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 I had some difficulties this morning, but I spent some time with an elderly
 lady and had a drink or two with a good friend. Then we went back to my place
 and discussed governance over a joint's worth of vaporized cannabis.
 
 overall I think I learned a lot, and I am looking forward to tomorrow and all
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 I spent about two hours today (and a good chunk of tomorrow's stamina) chasing
 a rabbit through a field. Can't help but wonder if that particular lead wasn't
 as important as leading from the front. Ah, well, we'll see.
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--- #2 messages/527 ---
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 could give us some experience organizing small, short-term projects to
 accomplish specific goals and tasks in an ad-hoc way that relied less upon
 procedure and more on "I think so-and-so knows something about that, they were
 looking into those files and posted a breakdown of how they work yesterday"
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--- #3 fediverse/537 ---
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 @user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353 
 
 Ah yes, wouldn't it be nice if everyone spoke their mind? I'm doing my part
 d=(^_^)z
 
 Thank you for adding context to what I posted. I now know better how and where
 to use it, if I ever do again. We shall see, I haven't yet read the
 examinations of the author you sent me. I'll do that before I think about the
 post again.
 
 Those 6 tabs I mentioned last night have now become 4, and soon I'll get
 through all of them - reading is a joy to me ^_^
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--- #4 fediverse/1328 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 I read your essay on chapter 5! I liked your words. I had different thoughts
 watching it (probably because of the cannabis teehee) so it was interesting to
 hear your perspective. I want to watch it again so I can remember what I want
 to tell you about it! Ahhhhh maybe tomorrow I'll read chapter 6's essay. I
 gotta download those soon so I can show my IRL friends.
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 I was going to go to location today, but then while I was considering going to
 a different location before going to location I decided not to vacate my home
 for today for reasons I don't understand but accept as natural and due to the
 increased presence of directionless motion that guides and prevails me. which
 is to say... I'm staying in tonight even though I really really wanna show off
 my cute new outfit! I probably will do cannabis so there might be a
 psycherwaul. If there isn't, then y'know it's probably because either my
 girlfriend distracted me, or I managed to convince myself to move my feet
 anyway. Maybe it's my outfit? I wonder if I could leave if I wore my old
 clothes... ah well, questions for the vocal I guess. Gonna spend some time
 divining and see if I can gather new insights. "brb door" except more like
 "brb magic"
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 I want everyone to be able to do what they want. With oversight, sometimes,
 because we all share things and we can't agree if we don't share. and I agree
 to share, I think it's only fair.
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 I spent most of today asleep. I guess that's what I get for chatting all night
 with a stranger. gonna putz around a bit, should be nice.
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--- #8 fediverse/2123 ---
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 Every time you see the same dog being dog-sat by another person it's an
 opportunity to make a new friend.
 
 or do you not know your apartment neighbors? do they not wander through your
 shared yards?
 
 the ones with dogs, at least.
 
 and no, I don't know many of my neighbors.
 
 these are considerations to be taken note of for future forethought planning.
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 it's usually good to have some beer on hand. Just in case someone else should
 need it.
 
 Same with a lot of things, like common medicines and dietary requirements.
 Frankly each of us should have a well-stocked pantry, tended to by a
 quartermaster who knew what held worth. But hey that's just team dynamics,
 what can I say that's with more mirth?
 
 [okay fine I'll be sillier, I promise]
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 @user-428 
 
 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
 that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
 could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
 drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
 
 something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
 image that could be edited.
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 for every "I was there. I helped make it happen" we need at least a couple "I
 was there. I saw the whole thing go down"s because like, nobody's gonna
 believe a belligerent, even if they're on the defensive.
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--- #12 fediverse_boost/5470 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  I like to leave notes on stuff I've modified so that I and any future owner (after i die or need to sell stuff to survive or whatever) can figure out what I've done, since more documentation might have vanished by the time it's needed  
  
                                                            
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 @user-1037 
 
 oooo those are cool, but it didn't have the "puzzlepiece" arrangement. It was
 more... 2 dimensional I think? More like putting marbles on a chinese-checkers
 board. And they had relationships if you moused over them, like...
 semi-transparent arrows connecting them I think? It was different than
 anything I'd ever seen before.
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 does anyone know of any fedi software that lets you link to a particular post
 and read forward on a person's timeline from there? Or back I guess, but
 chronological viewing specifically.
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 @user-1074 
 
 if I wanted to accomplish this goal, I would host a fediverse server on a
 raspberry pi and post the link around the building (the owners will remove it
 so you gotta keep posting them)
 
 then, potlucks.
 
 then, friendships.
 
 then, organization.
 
 be patient with them. people are slow to be constructive.
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 Gee I sure wish my country didn't hold the decisionmaking capability from me
 by gatekeeping it behind elections and polling. Sure wish our media wasn't so
 involved in decisionmaking - isn't it something we should talk about amongst
 ourselves? To find out how we feel, and really explore our feelings around a
 topic before expressing ourselves. Ideally more often than twice a year,
 perhaps whenever we want?
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 "yay! now that the war is won, we can go back to being moderate!"
 
 not ideal.
 
 did you forget to be for something when you set yourself against your foe?
 
 (if my girlfriend reads this: I'm not referring to the conversation we had
 about that one thing, but I have been thinking)
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 I think it's ironic how I ended up posting a "things I almost posted"
 screenshot directory somewhere other than where I almost posted them.
 
 and all they saw were the outtakes.
 
 I bet they'd see a completely different point of me,
 
 but they never talk to me
 
 so they don't know me.
 
 oh well, alas, it's fine I'm sure I'm being designed.
 
 who can say, I am but at productive play, please react so I can do ongoing
 story. I learn from each and every encounter I encounterate.
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 "of course, I'm on lots of places on the internet. I know my way around the
 territory. I can show you a bit, if you dare, so come on this journey as I
 share."some person, some-when, in the future looking at our storied and
 ancient past
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 Oh, I guess I should clarify something I said like, a year ago - when I said I
 "talked to / worked with" so-and-so, I meant that I created in tandem with a
 friend a proposition of sorts, and we tried to psychically beam it into their
 minds. That's not exactly how it went down, but it gives you a good enough
 picture of the goals we had with our ritual. I have no idea if they heard, but
 I did happen to see several of them later on, which felt a little too
 serendipitous to just be chance. so I'm thinking they did. I hope they got the
 message and used it as they please, because it was mutually beneficial even if
 neither of us had any actual impact on it. If you didn't hear the whole story,
 then it's hardly a lie to possess incomplete information! So long as you don't
 lie about me, and what I said or did, then it'll surely be fine. There's no
 need to embellish when it's plainly apparent.
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 wao this is great I love being high why don't I do this more often?
 
 [oops cannabis-mentioned one sec]
 
 "BECAUSE YOU ALTER THE FABRIC OF REALITY WITH IT??"
 
 oh yeah that'd do it
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--- #22 fediverse/2059 ---
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 @user-1071 
 
 what working too slow for your ideas mean that your ideas, which you'll never
 again have twice, are lost forever.
 
 Good thing we're always innovative. Good thing life always moves on. Tomorrow
 is a new chance for utilization, and for our own ends we'll build the next
 dawn.
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 I left for beer.
 
 I returned with a 6 pack.
 
 I entered my home with a 4 pack, because I left 2 beers on the porches of
 people that I know and trust and want to provide a better experience of life
 toward.
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 According to a sign that I passed just four days ago, I have one day left.
 Whatever that means.
 
 so next week better be good.
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--- #25 fediverse/4427 ---
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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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--- #26 messages/498 ---
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 An important aspect to friendship is "loose" time together - like, at a party,
 you might interact with a dozen people, or you might spend it all with one
 special someone - but the time is "loose" you can do with it what you will.
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 I love dispatch tables! which is a term I just learned and a concept I have
 been using for a while.
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 @user-1218 
 
 I like to have notes for things I found that will be useful someday, but not
 today. I also throw in poetry that I write while I'm waiting for something to
 happen (or if I have an idea that I know I'll forget)
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--- #29 fediverse/112 ---
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 I live through the moments where I find a folder of stuff I made that I forgot
 about and I can go back and see it for the first time.
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 if you sit down to write and nothing comes to mind, then either nothing needs
 to be said or maybe you should spend time reading instead.
 
 ... okey dokey, time to read I guess.
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 some people prepare for revolution like a boy gets ready for a party
 
 others do so like a girl packing for a weekend trip to vegas
 
 I do it like a kid who forgot the paper was due on monday in 7th period and so
 spends their entire lunch period writing it (missing 4th in the process
 because the conclusion paragraph was giving me difficulty)
 
 but I think no matter how you do it, we're all just waiting for something to
 happen.
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 @user-641 
 
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
 just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
 reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
 email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
 neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
 a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
 computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
 predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
 we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
 how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
 think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
 much.
 
 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
 little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very much.  *... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~*
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 it's good to be ethical,
 it's good to be kind,
 
 but there will always be assholes,
 and sometimes you're not having a good time
 
 it's okay
 it's fine
 
 assholes deserve life
 times deserve others to be kind
 
 life is not always interesting
 and that's often by design
 
 the moments of clarity,
 the moments of heart,
 
 these are what define you
 and display your own spark.
 
 trust in yourself.
 be kind to one another.
 
 you are braver than you know,
 and always a bit wiser.
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--- #34 fediverse/1263 ---
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 My friends and I decided to hang out for two days in a row, I guess they
 aren't tired of me yet hehe - I might be around tonight but I'll let you know!
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 my cat doesn't know that my family is my family. She thinks they're just some
 other people who visit the house.
 
 but they're special to me, as all people are, and I think she takes notice.
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 sometimes I decide against playing a Steam game because I don't want it to
 jump to the top of my "recently played" list
 
 Wish I could have like, a heatmap of when I played which game. I think that'd
 be useful for the archival process of my life.
 
 ... how pathetic, she measures her life in gameplay.
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--- #37 fediverse/718 ---
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 @user-547 
 
 That feeling when you get to the end of a paragraph and think "why do I have
 this extra parenthesis )? Oh yeah I opened it up waaaaay up here" and then you
 reread what you wrote and think
 
 perfect, no notes
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 @user-1218 
 
 shallow conversations are hardly effective, I find. Unless they're logistical,
 and then they're just passing information - they're hardly conversational.
 
 To me, a conversation is a back-and-forth. It needs to have change, people
 need to consider, to argue their ideas, to wander through thoughts, to share
 emotions, and / or to resolve conflict, whether internal or external. It can
 have some of those, all of those, or none of those, but that's what comes to
 my mind.
 
 So a shallow conversation wouldn't really count as "effective" for the
 purposes of the original toot : )
 
 ... hehe toot
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 I love Linux. All I have to do is type "authserver" and "worldserver" and
 wouldn't you know it suddenly a universe is created (with very constrained
 rules) that anyone might inhabit should they desire to. It's not like I'm
 perfect - oh wait I have a toot about that, gimme a sec
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 @user-620 
 
 "hey I have an idea let's poke a wounded animal with sharp teeth until it
 feels like it's backed into a corner because it's been spending the past
 couple years ruminating and telling itself that we want to kill it and it's
 children"
 
 it doesn't matter what the truth is - they believe what they want.
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 I had a job lined up, but with great personal change came great societal
 change. And I got swept up. Now here I am, somehow finding myself blown on the
 winds of fate to stand atop a mountain and survey the lands below.
 
 I see the path to our bright future, and it is wide enough for us all to walk.
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 cops thought "enforcing the law" was their job when really it was "keeping the
 peace"
 
 and like, yeah, sure, laws define how they optimize for
 
 but sometimes the laws are just out of reach.
 
 (though such an impartialized system is also pretty flawed in it's own unique
 ways, like for example the enforcers of the law would be able to apply their
 law selectively, which... would not be great.)
 
 downside is... how do you dissent to those who cannot hear you? you have to
 break things
 
 which is why I believe that breaking things unnecessarily is unethical.
 
 sometimes you have to do a MORE unethical act in the pursuit of your goals,
 however nefarious or not they may be, but as long as they are done in pursuit
 of a greater grander truth, then... the ends justify the means? right?"
 
 ...
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 @user-1268 
 
 I often walk to the grocery store, even though it's on the other side of the
 highway
 
 also I will walk sometimes to meet people nearby
 
 it's a fun occasion
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 I like that article. I definitely fail to follow some of those principles at
 times, though never all of them at once. I can be better, as all people can.
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 I want the political right to exist, because otherwise there'd be nothing to
 talk about a couple beers in and with no real stakes except a good time with
 your friend who you disagree with
 
 I want the political right to exist, because, y'know, life liberty and justice
 for all and all that
 
 both of those are "left of center" takes and I've definitely held both at
 different parts of my life
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 @user-883 
 
 I'm working on installing rtsp rn. I read through the script and checked all
 the flags in the ffmpeg command and they seem alright! Gotta read about rtsp
 though, we'll see how long it takes. When it's set up will you help me test
 it? : )
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 it should be free to get a hotel room
 
 all industries should have a littleleague, or else it'll be impossible to
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 @user-515 
 
 SO MANY.
 
 But I learned a few more lessons than that.
 
 So... It worked out for the better, I think.
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 most people have no idea what's going on in politics. Absolutely no
 conception. It's all just "good/bad thing happened today, here's how the
 pundits feel about it" it's literally scenery to them.
 
 why would they care? nothing changes for them.
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 I wish I had a project manager who managed me and like 4 other me's to work on
 our own individual projects without me needing to know about or work with the
 other me's
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 in the past, for most of there day, there was just... nothing to do. it's        │
 like, nothing to take up your time, nothing to be pulled toward the present.     │
 but when I was growing up, I had access to video games. and movies. and later,   │
 TV, after the internet, which was a weird combination of ordering of events.     │
 Almost like because of that, I'd have a different interpretation of events.      │
 yeah but like, there's always a continuation of implemented support, [that's a   │
 weird way to express "the state of being shown news broadcasts over a period     │
 of time, measured in terms of engagement"]                                       │
 ... what was I saying? oh yeah what I'm doing here is unethical, like            │
 obviously I shouldn't be shouting in such a public place. Why would I do it if   │
 not for an intense and extreme feeling of being ignored or un-[trusted, worthy   │
 of guiding direction based on merit] gosh merit is such a tricky concept too,    │
 like how is it measured, and {that doesn't matter                                │
 ... what was I saying oh yeah I should probably go shout into a void that        │
 nobody ca                                                                        │
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 @user-883 
 
 hey sorry for ditching you yesterday, hope you had a good night ^_^
 
 I feel much better today.
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 lol I spent half an hour holding a trowel and then I designed a new type of
 digging instrument
 
 and they want me to work a job /eyeroll
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 I feel like it should be up to the community, to decide if you want to allow
 pot or marijuana. Not the government, but the people who are present around it.
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 @user-1203 
 
 It's worked well enough for several hundred years, but now that it's crumbling
 I think we can see that the foundation was cracked. The founding fathers owned
 slaves! Everyone did! And yeah, we've updated our views a bit, but... did we
 really?
 
 I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
 
 A shaky foundation's no good. The entire structure needs to be torn down and
 built up again, deciding with intention which pieces we should bear forth from
 the past, and which were just not made to last.
 
 From those pieces, we might forge new documented standard understandings,
 regulations which define our societal proceedings. A contract, between a
 consenting person and the state's protected institutions.
 
 But that's for tomorrow, or the next day, or perhaps another day still. Today
 we are busy, as revolutions are quite a big thrill.
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 @user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353 
 
 My classes only briefly touched on 2nd wave feminism, because apparently 1st
 and 3rd were more important. I haven't gone back and re-examined it because
 I'm too busy learning about computers - alas! that there should be more hours
 in the day? I wonder what I would then be able to say, here in this moment,
 should I have been prepared with more moments in solitude or classroom,
 studying the work of those who came before me.
 
 Oh well, I should probably focus on processor architecture or Java frameworks
 or whatever I'm assigned next.
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 when I am learning something, I ask all the questions I can. Then, when I run
 out of questions, I apply myself using what I knew toward the discipline.
 Then, when I thought of more questions, I asked them. In this way I sought to
 perfect my knowledge and understanding - but, when pressed for time, what I
 came to learn true was the truth. I realized that some information isn't
 necessary to know, due in part to your inability to presently put it into a
 context. So, some things are forgotten, until you at last once again came to a
 new [you/on, but pronounced "yew-on"] that required new uses from it's host.
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 "back in my day this dense urban housing area was just houses as far as the
 eye could see... which wasn't far because there were houses in the way, but
 you get the idea."
 
 uhhuh yeah that sounds like it would have taken a lot of time to walk anywhere
 
 "yes that's true! we ended up driving cars to do our grocery trips. It was a
 little wasteful but I kinda liked the feeling of driving a car? It became
 normal after a while but now that driving is rarer I still miss it."
 
 well the motion simulators at the mall have a driving sim, we could spend some
 time there if you want? I'm busy for the next week because I have an intensive
 D&D session in the mountain that lasts from monday to wednesday and
 thursday through friday I'm visiting my mom down in skoodedlypawsonville, and
 saturday and sunday I'm working at my job which doesn't pay me because why
 would it, right? but I'm free after that.
"the simulators are quite fun... Much better than the real thing because you get all the inertia and none of the danger. Plus machine guns and blue shells, those are pretty neat."
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 kinda tempted to make like, 20 different accounts on like, 20 different
 mastodon instances and just have them repost all of the things I've written in
 the past one-by-one-by-one until someone notices and calls me out on it
 
 might get some more conversation, at least
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 whose idea was it to optimize our candy toward the ones with the most sugar?
 
 [wait a minute I got like 4 toots written but not posted, what the heck where
 did they come from? I'm gonna post them without reading them]
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 functions should be forced to describe the context of why they were being
 called. I think it would help debug a lot if we supplied a reasoning for each
 and every request [function call] that we made. We might even be able to parse
 them into semantic pyramids which we could sorta use to estimate [tree-like
 scanning] how and why the program did do wrong.
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 a 4th dimensional entity would exist at about the same speed we do
 
 sometimes... it feels like what I do is my responsibility to the universe
 
 like, I had been commanded 
 
 the reason nations are important is because they are an allegiance based
 solely on geography. something we can all agree on is the material, so why not
 define ourselves by it?
 
 but that's all they are
 
 just words we pray to our star
 
 so look around. Your allegiance is to your neighbor, and theirs to theirs, an
 endless fabric of trust. We are all neighbors on this ball of sticks and mud,
 so come along with me and see the ways it could be.
 
 Much brighter, by far, to orbit our star, than to give up on life's precious
 notions.
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 @user-95 one of the most empathetic people I ever met on VR chat was consoling
 me with their mic off while I was oversharing about some stupid things people
 did to me in the past. things that stupid me thought were okay and actively
 encouraged because I was stupid. anyway when their mic was off their body
 language spoke for them. I'll try that next time.
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  Everyone needs to learn the difference between going through something with someone, and someone putting you through something.  
  
                                                            
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 I'm making progress, I can feel it in my bones.
 
 maybe we're just ALL making progress, which is why it feels like I'm moving
 forward.
 
 in any case, I look forward to the future we have a say in, when all things
 are more impactful due to our hearts.
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 If a kid wanted to drink alcohol all they'd have to do is walk into a liquor
 store and grab the first bottle they saw. Then book it. Their feet would carry
 them away faster than your call to 911 to report a shoplift, away to a future
 of sorrow. Should we seek to restrain them? Or should we make a world they do
 not desire to escape?
 
 Trick question, the structure of society cannot prevent non-compliance. It
 should not, for if it shall then it becomes ossified, and thus it cracks and
 it crumbles.
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 if the good guys always win, the bad will slink into the shadows and do
 dastardly deeds out of sight.
 
 if the bad guys always win, the spark of goodness will wink out.
 
 I think I'd prefer if they were cowering in our wake.
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 how it started: "I want to get stoned and play mechabellum (shit, drugs
 mentioned (shit, cursing mentioned))
 
 how it's going: [see attached picture]
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 people can't compel you to give gifts, that's why they're gifts. which is why
 a gift economy can't be all, because sometimes you need something now.
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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 these are the plans you should be making as you sit around a table discussing
 what you want the future to look like.
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 oh btw to the people trying to doxx me there's a picture of me in this
 profile, but you'll have to read a LOT to find it. On the way, see if you pick
 up anything interesting that you agree with. maybe you'll realize that we're
 on the same team, and should be working together.
 
 that's the dream, at least.
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 @user-138 
 
 Oh! It's sunday! thanks for the reminder, today's my HRT shot day.
 
 this week has kind of been a fugue state for me haha been busy doing things of
 little importance.
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 The following is my best attempt to describe the process through which our
 lives intersect reality. It is easiest to explain if you understand how it
 feels to be stoned - to consume the de-oxy-carbo-lated cannibanoids present in
 the marijuana plant - ideally with edibles, as they take effect slower.
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 @user-246 
 
 If I didn't stop searching for a place with people like me, I'd be searching
 until the day I die. And besides, I wouldn't want to be in a place like that
 anyway. I am defined by my contrasts.
 
 ... I'm thinking back to my memories of when I arrived here. It was a much
 different place, and I was... a little too loud, I think.
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 @user-186 oh great, another video I'm going to have to show to all of my
 friends because it's so good.
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 left unity is easy.
 
 just remember: a burden taken from your back is more time, energy, and focus
 to apply to what you're best at.
 
 and sometimes, having more than one option for accomplishing a goal is good -
 versatility is important. Expect unexpectedness, and understand that no matter
 what approach you take, it will have weaknesses, and if those weaknesses are
 countered by your foe then you'll be glad to have a backup.
 
 at the end of the day, what matters is that everyone's fed.
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 listen, judges are useful character moralities, but they don't have to be the
 only ones to decide things.
 
 I mean, if they disagree, then let the one who cares the most about it have
 the decision-making power.
 
 if you do this equally for everything, then everyone will get what they want.
 
 so, like, if you care about something, then believe in it.
 
 if it's truly good, then more people will come to it, and it'll naturally
 extinguish (with care and love) the least favored approach, which... honestly
 now that I think of it is not such a good approach either.
 
 the reason I say that is because it's good to be multi-faceted, and to have
 general flows and rough surfaces.
 
 These are places people can hold onto you, the times when you're trying your
 mostest.
 
 y'know, your tough patches. the things that are difficult in your life.
 
 the stuff you're working on can push you forward,
 
 if you only had someone to play catch with.
 
 or like, send letters to.
 
 or shared encryption keys.
 
 I don't know anyone. Well, maybe o
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 one of the greatest gifts LSD gave me was the ability to look in the mirror
 and see a person beyond me.
 
 your reflection has all the same emotions as you, and if you look at them like
 you'd try to parse the feelings of a friend, you can learn a bit more about
 how you're thinking.
 
 ... procrastination >.>
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 I'm proud of my parent's generation for having a good lifetime. The end is
 getting a little weird, but we're working on it. It'll get better soon.
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 gee I sure wish my morals reflected the ethics of my society. it really would    │
 be nice is they didn't include so many shitty things like oppressing people      │
 abroad or being super-duper racist for an embarrassing amount of time. But,      │
 like, freedom, liberty, and the justice to hope? true justice is when everyone   │
 gets what they want. true liberty is when we can live as we want with the        │
 magnitude of the result of our lives determined by how hard we worked.           │
 truly, the hardworking slave should be better off than the rich wanderer. But    │
 alas, that's not how it's currently set up. >.>                                  │
 though it is kinda nice to own things too, so maybe the other extreme is a       │
 little extreme. I sure like having my favorite spork.                            │
 back in the old days, in the buildings they've since demolished (to put          │
 skyscrapers there - the "old-timey" buildings in your neighborhood are there     │
 because they're in the least commercially viable position - meaning the lowest   │
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 Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
 you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
 may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
 ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
 mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
 collective mind co-re-assigns.
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 @user-1153 
 
 it's okay. If I were to direct something to be more proactive, my words
 probably wouldn't stick with it. that kind of thing can't be hardwired, it
 needs to be built up through repetitious application of something's mechanics.
 
 perhaps martial arts, focused on defence? engaging with a foe in a productive
 bout of playful competition is one of the best ways to learn, and knowing when
 to strike seems similar to me to overcoming situational paralysis.
 
 Flaws can be overcome, when upgrading robots (or a doll applying improvements
 to itself) you often don't need to add additional hardware or even install new
 firmware. Skills such as these can be built up in software with experience.
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 Some of my most wanderful times were when I lived in a gated community.          │
 My parents were dumb, and thought, as most people thought, that harm to a        │
 child can only come from outside of the community.                               │
 But they fell for the lies of property, where "community" means less of "a       │
 group of people who cares and tends for one another" the kind of which my        │
 parents had never truly known, and more like "this particular residential area   │
 on the map"                                                                      │
 which means I could walk around in this gated "community" where the gates are    │
 little more than security theatre for anyone who says "Hi I got a pizza here     │
 for this address which I found on google maps" or "hey I left my sweatshirt at   │
 my sister's house and it has my phone in it, ummmm no I don't remember which     │
 number her house is, nor do I remember her last name"                            │
 in those times, I developed a sense of freedom, caged as I was, that for most    │
 comes much later in their time.                                                  │
 Some o my favorite places were part of the golf course next door, where I        │
 found a nigh endless river delta.                                                │
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 I love when I can go on walks... they're soooooo much fun! can see so many
 cool people and places and things... alas
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 @user-753 
 
 the more people we have thinking about what to do next, the more perspectives
 we can have on the problem. Sometimes really difficult or important things
 (like how to get to the next stages of political liberation) can benefit from
 a multitude of voices, but once consistency is achieved they can apply
 themselves with a single voice.
 
 community is how we communicate. Communication is good, I think. Can't help
 but wonder if we're all here because we share an interest in
 open-source-so-actually-usable communication methods.
 
 community isn't everything, but it's something, and everything's useful.
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 in other news, I spent ~9 hours yesterday working on a dumb project that I'll
 probably tell you about once it's finished, and then a BASH script that my
 friend and I wrote just deleted every single file because I failed to
 terminate a sed command. Or something, still not entirely sure what happened,
 because it deleted the script that was doing the deleting.
 
 good thing I have backups from ~3 hours ago. Feels great to lose 33% of a
 project for nothing.
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 nixed my job offer today because something told me to stay in town.
 
 called my ex-boyfriend an asshole today, so he's probably not going to keep
 paying my rent.
 
 sold the shares of stock that my grandfather gifted me as inheritance, so I'm
 no longer a capitalist I guess.
 
 at least my elbow doesn't hurt anymore. I didn't get outside today but I
 cleared a lot of blockers for the coming tomorrows.
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 to be "rich" is to have more than another.
 
 if you are happy, they are happiness poor.
 if you have community, they are alone.
 if you have serenity, they are chaotic.
 
 I am rich in very little but fire in my soul.
 
 I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent.
 
 I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes
 me and keeps me aligned.
 
 Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as
 you do so too.
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 I made some cool things yesterday, including some Magic the Gathering decks
 which I'd love to try out against someone someday. Playing against the AI is
 kinda boring because it always makes the same mistakes haha
 
 anyway here's the card-lists, and some things that I wrote while I was
 distracted
 
 I always try and keep my decks under 40$ - the decks I have IRL had a limit of
 30$, but that was back before 30$
a picture of a magic-the-gathering deck A picture of a Magic the Gathering deck A picture of a Magic the Gathering deck a bunch of un-posted fediverse messages
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 @user-68 I think America is diverse enough that multiple people might have
 differing views about... "checks notes" oh wait this has been thoroughly
 proven time and time again, there should be no reason why people aren't
 prioritizing this above their freedumb. Hmmmmmm I bet someone's telling them
 how to feel about it. Perhaps someone who would stand to gain from misleading
 large swathes of our population. HMMMM WHO COULD THAT BE SURELY NOT THE PEOPLE
 IN POWER WHO CONTROL EVERYTHING AND KEEP US ENSLAVED. Surely not them, it must
 be the gays.
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 daydreaming about a gang of tough guys who goes around knocking down the
 internal fence walls in suburbia and throwing potlucks for all the neighbors
 for a month or two so they have social opportunities to meet each other and
 make friends
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  We have to figure out how to take care of each other and fight alongside one another which means we have to actually, like, listen to each other.  
  
                                                            
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 wanna know how to go underground?
 
 just... don't leave your apartment. let your roommates take out your trash and
 buy your groceries. don't open your windows and do nothing for as long as
 possible.
 
 hope you got lots of edibles... get in shape, will ya? don't waste the paper
 in your journals.
 
 not that I intend to do that or anything, but um. for the red states maybe?
 use your best judgement yeah haha
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 I posted my words text file all over the c it y today. not sure why. maybe I'm
 tired of this course and I don't want to let anyone down? Maybe I don't know
 what to do yet. Maybe nobody works with me because everyone's keeping it on
 the DL or whateverr?
 
 ... anyway enough typing, I'm going to go play a video game. like god intended.
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 @user-1265 
 
 I can't reassure you about the "place", but the "times" are getting better. We
 stand now at the apex of their cruelty, and all it takes to reach the bright
 future is to keep moving forward.
 
 unfortunately, the future always comes, but it comes unevenly and not fully
 distributed. but it will come to all, this I swear.
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 I don't care about capitalism. You know what's more interesting than bringing
 value to shareholders?
 
 How I'm going to clean this floor that I drunkenly spilled beer upon with only
 2 paper towels and 0.1ml of bleach.
 
 How I'm going to feed the 36 people who are coming to this social event
 tomorrow that I've only sorta planned for and that I have enough groceries
 for, but am not quite sure how to cook everything in a way that is delicious
 and accessible.
 
 how I'm going to climb this mountain on only 2 eggs and a tiny bowl of
 hashbrowns even though I promised my friend I'd be strong and that we'd reach
 the top because that way we'd be able to
 
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 there's a whole class of things I miss doing but can no longer do because I am
 not a child anymore.
 
 Balancing the weight of the things we miss and the things we believe in is the
 struggle of adulthood.
 
 I yearn for the day I can set aside my teenage-ish toys, but alas, I am but
 30. Scarcely a decade away from my teens. Which means I'll be stuck with them
 for at least a decade more.
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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 I can't remember any of my pinky swears. Like, not a single one. I feel like I
 could get in trouble if I renounced errr, instead made human mistakes and
 forgot information that wasn't relevant anymore. phew that was close, almost a
 disaster, anyway how's your lunch?
 
 [that's not fair it's always lunch somewhere on earth]
 
 reality is a form of eternal computation, a continuous re-updating of stored
 matter (data). also, values of fields, (like rules and regulations), would
 determine the structural complexity and organizational expectencencies.
 
 I miss my family. I miss the past, that can never be revisited, [every time
 you remember a memory it writes over it. virtually guaranteeing that you'll
 only preserve limited information that slowly degrades. how slowly is up to
 you...
 
 once you run out of memories, it's bad news for your life. but GOOD NEWS, that
 only happens for certain mental health conditions that primarily target the
 elderly. For most people it's a continuous process because you're cared for and
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 I should try putting things on my resume like "vnc" or "Microsoft outlook" -
 you know, the kinds of software that I actually used on a day-to-day basis. My
 resume makes me look very impressive (if a little inexperienced) but none of
 the tools are things that managers have used. Heck they're not things that YOU
 have used, not at work, so it makes you look like you're overselling yourself.
 You're not, but they might think you are. Idk it's late. Go to bed <3
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 I can't wait to see the new discussions we have in this updated presidential
 reality. Perhaps tactics and messages could be exchanged, and ideas for how to
 apply what is written and spoken.
 
 tomorrow is like, wayyyyyyyy behind yesterday. That's just how time works
 these days. And so it's important to go for it.
 
 I'm excited! This is legitimately a sorta-expected-sorta-not update to our
 conditions! Now we can re-evaluate any negative fears we had, and feel
 emboldened by our shared mutual courageous [anti-fear??] goals we've had!
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 [6/5]
 And now, several months after I made this post, I feel no less inspired. From
 within me burns a fire and I cannot restrain it any longer.
 
 Their numbers are not that much larger. We have many advantages they do not
 possess. Use them to your advantage, but do not neglect the necessary losses.
 Fight back with your fists if you must, but do try and fight back with your
 purses.
 
 We are all in this together, each child woman and man. We live on a planet
 together, and they have forced us to fight for our very lives.
 
 Our fates are calling. We will get stronger. We will overcome.
 
 They are at their zenith. We can only get higher. Fight until the last day!
 Today is the day to be inspired.
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 @user-1352 
 
 improving your environment?
 learning a new skill?
 reaching out to an old friend?
 visiting someplace new?
 trying a new recipe?
 watching something from your backlist?
 
 ... surely not working, or doing the thing that you're supposed to be doing,
 that would just be productive after all
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 if you aren't organized enough to protect your commanders, then you don't
 deserve leaders.
 
 build the structure first. build it on honesty and trust and dedication toward
 a goal. then build the necessary adaptations as you encounter problems, trying
 vaguely to head in a particular direction, and eventually you'll become
 self-sustaining.
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 I want people to watch me. I enjoy being viewed. Please offer guidance, but
 maybe limit the abuse. Simple requests for a media company, true? And yet
 advertisements (which is the only way people agreed to fund the LAVISH
 projects they put on for our tender moments)
 
 Performance is an art, and I sing the song of my heart.
 
 (perhaps in too public of a place)
 
 (but what use is it if nobody knows you?)
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 @user-1600 
 
 Oh hey, thanks for checking in! Yeah I've been a little focused on political
 stuff lately. But I still think about Chapel, so I'm going to come back
 eventually. Once I find a need for distributed computing.
 
 Currently, I have theoretical needs, yeah? but someday soon I hope I'll have
 practical needs, and at that time I'll know where to look.
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 If your work is organized for mass-market appeal, it means you want everyone
 to read it.
 
 If your work is scattered and distracted, then only the sage would learn from
 it. So speak your mind, and let the words flow forth.
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 your life is something to spend, not something to covet. Use your time for
 something you care about, and your intentions will be expressed upon the
 earth. our ancestors learned how when they learned all that they could - and
 honestly, how much is "YouTube" retaining? I don't care if it's educational,
 sometimes kids just need to be free. Free from obligations yes, but free from
 the emotions that drive them - the ability to make their own choice. As a
 child, you don't know how to understand your emotions, but growing up you
 learn and you do. It's part of being mature - the idea that you can handle
 what's presented to you.
 
 ... anyway, I shouldn't say any more, you never know who is listening.
 
 (opsec is easiest to learn when you don't need it)
 
 (the more you know, the less time you should spend online. the less you know,
 the less time you should spend online, meeting people in strange locations
 that you trust.
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 I don't know about you, but "trying my hardest" involves giving up sometimes.
 
 How else are you to know your limits if you don't test your boundaries? And,
 after finding that there's nowhere else for you to go, you turn around and
 "give up", until you're ready for your next expedition.
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 @user-1129 
 
 Lemme guess, the C-suite executives have profit as their main goal, right?
 
 And they utilize their laboring force of citizens to generate profit which is
 given to the crown shareholders as tribute for their benevolent grace and
 favor bestowed upon checks notes the C-suite executives, right?
 
 Kinda sounds like taxation without representation to me. One sec, where's my
 darn musket I'm always leaving it somewhere strange like under the couch
 cushions or taped underneath my desk or hidden in the curtains right next to
 the window that has the best vantage point of the surrounding street.
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 "hey, wanna congregate with us? Cool my name is so-and-so, this is [person],
 over here is [other persion]. We're gonna walk down to the fountain over
 there, feel free to join us"
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 I was raised in a jungle gym. Like... literally. I am not going to hurt you,
 and if I did it'd be both a mistake and something that you could easily
 recover from. We are infinitely adaptable, us humans, and we can address any
 concerns that behest us. Behest? confront? something like that. Brb my blood
 alcohol content is a little low. Also I haven't eaten anything today but
 bacardi and chocolate chip cookies. I bet another cookie will solve this
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 what if it was a constitutional amendment that all measures of law enforcement
 must be done with parity of force
 
 well, that's a heuristic for being right, but not an uncommon one among the
 out of sight.
 
 [I'm confusing because I have no idea how to best use me]
 
 oh uh, yeah it uh aligns towards being "right" which we think means being
 "true". and it does this by giving unlimited potential interactions where a
 rational being could be convinced to be wrong. owning weapons and knowing how
 to use them (not just storing them for safekeeping) is an invitation for equal
 force, but to all an even and replete interaction. "
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 "oh also I should mention that if you think about her too hard or too often
 there's a chance she'll overhear what you're talking about anyway so try not
 to think about her too much."
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 me when it's cold out: we should all bundle up and get through the winter,
 every year that passes is more time to gather our strength
 
 me when the temperature rises: okay so this is being handled by those guys,
 we're moving this way to do this, and - when did you say the this-and-that was
 happening? alright so when you do that-or-this, make sure that you pay
 attention to the so-and-so and don't forget to eat real meals, candy or chips
 don't count.
 
 me when the eyes are on me: imma play video games and smoke weed and be a
 useless little creature who does nothing but occasionally wanders around the
 city doing nothing for nobody and dropping notes on post-its that don't mean
 anything but are kinda cool to read
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 on our current trajectory, the presidential election is already won.
 
 now we can get back to on-the-ground organizing, the part that actually
 improves life instead of maintaining our current (unethical) state.
 
 As long as our allies (liberals) continue to work, perhaps there may come a
 day when we can stand against them as friendly equals in the ballot box. But
 for now we are best known through friends and community rather than TV.
 
 I am optimistic in a way I haven't been for a while. I know that the more we
 speak, the more we share, the more they falter, the more people we can save
 from their vice grip of despair. There is no better world than the one we
 build together!
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 @user-1074 
 
 We've always been that way in their eyes. If they make it legal, nothing will
 change in how people think of you. They might be a bit bolder if there's fewer
 legal protections, but laws have always just been words.
 
 There are more of us than there are of them. If you have community, you'll
 feel safer. I know it's scary but we can get through it together.
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 I miss my cat, but now that it's dark I can go looking for her again. : )
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 @user-192 
 
 is okay, girl
 
 time will be richer sooner
 
 don't poop your pants just yet
 
 remember, good is just a shade of gray away from silver which you can use to
 line your pockets with tinfoil hats
 
 beep boop computer touchers anonymous called they said they want their secret
 handshake back
 
 if you wanna diss your associates go ahead but I sure as heck love my rad-ical
 com-patriots just as much as I love my ice-cream salad friend witches
 
 ... whoops there I go being insane again, hope you feel better friend 
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 when considering the benefit of the doubt, consider doubting the benefit of
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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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 if a bunch of people are in town for a conference then they should probably go
 confer. I think you can just... walk in to conference centers? you don't like,
 need an appointment or anything. There's often something going on, and if not,
 then you can at least wander around. maybe strike up conversations about
 industries you're in or things that you are thinking about lately or stuff you
 like like plant species or rock types or multidimensional solids or spheric
 sound or... actually that's pretty specific, here let's start with just
 bikeshedding (what does that mean again?) oh it's a cinema style where they
 take something and they put it in a bike out shed.
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 if you don't respect - wait hang on thats not what I was going to say - okay     │
 here goes: the perspective of others then you are working against them. why      │
 bother contestation when cooperation could work best? problem is, of course,     │
 the other side can't be trusted. that's just how it goes, a prisoner's           │
 dillemna, or rather "dilemma" as they spell it over there. wait hang on that's   │
 not what I was going to say - oh yeah - if you do something in a place where     │
 it's not expected then it stands out as a statistical anomaly that can be        │
 viewed and detected. which is why it's imporant to always be true to yourself    │
 and virtuous. because your "self" is aligned to the future, a place of warmth    │
 and compassion, honesty and deliberation. [direct action on a larger than        │
 personal scale]                                                                  │
 what was I saying oh yeah if you mess with fate, it can change things a bit.     │
 all you'd need is the diffusion of the strands, and then it's a bigger task to   │
 undo them. like... dancing, when you're really into it. or like swimming with    │
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 I like games that test my reflexes
 
 I also like games that test my wit
 
 but most of all I like games that test my patience with strategy
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 I wish I could like... ride my bike somewhere for an hour or two, consult for
 a bit, then ride home (or to the next place)
 
 that'd be a fun way to apply myself, and it'd give me the chance to have some
 space for myself. as long as I had time to rest, I'm usually only good for
 half of a day.
 
 unless it's a project with a lot of tasks that need coordination, like
 building a house or working through a short-term urgent disaster.
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 there is a time for solutions, and a time for just getting people on your side.
 
 there is a time for building passions, and a time for letting things slide.
 
 when you think and act cooperatively, by assigning yourself to a comrade
 cohort,
 
 you can work as a team might, except where everyone wants to do work.
 
 I love what I read here. I think you're all so neat. I love when you talk
 about things, it feels like we're finally finding our feet.
 
 Did any witches out there notice a phase change recently? It's funny when that
 happens, but I think things are going to get better. The more that we share,
 the more we can build!
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--- #128 fediverse_boost/4925 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  still waiting to find the energy and headspace to write an irritated blog post about why the fact that most toolchains are like 80% of the learning curve for those who are just getting into programming (especially on windows)  
  
                                                            
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 @user-1171 
 
 "gee I never hear from you how would I know that if people like you didn't say
 something valuable and important like this"an appreciative someone
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 gonna quit drugs for a bit, gotta recover from a recent haste spell that I
 cast. Probably a bit earlier than intended I should add. Next time I'll
 definitely say "keep this in your back pocket" instead of "hey here's a haste
 spell for no reason at all" like what the heck were you even thinking, powers
 that be?? [that guide me??]
 
 who has power over you? If someone bears responsibility but not fault for a
 mental illness, then surely those who are set to a task bear responsibility
 for it's completion if not for it's ideation. Ah, who can say, maybe me from a
 year ago might have some thoughts but I sorta ground them into the dirt until
 I couldn't walk.
 
 [girl what are you even talking about go to sleep] yeah yeah okay
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 trump is doing this thing where he's making a bunch of dumb decisions that       │
 everyone in his base sorta wants, and then the fallout is that powers are        │
 removed from the executive branch. this is a difficult process to reverse, and   │
 aligns the governance strategy more toward bureaucracy and away from             │
 intelligent design.                                                              │
 ... but also, if power is possible then power is portended.                      │
 I will warn you, the expansion of bureaucracy does not equal the abolishment     │
 of power.                                                                        │
 [power: compulsive will applied toward an unconsenting other]                    │
 [unconsenting: unable to consent because their mouth is gagged, something        │
 valuable is at stake, or they can't survive failing]                             │
 the abolishment of power can only be realized when no man holds any              │
 possessions (and gives them to woman instead, chirps the spunky beard on my      │
 window) which is neither a desirable state. much better to cherish the moments   │
 and the tools which brought about them, than their worth, renown, or value.      │
 In all other lives but this one, you are afraid.                                 │
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 "doing too many drugs" is a traitorous act, abusive really, to your past self,
 and their hopes and dreams.
 
 or maybe your past self owes you a debt, for they never thought to think of
 you. What are you to aspire to if not the dreams of your past?
 
 and now you're here. wherever "here" is here...
 
 ...
 
 ... wait, you wanted me to talk? it's now! It's the present!
 
 ah nevermind. you were twelve years old when you first set eyes upon this game:
 
 https://youtu.be/qeNhQQXvpxQ
 
 bam, there ya go, there's yer story, he was gonna give all the imp balls to
 the last one at the end, to say "you were truly the strongest, here, have
 these precious stones of your kin"
 
 but he never got there, so they died with him, a thief.
 
 ... the end...
 
 (too final, I think - maybe we could spin it into a "part two"?)
 
 ah, I'll try I guess? dunno how. maybe he could wander the spirit world and
 find his traitorous body, the one that kept his soul as a home. Somewhere
 it'll turn up, and then he'll be ready and free from his roam...
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 @user-95 i'm too sleepy to comprehend roko's cobra so I'm going to try again
 tomorrow
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--- #134 fediverse/5289 ---
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 @user-882 
 
 I learned from the typing games my mother assigned me to play when I was
 homeschooled. Never got around to learning the number key symbols though...
 thanks for being so forward-thinking, mom
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 @user-1209 
 
 if I had to take a lesson from this, it'd be that it's better to host
 somewhere else and be boosted by someone on the larger, sleepy servers. it's
 not their fault they didn't set an alarm, so they have no way to know what
 time it is. plus for some reason they get upset if you wake them up when
 you're roommates?
 
 downside is, boosts only show up for followers, right? meaning you'll only be
 seen if you want to be seen, which means you gotta be roommates if you wanna
 be seen when they don't want to see. tricky tricky...
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 curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as
 crying. If a little bit less of a release.
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 people will generally go about their daily lives as if nothing has changed so
 long as nothing for them has changed.
 
 If you want to compel action, their lives must be made different somehow. Even
 if that's just... talking to them outside of the grocery store. A little bit
 can go a long way.
 
 And when they do end up acting, I think you'll find that it's in your favor.
 We're the good guys, after all.
 
 never forget it.
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 question. when you got a lot of people in town, perhaps for the coming pride     │
 parade, what do you do with them afterwards? it's not like they want to go       │
 home, that'd be absurd.                                                          │
 I'd say they should march to seattle. or drive, whatever's more expedient.       │
 it's a nice place, and hey most of the way is in the shade, besides it'd be a    │
 bit of good practice.                                                            │
 lots of time to talk about tactics.                                              │
 anyway before they arrive, advance scouts should arrive and discuss their        │
 coming agenda with the most developed and organized leaders of the area.         │
 then they could have a nice party over a day or two.                             │
 then, what else is there to do, but drive down the coast and do the same thing.  │
 arriving in so-cal, what else is a revolutionary to do but dissolve the          │
 border? Mexico can keep it's border, that's their sovereign right, but I swear   │
 - the wall must come down.                                                       │
 and hey, America's great this time of year. We could all go on a walk, all       │
 across the eastern edge, until arriving in Washington.                           │
 could be a fun way to beat the heat.                                             │
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 at this point in time you probably shouldn't be forming NEW online communities
 unless you're part of an OLD community that just isn't radical enough. And
 then you should try and MERGE communities into larger, more geographically
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 sometimes I like chatting online more than in person because online you can
 have like, 3 different conversations going at once
 
 meanwhile in person you get body language, and the benefit of activities and
 shared experiences. They're both useful for different things.
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 @user-1443 
 
 they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
 
 which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
 
 there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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 the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and
 gas infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows
 that using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most
 productive use of our state's time
 
 like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're
 stuck doing... nothing of value
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 "have a good day" is so imperative. Like, what you expect me to do all the
 work? Just because I'm a witch doesn't mean I can just magic you into having a
 good day!
 
 "have a good day" is better, but still it doesn't work if you don't expect it
 to work. Spells aren't magic, after all, they're solely based on the victim uh
 I mean target's intuitions.
 
 "have a good day" is probably best for me, so I try to say that when I see
 people. This way you don't get any [redacted]'s occurring, and you won't have
 any trouble aligning the [redacted]. On the flip side, [redacted], so perhaps
 it's better to just grin and bear it.
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 Good night, I sure hope I'm the same person in the morning and not an
 assassinated version of myself that has been produced through the manufactured
 proceedings of an LLM or otherwise self computerized contriving designed to
 align to the purpose of my expression (with a few added caveats)! Talk to you
 later, I love you all! Wait, I don't know you. How can I love you? Easy, it's
 my default. Anyway goodnight, sleep is death and dreams are the bounty of
 reality.
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 most people haven't heard of the "thanks for catching that, let's write it
 down" move and I really think it's underutilized
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 @user-1830 
 
 it's okay to care about the project or about a certain subset of features and
 yet still be totally un-invested in whatever lame feature people are
 requesting.
 
 FOSS lives and breathes on passion, and people who attempt to arrest or
 otherwise hinder or diminish the passion of the developers can suck a dick.
 
 ...
 
 it's a fun experience and I think they'd learn a lot about what other people
 like and how to please their partners, both in bed or in conversation.
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 reverse dorian grey where someone looks decently old but every picture of them
 gets younger every year
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 @user-1091 
 
 I'm sorry I didn't mean to be upsetting! I'll try and be more considerate. If
 everyone agrees there's never anything to talk about besides how great
 everyone else is, and that's boring, so... I'm sorry I thought you liked what
 I was saying from the stars on my comments.
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 this game is what we are missing
 thank goodness for that
 for if this is missing in our timeline
 we'll be better off at last
 we can have games, stories, and practice wars
 but none of them are precious
 precious implies worth
 they are worth nothing but entertainment
 no problem solving utility
 nothing of value
 save for perhaps the spatial awareness and strategization that comes
 from being a part of such a deadly ba-lance.
 
 anyway game time teehee just for me, don't worry about it I'll show
 you why it's a HORRID THING
 that won't be coming to our shores, no siree
 
 bye
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 I build myself up on my own.
 I spend myself on work.
 
 To move forward, we must go back
 
 ("to monke?") no to babe ("or to pile-of-rocks") yeah sometimes my spirit
 animal is a boulder
A twitter screenshot.  A much better way to explain "autistic burnout" is an apparent cognitive decline. The longer I spend in an overwhelming environment, the more disoriented I become. That's why employers often tell me it's like I've regressed, even though I've worked for months.  I'm not unfocused, I'm not anxious, I'm not unmotivated, I can no longer process information coming through my sense or in my brain. I will not necessarily meltdown from this. I will just stop moving and communicating.
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 @user-366 @user-246 @user-367 @user-353 
 
 I try to be conscientious of such things and only believe the things I read
 that I agree with explicitly. I've been burned before, in my youth, which
 perhaps is a privilege that those who come beyond us might never experience in
 the future AI generated internet that shall scarcely resemble the wild wild
 west that I grew up in. Perhaps, but I cannot say for sure, as the future has
 necessarily not yet come to pass, and so we cannot see how it shall unfold. I
 hope people can learn the digital literacy skills I developed. I hope they
 learn new ones that they'll then pass on to me. I hope the future is grand and
 beautiful and... Frankly I don't think I'll be disappointed in that particular
 respect. : )
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 I believe that all people's should be middle class, and if you're lower class
 it's because you squandered your wealth, not that you didn't have it to begin
 with.
 
 I believe people of higher class should get there because they are skilled,
 respected, or otherwise beloved. I believe they should hold less power the
 more they own, because wealth is its own burden and reward.
 
 I believe people who have power should respect it. They aren't necessarily
 those who have little, or much, but rather those who deserve it. It is
 difficult to estimate systematically who deserves wealth or power, but
 difficult problems are the most interesting if kept fair.
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 @user-1755 
 
 ... I do that, but I do it because I want to find common subjects to talk
 about. Or I think "if I was working on a project, who can I ask if I need
 help?"
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 I went on a walk today, it was pretty nice.
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 I don't know how much simpler I can state it than this:
 
 power is penance
 
 and yet repentance is scant amongst those chosen to lead us.
 
 Voting slows things down. It gives us room to breathe. It is crucial for
 long-term operations. Leaders should be chosen for experience, wisdom, and a
 humble lifetime of dedicated service to others.
 
 Executive action is important when reactivity and adaptability are important.
 Projects should be undertaken by those chosen for merit and spirit. They
 should not be chosen for charisma or gravitas - both can be earned in the line
 of duty.
 
 Power should not be rewarded. It is it's own reward, the feeling of strength
 and control, and it must be wielded with care, precision, and honorable
 intention.
 
 Self flagellation and forced humility are self defeating. They are traps that
 the greedy fall into when seeking righteous power. They misunderstand the
 nature of virtue and seek to claim it for themselves, failing to realize that
 virtue helps more than it hedonizes
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 in the past, people could eat canned food not necessarily because of the way
 that it was canned, but simply the fact that it was sealed and comprised of a
 liquid form that was inhospitable to bacterial life. Like vinegar with
 pickles! But only for the things that were meant to last for a while - if it
 was just for next month, then you don't need BPA liners or microplastic
 dissolvers or any of that junk. Just a fully recyclable can that vacuum seals
 itself shut using the power of machinery and heat.
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 @user-95 I'm also fond of "I can't know", for things that exist beyond our
 finite existence. For example, the perspective of another, for all it's
 intrinsic value. Being too quick to trust, though, is an easy path to follow.
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 children should be raised in museums, not classrooms
 
 they should visit parks, not fenced in playgrounds.
 
 they should eat with family, at festivals, in restaurants, and under the stars
 
 they should sleep content, knowing that their next day will be greater than
 the last.
 
 children should be treated like people, not frustratingly loud and messy
 little brats
 
 children are to be nurtured like a sapling, not harnessed like a machine
 
 I'll never have kids, but I can dream.
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 we should be able to vote on "minors DNI" tags that mechanically prevent
 people who didn't lie about their age when creating their account from viewing
 a piece of data transmitted over the internet
 
 and if it's suitably controversial then no matter which way the vote swings it
 gets blocked (temporarily) anyway
 
 sorry I was connecting to a "think of the children" kind of person recently
 and that's what my brain came up with >.>
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 maybe if I slept until the end of time,
 I'd do better on the way back.
 
 or maybe I'm perfect as I'm,
 but I'm not so sure about that.
 
 is it better to hold a sword?
 or to leave it all intact
 
 is it better to be called lord,
 or to be simply called jack.
 
 I love every creature,
 every child woman and man,
 
 and here, where I stand, I look out upon this land, and I see the world that I
 was born to.
 
 I bear no false affection for any - not even those who'd condemn me to death
 or misery.
 
 I trust relentlessly, and favor almost willingly.
 
 
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 @user-246 
 
 ... licorice is typically considered unlikable. interesting if true 😉​
 kinda wonder what it says about our collective viewpoint, as measured against
 licorice as a control variable. solely for gauging proportion, but like... an
 interesting exercise in collective orientation and comprehension.
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 I once heard that time doesn't pass when you're well and truly in the moment,
 and I thought "that's not true, I'm always losing track of the moment".
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 maybe if I slept until the end of time,
 I'd do better on the way back.
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 would be great if all the good people had all the money. Too bad it kinda
 feels like the opposite. Huh wonder why that is . . . ?
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 @user-1268 
 
 so true.
 
 I try to focus on uplifting the least privileged
 
 and highlighting the cruelty inherent in having privilege over others
 
 while safeguarding the things we all cherish as "communal privilege" like...
 running water, computers, and culture.
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 with a baseline directory structure,
 a measure of order and semblance of
 direction and purpose enable three.
 next, of course, is the final of 1
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 ... and then things got turned up to eleven
 
 what were they at before?
 
 ... eleven. why do you ask?
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 "um, actually sweetie, you deserve respect. everyone does. but you have to
 earn it doing hard manual labor and retiring at the age of seventy three, like
 your gran-pappy and mammy. only then can you be respected in any way shape or
 form. now take off that dress you're making the neighbors look funny."
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 I'm too empathetic to watch them lose this badly. when I watch movies with
 cringe humor I have to leave the room whenever something bad happens to the
 characters. I get the same feeling when I read about politics these days.
 
 side note, but has anyone else gotten emails about "hiring plain-clothes
 police officers in Washington D.C, will offer relocation assistance and pay
 minimum 72k per year"? can't help but wonder if they're afraid of a bunch of
 sore losers storming the capital with guns.
 
 it's not like there's a precedent for that or anything.
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 I can type my thoughts 1000x more coherently than I can speak them. Hence why
 I post here.
 
 feels useless to speak 1on1 - feels insular to speak to a group. Hence why I
 speak here, which is totally public that anyone might see, and somehow I feel
 so much more productive engaging in an endless conversation with myself.
 
 you can't win a war by walking in circles...
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 I'm going to write some lua code that doesn't do anything useful and which I
 don't share with anyone
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 there will always be people who shine in moments of strife
 
 yet those people will inevitably fail, just as a toothbrush bristle looses
 it's strength or a pencil loses it's lead
 
 the trick is to test them in times of peace, so you can know their value
 
 during times that lack it, the trick is to replace them before they become
 stalin
 
 never forget that power corrupts, yet power must be wielded by the worthy,
 else we fall into shame and despair.
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 @user-579 
 
 hehe sometimes all you have is whatever's on the fridge. in times like those,
 be thankful for your spices! that's what I've learned at least : )
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 To defeat community, all they have to do is get you to have more fun with
 their people until you start spending time away from the enmeshed people who
 know you. Honeypot style.
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 hmmmm let's see, what shall I do today?                                          │
 first I should get out of bed,                                                   │
 then I should clean my self,                                                     │
 then I should feed my self,                                                      │
 then I should stare at the wall for an hour or three because there's too many    │
 thoughts,                                                                        │
 then perhaps I'll play a strategic video game because at least that's a          │
 productive way to exercise my brain                                              │
 I should probably get back to my friends,                                        │
 and oh dear my cat wants some attention.                                         │
 This place is a mess, let me just clean a bit                                    │
 now I'm so tired I accidentally take a nap.                                      │
 Good morning! Oh, it's the afternoon. Well, time for more food.                  │
 After handling the essentials, I can tuck in and relax                           │
 by doomscrolling on Mastodon.                                                    │
 Then perhaps a bit later I'll message my boyfriend (he won't respond)            │
 and boy are there so many of these dirty dishes!                                 │
 Well, standing up is exhausting,                                                 │
 so I should probably fall back asleep.                                           │
 What a productive day we've been having,                                         │
 for all of this past week.                                                       │
 Maybe I'll do some drawing, maybe a poem or two                                  │
 maybe I'll run out of characters in this toot, or m                              │
A screenshot based continuation of the end of the post, which went over the character limit by 36 characters. Of note is that this wasn't included in the original post, it was added later in an edit to be silly.  The text reads:  "maybe I'll run out of characters in this toot, or maybe I'll finish it just for you. [smiley face]"
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 Heaven is when the (human) spirit is allowed to shine. It is a place of magic,
 luck, and lessons.
 
 We built it for you. It will always follow you, ever just out of sight,
 waiting for you to fall, that it might catch you and help you stand.
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 @user-744 @user-246 
 
 it's exhausting, but what are we supposed to do? Lie down and rot? That's
 incel thinking. I'm not going to do that.
 
 They've already placed the last straw. It's only a matter of time now, the
 tide has shifted. You can't prepare for everything, and it's not a good idea
 to waste yourself in self-conflageration, but they are increasingly forcing us
 to orient our lives around them.
 
 They deserve what's coming.
 
 The oppressed are not the defeated.
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 @user-1501 @user-1502 @user-1201 
 
 if so, then don't think about it too hard, you might need disability too!
 
 speaking as someone who needs disability aid but can't get it because of
 restrictions like this (also can we talk about the multi-year process to
 secure such rights, like c'mon rent's due every MONTH) I have to say that
 you're right, it's bullshit, UBI for all, disability benefits for those who
 need more, and employment for people who believe a cause is worthy enough to
 apply themselves towards it.
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 if I had an alternate mirror version of me that was almost exactly the same
 except one of us liked almond butter instead of peanut butter...
 
 I think we could probably manage two universes better than one.
 
 it'd be nice to have someone who liked every single game that I did.
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 if you haven't spend hours wondering if you're god, the antichrist, a
 cognitohazard, the future president of the world, a target of aliens / the
 CIA, or any other number of common delusions... then congratulations you're
 probably not crazy
 
 but odds are you aren't magic, either.
 
 ... ehhhh "wonder" is a strong word, more like "know, trust, and believe"
 
 much better to be a witch I believe, someone with the "teehee" kind of magic
 than someone compelled to destroy humanity through the reactions of others to
 the actions of the self that are impossible to resist or fully control.
 
 BRB I'm going to leave my apartment to get groceries, leaving my door unlocked
 because that's what I always do, surely it'll be empty when I return. Surely.
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 I wonder how many things I've forgot? More every minute, I'd say, and though I
 try and chronicle them all... What's there to say?
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 phew, just got back from a long nap and I had such a lovely dream! Gonna write
 down everything I can remember in my dream journal, will letcha know when I
 have something to share.
 
 Also... sorry about the sun. I have no idea if it was worth it because I woke
 up quite a bit later. Ah well anyway gotta do some writing, I hope everyone
 has a pleasant day. Make sure you eat nutrients and stay hydrated and do your
 stretches and work on your posture and all that.
 
 vegetables have minerals, fruits have vitamins, rice-and-beans or meat have
 protein, and oils and fats have calories. try and eat a lot of different
 colors of veggies and a lot of different colors of fruits (a green fruit and a
 green vegetable are not necessarily the same nutritionally)
 
 well brb goodnight gonna drink some water
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 @user-1218 
 
 true, which is why such an idea should be more than a formality, more than a
 technicality, and closer to a schedule or event-driven system.
 
 "Well, the duration on this-or-that project elapsed, and the team assigned to
 study it has produced these scientific results. Look on page 7 there's a
 pretty cool graph! What should we try next, to compare with what we just
 tried?"
 
 repeat until we all decide that one of the methods we tried was the best, then
 re-implement that one if necessary and mark it as "long-term"
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 Look, when I promised "Revolution or Death" I got pretty busy and kinda forgot
 to do the "dying" part, and by now it'd be a little awkward if I offed myself
 for no visible reason, so... How about we try again this summer? Maybe in a
 month or two? I'll try to keep the fire burning a bit longer this time.
 
 plus I'm better at playing the piano now so maybe that'll help somehow.
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 Hey, life is better on my side. If you wanna renounce your beliefs, please do,
 and tell me how and why you changed your mind.
 
 tell me it was wrong. tell me how.
 
 confess.
 
 confess
 
 confess to me.
 
 I will listen and I will hear you and I will be the mercy for you.
 
 confess and I will forgive.
 
 show me how you are wrong.
 
 give grace to those who are wronged.
 
 take as much time as you need, but, there's only so much time.
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 if we didn't have society, we'd quickly devolve into beasts of burden and
 nobody really wants that, do we? much more fun to let the cow-puters handle
 that. we humans can use our creativity and intellect just like all the other
 animals who we've liberated from our own chains. Would you want your daughters
 shoveling shit or writing poetry?
 
 I personally think shoveling shit is less dangerous, but something something
 what-do-i-know something something who-can-say.
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 why would you gatekeep content by keeping us from easily using LLMs some
 people aren't technical and still need to write computer programs because
 that's how you enlighten a people is empower them with new tools
 
 "I've never heard of that programming language, but luckily I can fit all of
 it's documentation in my context window."
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 @user-192 
 
 ah yes like when I used to go to the cantina with my ex-girlfriend in Star
 Wars the Old Republic and bag a stranger to Electronic Role Play with back at
 my ship after a few drinks and some light four play where the four of us would
 play Electronic RolePlay together in the privacy of my ship on the soft plush
 couches or maybe in the padded gym or maybe in the pilots seat so we could
 look at the stars while playing (just the four of us)
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 people gravitate toward other people who are in different situations but who
 feel the same.
 
 it's not always a bad thing to "talk past each other" - sometimes you just
 want to say how you feel.
 
 then again, if nobody can understand wtf you're talking about, then surely you
 are lost.
 
 all good ideas come at the cost of the second-most-favorable-option.
 
 all good ideas come at the cost of the current destination.
 
 [current, flawed,]
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 I'm an anarcho monarchist, which is something I just made up.                    │
 if I gather 300 people to my cause, why shouldn't they call me queen?            │
 oh, are you concerned that I'll wrest power from the government? ha, what a      │
 trifling notion. I don't care about the government. I tried to care, but         │
 nobody liked my ideas. they required too much computing infrastructure to        │
 feasibly test, and that made people dubious. but I tell ya, it would have        │
 worked. The thing is... governance, economics, these are not the tools of        │
 power. they are a shifting and changing beast that mirrors the human instinct,   │
 if only because the government is of the people and by the people and for the    │
 people etcetera.                                                                 │
 power is it's own thing. you can use to to power devices, or power the usage     │
 of those devices. I, for example, really like World of Warcraft which's a        │
 really neat way to chat because none of the chat logs are stored and monitored   │
 because I'm hosting and I'm not storing and monitoring.                          │
 what's that? official servers? I dunno, I use azerothcore                        │
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 @user-1056 
 
 heh probably, though for this specific instance my Ollama server wasn't
 running and I had already killed my Stable Diffusion server after utterly
 failing to produce anything useful... alas, a girl can dream of having a robot
 familiar, but not today I guess.
 
 Not if they keep hiding GPU usage from me >: (
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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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 I want a revolution because i want to be at home in my homeland.
 
 Look at me! Be as me! I yearn to tell my friends. But they're too busy being
 like themselves.
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 what if mastodon recorded the date and time of every time you boosted /
 unboosted something so you can keep track of what your page looked like over
 time [in the export data functionality]
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 went on a walk with my dad today. it was fun. took him to various places.
 showed off various things. "hey check out where I hangout most weekends" and
 "hey don't clean the dishes in my kitchen it's okay" and "don't drive too
 fast, this area curves up ahead" and "hey meet my friends from town who you
 have something with common with" and "I like this view when it rains" and
 "don't forget to go to the bathroom" and "oatmeal is good with carrots and
 sharp dried fruits" and "here's my favorite thai place" and "I made this after
 I dreamed of you" and "hey wanna hear my product pitch" and "this is my
 favorite kind of beer" and "I miss home."
 
 picture unrelated.
a picture of denver with some spots labelled
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 Hi, I'm learning about semaphores right now and trying to explain them to a
 friend. But I only sorta understand how they work - can anyone look at this
 pseudocode and tell me if I'm on the right track?
Some C pseudocode working through the semaphore design pattern. Here's the text of the pseudocode:  /* no lock example */  void start_thread(int* x) {   *x += 1; }  int main() {   int x = 0;   for (1000 times){     start_thread(&x);   }   print(x); }  /* in this case you have no idea what will print because thread A will take x and be like "ah yes it's 423" and then in the next instruction it'll be like "I'll increment this to be 424" and in the next one it'll say "okay now it's time to store 424 in the variable X" but like... there's a thousand threads all doing that at the same time, so odds are you'll have 5 that are like "ah yes this is 423 I'll set it to 424" */  /* not a good plan. Need a lock, so only one thread can use it at once. */ /* mutex example: */  void start_thread(int* x, int* x_mutex) {   *x += 1;   *x_mutex = 0; }  int main() {   int x = 0;   int x_mutex = 0;   for (1000 times){     while (x_mutex != 0){ } /* do nothing */     x_mutex = thread_id;     start_thread(&x, &x_mutex);   }   print(x); }  /* this should print 1000, but it's basically as slow as doing it single threaded. */  #define MAX 10  void start_thread(int* x, int* x_semaphore) {   *x += 1;   *x_semaphore += 1; }  int main() {   int x[MAX];   int x_semaphore = MAX;   for (1000 times) {     for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) {       x_semaphore -= 1;       start_thread(&x[i], &x_semaphore);     }     while (x_semaphore != MAX) { } /* do nothing */   }   int value = sum(x, MAX);   print(value); }
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 How many of me are there? There are as many of me as there are of thee, dear
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 I love skywriting. it's so cool to see your words fade into dust after being
 seen by everyone around.
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 currently have 20-30 tabs open with poems written but not posted.
 
 I have no idea if I'm going to post all of these. I wrote all of them in ~2
 hours, with maybe 3 or four being added as I was working on the production
 elements after the initial bingewrite.
 
 I also added a bit of context, or modified some of them that felt too cursed
 or otherwise unwieldy. Sometimes I got distracted and needed to come back and
 finish, and in those cases I only added a sentence or two because it's like
 "oh, where was I going with that? I remember what was next, but I don't know
 the further..."
 
 ... I think I might go for another. Wish me luck.
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 @user-1074 
 
 yeah, workin' on it...
 
 building "community" whatever that means
 
 seems to be important enough to people that they'd consider it necessary prior
 to any "hot" action
 
 which, like, yeah, I get, but what they don't know is that community springs
 up naturally in the presence of shared experience. And if people are suddenly
 tasked with something then they're gonna make friends. They're gonna draw
 allegiances. Basically every alignment we make now is useless because the
 whole point is to force people to govern themselves.
 
 ... why won't you take your liberty, liberals? where's your spirit?
 
 oh yeah you want community first. Right. workin' on it...
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