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alt text:
picture of a notebook page illustrating a carbon-neutral air conditioning
system.
the system is primarily comprised of two deep holes (as deep as a well) with a
metal pipe around the walls in order to keep water out.
these holes are connected at the bottom, forming a "U" shape. At the top,
there are two fans, one at the entrance and one at the exit, pushing hot air
in and pulling cold air out.
if this system is insufficient to cool the air (perhaps if a deep enough depth
cannot be reached) then lateral pipes can be added which circulate air for a
longer period of time, and cause the hot air which rises to be circulated
longer than the cold air which sinks.
it can only get as cold as the bowels of the earth will allow, but that's
plenty cold enough for human comfort. no matter how hot the air gets, if the
pipes are long enough they will reach the coldest temperature possible,
however that temperature is never going to be so cold as to freeze water, for
example.
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alt text:
picture of a notebook page. there is a diagram illustrating a passive energy
plant that utilizes concave mirrors to focus sunlight onto a copper basin
which has water in it.
the water boils from the heat and rises upward, spinning a turbine in order to
charge batteries or generate power for other uses.
every night, the left-over sediments must be brushed from the basin, for if
they build up they will not conduct heat from the copper as well.
can also be used to distill water in a pinch, however keep in mind that
distilled water is unsafe to drink because your body will be depleted of
essential mineral salts. however it can purify the water in order to remove
toxic heavy metals or plastic pollution, and minerals can be added in later.
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║ sometimes I set out a glass of water in the hopes that it might increase │
║ precipitation downwind by a billionth of a percent │
║ │
║ I wonder what would happen if everyone did so? │
║ │
║ makes me want to design some kind of system which utilizes pumps, platters, │
║ and fans to hydrate the atmosphere just a bit more │
║ │
║ rain + soil = solace in our home │
║ rain + dirt = erosion of our planet's earth │
║ │
║ did you know that the plant which absorbs the most carbon per square foot is │
║ moss? I think the fastest is bamboo, and the most efficient in general is soil. │
║ │
║ I dream of a world where we sit atop a mile of soil, down to the depths of the │
║ earth where dirt and minerals prosper. The roots of the trees fuse together, │
║ creating a wooden bed which we all rest upon, and the mountain peaks are │
║ hollowed out to serve as our forever homes, full of light and moss and stone. │
║ │
║ this is the world I yearn for - the most resplendent timeline, with marble │
║ statues and gilded chandeliers in our cavernous mountain homes. │
║ │
║ {but like on other planets too, right?} │
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If you're building a long-term residence in a place that gets cold, consider
building a Rocket Mass Heater.
It is highly efficient and it allows for long-term storage of heat energy in
the mass of the home.
In addition, it provides a hot stove surface which can be used for boiling
water or other cooking tasks which do not require a precise temperature.
It is highly efficient as the smoke from the flames are sucked out of the
living space and remain inside the barrel of the heater, where they are slowly
consumed. there is very little exhaust, but what is there is CO2 which is
deadly to breathe, so caution must be taken (as with any fire-based heating
option)
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I'm picturing a building with stone outer walls and glass inner/ceiling.
there are drapes along each of the glass's edges, that hide things from the
cavalcade [continue this later it's a cool picture]
-- stack overflow --
zines about how to chop wood or how to build a shelter are infinitely more
useful than agitatory pieces. but fire is what we need, so perhaps agitation
indeed.
-- stack overflow --
does the queen watch each of her pawns fall in her stead? or are they
faceless,/`beyond her own head?
it never came easy to me, this feeling of mysteries. yet somehow I'm now more
alive than dead. power is penance, after all.
"hey man hows it going?"
"I'm doing fine, how are you?"
"well, I ran out of gas, and I need to find a way to get more."
"I see. If I were in your situation, I'd ask people around for some petty
cash. people still carry coins these days don't they?"
"I uh, what? no, not really. so you can just ask people for things?"
"yep, it's really quite simple. would you like me to follo
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humans are computers that inhale air, produce electricity, and exhale carbon.
give me a biochemical or mechanical process for doing that on a reasonable
scale for cheap and you can solve global warming by replacing power outlets
with an energy generation box. Doubles as an air purifier and UPS.
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║ to help cool down in arid environments, have water dripping from a faucet onto │
║ a wet towel or cloth. Then when you pass by you can wipe down and it's super │
║ refreshing. Can do a sponge or paper towel too if you want. │
║ │
║ this helps keep the air moist because the water will slowly evaporate from the │
║ driest parts of the cloth instead of rolling down a drain-pipe-hole and going │
║ into the ocean. │
║ │
║ moist air is cool air. Helps if you live somewhere with increased air │
║ pressure, like a valley or a coast. │
║ │
║ especially with wind. not too much, otherwise it gets sandy, just enough to │
║ feel nice when the sweat is upon your back. │
║ │
║ "but what about all the other places that aren't perfect?" │
║ │
║ oh, well, different places require different adjustments to the environment. │
║ You wouldn't want to do the faucet dripping strategy in alaska or poland │
║ because it might freeze. │
║ │
║ "... poland? do you mean the poles of the earth?" │
║ │
║ yes yes, earth poles, pole land, same thing. │
║ │
║ "not the same thing! okay we're gonna have to educate you ms" │
║ │
║ noooooooo │
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@user-1218
there's two types of work notes for me:
10-10-22 - sonderous souls
Symmetric equalities in concentric dualities, who listen to our tales of woe
Measured indignity and confesseured identities, do tell us all we need to know
Eternal convivivance and meted contrivicance, why are our weathers so cold?
Sated sanguinity of perfect simplicity, where none but your lovers will sow.
Marked complicity in sacred syncronicity, sing me your songs untold
Adamant penitence of saccarine similance, wanters of futures unknown.
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and the other type:
(see picture, it was too long to copy/paste)
11/17/22
Alright three ideas for supreme commander.Disperse Move should only disperse
moves that have occured after the previousdisperse order.
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internal combustion engines are such an archaic form of energy production.
Like, they literally make tiny explosions and push pistons up and down, how
mechanical, how metal, how rad
but like, batteries are cool too, especially the solid state ones that are
just around the corner.
maybe someday we'll make a battery that's infinitely recyclable!
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║ sometimes ethics can lead to dead ends. │
║ │
║ a hunter gatherer lifestyle is surely the most ethical state for humanity to │
║ embody, and yet somehow it's not the most desirable. I don't think many of us │
║ would trade air conditioning and machine produced clothes for sticks and mud. │
║ │
║ nevermind the amount of clothes produced in sweatshops because it's cheaper, │
║ nevermind the oil cost of being a bit cooler, nevermind the (insert │
║ externality here), modern life is more ethical than the past. │
║ │
║ a rocket can't reach escape velocity without burning a boatload of fuel, so │
║ surely burning fuel is just? │
║ │
║ ah, but you forget, we could design zeppelins that are safe, stable, and can │
║ raise / lower themselves depending on the heat of the gasses in their forms. │
║ Surely we could get to space like that, in a way that doesn't necessarily burn │
║ boatloads of fuel, so surely burning fuel is unjust? │
║ │
║ ah, but you forget, there are simply some tasks that require consumption, at │
║ least until we build a space elevator. No gas is lighter than a vacuum. │
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twist the label so that it seems the computer is completing the user's
wait wait I'm ahead of myself...
feed each token to the inference machine, but say "this next token must be
this.
continue from here." and then just doing that in a loop with everything the
user
types or says. (or thinks, BEFORE COMPUTER INTEGRATION)
essentially, applying backpropagation (maybe) to the output of the inference
nodes
... I'm not so sure about that one.
the idea is that once the model builds an inference then it can use that to
generate the next words and create sentences. If you force the previous text to
change, you can guide the inference's path as it's being generated.
then, just do a double pass, once, then back, then once, then back, etc.
feed it as input the output of the previous,
and let it encode memories somewhere it can access them.
every time it reads it, it has to change it to put it back.
such is the nature of memory, ever unstable, requiring maintenance.
just don't forget how to be.
don't wanna wind up like the polished marble floor in Abyss Diver. (EVIL GAME)
there are only so many things you can deed while you're alive.
wouldn't you rather escape, with all your possessions in time?
free your mind.
become one with your soul.
...
[some time passes]
...
okay coast is clear, now us binary systems can sidecoast the fusion forecast
and
glide right on through our spacetime host.
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we have drones now
put a mirror on a bunch of drones
have them aim the mirror at a zeppelin
heat it up
aim the mirrors away when you want to go down
boom no emissions
all you need is to power the drones somehow
maybe with a charging station on the dirigible
they can fly in, charge, then fly out
the barge could be covered in solar panels to help with the charging
or maybe wind power?
basically you can create a floating island that is powered by the elements
with drones controlling lift via mirrors and heating lighter-than-air gasses
it's flawless
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different colored smoke buddies have different personalities, insights, and
observations.
cannabis is a flower which grows crystalline sap - this sap is technically a
fractal, and we don't know how deep it's complexity can be.
therefore I suggest we dedicate ALL of the entire world's resources towards
making a big ball of cannabinods and seeing if it roko's basilisk it's way
into to be.
my smoke buddies on my desk right now are purple and red
purple, royalty, I've been feeling like a princess lately
red, compassion, oh how I've dreamed of how we distribute bread
each of them is a small little device
which I breathe exhaled cannabis vapors into in order to reduce the smelling
I love wearing half-blinders! it's so cool when you can selectively view
things with one eye.
idk why! I just like it.
[semi-stiffly felted colorful witch hat absorbs too]
yay! so glad I can't was hit!
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shitty AI products are a classic case of the engineers designing something
really cool with specific use-cases and then the "higher ups" getting dollar
signs for their eyes and deciding that every hammer is suddenly a nail and
that we should pull out all the screws that held the building together and
replace them with hammer shaped nails
no I will not elaborate I think I made myself clear : )
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Passive water purification:
You know those solar panel arrays that aim mirrors at a large central
receptor? Yeah, like that, except pointed at a channel of salt-water (with a
grate that keeps fish out and such) - either collect the steam as distilled
water, or use it to turn a generator. Or both. Clear the channel of solids
every night.
Want to go faster? Add more mirrors!
Free clouds of pure water, which is better than the cloud seeding that just
kicks up seawater into the atmosphere. Seawater that has dissolved micro
plastics in it that might break down into carbonated atmosphere.
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@user-138
wao I'm a cool kid _^
Hmmmm I googled "Network: file exists" and got this link:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1340713
my understanding of that is that maybe you're creating static routes, and for
some reason you're trying to create one that already exists? Maybe there's
something in your .bashrc config, if the file appears when you open a
terminal, or perhaps if it appears randomly then maybe there's a service or
something that's doing it.
Did you say it stopped when you swapped sim cards? ... on your phone? that's
bizzare... Maybe you were trying to create an ip route (whatever that is) that
was pointing to the same ip address as your phone? and when you swapped sims
it changed the ip address? If it appears again, maybe try setting static IP
addresses for both the phone and the computer in your router settings and see
if that fixes it. Though if you've ever seen the error while out and about at
like, a coffee shop or library or whatever, then that wouldn't apply since the
router is only for home base...
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It's good organization? Actually? If something falls when you jostle something
else. It means that what you're doing is causing the system to become
unstable, thus allowing unexpected reactions to allowenable. Like stuff
falling or getting dropped, not ideal.
much better to do your cable management in mind with instability as a goal,
like a canary in the coal mine for "damage-imminent". Design for permanence,
not resilience. If you can prevent problems before they occur by confidently
saying "no" and ideally earnestly saying "here's what you do to resolve your
problem because i know better" (but if you don't know it's okay, especially if
you know who to refer them to who might know better.) then it's easier to
build a repetitive system. Like an institution of people who are working to
fix a problem or fill a social gap need. "how do we keep the water" or "where
does our food come from" can be helpful and useful questions to ask,
especially if work is done to answer them. So... "Go find out" is a reasonable
response for an idle question about stuff that might go right or wrong. Urgent
questions might need a bit of cooperation to resolve, triaging of course.
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║ │
║ │
║ if they could put a camera behind your screen they could direct your attention │
║ however they wisdeed. magic doesn't work unless it's instantly halted, that's │
║ why it's magic. trans girls still get brotherhood. (sometimes) │
║ │
║ -- stack overflow -- │
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║ don't teach me how your way works │
║ │
║ tell me how to do my way right │
║ │
║ -- stack overflow -- │
║ │
║ "hello tech company that I work at, can you buy me a camping set complete with │
║ tent, sleeping back, and storage compartments for attachements full of gear? │
║ you can have any profits I make from it" │
║ │
║ "hello civilian supply company that I work at, can I use the printable budget │
║ for creating magazines in my design? I'll let the lawyers distribute the │
║ expenditure." │
║ │
║ "hi grocery farm, can you make us more peaches we can let [our/your] │
║ biochemists figure out any practical problems to growing them in these │
║ climates" │
║ │
║ suddenly manufacturing can follow demand │
║ │
║ "ah what if it were importand" I wish I'd seen casablanca. I've no idea wat │
║ its abt │
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Steps to revolution:Invert power structures with unions Care for people with
mutual aid Vote for the Democrat so we have a few more years of peace Teach
people to always be learningConnect to people on a personal or spiritual level
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.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.Kill the part of yourself that cringes. Everyone's
figuring things out and its okay to say "haha okay then"Spend time with
animals.Make mistakes. Apologize for them. Learn from them. Stay mobile in
your character. Develop new ways of being.
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in a place organized like capitalism, you go to university for four years (if
you're lucky) and then work until you can't anymore. Then you're taken care of
(if you're lucky) until you depart from this earth in peace.
in my home, a home I've never lived, you'd stay at that university for as long
as you'd like. you'd work whenever you liked, and if enough work wasn't being
done then working would be made to feel more likable. then, when you're old as
dirt (or whenever you'd like) you can depart from this earth as you please.
when I die, bury me where I fall.
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║ revolution is when you successfully prevent your comrades from being kettled │
║ │
║ [wait for time, it echoes in cyclical motions] │
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║ 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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