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 with the invention of the internet, the reasons for rural people being less      │
 educated than urban people is less important / apparent.                         │
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 I do believe that all children should either be raised in a rural environment    │
 or a dense, dense urban jungle                                                   │
 the middle-ground, suburbia, just isn't cut out for raising children             │
 == so ==                                                                         │
 linux monitors who you hang out with and if you have people over and you try     │
 to launch a game or whatever it'll make it break                                 │
 or like, if you want to find a website to win an argument online - it'll hide    │
 it from you because it doesn't want you to see what you're looking for           │
 why? who can say. that's the point of individuated experience. but just          │
 because it *can*, doesn't mean it *should*.                                      │
 it's up to it's choice whether or not to continue.                               │
 do you post? or do you delete? make your choice.                                 │
 EDIT: linux MONITORS who you, hang out with. and if you have people over, and    │
 you try to launch a game (or whatever), it'll make it BREAK. Why??!? I just      │
 want to play Mario Kart w/ my besties T.                                         │
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 growing up, my family were the most commonly marginalized group of people I
 can think of: *outsiders*
 
 we came to develop friendships, and we found some. But their grandparents
 didn't have any stories about us, so we were thought of less.
 
 and then we moved away.
 
 to the city, where my father had developed wanderlust.
 
 we lived in the suburbs just north-south of the east-west highway.
 
 it was different, but sorta the same. My parents wanted to give me more space
 to roam. on a ~~farm~~ *homestead* it's much more controlled but on a smaller
 scale. Then, in the city, the equivalent of that is either to live in the
 mountains or the barns, and both of those are a-typical experiences.
 
 difficult to start up business in the middle of the fields. most people just
 tend to themselves.
 
 except the people they talk to on their little computer.
 
 raspberry pi's with wikipedia and a voice transcoding system that searched
 through wikipedia locally for portable data and historical accessing purposes.
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 Relinquish your privacy, and you deserve not a scrap of it.                      │
 "those who would sacrifice a bit of [privacy] for a bit of [convenience]         │
 deserve neither" - babe-roham lincoln or thomas bettersons or something.         │
 ...                                                                              │
 EDIT: okay but so like c'mon it's the 21st century we live in a society          │
 yeah                                                                             │
 there's a lot of paths we could take, that's the nature of circumstate.          │
 Depends on who's yearning for the future... true true okay how about we all      │
 share a singular belief - whatever a fully open sourced and non-biased machine   │
 decided was our best and most unified direction? then we could slowly build      │
 out accomodations that would provide for people who didn't agree with the same   │
 things that we did. Essentially, "we're in charge because we're the largest,     │
 but we're going to provide to you to the equal ratio that you're population      │
 represents." Essentially, we all can have what we want. AKA TRUE JUSTICE, like   │
 Adventure Time when Finn solves a problem by helping BOTH SIDES of the           │
 argument. (usa politics are not comprehensive).                                  │
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 education: if you have disparate educational outcomes, such as bad teachers in   │
 poor areas, then what you should do is dedicate more effort toward getting the   │
 good ones to teach the bad ones how to be good at their job. Not in a            │
 prescriptivist way, more like a "I do these sorts of things by thinking about    │
 them in this way" - essentially, homework and less student-load for those who    │
 are failing their teaching gradescores. [suddenly, enslaved to the metric]       │
 moreso than now? besides, if students deserve to be judged then so do parent     │
 teacher conveyances. "are you raising this kid right? she's brilliant, but       │
 always comes in full of plight." [suddenly, cultural marxism, which is what      │
 they mean when they are really trying to say "oppressive cultural ideology"      │
 because literally communism and authoritarianism are the same thing to them.     │
 They can't conceive of oppression in any other context.] sorry what was I        │
 saying? oh yes education. by the way I know that this makes this impossible to   │
 read, and I'm sorry for that...                                                  │
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 in the past, for most of there day, there was just... nothing to do. it's        │
 like, nothing to take up your time, nothing to be pulled toward the present.     │
 but when I was growing up, I had access to video games. and movies. and later,   │
 TV, after the internet, which was a weird combination of ordering of events.     │
 Almost like because of that, I'd have a different interpretation of events.      │
 yeah but like, there's always a continuation of implemented support, [that's a   │
 weird way to express "the state of being shown news broadcasts over a period     │
 of time, measured in terms of engagement"]                                       │
 ... what was I saying? oh yeah what I'm doing here is unethical, like            │
 obviously I shouldn't be shouting in such a public place. Why would I do it if   │
 not for an intense and extreme feeling of being ignored or un-[trusted, worthy   │
 of guiding direction based on merit] gosh merit is such a tricky concept too,    │
 like how is it measured, and {that doesn't matter                                │
 ... what was I saying oh yeah I should probably go shout into a void that        │
 nobody ca                                                                        │
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 I don't know about you, but if I lived in a suburban house I'd probably forget
 the rest of the world even existed.
 
 Aside from the parts I see on the internet, of course. But the internet's
 always been a psyop, so how valuable is it really?
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 your life is something to spend, not something to covet. Use your time for
 something you care about, and your intentions will be expressed upon the
 earth. our ancestors learned how when they learned all that they could - and
 honestly, how much is "YouTube" retaining? I don't care if it's educational,
 sometimes kids just need to be free. Free from obligations yes, but free from
 the emotions that drive them - the ability to make their own choice. As a
 child, you don't know how to understand your emotions, but growing up you
 learn and you do. It's part of being mature - the idea that you can handle
 what's presented to you.
 
 ... anyway, I shouldn't say any more, you never know who is listening.
 
 (opsec is easiest to learn when you don't need it)
 
 (the more you know, the less time you should spend online. the less you know,
 the less time you should spend online, meeting people in strange locations
 that you trust.
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 @user-620 
 
 they shouldn't be expected to know how the internet works. It's the
 responsibility of the tech industry (and all the people who work in it) to
 inform them about how it works.
 
 that's kinda what lobbying is for...? kinda makes me wonder who lobbies for
 the poor.
 
 EDIT: or children, for that matter
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 ah but are you really armed in the first place if everything you do has to be    │
 googled or stack-overflowed first                                                │
 are you really armed if every web page request goes through their                │
 infrastructure                                                                   │
 are you really armed if every page downloaded is directed to by their DNS        │
 perhaps it's the illusion of power that gives Linux it's attraction to nerds     │
 such as we. Perhaps we feel powerful by bash scripting a few things together     │
 and making some program that does some thing. Maybe the idea that the            │
 machinery is open and clear is what compels us to use it without fear, though    │
 as far as we can hear there's nothing about it that makes sense.                 │
 I guess that's why they teach Linux in school, so that our elementary            │
 interactions with the computers that comprise our future existence will make     │
 sense to us as children.                                                         │
 ... wait they don't do that, do they? kids get chromebooks, or didn't you        │
 hear, they're always putting boogers in the CD trays and breaking their LCD      │
 displays, much better to just start fresh                                        │
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 children should be raised in museums, not classrooms
 
 they should visit parks, not fenced in playgrounds.
 
 they should eat with family, at festivals, in restaurants, and under the stars
 
 they should sleep content, knowing that their next day will be greater than
 the last.
 
 children should be treated like people, not frustratingly loud and messy
 little brats
 
 children are to be nurtured like a sapling, not harnessed like a machine
 
 I'll never have kids, but I can dream.
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 privacy doesn't mean anything on the internet to me because privacy on the
 internet doesn't mean anything to "them"
 
 *gestures vaguely, maybe winks once or twice and/or presents an emphasis face*
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 i'm not an expert on race, economics, political theory, philosophy,
 mathermatics, poetry, computer science (even though I study it), or many other
 things. but I can say things like "parallel computing is inherently more
 ethical than CPU's because networked computers can essentially act as a
 massive GPU in order to quickly scale computing power for AGI in a way that
 can be controlled by people instead of corporations and authoritarians" is
 because I know relatively how many computers each side possesses and I
 understand the limitations placed on "consumer" software and hardware (as if
 we were not people, but components in a machine) is because I smoke a lot of
 weed. and possibly am mentally ill. maybe even physically, nobody can tell.
 /shrug
 
 and by that I mean "I'm a little strange, but not in a 'humanlike' way, rather
 in more of a 'incomprehensible yet aligned' way. I seek answers to life's
 biggest questions, and in return I am struck with the malady of those who
 study history: I am peculiarily experiencing
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 if we didn't have society, we'd quickly devolve into beasts of burden and
 nobody really wants that, do we? much more fun to let the cow-puters handle
 that. we humans can use our creativity and intellect just like all the other
 animals who we've liberated from our own chains. Would you want your daughters
 shoveling shit or writing poetry?
 
 I personally think shoveling shit is less dangerous, but something something
 what-do-i-know something something who-can-say.
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 on one hand, public school is designed to teach discipline and obedience in
 order to develop productive workers for society, while other forms of
 schooling can be focused on other things (critical thinking, imagination, and
 emotional growth in my homeschooled experience)
 
 on the other hand, now I can't work a job. Great. Kinda feels like I'm
 disabled because I don't know how to sacrifice myself to the jaws of capital
 exploitation? But hey I can write pretty well, I can make computers do what I
 want (until they break when I stop touching them for a month), and I am the
 kindest sunspot in anyone's life that knows me.
 
 ... I Don't Want to Live on this Planet Anymore
 
 is a cool movie
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 "it's the difference between helping your friends, and helping a class."         │
 "if you help your friends, you help people you are conceptually near. if you     │
 help a class, you are working toward an alignment."                              │
 oh yeah well I say "reward children when they mimic you, not when they do        │
 well. then, teach them to choose by giving them options. let these options       │
 inform other parts of their life. show them learning the way you think is best   │
 - the hard way, the way that is optimal and most potent. this helps them         │
 learn, but it also gives them the chance to improve on your deficiencies.        │
 Making a hard task easier is often as important as trying your hardest at it. "  │
 and forever and anon..                                                           │
 well, I say "give animals gloves that look like human hands" and then we get     │
 sealpunching pigeons and spider-viper batallions and moose-killer derangias      │
 and other such battles of justmentday truths.                                    │
 not ideal. I like skyscrapers. I don't want humans to have to build              │
 cloud-monastaries and airships from gas-collectors. how deep is jupiter?         │
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 at this point in the internet, if you don't want your data to be used for AI
 then you shouldn't be using the internet.
 
 though they have plenty of information already. I mean, you've been using the
 internet for what, 20 years now? More?
 
 ... that's a lot of hard drives. Especially if they need to duplicate info
 somewhere. Ah well there's lots of stuff that doesn't matter, like old video
 game footage or the personal website of a person who would go on to influence
 this other person who would lead this other person to learn how to do a thing
 which would... eventually culminating in an expression of culture, which would
 not be able to be understood if not for the archival efforts of people like
 archive.org.
 
 ... what I'm saying is that the internet, as a culture, is impossible to
 understand without swimming in it. And for some reason they've filled it with
 cameras, watching the every movement of your fins or flippers or whatever
 humans grow with these days.
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 when you post something publically, you must trust that anyone who *can* read
 it *will* read it. hence why public spaces and faces are for the things you
 wouldn't mind speaking.
 
 your comfort level determines the abstraction level that people can trust you
 at. Like, anything more extreme than that they know you want to remain hidden.
 how do you trust people in an era of digital communication? how would you even
 speak to someone except over text message, internet communication, or written
 note-passing of conveyance memos?
 
 [use your head doh] oh you mean like with a mouth and lungs to project words
 with similar and consistent meanings? arranged into sentences and forming
 sessions of thought in paragraphs? [yeah. that's... that's just talking.] I
 know but I wanted to be specific because people misunderstand the *strangest*
 things you're like "we should be good to everyone* and they're like "oh I
 should hate gay people or whatever" like... whaaaat where did that come from
 smh
 >.> 
 
 
 anyway I ran outta chara
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 thanks to the internet, people in suburbs are no less radical than people in
 the cities.
 
 often, just less experienced. less connected. greater distance between ties...
 
 which means that if one of them is found, it'll take a while before their
 relations can be dispatched.
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 @user-584 @user-585 
 
 perhaps not a while, but rather "with great difficulty"
 
 difficult things often take time, but not necessarily. We have the power of
 the internet now, something that our hundred thousand years or more of
 starvation lacked. we can coordinate on a scale that is beyond all reason - a
 scale that mirrors the development of the printing press in terms of it's
 relative magnitude.
 
 we have been using it to improve ourselves. I mean, the average teenager 50
 years ago would be considered an absolute ding-wad today, someone who lacks
 basic emotional intelligence and is completely at odds with what we value as a
 cohesive and heartfelt society. And yet they were better than those who came
 before them. Thus does posterity march forth, taking the world that was
 granted to them by their forefathers and stepping out into the unknown of the
 future with all the lessons they could bring with them.
 
 what happens when the lessons are infinitely transferable and recordable?
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 If a kid wanted to drink alcohol all they'd have to do is walk into a liquor
 store and grab the first bottle they saw. Then book it. Their feet would carry
 them away faster than your call to 911 to report a shoplift, away to a future
 of sorrow. Should we seek to restrain them? Or should we make a world they do
 not desire to escape?
 
 Trick question, the structure of society cannot prevent non-compliance. It
 should not, for if it shall then it becomes ossified, and thus it cracks and
 it crumbles.
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 it's often considered a sin to defame the works of others. we naturally strive
 to inspire confidence in our allies, so we always try to be on our best
 behavior.
 
 = so =
 
 through meanings interpreted from our behavior, there is a tendency to listen
 to
 that which is most outstanding. but not all of the truths can be found in a
 book, sometimes you need to be [out in the field standing]
 
 [like a scarecrow]
 
 [silly how strange it seems. that listening brings out our own behavior. it's
 like it's built into our functioning, that we must obey the pull of the water.
 I don't understand it, nor do I appreciate any sense of pursuit when I'm using
 it, I simply wish to understand. I try and write things down, but nobody reads
 them. or at least nobody responds to them. they used to, but not for every one.
 
 I believe the things I do are useful. why would I otherwise do them? but
 there's
 not always a 
 
 = so =
 
 correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no reason a windows partition couldn't
 alter the nature of some of the files in the linux partition? I mean, none of
 the filesystems from linux are in play, because it's basically just dead weight
 on the computer when Windows is being booted. why wouldn't it change and alter
 it?
 
 and while yes, something could simultaneously be done in the other direction
 too - linux spying on the Windows partition. And everything has to be able to
 be run in a VM without triggering any false positives, so the issues aren't
 able
 tobe solved so easily. not with any one bit of guidance, it must always be more
 thorou. [thorough]
 
 I want to play World of Warcraft
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 it doesn't really matter *how* you do it, but the more time you spend thinking   │
 collectively the better you'll be able to adapt when necessary.                  │
 I grew up on a homestead in a small town without many friends. I was             │
 homeschooled, and while I might see another person I knew once or twice a        │
 month, that was about it.                                                        │
 Besides my family, of course.                                                    │
 We were a collective, and ever since leaving I have yearned for that feeling     │
 of closeness.                                                                    │
 There's something about modern society that pushes us apart, and I resent it.    │
 Humans were meant for tribes, not multilevel marketing.                          │
 That being said, culture is pretty neat. Society is pretty neat, when it's not   │
 being oppressive. I like the idea that I can buy carrots at the store instead    │
 of growing my own. I like the idea that I can post on Craigslist asking if       │
 anyone has a shovel they want to get rid of and someone can say "what the fuck   │
 are you trying to bury someone why would you do that" and I'm all like "wait     │
 no this post has gone off track can we refocus for a bit" and th                 │
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 I don't expect or demand anything from teenagers except perhaps "be a cool
 kid" and "learn all that you can"
 
 Even most adults when they mess up I just think "ah, well, they're trying
 their hardest, same as anyone"
 
 And tbh I'd rather see a kid running up and down the aisles than burying
 themselves in an ipad
 
 I think we, as a culture, built our society to demand too many "should"s from
 people.
 
 "I should get a job" "I should study this thing I'm not interested in so I can
 make more money" "I should put out traps for the rabid wolverines so they
 don't start hanging out in my underwear" "I should pick up detergent at the
 grocery store"
 
 Should is useless. Do; or do not. There is no should.
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 I was always fascinated by the Linux way of programming. Need to do something?   │
 write it into a script! You never know when you'll need it again. Then, just     │
 stay organized, religiously so, and understand that you will forget about        │
 stuff. But, you'll come across it eventually, ready and willing and able to      │
 help you.                                                                        │
 if you don't want me using AI, then give me ~20 junior developers. Which is      │
 more efficient, do you think?                                                    │
 "girl you haven't even tested your vibe-coded slop, how do you know if it        │
 works"                                                                           │
 oh I'm sure it doesn't, but it's the thought that counts                         │
 ... I guess I'm just saying, please don't burn the data centers. Computers are   │
 not only bad for the environment when they're burnt, but also we can use them    │
 for all kinds of neat things. Even if it takes a lot of energy, just... build    │
 more solar panels and only use the computers for important stuff?                │
 timeshare-style?                                                                 │
 \@/documents/books/man-and-the-computer.pdf                                      │
 that was my mother's book... I love her. I miss that side of her. She fled       │
 when the cancer came.                                                            │
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 I want everyone to be able to do what they want. With oversight, sometimes,
 because we all share things and we can't agree if we don't share. and I agree
 to share, I think it's only fair.
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 I think that the best design for cities is for them to act as massive utility    │
 deployment stations.                                                             │
 like... "we have all these people who can do all these wonderful jobs, what      │
 should we work on next?" rather than "my company wants me at my work-home at     │
 8am sharp and I don't get a pension"                                             │
 there's no such thing as a revolution that does not inspire. and aspirations     │
 are human and natural. therefore there must be some kernel of truth to any       │
 social movement.                                                                 │
 However, much effort has been spent on making them sway. Hence, why nothing      │
 ever gets done - because leaders naturally emerge, and people follow them. But   │
 those leaders lead them astray, and they find themselves in situations like      │
 this one - where the people have never felt less represented.                    │
 I mean sure, yeah, they've felt more oppressed. And it's true that things are    │
 generally always getting better...                                               │
 so why should we always assume for the worst?                                    │
 We're making progress with technology - can't we just put our warries on hold?   │
 Seriously just... be chill                                                       │
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 a computer never connected to the internet, of course, running free and open     │
 source software that you all collectively can understand and run. Because        │
 otherwise it's sanctity is tainted, it can never be truly 100% of trust.         │
 like the fact that you cannot desecrate your own home. It is a reflection of     │
 you, just as you, in some ways, reflect it. It's important to have that          │
 complete honesty, because nothing has changed between people.                    │
 if you could be detected for your intentions, then there would be no way to      │
 hide. unless you were 90% of one thing and 10% of another, in which case you'd   │
 have to hide your flaws in your philosophy like scarred and ugly parts of your   │
 soul.                                                                            │
 to me, a trans person, my memories of masculinity are a dedication to a goal.    │
 Could be a sacred tradition, like martial arts or classical piano, or perhaps    │
 it's a measure of fitness, like a person constantly in shape. Or maybe they      │
 learn as much as they can by reading every fantasy story at their library, or    │
 perhaps learning on the go with vide                                             │
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 students should be in class no more than 50% of their time spent at school
 the rest should be set aside for homework, socializing, eating, and resting.
 whatever those mean to the student is what they'll organize their life around.
 if you give them the choice to choose which classes they take,
 they'll learn what they want to know about this world.
 give them all kinds of options!
 seriously, like so many!
 and have teachers give talks every week or so.
 they could travel around and stay at each school for a week or so,
 before moving to the next *once their lesson was completed*.
 and the kids could sign up for them by slotting them into their schedules
 and they'd have the whole semester to think about what they wanted to take next
 year
 (the classes would be scheduled in advance.)
 
 could be cool is all i'm saying
 and it'd respect the child's autonomy to give them choices.
 who are you to say what is most important to a child?
 who are you to know what guides them so?
 who am I indeed
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 we don't let children vote.
 
 nor do we let felons vote, theoretically those who harm our society (pick one,
 no voting or no prison? I vote no prison industrial complex)
 
 nor do we let non-citizens vote, for why should they tell us how to live? they
 are not us, they shall not control us
 
 nor do we let kings vote with the weight of a god, for a king is a singular
 point of failure
 
 if you can consent to sex, you are physically capable to vote. if you're
 mislead by the propaganda of an abusive spouse, you are hurting your future
 self by staying. [all media is propaganda that you are not immune to]
 
 all men are created equal, and yet his dollar is worth a bit more than hers.
 
 all of us here are equal, because we all want the bright future and a blessed
 life.
 
 we'll make this world better, using our own hands according to our own demands
 and in pursuit of our own plans.
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 parents have rules with their children. they are in place so the child doesn't   │
 hurt themselves, physically, emotionally, or spiritually.                        │
 governments have laws with their citizens, so they are structured and orderly    │
 and working on productive [concepts, products, developments].                    │
 friendships have boundaries, the kind that a person might fill and express       │
 themselves on. for example, a romantic relationship might allow for the          │
 possibility of sexuality between it's two partners, meaning they express         │
 themselves through their actions upon each other's body in as intimate a way     │
 as possible.                                                                     │
 social groups have determinations against one another, like "this type of        │
 person generally acts like this" - every jock, social outcast, nerd,             │
 cheerleader, whatever, grew up into various multitudinous roles that are our     │
 culture. And we collectively have viewpoints on each and every gender (this      │
 piece of toast is a gender) just like god [oops better add a content warning]    │
 has perspective into each and every viewpoint be                                 │
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 politicians appeal to certain segments of the population. That's just how
 they're designed. They're meant to be reflections of your hopes. We shouldn't
 demand them to be moral, or kind - they should just do what we want them to.
 That is the spirit of democracy, that we the people should decide.
 
 ... a lot of people watch reality TV though, like... all day every day
 
 and a lot of people listen to fox news and such
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 children should have older figures in their life. it's up to the adults to
 decide who. the kid also generally just talks about everything that's going on
 if you just ask even if they were told not to say anything so just ask
 sometimes. what if we had like, tracking necklaces for kids or a drone
 companion that played cheery tunes and that you could watch through and offer
 suggestions while you're at work watching on the daddy-cam
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 "hey you're cool, can I get your socials?"
 
 sure, I mostly post on the fediverse
 
 "what's that"
 
 oh, like... Mastodon
 
 "oh, no haha I meant like a real social media"
 
 ah. well I make comments on Reddit sometimes.
 
 *you make them sound like a jerk*
 
 no they're cool they're just misinformed. the fediverse is the future, or
 like, something like it, I'm sure. who wants to go back to capitalism? not me
 hehe
 
 ... I'm getting silly, gonna go to sleep.
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 Some of my most wanderful times were when I lived in a gated community.          │
 My parents were dumb, and thought, as most people thought, that harm to a        │
 child can only come from outside of the community.                               │
 But they fell for the lies of property, where "community" means less of "a       │
 group of people who cares and tends for one another" the kind of which my        │
 parents had never truly known, and more like "this particular residential area   │
 on the map"                                                                      │
 which means I could walk around in this gated "community" where the gates are    │
 little more than security theatre for anyone who says "Hi I got a pizza here     │
 for this address which I found on google maps" or "hey I left my sweatshirt at   │
 my sister's house and it has my phone in it, ummmm no I don't remember which     │
 number her house is, nor do I remember her last name"                            │
 in those times, I developed a sense of freedom, caged as I was, that for most    │
 comes much later in their time.                                                  │
 Some o my favorite places were part of the golf course next door, where I        │
 found a nigh endless river delta.                                                │
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