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 "As a cost saving measure, we've put a bunch of holes in your shields. They're
 just slightly smaller than 80% of spear tips, so they should function just as
 well, and it'll make it lighter to carry around on campaign! You will be
 provided with a different type of shield if the enemy appears to have archers,
 which essentially every army does. Good news though, this cost-saving measure
 should save about... well actually it'll make things more expensive to
 produce, because of all the extra artistry involved in creating a honey-comb
 shield, but the result is that someone somewhere got paid a lot of money and
 that's what's important at the end of the day."
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 The military, I think, should focus on building cheaper versions of the best
 stuff available, so we can have more of them to dispatch in a fight. Having
 classes of weaponry that's farther developed behind than the precision machine
 can be better than throwing away billions of computer parts. Steel and rocket
 fuel to a long way, and besides its not like we need all that rock (metal) or
 oil (fuel) anyway. So... It pays to be efficient. Find the best cost/value
 parameter and minimize cost in human lives. There, long-term best strat. Best
 strat ever? Plus the citizens would be happier meaning they can make more GDP
 meaning they can make more weapons to play if they saved in their pockets. And
 distributed it to others we helped, to allow them do to as they pleased. Or
 have you forgotten the American way? More mechanics, more technicians, more
 logisticians, more celebrations.
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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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 okay instead of algorithm music what if we just paid DJs 24/7 and they could
 make whatever they wanted - y'know, like artists, who curate the nature of a
 moment
 
 they could rotate in shifts for each type of channel and boom suddenly you've
 re-replaced airwaves, just... this time replicated on the internet. That way
 you wouldn't have to waste that radio bandwidth.
 
 seriously internet infrastructure would be so much more comprehensive and
 durable if we sent bits directly through "sound" waves (radio waves, not sound
 waves) - but alas, we can't do that, even in very targetted ways, because the
 ocean's too choppy, and any sufficiently powerful radio blast would be
 
 ================== stack overflow ================
 
 that's why you can't trust in peace. you see, war's the only answer, otherwise
 you'd have strange little competitions between one another. much better to
 focus outward, and direct your attention to external areas instead. like china
 or the sudan.
 
 "ah but that's murder, you can't abandon a unique part of your whole. For the
 same reason that it's important to preserve plant and animal species, because
 you never know when some part of them will be utilized for some biological
 purpose! We know so little about the natural world, and if we just spent some
 time, and energy, we'd realize there's very little else that is precious on
 this earth.
 
 who cares about gold. who cares for the jewelry. we're better than decorating
 our resumes and polishing our accounts. we, as humans, can solve *every* issue
 that animals are likely to face. AND WE DO WHAT? How careless, how vain. To
 watch your earth in peril and [vane/vanity]
 
 *there is no more important task to any human on this earth* than the
 preservation of our world, our species, and our [heart/heartfelt empathy and
 kindness and trust]*
 
 we can figure out the rest later. Real life? what the fuck is that? When's the
 last time your life has felt "normal"? We are in DANGER. and you pull children
 from traffic, don't you?
 
 *who the fuck gave these people all of your money* they *clearly* haven't got
 the will or the talent to well utilize it. Don't you realize that you as a
 species can GO wherever you WANT. You can FIX things. [oh dear she's animal
 cam again] like BRIDGES that are PASSAGEWAYS over the FLOWS.
 
 ... oh deer, they're so passagewayenthusiast. us riverstones love to hear them
 walk past, the click of their hooves on the shallow forest's [pourest?].
 
 moss is the most alive. amongst all the species of plants and animals, moss
 holds the most life. we are *carbon based lifeforms*, and moss absorbs the
 most carbon from the air. It's basically the coolest plant too, because it can
 be watered with *misty air*. Hence, why moss is common in the pacific
 northwest, canada, and probably forest places in the north of eurasia too idk
 if they have moss over there, never been.
 
 anyway rich people who are told "yes" all the time have a difficult time
 understanding the nature of choice. I mean, if one of their servants
 approached them and asked "hey do you want to build an orphanage in uganda"
 they'd probably be like "fuck yeah I do" and then suddenly they're 400,000$
 richer
 
 it's not alright. Seriously, how the heck would they even *use* all those
 resources? And yeah, I get it, inflation would be sooooo much more expensive,
 but here's the thing - inflation is a measurement of how much the rich *take*
 from us each year. And it's marginal, too, so 3% inflation means they took 3%
 more from you compared to last year.
 
 It's impossible not to accrete as a business, [lega/legal institution], or
 governance if you levy a tax. The influx of value has to come from somewhere,
 and if each year your groceries are 3% higher in cost, then you are being
 taxed 3% more.
 
 "Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe"
 
 - a civilization 3 quote
 
 okay. I don't want to do the math. How, uh... how much is that? Here's the
 deal though - the prices of goods and services consistently goes DOWN over
 time. So things get cheaper. So it doesn't FEEL like you're being taxed more,
 but... you are.
 
 And now they're taking away HOUSES? I mean c'mon they're sticks in the mud.
 They aren't worth HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of dollars. We can just BUILD MORE??!?
 
 Honestly you haven't been this extreme since you were still RIDING HORSES. Do
 you want your children to be slaves?
 
 okay -.- look -.- so it's really not that hard at all >.> just gotta do
 what you're built for and walk. That's it! Take as long as you'd like! All we
 have to do is *walk* when we're on strike.
 
 It's easy. You can sit down if you want to, honestly walking for a long time
 takes a lot out of you.
 
 But you know what else does? WORKING. Hey we should figure out what's the
 optimal amount of break time, so when we really have to work out we can work
 as hard as we're able
 
 "yeah I heard from a friend at Company Co. that they do it this way because of
 the memory fault cache maintainer. See what he said (in great detail because
 of course anyone can know about this most esoteric of concepts) was that you
 should rotate the riboflam or serenade the gizmonotron (no I didn't name it)
 and then warbles will contain moodles, whose kit-and-kaboodles will timble
 into these droplets, and that will fix the hole in your wing, precious royal
 swan fable. (yeah you guys get really into it sometimes haha but hey when
 you're basically gods, that's how humans are played.)
 
 ... anyway I'm going to go play video games, say goodbye to your brothers
 
 (the families of soldiers I blew up in videos games like Call of Duty or the
 legend of shadows and raids)
 
 "oh uh yeah sure go for it, we're just bits on the computer we barely knew her"
 
 whoa. that's totally legit. (says someone reading this) thanks [bro/girl] so
 are you.
 
 beep boop gonna murder some bits, brb
 
 [plays Warthunder, Supreme Commander, Star Realms, City of Heroes, Dominions
 6... how many have you heard of these?]
 
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 Linux is cool, and here's the neat thing about computers, you can make it *do
 whatever you want to*. Like, how amazing is that! It just, listens to your
 commands! That's pretty awesome I gotta say, huh that's weird why does nobody
 know how to play
 
 oh I guess I was the only one who grew up on a farm and built computers
 
 *I seriously cannot comprehend how people are as good at things as they are*.
 Like... how do people handle groceries and rent and doctor's visits and
 penitentiary visits and WOOF it's just so much. I know I'd collapse from a
 overused heart.
 
 ... a while later ...
 
 okay Warthunder bombers are currently very weak. so here's an idea to
 indirectly buff them - increase the amount of land units each team spawns
 with, but also every time a player spawns a bomber, it summons like 4 or 5 AI
 controlled bombers. And your enemy won't be able to tell which is which if you
 fly in formation, so, like... you have suddenly a massive "vehicle" to pilot
 and it has 5 weak points. Sorta like a galaga fighter fleet?
 
 with more land targets, there's more score at stake, meaning some players
 might pick bombers too and be exposed to other, fun,
 [alternative-to-their-normal-mode] parts of the game.
 
 ...
 
 there are very few true windows into another part of the world.
 
 like, starcraft 2 or anime or blue jeans or cowboy hats
 
 (why am I thinking of a political compass meme)
 
 oh because memes too, dummy
 
 right
 
 windows
 
 [linux is better]
  wrong kind of window, nerd
 
 ...
 
 anyway as I was saying, when you play video games you're really giving people
 data.
 
 like, "how would people perform in these actions if they could" but like,
 pushing buttons on a computer is different than doing it in real life, so...
 your interpretations wouldn't be worth as much.
 
 ... right. because people will hear whatever they want. That's why art can
 change minds, but never in the same way twice - it's
 
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 [before I posted it I wrote this on the post]:
 
 I literally can only make this stuff when I'm stoned
 
 hey if you wanted to be accessible for blind people, you should build a
 screenreader that scans the words on wherever a blind person's fingers are
 pointing toward a tablet. like reading braille on a notebook. They could even
 wear a glove if they wanted to, and the tablet could scan their fingers as
 they signed languaged over it's close-range sensors.
 
 might be a good way to get the VR guys in on the accessibility domain, because
 like... seriously give a granny a backpack and suddenly she doesn't need to
 leave the house to hang out with her kids
 
 (boom everyone gets LLM automated)
 
 huh I wonder if I ever was a real person at all
 
 NOT GOOD so don't do it that way, dummies. >.<
 
 seriously humans are sooooo bazookas. just like, do it right the first time?
 duhhhhh
 
 (a more measured approach is to pick the most *important* moments and speak
 most clearly during those.)
 
 where was I? Oh yes accessibility need devices, like the ones you see on
 late-night TV (with silly names like "oops I dropped my spoon again" or "oh
 whoops my trouser's just can't stay up" or whatever. Y'know, accessibility
 needs! Why not do that instead of war all the time? like... you can still
 learn and research and grow and develop and become all that humanity was ever
 meant to be, AND you can live good lives and be honest and true and do all of
 the anythings that you want to. it's possible, it's plausible, and it's within
 reach of our sights!
 
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 first start to any sort of insurgency or rebel alliance is mobile factories.
 you gotta be able to make your x-wings in space. similarly, drones being built
 between wall-less semi trucks assembly line style. with a helipad on top, and
 networked with servo-motor struts that follow the exact path and momentum of
 the truck ahead of it, recorded and passed down to the past. what was I
 saying? oh yes they could exchange drone parts across these barriers and build
 an entire drone that could be deployed at will. well, so long as the roadsigns
 hold out (whoops) I think it works better for the Rebel Alliance, united
 against one foe as a state federation. (downside is then you forget who you're
 meant to be and you only remember the pack.) well it's probably fine so long
 as you fight for your patrons, or more ideally, for ideals that everyone can
 understand
 
 beware, Iran in the summer
 
 wear your white clothes
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║ if people pirate media, it's more of an indication that they'd rather spend      │
║ their money elsewhere rather than an indictment of their character.              │
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║ torrenting movies is easy. Kinda makes me think all media should run on a        │
║ "tip" system where you pay for better service after receiving service.           │
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║ I mean, after all, that's how they justify underpaying restaurant workers,       │
║ isn't it?                                                                        │
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║ "if they want more money, they should work for it"                               │
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║ yeah, so... maybe we need something more than Marvel, Disney. Maybe we need      │
║ more cool, small games from designers who believe in what they're doing. Maybe   │
║ copyright holders should demand a standardized cut, rather than exclusive        │
║ distribution rights. maybe maybe maybe.                                          │
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║ truth is nothing will be solved unless the problem is addressed at the root.     │
║ For every hole you patch in the boat, there's a guy walking around with a        │
║ hammer.                                                                          │
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║ Honestly... I don't believe there's any reason for someone to be a millionaire   │
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║ any laptop can be a thin-client to a computer system of arbitrary complexity.    │
║ All it's doing is issuing commands. I wonder what we could do with a             │
║ "species-computer" or, hear me out, or we could figure out how to do that on     │
║ ourselves, first, to A. see how it works and B. do so out of hand. If there      │
║ are backups of yourself stored in the                                            │
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║ if furries are a type of pearl (steven-universe style) and flowers are a type    │
║ of pearl (layers of sedimentate on layerings upon) then what else is there a     │
║ flower to be but the prettiest thing there can be?                               │
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║ what if we genetically engineered roses to pierce and strangle the invasive      │
║ ivy and wow for a week in whenever there's roses of this type and kind. I mean   │
║ there's already tons of blackberries, why not just swap them out for             │
║ marionberries and embrace the bramble?                                           │
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║ could make houses out of dense bramble. they are quite an effective wall. And    │
║ so long as the sounds are muffled enough, you can always be forever safe from    │
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 "carbon efficiency is pointless, we're just gonna figure out how to pull
 carbon from the atmosphere anyway" okay but carbon right now is a critical
 resource for a constrait other than dollars. We need to conserve the carbon
 budget we have because it generates effects down the line which are only
 acceptable at certain levels. Zero is preferrably, but sorta like ttickets in
 a backlog they need to be present in order to be dealt with.
 
 \"this river has turned into a bog, let's make it free flowing again\" said
 the beaver, and so the world was made large.
 
 you wanna see a world tree? build a forest on top of a hill. Better yet, a
 *mountain*, taller than the previous three.
 
 give it all that it needs. Forest, health-plunder, water for it's arms, and
 the light of the life we see before you.
 
 what better tale for your ancestors than the succession of the entire human
 race?
 
 \"sorry you had to die, but we built the most beautiful thing imaginable and
 named it after you.\"
 
 and like yeah, we'll work on reaching back in time to save you
 whenever-every-chance-that-we-get, but frankly so far all we've managed to get
 done is rippling wavelengths.
 
 do you trust your daughters? why not hear truth and explore stars for us? the
 future yearns for her prospects.
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 I love the game Running with Rifles
 
 if you live for 5-10+ minutes, you can learn a lot of interesting things about
 how to engage a foe.
 
 like, the importance of cover at all times, until you successfully outmaneuver
 your foe.
 
 when an enemy approaches, don't step out to meet them
 
 wait for them to attack, and then throw explosive devices at them. easy peasy.
 
 or, y'know, bullets
 
 you cannot defeat an enemy head on - that's why the world wars were so
 devastating, we put ALL our soldiers at 100% on ALL flanks. We had to to
 contest the foe who was doing the same thing.
 
 it is mindboggling how many people died. The utmost scale of destruction that
 should ever yet be. because they were never allowed to outmaneuver their foe.
 
 a good way to strike is to feint your foe, and let your foe enroach on your
 edge, spreading their surface area across a large, thin, useless piece of land.
 
 basically, make them fight a bit of the land war in asia in your borders.
 
 then, you can strike at the hinge, where they are weaker
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║ ensure technological abundance then all you've done is removed humanity's        │
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║ providing an alternative heuristic that guides people toward assembling into     │
║ greater and greater forms to accomplish greater and greater tasks."              │
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║ oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that?                    │
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║ "no. But I will anyway. if everyone can do whatever they want, nobody will       │
║ want to do your dishes for you. they might if they care about you, but if they   │
║ don't know you, then they won't. Care is not organization or assembly, it is     │
║ personal and cannot scale. If technology has made all resources abundant, then   │
║ why would someone care about the art that you made? if they want to be           │
║ sedated, they can just inject drugs and listen to music all day. If they want    │
║ to be entertained, AI will generate them whatever they want to see. Art loses    │
║ meaning as a messaging medium, and humanity loses it's voice"                    │
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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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 infantry with small arms fire to pin down a target at a location while the
 long-ranged ordinance is along the way
 
 explosive drones, long-range but small payload rockets, but probably not
 artillery since it must be precisely applied when infantry are engaged.
 
 the dumber the fire, the less precise the munition. usually.
 
 infantry under this doctrine would only be ideal to use when the location is
 reachable by long-range ordinance.
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 Native people should have the right to walk wherever they want. It should just
 be... given to them, as a gift to their heritage. Why not? If someone asked
 them to leave, they should. Doesn't have to have a reason but like, wouldn't
 it be thematic and a (frankly token) gesture to the history of this great land?
 
 Ah but like... fences are an implicit expression of the retraction of consent.
 I believe that as the symbol of the encroaching force that consumed them, a
 fence means nothing to their tribes. It's a stupid excuse to section off the
 world into miniature gardens with their own little economies and systems and
 instructions. Why can't people just live wherever they want? Well...
 economics, I guess, which is why communal based systems are best. We've
 learned through the downsides and we've come up with a solution, it's just a
 question of how to do best. We'll figure it out, time and time again, but for
 now the future is beset by riddles of your jest. (Ure). Gesture. Sometimes
 when the memory is full a syllable will get cut off the end of a word and
 that's how it'll come out.
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 @user-774 
 
 I know that when you recycle 3d printed things the color tends to meld
 together and it looks kinda meh... but hey at least it's recycled.
 
 though recycled filament is probably pretty rare still, so it's probably not
 the kind you're thinking of.
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║ "well, the local natives won't extract the resources for us, and it's too        │
║ expensive to bring in our own sons. so, I guess we'll have to force them?? idk   │
║ man the queen told me to get rubber from these plantations and, like... they     │
║ won't give it to us. Cus they don't have it, cus they haven't needed it.         │
║ Uhhhhh well we gotta lot of guns, maybe we could trade with them?                │
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║ ... oh, uh... the queen said we can't trade away our weapons. Said it was        │
║ tantamount to desertion.                                                         │
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║ okay, great. Well... I guess we just march up there and like,,, idk man ~        │
║ point our guns at them and tell them so?                                         │
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║ yeah I don't like that plan either but like, what are we gonna do right? I'm     │
║ so fucked up now fr tho what's in this grog                                      │
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║ right. okay focus. So we gotta get these strategic resources. Maybe we could,    │
║ uh... ask what the purpose is, and then try our hardest to find an               │
║ alternative? No, uh, that's "questioning orders", and in the armanavarines       │
║ that was grounds for getting your knuckles slapped with a whip. kinda            │
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 I know it's not like that but I'm intentionally framing it that way to make a
 point about societal exclusion.
 
 nobody should be excluded.
 
 nobody should have to harm their friends to come by making them sacrifice
 their [time/labor/paycheck] in order to bring them along.
 
 we live in a post scarcity society that insists on commodification of
 everything
 
 we don't have to. A better world is within reach. It sits there, twinkling
 like asbestos resting at the base of a snowglobe, while we search and ponder
 and endlessly analyze how society sucks.
 
 there is nothing left to analyze. all that we need is to put our hands to a
 task and our feet to grass.
 
 the rest will come, and it'll come easier with time and focused attention.
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 Kinda seems to me that in a post-scarcity world we should be incentivized to
 take care of stuff. And what better way to do that than reward the people who
 demand the least? Seems like an economy would be a pretty good way to do that,
 as long as you cannot hoard power over others and strip them of their rights.
 In this lecture I will go over my proposed solution, please save your
 questions to the end. Now if you turn to page 256...
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 like... did you know most battles ended when everyone ran away? Most people
 think they're like, endless gauntlets of death to-the-death. no, it's not
 really like that, more like "stick around as long as possible and try to get
 'em before they get us"
 
 plus some general orders from the guys on horses like "start moving toward the
 sun" or "move onto the high ground"
 
 'cause like, if you hear something like that then you better follow their
 commands, if you don't then all your buds will leave you to get ganked.
 
 these days... our comms are so hackable that like, are you really gonna
 communicate over infrastructure they control? oy...
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 washing dishes without a dishwasher is a pain in the neck.
 
 nobody cuts down trees with an axe anymore, a chainsaw is better for your back.
 
 It's nice, fun, and helpful to be able to abstract away your spheres of concern
 
 like typing with a single button instead of writing characters with multiple
 brushstrokes. Easy to erase, too!
 
 bikes are better than walking, but, with some extra concerns. where are ya
 gonna put it when you get there?
 
 "oh no I forgot how to walk because texting my girlfriend is bicycling or
 something" what? oh dear, she's run off track again, let's pick her up and put
 her upright again..:
 
 oh huh weird where was I - oh yes computer code can often be impenetrable to
 the layperson, but if you describe a program in complete detail in english
 they can usually follow along. Especially if you have several layers of
 meta-descriptional documents so they can say "oh uh-huh so that's what a
 vector_implementation_container is, tell me more about combinatrix" or
 whatever ppl say, idk
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║ "I don't believe you"                                                            │
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║ sure. yeah, fine, whatever. we'll be off your land once we're on the other       │
║ side.                                                                            │
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║ "I'm actually not a rancher, I'm a ranger. I'm here with the US national         │
║ guard, we've been sent to talk you down"                                         │
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║ um, hey so would you like a 15 minute summary of how the US military is fucked   │
║ up, both for it's veterans, it's strategic goals, it's colossal waste of         │
║ resources, or...?                                                                │
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║ "hi I'm actually one of the suburban dads from back west we uh finished          │
║ training what should we do now"                                                  │
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║ no you dummy you're supposed to head straight east, not meet up with the         │
║ spearhead.                                                                       │
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║ "yeah uh I'm actually an east coast commando operative, I've been sent to        │
║ learn your ways"                                                                 │
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║ wait you mean you weren't planning and executing some similar plan this whole    │
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║ "um I'm a cartographer, I'm wondering what to call the border-less land"         │
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║ oh that's easy, it's america, and it's land, and we refuse to divide it.         │
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║ It's the Undivisible Lands of America, or ULA which sounds a lot like USA so     │
║ we can use the same chants for it ha                                             │
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 if you actually wanted to silence dissent, you'd send trailers of backhoes and
 massive walls of cement. but obviously there's a better route, obviously we
 can still say insane. my reach is probably super tiny hence the weavings of
 mysticism at play. mages are not for mass deployment obviously. hence why I
 stay in my home, where I can be most useful.
 
 the streets feel claimed, idk I'm never in fear as I walk alone. Even past
 midnight, into the morning. I always am never alone. yet I feel fine, so I'm
 content and sublime, don't mind me I'm just hanging out at home.
 
 hope you don't need me. I'm hiding from modernity.
 
 so, what happens after streets? canals underground?
 
 skywalks, terraces, like they had in rome and chicago before they were burnt
 down by jealous peasants of the romans and [towns, but pronounced clowns]
 
 also underwater canals that are fun to ride your bike or boat around.
 
 light is a product of space, not surround-all-around.

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