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 the animals are afraid.
 
 they can hear it just the same as you do, and they don't understand it
 
 but you do
 
 I bet
 
 if enough birds
 
 saw us working hard to fix things, outside, physically, with our bodies, in a
 way that a bird might understand, then perhaps things will get solved.
 
 --
 
 I don't hear noises when things talk. I hear "eat me" when the rice-cooker is
 done, I hear "WOW" when a car horns and "wash-ing-wash-ing" from my dishwasher.
 
 my cats peaks for "FOOD" because I offer "food for her" but if I thought of it
 as "feeding her" she'd probably hear "FEED"
 
 then other times I hear "moooom. I'm scared. why!?" and I sing her a song
 about how it's going to be alright.
 
 the poor thing is lonelier than me. at least I have you, computer-tube.
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--- #1 fediverse/2089 ---
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║ "ah nuts, the crows are back. Better give them some diced-up carrots so they     │
║ shut up."                                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ BAD, this teaches them to "sing" for attention which is annoying af              │
║                                                                                  │
║ "Hmmm, this carrot looks kinda withered. I'm going to dice it up to throw to     │
║ the birds because it's better than rotting in a dump"                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ BETTER, because you're being sustainable and nourishing local wildlife,          │
║                                                                                  │
║ "That songbird is beautiful! And that squirrel is building a nest. I'm going     │
║ to throw some of this pre-diced carrot that I keep in an air-tight container     │
║ on my porch to them so they feel rewarded for doing things that I want"          │
║                                                                                  │
║ EVEN BETTER, but requires more effort and forethought                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ [noooo didn't you read ranger rick as a kid you're not supposed to feed the      │
║ wildlife because it'll teach them to trust humans in a world where humans can    │
║ be total assholes to them and also we don't want them hanging out in cities      │
║ because they might get run over or whatever]                                     │
║                                                                                  │
║ listen, they're gonna live where they can find food. And if they can't find it   │
║ in the woods, they'll liv                                                        │
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--- #2 fediverse/5712 ---
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 I feel like it should be normal? for humans? to feed creatures and animal-men.
 they deserve nibbles too! yum yum arm arm that tasty thing was fine. eeeeeep
 scary why are nobodies vegetarion!
 
 I think every community should have representatives from every other
 community, that's just... reasonable to me
 
 democracy of the cultural space? I wrote a common simple organizational
 structure about that called the "tribe of tribes" code name algorism which is
 a combination of "algoreithms" and "autism" and put it on my website for less
 than a hundred months. I have no idea if anyone ever read it but it's kinda
 neat as a potential and easy way to organize people which hasn't yet been
 infiltrated by the [cops/goons/coons] {uh-oh mildly racist sentiment
 mentioned, must content warn and remind of levels of sincerity}
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 whenever my cat is whining I walk around doing things that she might want
 until she stops trying to claw me - oh you want your litter cleaned? yeah sure
 I gotchu. oh you wanna go outside? nah okay how about playing with this yarn?
 no? okay let's see... oh dear you can see the bottom of your food bowl,
 conveniently forgetting the other mostly full food bowl over there... 😅
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 ... dangit, these sandwiches are getting kinda gross. Guess I'm gonna have to
 eat them myself, which, uh... idk what I expected xD
 
 sometimes you just have all this energy, right? and you don't know what to do
 with it, so... sandwiches. And hey, sandwiches are cool, they're a pretty neat
 anti-hunger tool! but uhhhh idk if I really want to eat six whole sandwiches
 myself. I'm gonna do it though hehe wish me luck [ding] ah nuts my rice and
 beans are done, hang on lemme eat those first
 
 [passes out from exhaustion]
 
 exhaustion can be cured with a nap
 
 exertion can be cured with water and a few rest days
 
 trauma can be allayed for at least a few days with soul food and compassion.
 maybe laughter too, depending on the mood.
 
 fear can be bolstered with a smile, a wink, and a courageous act,
 
 and loss is just change you didn't consent to.
 
 they won't consent too, so let's give them some change to tolerate.
 
 [internally salivating over all the piles of weaponry that I envision them
 surrendering]
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║ if you set out food for animals consistently, then more of them can live in      │
║ the area.                                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ but if you move across the state and take your bird feeder with you, the birds   │
║ will die.                                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ well, birds can fly, rabbits and chickens and squirrels are not so lucky.        │
║ birds might not die. though there is overall less food in the area, so they      │
║ might still die.                                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ when I was a kid, growing up in suburbia I used to see rabbits EVERYWHERE. My    │
║ cat would hunt them. I would run around with them. Now I see but a few.          │
║                                                                                  │
║ Rabbits eat grass, right? We sure do use a lot of pesticides on our immaculate   │
║ lawns. Or at least, the one neighbor three doors down does, and it's a free      │
║ country after all.                                                               │
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║ explain to me again why we can't leave a trail of chopped up carrots behind      │
║ our lawn mowers? Why we can't spread seeds on our trails, or fill basins with    │
║ water?                                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ ...  yeah, none of that makes money. All of it requires consistent persistent    │
║ effort. And it's not like our media glorifies it, what a shame it would be to    │
║ hold nature in our palms.                                                        │
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║ the crows know what we're up to, and they're begging us to stop.                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ "PLEASE" they scream, but we are not ones to listen.                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ they're not dumb. they know how our cars and machines output heat. obviously     │
║ they do, and the world is growing hotter as we do what we do.                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ "PLEASE" they scream, and I hear them because I listen. The words of the world   │
║ around me are what comes to my ears, and I interpret meaning based on their      │
║ sounds.                                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ if you just... allow something to try to speak english in it's "R2-D2" style     │
║ ways, you can actually pick up on their understandings they're expressing. Or    │
║ like, Han talking to Chewie because he knows what his different noises mean.     │
║                                                                                  │
║ hence, why they poison the ones who talk to their phones, and leave behind the   │
║ ones who listen.                                                                 │
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║ WOOF I don't think that's how it works, I mean, I'm a dog so I would know,       │
║ right? We're basically the human ambassadors in the animal kingdom. cats         │
║ are... well they're just there, but we dogs know so much more about their        │
║ human ways! For example we're quite adept at fet                                 │
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 ... Maps, my dear, those are important fuel.
 
 But also food is important. Why haven't you gotten groceries for weeks?
 
 It's also important to clean yourself. Doesn't your apartment still have fleas?
 
 Your cat demands your attention. Give it to her.
 
 Wear masks when in public, to ward off disease. When you are speaking remove
 it, so others can see your totality.
 
 There are some who belong here who aren't so kind. Remember that your neighbor
 is republican, their neighbor is democrat, their neighbor is republican, their
 neighbor is democrat. It's going to get messy, but here in our cities there
 are plenty of us. We can defeat them, so long as we are armed.
 
 Practice reloading. Practice aiming. These things can be done in secrecy. The
 noise and the recoil are enough to set your nerves ablaze, but ride that high
 and trust in your adrenaline. Have your foes surrounded on at least three
 sides before you engage. These are words for a different day, but keep them in
 mind. Internalize them.
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 I feel like the IT people who work at schools should be the ones who teach 
 classes on computer science. I'd much rather have a class taught by a sysadmin 
 than a teacher who can barely teach them excel and garageband. I mean c'mon 
 computers are the future idk why we don't get that yet. Kids need to know this
 stuff. It's not like it's super complicated and difficult, you just have to
 think about it a certain way. Once that "clicks" you have a lifetime to learn 
 about how wonderful they are. Everyone in IT has that moment, for me it was 
 installing (and then subsequently modding) video games. Sometimes I spent more
 time tweaking my system than I did actually playing games - and the kinds of 
 games I preferred were the ones that relied less on agility and were more 
 mental. Strategy games are what inspired me because I could think about them - 
 and that felt somehow more useful. Like I was learning. When I would learn 
 fighting games or FPSs I felt like I was learning a skill, like how to use a
 hammer or how to ride a bike. And idk, I felt like video games could never
 match
 reality. Like "oh boy imma push the B button to swing this sword" versus "hey 
 look at me I'm swinging this stick just like a sword and imagining so hard that
 I can picture it" - but with strategy games, you never really found 
 opportunities to practice that kind of skill. Like how often are you in a 
 situation that demands mental performance? We've sorta optimized our society 
 away from that, and toward a more passive stressed out compliance. like... 
 climate change is a thing, and nobody's doing anything about it? We're still 
 pushing down the levers that cause greenhouse gas emissions to go up? Like
 c'mon
 what's our plan. I think people who guide massive oil companies and such
 should
 be replaced if they're intentionally guiding the ship toward destruction. Like
 that's just dereliction of duty I tell ya. Oh, what's that? They're compelled
 to
 maximize profit by the contracts and restrictions of their share--holders? I 
 mean c'mon it's well past time for that. And what's all this about inequality? 
 Jeez and racism and homophobia and forced contribution - man people really put
 up with a lot of shit. Kinda makes me feel like we should make solving those 
 problems our highest priority? So we can move forward as a species? Like who
 cares about all that other shit. None of it matters. Like, what's even the
 point. We're all just "here", in the now, and what can we do but respect it? 
 It's our duty and our diligence to protect the present, as citizens of the 
 temporal experience of earth. Honestly, if the earth was alive would you be
 fine
 if it died? I can't believe that. It's well past our due date. Just get it over
 with. Maybe it'll be hard for a couple years, but you have the technology now
 to
 completely dominate the earth. No animal besides man proves any threat to man, 
 and we're telling you - you can - and that's something that you gotta remember.
 
 ...
 
 I hear it in the birdsong. I hear it in the air - it rumbles as cries at me
 from
 across and just over there. I hear in it's whispers, in it's most gallant of
 confells (?) (confused scrambling? it's talking about a car crash)
 
 Outside of my window there's a highway. Just on the other side of a concrete
 partition. Between me and the partition there is a lake, with trees and flowers
 and an island where people can picnic or have a barbeque. Around this path
 there
 are walkways, and arranged just so - the trees that have grown here are taller
 than the homes.
 
 I live on the third story.
 
 I absolutely love it. It feels like a treehouse.
 
 But my apartment is near a curve in the highway. It isn't much, nothing out of
 the ordinary, but even still there are slightly more crashes there than in
 other
 parts of the highway. Statistically.
 
 I hear sirens every day
 
 I also live right next to a fire-station. Well, it's on the same block. But
 even
 still it's a very interesting neighborhood. There's shops and food just across
 the highway, and closer to home there's a small section that has cheaper
 options. As a perpetual college student, I appreciate that.
 
 But... I've never really gone and used it? I dunno, spending money at a
 restaurant just didn't seem like a good use of my money. I only have so much of
 it you know. I'd love to be fed but I can't afford it - I wish I could.
 
 I still eat well, I mean I'm not starving over here. I know I've lost weight,
 but I dunno I just forget to eat. It's like... not that big of a deal for me. 
 whatever right?
 
 ...
 
 the birds talk about me behind my back. They think I can't understand them but
 sometimes I can. If I listen. But I dunno it takes a lot of effort. It's...
 sorta like understanding what R2-D2 is saying. Or interpreting the meows of a
 cat.
 
 They know me as the witch. I'm not very good yet, and they know that. But they
 know what to expect. /shrug
 
 I've been working on a video game recently. It's been a lot of fun doing
 programming. I like writing software and developing complex systems with
 interesting interactions. I love designing the machinery that creates a
 program.
 It's like... tinkering. It feels like building with blocks or legos, except
 it's
 for little machine parts. And then there's just sending data to and fro and
 modifying any operations it performs on it, and eventually that data reaches 
 some endpoints that create an effect that is displayed to the player. Or user.
 I should say user. Not all software is video games you know. ... I knowww but
 they're the most interesting! I love how they are designed around mechanics!
 like... game design is fundamentally about breaking down the world into ideas
 for how it should *work*, like how it should behave. It's amazing and I love
 it!
 
 It's all I can think about!
 
 I am utterly consumed!
 
 I'm also pretty sure I'm autistic.
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║ I really really love ramen noodles that are just a little bit old but still      │
║ warm and are slightly drying out a little bit but there's juuuuust enough        │
║ sauce down at the bottom to keep it coated                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ that's the stuff                                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ (meanwhile my evil side says: it starts with "hey can you help me cook dinner"   │
║ and then suddenly you're working all day every day)                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ (and then so are they)                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ (and it continues.....)                                                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ (... until.... )                                                                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ (one day you wake up and there's nothing you are capable to do)                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ (so then you're useless)                                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ (and demanding)                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ (and that's hard to handle)                                                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ (when your schedule is blocked, and there's nothing you are capable to do)       │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... weird, kinda drifted off for a second, anyway we should talk about           │
║ BIRTHDAYS! Birthdays are fun, theyre the day when you switch from being one      │
║ age to another. Like, rolling over a clock, or ticking-up a variable in          │
║ response to another variable which is at capacity.                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ buffer overflows would be impossible if you put import/export controls on        │
║ registers                                                                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ not "you can't do that" but "wheres your cre                                     │
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 pretend this is an allegory for social media.
 
 [it's not an allegory]
 
 yeah that's why I said pretend.
 
 okay imagine that you are sitting in a rock in a forest.
 
 far away, about 100 feet away, there are other people, but you can't see them
 because the underbrush is sooooo dense. they are also sitting on rocks.
 
 you can speak to them, and share your thoughts - but you don't know exactly
 where they're coming from because the sound has to bounce around off so many
 different plants and such.
 
 [that's not how that works] shut up
 
 so, if you want to say anything important, it's important to have the right
 tone, because people 2 or 3 clearings away can't really make out your words -
 but they might hear your tone if you yell very loud.
 
 the energy of the space you inhabit is the only thing that really matters. the
 words that you say are just snickering to a friend, but the expression on your
 face, the beating of the drum of your heart that reaches forth... that's what
 matters most.
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 "your feelings are valid, but have you considered that your feelings aren't
 actually valid because you're always wrong and nobody should ever apologize to
 you for anything because you suck and are wrong?"
 
 also,
 
 "my six digit salary isn't enough to pay for your rice and beans, but I won't
 have you eating sticks and mud, so do things you don't want to do because I
 said so."
 
 also,
 
 "I don't really "get" your art but that doesn't mean I should ever really try
 reading it. Also god forbid I actually ask for clarification like "what does
 that part mean" because I'm not actually that interested in you I just want a
 stable household so I never get traumatized again like [their childhood]"
 
 also,
 
 "yes I love you but no I don't want to play with you. you're such a cat."
 
 also,
 
 "every time you start making sense I'm going to try and derail the
 conversation so that we don't talk about kooky-dookerie because that's a
 conversation I can't win"
 
 also,
 
 sorry for venting. I mean, thanks for listeni
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 do you know ANYONE ELSE saying the same things as me?
 
 if not, then you know who is ready to lead.
 
 if so, then don't tell me about them, and don't show them me. It would be nice
 to know that I'm not alone, though.
 
 I know you're scared. I'm scared too. It's not like I've done this before
 (well, except for a dress rehearsal or two)
 
 We're on the same side. We're getting ready to move. Now is the time to go, so
 get ready or be purged.
 
 We will not relent our land they seek to steal. We will not defy them in
 unjust ways. They have taken so much from us, so now they must face our blades.
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 @user-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~

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 me to my cat: "don't eat so much that you puke, okay?"
 
 me to me: "yeah I can take on another task, I'm almost done with this one and
 then I'll just do that one and maybe this one'll get back to me at the same
 time as this one which conflicts with this other thing so maybe I'll just
 puke, okay?"
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 the people around me are my understudies. I guess. unbeknownst to me. somehow
 that makes me feel more vulnerable? like gee there's people who want to kill
 me, great. scary. and they all hate me, but lust for what I might let them
 become. All they have to do is master me, and then they can kill and replace
 me. great. I think I'll continue to scream, thank you very much.
 
 PLEASE PLEASE GOD OH GOD HELP ME PLEASE
 
 yeah yeah, heard it all before. what's up this time my child?
 
 uhhuh, have you tried turning it off and on again?
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║ my enemy is not "the rich"                                                       │
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║ money brings power, and power brings evil, but there are many other ways to      │
║ gather power that may be just as evil.                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ my enemy is evil. of which there is very little in the world, but much of        │
║ which resides in the hands of the powerful, upon whom all our fates depend.      │
║                                                                                  │
║ most people with money are either stupid lucky, willful, or intensely focused.   │
║                                                                                  │
║ some people with power are rich, and some people with power are evil.            │
║                                                                                  │
║ I know it when I see it. Sometimes, you need to force the choice - test their    │
║ virtue - and from this you are informed.                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ most things go WAY over my head.                                                 │
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║ most things are too easy to be true.                                             │
║                                                                                  │
║ most things that Id do for you tend to be of the heart. I'm not a frontline      │
║ girl, I have weak noodle arms, but I do hope you're in shape.                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ resolve, determination, and innovation. That is what I offer. Do you want it?    │
║ I'm sure. I won't prove it with blood, not unless I may raise my fists in        │
║ defence of another.                                                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ I'm not JUST a baby, I'm a banner too.                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ bannermen fall.                                                                  │

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 the 
 
 "avoid them"
 
 "way too loud"
 
 "they're our/an annoyance"
 
 sorry I was late a little, I got distracted doing REAL HUMAN THINGS like play
 video games
 
 she's vulnerable because she can't be trusted. if anyone is disappearing after
 interacting with me, it's because someone is redacting them. go find that
 person
 and stop them from redacting people please, because I like interacting with
 people, not props.
 
 "if we just... walked around and took what we needed, would they really be able
 to stop us?"
 
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 heh what if we psyopped her
 
 oh god she ran in circles
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 say it with me now:
 
 Portlandia is not Portland
 
 and
 
 what's shown online to scare you is not Portland
 
 it's somehow more interesting than that, and also more expensive. because of
 course it is.
 
 keep portland weird yeah duh I'm weird as fuck but you wouldn't know it by
 looking at me
 
 yes you would, my dear
 
 okay well you wouldn't know how in particular I'm weird unless you talk to me
 
 nobody knows you. who are you even talking to
 
 heh good question glasses flash mostly people on the train or whatever
 
 question: when did all the "weirdos" become homeless people? what kind of
 world do we live in where - wait don't answer that.
 
 better question: how can we make a better world where people can be weird and
 not starve under the stars?
 
 (by lots and lots of government investment? no thank you, sounds like
 something that can be taken away.)
 
 (by redesigning society from the ground up? no way sounds too difficult and
 optimistic.)

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 solar energy is vegan
 
 you're not taking anything from the sun, just capturing it's natural
 expulsions. It's like... sun poop, and we're using it to post memes and hang
 out.
 
 okay food, emergency services, and... what else do we really need that
 consumes power? Obviously entertainment, but frankly without internet we'd
 probably keep to ourselves. I know I'd read a lot more books and chill out
 with my neighbors and whatnot. is that why similar people tend to live
 together? then why are cities so diverse? who can say...
 
 I dream of an ordered society, but frankly the kind that are most fun are the
 ones where a single person doesn't define their contents. Liberty, liberty,
 the freedom to be, and by god all men are created equal. the things we owe to
 one another are the things that bring order to a just and sane world. our
 future is blooming : )
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 ad-hoc economic systems with automated judgment given by an infinite amount of
 LLMs.
 
 Every judgement applies a bonus / malus to the "value" of commodities
 
 it's just a statistical weighting system, so of course you can build it into
 it's training data. Just... it has a smaller weight due to it's newer
 emergence. It grows naturally, which is quite an achievement on it's own!
 
 and the resolution of human decided court-cases and applied economically.
 
 say your nation traffics in handshakes. You could make a lot of now-knowns!
 there's no arguments to be made when your computer-oriented interactions cost
 money to keep around.
 
 we live in the modern century. WHY WOULD WE EVER NEED TO FIGHT AGAIN?
 Literally just... don't give them any attention, and you won't interact with
 them. Obviously.
 
 I wish Contrapoints was still alive.
 
 she doesn't even have to make new videos, just, dress up as herself, all of
 the costumes and personas she can think of. Then, have like 20 people who do
 the same thing, and boom suddenly you got a hydra to their expected snake that
 they can just cut the head off of.
 
 you know, like a fashion outlet, someone who produces exactly a certain type
 of style.
 
 seriously I bet a million people would do that if you just... sold outfits
 based on what your favorite youtuber does wear.
 
 omg why would they watch that kind of content if not for the *aesthetics*
 
 oh? there's philosophy there? soemthing to think about in your time doing
 things that require mechanical actions like eating and drinking and sleeping
 and fighting and [redacted]
 
 ew gross diapers? oh nevermind, I'm not into that kind of thing.
 
 I wonder if anyone's made a video game that just presents a particular
 philosopher's ideals?
 
 seriously just, consider yourself a glorified powerpoint, but to get to the
 next "idea" you had to interact with the mechanics.
 
 some people would like the "arcade" style better, where you play one random
 game, then another, then another, with short matches and un-complicated
 mechanics. Easy to pick up and go.
 
 same for like, Unreal Tournament or Mario Kart or Mortal Kombat or Super Mario
 Bros.
 
 compared to the at-home "story" style missions, where you do something
 platforming or area-based-combat like Dark Souls or World of Warcraft
 
 seriously I think if Dark Souls "colored" where the boss was going to swing to
 you'd find yourself just playing World of Warcraft (at least, the dungeons and
 {sword in the stone})
 
 == so ==
 
 humans don't understand what it means to be wild
 
 they think it's a combinations of... tricks? that they've learned? this
 thinking thing like intelligence. [osiris]
 
 to a cat, living their life, it often feels like human interactions is like...
 bouncing off of each other? in time, not space.
 
 like... most of a cat's lfe is just, spent, like a statue watching over a glen.
 
 you'd kinda just... watch as things approached dawn by dawn? Like "whoa hey
 this tree is enchanted" to "oh my gosh look at this stork" is one of the great
 tragedies of modernized thinking...
 
 ... sorry, I got a little lost there. anyway as I was saying, sometimes you
 can tell someone is a "good friend" if they are willing to tell you secrets.
 Things that... don't have to matter, but none-the-less are personal to your
 form.
 
 {something only I know is true} <--- that's a secret (things that happened
 to you) <------ that's lived experience. The thing about secrets, is
 sometimes insight is opaque. It's a single flashpoint of data that shows you
 an update of it's form. (consciousness).
 
 == so ==
 
 thanksgiving recipe idea:
 
 can of tomatoes
 can of peas
 half a stick of butter,
 italian herbs,
 a cast iron pan (if you have one)
 and like 40 minutes over medium heat
 (medium can vary to taste)
 
 if you're a carnivore you can eat meat too, like bacon a lot of people like.
 could add it to beans, maybe with hamburger instead. plus a little ketchup and
 you have a pretty good bean stew.
 
 vitals, for the organs, vegetables, for the minerals and vitamins from the
 fruits.
 
 makes sense to organize a diet according to your ideal body type, doesn't it?
 
 just requires a bit of comprehension. like... whoa you can WRITE 
 
 == so ==
 
 what if we built a massive rail that spaceships could launch off from? not a
 tether, but a sail.
 
 we could BUILD a discworld. all we'd lose is our fable.
 
 == so ==
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