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 Corporations are pissed that workers started standing up for themselves so
 they're punishing us with tight hiring, fake jobs, and layoffs in order to
 remind us who is the master, and who is the slave. Class warfare doesn't end
 just because we want it to.
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 "Get Out" movie hits differently in "conservative" areas no matter who you
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 the reason to know sign language is that you can communicate without making
 listeners aware.
 
 double-band communication is useful for all sorts of mediums, just make sure
 you erase every track of pencil tracks.
 
 every bit of intelligence matters, but if you force them to double their
 requirements, it makes it un-trivially harder to counterinvestimanage.
 
 [what are you talking about "THE" reason, the reason is to talk to deaf
 people, dummy!]
 
 (no dumb people are the ones who can't talk) (edit: and clearly I'm speaking,
 which means I gotta be smart, don't I?)
 
 [that's actually really rude, you shouldn't say dumb because of the double
 meaning. It also means "lacking intelligence" which is not necessarily
 correlated to the disability in question. Therefore, the term is a term of
 hate or resentment, and thus should not be used unless you have genuine reason
 to inflict rudeness.]
 
 (there are no genuine reasons.)
 
 (therefore the term is completely impermissable.)
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 imagine if there was a stacking inf bonus to players who played on red /
 blueside
 which increased or decreased depending on either A. the number of players
 online
 at the time, B. the proportion of players playing on that team versus the
 other,
 or C. the time of day. Essentially helping to cure the faction imbalance by
 offering rewards to one side or the other which would encourage a certain group
 in the population of the game to change sides or not.
 
 perhaps frequent changing could grant a title called "mercenary" or something
 
 like "log in for each consecutive day for 10 days straight and each day switch
 faction alignment at least once"
 
 ... anyway you could cure the faction imbalance between redside / blueside by
 offering an INF reward for playing on each side one by one alternating like an
 iterator first red then blue or first blue then red either way it doesn't
 matter
 because it'll switch after a while and encourage everyone to switch sides. And
 the way the character responds to that stimulus tells you a bit about their
 character's personality.
 
 also...
 
 it should not affect AE or Pocket D farms.
 
 Nor missions, TFs, or anything else.
 
 they should SOLELY impact open world patrolling / hunting.
 
 I believe this would not only incentivize people to spend time in the open
 world
 (which is a mostly unused piece of game assets) but it would also increase the
 visibility of the newly bolstered faction numbers.
 
 Think about it - if everyone who switched sides is out in the open world, then
 they could see each other. They could fight the same mobs, and team up
 together.
 In doing so, they could form greater and greater supergroups - if only through
 their interactions with one another as they level up.
 
 If they're lucky, the guild they're recruited into has similar interests in
 mind
 like doing raiding or PvP or economics or alts or whatever. And they each have
 their own different styles of operating, it's soooo cute. Like alt guilds will
 pop up and then migrate to a new one as people make new alts and grow tired of
 them at higher levels.
 
 It's great.
 
 I love MMOs!
 
 I wish people put half as much effort into making an open source WoW client
 that
 they do programming game engines like Godot or Raylib or Bevy. If such a thing
 was created, we could have a new rennaisance in indie MMO development. It would
 become fully non-proprietary, the entire game-platform-stack. Meaning anyone
 could create their own MMO off of it, because (crucially) the serverside soft-
 -ware has already been reverse engineered. And open sourced.
 
 Seriously. You wanna make as much bank as Steam? Make an open source client
 that
 lets you design while in it. Then you could charge people for all the games
 that
 they played that were designed and hosted by you the content designing software
 maker.
 
 ... okay it's probably not that simple I'm going to go play Unreal
 Tournament2k4
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 revolting against culture or culturally revolting amiright
 
 what if it's the same thing
 
 I bet they all hate me haha hehe T.T
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 linux is not a viable operating system for people who can only troubleshoot by
 restarting their computer because every time they plug in a new audio device
 suddenly their headphones don't work.
 
 fucking alsa, fucking pulse, the entire stack is fucked
 
 (and yes I know it's a very difficult problem)
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 @user-1464 @cyborganism @GammaGames 
 
 they aren't distractions no more than the artillery crew are a "distraction"
 to the infantry fight.
 
 but there is no war but the class war.
 
 they are facets of the class war.
 
 you're both right. everything you mentioned is important, AND their core
 thesis is true.
 
 if they disregard anti-racism, feminism, queer liberation, etc as distractions
 as you describe, then yes. they are narrow-minded bigots.
 
 but in my experience, the only people who say those things are teenagers, so.
 
 everyone has specialties. some can advocate for disability rights, queer and
 women's liberation, race issues, or any other number of worthy causes. They
 are fighting the class war even if they don't claim to be, for those are
 classes of people they are fighting for. (or against, if they're reactionary)
 
 the most dangerous class is the rich, the powerful, the insane. True
 psychopaths accrete power and they wield it against all others. They must be
 cast down for all.
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 part 2/20
7. gray text on a gray background, as if to suggest the normalcy of concrete even though it's made of crushed tiny shells from a billion zillion years ago ready and waiting here for this moment, when they can be next to you in this life you've taken to, how starlight must seem to a computer!  anyway, the gray text on the gray background reads: "phew, that was weird. ... anyway ..." with the dots and the anyway on a slant from one another, as if they were falling off of the page. 6. picture of the sun cast upon a sunset background, with a large tower of shadow flanked by images of birds and contrails of airplanes. there is an indicator on the blue box meaning someone who is looking at it. don't look at the sun!  silly to assume that our perspective of reality is viewed from the same direction as a planetary body. anyway the face of the planet in question is [redacted] (not really but like... I'm redacting it for artistic purposes because I'm trying to convey a truth with that redaction that is important for the viewer and listener to understand. My ears when I type so fast, owwww)  oh the birds are so pretty, like little things that hold their own against gravity. I'd love to watch them flutter, if only I could see every inch of the planet.  I wonder if you could design a building to explode such that only a single interior building was damaged, and everyone else in the building would only hear a muffled "boom" but more like "boof" but not quite so fluttery, and more "bang" but not "ban ggg" but more like "bnf" pronounced "buh nuh fff" except a little bit more like "bmft" but without each syllable being pronounced at once, more like all four together at once.  especially if you had several rooms between them. I mean, if you know when to open and close the doors so they think their region is inhabited, perfect. but if they don't know you they just pretend the building is empty... even though it's hard to find parking???  anyway theres more but no words 5. bright shocking pink and orange backgrounds. white text, the color of snow and the center of the sun (comprised of all the photons) reads "dot dot dot what" as in like "...what"  then, orange text, same color as the background, contrasted against the color of the backdrop (which was purpleish pink, the color of substances unknown to humanity before like, the invention of Paint)  the text reads "right. basically, fb marketplace except... F O S S" meaning F free O open S source S software. However, upon clarifying in white text on an orange background, like the color of the center of the sun (because the photons received by the outer edges of your eyes is the color of the photons that curved through your lens and activated your sensory receptors in the backside of your brain)  anyway, don't look at the sun kids.  the text written in that color reads: free [hastily or poorly drawn ampersand, meaning "&"], open source (with the first character S being twice as large as the others) soures pronounced like sow err sss then the last word adaman pronounced like "adamant" without the T, end text, a word meaning incredibly strong and metallic. stronger than mithril, depending on the game. Like Runescape, one of the classic MMORPGs, a genre that emerged from MUDs with graphical enhancements. I mean if you think about it runescape is just a text based adventure where you can move as many rooms as you want in one journey and where each room has "things" you can interact with from there. 8. strange colors now, of salmon and the smell of mossy rain mixed with something a little gross but... natural? I guess?  in the middle is white, like marble, which makes an interesting clickety clack noise when you use it on it'self. like a marble chair on a marble floor staring out onto a marble palace or auditorium or park (tasteful trees included) (like plums and apricots and cherries and more)  the text reads in black upon this surface, the color of stable ideas. written in the prose of legalese, words seem to be a little more rely able. except, this text is not legalese, but rather evoking the same idea through it's presentation. it reads "the idea is that if people have a way to engage with *everyone* (in italics for emphasis), they'll be more invested in the wellbeing of their neighbors. (craigslist, but good) with the last half of the "good" cut off, as if to suggest that it might be rude to present the whole thing, meaning it'd be better not to take it out of context. as in like, making decisions on misleading instructions designed for one thing but executed for another. oh well, I hope this doesn't take me to hell, I just want to fight for our purpose. I'm not a warrior, but I'll do in a pinch.  as in "sorry craigslist you're not bad, but like just unfit for this purpose, we need something fully open source that we can read and understand and which is continually abstracted until we *can* understand it without knowing how code works sorta like design documents but
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 trump is doing this thing where he's making a bunch of dumb decisions that       │
 everyone in his base sorta wants, and then the fallout is that powers are        │
 removed from the executive branch. this is a difficult process to reverse, and   │
 aligns the governance strategy more toward bureaucracy and away from             │
 intelligent design.                                                              │
 ... but also, if power is possible then power is portended.                      │
 I will warn you, the expansion of bureaucracy does not equal the abolishment     │
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 [power: compulsive will applied toward an unconsenting other]                    │
 [unconsenting: unable to consent because their mouth is gagged, something        │
 valuable is at stake, or they can't survive failing]                             │
 the abolishment of power can only be realized when no man holds any              │
 possessions (and gives them to woman instead, chirps the spunky beard on my      │
 window) which is neither a desirable state. much better to cherish the moments   │
 and the tools which brought about them, than their worth, renown, or value.      │
 In all other lives but this one, you are afraid.                                 │
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 In World of Warcraft, the world is split into a red team and a blue team.
 Neither is good, neither is bad, both are honorable and deplorable in roughly
 equal measure.
 
 These two factions are engaged in constant skirmishes in a select few
 battlegrounds designated as areas where they test their mettle - at first they
 warred across the globe, and they still occasionally do, but a few specific
 battlegrounds emerged as focus points of their engagements.
 
 Typically, they are chokepoints between two major fortifications, one owned by
 one faction and the other the other.
 
 These chokepoints are not held permanently, as they hold little strategic
 consequence. However, they serve as safe, constrained theatres of engagement
 that allow for the hardening of resolve.
 
 Great care must be taken, as war is not a game. Karate won't defeat a
 puppy-bot with a gun, but it might give you the willpower and discipline to
 learn how.
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 if you have to sanitize, use a bit of vodka too LOL
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 @user-1567 
 
 that's totally fine, a fish does not do well in a tree, and so too does a
 leftist not do well in an environment without the potential for stable bonds.
 Essentially all you'd be able to do is "hey leftism right?" "oh yes I also
 leftism" "neat" which isn't very productive.
 
 I also live in an environment like that. I do my best to identify people who
 stay, because in my experience there are often people who stay. I do this by
 walking around the neighborhood when I can, making up excuses to walk to the
 dumpster or mailbox at random hours, riding my bike around the area, using the
 communal spaces like gyms, swimming pools, and picnic tables, and sitting in
 my hammock on my porch lazily noting people who walk past.
 
 People who stay will tend to remain in your mind the more times you see them.
 They are better people to talk to than the renters who disappear after 3
 months or whatever.
 
 I don't always do all that stuff at once. I take breaks. I do one at a time.
 etc
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 @user-1464 @cyborganism @GammaGames 
 
 I did see that post but I was mostly responding to you.
 
 There's a particular category of "leftist" who, to put it gently, have a
 greatly simplified view of the world in which "the only war is class war."
 
 I wanted to explain how the viewpoint of "the only war is the class war" is
 more developed, rather than simplified. I wanted to express that it takes
 nuance to understand that all oppression is connected and is derived from the
 same source - the corruption of power.
 
 They regard social issues such as anti-racism, feminism, queer liberation as
 distractions from the "true" cause of bringing about a new economic system -
 unimportant at best, active interference invented by the ruling class at worst.
 
 It's not true that those who believe in the class war disregard these things.
 That's just not right to me.
 
 Basically, they're narrow-minded bigots.
 
 I was included in your first statement and I'm not a bigot so I wanted to
 stand up for myself.
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 people think the military is mostly a 50% split between democrats and
 republicans.
 
 but really a soldier is a soldier, and people are democrats and republicans.
 
 there's three things, and more if you further subdivide by roles.
 
 like, a government technician would work on different machinery than a
 corporate one, but they're really doing the same kind of work.
 
 there's no difference between people, no matter what they do, and yet the ways
 that our lives progress is quite different. everyone has their own story it
 seems, and there's nothing wrong with that.
 
 gives me hope against the far right, who seems to have forgotten it's role as
 a cog in a machine - not a cancerous consumption of the rest.
 
 there is honor in their ideals, but Trump represents none of them. Something
 else is festering there, a disease known by many names: "far right
 nationalism", "white supremacy", "etc etc", "[redacted]", and many others.
 
 the GOP must be reformed. It must denounce fascism. It must do it now.
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 multiplayer matchmaking where every time you "join queue" you instead "host a
 room" and it matches rooms together, not players. That way players always feel
 like they're being joined, not that they're joining.
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 somebody sprayed the chemical they use to make outhouses smell palatable in my
 apartment/room. I hate that smell T.T
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 @user-1268 
 
 make sure you clean grease and such from appliances too! Like, sometimes
 previous renters will spill something down the side of the oven and you won't
 notice because it's right up against the wall / cabinet / fridge...
 
 if you can, pull them out a bit and check to see if there's anything you can
 clean. Cockroaches will eat grease and can live off of it for a long time.
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 "mom can we have some trans girls"
 
 "no, we have trans girls at home"
 
 the trans girls at home: :fediverse:
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 when plants or animals are domesticated, they are selectively bred to produce    │
 certain traits which are useful, colorful, flavorful, or otherwise beneficial    │
 for humanity in some way.                                                        │
 I think about the many different types of dogs and cats, or the                  │
 pre-domesticated bananas the size of your thumb, or something similar            │
 if being queer was really genetic (I think it's nature AND nurture but bear      │
 with me) and it was possible to reliably determine whether or not someone        │
 would be queer based on their parents / ancestry, then I don't understand why    │
 you would NOT want that as part of our genetic lottery options?                  │
 Like... being trans sucks, but it's also kinda awesome sometimes. it's both,     │
 just like any other life. and I can't help but picture myself as some kind of    │
 special, radiant flower that has some unique genetic quirk that makes me turn    │
 blue in the sunlight, or glow in the dark, or possess an abnormal amount of      │
 potassium making me great for mid-afternoon snacks.                              │
 idk I just don't get why you wo |                                                │
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 you know all that gross-food-mentioned in your refrigerator? today's the day
 when you clean it out. It's okay, I know it's hard, but you can do it. It's
 gotta happen sometime.
 
 just make sure you take out the trash after doing so.
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