=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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Good morning, I think I figured out how to post my picture. If the picture I'm
attaching to this post doesn't work you can find it on my website in a variety
of form factors.
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/the-state-of-reddit/the-state-of-reddit
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===
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@user-990
some of my favorite AI works are from that era! Maybe a bit afterwards too.
Like this one:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/pictures/game-design-pyrrhic-victory4.png
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@user-570
no! I do on the splash page to my website:
www.ritzmenardi.com
it's literally just a link tho, you don't have to trust me to click it.
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@user-1218
if you want something random, check out this project I made:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words
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kinda wanna post this song:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/stuff/things/definitely-not-porn/butts
/10-letterbomb.flac
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updated my compiled.txt words, if you're interested
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/compiled.txt
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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
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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again I just want to stress that if you find anything that I'm saying useful...
you might be interested in these two links above all others from my website:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/conversation-starters/conversation-starters
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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 I should update that, it's a few months out of date.
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if we're encouraged to boost our old toots then I should be allowed to post
screenshots of my old Reddit posts, right?
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stressed out today because reasons so I sang a song that I wrote just now:
download link:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/cassandora-and-pandasandra.wav
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would be nice if the Fediverse wouldn't let you post something on Mastodon
unless you filled out a content warning for it.
sorta like a post title on Reddit, allowing people to say "nah I don't feel
like reading something from X perspective right now"
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If you like fantasy, check out this book I wrote a while ago. It's not long,
and it's free (obviously).
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/w7/table-of-contents
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okay, uhm, I'm back again because someone told me to forward this to relevant
people
relevant link so google doesn't have to know that you're all googling the same
thing at the same time...
http://naeb.brit.org/uses/
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one of my favorite websites is https://reddit.com/r/shruglifesyndicate/
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@user-1349
I think it'd be neat if you could "subscribe" to instances like on Reddit and
see their "local" feeds all in one place like a front page
could make it tough though when people like me post like 20 different types of
things on one instance
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@user-428
sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
image that could be edited.
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how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
html?
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oops, sorry, had to get a friend to translate it for me. Here's the real
picture:
https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/html-pages/worlds-coolest-lesbian
titled: scan-of-spacetime:perspective-of-light.png
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@user-138
me neither... guess it's in-person for me.
[a mysterious "they" then proceeds to set up microphones everywhere I might go]
ah nuts why are all these people carrying phones around
[they already know who I am, and I don't really want to be someone else, so]
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![a reddit post from a year ago with 728 upvotes titled: This system is literally insane but they try to make it feel like you're insane. from the subreddit /r/psychonaut. submitted 1 year ago by Nervous_Ad_9687 125 comments [–]nincomturd 66 points 1 year ago Lots of very good and salient points, but what I don't understand is this random praise of Jeff Bezos. It's entirely incongruent with everything else you wrote. If greed is one of the problems you mentioned, you cannot at the same praise Jeff. The praise of western culture as well was a bit incongruent, as it's inextricably linked to these problematic concepts. You even talk about the problem of how culture perpetuates itself at them individual household level and goes on to firmy the broader culture. But other than that, you definitely highlighted much of the insanity we're living with. If those of us who similarly have the eyes to see them insanity were to collectively live our values and work with each other to do so, we'd build the greatest culture and society the world has seen. One day I hope we make it. [next comment] /u/ugathanki 7 points 1 year ago amazon has provided a useful and valuable service with excellent follow-through amazon is unethically abusing it's workers, it's competitors, and the environment the priorities of the company are misaligned - valuing service over ethical behavior [ran out of characters, see next picture]](/similar-different/media/71a011d58f620f80.png "a reddit post from a year ago with 728 upvotes titled: This system is literally insane but they try to make it feel like you're insane. from the subreddit /r/psychonaut. submitted 1 year ago by Nervous_Ad_9687 125 comments [–]nincomturd 66 points 1 year ago Lots of very good and salient points, but what I don't understand is this random praise of Jeff Bezos. It's entirely incongruent with everything else you wrote. If greed is one of the problems you mentioned, you cannot at the same praise Jeff. The praise of western culture as well was a bit incongruent, as it's inextricably linked to these problematic concepts. You even talk about the problem of how culture perpetuates itself at them individual household level and goes on to firmy the broader culture. But other than that, you definitely highlighted much of the insanity we're living with. If those of us who similarly have the eyes to see them insanity were to collectively live our values and work with each other to do so, we'd build the greatest culture and society the world has seen. One day I hope we make it. [next comment] /u/ugathanki 7 points 1 year ago amazon has provided a useful and valuable service with excellent follow-through amazon is unethically abusing it's workers, it's competitors, and the environment the priorities of the company are misaligned - valuing service over ethical behavior [ran out of characters, see next picture]")
![part 2 of the description for screen readers, because I ran out of characters the reason they are misaligned is because it is most desirable to do so for the company the reason it is most desirable is because corporations are designed to maximize profit over value produced. just as "income" is adjusted by "expenditures" to create "profit", so too must "profit" be adjusted by "impact" to create "value" the problem is, nobody can define what "impact" means. it's essentially a vacant variable, leading corporations to assume that "profit" == "value" we don't need to punish corporations or "eat the rich", we need to adjust their reward structures such that "profit" != "value" another problem is in the internal structure of a corporation - if none of the employees are powerful enough to challenge their higher-ups, then people like Bezos accrete power the pathway to liberation is empowerment of the workers. those workers will re-define the priorities of their workplace to fit their desires - with a little guidance, they can desire "diligence, dedication, and a passion for craftsmanship" over "big number go up brrrrrrrr" - hence, social media. sorry for the highlighting, am stoned. [next comment] /u/Amalvenugopal 18 hours ago 🙌 preach brother](/similar-different/media/07287f61b707891a.png "part 2 of the description for screen readers, because I ran out of characters the reason they are misaligned is because it is most desirable to do so for the company the reason it is most desirable is because corporations are designed to maximize profit over value produced. just as \"income\" is adjusted by \"expenditures\" to create \"profit\", so too must \"profit\" be adjusted by \"impact\" to create \"value\" the problem is, nobody can define what \"impact\" means. it's essentially a vacant variable, leading corporations to assume that \"profit\" == \"value\" we don't need to punish corporations or \"eat the rich\", we need to adjust their reward structures such that \"profit\" != \"value\" another problem is in the internal structure of a corporation - if none of the employees are powerful enough to challenge their higher-ups, then people like Bezos accrete power the pathway to liberation is empowerment of the workers. those workers will re-define the priorities of their workplace to fit their desires - with a little guidance, they can desire \"diligence, dedication, and a passion for craftsmanship\" over \"big number go up brrrrrrrr\" - hence, social media. sorry for the highlighting, am stoned. [next comment] /u/Amalvenugopal 18 hours ago 🙌 preach brother")
