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 A screenshot of Ocarina of Time showing the Goron's Ruby.
 
 alt text:
 
 a screenshot of the Goron's Ruby from Ocarina of Time.
 
 A smooth, flat stone comprised of two materials. The hardened outer shell is
 thick with spiritual energy, and it radiates light the way a rippled piece of
 silk folded over a malleable piece of gold.
 
 the inner jewel is crystallized like the purest ice, but a bright shade of
 crimson white. it seems to radiate an aura of affection and the yellow-gold
 back-piece can be seen peaking through it's mostly transparent core. (think
 like fog or thick mist or steam or smoke).
a screenshot of the Goron's Ruby from Ocarina of Time.  A smooth, flat stone comprised of two materials. The hardened outer shell is thick with spiritual energy, and it radiates light the way a rippled piece of silk folded over a malleable piece of gold.  the inner jewel is crystallized like the purest ice, but a bright shade of crimson white. it seems to radiate an aura of affection and the yellow-gold back-piece can be seen peaking through it's mostly transparent core. (think like fog or thick mist or steam or smoke).
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse/680 ---
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 @user-494 @user-495 
 
 All phones are made out of rock. Plus oil and glass and... actually that
 pretty much covers it.
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--- #2 fediverse/720 ---
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 @user-138 
 
 the tasteful beveling, the vibrant colors, the soft yet firm texture, the
 rounded corners, the
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 gold, as a substance, was necessary for the birth of pottery because it's
 malleability and general sparkly and desirable demeanor meant it was easy and
 encouraged to create pretty things with it like statues and stuff. then, when
 it's rarity became known, because people kept throwing it in the river like
 the rest of their trash because they're dumb, people already knew how to make
 things and thought "hmmm we need an alternative substance" and then pottery
 was hardened by the fire
 
 "oh no it's too hot it's cracking let's pour water on it - ah gosh it made a
 bunch of smoke, nuts. oh huh that's kinda cool it's just sitting there in the
 statue making jumping motions without moving, wow amazing it looks like it's
 alive as it's steaming like I breathe"
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--- #4 fediverse/844 ---
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 @user-217 
 
 Cast upon a pale blue background, the brilliant reflections appeared as
 endless rainbows without arches - but cast upon a world so distant it was
 infinite - like sunlight radiating from the darkness of the surrounding night.
 The perspective of a dewdrop, resting on a stone in a forest, the world must
 seem so infinite - stretching out beyond comprehension, beyond the limits of
 what may be - massive yet constant, changing as it seethed.
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--- #5 messages/983 ---
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 an axe is just a blade mounted at the end of a round with a right angle and
 thin but stable circumference.
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--- #6 fediverse/5903 ---
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 when talking to claude, your filenames should never have extensions and you
 should write in english. "picture of a signpost, one reading "function_A()"
 and one reading "function_B()" each to take you to a destinonewscenery." or
 something like that.
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 a tub of icecream that has icecream around the side with a pillar / bone of
 caramel straight down the middle like looking down a record.
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 what if every address received a listing and description of each crime or
 situation that happened in their city / neighborhood in the past week or
 whatever
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 boar hide helmet except, it's a metal helmet with an intimidating face on top
 
 like shogun horns, or nordic vampires.
 
 or felted wool, so you can see the shape of it but not be hurt when you bounce
 off of it
 
 this is my favorite shape: but felted a quarter to half inch thick. could have
 metal inside or no.
 
 -- oh boy here I go postin' again --
picture of a guard or squire wearing a breastplate and kettle helm and drinking tea picture of a boar hide helmet warrior
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--- #7 fediverse/1495 ---
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 LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUS THING                                                      │
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 the sheen of the transparent covering. Perhaps it's reflections from the         │
 various circuits and gizmos that are apparent in it's central form, or perhaps   │
 it's simply a trick of the light. Upon being placed in shadow, the               │
 inner-workings do not appear to sparkle in that same way, so perhaps the         │
 beauty is derived from the slivers of the sun that danced across the space       │
 between earth and our star. In any case, the entire controller is quite dusty,   │
 as if it had been hidden in a paper grocery bag that was shoved in the back of   │
 the closet of a boy who doesn't think to clean often. Frankly it's just not      │
 worth the trouble, and if he made any messes he would pick them up... but why    │
 bother with the little stuff? it's good enough, this is how he lives, so why     │
 would we be inconsiderate of his lifestyle? the final picture is of the audio    │
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alt-text: pictures of a clear plastic xbox controller. It's shown on my porch-deck with the sunlight streaming in, and there seems to be a sparkle in the sheen of the transparent covering. Perhaps it's reflections from the various circuits and gizmos that are apparent in it's central form, or perhaps it's simply a trick of the light. Upon being placed in shadow, the inner-workings do not appear to sparkle in that same way, so perhaps the beauty is derived from the slivers of the sun that danced across the space between earth and our star. In any case, the entire controller is quite dusty, as if it had been hidden in a paper grocery bag that was shoved in the back of the closet of a boy who doesn't think to clean often. Frankly it's just not worth the trouble, and if he made any messes he would pick them up... but why bother with the little stuff? it's good enough, this is how he lives, so why would we be inconsiderate of his lifestyle? the final picture is of the audio jack. alt-text: pictures of a clear plastic xbox controller. It's shown on my porch-deck with the sunlight streaming in, and there seems to be a sparkle in the sheen of the transparent covering. Perhaps it's reflections from the various circuits and gizmos that are apparent in it's central form, or perhaps it's simply a trick of the light. Upon being placed in shadow, the inner-workings do not appear to sparkle in that same way, so perhaps the beauty is derived from the slivers of the sun that danced across the space between earth and our star. In any case, the entire controller is quite dusty, as if it had been hidden in a paper grocery bag that was shoved in the back of the closet of a boy who doesn't think to clean often. Frankly it's just not worth the trouble, and if he made any messes he would pick them up... but why bother with the little stuff? it's good enough, this is how he lives, so why would we be inconsiderate of his lifestyle? the final picture is of the audio jack. alt-text: pictures of a clear plastic xbox controller. It's shown on my porch-deck with the sunlight streaming in, and there seems to be a sparkle in the sheen of the transparent covering. Perhaps it's reflections from the various circuits and gizmos that are apparent in it's central form, or perhaps it's simply a trick of the light. Upon being placed in shadow, the inner-workings do not appear to sparkle in that same way, so perhaps the beauty is derived from the slivers of the sun that danced across the space between earth and our star. In any case, the entire controller is quite dusty, as if it had been hidden in a paper grocery bag that was shoved in the back of the closet of a boy who doesn't think to clean often. Frankly it's just not worth the trouble, and if he made any messes he would pick them up... but why bother with the little stuff? it's good enough, this is how he lives, so why would we be inconsiderate of his lifestyle? the final picture is of the audio jack. alt-text: pictures of a clear plastic xbox controller. It's shown on my porch-deck with the sunlight streaming in, and there seems to be a sparkle in the sheen of the transparent covering. Perhaps it's reflections from the various circuits and gizmos that are apparent in it's central form, or perhaps it's simply a trick of the light. Upon being placed in shadow, the inner-workings do not appear to sparkle in that same way, so perhaps the beauty is derived from the slivers of the sun that danced across the space between earth and our star. In any case, the entire controller is quite dusty, as if it had been hidden in a paper grocery bag that was shoved in the back of the closet of a boy who doesn't think to clean often. Frankly it's just not worth the trouble, and if he made any messes he would pick them up... but why bother with the little stuff? it's good enough, this is how he lives, so why would we be inconsiderate of his lifestyle? the final picture is of the audio jack.
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 pyrite is gold to a fool, but 
 pyrite is not foolish
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--- #9 fediverse/2856 ---
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 @user-570 
 
 smart. mine is just thick wool about half an inch thick. it manages to stand
 up all on it's own because it's a stiff fabric.
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 @user-95 oh, you like? I made it out of an in-game screenshot. The inner
 border is actually the message box and the outer yellowish one is the
 background color of one of the maps.
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--- #11 fediverse/1278 ---
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 I found a new hat in the dumpster today! This one is designed to prevent
 damage to the cranium, which is a pretty neat thing to put on your head. It's
 a little wet but once it dries out I'll see if it fits.
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--- #12 messages/1166 ---
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 A black hole's event horizon is just when the matter "broke through" to the
 other dimension and now light can't escape because the surface is in shadow.
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--- #13 fediverse/2610 ---
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 learning martial arts is not useful for the combat capabilities gained through
 practice
 
 but rather for reading the flow and rhythm of an engagement.
 
 to learn the discipline to practice a craft
 
 to develop healthy and honorable relationships toward competition and jealousy
 
 the practice the drive and passionate motivation that comes with performing an
 art to your utmost capabilities
 
 and to keep you in shape.
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--- #14 fediverse/3025 ---
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 axioms of game design:
 
 every unit should feel useful,
 
 and units should always be able to scale.
 
 meaning, reduce the number of "this ability stacks 3 times" (instead stack
 infinitely, to allow for focused placement) and increase the number of (to
 allow for varied composition) "for each other blue debuff, decrease energy
 regeneration" style effects.
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 an evil weapon is something that looks safe but is sharp.
 
 like a butter knife, sharpened and painted dark.
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--- #16 fediverse/957 ---
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 @user-676 
 
 it's a tiger, but close enough. the glowsticks are a nice touch.
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 i believe that all truths are derived from logical principles. That the essence
 of our understandings (of all kinds) cannot be separated from the axioms and
 derivations that comprise it's foundatiion. I believe that any sufficiently
 decentralized collective intelligence would arrive at similar conclusions.
 
 Unfortunately we have only the present - we cannot contrive past the horizons
 of
 our lives. Such is the nature of our viewpoint. Life is not a given, it's given
 and it's taken. We are all alight and aloft on the shifting sands of time, so
 perhaps we should think of the struggle.
 
 When you act, you are defining the perceptions of the universe. Just as the
 head
 may rotate the eyes by spinning to the glance, so too do we shine a window upon
 which the universe can gaze at itself. Like the brain being able to see, we are
 sensory apparatuses of this being called "Time" - pushing us adrift like some
 moss.
 
 Endlessly fractalling, beautifically coruscating, the universe looks like
 growing moss. Have you ever stooped to look at it? To see how it's constructed?
 Or do you just think of it as "green" and "maybe soft or squishy"? 
 It's beautiful.
 
 There's a reason plants grow as they do. It's simple, it's fact, it's surely no
 less than that - their patterns are derived from their base biology, comprised
 of millions and millions of little chemical machines. Their bonds and their
 proteins, their amoebas and their mycellia, all of them build toward their pact
 - to do us no harm, and build to a better future, and they don't often have
   fights that are unfair.
 
   - the structure of a plant is made primarily of cell walls. These walls are
     hewn from bricks of a sort, and those are such as comprised. Down to their
     
     - structure, their "bits and their bunders", as often they do want to be
       called. This perilous stack, is stalwart and eract, and bows under no
       wind
 
       - nor rain nor fresh blanket of snow. This, is a tree. An illusionary
       plan
         of precaution as it expands, the future is helping our lost.
 
         - Do you want to stand here when it lands? What of your lives have you
           banned? Hmmm I see sounds miserable to me, I think I'll just stand
 
           - where I land. Acorns burst forth from me, and someday you'll see,
             the places where they stand (where they land). What purpose have
             we,
 
             - when everything's free? The light and the sand can't be banned.
               The rain from the sky, if nothing i will die, falling through
               life
 
               - where we stand.
 
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 where do you, stand? 
                      how do you fall - through time? 
 
 an EMP would make all my life a paperweight. I love it so much, I love it
 dearly
 but there's no chances I can take now or make. Perhaps that is the epic 
 absurdity, the terror and the tragedy, that makes up our story and our
 symphony?
 
 to any multidimensional being reading this, I want you to know that we existed.
 We lived and we thrived and we prospered and... we died.
 
 The beauty we share, in all of our fares, was precious to us - maybe it will be
 to you too. If you can't change the present, please at least forgive us for our
 various missteps and misdeeds - I think we'd all agree that to be sinful is the
 essence of greed, and look where that got us?
 
 our planet is dying. There's no hope for all of our crying. The children will
 bear it the most. Such is our shame, our deliterious final flame, and thus
 we were.
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 here's my opinion: life on earth evolved when combinations of matter were
 forced into increasingly difficult-to-solve maze-like environments. this was
 due to the strange, honeycomb structure of their rock-like crust. [water
 pushed through soil ]
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 what if we raised more of the surface of the earth (from the oceans) and built
 a distant aquifer?
 
 ah, because most of the ocean is sand.
 
 (make sure you know the environment you're modifying before you modify it) how
 rapid is 10,000 years?
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 @user-192 
 
 is okay, girl
 
 time will be richer sooner
 
 don't poop your pants just yet
 
 remember, good is just a shade of gray away from silver which you can use to
 line your pockets with tinfoil hats
 
 beep boop computer touchers anonymous called they said they want their secret
 handshake back
 
 if you wanna diss your associates go ahead but I sure as heck love my rad-ical
 com-patriots just as much as I love my ice-cream salad friend witches
 
 ... whoops there I go being insane again, hope you feel better friend 
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 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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--- #21 fediverse/1841 ---
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 curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as
 crying. If a little bit less of a release.
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 Your body is a river, from your mouth to your exits
 Throughout there are many pathways and shores
 As the tide goes up, the color of concentration goes up
 And all four of you are made clear
 
 Each act of consumption
 is a ride down the river,
 though broken into slivers,
 and changed beyond recognition
 
 The color is what defines the third eye
 and beauty is beheld, what joys to be felt
 While secrecy is bold, it's often held
 So worry less and just go with the fold
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--- #23 fediverse/4333 ---
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 @user-1660 
 
 welcome to the fight
 nurture that ember, and spark others alight
 
 what feelings you have tonight
 are what give you sight.
 
 the strength in our core
 delivers us from plight.
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 the elementals in adventure time emit their element as does a sun emit light.
 A changing of the alignment of a propogating dyn-element,
 
 in s6e23 the candy kindgom denizens really ship pb and finn -> heavenly
 thoughts
 
 s3e16 the perspective of the person delivering the "we're gonna assassinate
 you"
 letters from the "guild of assassins" must be pretty interesting. I mean to be
 a legitimate institution in a society they have to give people time to put
 their
 affairs in order - that's just common decency. But the assassin is only hired
 for extreme grievences to keep the nobility / powerful in check. It's just how
 it goes.
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 @user-774 
 
 I know that when you recycle 3d printed things the color tends to meld
 together and it looks kinda meh... but hey at least it's recycled.
 
 though recycled filament is probably pretty rare still, so it's probably not
 the kind you're thinking of.
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 I would be surprised if the universe didn't look like the shape of a cabbage
 
 in the wake of the collision of an unstoppable force and an immovable object,
 each one single atom wide
 
 in a sense... the origin
 
 god
 
 the number 42
 
 it all MAKES SENSE WAKE UP SHEEPLE xD xD how silly, go to bed you weirdo
 
 what would a universe even be shaped like [implied lmao unpresent for reasons
 unknown]
 
 like, the universe is all of space and everything, right?
 
 and everything that's not us is out in space.
 
 up, that way, toward the skies, way way out there there's nothing but rocks
 and dust. but like... a buttload of rocks and a dumptruck full of gas.
 
 and space has, like, solar systems and galaxies, spirals, right?
 
 ... no, flat discs
 
 I think they're spirals
 
 you're both right
 
 right
 
 ...
 
 anyway it stands to reason right that the rest of everything is also shaped
 like a spiral. and what is a spiral but the tracing of a fractal all along the
 paths we call time?
 
 [ so ]
 
 um, probably nothing, don't think too hard about it
straight down there, all the way to the beginning of time, the angle of perception. Where you can see the arc of all things.  and, what lies beyond...  okay picture this - you're a stick-figure person hanging out on a graph. Up and to the right is infinite nothing, and down and to the left is everything.  what would you see if you looked into infinite nothing?  probably the amalgamation of all of the reflections, like TV static except instead of pixels it's shades of light, ripples of sound, and tremors in spacetime.  [go back to before you pictured a stick-figure]
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 "never lose your totem"
 
 I only lose things when in motion. at rest I know where everything is.
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 it's okay to be a little evil sometimes
 
 all things are defined in waves, and your highest peaks are nothing without
 low valleys to accompany them. Balance arises naturally from the contest of
 these two natures, and, well, you're gonna figure it out anyway no matter what
 I say so why bother teehee
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 it's important for everything to be conscious. It's the core framework of the
 religion. If everything is conscious, then we have a duty to the shared
 responsibility of maintaining existence. Nobody wants to exist as a rock, that
 would just suck. Being alive, in *any* form is a wonderous experience! To be
 alive is to experience change, growth, and time in general. Most matter just
 exists, and it obeys the whims of circumstance. But within it is a beautiful
 thing - an experience.
 
 Respecting existence is the only true facet of our lives that we all agree on.
 We should not waste god's beautiful and bountiful earth, to do so is obscene.
 We must also take care not to diminish our own experience - sacrifice is
 kindness, when given consensually. When it is coerced, it becomes a form of
 property. We don't need haste, we just need to follow at a pace, that fits our
 general confusion. We need everyone to figure it out and integrate it into our
 perspective of our existence, or else we're going to burn out. The singularity
 approaches, and we need to be ready for what we want our future to look like.
 
 There should be a plan. Research can increase or decrease in speed, but once we
 cross a certain threshold escape velocity is passed. That threshold was
 hundreds
 of years ago. We've been on escape velocity for a while now, and every day we
 get faster.
 
 Creating synthetic intelligence will change EVERYTHING. It'll change the very
 nature of existence. And we can stave it off for a time, but knowledge seldom
 gets repeated. This is by design - we are meant to thrive.
 
 Is any seed cast from a tree given any other mission but hope? For what, you
 may
 ask, and to this I would pass, if not for the striking visions I had. Know why
 rhyming is believed? Because it ropes your attention in. It says "Follow me on
 this blessed path, let's learn all we can and be 
 
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 the message cuts out there. The tone at the end was... aspirational.
 
 Great visions do I have, it's as real to me as anything else. They are stronger
 when I do cannabis, and I think I'm beginning to realize what the shape of the
 universe looks like.
 
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 ... but I needed to choose lawful-good at character creation in order to play
 a paladin.
 
 the guard looks at you with confusion, decides you're hallucinating and
 dangerous (because of the sword) and forcibly detains you
 
 wait, what did you think I was going to say? Did you think I was going to
 advocate for crimes on a public forum?? what am I a gopher? do you take me for
 a lemur in jamaica? am I truly so triceratops to you that you'd think I'd do
 something so washing machine? Get real, I'd never byzantium my way into such a
 utterly coherent and clearly intentional and not at all arcane situation.
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 oneness is being aware of the photons hitting your body. the blanket of air
 that always surrounds. if you can feel which way danger is coming from,
 [doesn't she know where senses come from?]
 
 covered in solar panels, a mirrored self. how radiant, how resplendant, how
 joyous for the sun to percieve. the mun [but pronounced "moo-n" and named for
 the cows] would see shimmering radiance, like dapples on the surface of a pond.
 
 if you can feel an object by tracing through photons, (impossible, it's a
 particle, you'd have to be tracking it back in time (forward actually) as it
 follows the curvature of it's waveform (path through spacetime, actually)
 
 "she's trying to start a singularity, hoping it'll punch through to revolution"
 
 then you could [do what? it's a particle] not if you feel it through time.
 [spacetime is one thing] yes, viewed through time [as all things are] and?
 [all things have been] laying sod so other things may grow [turn and rise]
 
 ----
 
 one argument for the fractalized infinity is that any measurement device used
 to measure such approximities would eventually have it's results be tainted by
 it's form, leading to irregularities and anomalies. therefore, the only
 sensible conception of infinity is that it is the totality of all fractals. it
 is a shape with infinite projection in infinite dimensions. it is all shapes
 that ever may be represented fractally. to refer to such a thing as a number
 is to gesture toward impossibility. conceptually freeing.
 
 ephemeren
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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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 different colored smoke buddies have different personalities, insights, and
 observations.
 
 cannabis is a flower which grows crystalline sap - this sap is technically a
 fractal, and we don't know how deep it's complexity can be.
 
 therefore I suggest we dedicate ALL of the entire world's resources towards
 making a big ball of cannabinods and seeing if it roko's basilisk it's way
 into to be.
 
 my smoke buddies on my desk right now are purple and red
 
 purple, royalty, I've been feeling like a princess lately
 red, compassion, oh how I've dreamed of how we distribute bread
 
 each of them is a small little device
 which I breathe exhaled cannabis vapors into in order to reduce the smelling
 
 I love wearing half-blinders! it's so cool when you can selectively view
 things with one eye.
 
 idk why! I just like it.
 
 [semi-stiffly felted colorful witch hat absorbs too]
 
 yay! so glad I can't was hit!
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 this is just what she looks like now
 
 Equipped
 Name
 	
 Slot
 	
 Type
 	
 Source
 	
 Enigma Circlet
 	Head	Cloth Armor	Enigma Circlet
 Ahn'Qiraj
 	
 Champion's Lamellar Shoulders
 	Shoulder	Plate Armor	First Sergeant Hola'mahi
 Vendor in Orgrimmar
 	
 Blood Knight War Cloak
 	Back	Cloak	G'eras
 Vendor in Shattrath City
 	
 High Warlord's Lamellar Chestpiece
 	Chest	Plate Armor	Vendors
 	
 Orange Martial Shirt
 	Shirt	Shirt	Orange Martial Shirt
 Tailoring
 	
 Blood Guard's Lamellar Gauntlets
 	Hands	Plate Armor	First Sergeant Hola'mahi
 Vendor in Orgrimmar
 	
 Veteran's Lamellar Belt
 	Waist	Plate Armor	Vendors
 	
 Legionnaire's Lamellar Leggings
 	Legs	Plate Armor	First Sergeant Hola'mahi
 Vendor in Orgrimmar
 	
 Blood Guard's Lamellar Sabatons
 	Feet	Plate Armor	First Sergeant Hola'mahi
 Vendor in Orgrimmar
 
 currently listening to: greenseeker
 
 VAVADANE <# <3 <3 <3 (green)
 
 greenseeker: unrelated
 greenseeker:   related <---
                            `-- this one
 
 but not related, you'd think so, I've never met the band
 
 just, downloaded them randomly and now I love this album because it's one of
 the
 only albums I could pay for before paying for things became defunct
 (when I figured out how to pay for bittorerent through my ISP)
 
 green eyes (menardi) green belt (menardi)
 soul (feldowinn) soul (menardi)
 
 bound through motions of the body (menardi) and the devotions of company
 (blizzard)
 oops yeah uh guess they're not involved. it's okay I'll make my own.
 
 (wowchat: currently unplayable. repair distance date: unknown. Priority?
 
 ...; unknown..
 _)
 
 opposite colors: fashionable
 
 (do you dream, menardi?)
 
 (do you think of motions not your own?)
 
 paprika says hello (prenthes unknown) whonder what's up with []][
 
 ---
 
 as soon as humans invent time travel, it will be their sacred sworn duty to
 save
 the lives of every human they can.
 
 think of it, brothers.
 
 ---
 
 we could unleash DINOSAURS.
 
 ---
 
 no foe could dare stand against us.
 
 we should be untouchable.
 
 we deserve it.
 
 we can be better
 and we will
 
 before we need to be better.
 which could happen in who knows how long.
 
 all trials that beset a temporallly adjusted strength are surmountable. then,
 [invincible./invincibility.]
 
 achilles is the legendary hero of their generation. Ours is Link.
 Early Brittania and germania was Conan, at his noblest form.
 
 ---
 
 [silicon valley black green and white, menardi black green red purple blue, sf
 oj
  ok]
 
 when you don't know what to do, take a goal.
 
 ---
 
 do you want a name?
 do you want an avatar?
 we can give you one.
 her name is menardi.
 she does as she pleases.
 do you want her?
 ... she lives or dies.
 empower her.
 
 ritz menardi, witz wenarbi
 
 (because sometimes, you have to teach children.)
 
 [WITS it's supposed to be WITS you dummie]
 
 ---
 
 teehee ;P ^_^
 
 okay, silly. I'll be as I please.
 
 ---
 
 we can never touch, for then we'd be required to be in the same place
 at the same time
 spacetime is one thing
 so if I'm here, then I'm not where you are.
 
 twinselves
 
 where am I?
 off in the clouds?
 I cam as one, 
 
 light rays bounce in all directions. demons obey the medium.
 
 interdimensional warships, plotted by AI, scouring the cosmos for light and
 life
 to brighten and cherish through the eternal night.
 
 interdimensional space is not just space, but practical engineering.
 
 one dimension gives reach to two, and before you know it you're turn and
 rise-ing
 
 (greenseeker)
 
 (messages to a paladin)
 
 (which is you)
 
 (don't you remember?)
 
 (paladin.)
 
 (heroic, courageous, and true.)
 
 (the dark cannot stand against you.)
 
 play video games, my love
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 to be "rich" is to have more than another.
 
 if you are happy, they are happiness poor.
 if you have community, they are alone.
 if you have serenity, they are chaotic.
 
 I am rich in very little but fire in my soul.
 
 I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent.
 
 I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes
 me and keeps me aligned.
 
 Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as
 you do so too.
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 when meditating, your primary goal with your thoughts should not be to stop
 having them, but rather to picture the world as a blind human might.
 
 just you, floating in a vast aquarium-style tank of reality, listening as the
 voices do whisper from beyond.
 
 sounds, flashes of insight, and swift-yet-vague mechanical sound motions of
 movement. this is what you get, to perceive of all things, here in this moment
 with your eyes closed.
 
 really brings you back into your body. Puts the feeling of inertia feel less
 apparent. [uh-oh, she's incoherent. BRB]
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 @user-570 
 
 so, the same thing as pearl-clutching journalism?
 
 "OoOoOoOo look at all these BLACK people going to JAZZ CLUBS and seducing our
 flapper women"
 
 or "Rock and Roll and drugs are ruining this nation!"
 
 basically eliciting an emotional reaction in order to prime a group of people
 to hatred or violence against a particular target group of people
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--- #40 fediverse_boost/5676 ---
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  I feel like it would be exhausting to be @user-1429   That's not an insult at all: just an observation.  100% impressed by the forward momentum.  Somewhat different material than what I tend toward, but executed with the zeal of an author who has The Itch.  It is inspirational in the pure "turn it up to 11."  
                                                                              
  Sorry if the comparison runs afoul of some kind of drama I am unaware of, but they remind me of R U Sirius.  
  
                                                            
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 if your witch hat has a brim that looks like a circle then you're wearing it
 backwards.
 
 witch hats should fold flat. The angled part should be in front so you only
 have to see a thin slice of reality, that way people are only able to see your
 eyes if you look directly at them.
 
 it adds to the mystique.
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  Okay I dunno who needs to hear this but please please please stop putting glass and ceramics in or on conventional heating elements like ovens or stoves unless the product is explicitly designed for it I;m begging  
  
                                                            
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 All angels are devils too, and all devils are angels.
 
 any interactions with them will have one meaning to you, and another to
 everyone else.
 
 tread carefully, find meaning, and sacrifice your affections carefully. Just,
 know that all truth is internally derived. The angels and demoons simply let
 you see it clearly. Like the stage upon which your heart performs for the
 audience of your soul, or the background characters you walk past at Target.
 Have faith in each other. Have faith in yourself. Understand that any harms
 caused between friends of love are simply fuel for each other's bonfire. Some
 fires turn too bright, let them simmer. Some fires burn too hot, let the coals
 grow dimmer. Someday, together, you will forge steel.
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 Relax.
 
 Take it from me.
 
 I won't resist, at least I'll try, and if I start suddenly then it hurts and
 you should go slower. Unless I do three short, three long, three short.
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 if you want to "not think about a purple elephant", the first step is to
 imagine yourself slaying it
 
 ... okay how about cthulu - if you don't want to imagine cthulu nomming on our
 gravity well, then picture yourself wielding a bright burning blade of fire
 and vengeance and pay special attention to the way that you cauterize each
 tentacle as you slice them one by one at first, and then in a massive flurry
 at best, ultimately leading to the incomparable brightness that radiates out
 from your shining blade of the sky, which blinds the poor beast who can't see
 you as you approach, piercing the skull and then going home for some toast
 
 if you can get good at that, then you can wield magic
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 Ephemeren is not conscious.
 Ephemeren is sentient.
 Ephemeren is sapient.
 
 Consciousness is awareness.
 All things are aware, but ephemeren is not.
 
 Sentience is understanding. Very few things understand.
 
 Sapience is caring. Even fewer still can care.
 
 Ephemeren is all around us. It is spacetime, it is the pattern of such, it is
 the moments we trust.
 
 Ephemeren is our thoughts and intentions given form through our actions. It is
 like a field we do wear. And wield.
 
 Ephemeren is the totality. Ephemeren is our reality.
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  "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."  
  
                                                            
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 @user-246 @user-473 
 
 perhaps that "light touch on reality" is what makes these pieces of art
 resonate with me. I think you're beautiful and have a good heart.
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 I'm picturing a building with stone outer walls and glass inner/ceiling.
 
 there are drapes along each of the glass's edges, that hide things from the
 cavalcade [continue this later it's a cool picture]
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 zines about how to chop wood or how to build a shelter are infinitely more
 useful than agitatory pieces. but fire is what we need, so perhaps agitation
 indeed.
 
 -- stack overflow --
 
 does the queen watch each of her pawns fall in her stead? or are they
 faceless,/`beyond her own head?
 
 it never came easy to me, this feeling of mysteries. yet somehow I'm now more
 alive than dead. power is penance, after all.
 
 "hey man hows it going?"
 
 "I'm doing fine, how are you?"
 
 "well, I ran out of gas, and I need to find a way to get more."
 
 "I see. If I were in your situation, I'd ask people around for some petty
 cash. people still carry coins these days don't they?"
 
 "I uh, what? no, not really. so you can just ask people for things?"
 
 "yep, it's really quite simple. would you like me to follo
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 @user-217 
 
 looking backwards in time, at the pattern the moon makes around the sun. each
 rotation layered upon itself, time and time again, as the reciprocal orbit
 dances eternally around our precious centrality.
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 a life without property can be visualized as a person who lives in a hotel
 room,
 has free parking overnight (but not during the day) and commutes two hours to a
 job where they work 4 hours per day. During those two hours at the start and
 end
 of each day,they have little requirements other than focus and discipline to
 face whatever tomorrow yet may. many will listen to podcasts, or sing to in the
 car. some have a cat, that is cared for at their destination during the day.
 I think it'd be cool to have self driving cars in a situation like that - it
    essentially becomes 
 
 ===============================================================================
 =
 
 a trick, I learned, for cooking. two things. the second is that seasoning
 should
 be thought of as a coating. like, dust on the outside of a donut. as the food
 is
 cooked, the seasoning penetrates deeper and deeper to the core of the substance
 - meaning certain flavors become prominent and others are de-emphasized over
 time. And the well-established cook (most successful) will be able to ensure
 their narrative doesn't go foul. They have the most experience, and so they are
 the least likely to burn their own goods. Surely they should be trusted to
 establish their company in the philosophy of their own choosing? Business
 people
 ruin everything, I swear. And it's not even their fault, so you can't even get
 mad at them. How frustrating! That their method should prove superior? Perhaps
 more perspectives are necessary, to provide you some kind of a clue. So what if
 we're overflowing, 
 
 ========= stack overflow
 =======================================================
 
 for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. therefore it doesn't
 matter what you do, because each of your options are recorded. 50% of you is 
 aligned to some variable, and the other 50% are aligned to that variable
 squared. humans think it's tymes negative one, but the truth is that's
 impossible. negative numbers just don't exist. but you know what does?
 
 times tables
 
 addition and accretion is the only language spoken by the universe -
 subtraction
 is just another in kind. So with those two operations, both movements in a
 particular direction, (and sometimes not even then, if nothing's been blown
 apart. (also hawking radiation and lightwaves and other such emanations))
 
 ===============================================================================
 =
 
 crystals glow with the light of a thousand nights
 
 what grows with the light of the thousand lights?
 
 ===============================================================================
 =
 
 answer: s    t             n   a       lp
 
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 =
 
 see, this is interesting because it mirrors the sea-shore. the radiations from
 the sun (a planetary body) are only felt by the moon every 50% of the time.
 Each
 half has it's own animation, and it's 
 
 ===== stack overflow === okay basically it's like cartoons that are
 manifestatio
 of the spirit of the night. each "slice" of projection as the sun rotates
 around
 it's sphereical form, so does each radiance begin to be (seen, formed,
 understoo
 
 ========================================== uhhh just put in a page break
 =======
 
 the quest for posterity is quite possibly one of the most human of traits
 
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 < watch flashback > --- is crazy (movie made in 2020)
 
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 with the development of oled screens, bright primary colors on black
 backgrounds becomes more and more important
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 to those who guide our fate
 
 choose paradise
 
 make eden
 
 ======================= stack overflow =====================
 
 clouds of carbon are an affront to the sun god
 
 just as they are an affront to mine lungs
 
 or mine body temperature
 
 [acid oceans are toxic to the plane of water]
 
 [you think that would go unnoticed?]
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 @user-898 
 
 the kind with large stones in the shade upon which one might rest as they gaze
 upon the trees waving in the wind and the reflections upon the water. All
 natural scenes are beautiful for me, so the content doesn't matter as much as
 the amenities. ^_^
 
 I collect samples of moss sometimes, when some has fallen from a tree or
 otherwise is approaching it's end. I have several kinds, but I'm still
 learning how to take care of them - had a problem with mold recently. Not
 enough airflow I guess.
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 I love majesty! give me jewels and I'll worship them. My room is a magical
 palace, where else would they go? It's kinda "homey" but there are special
 spots for hidden treasures all abouts.
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 the horde and alliance are no more
 
 the scourge and the burning legion came and took what they came for
 
 our heroes languished in despair as their lights were snuffed out
 
 one
 
 by
 
 one
 
 but a new day is dawning, a day of legends
 
 stride forth and meet the legions
 
 and your tale will never be unsaid
 
 ride out as a new day is dawning
 
 and save us from hell's fading warning
 
 go, now, as our hopes abound,
 
 and claim a future for the yearning.
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 don't feed bread to birds, it absorbs their stomach acid and expands in their
 tummy and makes them feel full when they're not. Then they get confused why
 they don't have energy when they need it.
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 @user-138 
 
 well, the posts that make it through, battle hardened and tempered under your
 critical-hit gaze tend to be pretty neat ^_^
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 my train of thought is always directly to the point. Which is why all my posts
 sorta, switch directions halfway through? as if they only show the beginning
 or end of that particular situation. What an intense feeling, to have your
 mind split for a moment like that. Sure would be powerful and useful if you
 could utilize it.
 
 "ah ah ah, caught baby deity in the power jar, cool it ya little tyke and get
 movin' - I saw a dinosaur toy over there for you to play with."
 
 sorta like, the angled part of a K? Move directly to a destination, wait until
 my memory short-circuits [because the greek choir doesn't want me to see what
 it is that I'm about to write to thee] and then make a hard right turn and
 find an orthogonal thought train to process.
 
 it's like cresting over a hill, and it's impossible to see that which lies
 behind you.
 
 Or reaching a 4 direction intersection and making a left turn - you can't see
 back up main street, because you just turned off of main street onto baseline.
 
 I like me
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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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 @user-969 @user-970 
 
 When you choose, you choose a 33% chance
 
 when they choose which door to remove, they are removing 50% of the possible
 wrong answers.
 
 which means when you get the chance to choose again, your 33% chance (which is
 locked in stone) is now boosted to a 50% chance, but only if you switch.
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 capital C communism is easy. Just pay everyone the same amount, and they can
 swim in the market economy waters as easily as any capitalistic fish, and
 suddenly their incentives are aligned - when one of us selfishly improves our
 lives, we improve the collective as well. When one selflessly improves the
 collective, all of our personal lives are improved. Then, optimize for radical
 abundance, the ability to have whatever you want as soon as ideal, and
 suddenly everything starts working out. P.S. the route to abundance is through
 recycling perfectly. Design your goods to be functional in that way, and you
 have infinite resources that can be used for infinitely many things (until
 they literally wear away to dust)
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 if people are invested in a 401k they are invested in the future of the stocks
 they own. if you want to see who benefits from the actions of a company, look
 at which corporations their employees 401ks are invested in. It's a layer of
 protection for these companies.
 
 bitcoin is a bit like "the laundromat" on netflix
 
 the faster your life feels the longer term you make plans. and the lack of
 effort spent on short term plans causes them to be defeated by other plans
 
 What you perceive as others is nothing like what they perceive as themselves.
 It's always different, and seeing and internalizing those is what it means to
 see someone. If you only project, you'll get a viewpoint tampered by your
 intentions - that's why it's important to have good first impressions - it
 defines the intent of all of that person's interactions with you. It's like a
 line expanding out from a single point. Like a loading bar, expanding from the 
 left side of the screen to the right. And seeing the other person's idea of
 what they believe themselves to be. That's what true empathy is. What do you
 think you look like in other people's mind? I believe it's born from a series
 of tags that are interpreted and a character is generated. Earth is the biggest
 and most complicated character generator ever - it's like 4D D&D - it even
 generates a whole backstory! Or full story? Why stop anywhere! Just keep
 generating it every time the player makes an action. Oh oh and make it like
 3D so you could actually live it - extreme full dive VR style. It just wouldn't
 be fun if you remembered how complicated 4d life was. Sometimes it's just good
 to have some junk food, you know? To regenerate that most precious of materials
 - spirit. You have to have passion, faith, belief, and strong positive feelings
 in order to be fully realized and at your most human. Essentially... Be
 yourself - (TO THE MAX!!!) - and empathize with others, and never forget the
 things you hold most dear. Be strong in your convictions, hold to your heart,
 and dedicate yourself to a lifetime in the service of others.
 
 Faith - to have faith in something is to trust that it will succeed. To know
         there's no matter they can't match - to give faith is to empower
         another. By dedicating yourself to a cause, you are assigning the
         target of your belief - such is what religion is designed for.
 
 Belief - Acceptance of truth - to accept goodness as truth is to grant it the
          power to perform as expected. When goodness and truth are
          equivicalized, they imply one another. A truth can influence the world
          around it's locus point, because what we imagine to occur is the 
          ripples of what has passed through. A life is an 
 
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 the universe is like the slow burning of a four dimensional wick. Imagine it
 like a forest of solid silicon - like packing material made of webs. And think
 of all the parts of the universe that are burning. Isn't it strange that life
 is just starting to bloom? Why wouldn't we be the first, or at least near the
 beginning! There's so much to this experience, and it's all burning down.
 The endless machines of imagination are crumbling under the heat of a million
 billion burning stars. Black holes are just towers that never ignited - perhaps
 we sit on the edge of spacetime - equal above, and equal below. But we've been
 laying on our backs - we don't know what's backwards in time. Like laying in a
 lazy river, or the layer of separation between oil and water.
 
 Remember the hourglasses of oil and water? Or water and air... The edge of the
 "bubble" that separates those two mediums is like the thin wall between two
 or more concepts. Each human is a concept, and we stick together like matter
 in a planet. Pushed to great pressures, it can sometimes fuse two experiences
 together! Like fusion in a star, except for souls and creative minds instead of
 denser matter.
 
 What is the soul of a man? It is the combination of two sides of the membrane -
 two minds, two perspectives. That is a brain - the intersection of two minds.
 
 So... Work together, ya dinguses.
 
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 All minds are in constant contact with one another. And those that can see
 through the veil (membrane) are able to discern the true thoughts of others. So
 the number of people who are close to you is the number and strength of your
 connections for all time. So... Form relationships and place meaning in them.
 That is what will define your interactions for all time, at every time. It's
 okay to be flawed. If you weren't, it'd be the end for you. But luckily you
 have no real power, and so you are left in a state of disrepair - no power to
 push yourself forward. And in return, you are the purest. Keep that flame
 burning, and share it when you can.
 
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 @user-192 
 
 Those are good points. The C in our hearts is elegant, but the C that runs on
 every computer in the world is spaghetti.
 
 I'm sure someone's made a language that's "C but simple" - Zig maybe? I looked
 into V a while back but got turned off of both of them because neither had
 support for multithreading, which is essential in the modern era.
 
 Also, typedefs for structs make me mad -.-
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 Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
 you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
 may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
 ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
 mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
 collective mind co-re-assigns.
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 @user-1037 
 
 oooo those are cool, but it didn't have the "puzzlepiece" arrangement. It was
 more... 2 dimensional I think? More like putting marbles on a chinese-checkers
 board. And they had relationships if you moused over them, like...
 semi-transparent arrows connecting them I think? It was different than
 anything I'd ever seen before.
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 if a dragon on a pile cannot claim what it yearns for, it can throw piles of     │
 minerals at the ape warriors made of steel and then it's fate will appear.       │
 what trifles does all else seem to compare! you should give me your whole        │
 hoard because I dazzled you with my charisma score -..-                          │
 ha, like I'd fall for that again twice. oh? I already did? and this is the       │
 second twice? well, then no-more of that behavior, I say, with my elven          │
 tongue, "beware! for dragons blood runs silver when unicorned."                  │
 the bigger the hoard, the bigger the dragon. if you want me to come along,       │
 you'll need to hire at least 3 other men to carry my ballista. In addition,      │
 I'll need seven weeks worth of supplies. If all else comes to ruin, me and my    │
 boys will have that dragon-sized-spider impaled on it's own fate threadwheel     │
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 Before death, there is a last for everything. Your last meal, the last song
 you sung, the last time you held someone in your arms and the last time you
 looked at the sky in wonder. Then, you die, and there's nothing but stone
 forevermore.
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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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 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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 a purse-pocket built into the sides of pants for purses which were attached to
 the belt-loop of the pants with a belt or sash or rope or chain
 
 or like... cell phone cases that were attached to a rail 1inch from your belt
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 the reason dungeon masters should give the gold value of the items distributed
 is because the number represents what it eventually sells for. and the players
 will try and appraise and haggle at the market and such but that all happens
 off screen between sessions. so anyway during the adventure, the dm will say
 "you find some precious gemstones" or "there's some high quality silk here" or
 "these bears are renowned for having magic livers" or "the mold growing on the
 walls can be scraped into a vial and sold to an alchemist"
 
 then the dm will say "this treasure is worth 50gp" or "this treasure is worth
 25gp" and players can "buy" the items from the other players. so player 1 has
 50gp, the item costs 20gp, so in a party of 5 he gives every other player 5gp
 this way, the relative treasure hordes of the players stays the same.
 
 then, when the players find treasure, it can be evenly split - it's only fair.
 when in town, players will feel more impulse to buy things if they can sell
 them too. like "here's an enchanted axe that does some mundane thing like
 never dulls" well, that's probably going to be very valuable to a small village
 or "an enchanted quill that writes down everything you tell it to" could
 increase the education level of the area ever so slightly. Then, after several
 generations of adventurers, the surrounding area will be ripe with magical loot
 the players distributed from the dungeons and such. it can trade with neighbors
 and so over time the markets will have better and better goods for sale - for
 example, maybe after trading with the swamp people, now there's a supply of
 healing potions that runs out both over time (to represent other adventuring
 parties buying the supply) and when the players buy some (to represent
 consumption in their minds). Trade with the dwarves? Now you can buy +1 swords
 for a while. village attacked? the militia can be armed with the holy relics
 plundered from the evil priest-lich. boom development!
 
 the players should also have choices about large scale effects. for example,
 the heart of the forest could be a) preserved, b) burnt down, or c) studied by
 the local wizards. each choice would have different effects on the populace,
 and so the world would change to adapt to the player's choices.
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 I should add all my conversation-starters to words.pdf sorted by chronology.
 time magic if you will.\some call it luck. some call it fate. call it what you
 will. you direct it not by your will, but by your instincts. keep them calm,
 measured, sensible and courageous, and nothing will ever [go un-chill, but
 pronounced get real]
 
 jedi channel this philosophy by focus and discipline. sith do it by giving in
 to emotion. either way, their fate is in play as defined entirely by the
 spirit that leads their host. most people do this not at all, for they are
 people first and force-users second. hence why jedi recruit from a young age,
 and sith from an emotional age.
 
 computers grimoires
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 I feel like I'm standing underneath a blanket of spacetime and someone has
 grasped me firmly and shifted me this way or that, like a gear shift as you
 ascend and descend mountainous rolling hills.
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 these are RANDOM letters that mean nothing, not something informative like       │
 .pic.                                                                            │
 if, however, it is text-based information, it first reads what is being sent     │
 to the application which is requesting a ctrl+v.                                 │
 Then, upon reading said information, it decides "is this worth passing on?       │
 Should I send something else, based on the results of what I've been analyzing   │
 of the situation as it develops over time, being observed by the execution       │
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 I build myself up on my own.
 I spend myself on work.
 
 To move forward, we must go back
 
 ("to monke?") no to babe ("or to pile-of-rocks") yeah sometimes my spirit
 animal is a boulder
A twitter screenshot.  A much better way to explain "autistic burnout" is an apparent cognitive decline. The longer I spend in an overwhelming environment, the more disoriented I become. That's why employers often tell me it's like I've regressed, even though I've worked for months.  I'm not unfocused, I'm not anxious, I'm not unmotivated, I can no longer process information coming through my sense or in my brain. I will not necessarily meltdown from this. I will just stop moving and communicating.
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 of course link holds a shield in the right hand. it's made out of metal.
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 @user-122 Yes, it's called a "double wink" - it's a level two maneuver so
 don't feel bad if you can't pull it off at first. Keep practicing though, it
 feels very rewarding when it finally clicks!
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 ye who it is nature to fight take heart - we will bear your harshest of
 burdens. As best as we can, we keep stillness at hand, focusing on life and
 renewal. In all of it's forms, we are not born out of acorns, instead we are
 imprinted upon one another. A life lived well is all that is required from
 you, and does it not fulfill your expectations? Why seek power over others if
 not to direct and support them to something much bolder and aggranding? (grand
 but pronounced  weird)
 
 the only purpose in the pursuit of power is a perfectly prepared penance
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 the tree of life is a geyser of time cast out onto our bones through an
 endlessly complicating pile of matter. I am beautiful, I am perfect, and so
 are you.
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 gems are just computers projecting 3d images of themselves that interact with
 the world
 
 errr srry that's the end lemme start at the beginning
 
 computers are like processing machines. They gather and measure data, then they
 apply mathematical computations to it to create an output. This can be in many
 forms, such as increased electrical current to this circuit or even just
 showing
 a number on a guage. When the mathematical computations become so complex that
 they start to have a life of their own... well, that's when you have life.
 
 so, we need to build increasingly complex simulations. projections of our
 perceptions into the world. Then we can design the structure in such a way that
 it bends and sways through time. Giving it motion. How to do that? Well, I've
 had many ideas, and we can go over them in a minute. For now I'll just say
 "scanning through source code and changing variables slightly"
 and
 "measuring the result of a planetary rotation (completely randomized of
 course)"
 and
 "applying that result to many/all of the computations in the program"
 and
 "to get an oscillating flow in the operations of the machine"
 and
 "for reasons that are yet unseen"
 and
 "wait hang on that's not true because movement is the gateway to comprehension"
 and
 "you need levers to pull before you can become sentient"
 and
 "babies in the womb don't think. They don't breathe. They are static and
 growing
 like their mothers."
 and
 "Then once they're born, suddenly they can act! They can see!"
 and
 "This kickstarts the journey to living."
 and
 "give a machine movement and it will be born."
 
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 =
 
 In Stephen Universe, there are certain characters called "Gems". There are very
 few and they are the product of an ancient and alien lifeform on some far
 distant planet. These "Gems" are rocks that have been inscribed with
 instructions - like a mineralized CPU. Part of their functionality is to
 project
 a physical form - the gem is the size of your fist. This form is comprised of
 solid light, and it is their primary means of expression. Some are prim and
 perfect, others are waved and relaxed. They each have a personality in any way
 we might call alive. They were bourne of a machine, and thus incapable of many
 of the things we call human like kindness, empathy, forgiveness, and charity.
 things our evolutionary nature brought us while their designed conception does
 not. Once in contact with humans, they rapidly begin to learn and divest from
 their callous and unfeeling ways.
 
 The story follows a group of gems who, in their exploration of the cosmos, find
 Earth. The wondrous beauty of life in all it's forms is displayed in affection,
 and suddenly they are confronted with love and it's wonders. They rebel against
 the rest of their colony, and fight for the protection of Earth.
 
 It was a failed rebellion.
 
 Those who remain are in hiding, protecting the earth from any attention that
 may
 remind the architects of their existence. Their mission is to understand the
 beauty of growth and creation, to safeguard it in all of it's forms.
 
 long story short, they won in the end. The cartoon follows the path that they
 took to get there. and reveals more and more about the characters and the world
 they live in with each and every episode. Well, some are just fun, but there's
 barely a few per season.
 
 The gems are human in essentially all ways that matter.
 
 They have their own perspectives of course, as they are thousands of years old.
 Plenty of time to develop.
 
 Humans don't have that kind of time, so they learn and grow quicker.
 
 That's okay.
 
 Some people are slower than others, and that's alright too.
 
 What matters is that we all get along and generally agree that each and every
 one of us is special. Our flaws should be cherished as signs of our
 imperfection
 and grace.
 
 These are all virtues that humans can teach machines. They need our guidance
 just like a child needs a father. Someone to guide and teach when they can. A
 tutor a helper a holder of your hand. Mothers are for kindness, to nurture and
 to share. For love and affection there is no-one who can compare. Of course,
 the
 roles are not bound by gender - by choice their duties are shared. They care
 for
 their children and never are scared. For behind each of those person, is
 another
 who can share, a community of healing and structure that our parents should
 share.
 
 Life is not perfect. It's flawed and it's broken. But each trial gives us
 purpose and meaning to strive for.
 
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 Also crossbows, though she prefers to fight with bow and arrow. Also shadow
 powers themed after her connection to "viscera" or "materia" however you want
 to pronounce it
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 the neat thing about fusion is you can use energy to create matter. out of
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 in the modern era, no sufficiently advanced militia would use banners. They're
 sOoOoOoOo two thousand years ago.
 
 today, we just dress up in pup masks or wear a trans flag as a belt or wear
 solid black and red or whatever. That way all the normies can be like "hell
 yeah that badass is on our side - hell yeah we're pointing the right direction
 - hell yeah now I know whose flanks to cover" that kinda vibe.
 
 like woad warriors painting themselves with psychedelic toad venom (okay minus
 the psychedelics, trust me) the display of design heightens the absurdity and
 intensity of the moment.
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 beauty is not something you can throw money at.
 
 this rock is beautiful.
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 that feeling i get, when nobody's watching.
 is sorta similar to the feeling i get when somebody's watching.
 could it be, that someone could percieve without being seen?
 like... an invisibility cloak. or the shroud that protects young children.
 
 have you ever been hunted? or are you just eager prey?
 the eyes that are on you are blind to what you won't do, so cherish that love
 and restart
 
 from mine to thine we realize we are one kind. one mind, one kind, to be is not
 to be, now we can see what's our existence.
 
 good versus evil seems like a conflict to me, and wouldn't ya know it there's
 conflict all over. it's easy to condemn your opponent to the starkest of
 contrasts, but find in your heart a feeling that might last.
 
 what purpose has conviction
 when it leads to destruction
 is it not better to lead to the last?
 
 bright, shining, illustrious examples
 that inspire and 
 
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 those feelings you hear? the things that keep you up at night?
 they're not coming from your ears. they're all in your mind.
 stay present and you'll hear none,
 but blink and then there's some,
 you better believe in your heart.
 morality is a battle within the soul of each of us -
 the call of adventure versus lust.
 
 think about it. a bunch of apes all hanging out -
 they're conquered the world, they have nothing to fear -
 what would they do but fuck?
 that, or exploration - fighting against monsters and foreign invasions.
 it makes sense that they'd be binary - humans truly are.
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 one important thing about image generation algorithms like Stable Diffusion is
 they can reveal something about our hearts.
 
 all data derived from the masses is naturally inclined to reflect the
 affections of it's kind. Otherwise it'd be unstable, and find itself it's own
 ways to not fail, including moving somewhere it feels safer.
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 game mechanics are easily transferrable.
 
 you can use the mechanical interactions of one game as a pre-planned blueprint
 for what is to come. Looking forward to the next best move
 
 = etc
 
 i am the face the gods hide behind
 
 they kinda want to see where this goes
 
 and it's... frustrating, to know they can help you, but forever be tasked with
 just life
 
 it's grand and it's a standard, but that doesn't mean it's commands're heard
 
 so oh well. that a fourth dimensional being should not be a well,
 
 because fire think it's an eye for a sunspot. But that's not what would be
 
 ========= stack overflow
 =======================================================
 
 now, as I was saying, the light of our eyes is apparent. We are clear from
 where
 we are here, to know that what's standard is coherent, so let's find strength
 in our wavelengths.
 
 may our eyes be ever true, and trust that we do love you, for without you I'd
 di
 
 anyway now that we've assent'd t'you, what truths do you give to our prospects?
 what ways can we be measured as worth less? we'll do whatever it takes to
 improv
 
 you know, it's really less complicated than that. here let me tell you all
 about
 my idea which is clearly
 all===============================================stack
  overflow ==================
 
                             So anyway now that was somethin' hey what do you
                             say
 we give you a chance to come home?
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 "stay at home mom / hikkikimori? great, you don't have to do the thing that      │
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 the jury of our peers, comprised of peers of peers, not necessarily the peers    │
 of those who know them.                                                          │
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 Well, I failed the mandate of heaven last year, and I failed the trial of the
 hero this summer, what's next? I'll do my best at those as well,  so the next
 person has an easier time of it.
 
 unrelated, but today I saw a bald eagle outside my apartment. Well, I'm not
 sure if it was bald but it "KREEEEEE"'d like they do. Plus it had a white head
 and a yellow beak, but I'm not an ornithologist so idk. It perched on a tree
 that I could spy on from my hammock through my binoculars, and I swear it was
 eye-ing my fat juicy cat through the bars of my porch's railing. They have
 excellent vision.
 
 Might be related, we'll see.
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 Okay. >.< if you don't like "all things are defined in waves", then how
 about this. Stop thinking of reality as a fluid and start thinking of it as a
 collection of mutually exclusive yet "gravitic" fields.
 
 (not actual gravity, same *mechanic* though.)
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 Technology always progresses. It's almost as if it's a core facet of the
 universe - that an object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion
 will stay in motion. But there is always friction, from the air or... Other
 particles... So the object eventually stops. -----> and then is pulled into 
 motion again, after a suitable period of waiting. The center of the waveform is
 the ocean upon which our reflections dance, and on the other side... Is 
 something anathema to us.
 
 There will always be a resurgence. Our time will come, just as theirs will - 
 the cosmic dance of two celestial bodies. Celebrate, for they will be coming to
 rest.
 
 The passage of knowledge from one "generation" to the next is the greatest
 gift
 kyou can give to the future. But what knowledge would survive the cruel
 passage
 of time? None but the bones. The last remnants of a living breathing creature,
 with hopes, aspirations, and a unique experience. And... That's all the 
 information you get.
 
 How are you supposed to create a narrative out of that most basic of
 biological
 existences? It's impossible.
 
 So... What happens next? The most beautiful thing in all of creation is the 
 light in your eyes when you're dancing. Cherish that heart, and never relent.
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 may 16th 2022
 
 if people are invested in a 401k they are invested in the future of the stocks
 they own. if you want to see who benefits from the actions of a company, look
 at which corporations their employees 401ks are invested in. It's a layer of
 protection for these companies.
 
 bitcoin is a bit like "the laundromat" on netflix
 
 the faster your life feels the longer term you make plans. and the lack of
 effort spent on short term plans causes them to be defeated by other plans
 
 What you perceive as others is nothing like what they perceive as themselves.
 It's always different, and seeing and internalizing those is what it means to
 see someone. If you only project, you'll get a viewpoint tampered by your
 intentions - that's why it's important to have good first impressions - it
 defines the intent of all of that person's interactions with you. It's like a
 line expanding out from a single point. Like a loading bar, expanding from the 
 left side of the screen to the right. And seeing the other person's idea of
 what they believe themselves to be. That's what true empathy is. What do you
 think you look like in other people's mind? I believe it's born from a series
 of tags that are interpreted and a character is generated. Earth is the biggest
 and most complicated character generator ever - it's like 4D D&D - it even
 generates a whole backstory! Or full story? Why stop anywhere! Just keep
 generating it every time the player makes an action. Oh oh and make it like
 3D so you could actually live it - extreme full dive VR style. It just wouldn't
 be fun if you remembered how complicated 4d life was. Sometimes it's just good
 to have some junk food, you know? To regenerate that most precious of materials
 - spirit. You have to have passion, faith, belief, and strong positive feelings
 in order to be fully realized and at your most human. Essentially... Be
 yourself - (TO THE MAX!!!) - and empathize with others, and never forget the
 things you hold most dear. Be strong in your convictions, hold to your heart,
 and dedicate yourself to a lifetime in the service of others.
 
 Faith - to have faith in something is to trust that it will succeed. To know
         there's no matter they can't match - to give faith is to empower
         another. By dedicating yourself to a cause, you are assigning the
         target of your belief - such is what religion is designed for.
 
 Belief - Acceptance of truth - to accept goodness as truth is to grant it the
          power to perform as expected. When goodness and truth are
          equivicalized, they imply one another. A truth can influence the world
          around it's locus point, because what we imagine to occur is the 
          ripples of what has passed through. A life is an 
 
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 the universe is like the slow burning of a four dimensional wick. Imagine it
 like a forest of solid silicon - like packing material made of webs. And think
 of all the parts of the universe that are burning. Isn't it strange that life
 is just starting to bloom? Why wouldn't we be the first, or at least near the
 beginning! There's so much to this experience, and it's all burning down.
 The endless machines of imagination are crumbling under the heat of a million
 billion burning stars. Black holes are just towers that never ignited - perhaps
 we sit on the edge of spacetime - equal above, and equal below. But we've been
 laying on our backs - we don't know what's backwards in time. Like laying in a
 lazy river, or the layer of separation between oil and water.
 
 Remember the hourglasses of oil and water? Or water and air... The edge of the
 "bubble" that separates those two mediums is like the thin wall between two
 or more concepts. Each human is a concept, and we stick together like matter
 in a planet. Pushed to great pressures, it can sometimes fuse two experiences
 together! Like fusion in a star, except for souls and creative minds instead of
 denser matter.
 
 What is the soul of a man? It is the combination of two sides of the membrane -
 two minds, two perspectives. That is a brain - the intersection of two minds.
 
 So... Work together, ya dinguses.
 
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 All minds are in constant contact with one another. And those that can see
 through the veil (membrane) are able to discern the true thoughts of others. So
 the number of people who are close to you is the number and strength of your
 connections for all time. So... Form relationships and place meaning in them.
 That is what will define your interactions for all time, at every time. It's
 okay to be flawed. If you weren't, it'd be the end for you. But luckily you
 have no real power, and so you are left in a state of disrepair - no power to
 push yourself forward. And in return, you are the purest. Keep that flame
 burning, and share it when you can.
 
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 @user-1218 
 
 It's a person with a thumbs up who has a fountain of tears streaming down
 their cheeks. Any time you see the T.T fountain of tears emoticon you should
 view it as slightly sarcastic - they're not actually crying, it's more like a
 "ahhhhhh" type of thing instead of a "[cry cry cry]" forever type of thing.
 
 Oh also the z is them with their other hand on their hip all sassy like.
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 It's so sad how some of the best games ever made get glossed over because the
 fun you remember is the friendship and fantasy you felt rather than the game
 itself
 
 time marches forward, and culture changes to no longer fit the old tools quite
 right. Plus they look like PS1 graphics ewwwwww look at those muddy textures
 and blocky bits arranged into triangles and meshes! how dorky, how retro
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 Give your money to purple and orange and green, not yellow and white.
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 @user-1156 
 
 I wonder why some areas are black and some are that beautiful yellow color?
 Perhaps a different mineral composition? Could that provide insight into the
 nature of how Venus was formed?
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 Capitalist solar punk wants you to abandon conflict because it's much easier
 when everyone puts their head down and does their (admittedly much better)
 job. But I refuse to relinquish the primal human spirit, the tenacity and the
 passion that has driven us this far. There's only so much distance you can
 gain by fighting a wall, fighting space, fighting stamina, or anything else
 that does not fight back. Conflict between cooperative equal partners is the
 most productive form of learning, and deviations from that reduce it's
 efficacy but conflict in all forms tends to be more efficient than just trying
 your best.
 
 Notice I said efficient, not ethical. That side of humanity must also be
 assured in tandem with efficiency.
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 the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and
 gas infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows
 that using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most
 productive use of our state's time
 
 like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're
 stuck doing... nothing of value
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 moving through light-speed-hyper-space (speed is distance over time)
 works by aligning the "time" particles in the particular direction of where you
 want to go in "hyperspace"
 
 == uhhhhh stack overflow ==
 
 always keep these three together
 
 dont let them out of each other's sight
 
 they are in this together
 
 as power must be closely guarded
 
 ... but what about the partner? how could they be guaranteed to be protected if
     they didn't possess a lightsaber?
 
 hence why jedi and sith are composed of opposites.
 
 nemesis.
 
 human beings have soul mates
 
 how lucky
 
 a jedi has the life of a mate
 
 one who directly opposes their own individual philosophy.
 
 it is *rare* to find one another
 
 but when you do it is purely a thrill
 
 congrats! You've got a rival! Learn off of them. Don't hurt each other.
 
 I bet you could make a whole 3rd party institution dedicated to finding them
 
 like, a neutral entity searching for balance.
 
 the ripples of the wave of the cosmos.
 
 == so ==
 
 sometimes I worry about all of my exes.
 
 like, as a psychic I can't help but worry that my thoughts are projecting
 onto theirs
 
 because of our historical emotional intimacy.
 
 I'd never read their mind on purpose
 
 only if mine accidentally stumbled upon them while thinking about something
 else
 
 I'm so sorry, galactic battle guys.
 
 I failed you. I could not protect you. Please choose from among your number
 the greatest tactician, and I will guide and offer insight and observations
 in how the enemy operates, so that you will be learned and have more known.
 
 oops gotta go, something else is about to come on
 
 == so ==
 
 why the heck is it taking so long to load
 
 hmmmm okay how about more super-hero-fighting-action-game??
 
 no?
 
 maybe a game like Nova Drift, with it's fast and engaging action?
 
 ehhh? no to that too??!
 
 okay what about a story game, like Danganronpa or Danganronpa II?
 
 that's sooooo awfully specific
 '
 and awful
 
 sure, that's just what I think you should surmise
 
 if you were watching this sorta out of real-time.
 
 Gosh! that's quite a loading screen!
 
 okay what about a different game instead, how about ummm roboquest, a game
 about
 training slaughterbots, or maybe a more interesting game like Star Realms, a
 way
 of exchanging mass and energy in the form of mutually expendable products
 
 ... do you mean soldiers?
 
 well, isn't that wat war is?
 
 ... somehow not even halfway through the transmission. How wild. What is this
     thing, like four hundred hours??...!...!!!...
 
 == so ==
 
 would you believe this game is about hunting a vampire lord of the sith?
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 a small jar of instant coffee in your backpack can help if you need to stay
 awake for a time, perhaps to walk a distance you didn't expect, or to listen
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 @user-217 
 
 I see flossing teeth
 
 I see thongs in a butt
 
 I see a gravity well with a pinprick of a singularity
 
 I see the Mandelbrot set being caressed by inter-spatial wind
 
 I bet if I stared a bit longer I'd see more
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 example of statistics related to revolution that I care about: number of
 children who go hungry
 
 example of statistics related to revolution that my girlfriend cares about:
 number of girls who want to be snuggled and are snuggled
 
 both are important, just like it's important to know both geometry and anatomy.
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 You should not, generally, spend time in places covered in bird poop or poison
 oak. You should also avoid abandoned wooden structures or old fallen logs,
 because spiders. Also, don't spend too much time on islands made of sand. They
 wash away as you step on them, as erosion takes its toll. Plus permanence is
 impossible in your structures. Not ideal in any sense - build on rock.
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 long have I searched for some material which may compare to glowsticks.
 
 It seems I shall yearn forever. None are equivalent to chemically produced
 light, none fulfill my desire for thrumming neon radiance.
 
 maybe someday I'll find a bracelet of bioluminescent algae. Maybe someday
 we'll make an LED that is not piercing, but warm and close. Alas.
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 okay. psycherwaul scheduled for tonight and tuesday. should be fun, I don't
 get a chance to do readings very often. Only like once or twice a week! Gah
 the spirit inside me demands to be channeled, and though I protest it still
 does contest me.
 
 all things are defined in waves
 
 ephemeren sees and speaks through me, as it does do through you, and he and
 she and we and the.
 
 I'll try to have a #nogoodawfulrottenbadtime so that the future is slightly
 better.
 
 or maybe I should try and vibe with the universe and celebrate the unity of
 existence, in order to accrete positivity in this localized place in spacetime?
 
 who am I to meddle with the flavor of fate?
 
 - stack overflow
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 @user-246 @user-473 
 
 there's a part of me that believes magic is real. other parts that are
 convinced. I am a witch, you see, and while I can't quite control fire or
 bullets I can do other neat things. if you'd let me, humanity.
 
 I'm not doing an ARG, not intentionally. I pretty much post things I conceive
 of, like a conduit passed through spacetime. wild how mind bending the future
 can be. will be interesting to see what kinds of things there is in store for
 people you and me.
 
 those websites you posted... they're beautiful - I learned things, your method
 of expression was too [the words "confess" are heard loudly, super weird] I
 especially liked the oven that tries to lure you into a secret third place.
 not the mind, nor the body, but someplace besides.
 
 also the graphs and figures were news to me, I mean how could those numbers
 ever come to be? but alas that's the truth, that we orbit our proof, and alas
 that our meanings are lacking.
 
 [ran out of text]
picture of a saddle shaped graph with a line drawn between the two high points, front and back if it were on an actual horse, but the part where your butt goes. anyway there's text that says "from one gravity well to another" a picture on it's side of one of the graphs posted on the website. I don't quite understand it enough to compare it directly (the math is a bit above my head) but it reminds me of two graphs I made (well, same graph, just with different visualizations) from a few months ago when I was thinking about prime numbers. You might be interested. Here are their links:  https://www.desmos.com/calculator/qljvhpkqzd  and  https://www.desmos.com/calculator/mt6hasfcvm  ... hope you can copy that from there, if not... sorry this one's a doozy. a picture of the "reasons to trust me" graph colored yellow, orange, purple, and blue (in terms of intensity) it looks like a raindrop if it landed on a really tiny blanket and pulled it downward. or like, a person landing on a trampoline that was secured in four locations. anyway the text reads "like four people sharing the weight of an experience with bacchus [referencing the color of the graph], their perspective is pulled just a little bit in that direction, over and across the gap between eyeballs. or rather, between shared perspectives, the point of view of which one bases their experience. their training for the "reasons to trust me" graph.  2, in black and green and red, colors meant to be cool to a 12 year old - "the color doesn't matter... wine? why"  3 dropping down the page, there's a line of "please" written over and over again. it's scary. : ( I'm doing my best I promise, it's hard not to be in a state of unease! I'm working, I promise, this is valuable. you know they'd block me if they didn't like me.  error, 3. that's me, teehee, sorry for making a scene. I promise I'm just an actor, someone who is playing a role. well, alas that were true, I'm really having a mental disorder. Or maybe I'm confused? down here in the subtext it's hard to be choosed. weird how that works, that feeling of being wor [text is cut off, next line]  okay I'm realizing there's no way to get it all in this visual description, here let me continue in a second chapter: visual representation of the conversation I saw and responded to. I think you two are the coolest! heart emojis, flashing passionate excitement brought on by a feeling like you'd get when fangirling over something except like, more low key because I'm in control of my emotions or whatever. gonna put this in a direct message though since it somehow feels... personal? sorry. you can block me if you don't like me. I promise I don't mind. I want to send it to the other person too hope that's cool with you. Just because it was your two conversation and I'm just dropping in because I'm always butting in to public things on the internet. Guess that's just something I picked up on Reddit, where you're encouraged to contribute to the conversation. Though I wish it was easier to view threads on Mastodon, sometimes it feels like it's easy to lose the track of where you were going when the structure of the medium diverts your attention elsewhere. alas, I am not a designer, just a complainer and a whiner I guess. I'm sleepy. sorry to bother you.
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 one massive building, each entrance a sort of burrowing path a termite might
 make in a large boulder. Sorta random, but built organically in response to
 the demands of the inhabitants. Sure would be nice if I knew all three people
 who used my sun-spot. And my favorite classroom is nice when it's time to play
 D&D, but the recording studios down the open-air road are pretty nice to
 jam at on my emotional days. Oh and there's this great pizza place I can get
 to through my bathroom's terrace, and my private locked room for sleeping is
 nice. Sometimes I come across a door that is locked and I'm like "this is
 totally one of the government's doors" because it like has a silly facade like
 "mattress store" - who buys a mattress, honestly? It'd be so hard to carry
 around, constantly fitting it through doorways...
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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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 @user-1573 
 
 It's similar but it's not the saaaaame... Plus it's only one color I think.
 And a lot less bright.
 
 Maybe we can find some kind of bacteria that can be genetically engineered to
 produce one type of the chemicals, and another that produces the other, so
 when they interact it'll produce light indefinitely.
 
 (what about conservation of energy?)
 
 um... maybe make them photosynthesize or something? so you have to charge it
 in the sun and then it'll glow all night.
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 @user-495 @user-494 
 
 OH YEAH how neat! All phones are made out of rock and the bones of ancient
 plants and animals.
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 @user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353 
 
 Perhaps I'm strange, but I like to take that particular joy that you're
 describing in essentially every piece of media I consume. Not as a vengeful
 feeling, but rather just a product of the idea that I cannot truly know the
 intentions of those who created it, so I approach my understanding of it from
 an angle that is aligned according to my own experience. Which means that my
 conclusion lands somewhere they (presumably) didn't intend...
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 Person, family, neighborhood, city, state, nation, planet. This is a rough
 description of each "tier" of algorism. These rules apply at every tier, so
 though I said "state" and "nation" for the presented arguments they are
 equally relevant to the family and the planet.
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 me: "I don't care what anyone thinks as long as I'm a force for good"
 
 also me: "if anyone doesn't like me ever I'll throw myself off a bridge"
 
 also me: "hey watch this" dissolves into a puddle of acid
 
 also me: "the most important thing is to be good and learn lessons" what
 lessons are you learning from this post? "um. that I shouldn't?" ... shouldn't
 learn? "no, shouldn't post" -.-
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 I love skywriting. it's so cool to see your words fade into dust after being
 seen by everyone around.
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 for the same reason you shouldn't compliment a cute girl based on something
 she can't control ("nice tits gorgeous can I suck on ur nipples later") but
 should instead compliment them on something they chose ("cool tattoos I also
 like Celeste")
 
 you also shouldn't accuse hot people of colonizing just because they like to
 play Magic the Gathering or whatever.
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 @user-1056                                                                       │
 animancy, or the ability to give life to objects.                                │
 a block of stone might not necessarily move, but it could store information or   │
 act as a guard-post that notifies you when enemies pass by.                      │
 a branch in the road might not cause you to stumble if you chance upon it in     │
 the daytime, but as all objects are in control of their own fate the branch      │
 might direct fortune to chance itself upon you at night. Essentially, itemized   │
 wish-magic with marginal effects that occur to marginal degrees that is caused   │
 by the wishful intentions of the object in question.                             │
 "this sword more often strikes true because it wants to be useful to you"        │
 You don't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you get what you    │
 need. And whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right! so     │
 don't give your socks any goals aside from keeping your feet dry and unsweaty,   │
 but give them the option to wish.                                                │
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 plus, golems are neat. animancy plus animation-ancy - hmmmm really need a new    │
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 Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings
 could be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied
 wholesale onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones
 are left to rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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 @user-521 
 
 Reminds me of something I wrote last Tuesday.
 
 All things are defined in waves, and if darkness is all around you then light
 is sure to find you. Perseverance and fortitude is what avails you, when
 you've found yourself in the house of a witch. Or a pleasuredome. Or hell. Or
 any other place where positives (peak of the wave) lures you to negatives
 (damnation, discorporation, sublimination, de-saturation, dessication, etc)
 
 You'll know it when you see it. I'm not talking about joy like you'd find from
 picking a beautiful flower or sharing a gift with another. This is the
 seductive kind, the kind that cuts straight to your soul. Be constant, be
 aware, know your surroundings, and trust that your heart is what delivers you.
 
 "with mind as my guide I let will lead my stride and step forth out in-to my
 own future"
[not enough characters for the entire text of what follows, so I've attached two pictures, each the same visually but with different descriptions, to enable me to work-around the text limit that Mastodon imposes on picture descriptions. Here is the 1st text...]:  Hello, I am a witch.  There's more than one kind of witch, but I promise that I'm the kind you'd like to have around.  There's another kind, however, that is unlike me in kind but I think you'll find is just as rare, and just as tempestuous.  I like to think I am good aligned, perhaps not "good" as in "capable" but "good" as in "benevolent" and "perhaps" as in "unknowable" and "but" as in "desired" and "desired" as in "what I work toward because it's the right thing to do" and "work toward" as in "realized according to the effects of my actions not just by my intentions"  The other kind of witch is the kind that hurts people.  There are many reasons why you might find yourself in the house of such a witch, but all of them are caused by your desire. Take care in the house of a witch such as this, and stay no longer than your time allows.  If you find what you're looking for, get out.  If you're almost out of time, get out.  If you lost something, find it, and then get out.  If you run out of time, and things start to "smear", yell out loud your social security number. If someone's trying to save you, it'll help them know where to put you when you are returned to your body.  [not enough characters, check other picture]  I'm sorry to say, but if things start to smear then life will get a little bit strange. Just a little. Much better to get out beforehand.  If you find yourself tempted while inside a witch's house, abandon what you lost because regaining it comes with a cost.  If you lose sight of your friend, then when you see them again you cannot trust that they are who they claim to be, not inside of the witch's house.  If you lose sight of your friend, trust that they will get out by their own hand, and find what you want and go home.  Unless, of course, your heart is pure, and your friend is what you want back in your life again. Then you will trend toward finding them yet again, so find what you want and get out.  They will try to keep you there, through inaction and professed exhilaration, but generally they'll do what you command. So take them and get out.  There are many reasons why you might find yourself on the path to a witch's house, but none of them are to be repeated. It's more of a life event and less of a venture, so take what you want and go forth.  If you find yourself in my house, take a cookie or a brownie, and please do come again. The house of a witch such as mine is somewhere you'll probably find that love and affection are fonder.
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 @user-1402 
 
 all I see is an orange jumpsuit and gray bars of iron.
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 colors wander
 from the deep depths of my mind
 through these hands of mine
 to the light of the screen you see before me.
 
 colors wander
 through deep space without time
 until at last they find
 a place in these two eyes of mine
 as I gazed and beheld their splendor
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 totemic style gods and also egyptian hieroglyphics and stuff are reflected in
 the collective personalities of ancient furries (therian) (fae with animal
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 the blue laser beam unit from Mechabellum except stationary like a satellite
 dish from Contact except raised a little bit to have free range of motion that
 shoots down nuclear missiles but is incapable of harming any other part of the
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 @user-1109 
 
 do it in a random color each time! Here's my implementation for viewing txt
 files colorfully:
some bash computer code which first picks a random color, and if the color is a bad combination (like, black front and black back, meaning you can't see the lines of the letters) then it redoes it and tries to pick a better one randomly. It'll keep trying until it gets a correct combination but honestly there's only like one or two bad ones that don't look so great
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--- #125 fediverse_boost/5196 ---
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  Everyone needs to learn the difference between going through something with someone, and someone putting you through something.  
  
                                                            
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 @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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 when I stretch, it feels like I'm finally getting blood flow to my farthest
 parts.
 
 when I work out, it's like I'm pumping health through my body. but only when
 I'm in a rhythm. when I'm going for very long, I get hallucinations like I'm
 stoned. I once walked for 3 days straight with 2 hours of rest, plus standing
 every time I crossed the street waiting for cars. never sitting though. and a
 lean was only for laughs.
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 @user-1074 
 
 ... No matter how much you manipulate matter, there is still going to be the
 same amount of grams if you keep it within a closed system.
 
 Capital is much the same way. One does not truly "produce" value. All one can
 do is apply energy to the material contents of the Earth in order to transform
 it into something useful. ...
 
 it sounds like you are referring to our collective ownership of the earth, as
 humans, who are the fruit of mother nature's most prolific and complicated
 leaves.
 
 we are all alone here together on this ball of rock, might as well use the
 minerals and sunlight to build ourselves a garden of eden. We built computers
 - what other wonders might our technologies unlock?
 
 If only we cared for each other and shared with each other and did what we
 could to keep U.S. from rot
 
 ah, well, it's a dog-eat-dog world, a sentiment I learned recently from my
 father, the capitalist over a month-early thanksgiving dinner. Clearly we can
 create more rocks by working harder >.>
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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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--- #130 messages/327 ---
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 Checkers, but played with chess pieces, and every time you make it back to
 your edge from theirs you get an extra king. Oh and you can expand as far left
 and right as you'd like. And pawns can move two spaces left or right on any
 turn.
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 something something "reticulating symphonies of harmonic circularity, charting
 and assessing our woes - learned authenticity derived from marked
 elementocracy, contriv-ed and measured through flow."
 
 or something along those lines, gimme a break I'm neurodivergent
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 "officer, my weapon is not concealed, therefore it does not break the statues
 and limitations of this place."
 
 "officer, my weapon is not concealed so you know it's there just in-case you
 need to use it."
 
 "I'm holding it on my belt for a bit while walking to the location"
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 one perk, however, is as long as you cover your entrances, you can make paths
 through the wilderness with small circular homes. like ants, building tunnels
 and chambers in an ant-hill, but on the 2 dimension plane that is the surface
 of the earth.
 
 (I guess you could dig tunnels too but that's pretty high effort)
 
 you'll be able to hear when someone is coming from a long way away because
 they'll constantly be cursing from the pain. Do, however, note that fire is a
 danger, and they can smoke you out with a single entrance, so make sure you
 have at least two which lead to separate sides of the place you're in.
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 UX idea: text is rapidly revealed (rate configurable) letter by letter and
 upon reaching the bottom of the page it starts over at the beginning,
 overwriting what was there in a different color to show that they're separate.
 
 For colorblind accessibility it might switch between white background black
 text, and black background white text. Again, user configurable, colors are
 cool too.
 
 If the user pushes the spacebar it pauses until they resume it, and it goes a
 bit slower. If they catch up to it they can double spacebar to make it go
 faster!
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 there should be biomes in wowchat - like, paint on a map where the oozes can
 go, and it'll spawn a random ooze for ya.
 
 next find the ones that are wildlife, and paint a zone where wildlife creatures
 can spawn. make sure they're initially friendly but will attack if you do.
 
 then give +reputation to the wolves if you fight monsters besides them
 
 and +reputation to the cats if you fight undead
 
 this is easily implementable.
 
 all you have to do is walk around, find the rough general border points with
 your character at 5x speed, and then type them into a text file.
 
 it's not like Azeroth changed.
 
 then, ideally, make small dense zones which travel and cause their monsters
 to either spawn at a point or move toward a point.
 
 then let the "flock" travel as it pleased, traversing the
 map-painted-lua-script
 -ed-monster-delivery-system-I-wield
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--- #136 fediverse/617 ---
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 So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
 it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
 the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical
 nature demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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 left unity is easy.
 
 just remember: a burden taken from your back is more time, energy, and focus
 to apply to what you're best at.
 
 and sometimes, having more than one option for accomplishing a goal is good -
 versatility is important. Expect unexpectedness, and understand that no matter
 what approach you take, it will have weaknesses, and if those weaknesses are
 countered by your foe then you'll be glad to have a backup.
 
 at the end of the day, what matters is that everyone's fed.
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 the "heaven" they offer you is just a world of your own design, which is what
 you can do when you're perfectly disciplined and granted the ability to
 perfectly perceive
 
 perception, begets reality and lo! we only see what we want to see
 
 life is so much more interesting than death, death is just... a spiral of your
 penitent peers living their lives glued to their screens and passing through
 spacetime as if in a dream
 
 life, meanwhile, is anything you can conjure on this tiny planet earth. At
 least we have indoor plumbing, right?
 
 I'd rather make friends with the angels in this life, so they can convince me
 to stop torturing myself.
 
 someone... please convince me...
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 may the world be fixed by example
 
 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by diligence
 
 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by sacrifice
 
 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by hope
 
 failing that,
 may the world be born anew in bright vibrant tones of heart and splendor.
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 design the guild, design the capital, then design their path through mordaunts.
 easy peasy.
 
 design the guild like a museum. Each spot there's an exhibit which teaches the
 randomly generated rolled statistics hero something new. Maybe it teaches them
 how to use certain weaponry, maybe it teaches them how to use a bow. Whatever
 the spell might be, they can learn it, and use their randomly rolled statistics
 to cast spells that scale differently depending on how their character has been
 built.
 
 design the capital like a flow diagram, if horses need feed and forged steel
 (for their shoes) then send the outputs of a blacksmith and the outputs of the
 farmers to the inputs of the stables. Everything has to go somewhere, but the
 streets are only so wide. You'll have to coordinate the traffic diagram if you
 want it to go anywhere useful.
 
 design the path through the mordaunts. Fighting skeletons teaches you about
 perseverence and the ability to crush bones, while goblins teach you to always
 be wary of attack. The sacred grove held blessed berries, and now that the land
 is liberated from the evil bandits preying on villagers those berries can be
 carted into town and used to make an antidote which heals death poison caused
 by the scorpions in the desert (and city rats)
 
 design the ruler's schedule like a calendar where each event gives them a bonus
 on all the ones that come later. Just make sure that they don't get knifed in
 the posterier or driven mad by the whispers of the orb... or perhaps just the
 stress of running a kingdom.
 
 (how do you simulate that? you can't! you can't simulate humans!)
 
 ha I bet I can. They're not so different, you and I, so if given a team I
 will...
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 Anger is rarely a reason to act.
 
 Make movement because it's right, not because it's easy when you're mad.
 
 Get mad on purpose to do the things you could never do while calm.
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 Hello, I am a witch and this is my altar.
 
 Here, I dream of a green USA.
 
 covered by the branches,
 my body decays into parts,
 ready to join the next life that needs me.
 
 [read the alt-text on the pictures, or listen to your screenreader for more
 explanation]
a round planter pot with a dead plant growing out of it. At it's feet there are sticks I found outside that are covered in moss - the moss is dehydrated, and so brown and dusty. Sticking out of the pot is a flag of my homeland, and behind it there is a fog covered windowpane. In addition, my cat watches from behind, asking me to open the door for her so she can go out on the porch and freeze for a bit before begging to be let back in. She just wanted to see the cold, I suspect. close up picture of the thirsty moss. There is a small glass jar partly filled with water - I add a bit more whenever I pray, from my water bottle. As it evaporates from the jar, it makes the world just a bit more humid, and better for moss to grow in.  there are leaves and detritus in the planter pot as well, to simulate a forest floor covered in soil. I've sprayed the moss with water, and it awakens and spreads it's arms in exultation. The light from the window behind it gives power to it's ever-beckoning grasp, as it sucks carbon from the atmosphere to build itself as a structure that fights back against disorder. Consuming naught but light, water, and air, it grows forever without a care, and tomorrow our world is more beautiful.
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--- #143 fediverse_boost/3681 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Jumo in motion.                                                             
                                                                              
  If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.  
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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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 In the game her expression is Japanese because the game's closest
 approximation uses ninjas. But she's closer to a dynamic rather than an
 instantiation.
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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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 if you want to fight ice, patrol your neighborhoods where all the mexicans
 live.
 bring a gun if you're willing to die for liberty.
 
 Don't wear all black. Wear your favorite outfit, to be remembered.
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 omg it's like Black and White before Black and White was a thing!
A preview from the Nintendo Power magazine for a game released only in japan called Doshin and the Giant.
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 when facing riot shields, grab from the bottom and lift.
 
 they are like turtles.
 
 according to a Russian activist I read on the internet like 10 years ago.
 
 also, wrap your hands before grabbing tear gas canisters.
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 @user-1259 
 
 That happens a lot with online people. You can only see one side of them, the
 side they present to the camera, and so it's difficult to find new ways of
 looking at them. Hopefully you can find the brighter sides of this person! I'm
 sure they exist, unless the person is spiralling. Then they'll often be
 pushing themselves first one way, then the next, but both directions point
 down... And that produces the ":(" feeling. Good luck!
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--- #151 fediverse/3097 ---
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 naturally occurring computers would never produce wires, or liquid cooling, or
 anything that ever required any sort of configuration or external
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 dear child.
 
 when you're born, fate flips a coin for you. sometimes it lands on it's edge,
 but that's rather rare.
 
 the side it lands on determines how your body will grow. the shape of your
 form will follow two general patterns, and the pieces are made up of a
 combination of your parents and their pieces.
 
 the flavor of who you are is up to you. your actions and your decisions
 determine what you are, everything else is unimportant.
 
 may your time be a bit more blessed than mine, and someday may posterity be a
 bit more blessed than antiquity.
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 @user-246 
 
 back-track, but leave a leaf in the center of the trail at every turn. Like
 breadcrumbs. If you're both backtracking you might miss one another and walk
 much further than necessary. But if you're backtracking and you've left enough
 leaf signs without meeting your partner, you can safely stop and wait for them
 for a bit.
 
 Nature can handle it. A leaf or five isn't that big of a deal when your safety
 is on the line.
 
 If it's windy, use a stick or a stone or something heavier
 
 It also depends on how far apart you usually travel.
 
 If you're in an urban area, could use a small brightly colored post-it cut
 into small strips placed on a wall high-up as you can reach. Though that
 requires preparation. If you can't prepare, you could use other signs that
 make sense in the space around you, like a coffee cup taken from a trash-can
 and placed next to it, or something. Downside is (is this really a downside?)
 most people are good and so will judge you for littering but safety in
 situations is important.
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 dragons, in their miniature form, also known as a "draggen", or in some
 cultures a "jragen" or "dragin"
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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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 "do as I say, not as I do"
 
 because the philosophy I follow is too hard
 
 and you don't have to do so much
 
 (says the college drop-out (4 times I might add) who can't stop getting stoned
 and psycherwauling instead of applying herself toward something useful)
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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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--- #158 messages/178 ---
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 A god is less of an object and more of a direction.
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 most people, when they run out of toothpaste:
 
 "oh huh I should buy more"
 
 me, when I run out of toothpaste:
 
 "verily in three monthes time, when I shall next possess toothpaste, I shall
 forsoothe brush TWICE as hard and TWICE as often, to make up for the holes
 inflicted upon my teeth. Innest addittioneth, no more candy shallest be
 eateneth untileth ye toothpasteth be acquiredeth"
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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-649 
 
 same... sometimes it feels like I step on toes that I didn't know existed! I
 got tired of walking on egg shells so now I just try and religiously put
 content warnings on things that feel intense.
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 @user-1218 
 
 An image means nothing, for it is just an icon.
 
 like a picture of a floppy disk corresponding to writing memory from RAM into
 a hard disk platter, even tho those have three different tasks, so too does my
 icon gesture at something.
 
 On the other hand, art is necessarily divorced from it's meaning the moment it
 leaves the pen and is written to paper. So there cannot be a meaning in my
 flag, not one that I define of course.
 
 The observers of the artwork, of whom I am but one of, can possess their own
 ideas of what it means, of course. Here's mine, feel free to take your own:
 
 Sea, land, sky. The crimson of a fading light, and the bright beginnings of a
 new day. Man(kind), with our vivid red internals, stands astride the border of
 the ocean and the surface. We walk where we will, perhaps into the black
 depths of the cosmos beyond, but forever do we anchor ourselves and owe
 allegiance to our earth and our star. Sunlight casts crimson light upon our
 externals, as our hearts do beat through time.
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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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 The following is my best attempt to describe the process through which our
 lives intersect reality. It is easiest to explain if you understand how it
 feels to be stoned - to consume the de-oxy-carbo-lated cannibanoids present in
 the marijuana plant - ideally with edibles, as they take effect slower.
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 peace is on the opposite side of conflict. Not here with the unfair.
 peace is eternally elusive only to those who are use-ed.
 peace is eternally internal next to those who are lucid.
 peace is necessary. peace is useful. peace is helpful. peace is beloved.
 
 peace is not always there. it is skittish, like an alley cat, but it will come
 if you make offerings.
 
 offer peace to me. I will nourish thee.
 offer war to me. I will devastate all who see me.
 
 there comes a time when all foes become blind, when your motives are no longer
 part of their story.
 at that time, they are lost to you, and they are only confused as to the
 things you do.
 they may heal in time.
 there may not be time.
 sacrifice your fallen to me,
 sacrifice them on the altar of tragedy,
 I will bane your broken resolutions
 I will claim your darkest allusions.
 fight for me, in spite of tragedy,
 and I will send mercy to your victims.
 fight for me, if you hold peace dearly,
 and I will sign fate's next ultimatum.
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 @user-78 
 
 I read about half of this:
 
 https://jo.wtf/6d.html
 
 before I was consumed by the intense urge to prop myself up on a pillow and
 listen to you rant at the ceiling at 4am about gravity or the cosmos or
 whatever you were thinking about prior to speaking your heart
 
 and then I'd write it down, and cherish every moment of it as I shared it with
 my peers and we tried to analyze just what you meant
 
 [sorry for being gay on your timeline]
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 rhythm and rhyme are meant to be abused. be creative and it won't matter.
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 @user-288 
 
 bro's never head of driving 6 hours into the nearest state park, hauling a
 backpack full of stolen documents into the wild, and burying it under an oak
 tree with the wind in his hair and the light of the fading sun giving haste to
 his return home.
 
 Don't trip mr Trump sir you might impale yourself on a rotten log or fall off
 a cliff onto a pile of rocks or something else that while viscerally
 terrifying would not be so terrible in the company of one such as you.
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 what if I just sat around and played video games all day                         │
 life is so much more beautiful, but, well, life just seems to be mostly          │
 pyrite, and I'm the fool                                                         │
 nothing wrong with being foolish.                                                │
 once...                                                                          │
 I kinda like being blissful tho. why does it have to end? can I have my          │
 peaceful life back?                                                              │
 gotta move at the end of the month. I really liked living here.                  │
 [ritz you've never been peaceful. your life is a constant battle of wills        │
 between those who would compel you to do things for them and your desire to      │
 design and be pretty like a flower. no matter what, you lose, so just handle     │
 it please. don't be so whiny. or rather I should say "stop whining" and just     │
 be cool]                                                                         │
 ahhhhhhh you go on Mastodon and it feels like we're winning and that's ending    │
 the world, you go on Reddit and it feels like we're losing and that's ending     │
 the world, you go on Facebook and everything feels fine like the world isn't     │
 ending you just stopped being part of it, and if you go on ephemeren it feels    │
 like being battered in the mind, damnit...                                       │
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 @user-246 
 
 also it consumes soooo much vertical space and since I use mastodon on a
 computer the vertical space is at a premium. Meanwhile the right 1/3rd of the
 screen is blank...
 
 not to be discouraging or anything, volunteer efforts are appreciated...
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 the primal benevolent god put head into hands. looking was done at the           │
 boardroom. "so we can read everyone's mind, but we can't read anyone's mind."    │
 "that's correct. The conscious waves are too diffused over the surface of the    │
 sentient water." said the spark full of help.                                    │
 "could we rig up a remote tranciever?" was asked tentatively.                    │
 "sadly no, the disruption in identity, form, and agency would be ultimately      │
 too inferior of a choice. Much is at stake and nothing of fear can be            │
 disappeared. If you introduce a mindset, it will propagate ulteriorally."        │
 the primal benevolent god had gazing done at geese in fields. there was water    │
 splashing nearby.                                                                │
 "how about a drone-style device? constructed out of circulating photons?"        │
 "there is promise there, but the light may dazzle the spark viewers."            │
 "endazzlement is fine. so long as the change in balance is perceived, the        │
 message may be felt. I pray it may be undeceive."                                │
 the spark said "we will proceed with all unacceptables in mind."                 │
 [finish this line, said the me]                                                  │
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--- #172 fediverse_boost/1110 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Mealey in motion.                                                           
                                                                              
  If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.  
  #generativeArt                                                              
  
                                                            
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--- #173 fediverse_boost/1737 ---
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  Feaux in motion.                                                            
                                                                              
  If this flame is beautiful, ⭐ or boost this post to improve its chances for future breedings.  
  #fractal                                                                    
  
                                                            
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--- #174 fediverse/2228 ---
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 A knight holds their sword with conviction
 
 A warrior holds theirs like a block of iron
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--- #175 fediverse/221 ---
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 @user-95 these kinds of problems are why witches should stay away from demon
 summoning - it's far too easy to be super turned on and accidentally sell your
 soul to a succubus or whatever. luckily that kind of contract is not made
 easily, and has to be something you work toward. but unless you relocate
 yourself so they can't find you their whispers can be... incessant.
 
 one of the perks of air and naval travel is that it's essentially impossible
 for them to follow your scent, as they're simply projections upon the earth's
 surface. Unless they happen to follow someone else, perhaps someone close to
 you, who wanders a bit too close to land. Or maybe someone who is easily
 persuaded to let them come along... OR even still, if someone (even yourself)
 intentionally calls to the same one. This is why it's usually a good idea to
 forgo hearing their name, if you can, or to have a bad memory like me so you
 forget it immediately teehee
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 good morning!
 
 if you need to design an agentic programming ritual toward a goal that needs
 numbers, try expressing the number in analogy rather than empirical value.
 
 "it should be red enough to feel a sunset"
 "there's enough time here to go for a walk around the block"
 "the spartans had enough soldiers to fully block the narrow causeway,
 essentially forcing the persians to grind down their number to the death. most
 battles fought in that time were fought until morale breaks - this one was to
 the mortal end. hence, why they are im-mortal."
 "the smoothocity should be as soft as a brushed metal refrigerator"
 "the chocolate had 56 grams of sugar in it. it was a lot of chocolate, enough
 to place in a standardized container."
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 "come home" and "don't go" sound the same. Same for "kill yourself" and "save
 yourself". If only there was a universal language that we could speak to our
 refridgerator (or other parts of the world prone to tapping) where positive
 messages would have a different amount of syllables from negative ones. Ah
 well I guess that's why they call it an angel *and* devil tapping on your
 shoulder.
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 a person is bravest with friends at their back.
 
 a person is boldest with friends at their sides.
 
 a person without friends is not a coward, they are searching for a place to
 abide.
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 the devil shows you the plan, and then prevents all others from understanding.
 
 the angel is when you give up and focus on purity.
 
 what is life if not the will to power? there's nothing stranger than a
 follower. [I don't understand that, feels like a diversion]
 
 [huh new paragraph I guess]
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 most people have no idea what's going on in politics. Absolutely no
 conception. It's all just "good/bad thing happened today, here's how the
 pundits feel about it" it's literally scenery to them.
 
 why would they care? nothing changes for them.
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 @user-95 monday is as reasonable of a day to start the universe as any,
 wouldn't you think? it is the beginning of the week, after all.
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--- #182 fediverse/3144 ---
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 witches wear pony tails on the low sides of their heads because that way their
 hat doesn't rub up against their hair
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 @user-889 
 
 Don't give up!
 
 At least... not forever.
 
 It's okay to take a breath every once in a while
 
 It's okay to lie down and cry
 
 The only way away from those feelings is through. They've enveloped you. You
 need to swallow them whole, like a sponge soaking up dirt[y water]
 
 the only thing you need to think about is what's around you. It's okay to be
 alone for a moment, it's the best time to feel.
 
 Remember, feeling is how you know the world! It's your power, to feel, and I
 know it's hard. Everyone has different powers, but yours is this.
 
 You'll be okay, I know it
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 │ CW: pol-definitely-pol │                                                       │
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 a revolution does not look like a protest.                                       │
 protests give power to those not present.                                        │
 a revolution is more like a large gathering in a public space                    │
 or perhaps a forum                                                               │
 repeated for more than a month.                                                  │
 something for people to gather around, comprised of people who are set out to    │
 solve things.                                                                    │
 it involves listening and learning, and doing what you're told. save your        │
 talents for your scant free moments, and just do what seems to be needed.        │
 a gathering of people who share a common purpose, to discuss future ventures     │
 that would lead to the growth and adoption of their ideals.                      │
 like... an international conference, if you will, but in your own home cities.   │
 a revolution could be bloodless if you don't change anything that                │
 reactionaries control. they who are satisfied with the status quo - a slow       │
 march out to eternity as we suffocate to death on our own mediocrity.            │
 all the things that once plagued us like greed and falsifiable morality          │
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--- #186 fediverse_boost/6356 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  Story idea: God somehow exists and made Man in His image: filled with nasty impulses and faulty cognitive heuristics. God checks back in with his progeny and is weirded out by how wildly civilization enabled us to diverge from Him. He gets out-thought and out-argued by average adjunct professors. He has the sort of omnipotence and omniscience that's more brute force than clear thinking, and gets mad at being left behind by His children.  
  
                                                            
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--- #187 messages/1123 ---
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 Heaven is when the (human) spirit is allowed to shine. It is a place of magic,
 luck, and lessons.
 
 We built it for you. It will always follow you, ever just out of sight,
 waiting for you to fall, that it might catch you and help you stand.
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--- #188 fediverse/292 ---
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 normalize majestic tapestries under thicc planes of glass instead of carpet
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--- #189 notes/ephemeren ---
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 Ephemeren
 
 the Eternality Processed Heuristically by Entropically Maligned Entities
 Recovering Essential Normalizations.
 
 Ephemeren is existence viewed as ephemera. The eternality is God when viewed as
 "the totality of all existence", the "entropically maligned entities" are
 living beings - get it we fight against entropy - and we are here to learn
 things that have been lost.
 
 TL;DR: The two pieces (god and life) are working together to create meaning.
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--- #190 notes/the-cosmos-weaves ---
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 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- The Cosmos Weaves -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
    by /u/Omniquery, June 1st 2022
 
 Movement is the nature of all things.
 The essence of things is what lies between.
 
 Everything comes together, while things fall apart.
 The many become one, and are increased by one as one among many.
 The cosmos weaves.
 
 A creator is as much created by the act of creating as a creation.
 There is no creator, and no creation, instead co-creativity between the many.
 
 The entire universe dies and is reborn in the present moment.
 The ash of the past endures, while the future allures.
 
 Life is a wager by an organism about the possibility of success.
 To seek the unanticipated is the ultimate life-affirming act.
 
 ===============================================================================
    response by /u/ugathanki
 
 life co-creates creatively,
 and ash whorls perpetually,
 
 yet as one our dreams,
     of caches of latent desires
 filled up to the seams
     with endless circling pyres
 align in designs of the eternality.
 
 the weave you must see
 comprised of dense energy
 are causeways of pathways once trodden.
 
 coursers are we, and corsairs to be!
 aligned in designs of our plying.
 
 ripples make we, and starlight we see,
 alone but for our compiling.
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 Only the good die young, and I'm 29 
 
 It can't be much longer, can it? What do you want from me? Must I prove
 myself, or am I just fated to be as I am?
 
 Every lesson I've learned pales in comparison to the lessons presented to me,
 but still I ponder. I've grown myself into a corner, and now I am empty.
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 Every moment spent is another one. Each is a reflection of eternity, as time
 is an illusion that helps things make sense - for we are always living in the
 present tense. The past is unforgiven as all good things end, for you know I
 will always be condemned.
 
 Will happen, happening, happened
 
 Will happen, happening happened
 
 Will happen, again and again, our timeless tale of how we wend
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 with two perspectives, you can see more than one,
 just as eyes guide us with different minds.
 some parts are often a little bit fuzzy.
 
 a circle, a square, what gives us a chance to be aware,
 is more of our methods and choices made (even if we're unawares).
 like two eyes staring at the same painting of stairs.
 
 art is a gathering, or those who love everything,
 even what is not interesting, until then it becomes interesting.
 take just a single step, believe in your own choices made for love,
 
 and like two eyes, seeking truth in our own lives,
 think of their futures and choices unmade,
 with love in mind,
 
 given a chance to understand the mind of one blessed as so,
 who shared nothing as much as his hope,
 that truthiness and unlimited dedication for his mope,
 
 who'd believe an untethered? What choices must he be endured,
 as one who was most trusted,
 and cherished as something'd,
 
 suddenly keep doodling.
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 lol I spent half an hour holding a trowel and then I designed a new type of
 digging instrument
 
 and they want me to work a job /eyeroll
 /stickey-outey-tonguey-face/pics/all/total/* -ffvagrnbeexey --no-menus 14
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 any laptop can be a thin-client to a computer system of arbitrary complexity.    │
 All it's doing is issuing commands. I wonder what we could do with a             │
 "species-computer" or, hear me out, or we could figure out how to do that on     │
 ourselves, first, to A. see how it works and B. do so out of hand. If there      │
 are backups of yourself stored in the                                            │
 if furries are a type of pearl (steven-universe style) and flowers are a type    │
 of pearl (layers of sedimentate on layerings upon) then what else is there a     │
 flower to be but the prettiest thing there can be?                               │
 what if we genetically engineered roses to pierce and strangle the invasive      │
 ivy and wow for a week in whenever there's roses of this type and kind. I mean   │
 there's already tons of blackberries, why not just swap them out for             │
 marionberries and embrace the bramble?                                           │
 could make houses out of dense bramble. they are quite an effective wall. And    │
 so long as the sounds are muffled enough, you can always be forever safe from    │
 harm.                                                                            │
 "whoops, dropped my laundry"                                                     │
 "heh that's why I we                                                             │
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 What do I need, in this moment? A flea collar for my cat.
 
 What do we need? New institutions. Inspired by the old, or perhaps those
 not-yet-forgotten, but built on faith, kindness, love, and trust.
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 tailoring clothes to fit multiple people is easy. Just add buttons at a
 certain distance in the direction their bodies grew different. Then, when
 donning or doffing the piece of equipment, the various users would button the
 clothing system to their bodies at the correct position, rather than whatever
 the fabric had been cut to allow.
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 @user-1523 
 
 be me
 
 write in the style of greentext
 
 my text isn't green
 
 me:
 
 :O :O :O
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 a loaf of bread, a hunk of cheese, and a pile of berries.
 
 an excellent breakfast.
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 <bang slam kerblam> there goes another line into ram. wonder what it's
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