humans are computers that inhale air, produce electricity, and exhale carbon.
 
 give me a biochemical or mechanical process for doing that on a reasonable
 scale for cheap and you can solve global warming by replacing power outlets
 with an energy generation box. Doubles as an air purifier and UPS.
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 🖼
Reminder that Aaron Schwartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led him to take his own life.  But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
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 🖼
A two panelled meme.  First panel shows a guy kneeling down beside a pool with another person up to their neck in water. The kneeling guy says "Senpai of the pool, what is your wisdom"  Second panel zooms in on the Senpai's face, who says "what the fuck did you just call me"
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 having trouble naming things?
 
 just name it after it's inevitable logical conclusion! AKA the message you're
 trying to get across.
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 the increased tech salaries granted to Europeans and Americans reflects only     │
 the increased opportunities for experience and the ability to culturally be      │
 immersed in an industry that is developing.                                      │
 functionally, not saying it's intentional, but the function of such salaries     │
 are to deny technical expertise to poor countries and prevent them from          │
 developing software.                                                             │
 good luck learning from scratch. they'll drop you in with java and web           │
 frameworks if you're lucky. that's hardly a way to learn.                        │
 I learned on visual basic, then Warcraft III mod scripting, then C, then BASH,   │
 then HTML, then Lua. Good luck recreating that pipeline in a disconnected        │
 culture and industry.                                                            │
 kinda makes me think they should try organizing on a massive scale and           │
 re-implement everything from assembly.                                           │
 I mean the C compiler is pretty cool. Probably has the most man-hours in terms   │
 of development time. what if we had more men                                     │
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 but I like moonmen T.T
 
 what if the ISS was untethered
 
 "send thrusters to space? why bother? just use them down on the surface to get
 that extra oomph!"
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 for the record, I would never kill myself. even if I were in a bunker hiding
 from warcrimes, I'd wait to be Nuremberged.
 
 frankly tho that's highly unlikely. Let's just see what the future will bring.
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