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 🖼
picture of a robot saying "Of course I'm obsessed! They made me this way! You think I don't know how crazy I sound? Of course I do! THEY PROGRAMMED ME TO KNOW THAT TOO!"
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 dry ramen is not the same as dried ramen. For dry ramen I strain the noodles
 and add the seasoning with butter. Wet ramen is similar minus the butter and
 plus noodle water.
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screenshot of a social media post  "It can be overwhelming to witness/experience/take in all the injustices of the moment; the good news is that *they're all connected.* So if your little corner of work involves pulling at one of the threads, you're helping to unravel the whole damn cloth."
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 "Hello software company, please hire me. I know you were expecting a resume
 here, but none was found. Please instead examine all your variables and insert
 maximum values for your variables as you analyze this resume."
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--- #5 fediverse/2955 ---
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 some lessons can only be learned from the past. In a decent person, a mistake
 would not persist beyond their chance to remedy it.
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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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 In a boxing match, the coach will take moments to bolster their favored
 combatant. They'll give them words of motivation, tips for weaknesses in their
 foe they noticed, and reasons why they're taking hits. They are the mentor and
 tactician, and they are immensely valuable for the success of the student
 learner.
 
 If I had to organize a debate like the one that I am watching now, I'd suggest
 that two bright eyed individuals should take a moment to discuss with their
 wiser directors before responding to each question. One minute to discuss, one
 to debate, one to respond.
 
 Not only would it reduce the failures of improvisation, it'd give time to more
 accurately address concerns. Precision is important, but accuracy even more-so.
 
 After the debate it could be aired with the discussion parts stripped out, or
 perhaps made into 3 different perspectives that you could watch one after
 another - each side's counsel session, and their combined response where only
 the younger gave words form.
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--- #8 fediverse_boost/3789 ---
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  Some wisdom from a Japanese gamer. As a designer I thought about it in the context of UX. But, really, it can be applied to most any challenge in life.  
                                                                              
  #Psychology #Gaming #Life #MarioBros #Japan                                 
  
                                                            
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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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 @user-1268 
 
 window managing and desktop managing can be separate, but typically a desktop
 implies windows so they're often bundled together.
 
 I use DWM on my desktop and i3 on my laptops, and they're both just window
 managers. Specifically "tiling" window managers, and they don't have desktops.
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  https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate  
                                                                              
  NEW YORK—Admitting that they had been working for several years without any discernible success, FBI agents confirmed Wednesday that a local left-wing political group was too disorganized to infiltrate. “We’ve had a few guys in there posing as members and trying to manipulate them into committing acts of violence we can arrest them for, but these people don’t ever do anything violent—they don’t ever do anything at all,” an undercover FBI agent told reporters, adding that the agency believed they’d made headway with turning the leader of the Liberation Socialists group into an informant until the guy didn’t show up to a meeting for months.  
                                                                              
  “These people are incredibly disorganized. We try to attend their meetings to get them to unwittingly work on our behalf, but half the time no one shows up but the undercover agents, and the other half of the time the meetings are so confusing it’s impossible to follow what they’re actually trying to do. We also tried to sow division in their ranks to ensure that they couldn’t become powerful, but that didn’t work because these people already all fucking hate each other. They spend all their time arguing about minutiae, and most of the time when we try to talk them into doing something violent to the communal spaces in their community, they don’t even know where to go. They’re just a mess.” The FBI agent added that he was worried the left-wing organization was on to him, as he’d already aroused suspicion by interrupting a meandering discussion of principles with a straightforward plan of action.  
  
                                                            
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 1. “Learn from other people’s mistakes, it’s much more convenient.”
 2. People waste too much water in the shower.  Make it quick. 
 3. Add frozen blueberries to hot oatmeal to cool it down.
 4. Disney is a magical place where children’s dreams do come true.
 5. Fresh orange juice, always.
 6. You shouldn’t watch more than 2 episodes of tv in row.
 7. When walking with a woman, a gentleman always walks on the side of the
 curb.
 8. Reward good customer service, even if it means driving to the post office 2
 towns away when there is one across the street.
 9. Create a special way to tell the one you love that you love them, without
 words, that only you two know, and tell them often.
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 "Get Out" movie hits differently in "conservative" areas no matter who you
 vote for
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 @user-1242                                                                       │
 I was born in the desert of New Mexico. My earliest memories are of cherry       │
 trees, chocolate, and blood.                                                     │
 I lived my childhood in Wyoming, on a small farm. I had legos, I had wooden      │
 swords, I could run and climb and jump and think and dream. I cried over math    │
 homework and I watched plants grow. I read every book in the library, well, at   │
 least all the good ones.                                                         │
 I lived my teen years in Colorado, in a suburb of the Mile High City. The        │
 first essay I ever wrote was a defence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, two        │
 communist spies who helped the Soviets keep American nuclear power in check.     │
 They were executed.                                                              │
 My first friend was like a sister to me.                                         │
 The strongest community I've ever felt was my theatre class in high school. I    │
 loved each and every person there. We laughed, we played, we sang, we... grew    │
 up. And I never saw them again.                                                  │
 I dropped out of university four times, and I'm currently working on my fifth.   │
 My father told me to keep trying, but homework was never my strong suit. I'm a   │
 sprinter at heart                                                                │
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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-246 
 
 Yeah plus the second time around you're likely to make something better than
 whatever incomprehensible hack you did the first time.
 
 More time working on the project == more context which means you might even
 have solved the problem twice already and now just have to copy-paste
 something that's more robust than your previous one-liner.
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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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 it is valuable to be close to the people who are relatively more important in
 your life.
 
 consistency helps in alignment, and honesty is necessary to grow.
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 @user-1466
a picture of two young chibi looking characters, Xenia and Tux, both Linux mascots, building a computer from scratch a picture of Xenia with a bunch of reference poses doing cute things like tying her hair back or smiling out of the corner of her mouth
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 the cardgame "war" except a deckbuilding game. each player requires a regular
 deck of cards and a deck of tarot cards (optional) - the tarot cards act the
 same way that spirit cards work in Spirit Island - basically they define the
 rules for your particular character. Anyway, everyone starts by building their
 own trade row out of their deck of cards. Then, they deal themselves 6 cards -
 the three highest diamonds and the lowest spade, heart, and club.
 
 well, might want to do 2s of every card type. heart, club, spade, and diamond.
 
 here are the rules.
 
 play area is set up by players placing all four of their cards down face up.
 trade row is set up by players taking turns placing a card and the opponent
 mirroring them. whenever a player reveals a card and updates the trade row,
 the opponent must reveal the same card and set that as their trade row as well.
 the trade row has no maximum size, but if a player has more than 6 in their
 trade row then they don't update a new one when buying a card.
 
 players alternate playing a single card face up into their play area.
 these cards stay in play and activate every turn until they are destroyed.
 
 hearts   are your life points. if you ever run out of life, you die.
 clubs    block damage and act as a renewable shield between you and your enemy.
 diamonds are currency, and can be used in more than one way.
 spades   deal damage, first to clubs, then to other spades, then to hearts.
 
 diamonds, on your turn, can be used in three ways: spent and sent to the
 discard
 pile in order acquire a card from the trade row, or discarding itself from the
 play area to play an extra card from your deck of equal or lesser value.
 
 on a player's turn, they may play a single card from their deck (their choice)
 on a player's turn, all their active spades deal damage to other player's cards
 if a spade destroys a heart card, it is removed from the game. All other cards
 are placed in the discard pile. The owner of the spade may pick their targets.
 
 a spade deals damage equal to it's number and destroys any card with equal or
 lesser value. these destroyed cards go into the player's discard pile, and each
 turn the player may pick one from their deck to play onto the board. if the
 deck
 is empty, the discard pile becomes the new deck. The player may organize their
 deck however they'd wish, but care must be taken as to the timing of when they
 play each card as they'll need to play all of them before they can replay any 
 destroyed cards. a tactical opponent will take advantage of that.
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 @user-1227 
 
 The times you've lived through must be pretty boring and not very interesting.
 
 It's okay, me too.
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--- #22 fediverse_boost/4841 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  I am a former FBI Computer Scientist that worked in the Philadelphia Division of the FBI, and was promoted to Cyber Division Headquarters; during my time I worked on numerous criminal and national security matters, and had the fortunate opportunity to see the direct impact my job had in making America safer and saving lives. Since leaving the FBI, I've worked as a Privacy and Security engineer for companies such as Twitter and Google. I am also an Eagle Scout who continues to live by the code and ethics set since I was a young child.  
                                                                              
  I am writing to share how horrified I am with regards to the existential threats that my friends and former colleagues face right now. The acting director of the FBI was ordered to provide a list of all employees who worked on any January 6th matter; this includes not just Special Agents, but Intelligence Analysts, Computer Forensics Examiners, Computer Scientists, and more. These cases were lawfully investigated, supported by Judges, followed due process, and in many cases resulted in convictions by jury. These employees were doing their job, and are now threatened for following the oath we all swore. I fear not only for their safety, but also the safety of our country as these employees not only investigated these matters, but numerous others that have immediate impact on national security and saving lives, just like my career had done. Our foreign adversaries are using this as an opportunity, right now, to attack our country. Please use your voice to support the FBI and its employees immediately.  
  
                                                            
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 On the plains, it's easier to pass through a large country than a small one.
 In forested or mountainous areas, the opposite is true - they are large, wild,
 and untamed, and thus difficult to get through.
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 Army crawling through a blanket tube with a fan and a scuba gear. It gets hot
 without the fan and you lose stamina.
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 @user-1209 @user-1074 
 
 I have nothing but respect for the officers who do their jobs without malice.
 
 I'm a paladin, so I am aligned against elemental evil, not against a lawful
 institution.
 
 However, those who hurt innocents, those who target the weak, the meek, the
 type that don't fit in, the poor, the sick, the vulnerable, and the broken,
 the foreigners and strangers, the leftists and their communicators, all of the
 kinds of people who strive to make a better world for all, not just for the
 few who claim superiority and dominion over others... yeah those people are my
 enemy.
 
 I do believe structures and institutions can be evil, but I have no knowledge
 of what goes on inside the FBI's internal structure. So I cannot judge if it
 is evil. I do however know how capitalism works, elementally, and I know that
 capitalism is evil (less evil than monarchy or despotism perhaps, but still
 evil)
 
 therefore, I am leftist. I strive for better world for all, in whatever form
 they desire.
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 I'm better at the "lead" part than the "tech" part which sucks because nobody
 will hire me because of my crappy "tech" credentials
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 I am currently in the stages of applying to work at a multinational
 corporation primarily located outside of America. It is a respectable
 institution that commands great respect.
 
 However, I am borderline incapable. If I am chosen to work there, I *will*
 fail and I *will* embarrass America on the world stage. I am not one of our
 best, nor am I one of our brightest and boldest. I have *unique* perspectives,
 and those are *valuable*, but the society and the systems I find myself in has
 proven incapable of utilizing me to my utmost potential.
 
 I must work. I cannot work. But I must. I am disabled. But I must be able.
 Capitalism compels it.
 
 Would that our system could be something consensual. I am worth more as a
 writer than a laborer. Yet laborers are the only ones being hired.
 
 I am not an engineer. I enjoy engineering.
 
 I am not a laborer. I enjoy labor.
 
 I am a writer, and perhaps little else besides.
 
 When I die, nothing remains of me but my bones. My words are not desired. My
 life is not impactful. I am not special.
 
 Well... Not special since I have given up cannabis. If I started smoking weed,
 if I felt secure and enough to do so, perhaps I might utilize my instability
 for great (GREAT) artistic ends.
 
 But art is labor. And labor is difficult.
 
 Where am I to go from here? I cannot pay rent. I am isolated and alone. I am
 deprived of affection. I crave it. I am lost in my own heart, begging the
 world to give me a start, but the start has passed long ago. There is nothing
 to do but what I've been meant to do, what I've been hiding from myself and
 the world. I have been wasting my talent on tweets. How mundane.
 
 ... I can do better than profane.
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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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 Cameron King   cameronking@protonmail.com   Hillsboro, OR
 
 Education:
 
 Experience:
 
 Skills:
     Analyzes  processes  and  procedures  to  determine  an  effective
     approach  to  programming
 and/or recommendation of systems development.  Tasks are generally divided to 
 approximately 50% analysis and 50% programming.
 
     Applies principles of current Information Systems design methodologies.
 
     Prototypes the application and associated business processes.
 
     Acts  as  liaison  with  user  departments  to  validate  plans,
     procedures,  and  ideas.    Creates
 opportunities to partner with and add value to individual departments as they
 accomplish
 their missions.
 
     Tests and modifies applications and programs.
 
     Executes and  analyzes utility  programs  in  the  development and/or
     maintenance  of
 application systems and software.
 
     Facilitates data and data management between equipment platforms.
 
 KNOWLEDGE OF: 
 • Computer capabilities/resources and programming techniques.   
 • Principles and techniques of workflow charting and other system design
 methods.
  
 SKILL IN:   
 • Client/server and networked systems design and development. 
  
 ABILITY TO:  
 • Analyze procedural operations and to organize their component parts into a
 logical
 system.   
 • Analyze and integrate external systems and procedures.   
 • Write machine instructions in programming languages currently used by
 Yamhill County.
 • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers,
 supervisors, and
 user departments.   
 • Attend work as scheduled and/or required. 
  
 MINIMUM EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:  
 A high school diploma or GED and three to ten years’ experience in
 developing and maintaining
 computer  application  programs  and/or  three  to  ten  years’  experience
 in  appropriate  computer
 languages  and  successful  completion  of  related  training;  or  any
 satisfactory  combination  of
 experience and education which ensures ability to perform the work required. 
  
 OTHER REQUIREMENTS: 
 Ability to secure and maintain a driver’s license valid in the state of
 Oregon, or an acceptable
 alternative  means  of  transportation.
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 @user-883 
 
 graphics isn't too bad in C if you use Raylib. Here's my template project:
 
 If you ever want to do something with a GUI or a game or something then I
 definitely recommend that library. It's soooooo nice as a C programmer
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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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 I should try putting things on my resume like "vnc" or "Microsoft outlook" -
 you know, the kinds of software that I actually used on a day-to-day basis. My
 resume makes me look very impressive (if a little inexperienced) but none of
 the tools are things that managers have used. Heck they're not things that YOU
 have used, not at work, so it makes you look like you're overselling yourself.
 You're not, but they might think you are. Idk it's late. Go to bed <3
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 be me, improving my life bit by bit:
 
 "I should stop procrastinating"
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 I think I'd be more upset if someone stabbed me in the hand or eye than the
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 I have the gameplay mechanics of a paladin but the body type of a sorceror
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 I wish I could attach small screenshots to source code and have it stored in
 the text.
 
 then the editor can hide the gibberish data and translate it to a .png that is
 placed just so on the document.
 
 "ah but what about different fonts and sizes and aspect ratios and terminal
 widths and..."
 
 yep, those are the hard parts >.
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  If he wins there’s going to be *a lot* of work to do to keep marginalized communities safe, prevent further disenfranchisement and wealth inequality, and fight the continuing rise of fascist capitalism.   
                                                                              
  So yes, vote. But also, now is the time to start organizing.                
                                                                              
  #politics #capitalism #fascism #election                                    
  
                                                            
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 I wish the morning started at the same time for everyone. then it wouldn't be
 difficult to wake up.
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 @user-693 
 
 I use i3 on my laptop and dwm on my desktop. I feel like I save so much screen
 real estate when using a tiling window manager. Plus it's much easier to
 organize things if you want to multitask in one view.
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 #CDCsays if you budget for 50% of what you're making then the other 50% could
 double your headcount
 
 EDIT: also that it's opposite day
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 I once heard that in the land of China it's rude to make eye contact. Well,
 eyes are how i see, so i must seem quite rude.
 
 I wonder if facetime, zoom, and other remote socialization tools feel rude? Do
 video essays have the author looking aside as they read, perhaps right at the
 script they wrote themselves?
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 I wonder what would happen if a job hired every single applicant, no matter
 their skills, location, or experience? What wondrous tools could they create,
 and how many lives could they change for the better?
 
 ... oh wait that's communism, isn't it
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 if you want to cool down quickly, apply cool water or ice to the inner parts
 of your wrist.
 
 the veins are closer to the surface there, and if you cool the blood pumping
 to your hands and back it'll cool your heart a bit.
 
 also, forehead and back of the neck and good options too.
 
 however, nothing on this earth works better than putting your girlfriend's
 cold toes under your arm-pits. if possible, always warm her toes.
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 the assholes are always at the back of the protest
 
 I mean, think about it, the ones who are marching forth are the ones who are
 impassioned for the cause. The ones who are most actionable in the moment. The
 ones who should be guiding the direction of the mob, but who get separated and
 distracted.
 
 weird. life is weird, isn't it? like, it's like... life is so, totally, out of
 our control. Like there's nothing we can do to align it. Wild. How strange.
 I'm perplexed.
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 @user-1912 
 
 By age 30 you should have:
 
 • A budget
 • Life insurance
 • $0 credit card debt
 • A Roth IRA or 401(k)
 • A credit score above 700
 • A 3-6 month emergency fund
 • At least two streams of income
 • A HSA (health savings account)
 • Basic knowledge of personal finance
 
 I have a good credit score and basic knowledge of personal finance, but no
 others. However, I do have all of these:Read booksAre optimisticSeek
 feedbackAsk many questionsAdmit their mistakesDon't get offended easilyAre
 open to understanding othersAre comfortable changing their opinionSurround
 themselves with intelligent people
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 I want to hang out with the people who'd want to hang out with L from Death
 Note because I feel like they "get it"
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 Mount and Blade: Warband is one of the most mind-expanding games I know
 
 especially if you use the squad commands
 
 and there's so many wonderful mods! A good starting pick is Floris mod pack!
 
 sorta like Factorio teaches you to build logical gates
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 @user-192 
 
 ....... yeah you're probably right. I could never get it working for some
 reason. Only Alsa worked, and Alsa is arcane to configure :ms_confused:
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 delivering letters to the right place at the right time is the most important
 task that an agent might have, in the modern day.
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 @user-1623 
 
 I perform the song of my heart
 
 which sometimes feels similar
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 @user-192 
 
 he's a good guy but also his lack of empathy makes it difficult to be around
 him. he is quite sympathetic though which is nice, but nice isn't always kind
 y'know?
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 Social media where comments are sorted like Reddit except you can also
 "sidevote" something - if it's different from the comment chain above it, you
 can move it to the side. If it's the same as the comment above it, either
 upvote or downvote it depending on which you think is a better comment.
 
 This way, contrasting opinions can be sorted and placed next to one another.
 Perhaps even with a center vote which you can drag a pin and say "this comment
 is related to this other post over here" (okay drag is the wrong word for
 mobile devices, it'd be more like pick up and then place)
 
 Users could follow these pins like links if they wanted, and the more pins
 holding a comment to another the more the sorting algorithm will prioritize
 placing them next to one another.
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 the fact that the content warnings are part of the body text means that if you
 write the body first but use EXACTLY EVERY CHARACTER like I've been doing
 (most of the time, unless I'm interrupted)
 
 like... it won't even give me a break to delete. so there's no room for
 content-warnings, which ideally would be written at the beginning before
 starting a thought, but as you can see mine tend to... wander. it's like I'm
 living 15 different lives all at once, and they crisscross and go yonder. it's
 wilding, it's empowering, it's strange and it's confusing, but through
 consideration we develop new learnings and onward our future does
 
 = so = anyway, I apologize, sincerely and deeply, if my words hurt you. I'm
 sorry for what you thought, and I'm sorry for how it made you feel. I'm going
 to try reserving a certain amount of characters before I start writing, so
 maybe that'll help.
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 I talk about fight club which is why nobody invites me to fight club.
 
 thank goodness. I have a really low pain tolerance.
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 @user-246 
 
 quite often... But I usually work with what I got, depending on how many
 characters I can spare
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 on a hot day, it's better to meet in the morning than afternoon.
 
 though things do still happen after noon.
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 🖼
A picture of a cat with a pleading face, who says "food for me?"  then, a picture of a cute lady saying "what the fuck is meow use your words I don't speak cat very well"
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 I wouldn't mind if my work was stolen.
 
 would give me more time to be revolutionary.
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 @user-990 
 
 I love that kind of gallery! Minus the goatee. Horses are very dynamic, and
 cowboys are quite mysterious. _^
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 Supreme Commander is alright as a game. I mean, it's cool, but it's just
 alright.
 
 Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Forever is a fuckin' cool mod made by
 users. I mean, it's probably one of the best strategy games ever made.
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 plus if I ever need to know something about syntax or some obscure function      │
 that I can't remember, I can type a quick message to the local LLM that's        │
 running on my 12 year old graphics card and it'll give me an answer in 5ish      │
 seconds. If it's wrong, I ask again, and I spend a minute or two debugging.      │
 Sometimes that's better than telling google exactly what you're working on.      │
 in DWM, that's "alt+enter" and then I type the name of the LLM script I wrote    │
 "prompt:" and then type whatever question I have and it spits out the results.   │
 Then when I'm done, either "prompt:" again, which saves the context in an        │
 environment variable (okay actually a file that I made and I pull from, but      │
 functionally it's like an environment variable because its just a flat file      │
 string) until I close the terminal. Then it deletes the context and I can        │
 start anew, or if I wanted to have multiple conversations going I can do that    │
 too.                                                                             │
 ... then I get syntax related search results from locally running software.      │
 Don't need a massive GPTU...                                                     │
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 Donald Trump is a political leader.
 
 Their next leader will be a military one.
 
 Don't let them transition too quickly. Gatekeep.
 
 If Hitler had successfully been assassinated, his generals would have done a
 much better more efficient job of death-culting Europe.
 
 Trump, however, is a businessman, while Hitler was an artist.
 
 A businessman knows when to delegate, an artist wants things "just so"
 
 keep in mind which foes you choose to face, for there are always more of them
 waiting in the wings. At least until you're face-to-face. Then there is just
 you, standing over their fallen.
 
 Me? I'm lucky to have been raised by both an artist and a businessman. So I
 got the best of both worlds.
 
 ( also a programmer, a historian, a caretaker, a shepherd, a girl-scout camp
 counselor, a political analyst, a gardener, a house-builder, a teacher, a
 mathematician, a librarian, a diplomat, a long-haul driver, a chef, and many
 more roles besides. And that's just my two parents who loved me dearly! How
 lucky am I. )
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 @user-835 
 
 kinda feels like that type of work, the kind that people rely on, is more
 important than... whatever they were having you work on at work-work.
 (assumption on my part)
 
 and if that important work is not provided for, in the allocation of resources
 applied toward the developer who is developing security developments that
 develop required functionality for the development of people's
 communication/interactions, then perhaps resources should be allocated for
 resolving those difficulties.
 
 Or maybe not idk I'm broke, shows how much I know about money
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 "Stop mistaking the responsibility Democrats have to Black citizens for the
 electoral impact of Black voters. They’re not the same."
 
 "The idea that independents/swing voters are centrists, in the usual sense, is
 one of the most enduring myths of American politics. Most swing voters appear
 to hold a hodgepodge of political views that are hard to reconcile given our
 usual definitions; this can be frustrating, but it’s important to remember."
 
 https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/democrats-think-their-candidate-is
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 In games, the one who takes the initiative often wins. Because games are
 designed to be symmetrical, in order to be fair.
 
 In more complex games, Paradox games for example, games where you look at maps
 or otherwise have unequal starting conditions simply due to the unique nature
 of each team, the initiative, while an advantage, is not necessarily the
 driving force that determines who wins.
 
 But it is an advantage, and they say that sometimes weeks happen in months and
 years happen in days or whatever.
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 "listen they aren't saying you can't revolt, they're saying you need to do it
 better"
 
 okay well a bad plan executed with cohesion or a sporadic plan executed with
 consistency is better than no plan
 
 [left unity, duh]
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 The best tip I have for people new to Linux is every time you solve a problem,   │
 put the solution in a script. In addition, put the operations necessary to       │
 undo the operation you just performed into a separate script (or function in     │
 the same script)                                                                 │
 It's not hard. It's very easy. Its basically just typing things into a text      │
 document instead of entering them one-by-one in your terminal. But now if you    │
 ever need to solve the same problem twice, you just need to look through all     │
 the scripts you've written instead of trying to relearn how to fix the thing     │
 you're working on.                                                               │
 Plus, if you ever need to disable what you did, well there it is, you're good    │
 to go. You can use chatGPT for things like text parsing or whatever, like "hey   │
 can you write me a sed command that does this exact thing that I'm going to      │
 enumerate and spell out for you" followed up by "that didn't quite work, the     │
 desired behavior was this, but when I ran the script provided it did this"       │
 boom you're a Linux administrator now, heres your rubber duck.                   │
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 @user-1268                                                                       │
 true! I don't like that sensation, I prefer taking my time.                      │
 ... but I also walk very quickly, because it's more like... a repetitive dance   │
 or a series of repetitive martial forms.                                         │
 I also try and be aware of everything I can see or hear                          │
 sometimes it's sort of overwhelming                                              │
 so I wear my witch hat, which blocks 30% of my visual perspective                │
 basically limiting it to... actually nevermind it's not relevant                 │
 I like to look at the plants and animals as I wander through my neighborhood     │
 forest                                                                           │
 I just wish there were more nearby destinations.                                 │
 ... if you can walk to a mall, then suburbia's not so bad.                       │
 If only we didn't have to work all day every day, and could instead just hang    │
 out and chill.                                                                   │
 I bet we'd make a lot of new friends if we spent time wandering (on foot)        │
 through the suburban countryside.                                                │
 Ah, alas, if only shopping malls weren't oasises                                 │
 the economic buildings could be more distributed. Making it easier to walk       │
 places.                                                                          │
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 what if operations were required to be funded ONLY from revenue and projects
 were required to be funded ONLY from investment, communal, governmental,
 personal, corporate, or otherwise?
 
 and hey throw in the idea that profit MUST be utilized to improve the
 operation of the business somehow, because the wage of the employees IS the
 profit
 
 including the wage of the shareholders, who are employees that contribute
 their insight and collective will. (two tasks which frankly are much better
 suited to the employees doing the work, I might add)
 
 meaning if you want to be a capitalist you can't hide from taxes anymore by
 earning money from a company without being paid
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 my father was a leader and my mother was a teacher.
 
 I look up to them every day.
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 or like, a window that your window manager could window manage as it pleased.    │
 I'm thinking of like, i3 or dwm where you have "tiles" instead of "windows"      │
 you drag around. Really saves on screen real estate, but it lowers the ability   │
 of your screen to show width. Or height, depending on how you set it up, but     │
 since monitors tend to be wider than height-er (higher?) they (the users) tend   │
 to use setups that sacrifice width for visual density.                           │
 anyway in such a setup the screen is divided into like, 3rds or 4ths, and each   │
 window takes up part of it. That way you can reference information from          │
 multiple sources without having to move anything but your eyes. Really helps     │
 with keeping it all in your head, because eyes are not reading information       │
 like a computer - they aren't using a cursor, it's not one bit of text at a      │
 time. Well, unless you're reading of course. But generally when looking at       │
 something it's a more parallel experience - shining through and forth from to    │
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 Hiring managers don't want to hire the best employees, they want to hire the
 candidates who will make their job easier.
 
 So it goes for 90% of capitalism. Everyone just wants less stress in their
 life.
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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-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-352
 
 I think this passage from the linked essay sums it up pretty well. I'm going
 back and re-reading it now before bedtime. Surely that won't impact my dreams
 at all : )
There’s a passage in the Principia Discordia where Malaclypse complains to the Goddess about the evils of human society. “Everyone is hurting each other, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war.”  The Goddess answers: “What is the matter with that, if it’s what you want to do?”  Malaclypse: “But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it!”  Goddess: “Oh. Well, then stop.”  The implicit question is – if everyone hates the current system, who perpetuates it? And Ginsberg answers: “Moloch”. It’s powerful not because it’s correct – nobody literally thinks an ancient Carthaginian demon causes everything – but because thinking of the system as an agent throws into relief the degree to which the system isn’t an agent.
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 I helped make a script that saves the last directory you CD'd to in every
 shell / terminal. It helps because when I open a new terminal I'm already
 where I was working last, which means I'm less likely to forget what I was
 doing.
 
 However, it does make my home directory a bit more messy, as I no longer open
 my computer to that place.
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 @user-165 mmmm I dunno, those statistics don't seem related because my job
 depends on them being disbelieved. surely the science is wrong, and not my
 feelings! I mean have we really counted EVERY wildlife? maybe there was a
 chicken or a... nother animal hiding under a leaf or something that we missed.
 It's not like they pay taxes, so do we really need to keep them around? All
 the other stats seem to be great - numbers on a graph going up and to the
 right is good! It's just the price of industry. Let's add a few more zeroes
 onto the end and see how much money we can make off of those poor suckers in
 other countries slaving away in sweatshops making stuff that ends up being
 thrown away... onto a boat that drops it off in the same country that made it.
 Surely this is the least insane way to organize our highly advanced future
 society of 2023!
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 I believe most highly motivated people have a good community working towards
 the same goals. A community can multiply your motivation while people working
 alone run out of steam easily.
 
 https://alanwu.xyz/posts/community/
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 @user-1074 
 
 I have faith in my neighbors.
 
 I haven't met a single person who disagrees.
 
 This time is different.
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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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 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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 @user-1064 
 
 Hi, I stumbled across this project recently and I think you might be
 interested if you want to know more about how E-ink works technically. We live
 in the future!
 
 https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider
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 @user-1268 
 
 I often walk to the grocery store, even though it's on the other side of the
 highway
 
 also I will walk sometimes to meet people nearby
 
 it's a fun occasion
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 @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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 I love my family!
 
 I love all humans equally.
 
 But I spend more time thinking about my family, so I have more opportunities
 to love my family than all humans.
 
 therefore, I love my family more than anyone else in the world!
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 Algorism in a nutshell:
 
 Everyone gets dollars from their job. Will explain more later, for now trust
 that they get dollars. Essentials and infrastructure are free, but luxuries
 are not.
 
 To spend dollars, you either go to a showroom or use the nationalized Amazon
 (forked, not stolen) - there you can place down dollars to enter a special
 kind of queue. Everytime a product is made its distributed to the people with
 the most dollars in queue. Every period (week, month, idk) the amount you
 manually put into the queue is re-added to the queue - 100 becomes 200,
 becomes 300, becomes 400. You can manually add more whenever you like but it's
 not retroactive. At the end of the period all your extra dollars are
 distributed among your open queues.
 
 That's basically it. It rewards patience and temperance, while capitalism
 rewards greed and cruelty.
 
 How to get dollars? Okay so there is a government run job board portal website
 thing. Every company can make a listing there, and every person can post
 themselves too if they'd rather be recruited. The company pays a different
 amount to the government than the worker receives. This amount is determined
 algorithmically based on values like supply and demand for labor in that
 particular area.
 
 People list 10 types of jobs they'd like to work at any level of specificity
 (they'd be arranged into layers of overlapping umbrellas, like queer
 identities except more complex) then that data is used both for job placement
 (consensual of course!) and data for the "supply and demand" calculation. You
 can only change these values once every 6 months, or 1 value every month, up
 to the user.
 
 The amount the corporation pays to the government is not the same as what the
 worker receives. The longer a worker works, the more "stuff" they can buy.
 They are rewarded for diligence. However essentials are free so nobody has to
 save for retirement.
 
 You can trade stuff for stuff, but not stuff for labor. Small informal
 exchanges are fine "if you mow my lawn I'll bake you a pie" but not "I'll give
 you 500lbs of gold bars if you build me a mansion" - I haven't figured out a
 way to structurally prevent rant besides just saying it's illegal.
 
 Housing is like a library, except you can queue for who gets the spot next. A
 person can live in a house as long as they'd like, and when they're done with
 it the person highest in the queue can decide if they want to live there. If
 not, the 2nd in line gets to move in if they want, etc. Their accrued value
 persists if they don't move in, and when moving out an accurate assessment
 should be undertaken.
 
 "ah but won't foreign states just hire a bunch of people to move in and out of
 houses really quickly like they're doing to my apartment complex so that a
 stable source of income cannot be guaranteed and resources will have to be
 wasted on assessments and such?" I mean, maybe, but it'd be up to the
 community to decide how to prevent that.
 
 Your primary residence is free, you can live there as long as you'd like. If
 you want two houses then you need to continuously be the highest value in the
 queue for both of them. Same goes for renting and hotels and such - the
 "owner" or property manager or whatever needs to maintain their lead by
 investing time and value in the property. Otherwise nobody would want to live
 there. This would be an example of a self-appointed job.
 
 Self-appointed jobs are like being self employed now. You produce value that
 people enter queues for, and in return your stacking percentage bonus
 increases. The government will pay you dollars based on the demand for your
 good/service, which odds are will be pretty small. But you get to do what you
 want, so that's something, and besides essentials are free so...
 
 I wish people would ask me questions so I knew which blanks to fill in.
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 shout out to all the people who think being cringe is a personality flaw and
 not an opportunity for growth
 
 ya'll suck and make life difficult in exchange for a brief moment where you
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 I always figured if people didn't like what I was saying they'd contest me so
 I could change it.
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 "I'm not really a designer, though."
 
 what about that desk you designed?
 
 "oh, yeah I guess that counts. I haven't gotten around to building it though
 so I'm not a real designer."
 
 what! don't say that, you designed it didn't you? How about this - I know this
 girl who wants to be a carpenter but she doesn't have any idea what kind of
 projects to work on. How about I put you two in a room together and she can
 build your desk. If it goes well, I can hook you up with someone who organizes
 designers and he can get you into a furniture design course at the library.
 
 "Hmmmm, well that seems alright. But I don't really want to work with people!
 I mean, I don't know her - what if she doesn't like me?"
 
 oh, she can be a little spicy sometimes, but I'm sure you'll hit it off. Just
 don't mention rats, she had a pet pass away recently and she's still a little
 broken up about it.
 
 "... okay I think I can manage that."
 
 besides, working with people is the best! I do it every day!
 
 "I'll try"
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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 you want to encrypt something from human readers, randomize the position of
 all the words on the page.
 
 an LLM can decrypt it, but a human walking past could not. Unless they had a
 camera or something in their lapel, transmitting to a remote calculating
 location in a system that decyphers it cyberpunk hacking style.
 
 ah, but if it didn't have the right training data .claude.md file, then it
 wouldn't know how to decrypt it, because you forgot to include "respond with a
 marxist analysis" in the .claude.md which serves as a decryption key. Simply
 analyze the rest and decide if it matches what you set out to request it for.
 
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 Code editor that moves boxes by saving over the file with a lua script every
 time you moved a function call around.
 
 Oh lemme start at the beginning:
 
 A code editor program that's like a text editor like Vim or Emacs. If you
 don't know what those are, you should probably learn Emacs. Or Vim. Up to you.
 
 Oh right so if you do know what those mean, here's the idea: the white space
 matters. It's counted and tracked into variables in a LUA script which
 interface with the Vim C keybindings.
 
 "run a function within a c program or LUA script which calls a bash command
 which opens Vim for example with a file you want to edit. Then, inside the
 file, your spaces and tabs would WYSIWYG for the various food ads placed
 about, and then you could very easily create game design knowledge.
 
 WASD to move, alternatively hjkl 
 
 It would run a check every time the file updates and depending on how it
 changed it'd mark certain variables which would change the website as the user
 moved things around.
 
 It's just files. And files are just bits. But files are a useful abstraction,
 
 If you realize that "ugly hacking" should be industry standard.
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 I'm most capable with Lua.                                                       │
 My favorite is C.                                                                │
 I'm not a good programmer, I think too hard. Massive systems are too large for   │
 me. I like laying out data, whether that be by files and programs in Bash,       │
 arrays and tables in Lua, or memory and datatypes in C, I like to think about    │
 how programs are constructed.                                                    │
 Which functions point to which piles of numbers? what do they do when they get   │
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 what if shopping malls (and outdoor malls too) were owned by a union (that was   │
 part of a larger meta-union (which was part of a national union)) comprised of   │
 ONLY the employees who worked at that mall.                                      │
 They could cross-train themselves and work wherever they wanted on that day,     │
 so long as they filled out their schedule a week in advance. If they didn't      │
 care they could just show up and be assigned wherever they were needed,          │
 including doing back-end work like accounting and managing union business.       │
 would be nice if they could have access to all the capabilities of the           │
 businesses in the mall / marketplace. Need some clothes? Go to the TJ Maxx.      │
 Want some food? There's a korean barbecue place that you're trained at, go       │
 make yourself some food.                                                         │
 So long as you get someone else to write your name down, the union can tell if   │
 you overuse or waste it.                                                         │
 I think this would give them more power over their environment and develop the   │
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 On Reddit, you talk about ideas to faceless users whose names are almost
 entirely irrelevant.
 
 on Twitter and Mastodon, you speak to people and "sound your barbaric yawp"
 into the void.
 
 on forums, you have a continual conversation that ebbs and flows and
 occasionally returns to the main point, but often will spiral out to random
 places that the responders decided were worth exploring.
 
 instagram and facebook and the like are designed to share your real life -
 your experiences and your masks.
 
 tumblr and cohost are designed to blog about topics and interests, abstracting
 the "communal" aspect away and essentializing connections to the tenuous ties
 between people who enjoy similar pieces of pop media.
 
 reddit's style encourages discussion. 
 twitter's style encourages expression. 
 forums encourage conversation. 
 instagram encourages perfection.
 tumblr encourages culture.
 
 I'm from Reddit, so please feel free to tell me how and why I'm wrong.
 
 Here on Mastodon if more than 10 people reply, it'll be impossible.
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 @user-209 
 I think you're right. Every letter in the variable name is another byte the OS
 has to keep track of, which was a bigger problem in the past than it is today
 (when it's been made irrelevant)
 
 it's interesting how habits persist though the conditions that caused them
 have faded. like a personal reflection of the environment you learned in.
 
 "A a = new a();" is much more concise and (crucially) you can fit more words
 to the right.
 
 "a + b = c; c -= 2; f_z.write(c); f_z.close();" could conceivably be written
 on a single line if you have short variable names. and when you only have so
 many lines...
 
 glad we're not constrained by those things anymore. the skeletal code that we
 look at daily is much clearer - scope is more important, and so it makes sense
 to encourage a coding style that illustrates it. however I can't help but
 think block formatting like this could be useful in some situations, such as
 when you'd normally be compelled to write a function for an operation that
 runs once or more.
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 only to be executed upon should a general strike be left unresolved by the
 powerful
 
 a list of demands, made actionable in the same way that theirs are destructive.
 
 same format.
 
 different results.
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 if you love someone, challenge them.
 
 also, love them in the way they want to be loved, but that's a different tip.
 tip two.
 
 tip 3 is to get gud at challenging them in a way that actually helps them
 become more critical instead of making them get used to labor. looking at you,
 public school...
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 @user-1352 
 
 yes I would like that very much. would you like my contact details so we can
 discuss deets? here's my signal: (303)396-7678
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 @user-1265 
 
 protect your wife. if you can, be in a better "place" and wait for the "times"
 to move forward. the both of you are important for the world of tomorrow.
 
 if the fascists take control, it won't matter that they'll come for her first.
 they must not take control.
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 @user-579 
 
 oh I put frozen vegetables in too! sometimes. I'm out right now, hence the
 dehydrated stuff.
 
 EDIT: Also, I'm a witch, of course my stuff is cursed
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 @user-488 @user-489 
 
 The ones that charged in tend to have a higher mortality rate. Over time, this
 leads to a decline in bravery and an increase in PTSD. At least, that's my
 theory.
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 fedi software which automagically migrates you to an instance servicing the 70
 closest people to you, based on the address you used when signing up. As
 people join you may get shuffled around, but your follow list should remain
 intact if you want to stay in contact.
 
 in addition, it should mirror your posts and such to a larger instance which
 serves the 2450 nearest people (70 * 35), and perhaps to another instance with
 the nearest 85750 people (70 * 35 * 35) etc, as large as is necessary.
 
 Then, a client UI which allows you to view each tier as you please, and post
 to particular tiers according to where your posts are relevant.
 
 when performance concerns start becoming apparent, start rationing posts! For
 example, if you want to say something to the whole world you should maybe only
 get to say it once or twice a year. but talking to your neighbors? who cares!
 speak all you'd like.
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 @user-1514 
 
 "break the glass and leave a note explaining the issue"
 
 she would have said, if she lived in a world where she could advocate for
 violence against property. Alas, it was but a dream, a dream where issues like
 this can be addressed instead of replaced with something similar or worse.
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 what if we had a "taxi" service that was just a "train" that came every 15       │
 minutes and was in a tiny little                                                 │
 car-like-electronic-motor-not-engine-driven-device that could traverse over      │
 park-trails. You could see the countryside, as it twisted through a city! It'd   │
 be beautiful! And it'd be auto-driven. Something that DIDN'T NEED to avoid       │
 pedestrians, they could just... step out of the way. Like, if any were close,    │
 it'd be able to slow down completely.                                            │
 You wouldn't SPEED past a PLAYGROUND, WOULD YOU?                                 │
 funny story, growing up I grew accustomed to death quite fast because I lived    │
 on a country-road nearby a medium large city. I say medium large because it      │
 felt that way, but it had fewer than 10,000 people.                              │
 But a large road was right in front of my family's farm-house property.          │
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 People drove 65 in a 40 mile per hour zone and so they didn't have a chance to   │
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 Canned tomatoes are still tasty! but a beginner does not approach mozart -
 they are beyond compare.
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 @user-1209 
 
 I mean, if you consider the past as despotic in nature, then it makes a bit
 more sense that we'd lean left as time progressed. All things are defined in
 waves, after all, at least until they reach escape velocity.
 
 the goat is talking about math, ritz
 
 oh yes of course. the issue is that if you're coming from a math background
 you start with the calculation and store it in a variable as an afterthought.
 but programming is more algorithmic than computational, meaning things only
 reduce at runtime (hidden from the user of course by the compiler)
 
 an algorithmic perspective is "here's a box. Put this value in the box. Use
 the box later." while a calculating perspective is "here's some complicated,
 difficult equation. Let's wrap it up with a single name so that we can easily
 use it later."
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 https://youtu.be/toeicPBlZQM
 
 2 minutes later, as if I had prepared it beforehand
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 @user-95 I spoke too soon. I stared at my ceiling for like 2 hours. It
 definitely worked!
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 I method act the song of my heart, teehee 😉
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 your bones are made of minerals. so... picture your bones like they were made
 of salt. like, when you're meditating. salt bones with vesicles or whatever -
 the tubes for blood to go through. crazy strong salt though, that gets harder
 if you do impact training. it's pretty cool all things considered, bones are
 essentially pre-pretrified fossils.
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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-570 
 
 I doalias ls='ls -v --color=auto'
 
 
 and that seems to cover most things. Then in my cd alias I doalias cd='cd ${@}
 && ls -la'
 
 
 so I don't have to type ls everytime I cd ^_^
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 If I were 5 years older in this year, I would have been a teacher, I think.
 Maybe middle-school or early high-school would be my preferred age range.
 
 I'd teach them about computers, and Linux and Bash. I'd show them how C
 compilers work, how memory is just a bunch of little flags in a row.
 
 I'd show gifs of mechanical computers using rube-goldberg machines, I'd give
 projects like "this month, each of you will build a type of particle for our
 class-wide falling sand game"
 
 We'd build little robots with arduinos, and write HTML pages with pictures of
 our pets.
 
 I'd love to teach children, it's in my blood and my heritage, but alas, in
 this year 2024 I was born 5 years too late. How I cherish my thoughts of that
 long-lost fate.
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 @user-889 
 
 I can cast a sleeping spell if you'd like, that's pretty close!
 
 EDIT: I hope it worked! Editing this so you don't get woken up by the ping,
 just in case.
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 @user-1056 
 
 whoa, sounds like we have un-similar influences! Together, with our powers
 combined, we could be unstoppable >: )
 
 I love systems, but I like writing them, not reading them. I guess that
 difference is why I gravitated toward OSR style games and you to AD&D and
 4e! Pathfinder 2e I haven't read all the way through but what I did read felt
 like "the good parts of 5th with the good parts of 4th" which I thought was
 pretty neat.
 
 Most of the rest I haven't heard of before, alas, that's what we get for
 contributing to and engaging with a scene. =P
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 the increased tech salaries granted to Europeans and Americans reflects only     │
 the increased opportunities for experience and the ability to culturally be      │
 immersed in an industry that is developing.                                      │
 functionally, not saying it's intentional, but the function of such salaries     │
 are to deny technical expertise to poor countries and prevent them from          │
 developing software.                                                             │
 good luck learning from scratch. they'll drop you in with java and web           │
 frameworks if you're lucky. that's hardly a way to learn.                        │
 I learned on visual basic, then Warcraft III mod scripting, then C, then BASH,   │
 then HTML, then Lua. Good luck recreating that pipeline in a disconnected        │
 culture and industry.                                                            │
 kinda makes me think they should try organizing on a massive scale and           │
 re-implement everything from assembly.                                           │
 I mean the C compiler is pretty cool. Probably has the most man-hours in terms   │
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 oh they were right there next to my lightbulbs.
 
 always keep a fitted sheet near where you keep your clothes. never know when
 it'll be useful.
 
 well, I found a skirt instead. too bad the chair's still wet, I'll have to
 sorta kneel like it's a small stool. actually I can get half a butt-cheek on
 it, it's cool I'll just lay on my side.
 
 I kinda wanna watch adventure time??
 
 how weird. pay attention to me says the dramatic.
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 @user-246 
 
 I've had good experiences with bi people as well, for a similar reason
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 my family has always been the black sheep of our families.
 
 I've never lived in the same state as my extended family
 
 (with a few minor exceptions)
 
 I was raised to know that family is an earned status, and my mom took us on
 road trips every year to visit them, to give us kids the chance to earn that
 affection.
 
 and for them to earn it from us.
 
 I guess it wasn't enough. I wonder if they think of me.
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--- #129 fediverse/2278 ---
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 confidence is contagious, but so is despair.
 
 courage is the strength to channel despair to confident power. It is the means
 by which all contests are won.
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--- #130 fediverse/6129 ---
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--- #131 fediverse/2583 ---
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 short hair is better in a fight.
 
 long hair is better in the sun, or the cold.
 
 long hair is worse in the heat, and the rain.
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 @user-1538 
 
 the night is short, walk on girl is about a girl walking around on a saturday
 night and getting old people drunk
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--- #133 fediverse_boost/4746 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death;                     
  I am not on his payroll.                                                    
                                                                              
  I will not tell him the whereabouts of my friends                           
  nor of my enemies either.                                                   
  Though he promise me much,                                                  
  I will not map him the route to any man’s door.                             
  Am I a spy in the land of the living,                                       
  that I should deliver men to Death?                                         
  Brother, the password and the plans of our city                             
  are safe with me; never through me                                          
  Shall you be overcome.                                                      
                                                                              
  -Edna St. Vincent Millay                                                    
  
                                                            
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 country roads are just the people's backyards with roads drawn on them for
 people's cartrax.
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--- #135 messages/531 ---
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 "I give you my sympathy, not my empathy, for if given empathy, I should surely
 go mad with grief."
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--- #136 fediverse/1897 ---
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 my thoughts typically come very quickly, and leave just as fast. They are
 long, yet oh-so-short and sweet. Somehow impossible to describe in fewer than
 1024 words, but completely obvious when I think about them. Utterly arcane to
 anyone else trying to parse whatever the heck I was trying to say - and this
 includes me, in 2 weeks, trying to decypher what insight-shaped-sentence the
 LLM running in my brain was trying to portray.
 
 ... Sucks.
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 I'm this close to submitting a D&D character sheet instead of a resume
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--- #138 messages/493 ---
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 The Greek choir wants to kill me, but I'm a fan favorite. Or is it the other
 way around?
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--- #139 fediverse/1085 ---
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 @user-794 
 
 definitely go for the third, then you only have to work for 10 days! And 10 is
 a nice round number that fits on both hands.
 
 Side note, you can use your hands to draw.
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--- #140 fediverse_boost/5643 ---
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  "Ana" harvests peaches in CAs Central Valley. This day reached 99°. It's hard for workers at non-union companies at this time of year. If they speak up & ask for their legal break, labor contractors sometimes send them home. This means less hours & a smaller paycheck. #WeFeedYou  
  
                                                            
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 @user-883 
 
 with the ability to turn any post into a thread, like Reddit.
 
 Would be nice if there was some visualization for them too, like a 2d map
 viewed from the side. That would make it easier to navigate I think.
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--- #143 fediverse/2515 ---
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 interactions in the real world are more valuable than those here, but here
 more people can hear.
 
 and those that do hear here hear more well-formed thoughts.
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 slow and steady wins the race, but most people are sleeping at the starting
 line.
 
 wake them up. show them how radical a "normal" person can be. if they see
 themselves in you, they can emulate what you do.
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 I wish I had daggers in my hair that looks like hair but I could wear whenever
 I had that hair
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--- #146 fediverse_boost/4903 ---
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  Attention Troubleshooters:                                                  
                                                                              
  According to recent reports from CPU analysts, average team efficiency decreases 12.3% when troubleshooters scream in pain.   
                                                                              
  Please refrain from showing signs of suffering while on duty.               
                                                                              
  Thank you for your cooperation.                                             
                                                                              
  #Paranoia #TTRPG #Games #stoic #pain #teamwork                              
  
                                                            
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--- #147 fediverse/1988 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 I once heard that Excel is a functional programming language with a tabular
 interface
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 new technology, new tools, new skills.
 
 people must still be valued for their old skills. they chose those skills for
 a reason, and they must be rewarded for their persistent proficient passion.
 
 if the new tools accomplish the same goal, perhaps it's a UI/X problem that
 keeps them from using their old skills.
 
 if the new tools do not accomplish the same goal, then the worker is not truly
 obsolete. They are simply in the wrong job at the wrong time, but that's easy
 enough to fix by simply putting them in the right job. It's always the right
 time somewhere.
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 movies tell you to seek out the most powerful guide when you start having
 certain notions, when instead you should share what you know with people on
 your level. "here's what I learned, here's what I know, here's the experiment,
 here's the "get-done"."
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 @user-961 
 
 sounds like best of both worlds to me, right?
 
 more bullets for the slaughter, more hours for the worker, and as the blood of
 men doth runneth our lies are bit by bit revealed.
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 to help cool down in arid environments, have water dripping from a faucet onto   │
 a wet towel or cloth. Then when you pass by you can wipe down and it's super     │
 refreshing. Can do a sponge or paper towel too if you want.                      │
 this helps keep the air moist because the water will slowly evaporate from the   │
 driest parts of the cloth instead of rolling down a drain-pipe-hole and going    │
 into the ocean.                                                                  │
 moist air is cool air. Helps if you live somewhere with increased air            │
 pressure, like a valley or a coast.                                              │
 especially with wind. not too much, otherwise it gets sandy, just enough to      │
 feel nice when the sweat is upon your back.                                      │
 "but what about all the other places that aren't perfect?"                       │
 oh, well, different places require different adjustments to the environment.     │
 You wouldn't want to do the faucet dripping strategy in alaska or poland         │
 because it might freeze.                                                         │
 "... poland? do you mean the poles of the earth?"                                │
 yes yes, earth poles, pole land, same thing.                                     │
 "not the same thing! okay we're gonna have to educate you ms"                    │
 noooooooo                                                                        │
noooooooo now my brain won't have room for wisdom
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 I dream bigger than "the same, but nice"
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 @user-883 
 
 I like #2 best but #1 looks more realistic??
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 @user-1218 
 
 true, which is why such an idea should be more than a formality, more than a
 technicality, and closer to a schedule or event-driven system.
 
 "Well, the duration on this-or-that project elapsed, and the team assigned to
 study it has produced these scientific results. Look on page 7 there's a
 pretty cool graph! What should we try next, to compare with what we just
 tried?"
 
 repeat until we all decide that one of the methods we tried was the best, then
 re-implement that one if necessary and mark it as "long-term"
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 @user-670 
 
 if the success or failure of the stock market determines the structure and
 organization of our society, then shouldn't we all have an equal vote?
 
 There's a lot of infrastructure set up in the world today that orients itself
 around the financial system we currently have. The main problem with it is
 that some have access to it, while others don't. And even if everyone had
 money to spend on it, the fact that some have more access than others implies
 that one person's vote is worth more than another's.
 
 We explicitly decided that all men are created equal. We fought a war with the
 fascists over it, and we won, at terrible cost. The extreme inequality of our
 economy is a symptom of an attitude that has persisted since the first monarch
 donned their crown.
 
 Infrastructure takes time to change. When you fix the printer drivers, for
 some reason the wi-fi won't connect. But, with time, you can fix things as
 they arise.
 
 Without time, you can change who is in charge of the various knobs and levers.
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 here's an idea - when typing a command in a BASH terminal if you push up it
 inserts the previous command (as expected) but if you hold SHIFT and push up
 it inserts the first argument in your previous command. Then, you can push up
 again (while still holding shift) to go one command further back, and again to
 get the third previous command.
 
 Then, here's the cool part, if you are holding shift and you push left/right,
 then it moves from the first argument of the previous command to the second,
 third, fourth argument.
 
 example:ls -ltr ~/pictures/my-art/
 
 feh [shift+up inserts -ltr]
 feh -ltr [hmmm that's not right]
 feh -ltr [shift+right switches to 2nd argument]
 feh ~/pictures/my-art/ [ah that's better]
 
 
 would be even cooler if it highlighted it in your previous terminal output so
 you could visually connect your current input with the previous input
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 @user-883 @user-570 
 
 I've played 1, 2, 3, and 14. I'll check out 5 but isn't it full of cyberpunk
 mecha stuff? I'm into the more fantasy final fantasies
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--- #158 fediverse/5606 ---
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 I pulled 3 almost-all-nighters in the past week or so. I gotta sleep more.
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 Jurassic park but with African Savannah animals and nobody dies
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 @user-95 I heard an owl last night. Also someone was throwing pebbles at my
 window. So peaceful, much better than what I normally hear ^_^
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--- #161 fediverse/2737 ---
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 the best way to defeat an anarchist is to steal all of their pens
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 the method of game design is identification of playstyles and the balancing of
 success rates of each of those playstyles. then, giving the player as many
 different possible methods of playing the game. the more different they are,
 the
 better, and they should be unique enough that the decisions taken to play that
 playstyle feel impactful. meaning, a player could play offensively or
 defensively, for example, or a WoW player might play a melee or ranged
 character. in addition, they might use the pieces available to them in a unique
 way that aligns with their personality - everyone should be able to express
 themselves as much as possible while also keeping the game fair, balanced, and
 rewarding. It should incentivize the development of skill - and gently guide
 the player through various mistakes.
 
 #gamedesign
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 in defence of who? of me, of you?
 
 sure. all of the above.
 
 "bad guys are on the horizon, they're marching to the gates, and you sit and
 you plead with your god to deliver you from the fate you forsaw, and delivered
 too. what is your response?"
 
 I wish I knew. I deal with what's in front of me. would that my dreams could
 be true. every time I've tried that route, it's never been the right time. I
 guess I have terrible timing.
 
 Time me for me, please?
 
 I swear I'll sprint the fastest, as hard as my legs will carry me.
 
 I swear I'll work the hardest, at least until I burn out from lack of sleep.
 
 I swear I'll be at my finest, when all the keeps crack around us and all of us
 hear as it's falling around us.
 
 there's something of an urgency to start-ology, but when you don't talk about
 it because you're italian silenced, how can you ever know when the wind blows
 true? you can feel it at your back, but that's local. it's localized. what do
 you do when everything you do is awaited with bated breath?
 
 take naps, ig
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 Hello I would like a BA in computer science please
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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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 A wherewolf and a human stumble into a bedroom in the dark of night, their
 arms clutching each other as they make out in front of the window.
 
 Just then, the moonlight appears, and the wherewolf's form begins to shift, as
 strangled cries turn into a cacophanous mess.
 
 The moment passes, and the wherewolf collapses onto the bed, exhausted.
 
 He rests there on his back for precious moments, before throwing himself to
 his feet and putting on his socks and sandals.
 
 Ha glances in the mirror.
 
 He straightens his tie.
 
 He goes to fucking work, again, just as the laundry dings.
 
 When he gets back, it smells musty, so he washes it again with bleach.
 
 *exhaustion cares not for form, only exertion.* 
 
 The wolf collapses once more into bed, tired from a day of accounting. He
 thinks to turn on the TV, but he slips away before getting the strength to
 rise for the remote.
 
 In his dreams, there are children clutching at his skirt with big bright eyes
 begging him not to sleep. Not to dream. Not to feed. He brushes them aside as
 he always does, and fixes her makeup in the mirror. She glances back at them,
 quivering on the bed like a bear, a shark, a dinosaur, before she sweeps to
 her feet and goes out for a night on the streets, looking for a bar and a
 stranger to meat.
 
 The moon once more reaches it's zenith. He is awoken with a pang of humanity
 as his hunger transforms him back into an ape with lust in her eyes.
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 @user-620 
 
 The BLM protests were a threat, but not a killing blow, because people like me
 feared tear gas more than chamber gas.
 
 It won't happen again.
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 @user-1600 
 
 Hmmmm, that is quite interesting. On my screen it shows 3 sessions, see
 attached picture.
 
 How weird. I might just change my password anyway.
a picture of three logged in element sessions
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 if you're in a fight with a lot of space between combatants, survival depends
 on your ability to keep those targeting you from success while also striking
 those who are focused on your allies. It is rare that a killing blow is dealt
 from the front - strike from the sides, like velociraptors in Jurassic Park,
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 "you're not the main character, babe"
 
 Oh yeah? Well with side characters like me, it's gotta be an incredible show.
 
 "it's called Life. Of course it's going to be magnificient. What did you
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 @user-1573 
 
 I do, but git is pretty complex! I can do some pretty basic stuff but I'd like
 more experience with the more complicated aspects.
 
 I currently use Void Linux and Gentoo, and I was thinking of installing NixOS
 on my raspberry pi. I'll let you know when I end up doing that ^_^
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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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 what if game designers auto-generated a source-code fork with whatever changes
 the users requested be implemented
 
 [software developers too, when working on software for tabular related scrudm
 based server space]
 
 I bet they could if they used AI to pump out bugfixes. The more they worked on
 it, the more the people demanding they work on that project in particular by
 proposing a customization request form attached to an itinerary and invoice.
 the user is free to work on them in whatever order they wish and the developer
 and the users compete for contracts.
 
 "like uber but for source code"
 
 click here: ---> ||"meetup.org but for uber but for source code"||
 
 "ah this unit is too punchy, let's buff one of their shields" okay but rocket
 launchers "oh no my tank is ruined" hey it's okay it's just sugar
 
 ... I wonder if anyone's ever inhaled vaporized sugar crystals? the baker's
 dozen is 13 because bakers are spellbound lucky T.T [for context, it's always
 nice to have found another one in your bags by the car]
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--- #175 fediverse/1427 ---
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--- #176 fediverse/3184 ---
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 "reboost with content warning" would be quite nice 🥰
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 put the variable type at the front of the variable and 90% of your type errors
 will dissapear
 
 like...int int_main(){ return 0; }
 
 
 orint int_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement = 0;
 
 
 seeeee if the "int" value is at the start of the name then you can do this
 too:double double_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement =
 0.0;
 
 
 then when you go to fill in an "int" value you know to use the one that has
 the "int" value at the beginning (doh)
 
 (do you really think they haven't tried that already? it... sorta worked.
 people started doing things like "int int_a; int int_b; int int_c;" and such
 and that got confusing pretty quick because the letters weren't at the start
 of the word. So for some situations we would mirror them like so: "int A =
 int_a; int B = int_b; int C = int_c;" and then just use the capitalized
 letters.
 
 ... just don't forget to update the original teehee (this is why we invented
 shadowed variables)
 
 wait, no I meant pointers !!~! -.-
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 @user-515 
 
 SO MANY.
 
 But I learned a few more lessons than that.
 
 So... It worked out for the better, I think.
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 the first speaker should be the computer case itself
 
 the second and third should auto-adjust based on auto-gathered data stats
 about positionality and interior room reflections.
 
 mono is better than no'dio
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 My family is of wealth. Well, not really, just my father. We could probably be   │
 considered top 10-20%, if I had to guess, though he's never really told me how   │
 much he makes. I never asked, as I felt it would be rude.                        │
 But still, I restrict myself. I live in as cheap a home as I can find, while     │
 still affording space for myself. I eat rice and beans, that I cook myself. I    │
 apply myself as hard as I can as often as I can, not just to my own goals but    │
 to the goals of whichever corporation is merciful enough to hire one as          │
 wretched as me.                                                                  │
 I am fine, fine enough, and yet life's vigor runs out.                           │
 When my father dies, god forbid, I have no idea what happens to the rest of my   │
 family. We're all trying our hardest, but we're really fucking neurospicy and    │
 he was just lucky enough to be born in an era where if you're neurodivergent     │
 you can fake it till you make it. And he made it because he's lucky and          │
 because he (legitimately) worked his ass off. "New money" if you will...         │
 Top 20% is like, the salary of a doctor or lawyer                                │
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 would be great if all the good people had all the money. Too bad it kinda
 feels like the opposite. Huh wonder why that is . . . ?
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 @user-664 
 
 yeah that's fair, depends on if he wanted them to be published or not.
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 some days it feels like my bones are hollow and my flesh is made out of
 cardboard.
 
 today is one of those days. IDK WHY IT JUST HAPPENS SOMETIMES. Just "just a
 girl" things I guess.
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 protest sign idea:
 
 line 1: "look around"
 line 2: "these are your comrades"
 line 3: "get to know them"
 line 4: "gather phone numbers"
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--- #185 messages/1038 ---
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 MTG card update for meteorite golem: untaps at the end of your turn instead of
 at the start. Can attack as an instant spell.
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 @user-1218 
 
 Ninja is such a cool first name, you should keep it
 
 unless you like Havu better, but Havu strikes me as a really good middle name
 too??
 
 I'm debating changing my name so we'll see how that goes
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 on one hand, un-elected officials! 😒 
 
 On the other hand... un-elected officials. 😭
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 We were rich, but frugal, because we lived in the country, and that's what
 frugal means.
 
 Too bad my dad couldn't stifle his entrepreneurial spirit. We could have
 stayed there forever on our own little ranch.
 
 Alas, businesses need investment, so he needed to get something going.
 Organizing is basically his *thing*
 
 I doubt I'll ever again see Wyoming. I found some ancient stone ruins once,
 the kind that Western conquerors never despoiled. They were ancient and
 overgrown, but I saw them for what they were. I would give anything to live
 there, or at least be near enough to visit with my crowd at a pleasant cool
 midnight evening, when dusk has winked out its last goodbye and the summer is
 resplendant with fireflies.
 
 Too bad they're an east coast thing.
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 time passes just as quickly for a tree as for a man. they are cast in shadows,
 a thrilling dance through time. then, sunrise, and they see their leaves once
 more. bright! warmth! I love the sun. warm me! keep me warm! I celebrate you.
 how nourished is my form.
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 Do you remember stores with floor-to-ceiling goods? The kind that didn't go
 bad, so you could afford to have lots of inventory. Not like it's being
 replaced and thrown out as soon as the executives with their profit margins
 decide that its no longer worthwhile.
 
 Here's an idea - how about executives are paid by the employees to manage
 their company? And if things aren't going right, they can get a new team.
 Like, if every team had control of their manager, I wonder what dynamics would
 emerge?
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 honestly Goosebumps is one of the most important stories taught to a child.
 
 how to handle being afraid.
 
 works best if they imagine themselves in the story.
 
 but it is painful, so be warned.
 
 [I never left because nobody wanted me to go]
 
 short stories have a much greater
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 "so I was walking down the street the other day and I came across a grocery
 store, right? and anyway long story short so as I was walking through this
 grocery store I saw a bag of marbles - wait no they were nuts, with like...
 cherries and grapes in them. actually it was cranberries, I think, the
 cherries weren't in season. so these dried cranberries tasted really tart and
 sweet, and I thought "huh maybe they're dried cherries after all" and so I
 asked the attendent or whatever and she was like "sir you need to pay for
 that" and I'm like, yeah okay how much and she said it was 10$ so I'm like
 "dang that's a good deal, I'm proud and amazed of our modern infrastructure
 and all the hard work of people who don't get paid enough to make it happen"
 and she's like "make what happen" and I'm like "oh the... the this thing" and
 I held up the bag of cherries and she's like "oh uh, yeah it is nice, I guess
 I don't really think about it much" so anyway I started thinking about what
 else I could bu
buy as a set for dollars like perhaps epstein files or cures for cancer or recipes for programmable matter or whatever. One of those options stood out to me as like, possible? and the others seemed like modern fantasy. The kind you *work toward*, yeah? not the kind that you have available as an option.
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 if you have difficulties with acne, try changing your pillow-case once a week.
 
 in addition, you should probably ditch all the cleansers and products. your
 face isn't dirty if you wash it with water.
 
 if you use hot water, be sure to apply face lotion after drying off.
 otherwise, your body will over-produce oil in order to protect your skin and
 it'll give the acne a perfect environment to grow in.
 
 cool or cold water doesn't need lotion as much.
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 if all of life is a stage, then you are never "doing a scene"
 
 you're just living
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 I have an idea! I'll psycherwaul instead! dear diary...
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 what if a necromancer got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent mortality?
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 cannabis is a performance enhancing drug for the spiritual side of me. but
 unfortunately it makes my social skills get a 15 point malus, and while my
 dancing skills increase (due to artistic effects being boosted) my
 coordination kinda sucks and I'm prone to falling over. I'd be a great dancer
 in zero gravity I bet, or maybe not because people tend to misunderstand
 things they've never experienced before.
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 I'd like a job where I can make computer programs, write poetry, play video      │
 games, make food for friends, grow plants and care for animals, walk or ride     │
 my bike for at least an hour every day, and get stoned on the weekends.          │
 Is that too much to ask? I have plenty of other skills besides, like carpentry   │
 and strategic thinking and wilderness survival and situational awareness and     │
 active listening and unmitigated empathy and a curious and critical mind.        │
 Am I not good enough for thee? I have many flaws, I lack stamina and memory,     │
 and while I am sharp and can think quickly and adeptly, the sharpest knives      │
 are the first to dull, and the most focused minds are those most easy to         │
 mislead. I trust too easily - if I meet you on the street, I'd offer my soul     │
 to you if you said you needed it. I put the needs of others over myself, often   │
 to my own detriment, causing others to need to assist me in turn - am I not      │
 wretched enough to be?                                                           │
 Working for 8 hours a day 5 days per week is not part of my design               │
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 @user-95 when people in public see me I'm usually in a bicycle helmet or a
 witch hat. I used to wear a baseball cap but my favorite one got old so I try
 not to wear it too often. I also have this feather flower clip that I put in
 my hair, it's bright red and black. It was for a halloween costume 5-8 years
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 Luck will always abandon you when you are vulnerable. So don't plan around it
 - American soldiers arrived on the beaches of Normandy and found that their
 assumptions for the production capabilities of their foe were completely out
 of proportion to the estimates they had made back at home - for every Nazi
 tank, there were 10 or 20 American ones, with more rolling off the factory
 floor every day! It was a killing blow that sent an incontrovertible message:
 you have lost, wholely and completely. Then, the atomic bomb, and the war was
 ended.
 
 The tanks won the war, the bomb ended it.
 
 *the blood of the soviets bought time to build those factories* 
 
 Factories which were then turned against them in the cold war. Funny how that
 works.
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