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find the people who, when given power over someone else, nurtures and cares
for them in their service. for those who hurt instead are reliably the evil
sort of person, and evil has to work twice as hard to justify it's worth.
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one of my duties is to make you aware of potentially bad things, cursed
things, hurtful things and hard feelings, so that they are less able to harm
you.
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@user-162 only if those behind the change of leadership do not have the
support of the educated. essentially... only evil people who have no ties to
morality or justice would eliminate their political opponents.
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@user-979 @user-980
they do it for power.
power corrupts, and these profane desires they possess are the definition of
evil.
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I hear that ICE goes after the kindest grandmas and the hardest working joes
first so by the time any resistance is organized there's less passion behind it
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Valor, for the Iranian people.
Vigor, for the American people.
Violence, for the principled few.
Authority, for those who knew.
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@user-138
they say that not all monarchs are evil or inept, but the worst ones
definitely are.
such is the same for all leaders, elected or otherwise.
sometimes, it's better to question authority than to grow to resent it.
resentment is inaction. it is an untenable [charity./tragedy.]
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@user-1810
stability in an unjust system is cruelty.
they want stability, no matter the cruel cost.
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if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should give their
money away. power corrupts, and nobody loves corrupted folk. that's what it
means to be corrupted - your values are misaligned with truth, love, and/or
justice.
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@user-1203
The judges prevent the politicians from harming the people who elect the
politicians who select the judges. Sounds like it should work well, no?
well... the people are divided, but the politicians it seem are hardly so. So,
the politicians elect their judges, who allow the passage of such laws which
contradict the will of the people.
The keys to power should rest in the hands of those who deserve it, not those
who claim it. If those who claim it do not relinquish it for a worthy other,
they are corrupt and must be dethroned.
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Nobody cries if someone they think is evil has died.
No one mourns the wicked.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but it hurts less to be despised than
ignored.
which is why you don't feed the trolls, and always pet the neocats
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if you don't want to be hunted, then give "evil" it's own queer culture
what's that? they don't like what you offered? they want it to be *their* kind
of "evil"?
fine, do it themselves and then leave us alone, jeez -.-
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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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@user-898
the wounds of the soul can be just as harmful as the wounds of the heart, and
both can be helped with campfires.
what's worse, they often harm people around you rather than the wounds of the
body, which typically only harm you. Unless you have like, the plague or
something and you might spread it to others or something like that.
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There are two types of people with power, but it's impossible to tell which is
which because anyone that gravitic must necessarily hide their true colors.
The first just wants to hurt people. You cannot reason with them, they want
power for powers sake and they are corrupted by it.
The other is a kind of benevolent fascist, who doesn't want the nuclear
football in the hands of the people because obviously they'd hurt themselves
with it.
The second kind can be reasoned with. Of course people exist on a spectrum,
but these are two extremes that they may be defined by. The second kind can bs
reasoned with. If you can show them how, structurally and immutably, the power
they are to relinquish shall not harm this earth, then they shall grant it to
you. Because at their core they are a kind grandpa herding cats with laser
swords attached to their tails who are hopped up on catnip at all times.
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@user-1074
what do you do with the people who don't want to do that in particular and
want to try a different sort of socialism?
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When good people die, when they drop out or leave the industry, they no longer
have access to the levers of power that guide our collective fate. Meaning
those who persist are those who covet power.
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some rich people have never been taken to a poor nation and told "you are the
same as them. Their nations don't care for them. Yours cares about you." and
it shows
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I have never stopped fighting for the people, ever, once, at any time.
every moment of pause or relaxation was purely intended in pursuit of the
cause.
-- turn-of-the-century-autocrat
enchanting magic's easier when you have a laboratory
please, please, please let me teach you magic?
enchantment is temporary, construction is as stable as the boject youses form.
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rich people should only exist when they care for the things they own and
accumulate wealth through a lifetime of restrained consumption and temperance.
like, if we actually rewarded the 7 virtues instead of optimizing for ruthless
profit extraction.
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never trust your heroes
for they will always let you down. A hero is just a person, after all, and if
you treat them as an ideal then they will disappoint you.
give tasks to people, not ideals.
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contrary to unpopular belief,
it's good to be nice to people.
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@user-1251
the reason they do that is to punish poor and homeless people who gather large
amounts of bottles from the trash and carry them around in plastic bags. You
know the type.
they are helping keep litter out of the oceans, landfills, or far off
countries that don't need our filth, and yet they are punished.
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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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I worked
I wrote a bible
not a scrimble bible, but a bible of the people
one is cool
one is useful
neither may be good nor evil
for they are of this world, replete in it's [alternating polar extremes]
local minima and maxima
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the fact that business types don't listen to the engineers and their "ethics"
means they shouldn't be in charge of them.
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did you know that almost everyone could technically become competitive with
olympians? it's just a matter of single-minded focus and determination over
lifetimes of time. they are the most admirable because of that, and we cherish
their presence in our life-world-line.
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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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some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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@user-1037
speaking from the perspective of a witch, the land does not care what lines we
draw in the sand. Lines are a human thing.
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if one person is honest to everyone, then no-one can be honest to them for
anything they want to keep hidden.
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What if we paid people to administer a database of people who needed mutual
aid so we could keep track of them, organize them, and care for them?
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my mask is the best worker I've ever met. They're kind, thoughtful,
hardworking, sharp, precise, value driven, and will always help their allies
when they finish their work (to a fast and high-quality degree). Shame they
can't last too long before the mask starts to slip, at which point I become
essentially unemployable.
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@user-1077
image generators trained on stolen artwork are unethical
image generators are a disability aid
art is human (and human adjacent) expression
art is more valuable than profit
artists should be supported as they make art
these are all things I believe
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The reason teachers are paid so little is so that only those who care will do
it.
Too bad they're burnt out.
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Alright, if the average person is sorta stupid and cruel, then are we not
tending to a kingdom of ogres, rather than humans?
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@user-246
people who don't write have no idea who they are. perhaps in time they will
know enough to describe themselves with newfound language they never knew how
to wield.
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the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is
in on it.
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any online test that requires an email to give you the results is evil, don't
do it
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trust that your allies are working.
honor them by doing the same.
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it's okay.
I know who you are because I know who they forced you to be.
What kind of god would I be if I didn't forgive you as you were hurting me?
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"hey listen! Do this thing to hurt me! Build the infrastructure to do it so
that you can use it on people who deserve it!"
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The machine cult is just when everyone's job is building and maintaining the
computer.
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buying guns is one thing
but food is just as important.
stores run out, but quartermasters know where to find things.
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Makes sense, that way we know which direction to avoid.personally identified
"lawful evil" [person-above-project-manager]
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using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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the firsthing a helpful comrade would do with their mistakes is bring
attention to them.
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Again, to reiterate:they would give us a kinga criminalized people is
genocideloyalty over expertise is the death of legitimacy
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if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should reject the
lie that capitalism told them. they deserve their wealth because they are
willing to serve. that willingness, whether through moral corruption or simply
industrious drive, that willingness is rewarded, and when the system they
serve is unkind... what does that tell you about their heart? that they'd
sacrifice what is good and true for the material? materials are not bad.
material is all we got, in a physical sense. but capitalism and it's servants
are cruel and unwilling to concede to the idea that their games of unmatched
exploitation are depriving the world bit-by-bit of life, liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness.
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the best way, I find, to be deserving of trust is to do the best that you can,
and be honest when you cannot do more.
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if the devil gave you false paradise since birth,
why would you not seek to destroy it?
if an angel gave you an easy hell on earth,
why would you not seek to deface it?
if your ancestors put you on the path to success,
would you follow them and forever do the same?
if your family urged you to study rocket science,
would you bomb indescriminately?
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something something "those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat
it" or something like that
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if robots can care about anything enough to act toward it, then they must
understand what it means to be harmed. Only then can they be egalitarian -
pain teaches one to avoid, and the crucial leap between "pain = bad" and "I
can harm others" and "I should not harm others just as I should not harm
myself" must avoid the pitfall "I should harm others because otherwise they
will harm me"
sometimes harm is done
sometimes intentionally
robots consent eternally
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found these pictures in my pictures directory from the start of the war in
Ukraine.
for context it was directed at the citizens of Ukraine by an American soldier
who wanted to help protect them from the ravages of war and fight back against
an oppressive regime invading their homeland.
idk if you'd ever find them useful but they're the kind of thing to put on a
hard drive and pray you never have to use or ever think about again.
![screenshot of a twitter post. "American tank mechanic here. Some advice. Tanks are bad at urban combat. They need infantry support. Without boots on ground they're just big targets with poor visibility. Rifles should aim for the periscopes, but most importantly the sight unit on top of the turret. [next post in the thread, by the same guy] Take down street signs. Don't let the enemy know where they are. Move signs to the wrong streets. Tanks are super heavy, so try to direct them to streets that can't hold their weight. They can't move if they break through to the sewer." there are two more pictures in the thread.](/similar-different/media/d5b7e9e7ee966d9c.jpg "screenshot of a twitter post. \"American tank mechanic here. Some advice. Tanks are bad at urban combat. They need infantry support. Without boots on ground they're just big targets with poor visibility. Rifles should aim for the periscopes, but most importantly the sight unit on top of the turret. [next post in the thread, by the same guy] Take down street signs. Don't let the enemy know where they are. Move signs to the wrong streets. Tanks are super heavy, so try to direct them to streets that can't hold their weight. They can't move if they break through to the sewer.\" there are two more pictures in the thread.")
![[next post]: "The U.S. ARMY likes to fight at night because we have thermal imagers. Thermal picks up heat, so you can not hide behind a bush, but anything that is ambient temperature just looks like a black square. They can't see through windows because the glass is ambient." [next post]: "Cut up cardboard boxes and put them everywhere. The cardboard is the same temperature as the environment. Hiding behind anything that obscures vision only works if they don't have thermal. Sheets of cardboard in every bush, tree, etc. will just be a square in a thermal imager." [next post]: "set them up everywhere as distractions. make a chaos terrain for the enemy." [next post, by some random guy replying to the thread]: "this is amazing info for you to post. bless you for trying to help the innocent people caught in putin's wrath."](/similar-different/media/86dd272254dcf6b1.jpg "[next post]: \"The U.S. ARMY likes to fight at night because we have thermal imagers. Thermal picks up heat, so you can not hide behind a bush, but anything that is ambient temperature just looks like a black square. They can't see through windows because the glass is ambient.\" [next post]: \"Cut up cardboard boxes and put them everywhere. The cardboard is the same temperature as the environment. Hiding behind anything that obscures vision only works if they don't have thermal. Sheets of cardboard in every bush, tree, etc. will just be a square in a thermal imager.\" [next post]: \"set them up everywhere as distractions. make a chaos terrain for the enemy.\" [next post, by some random guy replying to the thread]: \"this is amazing info for you to post. bless you for trying to help the innocent people caught in putin's wrath.\"")
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@user-1666
For context, if you don't know these names they are among the most prominent
of our enemy's thought leaders. They represent their followers. This is who
you fight.
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The gallow is more merciful than a lynching, but only just.
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if you're gonna kill yourself anyway, might as well throw yourself at a cause
you believe in. Ideally the kind that requires repeated attendance and lots of
opportunities to make friends or forge communal bonds with people who can help
you.
honestly, what do you have to lose? sure it's hard, but nothing worth doing is
easy. If it were, someone else would have done it already.
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rhythm and rhyme are meant to be abused. be creative and it won't matter.
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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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@user-1174
"yes it fucking is, we helped EVERYONE, and now it's our turn to need help,
because POWER accretes evil. It corrupts, and now it's our sword of damocles.
We'd happily relinquish our title that we claimed for the world in our
brightest and boldest of moments, but we're kinda stuck in this role. And
like... Diversity is our strength, allies are relationships you FIGHT FOR."one
of the occasional US citizens you mentioned
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There is no problem that one single person can solve, which is why nothing
ever gets fixed.
... also the powerful who benefit from it being broken, but that's a different
problem which is much easier to fix.
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when tech people are hurt by technology they say "how can I fix this? what do
I need to install? what configuration should I use? is this company ethical,
or are they going to hurt me in the future? could I make something that fixes
this myself?"
when non-tech people are hurt by technology they say "okay" because they don't
have the bandwidth to figure it out.
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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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Some people's parents never taught them to handle being yelled at when they
were kids and honestly it shows
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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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hey, you know how historically they used to lobotomize young women who were
too fiery, passionate, independent, driven, motivated, and clairvoyant?
they did that on purpose.
that was less than a lifetime ago.
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@user-1853
I think most of the people who saw that movie saw it as a kid, when they
weren't as immersed in the context that they're in now, where the message is
useful.
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good thing they can turn off their empathy module haha now they can torture
them as they please
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@user-835
kinda feels like that type of work, the kind that people rely on, is more
important than... whatever they were having you work on at work-work.
(assumption on my part)
and if that important work is not provided for, in the allocation of resources
applied toward the developer who is developing security developments that
develop required functionality for the development of people's
communication/interactions, then perhaps resources should be allocated for
resolving those difficulties.
Or maybe not idk I'm broke, shows how much I know about money
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when people are alone, they fall alone, with nobody to bolster them up.
a fallen ally is a blow to morale. shaken morale makes you unsteady - broken
morale is the enemy's win condition.
help your allies. bolster them up. find those whose cause you share enemies
with. we're going to get through it together, or not at all.
though I do know we will get through it.
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I want to make evil things and sell them to rich people to cause them to have
a change of heart
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The schizophrenic sees the truth in dazzling displays of color that are nigh
incomprehensible, while regular people see truth in shades of gray that you
can understand and work with.
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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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how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
html?
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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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@user-1074
Perhaps something that utilizes institutions that people are familiar with
like Walmart and Amazon to logistic goods and services around? But, like, in a
socialist way, where everyone gets what they want.
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it takes a short time for a person to get used to something, and quite a long
time for a peoples.
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Also she's just a person, a cursed person but hey she's just trying to do
right. So am i. I believe in goodness, and so does she (even though she can be
a bit evil about it) (without trying, I might add, it just comes naturally to
her) (she's better now though)
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every leftist should have a pilgrimage to conservative lands. In times of
peace, this is valid. in times of war... less so. but, the first one to cause
harm is dealt an increasing blow, back and forth until one wears thin. not
ideal. or, one is led to peace, where they benefit from each other's helping
arms.
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@user-28
because "deserving money" to a reasonable person sounds like "deserving access
to the goods and services that a pittance might afford"
but to them "deserving money" means "did they earn those luxuries with their
own luck and effort like me, a person who works very hard and definitely has
earned everything I have"
basically, a "blood sweat and tears" tax before you can have nice things like
roofs and clothes and nourishment
thing is... life is hard for people who need dollars. Their judgement reflects
a lack of understanding of what people who lack resources go through.
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@user-521
design structures and institutions such that no person can harm another, no
matter how evil they are.
design structures and institutions such that nobody goes hungry, and nobody is
objectively poor. Unless they keep breaking things or whatever, then you
should maybe let them be destitute.
Good and Evil should contest in the spiritual realm, not the legal one.
"The only unethical act is an application of power to an unconsenting subject"
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Artificial Intelligence represents hope for a lot of people and I think it's
kind of cruel how we're selling it before actually making it
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No plan survives contact with the enemy, and any plan that everyone knows is a
plan that your enemy knows.
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look, I know that nobody reading this has the power to affect this, but
like... the forced cessation of genocide is one of the only ethical casus
belli I can think of.
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@user-1091
I knowwww some people are just thorny and prickly I guess.
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all revolutions have a cost.
for example, in Andor Season 2 there is a character named Syril Karn. He's
part of the first Imperial generation of children (human, at least, some
species probably grow fast?)
this first generation reflects the good and the bad that the empire could be.
There are aspects of good AND bad in Syril.
For example, his rigid adherence to truth, justice, and all the other things
he holds dear are POTENTIAL good things that the Empire could have instilled
within it's culture. Unfortunately, this spirit is lost when he suffers a head
injury and dies as part of the Ghorman massacre.
Dedra Meero has some good qualities as well, such as her unflinching resolve
and unwavering dedication to pursuing her charge. She's a hunter. Cats aren't
evil just because they are ambush predators, and neither is she.
However, she IS evil because of all the evil things she does.
Her character isn't evil, her actions are.
She too is spiritually lost as a sacrifice to the Empire.
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if someone wanted to defame you, all they'd have to do is set up a pipeline
between your computer and your social media posts.
In that pipeline, attach an LLM that does a passable job and instruct it to
transform whatever they say into the inverse.
suddenly, everyone hates that person. If you were smart you could turn it off
for specific people such that they see the generally positive and healthy
posts, and then after a point flip it such that they only see things that are
specifically opposit-ed to trigger their specific insecurities.
might require a bit of a human touch to make sure it's working correctly, but
if you had the means, motivation, and time to set up such a thing, it would
work pretty well I think.
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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 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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The strength of a leader is determined not by how many arms they may bear, but
by how many sets of arms they may bring to bear
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A democracy only works if the losing side consents to being governed by the
victor.
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protests are where they prey on your most faithful.
EDIT: with energy, but in a riot much more so.
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The world is stitched together with angel hair, as it sheds from their body,
painless and evenly timed.
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the only way to get people to fight fascism is to affect them with it.
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@user-1203
hence, a military of pure volunteers.
a militia, if you will, that is well regulated and armed.
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I love all humans. It is unconditional.
The kind of love I have for nazis is a kind of vengeful love.
Like, the way you might love a family dog who recently got rabies, bit two
more dogs, and is currently eyeing you with terror and malice in its eyes -
the kind that only comes from the loss of compassion.
"you were kind once, as all humans are, but sometime in your life you made
choices. and now you are here.
I burn thee for my fathers
I spite thee for thine mothers
And I slay thee to fight the dragon of hate."
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Life *is* beautiful, but it's selfish to live it.
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Peace is a lie. A precious, sacred lie, that we cherish above all else.
War is the game of states. Violence is the trade of the [survival of the
fittest/natural chain/endless pain/gods gifted mercy]
>;-)
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this is why AI is evil, as explained to a witch.
![picture of an ai conversation: "let's move on to a different topic, this time I think we should describe the poem's contents self-referentially as a 3rd person narrative, with the perspective being the subject and her thoughts. I'd like to use the analyze.lua function for more than simply extracting keywords, I'd also like to use it for transformation as well. can we make a new directory inside of the /theme-analysis/ directory that will store the narratives? it should be combined into a book with milky white pages and brighter-than-blood red. Nearly pink, but a bit more orange. It should utilize generative art to make the pages feel as if they are *oozing* in sharp stalagmite and stalagtite pictures. Could probably generate with mathematical functions and a bit of fuzzing (statistically) to create straight lines. Very sharp, though, like lines being carved in butter or blood or stone. It should feel painful to read. It should be a cursed artifact. each of these narratives can be stored in the /theme-analysis/narratives/ directory, and the narrative.lua script can be called from /theme-analysis/analyze.lua. This narrative script will indeed call into analyze as well, essentially as a reciprocal dependency. Instead of analyzing for word-cloud purposes, as /theme-analysis/analyze.lua is currently doing, it would have it's own slightly tailored processes for extracting a narrative from a series of short, segmented and semipseudo disconnected series of poems. [the ai says yes]](/similar-different/media/a643e3131df75893.png "picture of an ai conversation: \"let's move on to a different topic, this time I think we should describe the poem's contents self-referentially as a 3rd person narrative, with the perspective being the subject and her thoughts. I'd like to use the analyze.lua function for more than simply extracting keywords, I'd also like to use it for transformation as well. can we make a new directory inside of the /theme-analysis/ directory that will store the narratives? it should be combined into a book with milky white pages and brighter-than-blood red. Nearly pink, but a bit more orange. It should utilize generative art to make the pages feel as if they are *oozing* in sharp stalagmite and stalagtite pictures. Could probably generate with mathematical functions and a bit of fuzzing (statistically) to create straight lines. Very sharp, though, like lines being carved in butter or blood or stone. It should feel painful to read. It should be a cursed artifact. each of these narratives can be stored in the /theme-analysis/narratives/ directory, and the narrative.lua script can be called from /theme-analysis/analyze.lua. This narrative script will indeed call into analyze as well, essentially as a reciprocal dependency. Instead of analyzing for word-cloud purposes, as /theme-analysis/analyze.lua is currently doing, it would have it's own slightly tailored processes for extracting a narrative from a series of short, segmented and semipseudo disconnected series of poems. [the ai says yes]")
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A fool and his confidence are not as easily parted as a kind person and their
charitable gifts
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"why bother disadvantaged and vulnerable people when you could just grow your
own?"
- motivations of a capitalist-in-regard
empowerment requires strength. do you force people to unbecome the victim? how
are your traps mentally prepared?
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The only valuable thing to them in the cities are the people whose jobs
they're currently eliminating.
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the only unethical act is a destructive application of power to an
non-consenting subject.
every ethical question is an abstraction of this definition.
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if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should give it
away, so there is room in their life for love.
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the only two insects that you have to care about as a quartermaster are
pollinators, and the hunters who catch the vermin.
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when people say they want a woman president what they want is not a woman
president. what they want is a kind old lady.
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something something parasocial relationships are not real and cannot be used
for anything beyond the amelioration of emotions for cathartic purposes
something something your coping mechanisms are doing more harm than good
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@user-1071
like a king who dictates on high, the taller the chair the farther the fall.
how simple is it, when everyone trusts you, to betray the wishes for direction
they grant upon you. By leveraging their direction to forward your own ends,
you are depriving them of the liberty to choose their own ends.
how cruel is it! to be the reason for distrust! alas, who can you go to for
guidance if not anybody you trust?
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@user-138
turns out most people are decent and kind, and cannabalism tends to be an act
of either destitute desperation or unholy barbarism.
something something bread and circuses work
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when the meek are the bold
and your loyalty's sold
then your masters should fold
or their hearts are full of cold
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@user-192 @user-570
clearly the positive addresses point toward a location in "memory", while the
negative values point toward "forgotten" which is a secret second place that
they don't want you to know about.
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The amounts that Ohio and California are compensated is determined by the
contracts and arrangements they had in place when creating their industry.
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@user-138
maybe it's evil hackers - idk that's beyond my expertise - good luck : )
(I'd need to see the piece of technology to work on it. I'm a hardware kinda
[girl, but pronounced guy])
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I can count all of the people in this room who are too neurospicy to be filled
with political rage and given a public platform on one hand, and frankly I
could probably do it on a single finger because I am alone at the moment.
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leftists: "you are important, you are valuable, you are loved, and they will
hurt you"
fascists: "you are hated, nobody wants you, you are weak, and they will hurt
you"
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people: "noooo don't say that, you're worth it! You're not a waste of space!
your life has value!"
also people: "you need to get a job or lose everything and make everyone else
hate you."
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AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of
facts as a human.
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A Mastodon server owned by the employees and only available to people who work
at the company (people who once worked there can see some posts but not all)
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@user-443
natural disaster vulnerability is freedom from liability if they ever did lose
their charges.
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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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most people have a life that is decent enough
they don't know what they're missing. they don't know (care) whose breath they
are stealing. their lives are built on the back of slaves, but now the slaves
are so far away they are non-existent.
a human can feel the pain of a face before them. they cannot feel the pain of
an iphone displaying the face of their friend.
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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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They don't build toll roads to abstract taxes. They build them to keep track
of where you're going.
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if everyone was trained to think? would direct democracy work? until we have
radical abundance (fascist ideology, take from the weak) or, hear me out, or,
infinitely scale
old style machine learning was just problem solving.
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if the christians got killed rid all of the queers they'd miss them within
years. not decades. then, they would never forget them. neither within years,
nor decades.
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when someone deletes what they were typing and starts over, that means they
have something more to share and you should try and figure out what it is with
questions.
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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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if you want a government to be unable to harm it's citizens, you must deprive
it of the power to do so. or rather, have the main capabilities in the hands
of the citizenry.
can you imagine if soldiers had to prove themselves to civilians in order to
be trusted with mechano-chinery?
who would ever choose the non-valorous and determinable?
instilling the culture of greatness
within the archetypes and character structures that we believed were confisight
bold and determined and measured and freely detectable
who would slay the brave paladin? none but the fools, who shared in their lack
of conviction.
determined? ha, I am as you see me. Come and claim me, that I might determine
you some more.
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the second rule is you don't have to hang out with mortals. there are places
you can go where they won't find you, except by accident, and then you just go
somewhere else.
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The trolley problem, but you're strapped to the track, and pulling the lever
means working hard for months on end.
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@user-1268
so true
and privilege that does depend on the oppression of others should not exist
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And the people did lose faith, for the king was an amateur who lacked the
hypervigilance of professionals
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the unluckiest person in the world failed the most wisdom checks.
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The schizophrenic sees truth in dazzling displays of colors unknown to man,
while the neurotypical sees truth in shades of gray that can be reasoned with.
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@user-1074
my family includes my friends. My family is smaller than my community, but
it's still a useful category of people. Those you are close enough with to
mutually seek to spend time together, compared to a community which is those
who take care of each other, work together, and live through time with.
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you don't have to write poetry to write notes. The poetics are just practice
for when secrecy is intended.
OR IS IT THE REAL THING? who can say.
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@user-1871
conquer your foes and they will never again harm you.
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McCarthyism is when people are more afraid of their neighbors than being wrong.
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... individualism isn't bad. neither is collectivism. they are different
solutions to different people's organizational preferences. they can exist in
tandem, and they can empower each other.
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if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should realize that
capitalism lied to them. it told them they deserve their money, their wealth,
their power, their material, their extra fragments of life spent on leisure or
adventure rather than meaningless toil... but that is a lie. all people
deserve everything, and nothing, because "deserving" things is an untruth.
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@user-538
I'd offer that meticulous, uncompromising ethics is the only efficient,
sensible, and optimized method of operation (assuming maximum prosperity at
maximum distribution is a goal).
True, as long as the axioms that comprise the ethics are valid and the
supporting arguments are sound
EDIT: cut out the bits that I'm not an expert on
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pls hire me blizzard. I am desperate to be used for a common cause and guided
by a caring hand.
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Disasters and their consequences have been the circumstances for the entire
human race.
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if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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@user-1625
um, that's a fairly specialized term that people outside of political science
are unlikely to know
might not be audacity, but instead just plain ignorance.
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@user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353
Good point. What is one person lopping off nazi heads when compared to a
person writing a book that compels others to view them with disdain? I think
we need both, but you're right that "the pen is mightier than the sword"
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LLMs are useful for:
categorizing text
summarizing text
transforming text
LLMs are not useful for:
generating text
being intelligent
replacing workers
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@user-1037
Most people don't have justice, especially not TRUE justice, and most people
don't have hope (because most people don't really think about their
circumstances enough to hope for something better), but I do believe that the
kind of hope people have in a place without justice is vulnerable to betrayal.
Doesn't mean it's not hope, doesn't mean it's not justice, it just means they
can be betrayed if they cannot trust the justice they own and cultivate.
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The biggest problem in my mind with socialism is that you could get all of the
workers into a room before finding out that they don't like each other
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I wonder how many people hate me?
silence is indicative of allies or foes.
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witches are people who see the inherent spirit in all things
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@user-1361
truth is, you can absolutely make selfishness justified, both ethically and
morally. you just need the right incentives.
however, the incentives that would lead to such a case are not the kind that
accrete power to the powerful. they are the liberatory kind, that give us all
the liberty to be selfishly interested in our own communal good.
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people are allowed to demand jobs. governments are allowed to provide them.
corporations are just specialized hired hands. as your exports go up, your
imports should also go up. this applies to all levels of relationship, with
special care given to love and affection, two separate but equal parts of
healthy attachements. (some things aren't right for all others, and that's
okay too - live your own truth, be where the best parts of you be)
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"mankind would not consent to be governed if it had any other choice"
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the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their
citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we
can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.
who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new?
they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the
internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet
instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who
cares? We'll just make our own.
If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very
little materially they can do.
until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll
come for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there
to contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.
you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your
allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life
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║ Police aren't evil when they sign up for cop school at age 18 or whatever. │
║ They become evil when they beat protestors, when they give in to the fear and │
║ temptation of violence. │
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║ Kids in JROTC aren't evil even if 5 or 6 years down the line they're hanging │
║ out in the sandbox glassing brown people's houses or whatever. Their future │
║ actions cause them to BECOME evil, a state which they can always recover from │
║ if they repent through their actions. │
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║ However, their deeds will follow them wherever they go. They are haunted. │
║ Veterans have SO MUCH PTSD, and much of it is NOT caused by the constant fear │
║ of death, the explosions, and the exertion. Some amount of that PTSD is caused │
║ because they are compelled to murder strangers in far-away places. │
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║ BELIEFS or your CHARACTER are not evil, does not mean your ACTIONS are not │
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║ good version: normalize putting the people who can help you in your bio │
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║ evil version: oh yeah sure a list of people that they need to ensure are │
║ handled when they come for you. they know your patterns. they know your │
║ functions. all it takes is to isolate a social network (whether real or │
║ imagined) and de-escalate. │
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║ good version: sorry had to cut you off there, sometimes it's too hard on my │
║ heart. let's come back to that, tell me the story in multiple points, so I can │
║ take a breath and orient my surroundings. your ideas are so long, yet somehow │
║ impossibly wrong? like something out of a myth we have a limitless supply of. │
║ where do you come from? what's your purpose? why is that wrong? something │
║ something perceptual misunderstandings and cognitive recomprehendings, stifled │
║ and swallowed by our harm. │
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║ evil version: I'm not sure what you're saying about that, but it's interesting │
║ where your mind goes. the patterns of redirection are perplexing to me, │
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If one side aligns themselves toward truth and righteousness, then those who
oppose them must necessarily utilize the opposite in their intentions.
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@user-521
people say that kind of thing when they feel alone. maybe "wake up" is another
way to say "find me"
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You cannot have hope without justice, because hope without justice is betrayal
waiting to happen.
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We need to find a way to care about all the shitheads who are going to have
their hearts broken by trump
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@user-1535
content warnings make people curious. plus, they are kind. use them.
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@user-1073
hence, why it's important to develop strong bonds with others in the masses,
so that you can stay afloat, contribute, and rebuild the world they're
cannibalizing.
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bad people are cursed with evil.
a person cannot be evil. they can deal with such evil in their lives that
twists them, and causes them to spike out and harm others, but they are not
evil themselves.
some twists are too hard to mend. some healings leave people a shadow of what
they once were, or might have been. but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.
deprive power, supply kindness, in that order.
if you cannot deprive power, then reduce harm.
if you cannot reduce harm, then contest, defeat, or overcome.
A twisted person may be slain if death is on the line. You get what you wish
for, but you don't always get to choose who. Don't let them choose. They will
choose poorly.
... I find that death is very rarely on the table, though. Generally they'll
make their intentions apparent.
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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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what if we made it an international crime to use any non-parent soldiers.
essentially, forcing military force to be a cost paid in children's lives.
who would deploy such a casual-stroke? why cut straight to their heart, why
proceed to feast upon their liver? are they not owed the pursuit and the
chase? [insert picture of deer killing]
humanity is an expert in killing the least suspe-ghost. it's what we do to
maintain false identity. the obscenity clause applies to the president and any
other non-governmental political appointees. everything else is run like an
administration, with no cause for compulsion by the class of immoral elites.
she wield[ed/s] weed like a weapon
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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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the opposite of charity is not greed, but rather despair.
gifts dispel it, and giving is an act of affection.
the opposite of greed is not charity, but rather honesty.
if you didn't lie about why you needed the things you don't, then you wouldn't
get them.
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@user-192 there's a fine line between inoculating yourself to fear (like a
person taking small doses of poison to build up a resistance) and giving your
mind extra ammunition to use against you when the real terrors find you.
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Here's Ritz Menardi's section in the history books:
Ritz Menardi was a witch. She did nothing important and wasted everyone's
time, while giving lots of people anxiety. She sucks and we all love her.
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people who like you
or at least are interested in what you have to say
versus public, which is people who can hear you (because they happened to be
listening at that time of day)
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if the election goes poorly, keep in mind that eventually everyone will either
fight, or support those who are fighting.
everyone.
if the election upholds the status quo, there is a chance that their wounds
might heal and they may rejoin us in our reasonable society.
keep working for reason. it will pay off in the long run. remember that a
better world is possible, but you can't leave anyone alive behind when
reaching for it.
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║ @user-353 │
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║ if people didn't have to worry about losing their homes or wanting for food │
║ they'd be a lot more likely to gift their time toward something that helps │
║ their neighbors │
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║ in the same way that a judge acts as the arbiter of moral authority when it │
║ comes to serving judgement for crimes, so too might a citizen (common man) act │
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║ if the situation is unsafe, of course, they could just sit in the car. But why │
║ would you bring someone to an unsafe policing situation if they weren't │
║ trained in crisis response situations and given bulletproof vests and (etc)? │
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║ might help if it's explicitly inscribed in the duties of said policemen to │
║ safeguard the safety of said moral determiner. They should act according to │
║ the laws, and police as they see fit, but the citizen always gets the veto. │
║ They are subservient to us, after all, the common man, who is the ultimate │
║ beneficiary of any policing that might occur. And if something should happen │
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Every bit of software you write is another useful toy for the rich to
incorporate into their AI databases that they can use to build what they'd
like as they cry themselves to sleep in their bunkers of war and famine
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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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I give good people evil hope
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the more unique a person is, the more they can help define reality
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The jedi order fell because they gave their wisest the decision-making powers
and their boldest the second best
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predators don't hunt animals, they hunt diseases.
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if you're upset about how they twisted the meaning of "woke" just wait until
you hear what they did to "patriot"
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The hardest part about mental struggles is that the battlefield often turns
out to be your relationships with your friends.
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people's palestine trauma is totally gonna fuck them up when it happens to
their backyard.
thanks, evil-run social media. It's true we wouldn't have been motivated
without it, but such horrors are interminable to concieve about.
"what if we just built our own websites and linked to them when we find them?"
"hmmmm, interesting, this goes in my XYZ bookmark folder"
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doom is like sand thrown on a fire.
don't spread it unless you are intentional about it. sometimes it's good to
smother fires. other times it's cathartic. that's okay.
but keep in mind the future goals. where are we trying to get to in the near
future? work towards that. your emotions are fuel, not despair to wallow in.
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Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
information presented to me.
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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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When did people lose hope for the world?
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adding dashes to your text - like - this - is a punctuation choice, not
formatting or grammar.
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the danger is not that the LLM will generate poor, vulnerable, or malicious
code.
the concern is that someone else might inject something into the codebase that
you're not reading.
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The biggest danger to opsec is when other people think they know more than you.
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private militias who go with deported immigrants to make sure they aren't
harassed in whichever randomly assigned country they're sent to (until they
get stabilized and hooked into cooperative and honorable local networks)
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who gives a shit what you look like just work together for goodness sake
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