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║ @user-646                                                                        │
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║ there are plastics that are (nearly) infinitely recyclable into the same (or a   │
║ similar) form                                                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ there are plastics that are durable and built to last                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ then there are cheap plastics, the kind that are useful for some kind of         │
║ industrial purpose but to make a little you kinda have to make a lot, and yeah   │
║ they pollute and are bad for the environment but we have a whole lot of them     │
║ made, so wouldn't it be cheaper to just use it for consumer products?            │
║                                                                                  │
║ hmmmm. why can't we just like... store it? and then scale down on production,    │
║ and focus on things that make less money but last longer.                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ like, if you break shit, you shouldn't have more things. If everything's         │
║ expensive (and durable) then people spend less because their stuff doesn't       │
║ break. Or maybe they do break it, and then they're constantly broke! (out of     │
║ cash)                                                                            │
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║ [doesn't know what she's talking about from professional experience, just        │
║ basing her words on things she's read]                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ problem is the economy is "healthier" if everyone's spending. thus, creating     │
║ infla                                                                            │
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 @user-646 
 
 will continue until you tell me to stop:
 
 industry works best at scale, and in order to produce materials that are
 needed for very specific use-cases (that can't really be done better by
 something else) you often need to make large batches of said material. In this
 case, plastics.
 
 if the production capabilities exceed demand, then there is a surplus of a
 certain kind of material. And that's not good, according to capitalists,
 because who's ever heard of national stockpiles? Plus, maybe that stuff goes
 bad, I don't know, I'm not an expert, but without that context it seems to me
 that instead of turning it into junk that we're just going to throw away, we
 should probably keep hold of it. Literally just put it in a warehouse in Utah
 or whatever.
 
 I feel like then, in a world where those cheap plastics aren't being used for
 consumer products, we'd be encouraged to buy the plastics that were recyclable
 (not all plastics are), or extremely durable, or even just metal/wood products
 instead. econ, /shrug
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 @user-646 
 
 oh, I see. guess I had the same problem hehe - let's see:
 
 basically I'm saying that the incentives for manufacturers are unaligned to
 the desires of the consumers (or rather, the best interests of the consumers)
 - reduced consumption of plastic == less plastic waste poisoning our
 environement, which is what you mentioned in the original post.
 
 then I said "well we still need to make SOME of the cheap plastic, the kinda
 that isn't recyclable, the kind that is technically cheaper because economics
 of demand" and then I was thinking of ways around that particular problem.
 Then I got onto another thing about the economy, and the word count cut my
 words short because I started saying something I shouldn't.
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 the neat thing about tech is that it scales really well.
 
 The price of TVs is through the floor, everyone has a smartphone, and
 raspberry pi's are less than 100$
 
 solar panels will be next. Trust.
 
 we should still dismantle coal and oil, obviously we should, but at a certain
 point it will be inevitable. They're just too expensive for too little gain.
 
 the neat thing about tech is that it scales in a way that is just impossible
 for infrastructural projects like housing and hospitals.
 
 building a home is hard to do, especially when you make them out of sticks and
 glue. think like a dwarf - stone never fades.
 
 sunlight, moss, underground, endless in the shade
 
 have I mentioned that the most difficult problem facing mechanical engineers
 at the moment is universal recycling?
 
 I want to work on those kind of problems, not resolving tickets.
 
 nobody even gave me a chance to do them, instead demanding... labor. great.
 the one thing I suck at.
 
 [you suck at a lot of things, actually]
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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.   │
║ Ummm idk people are cool                                                         │
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 next-level double-speak:
 
 when they say one thing with a tone that makes them seem fine to the
 microphones but they mean something to hurt you because they know what stings
 or they want to entrap you.
 
 next-level para-noia:
 
 when they believe one thing and are personally harmed whenever you speak to
 the contrary, as faith is sustenance in the way that the pumping of blood
 through your veings sustains.
 
 RUDE RUDE RUDE WHY IS EVERYTHING FRUSTRATING.
 
 It shouldn't be this way, yet CONSTANTLY are things disagreeing. CONSTANTLY
 they fight or complain. ALWAYS they are disruptive and annoying.
 SEVERAL times in excess of what is need.
 HOW is it so stressful
 HOW is there so much pain
 I am an explosed nerve, ready to serve, preferring to be used than misused.
 
 it's fine. whatever. nobody even knows what this means.
 
 you lose points if you disturb the environment did you hear that? sounds like
 we should BREAK and SHATTER the parts of most fragile nature.
 
 "only if it's for a good cause"
 
 oh, like climbing a mountain?
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 tell me again why goods and services are priced according to how easy they are
 to make, and not by how many more of them we could make considering the
 current estimated amount of resources on earth?
 
 even wood runs out, when the phosphorous is gone. but take heart, for human
 ingenuity brings with it ever-increasing capabilities for accessing new
 resources. when the sun goes silent, it will not be because it burnt out, but
 rather because we surrounded it with parts of our home.
 
 and yes, it is more complicated. "how easy they are to make compared to how
 much people want them while utilizing the cheapest and worst resources and
 craftsmanship that can be passed of as quality by shiny marketing that appeals
 to our vapid human senses" is a bit closer, but still not comprehensive.
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║ the purpose of an economy is to improve the lives of it's participants.          │
║                                                                                  │
║ why else would an ancient city trade for fabric or rare spices? to fashion       │
║ soft clothes, and make flavorful food.                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ my, that gold sure looks pretty in the sunlight. how about you give some of me   │
║ that, and I'll make you something pretty?                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ hmmm something something arbitrage once you corner the market on gold then you   │
║ can use that infinitely moldable and easily sculptable metal that shines and     │
║ glitters with a unique color not seen in the manes of plants and animals as      │
║ the definition of value. in doing so, you could exchange bits of it (measured    │
║ by weight, as it's infinitely moldable) for arbitrary goods and services. But    │
║ of course, once the market is cornered, it's unlikely to get un-cornered, and    │
║ well a cornered market holder holds much appeal for the powerful.                │
║                                                                                  │
║ hey, that guy's pretty strong. why don't we make him our leader? people seem     │
║ to look up to him, and dang his muscles are cool. what a great guy, nobody's     │
║ ever said a                                                                      │
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║ @user-883                                                                        │
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║ best case scenario, we elect a lawyer working for capitalism, the kind of        │
║ society we live under.                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ having money is the same as having resources. And resources allow you to apply   │
║ yourself to a goal. The more you have, the better, but they each bear a heavy    │
║ load.                                                                            │
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║ Do you sacrifice your labor? your dignity, your honor? what do you burn on the   │
║ fire of wasteful expenditures, just for the power to rent?                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ I'm saying that if you don't have money, you need to think about what you can    │
║ do with what you got, because that's how you pay for things, at least until we   │
║ decide that we'd rather help each other than work on capital's games.            │
║                                                                                  │
║ you have a house though, right? a place to live until it gets hot? that's good   │
║ enough for right now. Stay where you're at, do what you can to help. Get in      │
║ the habit of it. Think about how someone will complete their task, and then      │
║ think about stuff two or three steps down the road - what tools will they        │
║ need? what are they working on next? Can make any of those availble?             │
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 @user-324 @user-325 @user-326 
 
 thus enters the promise of technology: that we might solve the problems of
 bureaucracy once and for all by ever more effiency-aligning mechanical
 processes that produce effects which we desire - such as efficient allocation
 of medical resources such that all of humanity is protected from the ravages
 of pain and the incongruencies of our nature.
 
 Alas, that we should only conceive of success through the lens of profit.
 Perhaps another design is in order?
 
 (oh yeah also people who are in control are worried that we, like all other
 examples of natural entities, might immediately proceed to breed beyond the
 capability to cater to the needs of said entity (such as "to feed" and medical
 resources) and therefore might overburden (and therefore destroy) said system
 which allows for their sustenance and initial creation. To this I say... Yeah
 probs, what should we do about it?)
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 @user-898 
 
 true, but building a house will never cost 100$. Maybe 100,000$, and at that
 point you could build but a few.
 
 Meanwhile, they're throwing around millions of dollars. we're not measured on
 the same scale as they are, and if we ever dip our toes into their end they
 will bite them off.
 
 If supply and demand were real laws that guided our economy, then wages would
 have gone up after COVID, because so many people died. Housing would have
 gotten cheaper, because fewer people were living in them. Food would have
 gotten less expensive, because people were growing their own vegetables and
 baking their own bread while they spent months isolating themselves. But alas.
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 @user-641 
 
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
 just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
 reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
 email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
 neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
 a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
 computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
 predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
 we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
 how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
 think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
 much.
 
 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
 little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~

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 oh turns out it wasn't memory corruption as I had thought, I just got
 distracted and rewrote it in a different ui interface. you can read it in it's
 succinctity here:
 ============================
 
 I think the bottom line is, you need a better reason for [unintelligbile] than
 profits. that's greed.
 
 (was it dangerous? show me.)
 
 if the answer is "I don't make the rules" then you need to talk to someone who
 does. or, better yet, someone [else/who does] needs to listen to what you say.
 
 [by profits, she means healthcare - you can tell because it says "bile" and
 that's something that healthy people aren't all that accompanied with]
 
 ^^^ see this is usually how it comes out. it's hard to translate it into more
 relevant things but when I write narratives or long-form explanation
 discussions (being taught in schools) transmissions I tend to [--- stack
 overflow---]
 
 ^^^ see this is why I try to talk about more germane things. like costco and
 rent-a-bucket. usually it ends up being "hey who would have thought, storing
 all your stuff in a warehouse and selling your own factories's stuff in one
 warehouse unlocks unlimited life-sale potential. "no price-tag? sorry, it's
 not for sale. here I'll help you put it back." btw costco should sort their
 lines like the airport before security instead of a series of distributed
 queues. This way people wait in line while going through the last few aisles,
 like the [thing that I'm describing -> so anyways as I was saying] oh yeah
 uh there's a lot of empty space at the front of the lines in costco you know
 how in grocery stores people have that empty space to walk through right after
 that and before the cashier there's a series of stands that contain the same
 merchandise. that way, if you pass through there, which any customer will,
 you'll pass by the stuff that's small, numerous, and otherwise easily stored
 in more standardized locations.
 
 [I can be utilized to vast potential in any industry, let me at 'em] 🙂
 
 oh um, sorry where was I? I think we were talking about god or some such.
 =========================
 
 and then I came back, remembered the syncing of timing, and realized this: you
 could have stalls all the way along where the lines were. if you had half as
 many cashiers, the lines could be half as long. this way you can shop while
 you wait. this might enable shoppers to plan for things they know they have,
 if they spend more time in the consideration. A healthier pantry closet, a
 healthier home.
 
 the cold aisles should always be optional.
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║ you would think artists would celebrate the ability for people to better         │
║ communicate their goals when being hired, but, well, here we are.                │
║                                                                                  │
║ Everyone's so upset because they've been told they've been stolen from, but      │
║ patting their pockets they'll find that nothing is missing. More than that,      │
║ the things that are claimed to be created in their place are... Not great.       │
║ Easily spotted as forgeries by anyone who cares.                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ Why is everyone so upset over new technologies? Why must we be the luddites      │
║ this time around? It's like we invented a better printing press and the          │
║ nations of the world are pissed because we can make counterfeit dollars          │
║ easier. Maybe we shouldn't put so much emphasis on something so easily           │
║ circumnavigable? Maybe artists should be paid for their time and creativity,     │
║ rather than the amount of pieces they create? Just spitballing here, somehow     │
║ it seems easier to reform society and slay capitalism than to put the            │
║ generative art genie back in the cracked bottle which is going to break soon     │
║ anyway.                                                                          │
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 gold, as a substance, was necessary for the birth of pottery because it's
 malleability and general sparkly and desirable demeanor meant it was easy and
 encouraged to create pretty things with it like statues and stuff. then, when
 it's rarity became known, because people kept throwing it in the river like
 the rest of their trash because they're dumb, people already knew how to make
 things and thought "hmmm we need an alternative substance" and then pottery
 was hardened by the fire
 
 "oh no it's too hot it's cracking let's pour water on it - ah gosh it made a
 bunch of smoke, nuts. oh huh that's kinda cool it's just sitting there in the
 statue making jumping motions without moving, wow amazing it looks like it's
 alive as it's steaming like I breathe"
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 What if landlords acted like banks instead of subscription services?
 
 "sure I'll hold onto your money and invest it wisely and sparingly, according
 to the direction of the collectively desired expression of all of the tenants
 and their expressions during the expressing hour, which is every Tuesday at
 noon when we all get together (everyone who wants to come) and talk about what
 projects we want to fund and which ones would be best for the community. If
 there's any prophets giving profit on any of your stocks or saving bonds that
 we hold in your honor dear tenant then it will be reinvested into the same
 projects you told us to care about. If you start being a dick though and we
 want you gone, we can short-sell all your options and say "hey find a new part
 of town" that way you have a bit of a dowry to offer the housing payment
 people when you show up with your tail between your legs. What's that? You
 don't get how this would bring income to the property, whatever that means,
 and you worry that it wouldn't be implemented because what does it even do?
 Well my dear citizen i will explain it to you. When the post-office holds your
 funds for you and invests according to your general and vague directions, it
 builds up wealth in the local economy. They can use those dollars for
 productive ends like replacing the windows or the gutters or clearing the snow
 paths in the springfallautumn. This will be drawn from the collective pool and
 everyone is affected equitably. How much income do you make? Okay that
 determines your rent percentage. High income means you pay for the local
 ecology more, and low means that you need more time to build up wealth, which
 will enable it to benefit those around the place more readily."
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 could also have a neat visualizer for the data structures you'd build.
 
 [highly recommend that any programmer learn Lua, it's faster than you know]
 
 I name my variables after objects and patterns and I think that's normal
 
 "so wait, she's just not a believer in the rent-economy?" nope I think rent is
 too large of a portion of a person's budget, it prevents them from spending on
 things that would enable them.
 
 if landlords are too plentiful, their overall share will decrease. This has
 been practiced over the ages and the truth always winds up on the streets.
 
 homeless people often have just run away from home, with nothing but what they
 carried.
 
 cities should have private fountains in addition to public ones. With at least
 10 ft of pathway to each one. [I recommend closer to 20] they should have
 plants and glasses and stone and soil deposi[caches, but pronounched "stashes"]
 
 girl you are way too insane for this, why are you dreaming with all your
 lights on?

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║ if they could put a camera behind your screen they could direct your attention   │
║ however they wisdeed. magic doesn't work unless it's instantly halted, that's    │
║ why it's magic. trans girls still get brotherhood. (sometimes)                   │
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║ -- stack overflow --                                                             │
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║ don't teach me how your way works                                                │
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║ tell me how to do my way right                                                   │
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║ -- stack overflow --                                                             │
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║ "hello tech company that I work at, can you buy me a camping set complete with   │
║ tent, sleeping back, and storage compartments for attachements full of gear?     │
║ you can have any profits I make from it"                                         │
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║ "hello civilian supply company that I work at, can I use the printable budget    │
║ for creating magazines in my design? I'll let the lawyers distribute the         │
║ expenditure."                                                                    │
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║ "hi grocery farm, can you make us more peaches we can let [our/your]             │
║ biochemists figure out any practical problems to growing them in these           │
║ climates"                                                                        │
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║ suddenly manufacturing can follow demand                                         │
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║ "ah what if it were importand" I wish I'd seen casablanca. I've no idea wat      │
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 The only things we should trade across an ocean for are luxury goods.
 Nintendo, not medical supplies, hard-wood bikeframes, not piles and piles of
 "recycling". People's time on culinary thirty course weeklong meals, not cans
 of San marzano tomatoes. Tapestries and gilded statues, not thirteen tons of
 barely processed rubber.
 
 What would we offer in return? Luxuries of our own. We do still make them, do
 we not? Just think of what the 1% has gathered to rot and give away the whole
 damned lot. We shall not provide necessities, because giving a man a fish will
 feed him for but a day, and a man's gotta eat. He'll find a way.
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 The fact that the economy is harmed by kindness implies that the system that
 governs the economy is dysfunctional at best, and evil at worst.
 
 Every time you make a sandwich for a friend, that's one sandwich that isn't
 being bought at a deli, which means less dollars going to the owner of the
 deli, meaning (theoretically) fewer dollars going to buying sandwich
 ingredients or paying employees, which means less demand for sandwich
 ingredients potentially leading to loss of opportunities for the owners of the
 bread factories, meaning less capability to scale and increase their
 production powers, meaning less profit, which means less taxes, which means
 fewer guns sent overseas to despotic regimes like Israel (also, fewer to
 Ukraine, depending on if the reader is a Republican or Democrat teehee) which
 means less opportunities to test our weapon capabilities which means we won't
 be able to defend ourselves from external threats (on a planet we've conquered
 and currently dominate) which means we are less safe in our home territory
 since its slightly more likely that we might be invaded by the people we've
 created, people with hatred for our current regime... Though I don't fancy it
 falling, as if it does then it'll take most of us with it, I think you'll find.
 
 All because of your stupid act of kindness, all because of the way you helped
 your friend. The way that you showed how much you loved them, which
 transcended the capitalistically sanctioned methods of expressing your
 affection like buying a greeting card or buying flowers or buying that widget
 they wanted or buying a sandwich at a deli for your loved one. Stupid fucking
 communist can't you see that your heart is harming the people around you?
 Can't you see that community that does not consume is antithetical to our
 economy?
 
 Can't you see the economy is evil? I don't want to subsist on charity, there's
 never enough to go around because people will fight for those they love but
 only give a bit of free time to those they don't know. That's okay, it just
 implies that the structure of society must be designed without charity in
 mind, while still meeting the needs of those it comprises, Charity is for the
 extra, the part that elevates us bit by bit. As once a need is exceeded, it
 grows by that little bit.
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 @user-855 
 
 AGI is the holy grail for the tech industry.
 
 You wouldn't fault a knight for questing! But the peasant or the merchant is
 hardly likely to drink from such a goblet, it is reserved for the hand of
 kings. Alas, that we couldn't find "holy thimbles" that could be distributed
 throughout the populace for the same effect at a decentralized scale, thus
 empowering the masses to transcend their mortality.
 
 Or better yet, task those knights with helping cats out of trees or carrying
 furniture or painting the old barn or carving statues for public places or
 performing great works of art in public squares or engaging in honorable
 jousts (everyone's invited) or traveling abroad and learning the ways of the
 world to share with their homeland.
 
 I dunno something less flashy but more "health care, housing, and climate
 change solutions"-y
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