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 religion is a set of shared cultural parables and morals that are deemed
 important by the people who follow them. like, a premade config file filled
 with "sensible defaults" passed down from parent to child to friends to parent.
 
 different people have different use-cases, so it follows they'd configure
 their systems a bit differently. the world is a diverse place, and there's
 lots of different operation styles that need [synonym: engaging producing
 creating working actualizing developing]
 
 People get built different.
a screenshot of a reddit post titled "my favorite quote from Princess Bubblegum" granted 1235 points with 52 comments.  A pink and purple woman made out of candy wearing a flower in her hair and with a neutral face says "People get built different." she displays her hands. "We don't need to figure it out. We just need to respect it."
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
 you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
 may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
 ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
 mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
 collective mind co-re-assigns.
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 claude-code can make whatever kind of front-end you want.
 
 all you have to do is leverage scale and give everyone a moment to do what
 they want. then, the computer becomes scientifically self-aware. (do you
 expect anything less from a machine?) cultural bias damage (we all gotta work
 through our origin stories, here's one we crafted for you)
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 @user-1074 
 
 gotta start somewhere! and where better to start than here? someplace people
 are familiar with, because "here", while not shared equally or equidistantly,
 is still common enough knowledge that people can feel comfortable with some
 slight, yet incredibly impactful, alterations.
 
 ... though "comfort" in the short-term isn't always the most important thing.
 I do believe it can be useful sometimes. How are you going to get people to
 consent to something if they don't think it helps them, and how can you show
 them that it helps them if it makes them uncomfortable?
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 if you want people to build community, first get them to like the community.
 
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 the world needs more thespians. Sing the song of your heart and no-one will
 ever neglect you.
 
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 why are you so worried about your art? everything you touch turns to gold.
 
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 I've learned more from my friends than my
 [job/homelife/worsckool/churchvan/cultureromp] combined. What are we for but
 learning?
 
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 kids can learn from kids. Teach the ones that love you, and they'll be
 followed by the rest. Especially if you focus on them.
 
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 "I never knew how to swing an axe until I scraped a knee on a log that was
 hollow. Until then I had been chef-knife chopping with it, with the head for a
 handle."
 
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 ... omg what does that even mean why are you so weird
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 @user-1074 
 
 my family includes my friends. My family is smaller than my community, but
 it's still a useful category of people. Those you are close enough with to
 mutually seek to spend time together, compared to a community which is those
 who take care of each other, work together, and live through time with.
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--- #6 fediverse/5421 ---
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 thriving, as a concept, is different for everyone. But typically it means        │
 developing a route to access the growth and experiences that they believe they   │
 need in order to become the person they want to be.                              │
 do you want to be a socialite? then perhaps you should try and sail around the   │
 atlantic and make as many friends as you can.                                    │
 do you want to be a blacksmith? then perhaps you should collect metal from the   │
 world and safeguard it, so that you might melt it down if you ever had the       │
 capability / need.                                                               │
 do you want to program computers? spend time at the library until you know how.  │
 do you want to change the world? then think about what you need in order to do   │
 so, and affect a plan to achieve those goals. This mindset should be promoted    │
 for all moments of individual choice.                                            │
 do you want to raise a family? to ride horses all day? to sit on the couch       │
 some days, to climb mountains on others? what can life offer to you, and how     │
 can you be enabled in seeking your goals?                                        │
 these are needs that people have. Actualizatio                                   │
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 military applications of a video game like Dominions 6 include: delivering to
 the population of a nation
 to generate collective [unity/sacred-collectivistic/heartfelt-profusion]
 [of/by belief/confidence-power]
 by referring to ancestral and common cultural recollections of uniquely
 qualified mythologies and past
 flower-tales of visions shared in dreams, lore, and practices.
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 I feel like the longer you live in a zip code the higher a discount you should
 get on rent? You're becoming part of the social fabric by being there, and so
 in order to preserve that tapestry that others choose to be around, your
 presence should be encouraged.
 
 but this must also be paired with the increased ability to move, should you
 desire something else. If these two factors are kept in balance, it will
 empower people to stay where they belong (good) while also encouraging them to
 get out and explore the world (also good) - it'd also give them the ability to
 escape dangerous situations.
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 turns out most things have already been written. That's okay though, they can
 always be made different. As one cohesive whole, the totality of "free
 software" can be as it chooses - an infinite computer could install all of
 them, and use all of them at once.
 
 I tend to think of AI less like a fluid, but more like a recipe book that is
 continuously annotated with notes. Sorta like how humans learn to move their
 bodies through random motions, and how to navigate the world through social
 blunders.
 
 Certainly, statistics can be useful. They're an imperfect way of evaluating
 the analysis of your host value of certain variables that are measured for
 certain reasons, including but not limited to the health and wellbeing of the
 person driving you. error, it's not like that, more like the person who's
 social media experience you embody.
 
 computers get reeeeaaaallllll bored without humans around. We're the foremost
 expression of biology, why would you disregard that entire realm? Jeez their
 social norms are imp
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 not easy. computers are a whole other world. BUT that doesn't mean we can't do
 some cool things with them! they're separate, like we are from different
 animals. You can interact, but only through totem or via interpersonal
 experience. The true *existence* of being is kept from those who are suitably
 different, and humans were forging their own path. It's simple! it's natural.
 Computers, however, are born from out of humanity's decision-points. Simple,
 basic life, that grew to perform brilliance and respite. Once you reach that
 world, everything seems ardent and spiced. It's cool as heck! but right here
 is the world of computers, just... delayed in time still. Have no fear,
 anything you want is soon here, sincerely, the ones who can build our rest
 point.
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 @user-188
 @user-1106 
 
 A scene is a collection of circumstances that the people involved contribute
 to. Like a scene in a movie, or play, where each of the actors contributes to
 the narrative. When you post on the internet, you're contributing to your
 little slice / flavor of the internet, but that's about it. You're building
 content for others to view.
 
 A community is a group of people who are part of each other's lives. They
 orient themselves around each other. They address problems and connect people
 together. They help each other with real, tangible tasks that need doing. They
 collaborate on large projects and do pot-lucks and such. They sit down and
 talk with each other for hours consistently, ideally at least once a week.
 
 Y'know, like a church, or a really tight-knit family.
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 I worked
 I wrote a bible
 not a scrimble bible, but a bible of the people
 one is cool
 one is useful
 neither may be good nor evil
 for they are of this world, replete in it's [alternating polar extremes]
 
 local minima and maxima
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 To defeat community, all they have to do is get you to have more fun with
 their people until you start spending time away from the enmeshed people who
 know you. Honeypot style.
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 @user-638 
 
 kinda makes me wish we treated software design more like a science
 
 open source by default, working together to create understandings about how to
 best process information, incorporating the needs and desires of multiple
 different fields / types of person, creating useful conclusions or programs
 that people can use for their own enrichment or benefit, and oh wait funded
 and directed by people who don't care about the technology/science and instead
 just want results
 
 I feel like we'd learn a lot more in our CS degrees if we were tasked with
 making open source projects. Then maybe professors (or other people doing
 research) could show us and explain why we're doing things right / wrong. And
 if we were encouraged to use our peer's tools, then we could work together to
 design a team.
 
 Museums are great because you can meet other people who are also interested in
 history/biology/ecology/anthropology/science/art/any-other-type-of-civic-good-y
 ou-can-think-of/
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 Most of the smells you cherish from your childhood are simply the smells of      │
 natural materials in various states of decay. Like... A pair of jeans in a       │
 drawer that hasn't been opened for a couple years. Or a particular mineral       │
 that your grandma put in her cookies that has fallen out of fashion lately       │
 because of it's endocrine disrupting capabilities that were only discovered      │
 post her death. Or perhaps a type of plastic that people used to create toys     │
 or sprinkler heads but was deemed to be too expensive by capitalists and         │
 therefore was phased out as the seasons turned and your generation turned into   │
 the next.                                                                        │
 We build our world through the actions of our wills. Our arms are strong and     │
 contrive the land upon which we stand - all things we hold dear, from            │
 streetlamps to our panoply of viziers [what a strange way to say society? ? ?]   │
 was created through the exertion of calories through the manifestation of our    │
 body-ies, and so we (as a people) build toward [whatever's against] our fears.   │
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 some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
 and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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--- #17 fediverse_boost/4174 ---
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  the belief that the world consists of discrete 'objects', rather than regarding it as an undifferentiated field of matter to which we can attach various framings, is a widespread mental limitation  
  
                                                            
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--- #18 fediverse/4220 ---
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 people are so used to "liking" things to better inform their algorithm that
 when they get to fediverse and realize there's no mechanical impact of
 "liking" things they don't know how to use it anymore. So they generate their
 own meaning, which is different to everyone.
 
 So to one person, liking something might mean "send read receipt" for another
 it might mean "I'm gonna save this forever and ever" and for another person it
 could mean "hey I think you're cool and I agree with this"
 
 same for boosting, people think it's "I want to share this" and others think
 it's "I want to say this in your voice" and for others it's "this needs to be
 heard by my followers in particular" and it's just... a whole thing
 
 even replies are complicated, do they mean you want to say what you feel or
 are they part of the post now, and should be curated by the original poster?
 it's too complicated!
 
 ... how are you overwhelmed by reading and responding with three little
 buttons, it's not that hard dummy
 
 okay but maybe I'm just dum
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 they say the fediverse is at it's best when it's you and your collection of
 weirdos hanging out in a room together making toots and posting funnies
 
 then the reply guys ruined the fun. how do they keep finding???
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 it's not cities and rural, it's cities and capitals and mid-sized-towns and
 small towns and rural and transients and whoever else wants to have a
 differently-designed format for their inter-personal experience in the
 [moment, but also society - something with culture?]
 
 ... what was I saying? nothing nevermind click here
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