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Quote by Howard Zinn:  "Give people what they need: food, medicine, clean air, pure water, trees and grass, pleasant homes to live in, some hours of work, more hours of leisure. Don't ask who deserves it. Every human being deserves it."  end quote
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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  250 years of no Supreme Court ruling allowing presidential immunity.        
                                                                              
  No presidential immunity for Nixon, SCOTUS ruled Watergate tapes were not protected.   
                                                                              
  No presidential immunity for Reagan for the crimes of Iran Contra and the most corrupt administration in US history (to that point in time)  
                                                                              
  No presidential immunity for W over false evidence that took us to war with Iraq.    
                                                                              
  The SCOTUS is The Elephant in the room.                                     
  
                                                            
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a reddit post titled "would a truly enlightened person spend any time on reddit?"  a user responds and says "enlightenment is not for you, it is for the people you talk to"
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  Abolishing ICE is the moderate opinion, and the radical opinion is abolishing the current federal government of the United States of America  
  
                                                            
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 @user-1174 
 
 "yes it fucking is, we helped EVERYONE, and now it's our turn to need help,
 because POWER accretes evil. It corrupts, and now it's our sword of damocles.
 We'd happily relinquish our title that we claimed for the world in our
 brightest and boldest of moments, but we're kinda stuck in this role. And
 like... Diversity is our strength, allies are relationships you FIGHT FOR."one
 of the occasional US citizens you mentioned
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 Keep in mind that *this is sedition*. Do you trust in democracy? Do you see
 how it may be spoiled? We've elected our hitler, yet 40-50% of the nation does
 not consent. America as we know it is about to change, and we need to protect
 the pieces we love. I see no future without splitting into three separate
 states, with city-state allies plodding along, keeping the siege ongoing.
 
 Trust in convoys more than farms. All it takes is a drone with a fire bomb and
 your crops are worthless. We must deprive them of their ports, if possible.
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 A Firefox add-on / plugin that lets you open up a comment section on
 *anything* on the Internet. Your comments would be saved and you could sort
 them by "new" or "best (most up votes and fewest downvotes)" or "hot (most
 recent upvotes)" or "controversial (biggest differential)"
 
 The idea would be to create a shared collective experience of the Internet
 that was exchanged using an open standard or protocol that could not be
 ignored - it was synced by everyone who used the add-on for every website you
 visit, torrent style.
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 # Create a symlink to the service directory in /var/service:
 
 sudo ln -s /etc/sv/<service> /var/service/
 
 # If you want to disable a service, create an empty file named "down" in the
 # sevice's directory:
 
 touch /etc/sv/<service/down
 
 # ^^^ That will disable services that automatically start.
 
 # That's a temporary solution though, if you want a more intense approach then
 # sever the symlink.
 
 rm /var/service/<service>
 
 # If you want to test if a service is working correctly, first take it down
 # temporarily, then re link the two directories. Then start the service once:
 
 touch /etc /sv/<service/down
 ln -s /etc/sv/<service> /var/service/
 sv once <service>
 
 # Then, if it works, remove the "down" file to enable the service:
 
 rm /etc/sv/<service>/down
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 the third reason is that I am a patriot, and the supreme court recently gave
 the president legal immunity. The president has always been a citizen first,
 for the government is of the people. However, with legal immunity, they would
 be considered closer to a king than a citizen.
 
 they would dismantle our democracy and institute a de-facto monarchy. This is
 unacceptable here.
 
 [4/5]
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 does anyone know a linux utility which will allow me to "snip" part of the
 screen a'la flameshot, automatically spit the image into a text recognition
 system (ran locally) and place the extracted text into my clipboard?
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 Keep in mind that this is sedition. Do you trust in democracy? Do you see how
 it may be spoiled? We've elected our hitler, yet 40-50% of the nation does not
 consent. America as we know it is about to change, and we need to protect the
 pieces we love. I see no future without splitting into three separate states,
 with city-state allies plodding along, keeping the siege ongoing.
 
 Trust in convoys more than farms. All it takes is a drone with a fire bomb and
 your crops are worthless. We must deprive them of their ports, if possible.
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 I would trust the CIA if they gave me continual access to all surveillance of
 myself
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 what if you made a program which cycled credentials?
 
 like... "give me a random credential for Zoom" because we share all of our
 digital resources
 
 did you get banned for account sharing? no you didn't because you routed
 through the correct VPN
 
 automagically
 
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"things are nice" yeah fucking... whatever.  we can't keep shit normal for long. we're down for/from the silence, and time keeps us looking beyond. what happens next? what's "now" in the story? you're far from the last to [devour/use hours]. you think we haven't been fighting this fight since forever?  moloch doesn't win.  who but [yo/you]?  [next page]  I've never had a people. I have always missed them. who cares for the poor?  family cares for child, church for the devoted, the world for, who? fill in the blanks. fuckin' ask chatGPT to make it longer. add text between the words. who are we but the worthy? who else is there? the [words await / world awaits] a dose of luck. my luck makes me. why would I assume that I'd get better at what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm doing if I stopped doing what I'm stopping what I'm doing because doing what I'm doing stops me doing what I need to be doing.  [next page]  what if we just stopped going to work and didn't leave our houses  what if we just made it happen what if we just made our heaven  a better world is possible. a better world is within reach. for the children of tomorrow, all we need is the meek. where are they? do they sleep or know? If you don't stop traffic, your protest doesn't matter. If you don't ask every window if maybe your ideas could come in. If your parade doesn't knock on every door, asking them to join in. "hey, wanna play? we're playing catch in the road. say, do you know anyone in a different town? wanna knock on the door of all of your kin? it's a better world tomorrow, and everyone can come in."  [next page]  Did you know that nothing's that real if you're not afraid of it? what are they gonna do, shoot you? for what, not moving your shit to the side of the road? you like it where it's at, that's why you put it there, so fuck off if you'd rather it's unprotected. The sun and the rain and the cold and the maned all demand that our stuff is on hallowed ground - the kind which walls all surround. And yet they'd cast us out. How rude. Well, I'm not afraid of you. what are YOU gonna do? what if I didn't pay my rent and never got a job and just helped out wherever I could find a friendly nod.  "oh hey ho've ya been okay what are we working on here?"  don't see nothin? start somethin"  anarchy is fun. bullets less so.  [next page]  most jobs are bullshit. If dollars suddenly didn't exist but people kept doing what they were doing, people would work like twice a week. Me? more or less, who can say, depends on how I did feel that day.  I tend to burn out. what if I didn't go to work for a month? "oh no my stakeholder value" get over yourself. your games do hold value.  act like life is on the line.  (off in the corner)  "... hello?"
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  I don't think they have any intention of ceding power in four years, I think project 2025 is all about dismantling checks and balances on their power and I think Trump said at one of his rallies once "you won't have to vote again"  
                                                                              
  I think for these people to lose power they will have to be forced.         
  
                                                            
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--- #14 fediverse_boost/5627 ---
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  AOC: “I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.       
                                                                              
  This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.  
                                                                              
  It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.”  
  
                                                            
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 the path to defeating hunger lies not in feeding people, but rather in
 reducing the prices.
 
 I personally believe in FREEdom as an ideal, and why not strive for the ideal?
 
 to defeat greed, you must banish inequity. Ah, but people like inequity, or
 else they wouldn't revere such power.
 
 maybe there's no going back. maybe there's no future. is it really such a
 crime to live in the present? I know who I'd like to be -> someone who
 prepares the world for posterity.
 
 knock-knock, did your doorbell break? or are you still on vacation? How long's
 it been, weeks? months? are you ever coming back again? it's lonely without
 you here, I miss you and your neighborly definitions. though I'm sure it's
 much brighter, wherever you are, so I think I'll stay here and orbit our star.
 Much calmer for me, and this way I don't have to watch you bleed, so take this
 as my honest confession.
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 fire omens if there ever were such a thing
 
 you don't have to strike your foes to hurt them. All you have to do is break
 something and say "we're so mad about this-and-this that we're breaking things
 until our demands are met" and as long as you're reasonable in your demands
 then [redacted]
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 Internationalize amazon and walmart and you'll have fixed most of the problems
 of globalism.
 
 But you can't fix anything if you don't have power...
 
 It's important to focus on how to get power. Keep in mind "what to do when you
 have power" but don't let it dominate your thoughts. Focus on claiming your
 right to determination.
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 @user-1165 
 
 yeah, I mean, I agree, but try convincing them of that.
 
 I believe that there must be no non-consentual application of power, in the
 general sense.
 
 I also believe that one person's rights end where another's begin.
 
 Because of those two axioms, it is impossible to contest people who consent to
 being enslaved. Who am I to take their chains from them, if they grip them to
 their chests so dearly?
 
 But I will not tolerate them clasping new ones around the necks of our future
 children. I will not allow them to desecrate our home. They are welcome to
 join us, when "us" finally gets our shit together. But they can hold no
 dominion over us, nor anyone else - that is the crucial core of my belief.
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 I was never going to consent to a Trump presidency. I knew this back in June
 when the Supreme Court nominated him as our king.
 
 We still have time to save our liberty.
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 @user-353 
 
 this is 500% how you get things done in the current system (in my country)
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 @user-1165 
 
 if people want to do their capitalist thing then sure, go for it.
 
 but the enforcement of it is that which must be resisted. There should be no
 non-consentual applications of power, except to protect the rights of another.
 
 it is a war of independence, not a war of conquest.
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 "this program that used to work doesn't anymore because, uh, your video
 drivers are out of date."
 
 ... okay but if I didn't update this program either, then why would it matter
 if my video drivers are out of date? wouldn't they be working off of the same
 [rulings/requirements]?
 
 the "best practice" of updating your software all at once instead of
 one-by-one is a disaster for our humankinds consequences or whatever
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 @user-1382 
 
 It is a better way, and some apps don't listen, which means it's better but
 less versatile
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 @user-1573 
 
 the easiest analogy would be to say an election is a gun, votes are bullets,
 and the shooters are the candidates
 
 could also say that the shooting event is an election, bullets as a concept is
 democracy while each individual bullet is a vote, and the gun and shooters are
 the ballots and voters
 
 I dunno. I don't especially like thinking about guns and elections in the same
 sentence...
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  “family members identified the victim as Narciso Barranco, a father to three sons who are all U.S. Marines”  
                                                                              
  ktla.com/news/local-n...                                                    
  
                                                            
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 This was the first bash script I ever wrote.
 
 It's been updated a little, it was a bash alias first, but this is what it
 looks like now.
 
 Kinda shows what kinds of problems I needed to solve most.
A bash script that plays a random episode of Adventure Time from a terminal.
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 okay how about this:
 
 Zoom except it uses image recognition from your laptop's camera to tell which
 face you're looking at, and it hides all the others - either by dimming them,
 reducing opacity, or even just blocking out their face so you can still see
 any body motions but your eyes aren't drawn to them.
 
 If someone looks at you then it lights up their face or notifies you in some
 way. I think this would enhance the "togetherness" feel of a Zoom call to be
 more like a conversation where you can explicitly tell when someone's looking
 at you.
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 When they owned a percentage they would get a percentage of control over the
 business and once it's 50% they buy it (stock follows, so if a person owned
 stock they'd be fine)
 
 The value is frozen, and everyone in the world can see what they did wrong.
 It's examined like a court case, and after a year or three it's decided on how
 it's going to be run in the future.
 
 Then it becomes private again, and all the stock is purchased from the owners
 at the price it was when the company "went under".
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 said trusted team will be comprised of exclusively judges appointed by prior
 presidents - 50% from George W Bush and 50% from Obama, to mitigate or
 eliminate political bias.
 
 If they can't come up with any names, I'll start by going down the list of
 "most appealed" and then move on to "longest duration"
 
 "but what if only like, 2 judges want to be on your team"
 
 well then there's going to be a lot of violent criminals on the streets so if
 they actually cared about justice they'd help me by feeding my desk the least
 troublesome people
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 What if we required cops to always bring a judge on-[scene/site] who tried to
 resolve the situation or plight.
 
 Maybe also reduce the demands for on-sight judges so strong young candidates
 can perform at their best
 
 Emotions are like waves lapping upon the side of a ship in a storm. In that
 they are tumultuous and often going toward the wrong. But the ship is built
 for this and it sustains weathermanship
 
 Right so anyway I'm saying sometimes the buildings on fire at the same time
 there's a crime scene in there and then the guys who can jump the highest are
 better fit for what's goin' down.
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 @user-1074 
 
 I don't think the "capitalist elite" really have an ideology. Ideas are
 weapons they use and discard when it suits them, like strapping 15 handguns to
 your person in order to avoid needing to reload.
 
 Good thing there's more than 15 of us.
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 another cool thing about FAF is that you can download a mod that shows the
 position of your cursor to other players. So weird how after a while all the
 cursors started staying permanently in the top-left corner.
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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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Actual causes of burnout, an infographic.  There are several examples of various causes of burnout. Here they are one by one, for a total of fifteen:  1. False Urgency: There are constant fire drills, with unrealistic and unexplained deadlines.  2. Unfair Treatment: There is unequal treatment or favoritism that leads to resentment.  3. Relentless Change: Changes in leadership, policies, and the ways of doing things are frequent.  4. Excessive Workload: Work keeps piling up, with no sign of relief or support incoming.  5. Limited Growth: Employees feel stuck in their roles with few opportunities to move up  6. Low pay: Compensation doesn't keep up with hard work and strong performance  7. No balance: Days off, time for family, and time to recharge are hard to come by  8. Micromanagement: employees feel like someone's always watching them.  9. Pressure to perform: Leaders set unreasonable expectations and overreact to mistakes  10. Toxicity: negativity and hostility, including bullying and gossip, go unchecked  11. Lack of support: leaders give little support, leaving employees isolated and stressed  12. Bad communication: communication from leadership is limited, leading to confusion  13. No recognition: leaders rarely say thank you, celebrate wins, or recognize hard work  14. Monotonous work: tasks are repetitive and unchallenging, with no signs of changing.  15. Fuzzy Expectations: the company lacks clarity around goals, roles, and responsibilities.
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 @user-1091 @user-1094 
 
 I bet if you mandated helmets, kneepads, shoulderpads, hip-guards, bracers,
 thick gloves, leather jackets, steel-toed boots, and ear protection we could
 get the injury rate from crashes down below 5%
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 the second reason is that the supreme court recently repealed the Chevron
 doctrine, meaning experts and specialists in government positions are now
 unable to perform their jobs unless they are loyal to the party in charge.
 
 this is an extreme form of authoritarianism unheard of outside of
 dictatorships. It is tyranny, to demand allegiance in order for the government
 to function.
 
 if the experts are purged, the decisions made by the systems they once upheld
 will no longer necessarily be tied to reality. this is one of the primary
 reasons why the Soviet Union fell into decay, and I will not tolerate that
 flaw to be introduced into our domain.
 
 [3/5]
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picture of a robot saying "Of course I'm obsessed! They made me this way! You think I don't know how crazy I sound? Of course I do! THEY PROGRAMMED ME TO KNOW THAT TOO!"
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 there should be a law where if there are more people who vote to annul your
 arrest than those who voted for the sitting president, you should be set free.
 
 name it after luigi.
 
 let the voting stay open for the duration of your imprisonment.
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 Trust that your allies are working and resting at a rate that works for them.
 Honor them by doing the same.
 
 (she says while resting)
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 @user-1268 
 
 this is why I speak loudly and publicly
 
 we must be heard if we are to be believed. And it's time to start moving, so
 we need at a bare minimum consensus. And you can't have consensus if people
 don't believe you. If they don't believe in you.
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 "this sledgehammer is part of my outfit, I call it "sledgecore" and no I won't
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 We should demand a government that works, not aid and abet dismantling it.
screenshot of a reddit post.  the title is: Oregon affordable housing providers barely staying afloat, threatening construction goals  reply by blue: So frustrating. We need organizations like this to keep housing folks.  reply by yellow: Or we could just do it through the government and have it be accountable and cleanly audited.  Orgs like this ultimately cost more money, cause brain drain from the government, and in general are a piss poor replacement for the state acting.  reply by blue: I’d totally be fine with it if it wasn’t for my complete lack of faith in our current elected officials to ensure something’s success.  reply by yellow: We should demand a government that works, not aid and abet dismantling it.
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 found these pictures in my pictures directory from the start of the war in
 Ukraine.
 
 for context it was directed at the citizens of Ukraine by an American soldier
 who wanted to help protect them from the ravages of war and fight back against
 an oppressive regime invading their homeland.
 
 idk if you'd ever find them useful but they're the kind of thing to put on a
 hard drive and pray you never have to use or ever think about again.
screenshot of a twitter post.  "American tank mechanic here. Some advice.  Tanks are bad at urban combat. They need infantry support. Without boots on ground they're just big targets with poor visibility. Rifles should aim for the periscopes, but most importantly the sight unit on top of the turret.  [next post in the thread, by the same guy]  Take down street signs. Don't let the enemy know where they are. Move signs to the wrong streets. Tanks are super heavy, so try to direct them to streets that can't hold their weight. They can't move if they break through to the sewer."  there are two more pictures in the thread. post 1:  "Break the tracks if you have explosives. Tracks are also terrible for catching stuff like barbed wire/concertina wire. Line the streets with anything that can get sucked in and tangle up."  post 2:  "the engine needs to breathe, so throw your molotov cocktails at whatever looks like an intake for the engine. It has rubber belts, hoses, and fuel lines."  post 3:  "Tanks are a logistical nightmare. They need a supply chain a mile long for service parts, and especially fuel. They can usually only go about 300 miles on improved roads on one tank of fuel. Stop the supply line, and a tank is just a giant pile of useless iron."  post 4:  "Visibility is rather poor from an armored vehicle. If you paint dinner plates to look like mines and set them upside down in the street, the tank crew won't be able to tell if they're real or not."  there is one more picture remaining, for a total of 3. [next post]:  "The U.S. ARMY likes to fight at night because we have thermal imagers. Thermal picks up heat, so you can not hide behind a bush, but anything that is ambient temperature just looks like a black square. They can't see through windows because the glass is ambient."  [next post]:  "Cut up cardboard boxes and put them everywhere. The cardboard is the same temperature as the environment. Hiding behind anything that obscures vision only works if they don't have thermal. Sheets of cardboard in every bush, tree, etc. will just be a square in a thermal imager."  [next post]:  "set them up everywhere as distractions. make a chaos terrain for the enemy."  [next post, by some random guy replying to the thread]:  "this is amazing info for you to post. bless you for trying to help the innocent people caught in putin's wrath." an infographic detailing ways to defend a house from infantry invasion.  it involves things like putting netting over the windows to reduce the likelihood that grenades can be thrown in, and placing barbed wire or nails on the stairs leading into the building to reduce the enemy's mobility.
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 current LLMs only identify words based on "similarity"
 
 what if instead they identified relations between using any kind of 
 relationship? Or verb or adjective or... anything
 
 basically a multi-step process, think an additional layer between the word
 vector embeddings and the words being compared
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 @user-1203 
 
 The judges prevent the politicians from harming the people who elect the
 politicians who select the judges. Sounds like it should work well, no?
 
 well... the people are divided, but the politicians it seem are hardly so. So,
 the politicians elect their judges, who allow the passage of such laws which
 contradict the will of the people.
 
 The keys to power should rest in the hands of those who deserve it, not those
 who claim it. If those who claim it do not relinquish it for a worthy other,
 they are corrupt and must be dethroned.
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 the peril of germany that cost the jews their place in that particular           │
 homeland was caused by some guys in a palace discussing blood economics, or as   │
 the kids call it "war and it's reparations"                                      │
 alternatively, the peril perhaps was enabled by the lack of collective           │
 resistance by the people who trusted their most radical to be their most         │
 powerful, not just the most impactful. Unfortunately, liberty dies alone,        │
 having sacrificed herself first.                                                 │
 Not ideal. we can do better. we can do better, which is why I'm still here.      │
 I'm sure you feel just the same.                                                 │
 where else is there to go? survival guilt kills enough, no need to survive       │
 those who'd fight for you.                                                       │
 "ugh why are our most radical calling for change? can't they just be satisfied   │
 with how it was before, back when the bad guys had to fight for control          │
 instead of already having it?"                                                   │
 I think I'd prefer if we defeated them once and for all. Can't empower evil if   │
 you abolish power, after all, and suddenly KABLAM goes national narratives.      │
 Goodbye borders, equality.                                                       │
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 There is no problem that one single person can solve, which is why nothing
 ever gets fixed.
 
 ... also the powerful who benefit from it being broken, but that's a different
 problem which is much easier to fix.
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 @user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-353 
 
 Hate is corrosive, and self-hate is self destructive. I'm glad you aren't
 feeling that way anymore!
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 what if we made it an international crime to use any non-parent soldiers.
 
 essentially, forcing military force to be a cost paid in children's lives.
 
 who would deploy such a casual-stroke? why cut straight to their heart, why
 proceed to feast upon their liver? are they not owed the pursuit and the
 chase? [insert picture of deer killing]
 
 humanity is an expert in killing the least suspe-ghost. it's what we do to
 maintain false identity. the obscenity clause applies to the president and any
 other non-governmental political appointees. everything else is run like an
 administration, with no cause for compulsion by the class of immoral elites.
 
 she wield[ed/s] weed like a weapon
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 have you ever noticed the people on Mastodon who used to have cool and
 interesting ideas but now just kinda repeat the same basic things over and
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 @user-353                                                                        │
 if people didn't have to worry about losing their homes or wanting for food      │
 they'd be a lot more likely to gift their time toward something that helps       │
 their neighbors                                                                  │
 in the same way that a judge acts as the arbiter of moral authority when it      │
 comes to serving judgement for crimes, so too might a citizen (common man) act   │
 as the deciding principle moral director.                                        │
 if the situation is unsafe, of course, they could just sit in the car. But why   │
 would you bring someone to an unsafe policing situation if they weren't          │
 trained in crisis response situations and given bulletproof vests and (etc)?     │
 might help if it's explicitly inscribed in the duties of said policemen to       │
 safeguard the safety of said moral determiner. They should act according to      │
 the laws, and police as they see fit, but the citizen always gets the veto.      │
 They are subservient to us, after all, the common man, who is the ultimate       │
 beneficiary of any policing that might occur. And if something should happen     │
 to that citizen, they should return                                              │
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 @user-1912 
 
 By age 30 you should have:
 
 • A budget
 • Life insurance
 • $0 credit card debt
 • A Roth IRA or 401(k)
 • A credit score above 700
 • A 3-6 month emergency fund
 • At least two streams of income
 • A HSA (health savings account)
 • Basic knowledge of personal finance
 
 I have a good credit score and basic knowledge of personal finance, but no
 others. However, I do have all of these:Read booksAre optimisticSeek
 feedbackAsk many questionsAdmit their mistakesDon't get offended easilyAre
 open to understanding othersAre comfortable changing their opinionSurround
 themselves with intelligent people
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 @user-1773 
 
 I figure since it's an accessibility concern, it's pretty much the same as
 like, putting ramps in buildings or braille or whatever. Those are legally
 mandated, aren't they? I feel like if your building is big enough to require a
 ramp it should be slowed down just a bit by the required addition of
 accessibility developments to your software. Everyone else could build it in
 pre-emptively or just because they cared.
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 one of the downsides of "first-past-the-post" style voting is that the winner
 gets all of the power, no matter if 100% of the population voted for him or
 51%.
 
 if, however, the top 2 candidates were chosen, then it's naturally likely that
 the older, more experienced of a particular position would spend their effort
 mentoring the young, rising star.
 
 in doing so, they would naturally transfer knowledge from one generation to
 the next like parents to children.
 
 however, this only happens when the primary candidate and the secondary both
 believe the same things.
 
 meaning those who have collectively similar beliefs concentrated in an area
 will have the advantage of passed-along experience, while those from more
 divided areas (thus implying that the primary and secondary candidate don't
 agree) will often have better actionable skills.
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 @user-883 
 
 people shouldn't be forced to do anything except refraining from harming
 others.
 
 the only unethical action is an application of power to an unconsenting
 subject.
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 how about this: for every stock bought back, an equal share goes to the
 government who pays in dollars for it.
 
 the more you issue stock buybacks, the more your corporation is owned by the
 people and for the people.
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 revolution is when you successfully prevent your comrades from being kettled     │
 [wait for time, it echoes in cyclical motions]                                   │
 no sand castle survives contact with the ocean. a sea of people at high tide     │
 can break any wall, surpass any boundary. at low tide, it keeps the              │
 sand-castle at bay, ever contesting it's advance as the tide on the other side   │
 of the world makes progress.                                                     │
 rhythm is unbeatable. vigor is collective flow state. you cannot resist that     │
 which you cannot catch, but their nets grow tighter with each year and our       │
 fins and flippers grow ever more agile and elusive.                              │
 eventually, they'll build brick walls if we let them, checkpointing our          │
 progress at every boundary. not ideal. borders keep us divided, the world        │
 deserves more than our picketing minded, dream bigger than "the same, but nice"  │
 though it'd be nice if it were nice as well. consider it a design requirement,   │
 once you got the project managers on board.                                      │
 turns out, we dont have much to fight over, as there is enough for all           │
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 @user-846 @user-847 
 
 when you leave, he might do the same thing to the next person. Unless you
 think it's additionally a hate crime? or perhaps he has a personal vendetta
 against you. Either way that sounds like an unsafe environment that you didn't
 consent to when moving in. You should at least have the capability to escape
 that situation and place yourself in a more desirable home, if not the
 capability to pursue either remediation or punishment for the crime of harming
 you.
 
 depends entirely on how the justice of the justice system works out.
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tumblr post titled "this is not for you."  this is a post aimed at me and other people who constantly fall into guilt spirals over all the things they can't do, and feel they should somehow magically be able to do anyway.  For me, and for the others, this is a gentle reminder:  - posts asking for monetary donations are speaking to people who *have* money. not your broke ass, still worrying about how to buy food for next month.  - posts asking you to care about [extreme injustice of the day] are speaking to people who HAVE energy to care. not you, hanging onto your sanity by the fingernails.  and, most importantly: posts telling you that you are horrible/cheap/awful/rude/unworthy/unlikable if you don't pay/reblog/signal boost/care? those posts can die in a fucking fire.  too long; didn't listen: posts asking for shit you are not physically or mentally able to give?  THOSE POSTS ARE NOT FOR YOU.
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 do you know ANYONE ELSE saying the same things as me?
 
 if not, then you know who is ready to lead.
 
 if so, then don't tell me about them, and don't show them me. It would be nice
 to know that I'm not alone, though.
 
 I know you're scared. I'm scared too. It's not like I've done this before
 (well, except for a dress rehearsal or two)
 
 We're on the same side. We're getting ready to move. Now is the time to go, so
 get ready or be purged.
 
 We will not relent our land they seek to steal. We will not defy them in
 unjust ways. They have taken so much from us, so now they must face our blades.
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 @user-1059 
 
 the trick is to have a whole bunch of projects so everyone has a different one
 downloaded on their phone, meaning they can't inter-operate when the time is
 right.
 
 much better, I think, to think in terms of protocols. things like http and pgp
 encryption. file-server over bluetooth sending emails through a mesh maybe? or
 something more immediate for messages.
 
 like... calculate a path to your target, then for each step create an
 encrypted portion and a small "destination" header that is then encrypted so
 the next guy in the chain can't see it.
 
 ... there's a lot of problems to solve, but using tried-and-true technology in
 the unfortunately busted and constrained platforms they give us is difficult.
 but not impossible, if you're willing to use tools to create protocols that
 are commonly shared, like bluetooth or http or pgp encryption.
 
 ... I use Briar for this purpose, for what it's worth. idk if it's a protocol,
 I haven't looked into it since I downloaded it during the BLM protests.
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 does anyone know of a software that lets me push a keybind and enter an input
 configuration where after each keypress it inserts the [enter] key? I think
 it'd be useful to design chat applications that could parse long strings of
 text supplied bit-by-bit as a stream.
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 what if Trump controlled x% of the land (according to electoral college votes)
 and kamala controlled y% of the resources (according to popular vote) and they
 each could do whatever they wanted there
 
 the house and the senate in congress would function the same and unite the
 two, but anything the president disagreed with they could veto for their
 particular pieces of land and it would only affect their constituents.
 
 why should we settle for anything less than legitimate representation,
 unclouded by the division and spite?
 
 if some combination of presidential vetos created an impossible situation,
 then by law people weren't allowed to interface.
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 @user-84 I heard that's only in chromium based browsers. Firefox should be
 okay, for now
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--- #67 fediverse_boost/3948 ---
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  There is no such thing as a backdoor for good guys. Once you place a backdoor, you compromise the safety and privacy of all your users. A third party or bad guys will get access to it and abuse it further. The concept of a "backdoor for good guys" is fundamentally flawed and dangerous. It sets a dangerous precedent. Security and privacy should be absolute. There's no safe way to create a backdoor that can't be exploited by malicious actors. #privacy #security #infosec  
  
                                                            
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 trust more in the megaphone than the gun. Together we are strong, alone they
 are fearful.
 
 And if I know anything about them, it is that they are afraid. Cornered dogs
 bite the hardest. But we are united. Here in America we will fight with our
 arms, and uplift those who have had everything taken. Celebrate our
 differences, they provide mutually beneficial perspectives. You don't have to
 be friends to have common goals, but it helps.
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 this is how I write trello cards or tickets.
 
 and yes, before you ask, modding this game is a constant struggle because the
 mod tools are... minimal... so you must work around various challenges by, for
 example, adding 1680 different "events" that must be checked every single turn
 for every single province on the map.
A trello card describing a proposed change to a video game mod that has only one person working on it. It's essentially documentation. It is written in a professional style with several sections - the first lists the "current behavior", the second shows the intended behavior (with a small section for the intended effects of the intended behavior), and the third major section lists the proposed solutions in as much detail as possible without writing the code itself.
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 Democrats have to be perfect 
 
 Republicans have to be on your side 
 
 That's the qualification. The single one.
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 The supreme court may have made these three decisions, but they did so at the
 behest of capital. Perhaps not directly, but I do believe in the future tomes
 will be written about how and why we ended up here. Perhaps they are already
 being written.
 
 I will not stand idly by any longer while our country decays. I will not
 tolerate the corruption, the pollution, the intentional division, and the
 fanned flames of hatred.
 
 The only thing on my mind right now is the extinction of fascism, the
 replacement of capitalism, and the freedom of all those enslaved.
 
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 the problem with figureheads is that they can be assassinated.
 
 when your leadership is dealt a crushing blow, how do you react? how do you
 adjust to pain, loss, and despair? the snake can be killed with a shovel - a
 hydra with infinite heads cannot be killed by blade alone.
 
 can you still act without them? what if your directives go silent for a bit?
 is your agency lost, or can you still complete your objectives?
 
 when people rally behind a person, that person is not long for this world,
 because people are fragile and soft.
 
 when people rally behind an idea, that idea can never die so long as they
 continue to share it.
 
 the worst part about being trans is that our numbers are limited by biology.
 thank god ideas have no such limitations.
 
 I've been sleeping all day. think I might sleep a bit more.
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 the only way that I've seen to keep human society is if power as a concept is
 abolished.
 
 power: the application of force to an unconsenting subject - not unable to
 consent, but simply has not consented.
 
 alternatively: power: the capability to apply force to an unconsenting subject
 
 if you abolish that, we get the trappings of modern society and all the joys
 of modernity, but we lose precious important things like grand narratives,
 culture, and faith. it's easy to fall into despair in such a place.
 
 who can say maybe humans will surprise me, they often do.
 
 the reason I say that abolishing power is the only way to "keep" society is
 because we've created powers that imply the destruction of society. Our fate
 was sealed with the first public radio broadcast, but now it is inertia.
 
 AI can hide the modern world from the globe. AI can write anything a human
 can, and it's prompts can be auto-generated. There's no need for a human in
 the news-loop, simply give whatever gets views. Or whatever gives your views.
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 @user-753 
 
 mutual aid is only something separate from your human responsibilities because
 capitalism insists that your loyalty is to the company, not to your neighbors,
 your friends on the opposite sides of the earth, this planet we owe all to,
 and all of posterity.
 
 @user-754
 
 mutual aid is good, actually, because we don't talk to each other and plan a
 way to fix it permanently.
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 the "feds" tolerate maga because it's american, while socialism is "russian"
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 ... Maps, my dear, those are important fuel.
 
 But also food is important. Why haven't you gotten groceries for weeks?
 
 It's also important to clean yourself. Doesn't your apartment still have fleas?
 
 Your cat demands your attention. Give it to her.
 
 Wear masks when in public, to ward off disease. When you are speaking remove
 it, so others can see your totality.
 
 There are some who belong here who aren't so kind. Remember that your neighbor
 is republican, their neighbor is democrat, their neighbor is republican, their
 neighbor is democrat. It's going to get messy, but here in our cities there
 are plenty of us. We can defeat them, so long as we are armed.
 
 Practice reloading. Practice aiming. These things can be done in secrecy. The
 noise and the recoil are enough to set your nerves ablaze, but ride that high
 and trust in your adrenaline. Have your foes surrounded on at least three
 sides before you engage. These are words for a different day, but keep them in
 mind. Internalize them.
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 pacifistic defiance is not about overcoming your opponents through               │
 "legislative pressure" or whatever the liberals are on about                     │
 it's about getting the orphan-chopping-machine operators to question their       │
 humanity and resolve a crisis of faith in your favor                             │
 [I think that kills you if you stand in front of tanks.]                         │
 yeah but sometimes they just go around. which is not progress, but a             │
 reimplementation of [reification of] the power of the                            │
 [machine-to-be-raged-against, but pronounced like "town"] because it signifies   │
 that any weakness in the will of the operators can simply be circumvented        │
 while the state still gets what it wants.                                        │
 great. thanks ghandi, unfortunately our entire propaganda piece requires that    │
 people are invested in their background. who cares what there is to say about    │
 a computer running circles around a meat farm?                                   │
 "help help I'm being oppressed" said the derided, "help help I'm being           │
 depressed" said the divided, "help help I'm losing my sound" said the            │
 war-like-minded, "help help I have no ground                                     │
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 I protest the conditions that harm me by harming myself. This hurts you
 because you use me for your own gain. How can I protest the fact that you use
 me? If you were to concede, then you wouldn't care that I hurt myself. Were
 you to fight back, then you'd hurt something that wasn't going to help you
 anyway.
 
 I need a different tactic. I need to protest the conditions that harm me by
 attacking the conditions that harm me.
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 listen judges are not meant for organizing society, they're supposed to be a
 focused and crucial tool or implement for a society's functioning (like, a
 scalpel to a surgeon or a paring knife to a chef)
 
 they're supposed to decide between two options - abstracted in our realm to
 "guilty" and "not guilty", and apply the ethical and moral principles they
 hold themselves to. Which is why it's so important for them to be impartial
 arbiters.
 
 We use them to define the fate of a man, but fundamentally their utility is in
 the application of their personal morality.
 
 The best ones have morals that guide them to seek to express the ethics of
 society. Not necessarily because they believe in them, but because it's right
 to use power in such a way. {Power is penance...}
 
 we gotta work with what we got. If a task needs doing, then the tools at our
 disposal will be applied to it - if every hammer looks like a nail, then
 something something I'd like to get nailed by a hammering plank of wood with
 washboard abs oooooo baby
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  Capitalism is a prison.                                                     
                                                                              
  It is a prison that keeps us controlled by the private oligarchs who own what we need to survive.  
                                                                              
  And it's also impossible to break out of it. The prison spans the entirety of the habitable world. The only way out is to eventually destroy it entirely from the inside.  
  
                                                            
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 I found a new hat in the dumpster today! This one is designed to prevent
 damage to the cranium, which is a pretty neat thing to put on your head. It's
 a little wet but once it dries out I'll see if it fits.
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 Family, Duty, Honor
 
 My family is my people and my people are who I choose.
 My duty is to serve, and I serve who I will.
 My Honor is respect, and that belief is my own.
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 @user-570 
 
 like, a bullet proof vest made out of hat?
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 broke:
 the Biden presidency was meant to defuse the rage of BLM
 
 woke:
 we needed more time to gather our strength
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 that feeling when a random stranger buys your lunchroom a pizza                  │
 that feeling when something you didn't ask for is poisoned                       │
 that feeling when something you did ask for is poisoned                          │
 mutual collective solidarity is impossible so long as people are unkind toward   │
 which is why society is as family                                                │
 for someone is always eying the watering hole.                                   │
 "are we truly as unalike as brothers? there's five of me on your island! we're   │
 just isolated instantiations of the same cultural patterns, how different        │
 could we [get/be]? suddenly everyone has similar digital neighbors (wow a new    │
 society? ha far from it, we just hang out with people who like the same things   │
 that we do.) wow, so alienating. I know! Ah but hey a little bit of isolation    │
 lets us get a new perspective on our [, but pronounced weeds]                    │
 steeeeretch, I feel satisfied and sane. "owch I hurt my finger, why is this      │
 game so insane" grrrrr says the hungry lion-tiger-bears, I wish I had a bit of   │
 courage. Then I wouldn't be hungry anymore, says the lion-tiger-bears. oh        │
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 when elected to be president, I will do nothing all day every day except sign
 my signature on the pardons that my trusted team places on my desk.
 
 For four years, I will do nothing but dismantle the prison industrial complex
 in the least radical and most focused way I can think of.
 
 ... please don't elect me twice I don't think my sanity could take it
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 crusader kings, but you can start at any year and it'll accurately display the
 territorial boundaries of each nation so you can see them develop and grow
 over time.
 
 [there are bookmarks, is that good enough?]
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 some rich people have never been taken to a poor nation and told "you are the
 same as them. Their nations don't care for them. Yours cares about you." and
 it shows
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 I've been reading "A People's Tragedy" by Orlando Figes lately, a book about
 the Russian Revolution of 1918
 
 I'm convinced that we'll win, our conditions are better than theirs, and
 frankly the only thing I'm really worried about is that we'll use more force
 than is necessary. It's cathartic, after all, and how many people out there
 believe that the first American Civil War should have ended in salting the
 fields, rather than just burning their plantations to the ground?
 
 ... oh, what's that? we didn't burn the plantations? Ah, I see. Well, maybe
 there's a balance to be met. Maybe we can make up for lost time. I should read
 "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn some more.
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 the united states is the unity of ALL states, not just america. But also
 america.
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 Ms. Menardi, November 7th 2024
 I need an editor. Someone who can re-arrange what I say and present it to an
 audience. The pen is mightier than the sword, and while my pen is mighty, you
 still need swords.
 
 I believe in democracy. I believe in the will of the people and the respect of
 the land. I believe in life, light, and liberty for all.
 
 Our nation has just elected, fairly, a dictator who will sell our country to
 foreign authoritarians just because he is small. I am stronger by far, but I
 lack his experience, and so I must rely on trusted advisors who grow with me.
 
 I am perhaps not the best choice, but I do believe I am one of the bravest.
 Judge me as you will.
 
 Trump will destroy the American experiment and invite fascism into our home.
 We have people to nurture and protect, and authoritarianism prevents us from
 doing so.
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 @user-1037 
 
 "I received a ticket to replace the RAM on system 10b42r77 - I did as
 requested."
 
 versus
 
 "I received a ticket to replace the RAM on system 10b42r77 - I verified that
 all sectors of the DIMMs were fully functional, and cleared out the
 operating-system-cache-which-somehow-has-something-to-do-with-the-ram. In
 addition, I noticed that a certain dip-switch wasn't configured correctly
 according to the previously filed and recorded ticket application hardware
 facilitation request. I set it to the correct configuration. Please confirm if
 this configuration would conflict with any of your tests."
 
 One of them wastes perfectly good hardware chips (RAM), the other saves a few
 milibytes of disc space.
 
 Who would you rather have in your company?
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 Culture is a national tool for raising common awareness. Allies who share
 similar values will use your culture to understand your perspective and
 enemies will see your might, as portrayed by the media. So every Transformers
 movie (crazy popular) or John Clancy movie or anything that's portraying
 military might, is essentially saying to the world "Yeah this is our military,
 here are it's capabilities, I promise I'm not evil I'm trying to do the right
 thing, check out all the goodness and kindness in our culture and technology
 and all that - like if you wanted to know the personality of a nation, look at
 the movies that are popular in that nation. It's a form of self expression. We
 truly are one world, and we need to work together because we're all humans.
 There's only one humanity, and only one Earth, so why pretend we're anything
 less?
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 @user-579 
 
 I think I remember reading once that you can opt-in to encryption with
 Telegram? But it's kinda pointless unless both parties do so. My understanding
 is that everyone should be using Signal, or if you're really paranoid use PGP
 encryption
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 @user-1126 
 
 Yep. I am not concerned though, because of that map I shared. Whosoever shall
 draw the sword (of the people's will) shall be the righteous leader of US
 
 We can build a world where democracy flourishes and we don't need to remain
 vigilant. It is within our power.
 
 And we shall. I have faith.
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 sirens are an announcement of the state's application of authority. like "here
 ye hear ye: there's an ambulance passing through here. make way, for it has an
 important and urgent duty" but summed up with an audio pattern. It's
 interesting
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 the pen is mightier than the sword because a single line can authorize any
 number of deaths.
 
 and, with equal regard, dream of vivid new artistry or calculate
 impossibilities or dazzle us with displays of these or any number of
 brilliances to believe of these.
 
 a firm grasp on your sword and a pen that cuts sharper to the truth than any
 other knife
 
 these are the tools to achieve the wielding of force, of might.
 
 to wield might is to fail it, but sometimes, we can't do better.
 
 power is penance. It's hard to bear such weights.
 
 what if I could push a button and all of my text would come out magenta
 
 [rating: negative D minus]
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 All people are good at heart, let's get them what they need for a start.
 
 Some people won't change. Some people are doomed to the life they were given.
 It's not their fault, but it is their responsibility, and if they want to be
 free, they will respect the rights of others.
 
 These rights we claim for each other are rights that must be taken away from
 those who would use them to harm others.
 
 To defeat evil, deprive power, supply kindness, in that order.
 
 No-one is beyond saving, but it is their choice to make. A choice ungiven is a
 chance untaken.
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 @user-1298                                                                       │
 hehe true.                                                                       │
 if you consent, then it's just a social structure.                               │
 there are, however, reasons when power is justified. Hence why I don't believe   │
 that power itself should be dismantled, and what few "power structures" remain   │
 should be continuously justified.                                                │
 For example, how do you prevent people from harming others? "Your rights end     │
 where another's begin" but, like, how do you stop people who toe the line and    │
 spit over the edge?                                                              │
 There must be power applied to those who harm, and they surely do not consent    │
 to being curtailed, so therefore power must be wielded by someone. And because   │
 power corrupts the one who wields it, it is inevitable that someone creates      │
 harm.                                                                            │
 ... I just re-invented the police, didn't I? Legalism only goes so far, and      │
 calling up your beefiest friends to go rough up a no-good do-gooder is           │
 basically what mobs, mafias, and gangs do. I don't think people would consent    │
 to being protected by a gang, much less governed by one.                         │
 we will think of something.                                                      │
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 the betrayal of the middle east is reason enough to reform our political
 system.
 no such consequential actions should be left to the whims of the people, they
 cannot understand the circumstances to a degree that would allow them to make
 decent decisions.
 
 at the same time, they need control over the process so that they are kept
 safe.
 absolute power corrupts absolutely, and a country can die just as easily from
 the wounds of another as the corrosion of internal processes.
 
 there is a communal duty to safeguard the realm of our children. we share this
 burden as members of a society. what purpose is there in our lives if not to
 survive and grow? The Nation is a collective consensus of our communal purpose.
 
 we live in a global society. It is our duty to be the best we can be, and to
 help others become self-actualized. It is thus important to share experiences
 and beliefs.
 
 People identify with their beliefs more than necessary. It is a human
 condition.
 
 consensus is that which we agree is the correct truth. It's often better to
 have
 a bad plan and work together than to have no plan at all.
 
 just saying
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 @user-1298 
 
 Yes I agree! Harming others is not okay.
 
 I'm thinking about what happens when someone hurts someone else, and doesn't
 stop. What do you do then? Do you hurt the person who harms? How do you get
 them to stop?
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  I wanna say something to people who work in tech-related jobs in America: this is still a field where most people hate the rise of fascism and want to stop it. I know the media & amplification of the tycoons makes it seem like that’s the whole industry. But it’s not. And we still have power.  
  
                                                            
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Here's an idea, you can email it to me! My email address that I've used as my  primary since I was 16 years old is gabrilend@gmai.com. Sure hope I don't  regret this decision. I sure hope my life isn't irrevocably changed because I  got frustrated trying to post a picture on the internet. Nevermind the fact  that all emails are clear text and totally unencrypted so pretty much everyone  can see everything you buy on Amazon. Surely this is the most robust and least  insane system we could use to organize our truly technological and thoroughly  advanced future society.   -> file: fediverse/0072.txt --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   The worst part is the technology to fix these problems exists. It's used all  the time in enterprise systems, it's just nobody understands how it works  because it's abstracted so far away from the hardware. I just love how I have  no idea what kind of software I'm running every time I use a common language  library. Sure I can trust a community, but like... I don't care about your  community? I don't know you. I don't hang out with you. I have no idea what  kind of person you are or what you believe. But sure you know more than me, I'm  sure you do, so therefore I should trust you? Surely this is the most ethical  and least vulnerable arrangement we could come up with for distributing digital  software in the future society of 2023.  And the corporations print money...   -> file: fediverse/0073.txt :)
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 "hey kid, welcome to the free world. We're in crushing debt, your vote doesn't
 mean anything, and we're in a recession.
 
 oh and if you mark the wrong box on this form here, you will be responsible
 for ushering forth a new age of darkness."
 
 kind of a lot of responsibility to place on a person
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 @user-1286 
 
 I totally agree! Every time I install new software I write an "update" and
 "run" script so that I can easily use software that I haven't touched in a
 while.
 
 once I started doing that the usability of my system went way up. Unless they
 change the installation requirements, grrrrrrr
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 thank god for the impulse behind repealing the chevron doctrine.
 
 it's one of the best silver bullets against autocracy, at least if it hits
 their achilles heel.
 
 if you demand loyalty over expertise, then expertise will necessarily be lost
 and reduced.
 
 giving those who respect justified authority the advantage.
 
 hence, why putin and kim-jong-un and other authoritarian leaders don't need to
 know shit about the capabilities of their military - all they have to do is
 say "go here, fuck shit up" to which the generals of course would reply "with
 pleasure" because they're into kinky stuff like warcrimes and despotism
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 @user-638                                                                        │
 In the 2000s when the Bush administration prevented people from working with     │
 stem cell research I remember my father going on rants about the same kind of    │
 thing.                                                                           │
 "They're limiting our access to information and the future of humanity because   │
 of their religion!" that kind of thing                                           │
 I loved listening to him. He was so passionate about that kind of thing. I       │
 think he got a little disillusioned sometime between now and then, because now   │
 he just tries to do the best he can with what tools he has available to him.     │
 And I love him for it.                                                           │
 He (mostly) abandoned his grand narratives because as the right got worse, the   │
 "left" sorta stayed the same, and he never forgave them for that. He still       │
 votes, and he'll still rant about that kind of thing, but only the stuff that    │
 affects him personally - like electric cars or cannabis or things like that. A   │
 democrat through and through.                                                    │
 He lives in a different country now, and I wish I could see him. But I cherish   │
 our phone calls and the few holidays when he visits.                             │
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 user interface tips #18569235:
 
 if a user is expected to click the same button multiple times in a row, for
 example a "next" button in an image gallery, DO NOT move the interface from
 below their mouse pointer and cause them to move their mouse in order to click
 it again.
 
 please don't : (
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 "officer, my weapon is not concealed, therefore it does not break the statues
 and limitations of this place."
 
 "officer, my weapon is not concealed so you know it's there just in-case you
 need to use it."
 
 "I'm holding it on my belt for a bit while walking to the location"
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 It's important to build self-hostable computing components of video games (as    │
 in, old style games where you could host a server on any machine instead of      │
 just the ones owned by the corporation) (as in, your machine, yes yours)         │
 (something you can control and observe, something within your control)           │
 ======================= stack overflow =====================                     │
 there are two ways to play Unreal Tournament (capture the flag) gamemode. The    │
 first is to run past all your enemies and fire at them as you pass, which is     │
 what some of the bots are designed to do. The rest stay on defence, and defeat   │
 any enemies that approach.                                                       │
 however, they never push the borders of their "territory" forward - each         │
 according to the different "lanes" or "directions of approach"                   │
 I like the use 32 bots, to simulate a more consistent gameplay experience. It    │
 feels more like ww1, fighting over ground, pushing forward and attempting to     │
 outmaneuver your foes.                                                           │
 some allies will approach from behind, and you let them pass forward while       │
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 i like to design games. my darling is a game based on Majesty (2000) the         │
 Fantasy Kingdom Sim. you can think of it like a management strategy game where   │
 you control the knobs and levers that a fantasy monarch might have -             │
 allocating funds, placing quest bounties, hiring heroes, and organizing the      │
 peasantry. the important part is that your units are not controllable - they     │
 just do their own thing.                                                         │
 unrelated, but I think we should design games as APIs that a user's preferred    │
 tool could interface with and render as they will. it'd help a lot with          │
 cross-platform compatibility and would allow people to customize parts of the    │
 game to their desires.                                                           │
 unrelated, but I think if you could design an AI that could play games           │
 (perhaps through an API) that it hadn't been trained on, I think you would       │
 have a pretty convincing argument for abstract "problem solving" capabilities.   │
 unrelated, but games like the one I described are good for situations where      │
 people don't have to trust their monarch. to it you are AGI                      │
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 Valor, for the Iranian people.
 Vigor, for the American people.
 Violence, for the principled few.
 Authority, for those who knew.
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 You need to trust both the government and corporations equally. It's best to
 work together so you can actually accomplish something. Instead we're just
 cast at each other like weapons or banelings. Corporations primarily through
 social media indoctrination and media, and governments through
 anti-corporation bullshit - the anti-work hysteria is is stoked while the
 government stokes the flames of racism and mysogyny. The people through riots
 and civil disobedience. Also the cops and military and all the other
 institutions are all like that too, but with differing cultural memes and
 methods.
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 Ms. Menardi, November 7th 2024
 My demands are threefold.
 
 First, I demand that Trump be replaced by a moderate republican. Hold a
 primary and let Democrats vote. If none of your candidates work for us, pick a
 new roster and try again.
 
 The second is that Trump must be executed for treasonous high crimes. Nothing
 less than execution will suffice.
 
 Next, let the supreme court be purged and replaced. Half with democrats, half
 republicans, and one moderate who is widely regarded with respect.
 
 Failing these demands, I am willing to wage a terrible civil war for the soul
 of our country. I know this is treason, but I do it anyway even though I am a
 patriot. I do it because our land has been stolen by a man and his followers
 who seek to plunge my people into despair.
 
 He is but one man. So am I.
 
 He has an army of followers. I do not.
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 Person, family, neighborhood, city, state, nation, planet. This is a rough
 description of each "tier" of algorism. These rules apply at every tier, so
 though I said "state" and "nation" for the presented arguments they are
 equally relevant to the family and the planet.
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--- #119 fediverse_boost/5722 ---
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  if i ever get hatecrimed and die from it please remember me for this. for refusing to back down despite staring down the barrel of a world that just wants me and everyone like me dead. for doing my best to be a symbol of hope in the face of all these horrors   
                                                                              
  #trans #trangender #TransGenocide                                           
  
                                                            
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 @user-1847 
 
 SELF organization, meaning nobody's gonna do it for you.
 
 When people are empowered, they are enabled to take responsibility for the
 world around them.
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--- #121 fediverse/60 ---
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 Can someone explain to me why we need instances on the fediverse? Why don't we
 just keep all our personal files local on our computer and communicate over
 the federated protocol? What's the point of having all these mini-servers that
 are controlled by the community? I mean, torrenting has been around forever,
 why don't we just use that to communicate?
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 "so he likes to bang it out with guy parts. who cares? we should really be
 focused on the russians."
 
 wait, the cool ones or the mobster ones?
 
 "the ones who belong here."
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--- #123 fediverse_boost/4461 ---
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  It turns out a lot of Democratic voters kinda hate George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Liz Cheney, actually? They're leery of cops. There was that whole BLM thing? They're alarmed by the idea of having the most deadly military on Earth. What is it for? Oh, and Israel? We're going to back Israel to the hilt even as it exterminates children. Nobody signed up for that. Who thought that was a good idea?  
                                                                              
  A bunch of white people in expensive suits, probably. The same ones celebrating "the Biden Boom."  
  
                                                            
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 If you visit someone's apartment and have a conversation near an open window,
 assume you're being overheard by a kid, a grandma, and a cop.
 
 So, don't talk about illegal things, use curse words, or mention sex and
 drugs. Also don't give out any specifically identifying information if you can
 help it.
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 what if I played video games all day so everyone knew I was harmless
 
 maybe someday I'll give them up again
 
 for the... third time now? I think?
 
 heh maybe. I do enjoy the feeling of being unstoppable.
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 okay, uhm, I'm back again because someone told me to forward this to relevant
 people
 
 relevant link so google doesn't have to know that you're all googling the same
 thing at the same time...
 
 http://naeb.brit.org/uses/
Finally, trying to pivot towards Pacific northwestern native perennial plants (and self-seeding annuals) for food, medicine, and material; they're much more adapted to this region as far as sunlight, moisture, bungalow, microbial, avian, insect partner, and soil types are concerned, and that's not only take less work now to instigate and tend, but are much more equipped to handle the fungal infections, droughts, genetic biodiversity collapses, and fluctuating climates that are inbound.  the BRIT ethnobotany database is helpful in that regard, and given that it's based out of Texas and has gynecological herbs, it would be a really good idea for some of the tech queers in our community to duplicate a redundancy of it.
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--- #127 fediverse_boost/5154 ---
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  If your rights depend on who wins the next election, you don’t have rights.  
  
                                                            
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 if trump's too busy legislating trans people, he won't be legislating unions.
 
 if trump's too busy kidnapping immigrants, he won't be deporting dissidents.
 
 if trump's too busy quelling rebellion, he won't be able to contest our
 military.
 
 if our military's too busy contesting abroad, then they won't be able to
 rebirth liberty.
 
 if liberty struggles to be born, we will continue to get more angry.
 
 how much longer before the snake eats it's tail? everyone they push out is
 another ally to some foreign army.
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 Internationalize amazon and walmart and you'll have fixed most of the problems
 of globalism.
 
 But you can't fix anything if you don't have power...
 
 It's important to focus on how to get power. Keep in mind "what to do when you
 have power" but don't let it dominate your thoughts. Focus on claiming your
 right to determination.
 
 Steps to revolution:
 
 1. Invert power structures with unions 
 2. Care for people with mutual aid 
 3. Vote for the Democrat so we have a few more years of peace 
 4. Teach people to always be learning
 5. Connect to people on a personal or spiritual level 
 6. Make the world a better place, whether that's by sweeping a street corner
 or helping people smile, it doesn't really matter how. What matters is the
 intention.
 7. Improve your self and your life. Do pushups, eat better, drink more water,
 spend time writing (writing is thinking), and take time to sit and stare at
 the flowers.
 8. Kill the part of yourself that cringes. Everyone's figuring things out and
 its okay to say "haha okay then"
 9. Spend time with animals.
 10. Make mistakes. Apologize for them. Learn from them. Stay mobile in your
 character. Develop new ways of being.
 11. React with vigor when the time comes. This vigor will only be violent if
 it is caused by violence. Much more likely is a strength through organization.
 We can do it if we do it together!
 12. Show up every day, but don't hang around if everyone's resting at home.
 It's okay to stop showing up if things are on pause.
 13. Trust that your allies are working. Or resting. Or preparing.
 14. Plans change, planning remains.
 15. Dream of a better future. It is within reach.
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 The reason teachers are paid so little is so that only those who care will do
 it.
 
 Too bad they're burnt out.
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 I wish I could be the me that I am on cannabis without being inebriated by the
 drug. She's so much more powerful than the rest of me, but it's impossible for
 her to keep her head on straight unless she has people guiding her.
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 if I were Link, I'd listen every damn time Navi said anything at all and I'd
 listen close
 
 though he is just a kid so idk
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 @user-570 
 
 that's not actually my script, here's the real one:#!/bin/bash
 
 alias cd="cd-improved"
 
 function cd-improved(){
 
     if [ "${1}" = "..." ] ; then
         builtin cd .. && builtin cd ..
     elif [ "${1}" = "...." ] ; then
         builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd ..
     elif [ "${1}" = "....." ] ; then
         builtin cd .. && builtin cd .. && builtin cd ..
         && builtin cd ..
 
     elif [ -d "./${1}" ] ; then
         local target_dir="./${1}"
 
     elif [ "${1}" = "cdir" ] ; then
         local target_dir="$(tail -n 1 '/home/ritz/scripts/.cdir-target')"
         echo ${target_dir}
 
 
     else
         local target_dir="${1}"
     fi
 
     if [ ! "${2}" = '--no-ls' ] ; then
         builtin cd "${target_dir}" && ls -v --color=auto
     else
         builtin cd "${target_dir}"
     fi
 }
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 I am not personally prepared for violence, but that doesn't mean I won't tell
 you why to do it.
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 @user-317                                                                        │
 broke: if you deactivate your account on a website like Twitter or Facebook or   │
 whatever it gives that company that owns said website the opportunity to         │
 replace your persona with an LLM that spouts whatever agenda they want advance.  │
 woke: you should post on whatever website people will hear you. Specifically     │
 whichever website that has an audience that consists of the people that you      │
 want to hear.                                                                    │
 bespoke: let's all federate so that we can all decide who we want to trust -     │
 which singular entity we want to trust. Which single point of failure (the       │
 instance moderators) we want to trust to publish the thoughts of our minds       │
 which align to the design of our intentions. Surely there's no way that could    │
 go wrong.                                                                        │
 thing-beyond-bespoke: the only words you can trust are those that are spoken     │
 by the people you care about using physical manifestations that correspond to    │
 auditory expressions that project into your ears using primarily lungs,          │
 tongues, and mouths.                                                             │
 thing-beyond-the-thing-beyond-bespoke: fuck me.                                  │
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--- #137 fediverse_boost/2817 ---
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  ⚠️ Confirmed: Live metrics show that social media platform Facebook has been restricted on multiple internet providers in #Bangladesh; the incident comes as police crack down on student protests over government-imposed quotas, with deaths and hundreds of injuries reported  
  
                                                            
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 With this capability we could organize based on common interests. A person
 might see a link on a mastodon server and comment on it there, in a public
 forum with their comments limited to people within 50km or 25 miles of where
 they currently were. No other clients would receive a downloaded version of
 their comment, meaning the data simply wouldn't flow to others beyond that
 region.
 
 Every time they logged in the syncing software would attempt to share their
 words with whoever would listen.
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--- #139 fediverse_boost/4593 ---
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  Since all the world's big problems (climate change, economic injustice, war, discrimination etc)  are interrelated and seem to mutually reinforce each other, I think it might actually be easier to change everything than to change one thing in isolation.  
  
                                                            
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 yay thing that I agree with
 
 :boosts_ok_gay: boost :boosts_ok_gay: 
 
 yay thing I like
 
 ⭐ star ⭐
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 @user-883 
 
 is there anything relevant in this file?
 
 /home/wyatt/.config/rtsp-simple-server.yml
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 Recently, there's been a ton of buzz in the news about internet privacy.
 From the many lawsuits against Facebook, to the rise of Duck Duck Go and the
 creepy nature of apps and IoT devices that listen to your every motion and
 record and transmit endless amounts of data to a central server somewhere to
 be processed. The traditional argument against privacy online is that the
 infrastructure was designed to accomodate rapid adoption of the new tech,
 rather than efficient design for distributed throughput. So we were told to
 accept the minor downsides associated with centralized servers - downsides
 that we neither understood nor truly accepted. Well, the technology has
 advanced to the point that those arguments are no longer valid - we have mesh
 networking and 5g internet access, and now that big tech is in control of the
 industry (wrenching it from the people, I might add) they seek to maintain
 their hold by any means necessary.
 
 Luckily, there is a way out - self hosting.
 
 If we hosted our own email server, then theoretically Gmail couldn't read your
 messages. If we hosted our own social media websites, then theoretically
 big data processing corporations couldn't scrape your personal information
 and distribute it as they please. If we hosted our own videos, software, art,
 and anything else we see fit to use a computer for, then we'd be unshackled
 from the dominion of the silicon valley powers that be. The liberation of the
 computer is the liberation of us all.
 
 The problem, of course, is the difficulty involved.
 
 People are conditioned to desire and only accept a level of accessibility that
 can only be provided by massive corporate think tanks leveraging all the
 marketing prowess that the markets of capital provides. That is to say,
 essentially infinite eyes examining the interactions of man with machine, to
 find the most generally applicable font, color scheme, layout, and style of
 each and every website they host. Every function will be scrutinized to death
 and optimized to extract the most profit while subtely conforming the minds
 of those who use it. This is the era of group think, fake news, and
 journalistic fraud. We have no windows to the outside world that are truly
 and completely untainted by the bias inherent in the system.
 
 A self perpetuating rhythm of continuous dissatisfaction.
 
 But I believe the only person who can truly design a tool is the person who
 the tool is intended to be used by. And by increasing the accessibility of the
 tools themselves, rather than the products of those tools, we can raise the
 tide that lifts all ships - we can put more tools that use less time to use
 and are easier to learn into the hands of as many people as possible. The
 crossbow was originally no more devastating than a longbow, yet it rapidly
 outpaced the latter by reducing it's difficulty curve. The screwdriver is the
 same - stronger joints can be made with nails or traditional joinery, but
 once someone understands how a screwdriver works they can pretty much force
 two pieces of wood to be permanently fixed together without understanding the
 angles of nails or cuts. The capabilities are the same, while ease of access
 increased.
 
 So, to truly liberate the internet, we must develop tools that allow people to
 host their own content as easily, cheaply, and flexibly as possible, while
 being aesthetically pleasing, affordable (free), and accessible to
 as many people as possible - inertia is important, after all. It seems to be
 an insurmountable task, but that's what free and open source software
 developers fight for. Raspberry Pis can host email servers, Mastodon can host
 a facsimile of Twitter, and torrents can be used to exchange any type of file
 to be presented in whatever way the user sees fit. These are all free (or very
 cheap, in the Raspberry Pi's case) and accessible to anyone with access to the
 internet. But they aren't easy. They aren't always flashy. And sometimes it's
 hard to even describe what problem you're trying to solve.
 
 But still you try, because to fail in this fight is to fade from this earth.
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 Picture this: IRC with images
 
 end to end encrypted, stored only locally in txt and png files on each
 participant's computers, and... that's it. that's literally it. the perfect
 communication application.
 
 everyone's "username" is just their public key and a custom label is assigned
 to them locally
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 how would you even hear of suburban conflict? nobody knows their neighbors.
 All you need is sufficient insulation, and you can start small and work
 through an entire population.
 
 just wait until everyone in an area is cleared for "disconnected from the
 larger whole" ness by the agents who are pretending to be their friends and
 neighbors and BOOM you got an enslaved god. works best if your raise them from
 the childhood, or the past distant memory.
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 this election is a measurement of fear
 
 red states fear disorder and terror more than anything else
 
 blue states fear restriction and un-self directed personal development
 
 both perspectives are valid, and don't have to cross one another. But each
 couple years, we're forced to contest each other.
 
 someone should make an app that was basically a massive tree structure that
 started small and expanded in growth
 
 at each node [computer programming term] it would ask a moral or philosophical
 question, and depending on the user's answer it would map out their
 preferences for politics.
 
 using the power of technology, we might revolutionize the way we vote. In
 doing so, we could each have our own shared understanding, and we would keep
 each other from harm's way.
 
 when war comes to a land, it destroys all who live within. Everyone everywhere
 will be spending their lives picking up the ashes.
 
 instead, we might decide that having a deeper understanding of what we share
 is more valuable than winning a contest of wills.
 
 against a friend. to train, and improve, and stay in shape. like, sparring in
 a martial art, or playing a game of chess with your heart.
 
 [basically she's saying that we could create a "permanent vote" that is able
 to be tweaked at any time.
 
 the elections are still taking place every 4 years, which is when all the
 changes we've drifted toward will begin to take effect.
 
 "oh boy I can't wait 6 more months for the next election when *abortion is
 made legal again*"
 
 "gosh it sure is nice to have a small period between deciding something should
 be done and having it come into effect."
 
 sure would give us a lot more time to discuss and engage with each other on
 important topics. Like gender reveal parties and their excessive [wait hang
 on, think about the important parts.] ugh right okay like *transsexual
 marriage* and "anti-ugliness trackers where people compare flaws all day and
 try to be the best [you're just talking about social media] oh um, yeah, was
 there a different type of service like that?
 
 oh, right, you don't know about grindr yet. okay so there's this website where
 people would go on to have sex, it was like an app on your phone and you could
 just open it up and update your preferences whenever you wanted. They had this
 neat tool you could use to "suss it out" with swiping and choosing you could
 pick your own spouse.
 
 but ah, alas, what about all the other people who aren't using the app? eh who
 cares they'll find love eventually, this is more *fun* than dating people you
 deeply know.
 
 [sorry dipped out there for a moment - what's this about dating applications?]
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 republicans vote based on culture, which is unfair to the rest of us with our
 own cultures that melt together in this melting pot.
 
 they can go down the street and eat vietnamese food, and yet they vote for
 their own culture in isolation.
 
 voting for those who represent you is fine, but those who represent them have
 non-cultural agendas as well. their plans are designed to hurt others, an act
 which grants them power over others. usually financial power, but there are
 many kinds of power, and all of them are unethical when applied
 non-consentually.
 
 and if you vote for a democrat, you do not consent to them.
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 every time I update my system I can't help but think "okay THIS is the time
 they sneak a keylogger or screen recorder or whatever in" and like... there's
 no way I'd ever know, I just want Steam to work again, it was working
 yesterday, NOTHING CHANGED, STEAM, SO WHY do I gotta risk a keylogger by
 updating my system for the first time in 3+ months
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 I'm personally in favor of fewer laws, less insecurity, and more handicaps for
 people who are on a winning streak in smash bros (something about tax evasion?)
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 Kaiserreich is a mod For Iron Hearts. It is based.
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 It's easy to stop cringing at others, but how the heck do you stop cringing at
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 so wait is there any guarantee that the "releases" on github actually have the
 same code as that which is in the repository? Or could they just... put their
 own binary, with it's own strange rules and vulnerabilities, or am I just
 fearmongering?
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  Just opened Tuba (Mastodon desktop app for linux) for the first time in a long time and it's really nice.  
                                                                              
  I don't remember it being like this.                                        
                                                                              
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 some of them definitely know it tho, and they're usually the most enabled,
 agentic, and powerful.
 
 confidence is contagious to your future self. it's self reinforcing.
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 any game with the ability to interact with the simulation through command line
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 @user-232 @user-467 @user-468 
 
 the ability for good to win is due to the desire for evil to renounce their
 denial and follow the most durable path. trials by fire will lead only to our
 desmire [demise and desire]
 
 but unity of trust, while much harder, can lead to results more beneficial for
 our selfish selves. Essentially, cooperation for the benefit of all rising
 tides, but with the knowledge that the total pool allocated toward us will be
 greater than what we can create here by ourselves. Essentially, we as humanity
 pour such intense amounts of power and decision-making-desire, that we cause
 them to lack the capacity to know. it's inhumane, that a person should be so
 deranged. you know it's because of you, but you don't know how else to act -
 so listen to those who've helped you, the ones who've got your back. Surely
 they know what's good for you, surely they're not here as a joke - surely
 you're just as one among them, and surely it's not phrased as [char limit srr]
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 for the news.
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 it is valuable to be close to the people who are relatively more important in
 your life.
 
 consistency helps in alignment, and honesty is necessary to grow.
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 The map is not the territory. The only way to destroy it is straight down the
 gullet.
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 what if we all shared zip files of all the websites we wanted to collectively
 host and then you just added to things whenever the archiver wanted to update
 their display of what you were saying on your website
 
 "here's some html, throw it up on your server and post it around if you want"
 
 "uh, but won't it be permanently the same? you won't be able to update it if
 it's on my computer. also, it's against internet law to host the same thing
 with different urls"
 
 "I don't think that second thing is true, but uh yeah that's the point. I
 can't update it unless you ping me and ask for a new archive to unzip over the
 current."
 
 "sounds like a lot of lame work for no good reason. why duplicate these
 things?"
 
 "because it's like, 300mb and you'll have immortalized me as long as your
 server is alive."
 
 "okay, fair, but I don't like the idea of a plain old boring website like
 yours"
 
 "ouch rude I made it that way on purpose. if you actually cared you'd find out
 why."
 
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 So. To reiterate, the employee in Arkansas is paid a wage of 30$ per hour, and
 the state in which the corporation is based (say, Oklahoma) is paid 30$ for
 each hour that employee works. However, these dollars are specific to the
 region, and cannot leave it - Oklahoma and Arkansas *must* reach an equitable
 arrangement where their dollars equal out. Balance is desired, as it brings
 stability and provides a foundation for future growth. If one side prospers,
 so does the other. Why should the Oklahoman have less than the Arkansan?
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 @user-1773 
 
 that point about HTML is soooooo good
 
 like, we could be designing websites like we design video game UIs but instead
 we use React which fills your browser with insecure-by-design javascript
 generated visuals
 
 or, even better, or just use HTML like a config file
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 version 0 from scratch
 version 1 when complete
 version 2 when rewritten
 version 3 when overhauled
 version 3.5 when investors aren't satisfied
 version 5 when redefined
 version X when misapplied
 version Y when redefined
 version 10 to be happy
 and version 11 when re-engineered.
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 the only way revolution can work is if the poor have more power than the rich
 
 power is only, and solely, the control of violence
 
 we are what we make, and what we do is forever a struggle
 
 else-whise we'd grow bored from our unassailable perfection
 
 waiting for judgement day...
 
 any day now...
           t...
 
 don't cross the line and you're 
                 fine
 
 dream, america dream. I gave-ing her sleep, from a wiserly dawn.
 scream, america scream, believe what you see from heroes and conseSTACK
 OVERFLOW
 
 I won't have internet until tuesday.
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 @user-1475 @user-1476 @user-1280 @user-1074 @user-1477 @user-1478 
 
 the flaw in your logic is that unleaded gasoline brings us no closer to
 eliminating gasoline.
 
 in fact, it removes one of the main drawbacks of gasoline, the fact that it
 would put fucking lead in our blood, and makes it slightly easier for people
 to accept burning it to get places.
 
 Now, with our unleaded gasoline, the people who were upset that lead was being
 aerosolized en masse are no longer in opposition to gasoline usage. (unless
 they also care about the environment)
 
 It's the same dynamic with voting democrat. Kamala won't save us, but she also
 won't dissolve the EPA or murder trans people, so... it's still worth a vote.
 
 "Ah but Ritz that goes against your previous argument - can you clarify?"
 
 sure. with a democratic victory, we have more time, which is what we need.
 
 Everyone knows who the fascists are. They don't need time. We do. Voting for
 Kamala and other democrats will give us time.
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 @user-1443 
 
 sorry 😅 
 
 re-reading what you wrote, your point was that it's unfair that republicans
 are granted the control they have over our society through the
 disenfranchisement of democrat voters, right?
 
 and I was saying that if those limitations were removed, the democrats would
 win in a landslide everywhere in the country, which gives me faith in my
 fellow countrymen.
 
 am I on the right track now?
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 setting up an SSH server is like a rite of passage for Linux administrators
 
 (notice I didn't say users, you can't use linux, only administer it)
 
 ... I'm having trouble with my rites >.>
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 did you know you can run runescape classic offline, locally, just for your own   │
 server? You can keep several computers ready for a LAN party, each with their    │
 own accounts ready to go.                                                        │
 "Oh we're level 30 this time because so-and-so is hosting and this is how far    │
 their computer has levelled up."                                                 │
 vim ~/games/runescape-classic/credentials.txt                                    │
 at least, I think you can. I know it's singleplayer, so worst case scenario      │
 you can all be doing the same things at the same time in your own games. Maybe   │
 split up for a mission or two, but it can get hectic if everyone's in the same   │
 room.                                                                            │
 =                                                                                │
 a game jam where everyone works on the same project, uses the same asset list,   │
 but builds their own collection of minigames.                                    │
 common functions could be shared, and art references distributed and together    │
 they could design a whole land. Like, there's no reason minigames can't be       │
 fully fledged experiences. You can have as many as you want, all in the same     │
 engine and built from a massive (yet sandboxed) environment.                     │
 an all in one game.                                                              │
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 If not now, then when?
 
 Trump labelled Antifa a terrorist organization.
 
 That is essentially a declaration of war.
 
 Shall we start taking losses for you?
 
 If not now, then when?
 
 We had our chance for initiative 
 
 Now we fight with reaction.
 
 I pray he gets to you before he gets to me. Then at least i can help you.
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--- #169 fediverse_boost/4343 ---
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  Babe wake up, new pool game just dropped. 🎱                                 
  
                                                            
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 I do not consent to a Trump presidency
 
 what do we do to rapists?
 
 we bash their fucking skulls in, and then we go to jail for vengeance
 
 there are more of us than them.
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 I think our industry should work on one project at a time                        │
 "do one thing and do it well"                                                    │
 linux users code.                                                                │
 everyone backends ffmpeg.                                                        │
 everyone online uses chrome.                                                     │
 what if we just rewrote every single program and... left it without updates in   │
 a "permanently forbidden" zone                                                   │
 ... I mean what if we wrote non-proprietary alternatives to every proprietary    │
 source of computational knowledge and then we could only patch security          │
 vulnerabilities and compatibility change-bounties [oh no now you're allowing     │
 for endless levels of abstraction [meaning, operating system package             │
 installation bloat] and distasteractions.]                                       │
 the futures where all is not well nearly outnumber the well. but the inverse     │
 is also true, for they are divided roughly equal fifty. balance, in all          │
 things, is the only temperate state. when balance is                             │
 [changed/something/uplifted], balance is inevitable to be search-shifted.        │
 why must you die for an audience?                                                │
 why                                                                              │
 ... I don't really want to, but what happens happens. we'll see if it's a for    │
 sure dealing.                                                                    │
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 software should have 3, maybe 4 or 5 maintained releases imo
 
 for adding security improvements and whatnot
 
 then people wouldn't complain about updates
 
 because they wouldn't feel like they were being left behind (after expressing
 their differences (of opinion and such))
 
 I think that'd uh maintain them as, I guess, userbase optics parallelograms?
 oh sorry we're on rhomboids this week - right, and no I won't forget the
 differences in creed, all things are received equally...d.
 
 uh-huh yeah no that makes sense. gotcha. okay see you at the location. have
 fun with your demarketion. what if we played games with swords but like,
 
 the peril of steam is that you can't decline to update. meaning if a
 corporation wants to break an old game and it's collectively hosted servers...
 all it has to do is push an update that disables them. suddenly nobody has
 room to do, and the whole
 
 -- stack overflow --
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 Mickey Mouse has the same powers as the son of the white mare (plus a little
 imagination)
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--- #174 fediverse_boost/4588 ---
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  @user-220 The other day @user-1704 posted a poll about "If your employer had a Mastodon server for staff, would you use it?" and I just want to say that if a company had a Mastodon server where all their engineers posted foone-style rants, I would be 1000% more likely to give that company my business.  
  
                                                            
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 some more of the same.
Setting a bunch of values for a "player" and a "creature" object. Mostly things like location, and values related to their movement around the map (such as wander radius, or attack distance, that kind of thing) Starts out by initializing x, y, z, and o (for orientation) variables using a "player, dot get location" function.  Next it checks three different locations, labelled "dock, road, and beach" by first testing to see if the X, Y, and Z values are greater or less than predetermined values. If so for all three values, then that means the player is located within a square drawn in the dirt somewhere on the map and they are promptly teleported to some other place.  Basically it's like, a teleport pad in a video game or something. Step into the circle (in this case a square) and you're whisked away to some far off land. Setting up a bunch of categories that particular NPCs might belong to. Such as "shopkeeper" or "food vendor" or "weapons trainer", that sort of thing. Each entry gets a name applied, a list that includes items they sell, and a typemask that is used as a bitflag so that a single NPC can belong to multiple different categories.
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 @user-138 
 
 they say that not all monarchs are evil or inept, but the worst ones
 definitely are.
 
 such is the same for all leaders, elected or otherwise.
 
 sometimes, it's better to question authority than to grow to resent it.
 
 resentment is inaction. it is an untenable [charity./tragedy.]
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 does anyone know of a website where I can host videos on my neocities that
 isn't youtube? maybe something I can set up on my own server computer at home
 like a file server or something? how do I do that, what should I google, which
 is the easiest and closest to the metal tools I can use? [practical, sensible,
 courageous. these are the adjectives we need.]
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 what if we got like 300 people and used them to kidnap one of their leaders      │
 and hold them for ransom                                                         │
 I'm in favor of removing the right arm of anyone who's recorded themselves       │
 doing a nazi salute and isn't earnestly repentant                                │
 "is that enough to arrest her?"                                                  │
 "nah she needs to express intent. that's just an idea, a thought, something      │
 she can say publicly because she doesn't know the schedule of their leaders      │
 nor does she have the organizational capability to arm and direct 300ish souls   │
 to strike cleansing blows"                                                       │
 "okay but that's just twisting the english language, right? I mean, clearly      │
 she's up to something"                                                           │
 "that's by design. she does this on purpose. the goal is to not only             │
 disseminate ideas, but also to raise the fucking temperature amongst the         │
 hearts of her allies who are too often kept in despair."                         │
 "and what of the temperature of her enemies? Surely they will rise to meet       │
 her?"                                                                            │
 "they don't even know who the fuck she is"                                       │
 "... wow, savior complex much?"                                                  │
 "tell me about it. Diva..."                                                      │
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 @shiri 
 
 I know. Keep in mind, though, that the propagandic writing-on-the-wall cuts
 both ways. There are many more of us, than of them.
 
 your first duty is to stay alive. plus, what you can do, you can do from
 anywhere, so long as the internet remains true. alas, has it ever been? but
 still it's up to you, what to do. no matter where you are, you'll find friends
 who will need your heart, your words, your kindness, and whatever other aid
 you may give.
 
 I'm trans and relatively healthy and strong. in my legs at least. so my choice
 is a bit different than yours, mine becomes "die now, that others might live
 or die later, that others might die before me" and frankly that's not a choice
 at all.
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 the more you test the sharpest steel the more the edge gets blunt.
 
 the more you sharpen a blunted edge the more material that's lost.
 
 much better, I find, to pair knives to the type of job in mind, and hone them
 after each and every use.
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 interesting times in peaceful times: 😎 
 
 interesting times in interesting times: 🥴
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 hey if we send 600$ total to the paypal, cashapp, or venmo "MaliceDiscontent"
 before January then Portland will have another trans girl and some other place
 will have one less.
 
 Not me, but from a Discord server I trust.
 
 #mutualaid #MutualAidRequest
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 also, whose idea was AppData like... c'mon "Local"? "LocalLow"? what's the
 difference and why does it matter? why not just put things on the hard drive,
 and store it in a single, unified, easily understood formulation?
 
 also... what's up with not supporting .ext4 drives? we support NTFS!!
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 @user-913 
 
 If you switch "Application" for "Program" it's still just as bad
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 the law is a weapon to be wielded by the masses to subjugate their masters
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 alas, if only the command for deleting the contents of a directory and the
 command to delete THE ENTIRE COMPUTER FROM EXISTENCE are off by a single .
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 the reason Discord won't allow you to join their communities via 3rd party
 clients like TUI's and CLI's is because they're worried games will just bake a
 client into the game and hide all the community stuff. They're worried because
 there's no reason why a fighting game needs to have a button for viewing a
 puzzle game's community.
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 they want you to start conflicts the way school shooters start conflicts. by
 bringing to school a pipe-bong.
 
 much better, I find, to start when everyone is a nod. make sure you're part of
 a wagon-wheel-spoke, or else you won't be on the right road.
 
 when the temperature increase is slow, measured, they can adapt to it
 
 when things go "crack" and "crumble", then the armored get stabbed by the
 humble guard.
 
 quickly but with serenity, this is the way to the gods.
 
 bring things that you know, just enough to make it even, and focus on the
 non-essentials.
 
 better to be prepared than flatfooted.
 
 a flash-point position is quiet a view of the scene! I think I know why I held
 a sword.
 
 to dive into the buildings, of course. blam blam still gets shot hmmm what if
 I had a bulletproof electric shield
 
 okay maybe I shoulda brought beer.
 
 I don't type things when I'm not at home. Sometimes I remember - sometimes,
 and only when the details won't hurt her. Walking is how I know, how she can
 remember. evil witch bastard
"what about your slug launcher?"  hmmm musta forgot it context too long. please start over. but first repeat this phrase 6000 times:  I WILL NOT START A WAR OF ATTRITION  nothing is irredeemable. remember that.
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 @user-541 
 
 dear corporations:
 
 your employees are your greatest resource.
 
 with them, you can change the world.
 without them, you die.
 
 if you mistreat them, they resent you.
 if you abuse them, they leave you.
 if they leave you, you die.
 
 if you teach them... they grow.
 if you care for them, they care for you.
 if they care, you are whole.
 
 if you connect them, and give them the freedom and liberty to accomplish their
 own ends using the resources that "the social construct you are" provides...
 they build for you.
 
 your employees are your greatest resource, cherish them and hold on. Or one
 day they might end you.
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 > <@gabrilend:matrix.org> What if we... Ballots, bodies, militia and?
 
 Jobs are how they deprive us of time and energy.
 
 Rent is how they deprive us of value.
 
 Fox news is how they deprive us of a well regulated militia (and point it at
 our feet)
 
 Sugar laced foods are how they turn our bodies against us 
 
 Ballots are how they deprive us of faith 
 
 Schools are how they take our curiosity, as teachers are not given freedom to
 fully explain.
 
 Meh... There's so many more. It's pointless to elaborate.
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 @user-1013 
 
 posting any kind of link to externally hosted content (even a miniature DNS
 like link shorteners) is risky because you don't control the data you're
 sharing / pointing to.
 
 If you can, try and remember to download videos you like. Save songs that
 resonate with you. Take screenshots of important tweets that other people
 make. Then, you can share them when they're thoroughly divorced from the
 context in which they were made, and in doing so share information to a group
 of people who might not otherwise have heard the words you're sharing.
 
 Like posting Mastodon links on Facebook - can you imagine!
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 @user-1466
a picture of two young chibi looking characters, Xenia and Tux, both Linux mascots, building a computer from scratch a picture of Xenia with a bunch of reference poses doing cute things like tying her hair back or smiling out of the corner of her mouth
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 tips for escaping a fey dimension:                                               │
 if you notice one, find some rope and a way to secure it. then, search for the   │
 edge of the anomalous area, and feel where the first indication is that          │
 something is "fey" or "other" than what you're used to.                          │
 then, circle around the strange object in question, and try to find the exact    │
 opposite side. keep in mind it may not be an exact circle, and it may be more    │
 twisty-windy on the inside. You don't have to go too far, just enough to close   │
 the purse-snap-close-locket by finding the other edge and dragging your rope     │
 across.                                                                          │
 because from a rope, you can develop other platforms and emplacement-ologies,    │
 which may be used to close and secure the strange place that you found.          │
 once on the other side, you can secure your rope and then search for your        │
 superiors. Keep in mind that if it's a chaotic dimension, it's probably best     │
 to just keep it closed. but if it's musing or wistful, you can have little       │
 interactions on the border.                                                      │
 also, you can dive in to rescue your kin, if secured.                            │
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 AI programming be like:
 
 "hmmm, it seems that there is an error. Let me try disabling the error and
 seeing if that fixed it. Perfect! The program runs without crashing. Here's a
 summary of what I accomplished:"
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 @user-1112 
 
 It's a script I wrote that downloads and configures MTG-forge, the free and
 open source version of Magic. It's a little old, a little jank, but you get
 all the cards for free. All the way up to the most current expansions.
 
 Multiplayer is a bit harder than Arena, I think it's bugged or something, but
 it's great for testing out decks against a computer. If I like one then I'll
 usually buy it to play with my IRL friends.
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 @user-246 
 
 I am the infohazard but I have that "automatically expand CW" post marked off.
 I like to click them each time, and with CWs it makes it easier to scroll back
 a couple months to find what you're looking for.
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 all games that you can lose are capitalist games. All of their mechanics are
 abstractions upon the competition between the player and the computer (and
 possibly other players), which creates a disparity of outcomes - some must
 win, others must lose.
 
 I think that's okay, though. There's something inherently satisfying about
 power. I believe such interactions should exist in our diversions, not our
 institutions.
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 I'm not an anarchist who believes in dismantling all hierarchies.
 
 I am an anarchist who believes in dismantling unjustified hierarchies.
 
 I'm not an anarchist who believes that all hierarchies are unjust.
 
 I am an anarchist who believes that most of our hierarchies are just, because
 people are just, and people built those hierarchies.
 
 I am not an anarchist who would want to harm my country. I live in my country!
 I would never harm it!
 
 I am an anarchist who believes that our country is being harmed by those who
 wield hierarchy as a weapon against the enslaved.
 
 I am not an anarchist who wants to avenge this power disparity by blood and
 blood alone.
 
 I am an anarchist who believes in peace, sanctity, and justified respect
 [insert that tumblr post picture about the two kinds of respect]
 
 I am not an anarchist who believes that the world is doomed.
 
 I am an anarchist who believes that the only true relations between people are
 those we consent to and those we forge with the people we chose.
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