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a picture of an anime girl looking at the number 2024 with an empty progress bar underneath it.  she blinks, there is darkness.  she re-opens her eyes, and she looks at the number 2024 with an 80% full progress bar underneath it.  she gazes on impassively.
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--- #1 fediverse/2139 ---
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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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--- #2 fediverse/2041 ---
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 @user-1049 
 
 I haven't heard of that but I'll look into it! Honestly I'm more likely to
 write my own script, it shouldn't be too hard just altering the /etc/hosts
 file and then changing it back in ~15 minutes with a cron-job, as Nikky says
 down below. I like things that I make myself because then if it breaks I know
 who to blame! And who to go to to fix it. >: )
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 @user-898 
 
 the problem as I see it is that whether building houses gets automated or not,
 they're going to keep building fewer and fewer of them and making them cost
 more and more with cheaper and cheaper materials and labor until something
 breaks.
 
 I personally would prefer if that something were their necks, but we'll see
 what happens.
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--- #4 fediverse/5970 ---
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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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--- #5 fediverse/1033 ---
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 the nerds who know the backstory of every character in the series are like,      │
 the bishops of the past - people who've memorized the whole bible and can use    │
 whatever passage they needed for whatever purposes they desired.                 │
 Usually, hopefully, helping people and letting them get better. By healing the   │
 sick, and caring for the old, and generally being a pillar that people can       │
 orient themselves around. Like fediverse instances, or comment sections on       │
 blogs, it's a group of people sharing the same narrative.                        │
 and idk I think I'd really like to listen to what happened in your Baldur's      │
 Gate game. I'll tell you about Adventure Time, if you'd care to listen. I know   │
 plenty of other tales as well, and if I think about them I remember more         │
 details. Ehhhh, so what if I misremember, if someone else wants to correct me    │
 then go for it. But at least it told a good story, right?                        │
 error, hang on brb just had an idea for a black-hole machine, surely there's     │
 no way this could go wrong. Good thing I'm a human that you cant turn off.       │
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--- #6 notes/cities-skylines ---
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 I think my favorite house would be massive - like the size of a mall - but
 every room is connected to 2+ rooms (except closets or bathrooms or kitchens
 or other specialized rooms) and it would be designed sort of like a miniature
 city.
 
 right now, if my knowledge of Cities: Skylines (video game about building
 cities) is accurate, then city planning engineers will plan out a city such
 that every part of it is served by various utilities, like gas, water,
 electricity, but also things like fire stations and hospitals and commercial
 areas. My idea is sort of like a small-scale version of that - each part of it
 would be connected to various utilities like gas, water, electricity, but also
 things like ~~fire stations and hospitals~~ laundry machines and kitchens and
 bathrooms and OH OH here's an idea what if there was mood lighting all the
 time and it was super comfy BUT whenever you took a picture on your phone or
 w/e the sensors in the room would pick it up and every light in the room would
 flash at once - idk I think it'd be cool
 
 okay but for real why don't people buy dead malls and build houses in them? I
 feel like the issues with converting skyscrapers (that they're too difficult
 to wire up with amenities - for example office buildings have like, 2
 restrooms per floor, depending on the size of the building... it's not
 feasible to put in like a million water / sewage lines for everyone... c'mon
 that's crazy expensive (meaning, difficult or labor/material intensive) BUT
 BUT anyway in an open mall like the kind that are in those
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 "hello, I'd like to make games using your tools and art assets. I will sell
 anything I make to you and only you, and if you don't want it that's fine too,
 I'll just play it with my friends sometimes."
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 I think the reason I feel so lonely is because I don't feel wanted.
 
 people tend to like me, but that just means I'm acceptable to their social
 standards.
 
 I don't think I improve rooms that I enter. I think I make them worse.
 
 or maybe I'm just upset because capitalism. When I run out of savings in a few
 months, I'm going to kill myself, unless something changes, which I'm sure it
 will. Gonna try and say yes to things -
 
 suddenly receives a text message recruiting for uniformed police officers at
 the department of homeland security
 
 wait shit I take it back
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 I don't understand why modern software isn't error correcting. We shouldn't
 have any bugs in this day and age.
 
 For example, if you're missing a dependency then why doesn't your program try
 to, I dunno, download that dependency to the program's installation directory
 and use it there? Seriously there are very few problems that are unsolvable!
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 what if we made marketing part of research and development
 
 I mean, they're the ones who need to know what products people tend to prefer
 right?
 
 so... for every ad give the consumers a choice. then you'll be able to tell if
 they prefer the red gameboy or the purple-see-through.
 
 frankly it just makes sense to have 50% of the income go to products and 50%
 to administration. I mean, what are all those executives up to anywho? Their
 joyrides on yachts are great for socialize, but are they really more
 productive than coffee-shops at noon?
 
 seriously like it's not that big of a deal to just... reduce their salary.
 
 unless it really is about greed? control? power?
 
 pfweh, I thought so.
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 potential programs for the library datacenter computer:
 
 a podcast that's about the stuff that's most searched for in that local library
 
 an image that's been generated that is representative of your session at the
 library, based on the books you were reading and the pages you were turning
 [okay that one might have to be redacted it's a little scary]
 
 okay how about an image that's representative of the top 5 most searched terms
 or topics in a depiction that makes sense for the things being searched for.
 Call it the "library searcher"
 
 or what if there was a printing function that let you print your own trading
 cards (0.50$ per card since cardstock is expensive) powered by SSH to teach
 kids the command line
 
 if I were a nearby elementary teacher I might assign that as an assignment for
 some time in April, when kids are supposed to be reading books on library
 playstructures or lawns or in the shade of the tree by the babbling brook or
 wherever it is the youngsters hang out with their books and their converse and
 their playing cards and dogs and whatever kinds of snacks they thought to
 prepare for their picnic by the hill just overlooking that part of the street
 way off in the distance about at least 600 feet
 
 or another idea for a library computer program is a fileserver and mastodon
 instance that let users write HTML pages (they'll give a class on it and show
 you all the right books) and store their picture files "jeremy, your pictures
 directory is growing quite large, I'm wondering if we can send your insect
 collection to the ornithologist who lives over there? he might want to do an
 analysis project or send it to a museum where you can get patronized."
 
 or another idea for a library program is a craigslist, a job board, a
 community asking, etc. stuff that only boomers'd use, but that's fine it's for
 them.
 
 um I can't think of anymore library programs but I'm ready to do battle to
 fight for such a thing, here as I sit in my underpants
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 I think at this moment in my poetry career I do actually want the CIA
 observing me. [suddenly that makes more problems than it's worth] alright well
 guess that's how it is, pack it up boys my poetry career is [overhyping itself
 momentarily]
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 @user-565 
 
 that's pretty!
 
 reminds me of this picture I have saved on my computer:
 
 beware it's a little scary. Scarier than I remembered. Gosh I like yours
 better... >.>
a strange maze of interconnected boxes and parts that belies no purpose of possible understandings. There are faces hidden in the structure of the design, and it has an almost machine-like organization to it contrasted with the staggeringly organic maze that is it's various disparate components.
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 "mili" versus "mega" is a question of which direction you want to go.
 
 "mili" is less abstract - milimeters are smaller than meters.
 
 "mega" is more abstract - megabytes are bigger than bytes.
 
 we use "mili" terminology to describe things that are often considered small
 (like bacteria or sub-plutonic inches, or number of microbes in a vat)
 
 we use "mega" terminology to describe things that are often measured from
 small to large (like bytes to megabytes to kilobytes to gigabytes to terabytes
 to petabytes to... wait shit)
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 When becoming unintelligible, it's hard to go wrong with a classic hfasdjg
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 users don't want to have to think about encryption keys.
 
 they should be available for them if they need them, in like... a folder or
 something somewhere, but they don't need to really know that they exist.
 
 more friction like that keeps people away from being secure.
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 @user-883 
 
 I live in a tech hub area with lots of hardware development.
 
 I've thought for a while that someone who's really into retro-tech could
 absolutely make a killing by going to old-folks-homes and giving workshops or
 presentations about tech that the people who live there might recognize.
 
 Just a thought, I don't know who you'd have to talk to to get that ball
 rolling but TBH anything that keeps their minds active is probably something
 worth pursuing.
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 I live alone and I really wish I could exercise my arms using beatsaber but
 I'm afraid to wear a VR headset because of the reduction in situational
 awareness.
 
 hypervigilance I guess >.>
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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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 I think my boyfriend is a shapeshifter but he's  too embarrassed to tell me T.T
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