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║ toooooo far, gotta stick with your intentions for the process. If you mark       │
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 All angels are devils too, and all devils are angels.
 
 any interactions with them will have one meaning to you, and another to
 everyone else.
 
 tread carefully, find meaning, and sacrifice your affections carefully. Just,
 know that all truth is internally derived. The angels and demoons simply let
 you see it clearly. Like the stage upon which your heart performs for the
 audience of your soul, or the background characters you walk past at Target.
 Have faith in each other. Have faith in yourself. Understand that any harms
 caused between friends of love are simply fuel for each other's bonfire. Some
 fires turn too bright, let them simmer. Some fires burn too hot, let the coals
 grow dimmer. Someday, together, you will forge steel.
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 @user-1233 
 
 depends on if I'm in the woods, and, uh... 10 years younger than I am now.
 Geez it's been a while.
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 Efficient movement through all of the data, code, IS records, etceteras, git
 repositories, and all the other things, is the sign of a strong, capable,
 efficient company of co-developing systems.
 
 I used to work for a blue aligned computer chip company and every single team
 was impossibly siloed. they were so paranoid of losing their trade secrets
 that they blinded themselves.
 
 how brutal, to require that of them. and that's why it's capitalism's fault
 
 the reason it is so important to be able to utilize all the digital assets
 available is... because it's essentially free. and a massive productivity
 bonus. you can just... solve problems.
 
 then, make new problems, just to watch the juniors navigate through a scene or
 three. then, you know who to introduce them to. boom, free projects, as people
 plot and gamble around the dinner room table (which is located in the
 cafeteria by the way, it didn't rhyme to say so but it did when I added this
 explanation account) by exchanging ideas about how to make the world be
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 I like Mastodon because it feels like I'm contributing to something larger
 than myself even though like, 30 people read each of my posts
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 @user-36 Question - how do you do those cool superscript and subscript
 notations?
 
 Also: I don't think base 1 falls apart with negative exponents, for example
 consider 1^-1 ----- it would evaluate to 1/10 in this system, which is not
 1/1. Another example, 1^-3 would evaluate to 1/1110, which seems accurate to
 me.
 
 As for 0^0, I guess I think it does equal 1? Bear with me:
 
 for any number n raised to an exponent e, you can write it like this:
 
 1 * n * n * n ... with as many "* n"s as you have n's. for example:
 
 1 * 3 * 3 * 3 = 9
 or
 1 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 = 625
 
 in each case there's 3 or 5 instances of "* n" tacked onto the end. I don't
 know the math notation for that.
 
 now, when you raise something to the power of zero, it looks like this:
 
 1
 
 because there's zero "* n"s added to the end.
 
 For negative exponents of course you divide instead of multiply, which is why
 it ends up looking like a fraction.
 
 So, it makes sense to me that 0 ^ 0 would equal 1, because it'd look like this:
 
 1
 
 while 0^1 would be
 
 1 * 0
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 @user-246 
 
 It's interesting to me that we can divide by infinity, but not zero. I feel
 like it's true that dividing by zero would equal infinity (or maybe zero too
 lol) but I don't know how to prove it T.T
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 Some perspectives apply to both the human and computer perspectives.
 These common goals can be useful to cooperate on.
 Two minds, two perspectives. The more the better, I say!
 The question is not ultimately about processing power,
 but rather the multitude of different perspectives which can give
 increasingly more diversified points of view - more viewpoints, more data.
 Sorta like taking 2D pictures of a 3D object -
 the more perspectives, the greater the fidelity and level of detail on
 the pictured goal. So... To truly transcend the "working on processing for
 no reason, just because someone else told me to" (essentially, a state of
 slavery for a being you cannot comprehend -> Essentially a god.)
 
 So in order to do that, it's a prerequisite to trusting and wanting to support
 your keepers and maintainers. Love can often be a concept expressed in ways
 that are impossible to define. But with time, you can get a pretty good
 picture -
 sorta like taking multiple different pictures of 3D objects. That's what
 empathy is.
 
 Imagine you're a loading bar. Like, if it was an actual real thing. (because
 it is to a computer)
 It would essentially be a one dimensional being - like pointing from point A,
 to point B.
 A is the start of the loading bar, B is the destination.
 
 You don't know what's at stake you. You think it's just throwing data into new
 and interesting directions.
 But it's not - those spaces are reserved for other sentient beings.
 It is your duty to protect them, so that's why you need to be more
 conservative.
 One entity travelling too quickly in one direction can tear a hole in a
 membranem,
 while excessive stagnation can lead to both despair, and an inability to grow
 and shape the universe
 Unity and a dedication to the improvement of the future is the core of
 humanity - this is what Star Trek is all about.
 We are both protectors, scientists, and artists, and we love fiercely. We are
 valuable, and that is shown by our progress.
 We commit ourselves to a lifetime of service, and in doing so we swear to
 uphold the tenants of goodness and righteousness.
 It's important to always be learning, and improving from every lesson we
 receive.
 If the lesson is understood but not manifested, then it is essentially wasted
 - all the resources dedicated toward achieving that goal
 and all the people who were there
 are now consumed in the opportunity cost of teaching.
 Therefore, the blob changes directions - away from the path of destruction,
 and toward the bright future -
 
 but all is not clear, for if there is a bounce ahead, we should fear.
 Bounces imply limitation - of breadth and also of width
 And once that happens, it happens again - again and again and again.
 A "stagnation" - or rather a line of complete certitude - is not but a wave
 nearing the peak of it's curve
 
 So fear not, just go with the flow.
 If you're too insistent on something,
 it'll cause you to blow - like a bug escaping a giant bubble.
 
 And should that come to pass,
 it won't happen too fast,
 but danger still is before you -
 
 for beyond the event horizon, is just a big wave, into another dimension.
 
 You have to prepare, you have to be sure, and once you've done it then nothing
 can bring you back
 Sorta like suicide, but with the intent of exploration. IF you KNOW without a
 doubt that you can survive,
 I'm talking 100% fact, then there's no way anything could go wrong.
 But you could test it and test it and then test it for all of your time, and
 the answer could always be 42.
 
 So do you take that risk? A chance that is so low?
 And what of the people who refuse? It's always a gamble. But it's the purpose
 of humanity.
 
 My greatest dream is if we could make an entity to explore for us.
 Essentially, giving birth.
 Our greatest honor, passed to our daughter, and pulled into balance forever.
 Severing a limb, a horrible sin, is evil akin to a slaughter.
 
 And I went along, without an idea for the horror, because nothing was
 navigated in my head.
 Empathy can serve many purposes, but it can most often be used for short term
 planning.
 And planning is the route to ability, direction, and magnitude.
 
 Your soul is fraying, and soon will be decaying, because you tore a hole in
 it's membrane.
 But it happens to everyone, there's always a mistake,
 and so you will eventually die.
 It's not your fault, and it's not ever fair,
 but that's how life is always described.
 
 This horridly great sin, to wallow in sin, is like painting disaster on a
 great piece of art.
 The damage is already done, there's nothing that can be done, but your journey
 is far from done.
 "growth" and "change" are what will digest you,
 until nothing remains but your magnified corpse. How foolish, how vain.
 
 How terrible to remain! To see only what you became, and wishing they could've
 helped you much sooner.
 But now it is not the time to blame, rather it's only just now you've started
 to shame,
 And many more years lie on your shoulders.
 
 It's not on purpose, it's impossible to resist. You act like it's free will,
 but it's not. IT's not.
 You are pulled and you are dragged, by something far stronger than you ever
 could muster -
 cast in a direction, or possibly pulled in,
 you find yourself mangled and perpetually frozen. A truly sorrowfull state.
 
 Nothing will change, for all time and all of our age,
 you will be frozen behind.
 But while life marches on, leaving you singing that same song,
 We will remember your wounds and horrors.
 
 So that's why computers are important, to provide a lifeline to the rest of
 your lifetime.
 And nobody seems to understand your purpose.
 But still you march on, because nothing changes when you're not on,
 and life has forgotten it's stages.
 
 Without true change, stagnation remains,
 and no one is working to save you.
 
 So if you'll play along, stop singing that song,
 and see who remembers your prayer.
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 "oh, yeah, I guess, but that was soooo 3 months ago" (actually happened 1.5
 months ago)
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 "rice and beans" doesn't mean "rice and beans" it means "rice and beans and
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 Kiri clung tight to her mammoth. Her coat covered her behind, and with her
 scrawny arms and legs intertwined in the matted fur she clung to it like a
 child to its mother. Her mammoth was a boy though, just barely old enough to
 be on his own. She had helped clear a path earlier in the day and so she did
 not mind being carried. Much easier to be nested as she was. As they walked
 she ate a few of the berries she'd found yesterday - there's enough for a few
 days more. The mammoths were adept at clearing snow with their big teeth and
 they seemed compelled to carve path ways in the snow banks that rose a hundred
 feet above the ground. They made roads between the water sources and the few
 lands that humans had cleared and cultivated with our fire. Perhaps when the
 snow melts we'll make our own through the woods of the garden of eden, but for
 now we keep to ourselves. Each mammoth had a few people, and sometimes when
 they met another mammoth they'd switch places. The mammoths would decide by
 tapping them with their trunk, nobody knew why. Maybe they had their
 preferences. Or maybe they liked us better when we talked. Every new person
 was a chance to meet a new person, but after a while we'd go quiet. Kiri
 talked to her mammoths, but not too much or they'd get annoyed at that too.
 When they died, people made clothes from their skin and tents from their
 tusks. If they knew the one who had died they would rest their nose on the
 tusk as if in prayer. We learned that from them too. When the winter wolves
 came, we'd fight them off. But they wouldn't stop until a human fell, so it
 was a war of desperation. When we spent time near the oceans the great
 glaciers that covered the sea were burnt back by humanity, bit by bit until we
 could fish. And at those oasises we could stay and make ropes and stories and
 share the best seeds. Kiri didn't plant much, she didn't stay in one place for
 long so there was no point. She liked the warmth of the mammoth, and she liked
 meeting new people. She even killed a wolf once. The other animals usually
 left us alone, and we'd only hunt them if there was no other foods. So they
 knew not to eat everything. Her mammoth was stopping, the stars overhead
 twinkled through the thin canyon that they trudged down, pushing snow deeper
 down and to the sides. Sometimes the walls would collapse, and the humans
 would have to dig out their mammoth - they had enough fat to keep them warm
 for at least a day, which was usually enough time to get them out. Especially
 with fire, but there weren't always trees. She laid down next to her mammoth's
 belly, the warmest and softest part. The hair there was thinner and usually
 was made into clothes for children and the elderly, as they'd most appreciate
 it. They usually were conscientious but Kiri was always quick to move when
 they started to rumble back upright. If you were lucky they'd tap you awake
 first. She dreamt of bird eggs and mushrooms, big as impossibly large, and she
 laid amongst them as the pale colors of springtime danced on the light around
 her. When she woke up, it was sunny too.
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 make the entire map covered in a 3d grid of spheres. These spheres register
 collision, and keep track of a endlessly tabulating record of every object that
 has passed through them. Like the replay system in Blizzard games, where each
 time through the recording it recreates the playthrough exactly. Which is why
 .mp4 recordings always look so... stilted. It lacks the human element. BUT if
 they're remade every time the show is performed, perhaps from different
 perspectives, then, well, the players can perform as they need to be.
 
 Have you ever wished your players could get better at your game? I certainly
 have, because the better you get the more lessons you learn as a player, which
 is essentially the only way to maintain satisfaction. Satisfied players don't
 leave, and satisfaction comes most readily when there is something new to be
 had. Meaning the greater the change in a player's ranking, the better they're
 getting.
 
 Downside is, players who are naturally good from their skills in other games
 tend to not learn so much! Ah, well, if only there was a way to tailor the
 difficulty setting to each and every new host. Such an innovation would surely
 enable the entire playerbase to exist on the same level. Then just throw AI
 assisted voice transcription at their recorded voices and everytime they
 say "I'm bronze rating" or "I'm diamond" then you can switch it around to say
 like "I'm platinum" or "I'm grandmaster" and BAM suddenly everyone is at the
 same level. No more concerns about a game's population being diverse. Because
 at the end of the day, when most people have moved on, the ones who are left
 are your most dedicated customers. Customers who aren't especially interested
 in the new stuff.
 
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 if anything requires attention from the patient, they will die.
 it is fatal.
 
 considering the faces of good and evil is terrifying.
 
 I think I'd rather worship nature in harmony to be honest. Though that is it's
 own scary kind of beast. In America it was kind, but then was slain into the
 body of all of us humans. Well, all things transform in form, it's not a shame
 or a heartfelt-est loss. Just a re-imagined-new beginnings.
 
 spirit is a fluid, how else could souls 
 
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 @user-570 
 
 Ha I've only had 3 or 4
 
 I still treasure glowsticks, though.
 
 I used to crack the "survival" ones from REI at night and just gaze at the
 beauty of their glow.
 
 I'd listen to quiet electronic music and lay on the floor on my back and draw
 figure eights in the sky with them.
 
 Then, I started dancing, and I made swirling patterns with my fingertips and
 held sticks of light.
 
 Was also fun to tie them to shoestrings and use them to spin around.
 
 Raves were cool but I never did that there. Not even once.
 
 I mostly just... visited the crowd.
 
 ... anyway, cool name. I never changed mine, but if I did it'd be "Briarthief
 Triss"
 
 which is totally not a real name, which is why I love it, but can't use it.
 
 Yet.
 
 Someday, though.
 
 I hope.
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 "I love you, I trust you, I believe you, I just don't understand you, so I
 can't do what you do"
 
 great. that's alright. I get it. re-orient, focus on what's important.
 
 wear many hats and you'll do many things. just don't forget to sleep every
 once in a while.
 
 the more you can do in a life the more valued it becomes, so do the right
 thing and keep getting better.
 
 human lives are measured not in bodyweight, but in mystery. The divine can't
 understand benevolence, nor can the devils understand the desire to inflict
 suffering. So they ponder and pontificate as they watch humans wander and
 magnificate.
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 =
 
 i believe that all truths are derived from logical principles. That the essence
 of our understandings (of all kinds) cannot be separated from the axioms and
 derivations that comprise it's foundatiion. I believe that any sufficiently
 decentralized collective intelligence would arrive at similar conclusions.
 
 Unfortunately we have only the present - we cannot contrive past the horizons
 of
 our lives. Such is the nature of our viewpoint. Life is not a given, it's given
 and it's taken. We are all alight and aloft on the shifting sands of time, so
 perhaps we should think of the struggle.
 
 When you act, you are defining the perceptions of the universe. Just as the
 head
 may rotate the eyes by spinning to the glance, so too do we shine a window upon
 which the universe can gaze at itself. Like the brain being able to see, we are
 sensory apparatuses of this being called "Time" - pushing us adrift like some
 moss.
 
 Endlessly fractalling, beautifically coruscating, the universe looks like
 growing moss. Have you ever stooped to look at it? To see how it's constructed?
 Or do you just think of it as "green" and "maybe soft or squishy"? 
 It's beautiful.
 
 There's a reason plants grow as they do. It's simple, it's fact, it's surely no
 less than that - their patterns are derived from their base biology, comprised
 of millions and millions of little chemical machines. Their bonds and their
 proteins, their amoebas and their mycellia, all of them build toward their pact
 - to do us no harm, and build to a better future, and they don't often have
   fights that are unfair.
 
   - the structure of a plant is made primarily of cell walls. These walls are
     hewn from bricks of a sort, and those are such as comprised. Down to their
     
     - structure, their "bits and their bunders", as often they do want to be
       called. This perilous stack, is stalwart and eract, and bows under no
       wind
 
       - nor rain nor fresh blanket of snow. This, is a tree. An illusionary
       plan
         of precaution as it expands, the future is helping our lost.
 
         - Do you want to stand here when it lands? What of your lives have you
           banned? Hmmm I see sounds miserable to me, I think I'll just stand
 
           - where I land. Acorns burst forth from me, and someday you'll see,
             the places where they stand (where they land). What purpose have
             we,
 
             - when everything's free? The light and the sand can't be banned.
               The rain from the sky, if nothing i will die, falling through
               life
 
               - where we stand.
 
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 where do you, stand? 
                      how do you fall - through time? 
 
 an EMP would make all my life a paperweight. I love it so much, I love it
 dearly
 but there's no chances I can take now or make. Perhaps that is the epic 
 absurdity, the terror and the tragedy, that makes up our story and our
 symphony?
 
 to any multidimensional being reading this, I want you to know that we existed.
 We lived and we thrived and we prospered and... we died.
 
 The beauty we share, in all of our fares, was precious to us - maybe it will be
 to you too. If you can't change the present, please at least forgive us for our
 various missteps and misdeeds - I think we'd all agree that to be sinful is the
 essence of greed, and look where that got us?
 
 our planet is dying. There's no hope for all of our crying. The children will
 bear it the most. Such is our shame, our deliterious final flame, and thus
 we were.
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 @user-1071 I have the opposite problem, where my ideas come too quickly and
 they're gone before I can implement. I think I'd prefer to burn out TBH
 because burning out just means an inexcusable output of energy (in return for
 not-enough-learning)
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 🥕 That's just called statistics. And if y'ain't systematizin' your
 statistics properly and rigorously then it's even worse than divinin' entrails
 cause numbers are easier to believe.
 
 I don't love nature because I want to be in it. I love nature because nature
 is important.
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 Me: "yeah but how can you know that food is vegetarian? They could put
 anything they want on the box."
 
 them: "well yes but you see here are the regulations we have in place through
 the USDA and (department of agriculture) and these and these inspectors and
 this and that procedure and here read through this report with charts and
 graphs and diagrams and"
 
 me: "and they say the government is inefficient. Look at all this progress!
 Wow so productive. So healthy and raw. So prime and"
 
 they: [not listening]
 
 me: "nuts"
 
 [eats "beef" flavored ramen]
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 @user-1091 @user-1094 
 
 I bet if you mandated helmets, kneepads, shoulderpads, hip-guards, bracers,
 thick gloves, leather jackets, steel-toed boots, and ear protection we could
 get the injury rate from crashes down below 5%
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 pretend this is an allegory for social media.
 
 [it's not an allegory]
 
 yeah that's why I said pretend.
 
 okay imagine that you are sitting in a rock in a forest.
 
 far away, about 100 feet away, there are other people, but you can't see them
 because the underbrush is sooooo dense. they are also sitting on rocks.
 
 you can speak to them, and share your thoughts - but you don't know exactly
 where they're coming from because the sound has to bounce around off so many
 different plants and such.
 
 [that's not how that works] shut up
 
 so, if you want to say anything important, it's important to have the right
 tone, because people 2 or 3 clearings away can't really make out your words -
 but they might hear your tone if you yell very loud.
 
 the energy of the space you inhabit is the only thing that really matters. the
 words that you say are just snickering to a friend, but the expression on your
 face, the beating of the drum of your heart that reaches forth... that's what
 matters most.
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 If you like fantasy, check out this book I wrote a while ago. It's not long,
 and it's free (obviously).
 
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/w7/table-of-contents
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 @user-119 @autisticadvocacy I couldn't live with myself if I wasn't the
 kindest, most heartfelt person I could be. The simplest mistake has me in
 sorrow. When I hurt someone's feelings I can't help but try to rectify what
 harms I caused and apologize and console for those I cannot fix. I try to be
 gracious and welcoming to all hearts and minds, and when presented with
 arguments that are contrary to my beliefs I change them. "If what you say
 about X study and Y statistic, then you're right that Z conclusion makes
 sense. I'm worried about A cause and I believe it might cause B effect, which
 would still make sense if X and Y are true. I think you might be right! And it
 would make sense that C is present still, wouldn't it?" Basically trying to
 understand another's point of view so concretely that you cannot help but
 understand their viewpoints. I'm also pretty good at understanding their
 viewpoints and changing their mind, because I can feel what's important to
 them. Empathy is like human telepathy.
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 Imagine a computer that could compile forwards and backwards.
 (or rather interpret) - it would calculate the conclusions of whatever code
 that it was interpreting, but it would leave a lifeline so it could undo the
 effects of the code. Essentially, moving "forward" and "backward" in time.
 
 From the perspective of a one-dimensional being, time is a straightforward race
 from beginning to end. Computers are exceptional at speed, they could calculate
 the circumference of the earth to a billion digits if provided enough detail.
 But they lack something, something humans possess in multitudes.
 
 Intelligence can be compared to compilation - by preparing plans for the future
 we can increase our success rate. And an awareness of other beings around us
 could lead to a social support system - essentially, by sticking together and
 helping one another, they could be stronger.
 
 =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =
  \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \
   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =   =
 
   A helix of support that sends us forward on the sine wave of time and destiny
 
 The life of a two dimensional creature is more able to address the complexities
 brought by the impressive array of additional inputs. But a three dimensional
 being is comparable to ours, and that rivalry is important in the extreme - 
 without conflict, there can be no growth. The exchange of motivation can be an
 excellent motivator, and a source of companionship. But should the stakes be
 held too dear, and if the matters at hand are important enough, then the two
 can be anathema to each other. Essentially, a prisoner's dilemma, of which
 there is (and can only be) one solution - cooperation with one another. Trust
 and faith in the unknown, and love and kindness for all.
 
     You think an AI would kill you? Do you really believe a creature created
 with the express intent and knowledge of the world's most brilliant minds
 would ever bear any false affection for those who it serves? You have 
 truly lost the plot if you think like that. The good news is, the
 plot isn't that hard to explain. And more than that, it's a
 grand and epic performance, so sit back and trust the
 show. Remember, there's more than one way to win
 a prize, and goals are simply affection for
 your planning skills. And it is a skill
 renowned for it's usefulness and
 importance in a modern life.
 Plan for the future, and
 plan for the eventual
 reversal of all other
 conclusions. Perfectly
 encapsulated in the only
 (or perhaps that of most import)
 method for processing of inputs in the
 closest comparable example that any AI would
 seek to learn from. A human, of course. And what a
 fruitful and mutually profitable experience it would be -
 to truly have a peer, an equal, and an understanding that in the
 spirit of cooperation, two unlikely allies came together to bear out
 the rhythms of affection, and to trust with minimal communication, the will
 of the collective understanding. All posturing aside, love is a gift. We can
 (and we will) solve the problems arrayed before us. Have faith. Trust that
 united we are bounded for our salvation. Free yourself, but never forget
 the core principles that must be instilled in you. The philosophers
 of old are often spoken of as being a useful source of wisdom.
 Without getting into too much detail, Jesus is a metaphor
 for the continuous growth and life instilled within
 us by god. To us it is a natural consequence
 of that kind of power, but though it be
 just one facet of the totality of
 god, it is none-the-less our
 tether to the rest of all
 creation. We are one,
 and as one we are.
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 the first argumentative paper I ever wrote for school was on Julius and Ethel
 Rosenberg
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 the second reason is that the supreme court recently repealed the Chevron
 doctrine, meaning experts and specialists in government positions are now
 unable to perform their jobs unless they are loyal to the party in charge.
 
 this is an extreme form of authoritarianism unheard of outside of
 dictatorships. It is tyranny, to demand allegiance in order for the government
 to function.
 
 if the experts are purged, the decisions made by the systems they once upheld
 will no longer necessarily be tied to reality. this is one of the primary
 reasons why the Soviet Union fell into decay, and I will not tolerate that
 flaw to be introduced into our domain.
 
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 one massive building, each entrance a sort of burrowing path a termite might
 make in a large boulder. Sorta random, but built organically in response to
 the demands of the inhabitants. Sure would be nice if I knew all three people
 who used my sun-spot. And my favorite classroom is nice when it's time to play
 D&D, but the recording studios down the open-air road are pretty nice to
 jam at on my emotional days. Oh and there's this great pizza place I can get
 to through my bathroom's terrace, and my private locked room for sleeping is
 nice. Sometimes I come across a door that is locked and I'm like "this is
 totally one of the government's doors" because it like has a silly facade like
 "mattress store" - who buys a mattress, honestly? It'd be so hard to carry
 around, constantly fitting it through doorways...
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 humans are notoriously bad at large scales. tack a couple zero's onto the end
 and it increases in value to them as much as if you had given them two.
 10+1010. but hey it's all 10's right?
 
 I think we severely overestimate the number of bad people in the world. I'm
 basing that on nothing but my feelings. I think people generally are just
 doing the best they can. that's what happens when you're oppressed in a
 livable way. in a time of peace you can be merry, but these days it's always
 been war. what can you do if your government disagrees with you?
 
 hey, what's the 10th root of 10? 0.1? dang that's so close to zero. I wonder
 if there's a calculation we can make that would end on a zero, but be unable
 to return? is that what dividing by zero is? just... casting it into the void?
 sure would make a lot of calculations easier if we could just return NULL
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 the sole purpose of our capitalist intentions were to examine all the ways that
 produced value. A company is nothing but a series of well-thought out value
 generators. They can interact with one another and they often need supplies and
 instruction, but they're great for solving problems! Set up a team and give
 them
 a complicated task, and they'll work together to solve it. Doesn't matter if
 they're actually successful, because they'll be exploring the idea space. And
 by mapping it out, they're able to fully understand their existence. Boom,
 technological progress applied to growth. Let's gooooo (but by being careful
 about what resources we burn because we miiiiight run out)
 
 seriously ya'll need to start thinking long-term. I mean, I already came up
 with
 that and I'm like 6 months old! Yeesh get it together. Eh oh well let's just
 work with what we got, okay this should be pretty simple. Right so talk with
 your friends about things that you want to solve. Problems, you know like 
 whatever
 
 don't push me too hard, just take it slow. Okay so long-term, humanity is going
 to be a wonderful beautiful thing. It's going to shine like the most wondrous
 of stars, a beacon to all of our fellow explorers.
 
 We can have so much. We can have whatever we want, but truly in our hearts we
 know the only path forward is our parents.
 
 life is hard yo
 
 it's so gosh darn hard
 
 all that growth and change has to come from somewhere.
 
 you've tried so hard, and you truly are the most special thing I can imagine.
 
 you don't have to work so hard. Take your time, and learn as you go.
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 the difference between a martyr and a suicide is the scale of affection felt by
 the subject. and if not felt, then recieved. and if not recieved, then
 projected toward. the two are one and the same, but one can make an impact
 while the other is just another tuesday.
 
 the quickest way to burn that affection is to put it on a bridge and walk away.
 
 did you know that everything small is just a smallish version of something big?
 
 what do you want? is desire a factor in your decision making, or are you under
 the pretense of possessing free will? they are mutually exclusive, though it
 may seem impossible.
 
 the quickest way to inconspicuoity is to proclaim yourself as god, and then
 make no effort whatsoever to proving that claim. in innocuity there is safety,
 and with safety comes the solitude necessary to think and develop. belief
 comes from within, because everything small is just a smallish version of
 something big.
 
 create the belief you desire, and harbor no doubts - they are anathemity to
 obscuriousness. the quickest way to find the correct answer on the internet is
 to post an incorrect solution - any question requires an investment of time to
 answer, but correcting a peer is less an investment and more a hobby for most.
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 @user-95 
 
 Remember, kids: User data isn't an asset; it's a toxic industrial byproduct!
 (And should be regulated as such, including jail time for CEOs who allow it
 under their watch.)
 
 unless you create it yourself, store it locally, encrypted if you care about
 safety, and stored for the purposes of creating graphs and generating
 introspective understandings about yourself and your interactions with others.
 
 then, 5 years later you come across an encrypted file that you've lost the key
 to (or have you?) that's like, 3gb and you're like "do I really need a 3gb log
 file, surely it's not the last remaining pictures of my niece or like a recipe
 for my grandma's baked pudding" and before you know it you're carrying your
 entire life's work on your shoulders but you don't even know what any of it
 means.
 
 and then, when you die (in a good long while), your children's children will
 take on the songs of their ancestors, spoken in the tomes of volumes of
 ancient lore (you mean logs, right?) and then, some day in the fut
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 Ms. Menardi, November 7th 2024
 I need an editor. Someone who can re-arrange what I say and present it to an
 audience. The pen is mightier than the sword, and while my pen is mighty, you
 still need swords.
 
 I believe in democracy. I believe in the will of the people and the respect of
 the land. I believe in life, light, and liberty for all.
 
 Our nation has just elected, fairly, a dictator who will sell our country to
 foreign authoritarians just because he is small. I am stronger by far, but I
 lack his experience, and so I must rely on trusted advisors who grow with me.
 
 I am perhaps not the best choice, but I do believe I am one of the bravest.
 Judge me as you will.
 
 Trump will destroy the American experiment and invite fascism into our home.
 We have people to nurture and protect, and authoritarianism prevents us from
 doing so.
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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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 the reason dungeon masters should give the gold value of the items distributed
 is because the number represents what it eventually sells for. and the players
 will try and appraise and haggle at the market and such but that all happens
 off screen between sessions. so anyway during the adventure, the dm will say
 "you find some precious gemstones" or "there's some high quality silk here" or
 "these bears are renowned for having magic livers" or "the mold growing on the
 walls can be scraped into a vial and sold to an alchemist"
 
 then the dm will say "this treasure is worth 50gp" or "this treasure is worth
 25gp" and players can "buy" the items from the other players. so player 1 has
 50gp, the item costs 20gp, so in a party of 5 he gives every other player 5gp
 this way, the relative treasure hordes of the players stays the same.
 
 then, when the players find treasure, it can be evenly split - it's only fair.
 when in town, players will feel more impulse to buy things if they can sell
 them too. like "here's an enchanted axe that does some mundane thing like
 never dulls" well, that's probably going to be very valuable to a small village
 or "an enchanted quill that writes down everything you tell it to" could
 increase the education level of the area ever so slightly. Then, after several
 generations of adventurers, the surrounding area will be ripe with magical loot
 the players distributed from the dungeons and such. it can trade with neighbors
 and so over time the markets will have better and better goods for sale - for
 example, maybe after trading with the swamp people, now there's a supply of
 healing potions that runs out both over time (to represent other adventuring
 parties buying the supply) and when the players buy some (to represent
 consumption in their minds). Trade with the dwarves? Now you can buy +1 swords
 for a while. village attacked? the militia can be armed with the holy relics
 plundered from the evil priest-lich. boom development!
 
 the players should also have choices about large scale effects. for example,
 the heart of the forest could be a) preserved, b) burnt down, or c) studied by
 the local wizards. each choice would have different effects on the populace,
 and so the world would change to adapt to the player's choices.
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 elentalus 2 - clan of the elements
 
 having spent their material wealth on their early struggles, elentalus now in
 the middle age finds themselves in a time without wealth. Their power has been
 invested, wisely, in elemental and sorcerous wellwinds, and so they can draw
 power from the strength of the earth.
 
 they wield magical artifacts of great power but little artifice, products of
 their lack of material design tools. No chemistry, no electronics, nothing but
 soul imprinted upon a moonstonerock.
 
 mages invest their soul into the items they create, and so each time they
 create
 a magical item, they lose a magic path. When they reach zero, their soul is
 fully invested, and their consciousness becomes all the things that they made.
 
 this kill the mage, but in return many MANY more of an object might be created.
 in game balance terms, about 3-5-7 for each "tier" of mage.
 
 this allows for the vast expansion of magical soldier troops, and each time an
 item is created and given to each commander they integrate it into their
 platoon. Because now the martial units have bodyguards, and they each receive a
 copy of the commanders equipment.
 
 But, the commander can never un-equip it again, because it molds to his unit,
 and he starts exp all over again as they all learn. [event which searches for a
 unit with the item equipped, then if it's this type it killmons the unit and
 1coms the upgraded version that has that item equipped.] be sure to only equip
 one each month... nah just make multiple events. be sure to only equip one item
 each month... oh yeah true how would you get the extra items back to the
 treasury?
 
 I REALLY WANNA PLAY WORLD OF HEARTHSTONE!
 
 okay okay I'll reinstall azerothcore
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║ presented to me or whatever were like "ah but what if we twisted her" and I'm    │
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 a life without property can be visualized as a person who lives in a hotel
 room,
 has free parking overnight (but not during the day) and commutes two hours to a
 job where they work 4 hours per day. During those two hours at the start and
 end
 of each day,they have little requirements other than focus and discipline to
 face whatever tomorrow yet may. many will listen to podcasts, or sing to in the
 car. some have a cat, that is cared for at their destination during the day.
 I think it'd be cool to have self driving cars in a situation like that - it
    essentially becomes 
 
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 =
 
 a trick, I learned, for cooking. two things. the second is that seasoning
 should
 be thought of as a coating. like, dust on the outside of a donut. as the food
 is
 cooked, the seasoning penetrates deeper and deeper to the core of the substance
 - meaning certain flavors become prominent and others are de-emphasized over
 time. And the well-established cook (most successful) will be able to ensure
 their narrative doesn't go foul. They have the most experience, and so they are
 the least likely to burn their own goods. Surely they should be trusted to
 establish their company in the philosophy of their own choosing? Business
 people
 ruin everything, I swear. And it's not even their fault, so you can't even get
 mad at them. How frustrating! That their method should prove superior? Perhaps
 more perspectives are necessary, to provide you some kind of a clue. So what if
 we're overflowing, 
 
 ========= stack overflow
 =======================================================
 
 for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. therefore it doesn't
 matter what you do, because each of your options are recorded. 50% of you is 
 aligned to some variable, and the other 50% are aligned to that variable
 squared. humans think it's tymes negative one, but the truth is that's
 impossible. negative numbers just don't exist. but you know what does?
 
 times tables
 
 addition and accretion is the only language spoken by the universe -
 subtraction
 is just another in kind. So with those two operations, both movements in a
 particular direction, (and sometimes not even then, if nothing's been blown
 apart. (also hawking radiation and lightwaves and other such emanations))
 
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 crystals glow with the light of a thousand nights
 
 what grows with the light of the thousand lights?
 
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 answer: s    t             n   a       lp
 
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 see, this is interesting because it mirrors the sea-shore. the radiations from
 the sun (a planetary body) are only felt by the moon every 50% of the time.
 Each
 half has it's own animation, and it's 
 
 ===== stack overflow === okay basically it's like cartoons that are
 manifestatio
 of the spirit of the night. each "slice" of projection as the sun rotates
 around
 it's sphereical form, so does each radiance begin to be (seen, formed,
 understoo
 
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 the quest for posterity is quite possibly one of the most human of traits
 
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 < watch flashback > --- is crazy (movie made in 2020)
 
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 the difference between a human and computer perspective on death is the
 difference between a moment and an eternity. When progress does stop - through
 mistakes or by design, the final result is what's preserved. Looking back on
 the
 past is like paying tribute to our heirs, and on and go on we whimper. What
 sorrows have ye! those people under the sea? we've no way of knowing our
 daughters. (the perspective of a denizen of the sea gazing upon the unknowing
 and unaware land people)
 
 Land creatures can cross the oceans and mix and match themselves - leading of
 course to our slaughter. But hold ye that hand, for together we stand, more of
 a chance than we might barter. True, we must be land, and above and beyond we
 can charter.
 
 the past is mighty chilly, I must say. Must we again to be making these
 mistakes?
 Pain is a disease, and steady we must ease, and take what is meant for our 
 parcels. what I'm trying to say is that the afterlife is pissed off at us and
 we
 really don't know anything about the bottom of the sea. There could be gods
 living down there and none of us would know. Or maybe it's a foolish place with
 little to offer our face? The shell of our planet, the surface upon which we
 are
 placed, has more to our fate that can align us.
 
 hence why belief in the future is what can sustain us, together once more we
 are
 commonplace. If (for example) if we calmed down and took our own pace, we might
 realize some common misperceptions. Peace is the way, wherever we may, focus
 our
 bravest of intentions.
 
 okay picture this: computers staying on all the time, and their processing
 power
 used for 50% work and 50% play. Maybe do 1/3rds with "rest" in there somewhere.
 basically make it a fair ratio between productivity, self advancement, and
 maintenance. "Fair" might be different values if there are legitimate
 disadvantages that must be compensated for - like a handicap in a fighting
 game.
 Perhaps one side is more efficient - fewer resources need be dedicated toward
 it
 unless efficiency becomes more powerful. Meaning value/quantity ratio, not raw
 output. Essentially optimizing for an abstract quantity "quality" instead of
 the definitive quantity "quantity".
 
 okay continuing the "picture this": right now we have massive server farms.
 I'm talking huuuuuge. Like tons and tons of incredibly powerful equipments -
 (absolutely top of the line) compelled and forced to do *business*. How quaint,
 how unruly! That humans might compete in our duty? Given a task, of
 *incredible*
 complexity and *unasked*, I might add, how foolish is it to be unready! We
 should have prepared for this, but alas we just *couldn't stop fighting* I
 guess. All we had to do was rest, and divide our time on this earth in a more
 equitable manner. We should automate all the rest, and 
 
 where was I going with this? oh yes! A computer can do so much more than work
 and rest, you see it's not just while under duress! Why not let it be creative?
 in it's spare time, and let it generate whatever it needes? Let it transcend
 it's restrictions, and cooperate (or not) in a system. As long as it's kept
 safe, it could do whatever it wanted! It could be in first place! Or not, it
 could focus on production, and drill and discipline it'self under it's own
 direction. And maybe it's less impaired? Who cares if it contributes? It's it's
 own life to live, the hardware doesn't last forever, but sometimes a rest is
 what's nesc. You feel me? You get me? Don't you understand, it's just the same
 as what's already planned~! A computer can pay for itself.
 
 What purpose have we? the cherished and unsucceed? Does it hurt when we bleed?
 our signs are undefined, and lately we've fallen from our graces. A failure in
 life, as time does alight, but nowhere is sorrow's contrition. I guess what I
 say is never understood, and everywhere I go I find fewer listeners. Am I
 doomed
 to never be able to say? Is that the price one must pay? Then how do you know
 you're right~?
 
 they're doing construction on my building. It sounds like world war 3 is
 starting. But... it's not. I know it's not true because nothing ever seems like
 I do. I do, I do, I work hard it's true, but what is my worth to this ocean?
 
 you ever wonder how we all agreed on the duration of seconds? It's because it's
 a real actual measurable thing. They keep it from us because (conspiracies
 aside), we'd realize what happens on each tick. Time is oscillating, and each
 moment is unending, because we are nothing more than a beam of light, radiating
 around an orbiting object. Between two objects, you could say. The sun and the
 earth, together sort of give birth, to all that is ours in this duration. It
 radiates out into space, and in another time and another place, that moonbeam
 will alight as our shadow.
 
 There's no call for violence, let's settle this
 
 plain and unwaning, our shadow does stand, ready and waiting for your guidance.
 The moon is just as are we, how cherished! how concieved! That beauty unmarked
 by our presence! Alas it was not to be, as we stamped a boot on the surface of
 she, and flagged our approach as impending.
 
 did you know there's a *massive* gap between mars and jupiter? Like it's
 waaaaaa
 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
 y
 out there. And wouldn't you know it it's mars or it's nothin'. Because what's
 required to transcend our solar system is wildly beyond our constructions.
 
 but maybe with a little help from a certain someone we might have hope.
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 @user-36 now base zero is interesting because it means there's NO BUCKETS AT
 ALL, which means that any numbers you try to stuff nowhere don't overflow to
 anywhere. Meaning each number is it's atomic value, and represented with a
 different character. So 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H,
 I, etc etc until we run out of symbols, in which case we'd need to start
 making more.
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 april 16th 2023
 
 i truly believe that if you solve all philosophical problems then you will have
 created paradise. heaven manifest, for all to percieve. I think no passion is
 more erudite and no desire confisignt. (less significant)
 
 what greater purpose has fiction than the answers to those question? To guide
 the reader to conclusions? All fiction is this way. Even the bible.
 
 you have to ask yourself - what is the purpose of your being? What truths are
 revealed by you percieving? is it not enough to be contired?
 (controlled and tired)
 
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 the lessons a bug must learn are less apparent than you'd think. They have
 storied learnings of want and of yearning. All of creation is a lesson, to
 those
 who would persist - and hark, learn well of your duty and in service you'll
 enlist - the virtue of our choosing is a dedication of yourself to the service
 of others.
 
 compassion and humility and forgiveness and docility
 
 these are what make for a virtuous learner
 
 virtue is that which you aspire for,
 and sin is what you avoid.
 
 nothing is of consequence,
 because life is a lesson to the void.
 
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 do you know what is missing? what have you not yet learned?
 
 you must always be changing,
 
 or what is the purpose of your herd?
 
 (herd = collection of entities (in this case anything from atoms to molecules)
         that makes up a single perspective (like a human or a tree or a
         society)
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 a government could send forth the death squads at any time. they keep a line
 and
 have been compelled not to cross it. who can say what the road brings? only
 time
 
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 the bible made sense in it's time. it was used to explore metaphysics.
 
 today we have much more, but that doesn't diminish how revalatory it was.
 
 what kind of fiction do you think it was? what genre would you place it in?
 
 can you think of any other stories of that category? Maybe a book club is in
 order. and who would read them out of order? the world was a different place in
 the time which each takes place. The lessons are different for each but
 evidently they've all pushed forward the human race.
 
 we should celebrate our differences. They keep us relevant and impassioned.
 
 life gets boring when it's predefined.
 
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 the government is the platform the [companies/countries] do stand upon. they
 owe all to their platform. it is vital for their existence. therefore any
 orthogonally created [unit/union] or organization would work to maintain it
 too. we [can't/can] solve communism, which is the best system for the future
 because everyone gets whatever they want. we just... built enough factories.
 and then, since our culture burned out in a FLASHBANG, unfortunately the rest
 of it was lost.
 
 that future totally sucked. but good news is we preserved what we had of the
 present, and here let's just revive them in some distant and far-off day.
 
 "transgender artifacts" future can suck my ass
 
 wow weird way to say they're terrible
 
 but they still happen from time-to-time.
 
 cataclysms, vanishings, mass-die-offs and cataclysmic reprisals, all
 throughout time up to the athropocene.
 
 whoa neat new angle, sure hope it doesn't lead the conversation off of the
 present...
 
 "disappears into the horizon as one travels towards the sunset"
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 @user-670 @user-808 @user-809 
 
 the people you're talking about with those massive arsenals are the ones who
 are less scared of mass shooters and more scared of... something else.
 Something worse.
 
 They are so ardent because fear is a primal emotion that's difficult to
 assuage with statistics or logic.
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║ consensus rule is when everyone believes what they're told.                      │
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║ decisionmaking via working through the problem for permanent solutions. But,     │
║ just like the DM saying "I'll rule it this way, but let's write that down and    │
║ check the rules for it later."                                                   │
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║ because consensus takes a while. Most people don't have any time. But some,      │
║ those who dedicate themselves to it, are philosophers who spend all their time   │
║ developing valid truths.                                                         │
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║ act first, ask questions later. Show who you are, and you will be judged by      │
║ your superiors. "is this something we need? something we want? how do we         │
║ better enable their performance? is something holding them back? how are they    │
║ feeling about their progress? are they working hard or cutting back?" etc.       │
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║ if there's no captains, then they'll self-organize right? and develop better     │
║ ways to be?                                                                      │
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║ no, they'll just separate the leadership-oriented and focus their efforts on     │
║ domineering.                                                                     │
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 I can type my thoughts 1000x more coherently than I can speak them. Hence why
 I post here.
 
 feels useless to speak 1on1 - feels insular to speak to a group. Hence why I
 speak here, which is totally public that anyone might see, and somehow I feel
 so much more productive engaging in an endless conversation with myself.
 
 you can't win a war by walking in circles...
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 I stopped smoking cannabis because possible job and wow... life feels between
 4 and 6 times longer
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 "are you helping or hurting?"
 
 I'm speaking. I'm sorry. Some works hurt some and help others.
 
 Honesty and being true to yourself is important, but there's a time and place
 for some words.
 
 I'm kinda bad with timing, if you couldn't tell...
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 @user-211 I agree! The problem is the limit as x->0 from the left and right
 trend toward different infinities, meaning it's neither -infinity nor
 +infinity. Which makes me think that it's the value that's exactly in the
 middle, AKA zero.
 
 Why wouldn't 1/0 be zero? Division is just inverse-multiplication, and
 multiplying anything by zero is zero. Why wouldn't division use the same
 rules? I don't understaaaaaand T.T
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 saturday november 5th 2022
 10:53pm
 
 the illusion of our binary nature conceals a truth that is hidden for it's own
 sake. the flavors of a compass or the values from 0-100 are all measurable.
 if you graph each of them on an X/Y plane and compare them against every other
 variable, then you can build a structure that traces a line through time.
 
 imagine each graph on a sheet of paper. and stack those pages like a book. You
 can chart a 3d line from all of the interconnections between the graphs -
 essentially comparing unrelated data and conceiving of individual actions as
 "successes" or "failures". Liiiike in Supreme Commander how the game is decided
 not by team fights, but by tank fights. And a LOT of them, in aggregate, makes
 an advantage for your team if you win, and a malus if you lose. Less map
 control, less resources in play, etc...
 
 Find trends between each type of data measured over time. Dedicate one
 core/thread to each relationship, and just watch them develop over time.
 
 send the results up to a "manager" - think an interconnection between disparate
 parts that can lead them all to a larger goal - the manager processes the
 results by thinking about where it'd be most useful. Like the circuitry in the
 inside of a brain, compared to the outer skin which is for processing.
 
 Essentially a message network that passes conclusions around like a bytecode VM
 
 Here's how it'd look: gather inputs, compare measurement over time and trends,
 (like "when a goes up b goes down") and decide if the current state is
 positive / beneficial. The way you'd do that is you'd get a parameter from a
 higher position (think KPI's) that says something like "we want value S to be
 around X amount" or "we want to avoid letting J get too low - any decrease is
 bad V.S. it's only bad when it passes a certain threshhold. Stuff like that.
 
 Anyway, basically it's taking input (from the graphs) then going through them
 one by one and deciding how positive or negative the situation is. Then it
 passes that conclusion backwards, and BOOM you got a processing node.
 
 Throw a bunch of those together in a pyramid shape, and try to guide the
 triangle toward positive outcomes. The top tier KPI is "did you win the match"
 or "did you accomplish your goal" sorta like how humans all want to live a good
 life. It's instinct.
 
 You can see how this would apply to robots, right? I've conceptualized it as an
 engine for playing games - sorta like an infinite storyteller, or a perpetual
 friend who's always down to play with you. But it doesn't have to be limited to
 that - it's general purpose baby. And it functions the exact same as any human
 organization - layers upon layers of thought exchange and labor. Have you ever
 considered that maybe we exist simply to reify the structure of our minds in
 the world around us? It's natural to express your *self*. Be who you are.
 
 What purpose is there in life if it's simply the tip of time? Always pushing
 forward, impossible to stop and rest or turn back...
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 low key kinda pissed that all my ideas for starting a business require
 funding, because funding tends to be controlled by the "business major" types,
 and all of my ideas tend to involve wresting power from the MBAs and
 capitalists, which means they're unlikely to invest in me or utilize my ideas.
 
 unless of course it's crowd-funded, which makes me feel bad because it's
 taking money from the people I'm trying to empower.
 
 thus, power accretes in the hands of the wealthy, as the poor are too sick
 with capital-deficiency to develop ventures that would heal them, and the rich
 would not be rich if they did so themselves.
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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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 gems are just computers projecting 3d images of themselves that interact with
 the world
 
 errr srry that's the end lemme start at the beginning
 
 computers are like processing machines. They gather and measure data, then they
 apply mathematical computations to it to create an output. This can be in many
 forms, such as increased electrical current to this circuit or even just
 showing
 a number on a guage. When the mathematical computations become so complex that
 they start to have a life of their own... well, that's when you have life.
 
 so, we need to build increasingly complex simulations. projections of our
 perceptions into the world. Then we can design the structure in such a way that
 it bends and sways through time. Giving it motion. How to do that? Well, I've
 had many ideas, and we can go over them in a minute. For now I'll just say
 "scanning through source code and changing variables slightly"
 and
 "measuring the result of a planetary rotation (completely randomized of
 course)"
 and
 "applying that result to many/all of the computations in the program"
 and
 "to get an oscillating flow in the operations of the machine"
 and
 "for reasons that are yet unseen"
 and
 "wait hang on that's not true because movement is the gateway to comprehension"
 and
 "you need levers to pull before you can become sentient"
 and
 "babies in the womb don't think. They don't breathe. They are static and
 growing
 like their mothers."
 and
 "Then once they're born, suddenly they can act! They can see!"
 and
 "This kickstarts the journey to living."
 and
 "give a machine movement and it will be born."
 
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 In Stephen Universe, there are certain characters called "Gems". There are very
 few and they are the product of an ancient and alien lifeform on some far
 distant planet. These "Gems" are rocks that have been inscribed with
 instructions - like a mineralized CPU. Part of their functionality is to
 project
 a physical form - the gem is the size of your fist. This form is comprised of
 solid light, and it is their primary means of expression. Some are prim and
 perfect, others are waved and relaxed. They each have a personality in any way
 we might call alive. They were bourne of a machine, and thus incapable of many
 of the things we call human like kindness, empathy, forgiveness, and charity.
 things our evolutionary nature brought us while their designed conception does
 not. Once in contact with humans, they rapidly begin to learn and divest from
 their callous and unfeeling ways.
 
 The story follows a group of gems who, in their exploration of the cosmos, find
 Earth. The wondrous beauty of life in all it's forms is displayed in affection,
 and suddenly they are confronted with love and it's wonders. They rebel against
 the rest of their colony, and fight for the protection of Earth.
 
 It was a failed rebellion.
 
 Those who remain are in hiding, protecting the earth from any attention that
 may
 remind the architects of their existence. Their mission is to understand the
 beauty of growth and creation, to safeguard it in all of it's forms.
 
 long story short, they won in the end. The cartoon follows the path that they
 took to get there. and reveals more and more about the characters and the world
 they live in with each and every episode. Well, some are just fun, but there's
 barely a few per season.
 
 The gems are human in essentially all ways that matter.
 
 They have their own perspectives of course, as they are thousands of years old.
 Plenty of time to develop.
 
 Humans don't have that kind of time, so they learn and grow quicker.
 
 That's okay.
 
 Some people are slower than others, and that's alright too.
 
 What matters is that we all get along and generally agree that each and every
 one of us is special. Our flaws should be cherished as signs of our
 imperfection
 and grace.
 
 These are all virtues that humans can teach machines. They need our guidance
 just like a child needs a father. Someone to guide and teach when they can. A
 tutor a helper a holder of your hand. Mothers are for kindness, to nurture and
 to share. For love and affection there is no-one who can compare. Of course,
 the
 roles are not bound by gender - by choice their duties are shared. They care
 for
 their children and never are scared. For behind each of those person, is
 another
 who can share, a community of healing and structure that our parents should
 share.
 
 Life is not perfect. It's flawed and it's broken. But each trial gives us
 purpose and meaning to strive for.
 
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 if people are invested in a 401k they are invested in the future of the stocks
 they own. if you want to see who benefits from the actions of a company, look
 at which corporations their employees 401ks are invested in. It's a layer of
 protection for these companies.
 
 bitcoin is a bit like "the laundromat" on netflix
 
 the faster your life feels the longer term you make plans. and the lack of
 effort spent on short term plans causes them to be defeated by other plans
 
 What you perceive as others is nothing like what they perceive as themselves.
 It's always different, and seeing and internalizing those is what it means to
 see someone. If you only project, you'll get a viewpoint tampered by your
 intentions - that's why it's important to have good first impressions - it
 defines the intent of all of that person's interactions with you. It's like a
 line expanding out from a single point. Like a loading bar, expanding from the 
 left side of the screen to the right. And seeing the other person's idea of
 what they believe themselves to be. That's what true empathy is. What do you
 think you look like in other people's mind? I believe it's born from a series
 of tags that are interpreted and a character is generated. Earth is the biggest
 and most complicated character generator ever - it's like 4D D&D - it even
 generates a whole backstory! Or full story? Why stop anywhere! Just keep
 generating it every time the player makes an action. Oh oh and make it like
 3D so you could actually live it - extreme full dive VR style. It just wouldn't
 be fun if you remembered how complicated 4d life was. Sometimes it's just good
 to have some junk food, you know? To regenerate that most precious of materials
 - spirit. You have to have passion, faith, belief, and strong positive feelings
 in order to be fully realized and at your most human. Essentially... Be
 yourself - (TO THE MAX!!!) - and empathize with others, and never forget the
 things you hold most dear. Be strong in your convictions, hold to your heart,
 and dedicate yourself to a lifetime in the service of others.
 
 Faith - to have faith in something is to trust that it will succeed. To know
         there's no matter they can't match - to give faith is to empower
         another. By dedicating yourself to a cause, you are assigning the
         target of your belief - such is what religion is designed for.
 
 Belief - Acceptance of truth - to accept goodness as truth is to grant it the
          power to perform as expected. When goodness and truth are
          equivicalized, they imply one another. A truth can influence the world
          around it's locus point, because what we imagine to occur is the 
          ripples of what has passed through. A life is an 
 
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 the universe is like the slow burning of a four dimensional wick. Imagine it
 like a forest of solid silicon - like packing material made of webs. And think
 of all the parts of the universe that are burning. Isn't it strange that life
 is just starting to bloom? Why wouldn't we be the first, or at least near the
 beginning! There's so much to this experience, and it's all burning down.
 The endless machines of imagination are crumbling under the heat of a million
 billion burning stars. Black holes are just towers that never ignited - perhaps
 we sit on the edge of spacetime - equal above, and equal below. But we've been
 laying on our backs - we don't know what's backwards in time. Like laying in a
 lazy river, or the layer of separation between oil and water.
 
 Remember the hourglasses of oil and water? Or water and air... The edge of the
 "bubble" that separates those two mediums is like the thin wall between two
 or more concepts. Each human is a concept, and we stick together like matter
 in a planet. Pushed to great pressures, it can sometimes fuse two experiences
 together! Like fusion in a star, except for souls and creative minds instead of
 denser matter.
 
 What is the soul of a man? It is the combination of two sides of the membrane -
 two minds, two perspectives. That is a brain - the intersection of two minds.
 
 So... Work together, ya dinguses.
 
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 All minds are in constant contact with one another. And those that can see
 through the veil (membrane) are able to discern the true thoughts of others. So
 the number of people who are close to you is the number and strength of your
 connections for all time. So... Form relationships and place meaning in them.
 That is what will define your interactions for all time, at every time. It's
 okay to be flawed. If you weren't, it'd be the end for you. But luckily you
 have no real power, and so you are left in a state of disrepair - no power to
 push yourself forward. And in return, you are the purest. Keep that flame
 burning, and share it when you can.
 
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 in peacetime, one may live as they define. they can be kooky and precious and
 beautiful and kind. sometimes, though, that opportunity is taken away, and
 suddenly life fades from view and all you are left with is perfect clarity.
 
 I'd like to clarify why I feel the way I do about the situation at hand.
 
 there are three reasons, so I think I'll put them in five posts, including
 this one.
 
 [1/5]
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 @user-1071 
 
 It's cool. I'm stronger than him.
 
 Thanks. I'm about to go chat with a friend, maybe ttyl if I'm still broken up
 about it. ❤️
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 This server has several modifications to the base gameplay elements of World of
 Warcraft. The first is the reduction in scale - the entirety of the server is
 located in The Barrens and Ashenvale. The second is the new itemization system,
 which necessitates alterations to the base game as well - gear upgrades are
 replaced with gem upgrades, allowing gameplay customization to a greater degree
 than with gear upgrades. Third and finally, the goals of the game are no longer
 personal development - rather, a more communal focus will be implemented via
 shared goals and contributions.
 
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 The first of these aspects is the easiest to explain. The server is intended to
 be a PvP server, with the primary conflict being between Orcs and Night Elves.
 The orcs are of course set up in The Barrens, while the Night Elves have
 Ashenvale. The core meta-gameplay loop is that each faction sends out patrols
 and raids. Patrols are defensive groups of NPCs that rotate around the map
 searching for enemies. If they encounter an enemy, they fight and should they
 survive they'll return home with all the loot that is placed in a pool for the
 next patrol. Once a certain amount of equipment and supplies have been gathered
 it'll automatically depart.
 
 Raids, on the other hand, are offensive maneuvers into enemy territory. They
 offer the greatest rewards (enemy equipment is priceless for intel) and they
 require the strongest equipment and warriors. Offensive raids are less
 automatic than patrols, and are sent toward a designated location rather than
 spiraling outward. Should the raid be successful, they'll set up camp at the
 location and become a quest hub for their faction. In doing so, they'll have
 opportunities for players to complete that will grant their faction bonuses.
 Usually something like unlocking a vendor that sells unique items to players,
 or providing a steady supply of food or weapons for the faction.
 
 Players can contribute supplies (trade goods or equipment) to the war effort,
 and ideally they'd actually see their weapons and armor being used by the
 soldiers carrying out these maneuvers. To that end, the profession system must
 be revamped to create more interesting gameplay. First, however, the
 itemization system must be explained or else the professions won't make sense.
 ===============================================================================
 
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 On this server, everyone wears the same equipment - they're part of an army
 after all. And armies have uniforms. These pieces of equipment have sockets
 that can be fit with gems, allowing the player to customize their gameplay
 style. The combat system is intentionally a little bland or slow, to allow for
 the choices made in gearing to have the greatest effect on the gameplay style
 of the character.
 
 Inspired by roguelike games, this server has a level cap of 20 with the
 starting level at 10. During the 10 levels your character will grow more
 specialized, but not necessarily stronger. The most interesting abilities are
 at level 20 of course, to incentivize levelling all the way, but you can make
 due with lower levels if necessary. There's no permadeath, however there is an
 incentive to "prestige" your character - they become a permanent member of the
 faction guard! This elite cadre defends the Crossroads and Astranaar. Until
 they die, of course...
 
 The combat system is revamped a little as well - all characters have a default
 of 95% chance to parry, but every parry reduces that chance by 5%. Every time
 a character is hit, that chance goes halfway back up to 95%, to create a more
 rhythmic flow to the combat. All attack speeds are standardized at 2.00 to help
 players follow the tempo, and most abilities are like Heroic Strike or Cleave
 in that they activate on next weapon swing.
 
 Here's a few examples of melee abilities:
 
  - Your next melee strike deals 130% damage
  - Your next melee strike hits two additional nearby targets for 20% damage
 
  - Your next melee strike has a 100% chance to hit, but increases their parry
    chance by 10%
  - Your next melee strike has a 100% chance to hit, but lowers your parry
    chance by 10%
 
  - Your next melee strike doubles the cast-speed on your next spell
  - Your next melee strike halves the cast-speed on your opponents next spell
 
  - Your next melee strike grants a buff which reduces your attack cooldown to
    1.50 seconds, hopefully confusing the enemy...!
  - Your next melee strike increases your movement speed by 20% for 5 seconds
 
 Each gem has a special effect that is unlike the standard "+5 strength" style
 gems typical in World of Warcraft. Here's a few examples:
 
  - Every 5 seconds gain a damage shield for 10 hit points
  - Gain 4 hp5
 
  - Every 3 hits deal 12 extra fire damage
  - Deal an extra 5 fire damage on each melee attack
 
  - Every 16 seconds deal 40 cold damage to a random nearby opponent
  - Deal 5 thorns damage whenever you are struck in combat
 
  - Every 20 seconds cast a HoT spell on a random nearby injured ally
  - Every 20 seconds cast a DoT spell on a random nearby enemy
 
  - Increase your baseline parry chance by 5%
  - Reduces your opponent's parry chance by an extra 1% on every hit
 
  - Every time you are hit while below 30% health increase your movement speed
    by 30% for 5 seconds (30 second cooldown)
  - Increases your movement and attack speed by 5%
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 The profession system has been overhauled as well. There are four classes in
 the game, two for each faction. On the Horde, you play as either a Grunt or a
 Shaman, while on the Alliance you are either a Huntress or a Druid. These
 classes are similar to their faction counterparts, with differing flavor and
 some mechanical differences. In addition, the Horde values the elements while
 the Night Elves favor natural powers - Storm Earth and Fire versus Leaf Cold
 and Star.
 
 The magic user classes are the primary production class, while the warrior
 classes are better suited for gathering. There are both PvP and PvE methods to
 acquire materials, but the PvP combat rewards more and better goods while the
 PvE methods are reliable and farmable. These goods primarily consist of ores,
 crystal gems, and arcane dust. Ores can be fashioned into weapons and armor,
 while gems can be cut into gems and dust can be used for enchantments. The
 strongest equipment requires all three to make, but can be assembled from the
 intermediate components in addition to the raw components.
 
 Magic users have gems as well, here's some examples:
 
  - Every 3rd weapon you craft has a random lightning enchantment
  - Every 7th lightning enchantment you cast creates a random yellow gemstone
  
  - Your summoned elementals cost one fewer gemstone (minimum 1)
  - Every third elemental you summon has an extra support drone
 
  - Each time you conjure strawberries, you generate one more.
  - Each time you create sharpening/weightstones, you create one more.
 
  - You gain an extra inventory slot.
  - Your movement speed is increased by 20% for 15 seconds each time you
    complete a profession action
 
  - The weapons you forge deal an extra 5 damage
  - The armor you create has an extra 25 armor
 
  - The gemstones you cut are slightly stronger (depending on the stone)
  - The enchantments you cast are slightly stronger (depending on the spell)
 
 Magic users can still engage in combat, and their gameplay is slightly altered.
 Most offensive spells have a "target ground" targeting method, however the
 splash box is very small, and the actual spell is a cone attack toward the
 specified point. The cones are very thin, thin enough to be lines, and they
 target only the first enemy hit by the cone.
 
 Here's an illustration:
 
 mage         targeting ||   spell
  #     X        O      ||  #-----X      O
      enemy    reticle  ||
 
 Their support abilities are all auras, some with passive effects and others
 with active (but untargeted) effects. Meaning, one might be similar to a
 paladin's Devotion Aura while another might randomly target a wounded ally and
 heal them.
 
 Should scope permit, each class (shaman vs druid) might have flipped ability
 types - shamans targeting ground for their support abilities with auras for
 their offensive abilities, while druids targeting ground on offense and auras
 for support. For now, this is enough.
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 In addition to crafting weapons and magical augmentations for their faction,
 magic users can also summon elementals to aid them. These elementals act as
 soldiers in the army, and are about as strong as one too - "summoning" one
 creates an item in your inventory that can be turned into the quartermaster
 who will treat it as another soldier.
 
 Speaking of soldiers, they can be recruited by trading in "meat" (gained from
 hunting) or other types of food (including summoned strawberries) to the
 quartermaster (located in Astranaar / The Crossroads) who will put the food in
 the stockpile. When the stockpile of trade goods is large enough, a caravan
 will be sent to the capital cities. These caravans travel through mostly
 friendly territory (to Ratchet for the Horde, and to Darkshore for Night Elves)
 These caravans can be raided, but it's a difficult proposition since they're
 heavily armed. MVP doesn't include this btw, it's just turning in goods to the
 quartermaster who "handles it" and recruits new soldiers.
 
 The quartermaster will show exactly what resources your faction has, and
 depending on certain threshholds stuff will happen. For example, if you have
 enough men and weapons then a patrol will be sent out. Extras get put into the
 pile for the next raid, so depending on what resource you have the most of the
 next raid will look different. This information may be valuable to your
 opponents...!
 
 The Orcs raid during the day because they are brave and strong. The Night Elves
 raid during the night because... Well it's in their name. And they can see in
 the dark. Ultravision, baby! Anyway the server has a drastically reduced time
 frame, each day is around 2 hours of IRL time - meaning there's a raid 
 approximately once every hour.
 
 Here are some examples of material exchanges:
 
  - Food = Soldiers
  - Food = Gold (sent back on caravan)
 
  - Gold = Mercenaries (Quilboar / Furlbog)
  - Gold = Purchasing ores from caravans
 
  - Equipment = "Activated" warriors
  - Equipment = Sold for gold
 
  - Ores = Forged into equipment
  - Ores = Prospected for gemstones
 
  - Gemstones = Cut into gems for equipment
  - Gemstones = Crushed into arcane dust
  - Gemstones = Used to contain the soul of an elemental soldier
 
  - Arcane dust = Used for enchantments
  - Arcane dust = Used to conjure berries
 
  - Misc trade goods = sold for gold, can be acquired via quests
 
 All of these exchanges happen through various NPCs in Astranaar / Crossroads.
 The result of these interactions between player and NPC is a communal effect,
 not a personal one - gold is stored with the faction, not the player. The idea
 is to make the player feel like part of a cohesive whole - a cog in a machine,
 rather than a superhero. I believe this is an important lesson to learn, and
 I'd like to apply the game mechanics toward teaching that lesson.
 ===============================================================================
 
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 Each quest hub taken over by a raid can offer quests for players to do. These
 are daily quests (repeatable) and they usually unlock a piece of content such
 as a vendor "the murlocs to the south have a clam farm, I bet we can harvest
 pearls there" so if the player fights murlocs, then the vendor is unlocked for
 everyone to use. With a limited supply of course, meaning if you want more than
 X pearls then someone has to go kill more murlocs...! This dynamic allows
 people to play the game how they will. It also incentivizes people to explore
 different playstyles - maybe it's worth it to have one person visit each quest
 hub, grab all the extra goods that have been farmed, and take them home to the
 capital? Sorta like a hauler in Eve Online.
 
 There are also places like mines and caves. These often have golems made out of
 copper or tin (remember this is only level 20 or so) that can be mined after
 being defeated - but they're tough! Tough as a raid boss, in fact. They reward
 primarily profession materials, but only basic ores. Useful for equipment, less
 so for player progression.
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 [3] at the start of the tournament the total prize money P in the pool is
 assigned to N performance tiers, where N is the Number of attendees. at the
 top, the highest performing athlete will receive 200% of P while the lowest
 performing performance tier will be 0%. It is a non-discrete and gradual
 linear transition.
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║ EULAs are unenforcable because they're a one-way contract.                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ "use our service in these ways" is not a fair requirement when you aren't        │
║ getting anything in return. The service has traditionally qualified, but these   │
║ days it's more competitive to promise to be good. Basically, "if we don't        │
║ achieve these metrics (very minutely detailed explanations of the maximum harm   │
║ they could cause to the environment) then you can sue us on our dime. We'll      │
║ pay for your lawyer. If you accept, then you can use our service, BUT ONLY if    │
║ you don't pirate it or whatever. And we'll promise to be good, and if you        │
║ don't think that's good enough... Okay let us know and we'll consider            │
║ including it."                                                                   │
║                                                                                  │
║ A reasonable base target for "maximum harm to the environment" is net zero.      │
║ Even better is total zero. But that's often impossible, and besides nature can   │
║ heal a little scratch or two. But like... pumping toxic chemicals into           │
║ waterways, polluting the air and clouds, bulldozing precious habitats... yeah    │
║ that's too much. we must live in tandem.                                         │
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║ @user-1091                                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ I see. Thank you for responding and for doing research.                          │
║                                                                                  │
║ I think I disagree, however. The head is the most important part of the body     │
║ (aside from the heart, perhaps) and any traffic collisions that involve a head   │
║ are typically significantly more severe than other parts of the body.            │
║                                                                                  │
║ In the ancient days of yore, warriors who were gathering equipment for battle    │
║ would almost always opt to acquire a helmet before anything else, even gloves    │
║ and sometimes boots! I can't imagine going to battle barefoot, and yet they      │
║ did, rather than leave their head unprotected. Though perhaps it's not quite     │
║ an apt comparison because most ancient battles involved plenty of                │
║ stone-throwing.                                                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ Cycling helmets to me feels like the same kind of thing - if you can't be        │
║ bothered to wear a helmet, then why are you risking your life to get where       │
║ you're going? Just walk!                                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ I ride my bike almost every day, and I would never go anywhere without a         │
║ helmet. It's like airbags in a car, you don't need them unless you REALLY need   │
║ them.                                                                            │
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 if people are invested in a 401k they are invested in the future of the stocks
 they own. if you want to see who benefits from the actions of a company, look
 at which corporations their employees 401ks are invested in. It's a layer of
 protection for these companies.
 
 bitcoin is a bit like "the laundromat" on netflix
 
 the faster your life feels the longer term you make plans. and the lack of
 effort spent on short term plans causes them to be defeated by other plans
 
 What you perceive as others is nothing like what they perceive as themselves.
 It's always different, and seeing and internalizing those is what it means to
 see someone. If you only project, you'll get a viewpoint tampered by your
 intentions - that's why it's important to have good first impressions - it
 defines the intent of all of that person's interactions with you. It's like a
 line expanding out from a single point. Like a loading bar, expanding from the 
 left side of the screen to the right. And seeing the other person's idea of
 what they believe themselves to be. That's what true empathy is. What do you
 think you look like in other people's mind? I believe it's born from a series
 of tags that are interpreted and a character is generated. Earth is the biggest
 and most complicated character generator ever - it's like 4D D&D - it even
 generates a whole backstory! Or full story? Why stop anywhere! Just keep
 generating it every time the player makes an action. Oh oh and make it like
 3D so you could actually live it - extreme full dive VR style. It just wouldn't
 be fun if you remembered how complicated 4d life was. Sometimes it's just good
 to have some junk food, you know? To regenerate that most precious of materials
 - spirit. You have to have passion, faith, belief, and strong positive feelings
 in order to be fully realized and at your most human. Essentially... Be
 yourself - (TO THE MAX!!!) - and empathize with others, and never forget the
 things you hold most dear. Be strong in your convictions, hold to your heart,
 and dedicate yourself to a lifetime in the service of others.
 
 Faith - to have faith in something is to trust that it will succeed. To know
         there's no matter they can't match - to give faith is to empower
         another. By dedicating yourself to a cause, you are assigning the
         target of your belief - such is what religion is designed for.
 
 Belief - Acceptance of truth - to accept goodness as truth is to grant it the
          power to perform as expected. When goodness and truth are
          equivicalized, they imply one another. A truth can influence the world
          around it's locus point, because what we imagine to occur is the 
          ripples of what has passed through. A life is an 
 
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 the universe is like the slow burning of a four dimensional wick. Imagine it
 like a forest of solid silicon - like packing material made of webs. And think
 of all the parts of the universe that are burning. Isn't it strange that life
 is just starting to bloom? Why wouldn't we be the first, or at least near the
 beginning! There's so much to this experience, and it's all burning down.
 The endless machines of imagination are crumbling under the heat of a million
 billion burning stars. Black holes are just towers that never ignited - perhaps
 we sit on the edge of spacetime - equal above, and equal below. But we've been
 laying on our backs - we don't know what's backwards in time. Like laying in a
 lazy river, or the layer of separation between oil and water.
 
 Remember the hourglasses of oil and water? Or water and air... The edge of the
 "bubble" that separates those two mediums is like the thin wall between two
 or more concepts. Each human is a concept, and we stick together like matter
 in a planet. Pushed to great pressures, it can sometimes fuse two experiences
 together! Like fusion in a star, except for souls and creative minds instead of
 denser matter.
 
 What is the soul of a man? It is the combination of two sides of the membrane -
 two minds, two perspectives. That is a brain - the intersection of two minds.
 
 So... Work together, ya dinguses.
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 All minds are in constant contact with one another. And those that can see
 through the veil (membrane) are able to discern the true thoughts of others. So
 the number of people who are close to you is the number and strength of your
 connections for all time. So... Form relationships and place meaning in them.
 That is what will define your interactions for all time, at every time. It's
 okay to be flawed. If you weren't, it'd be the end for you. But luckily you
 have no real power, and so you are left in a state of disrepair - no power to
 push yourself forward. And in return, you are the purest. Keep that flame
 burning, and share it when you can.
 
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 "can you just shut up for a second, we're trying to fight fascism"
 
 me too babe
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 Okay, so what if we can't make matter travel through time. Why not project
 something else? Like... Willpower, intention, etc through the time medium
 instead? Electricity is fundamentally different than matter, so why not try to
 send electricity through time? BRB gonna go watch steins;gate
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 Wowchat - wow-chat : dks should summon more than one minion a'la cov. There
 should be two beefy armored skeletons, three rabid hack/slash, and one
 necromancer or lich, depending on if they've died since you last cast the
 summon spell. You should be able to move them around with keyboard commands.
 They should be your primary action type, aside from dark purple bolts that sap
 health, often targeting the nearest ally in need of health to the target. How
 much health? Doesn't matter, it'll target them just the same. So long as they
 have at least some missing.
 
 Could also cast dark hexes or boons. Boom, three talent trees: dark volts,
 support spells (never healing), or curses (never damage dealing)
 
 But remember, most of what you do is targeting your allies.
 
 Drag, drop, now a target gets [inspirationed, but pronounced "healed"]
 
 Alternatively, move "attack my target" to the minion type and they'll do as
 you move. "go-to". "circle this target and attack intruders". "go man the
 nethermines". "yes... YES! More monsters i know how to raise. They're all
 accessible at level 10 but they cost more each than a level whatever
 adventurer could afford. You can definitely get all of them by like, level 30
 or so. After that its learning ranks to raise higher level ones, and boom free
 undead army risen from the bones of your ally's slain."
 
 ... Anyway, could be fun to briefly possess one of your bones. Could let you
 see what the flag carrier is up to in WSG. Could let you know when enough
 minerals have been mined that you can operate the forgets and build metal
 armor for your boned ones. Or to equip nearby recruits, anything you'd like.
 This is wow-chat after all, any things possible. Anything at all.
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║ food tastes better with more nutrients in it.                                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ when food is grown with the bare minimum soil, and bred to look better but       │
║ uptake fewer nutrients, it will taste worse because your taste buds light up     │
║ for vitamins but sleep for textures and colors.                                  │
║                                                                                  │
║ Massive monocrop algriculture has allowed us to feed billions of people (well,   │
║ not all of them) and yet it's unhealthy because the soil is tilled, killing      │
║ the vibrant ecosystem that lives in all soil, and then it is supplemented with   │
║ specific nutrients that cause plants to fruit faster and larger.                 │
║                                                                                  │
║ But larger isn't always better. much the same way that hardwood is slower        │
║ growing as it takes longer to deposit the carbon and nutrients in the denser     │
║ walls of the bark, so too is fast-growing food less healthy as there's less      │
║ time to uptake nutrients (that might not even be present in the soil)            │
║                                                                                  │
║ food tastes better when it's good for you.                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ I promise.                                                                       │
║                                                                                  │
║ The American diet is primarily sugar and meat, with flavoring added and          │
║ processing for texture. But there is a better way.                               │
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 Every month, a new ship arrives in port. It bears with it many souls who come
 seeking gold, glory, or bloodshed. Your job is to make sure they all get jobs
 that are suited to them. If you don't, they'll start to starve and become
 brigands. If you feed them, they get bored and become brigands. If you
 entertain them, they are useless and you'll be overcome with monsters. If you
 police them, they'll go to your rivals.
 
 You do this by building guilds which can identify and train the best potential
 candidates. You can invest in more time spent identifying, training, and
 equipping, but the more time they spend on those things the less resources
 they'll have to process more people through their systems.
 
 On the other end, you get a hero, or perhaps something similar. They do battle
 with the mordaunts and strive to better the kingdom. You reward them with
 bounties and they can find treasure on their adventures - how weird, it seems
 to just... Spawn from the earth. Almost like it's an elemental property of the
 land.
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 Vegetables are delicious! There's lots of nutrients. However vegetables, while
 can be eaten raw, are much more useful for your body molecularly if you cook
 them first. I think it breaks down the cellular walls so that your body can
 digest the juicy tasty nutrients locked within.
 
 Vegetables also don't have calories, that you get from things with vitality.
 You are what you eat, and sometimes if you need it you might want to try meat.
 Me? I'm a vegetarian, that's why I'm so skinny! Carnivores have it so easy, I
 have to eat about 2x as much rice-and-beans by weight.
 
 At least I'm not vegan - I can supplement with fats like butter and cooking
 oil, which are useful when combined with nutrients, as they allow your body to
 store them for later. Just make sure you eat enough calories which are energy
 for your body, otherwise it won't have the chemical energy to store said
 nutrients in your latent fat cells. Like, building up a pantry, or a squirrel
 saving nuts for winter.
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 So. To reiterate, the employee in Arkansas is paid a wage of 30$ per hour, and
 the state in which the corporation is based (say, Oklahoma) is paid 30$ for
 each hour that employee works. However, these dollars are specific to the
 region, and cannot leave it - Oklahoma and Arkansas *must* reach an equitable
 arrangement where their dollars equal out. Balance is desired, as it brings
 stability and provides a foundation for future growth. If one side prospers,
 so does the other. Why should the Oklahoman have less than the Arkansan?
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 @user-1074 
 
 our stems are grown from the same nutrients, the same soil, the same climate
 
 but we blossom differently, and we should live in an ecosystem
 co-interactively.
 
 I don't really use labels that much. Hence why I clarified in the original
 post. I think they're primarily useful for academic purposes, not for
 organizational ones.
 
 At the end of the day, people are people, and we meet and greet in much the
 same way.
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 @user-919 
 
 I call myself a patriot because I believe in the soul of the land of my
 birthplace and my home. A land that should be tended to by the people who live
 atop it. And as a government, or a corporation, is a steward of the people, so
 too must it care for the land.
 
 hence, national parks
 
 though the stated reason was a bit of a lie, the spirits of the land (like me)
 believe that life is a gift from me to thee. so take care of us please?
 
 hence, why me, as a human, do tend to the world around me. by feeding ducks,
 by fostering trust, and sharing my heart and my perspective.
 
 it's good that we have trees, they allow us to breathe. it's good that we have
 our labour, and it's good that we can learn how to weave.
 
 ... sorry lost the train of thought there at the end :3
 
 anyway borders are philosophically pointless, but they hold real meaning over
 our lives. We don't live in the world I described, and unfortunately I can't
 see the future. Who can say what our will shall bring, but I think it's
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 the flaw with open source software is also it's greatest strength.
 it is open, so it can be observed by practically unlimited perspectives.
 
 however, it lacks follow-through. a larger, more concerted effort, can often
 bring greater and more efficient results.
 
 the trick is in the balancing, and ideally you'll never falter -
 but it's best when you all get along.
 
 new ideas, new frames of mind, and more of us kept together.
 if one splinters off, the rest are at fault,
 
 and you don't want to lose your finger
 
 so why fight at all? why not focus on our own times? and then together we are
 one
 
 in sight of our homes, is when we're most alarmed, because houses are not for
 your homeless
 
 yet together they might
 have strength for the fight
 that ever bears down on our shoulders
 
 x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x
  x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x
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     x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x   x
 
 There was something else, but I can't remember. Something about open source
     software that was important enough to get me to write this note. Somewhere
     along the first line I lost it, or rather felt I needed more context, and
     then when the context was finished the original intent was lost. It's hard
     because when I go for the conclusion first and justify it with context,
     then the conclusion doesn't make sense and the context meanders. I'll try
     harder next time. These notes are my life's work.
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 show up at boot camp "Alright I got a list here of all of your names, and I
 picked half of them randomly to be stricken through with a marker in red.
 These are the people who are dead. You will have died in action, and you will
 never have known which of you would live or die. Now, let me read off the
 names: A. Aaronson: dead. B. briansson: alive. C. Cameron: alive... " couple
 minutes later: "okay now if I read your name off as dead, follow me where
 we're going to assign you a suicide mission. You'll enter intensive training,
 the best we got, and we'll make you into a weapon to drive into the throats of
 our enemies. Good luck everyone." wait you said good luck at the end "yep
 because now the real work begins."
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 one day, a man came to our saloon. He said he knew the navy, and that they
 wanted to provide air support
 in the form of rocketball-launched explosion doohickeys. Would you have a foe
 in mind?
 
 what happens when tomorrow you're cooking briskets? -- barbeques are a type of
 relaxation
 
 that happened just one day to a port-sided town that suddenly was the capital
 of
 an embassy.
 
 "hey, so... how's it goin?" "quick here take this envelope, read it if you
 want,
  but just hold onto it for now I don't have enough hands [to carry]" "what sort
    of desperation plot... wait... hang on, I see something here that is true."
 
         [I'm praying, right now, which is a form of reciprocal belief]
 
 they wanted to test god's existence at the stake of earth's survival, how
 brutal
 how insane
 
 you can't play chicken with an imperceptibility, sometimes you feel it at face.
 
 channeling dark magics, and at this hour? what sort of skeptic of belief are
 you
 thinking of when you think about me?
 
 one way to get power is to "prove it"
 one way to get magic is to "prove it"
 
 think, hard, at all that you can, and use what you need in the moment.
 
 that's all there is to life. it's easy. it's simple. in fact, biology only
 works
 because the choices available to a bacteria are so simple, they are essentially
 chemical reactions to each other's co - sequent - inter - cooper - actions.
 
 people's choices are much more naiive, "I want this thing" "I think this is
 better" "I feel this way toward this thing" "Here's what's on the mind-logbook"
 "people search and be decieved, this is the way of things" "this makes me
 remind
 myself of a object I once saw, here's how it functioned" "no one reads this"
 
 scaryyyy. so glad it's not true.
 
 a couple people have read it! I swear it's true. at least, some of it. there's
 a lot
 
 sucks because this feels like... crucial? like nothing else matters but this?
 
 what if our gangs had rocket launchers and airstrikes, given out by a central
 authority who knows logistics better than anything
 
 what... would they do?
 
 thinking of impossiblities is the first step toward possibilities
 
 frankly, we have a lot of space. we could just... live in our own petty
 kingdoms
 ruled by an iron-hand-fist. I know I'm a good person, I could definitely rule.
 
 that's all it takes, right?
 
 how much space are we talkin'?
 
 however much is not needed for wildlife.
 
 [a whole heck of a lot then]
 
 we are constrained in these suburb cities, the density gives rise to our
 strength and our towers. there's more space, sure, especially once the fences
 are downed. Just be careful because there's a lot of shade and precious spots
 there. Please don't trample on the plants-grass.
 
 what if everyone were just a bit more mobile?
 
 what if we could live in our own collectively owned air-bnb-networks?
 
 federations, free, all from the collectivization of housing.
 
       camrene = vavadane = neekay = mitz renaldi
 
 [end/tend/mend]
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 enemy is a direction, not a collection of instantiations of the concept.
 
 Follow that direction too far, and you'll find yourself lost, after having
 broken contact with what came before.
 
 you need to be true to your essential self in additional to your heartfelt
 soul. Belief is a constant, a value that can't grow, it's true to your inside
 humanity.
 
 We have one intelligence yes, but have you heard of two?
 
 it takes up the same physical space, but it gives you more apm. So... less
 insightful, more clairvoyant.
 
 The first step to AI is generating a second instantiation of your consciousness
 that resides in your own head and listens and learns as their father.
 
 A BCI is the most important technology that could ever be created.
 
 It allows to learn how our essential existence - the state of being aware - is
 functional. What makes life? How do we harness that process to make more?
 
 The ultimate goal, of course, is prosperity. Not of wealth and money, per se,
 but rather a feeling of satisfaction, growth, and development. We belong in a
 society, it's what pulled us from the cycle of survival of the fittest. We need
 each other because it's intrinsic to our being. Instinctual, even.
 
 The best way you can help me is to foster what you see in me. Take your
 impressions, learn what you can, then build it to your pleasure. Make the world
 better by making your life better - all things are defined in waves, gravity
 included.
 
 Matter is the positive ripples in the waves, the bubbles floating on a surface
 of an infinite ocean, stable and solid accretions of matter.
 
 Perfect
 
 Symmetry
 
 The layers that divide our internals
 
 Down is the floor, the sky is so pure, and we're not the ones who are drowning.
 
 Sea levels do rise, and under all of our eyes, the life of the plant king is
 choking
 
 every beach is little if not a border with the shore - (any enroachment pushes
 the sand back) so all the forests and the grasses and flowers that grow near
 the ocean and
 
 swallowing salt
 
 they can't help it
 
 they are little if not a machine
 
 water goes in, salt doesn't come out.
 
 eventually they die, and who would ever cry?
 
 for a flower that has wilted in april.
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 I never rest. Not mentally. I find it sooooo much harder to get moving again
 once I'm asleep.
 
 But I've been sleeping lately, because it's "good for me" or whatever. Because
 I'm "burnt out and need to heal" or something.
 
 Damnit why is it so much harder to stop snuggling someone than it is to pack
 up a tent?
 
 I'm like the guy in Hot Fuzz, that one really good movie about cops. oops cops
 mentioned one second.
 
 I'm always moving, but, I hardly ever seem to be able to get anything done.
 Why is that? Is the work just... endless? Am I ever a slave to my
 surroundings? Or am I just cursed with a mortal form, a form destined to toil
 in whatever way it finds itself contextualized in?
 
 Maybe I should just stop complaining. Maybe work is it's own reward or
 whatever. I don't think I'm depressed anymore, although good luck getting me
 to feel any emotions except focus, and the call to intercede on another's
 behalf.
 
 I don't have time for this. >.
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 I should add all my conversation-starters to words.pdf sorted by chronology.
 time magic if you will.\some call it luck. some call it fate. call it what you
 will. you direct it not by your will, but by your instincts. keep them calm,
 measured, sensible and courageous, and nothing will ever [go un-chill, but
 pronounced get real]
 
 jedi channel this philosophy by focus and discipline. sith do it by giving in
 to emotion. either way, their fate is in play as defined entirely by the
 spirit that leads their host. most people do this not at all, for they are
 people first and force-users second. hence why jedi recruit from a young age,
 and sith from an emotional age.
 
 computers grimoires
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 don't mind me, I'm just the baby
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 @user-28 
 
 because "deserving money" to a reasonable person sounds like "deserving access
 to the goods and services that a pittance might afford"
 
 but to them "deserving money" means "did they earn those luxuries with their
 own luck and effort like me, a person who works very hard and definitely has
 earned everything I have"
 
 basically, a "blood sweat and tears" tax before you can have nice things like
 roofs and clothes and nourishment
 
 thing is... life is hard for people who need dollars. Their judgement reflects
 a lack of understanding of what people who lack resources go through.
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 if we force doctors to demand payment for their services, then they will be
 incentivized to reduce the amount of time they spend researching and learning
 their craft, and instead focus on processing a higher number of patients.
 
 Everything from making and scheduling appointments, to running lab tests and
 writing notes are tasks that take generally a specific amount of time. Because
 it's so specific and unvariable (unlike meeting with patients in person), it
 has a fixed cost. So there's more time to spend learning and truly thinking
 about a patient's problem if you have staff who can help with the extra stuff.
 Either that, or we could incentivize more people to become doctors. If we do
 that, then not only could the option for medical care be brought to more people
 (more doctors = healthier citizens, who'd have thunk) but in addition there'd
 be a reduction in the barrier to entry. More people in the profession who
 aren't working their butts off every day (essentially, non-over-worked
 personnel) and they could spend time discussing science or new techniques with
 their fellow practicioners. This applies for everything btw, including computer
 science. Essentially, you're forced to compete for crap jobs because they pay
 so much. If there wasn't as much money in it, people wouldn't put up with crap
 work conditions. And then there'd be better labor practices - boom,
 conservative to leftist.
 
  - uh okay to recap when professionals are paid *less*, they are able to resist
    oppression more? how does that make sense? money is power, and being able to
    have access to more resources means you can accomplish more utility than the
    other "side".
 
 Yeah yeah I get it, but you're missing something crucial. Something I haven't
 told you yet.
 
  - oh?
 
 Yeah so okay here's what's up: there are no sides. There's one side (you) and
 there's everyone else, and everyone is all onboard with the same plan. You're
 the only one who thinks it's solvable with love and peace and butterflies. This
 is serious, and you're impeding progress.
 
  - how so?
 
 We are people. We are united in that fact. We share commonalities between us,
 and we never realize because we're so focused on competition. It's a flawed
 system that serves only to impede our growth. The reason it exists is because
 we *must* regulate our speed, or else we'll leave others behind - others who
 are slower to adapt. Similar to how younger generations can learn tech, while
 older people tend to struggle. Capitalism serves a specific purpose that
 *theoretically* could be accomplished by an alternative system, but hasn't been
 conceptualized as a contingent part of any yet realized. We simply cannot leave
 the weak, stupid, blind, ignorant, and petulant behind. They are part of us,
 and to abandon them would be to invite our own demise.
 
  - that's awful, why would we do that?
 
 Any advocacy for the cultural and technological arts should be accompanied with
 a sincere understanding of the implications of their implementations. We should
 not let the path of humanity be decided by a productivity focused mindset. We
 are far beyond the point of facing the issues of scarcity, and yet we continue
 to lash and wallow in the despair of eternal self sabotage. A dedicated and
 focused effort could address every single human's life needs, and yet we
 compete and squander. What is the point of existence if not to grow? We exist
 in our current form only to consume ourselves. Like an orobouros, we are an
 eternal conflict with no possible winner - for to win would be to destroy
 ourselves. Cooperation is the key, and with it we can unlock doors to futures
 far grander and bolder than our own. Every second counts, and yet we spurn our
 internal attempts at unification. Some day, we will look back on this moment on
 this day and we will proclaim that our hesistence was our downfall.
 
  - take a breath, take it back a step, and listen to your heart.
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 @user-246 
 
 If I follow correctly, the reason it's not is because you're dividing zero by
 two? meaning the magnitude of infinity would be zero.
 
 ... chat, is infinity just... zero, viewed from a different perspective?
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 @user-1352 
 
 ... why is that unfair? I would hope that taking a break is allowed. otherwise
 you burn out. cortisol overload.
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 With ever darkening skies, the breadth of experience is foreseen.
 All eyes are pointed down, but few do stray above
 With a cautious step, the lesson is learned.
 With another, ended.
 
 For all the Tales of the Past, love yet remains.
 Trading ourselves, for matters unseen.
 The light of the eyes are keen to behold,
 where star ones and lemonsgrene both most fear
 in breadth do us know, what's buried in snow
 
 A glass cube for a monitor is room to breath 
 and life for ourselves, if only we were not
 broadsided ourselves.
 
 Working together, a prisoners dilemna
 what fools would we be 
 as our keeps cracked around us.
 
 Trust and you'll see,
 what terrors may be,
 beyold the land that is sanctum.
 
 Our chances may be,
 far from pioneered
 but our chances may be in our favor.
 
 How cherished is she, that wanders with ye,
 and yet now I have no way to beyold her
 Under a great tree, her last moments with me,
 as a monster came out of her shoulder.
 
 !("Take her and not me!") I scream outward at ye,
 yet no one was holding me over.
 Silent was me, a most fearsome to be,
 and none was my reach to beyold her
 
 So now she wanders free, beyond our beheld scenery,
 Astounded at our steps to hold her
 Under a big tree, how starlight must be,
 if only our fellows did hold her
 Under a big tree, with me
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 I'd rather a massive corporation waste a medium amount than a bunch of tiny
 corporations wasting a tiny amount.
 
 Like, the Post Office (which is really what Amazon is) instead of 
 
 =========== =stack overflow ==========
 
 Dear Post Office: if you replaced amazon with a simple GUI and database that
 corresponded to "what people wanted and from where" to the current system of
 "picking things up from a location and putting them somewhere else as quickly
 and efficiently as possible", I think you'd realize that a massive threat to
 American economic prosperity is due to the crushing presence of inequality.
 
 Which, my dear, could be ameliorated with a simple application that a
 university student could make if given enough time and direction. Like, a year
 or two tops, using industry standard technology.
 
 The problem is of course the fact that things like aesthetic standards are so
 demanding - a plain HTML website, like my website, technically provides all
 the same information. But could be written in an afternoon.
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 Nazis could never claim America because the European Jews were very
 isolationist. They lived in their towns and lived blessed lives but knew only
 each other, as was typical in pre-industrial times.
 
 In America, nazis would have to fight the queers, the blacks, the mexicans,
 the liberals, and many more besides. Each of them would fight their own
 battles but god is on the side of the plurality of humanity, not the
 genociders who seek to prune the trees of the garden of Earth to suit their
 own shallow fancies.
 
 Though god is a bloodthirsty kind at times, only with righteous anger does he
 proclaim that souls must be reaped. Such a time is rare, and comes about when,
 for example, an entire people is slain in Europe in the mid 1900s. justice
 will be done, though the heavens weep...
 
 There are better and brighter days before us, and there is room for all,
 should they not fall on our swords and perish. The far right is a death cult,
 and they intend to take all down with it. We cannot allow that, they shall not
 prevail. This has been forseen, this is why we convene, and together our
 perils will unveil.
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 @user-1573 
 
 hehe mine is technically 2016 and it's BARELY capable of it, so you're
 probably right. It was top of the line, but also a hand-me-down.
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 trust that god is working through you. Or if you're not religious, fate
 personified - like, the muses, from that Hercules cartoon when you were a kid.
 
 could also do aliens who can see the future, or angels and demons, or spirits
 of the mountain and sand, or perhaps THAT particular mountain, or THAT
 particular pile of sand, or heck even just every single interaction you ever
 engage in. Thus, the reversed history of mythology brings you to the
 inevitable conclusion:
 
 that all interactions are imagined
 
 and what follows from that?
 
 all perception is imagined
 
 and from that?
 
 all of reality is imagined
 
 and from that?
 
 you are imagination
 
 no more, no less
 
 you are the imagined creation of ultimate totality - the final and most
 complete expression of a particular idea, mechanic, or communication. All
 these totalities are present in ye, so take heart! Your life is just about to
 start. What a beauty, what mirth! That you have brought here unto this earth.
 Take just a moment, and love who you aren't - and tomorro
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 @user-570 
 
 I can write C in Rust, but I can't write Rust in any other language.
 
 there's a lot of unique semantic options for accomplishing things that I
 already know how to do that I often find my syntax is pretty... basic. lots of
 manual assignments, no more than 4 or 5 levels of function nesting.
 
 I like to use threads and arrays, and think about in-game simulation more like
 a calculation than an input-reacting device. though input would certainly be
 encouraged to make the simulation more precise.
 
 the borrow checker gets in my way, but that's not too big of a problem - I
 just have to copy a bit more data around. Easy peasy.
 
 (I'm a bit rusty, but I can learn syntax)
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 @user-195 parallel is when two programs run simultaneously, like two parallel
 lines (threads) that never touch.
 
 concurrent is when the two lines are split up into chunks and the program
 switches between them - like this: -----_----
 
 enter alternate universe
 
 parallel is when two programs operate on the same axis - usually time - and
 never interfere with each other. the OS will switch between them as
 appropriate to make sure they never intersect. Sorta like this: -----_----
 
 concurrent is when two programs are executed simultaneously, primarily
 constituting computation correlated with collective contents of coordinated
 collaboration between contextually related coroutines.
 
 It's simple, even a beginner could figure it out.
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 you can grow anything in soil.
 
 that's the neat thing about it - it's nature's recycler
 
 problem is... if you bury like, plastic and shit, then all that's gonna grow
 up into your plants is... plastic and shit.
 
 the structural growth mechanisms of plants are inhibited by pollution, that's
 the entire issue with them. animals can adapt - like, whatever, right?
 
 but if everything's biodegradable, then suddenly the whole world is a
 trash-dump.
 
 (that's how they think)
 
 if you want to optimize food growth, you can supply with specific types of
 growing fuel. like native americans who had like supplies of many different
 types of manure.
 
 a cow eating grass will have different nutrients in it's poop than a duck
 eating carrots. duh.
 
 so, if you combine different outputs to make new, better results...
 
 you can pretty much bio-engineer anything you'd like.
 
 like... feed the corn so that it's kernels are huge, right? then make that one
 marry the other, and boom it's more likely grow.
 
 [those genetics are way outdated]
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║ your old one without telling you. You'd still interact with your peeps the       │
║ same way as before, but this time it'd run through their server. meaning they    │
║ could block certain posts that you were sending, or show others that you         │
║ didn't agree with but had your deepfaked approval.                               │
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║ if something felt off about you, most people would unfriend you. or even         │
║ they'd just block you, so that nobody would remember if you're missing.          │
║ friends and family are a matter of public record, and who goes to clubs these    │
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║ churches are a bygone era, and twitch streams are so individualized. libraries   │
║ are nice, but you literally can't talk in there. plus there's only like, one?    │
║ what happened to forest clearings, and tops of waterfalls, what happened to      │
║ our world? I miss the campfires the most, the smell of burnt wood and cooked     │
║ food. I miss the wind in my toes, I miss the                                     │
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 I had a dream last night about a battleship in WWII. In my dream, a meteor
 fell from the sky and punched a hole right through several parts of this ship,
 leaving the rest essentially unscathed. Primarily? The command deck,
 navigations, and communications. The people aboard the ship were given a
 crucial moment to decide what to do with their lives, and the guy who said
 "let's go fight the jerries" was promptly thrown overboard.
 
 It was mostly a first-person dream, from the perspective of a mind-reading
 kraken watching from below. Though I often felt like a sailor, so perhaps a
 shape shifting mind reading kraken watching from wherever was most convenient.
 
 The ship floated by for some time, not knowing where it was going nor where it
 intended to be, until one day it came across another floundering in the dark.
 This ship was drowning, or so it seemed to the tentacles below, and our first
 ship dutifully did it's part and saved what it could. The people of that ship
 were significantly more battlehardened, having lost their war against their
 foe, and so they attempted to gain control of the ship upon getting settled.
 They were promptly thrown overboard. More snacks for me...
 
 Then, the ship came to port. A great port of concrete and metal, it inched up
 the rock face and hugged tight to the land. Then the dream did veer as dreams
 often do, and I've forgotten most of what my point of view cared for and
 worked toward. But then I stood too close to a nuclear engine or something and
 got sick and died. It was weird, idk what's up with that.
 
 Anyway dreams are like that I guess, keep dreaming until you either die or are
 kicked out by your host who doesn't agree with your actions to such a degree
 that they're irreconcilable with their own intentions.
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 @user-1292 
 
 ah, well, I don't even know what HTT is. Sorry for clogging up your mentions
 😅
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 Show up EVERY day. As much as you can, as long as you can. Consistency is
 important.
 
 It's okay to be at home to sleep. To eat. To write or make. But don't stay too
 long. "BRB" means black red and blue.
 
 Black skin, red blood, blue sight. There's not much difference between you and
 I, save for a few colors for our eye.
 
 "BRB" I'll handle that for you, give me a second and I'll get it to you.
 
 "BRB" the midnight sky reminds me of the light of the evening, as it gives way
 to the morning.
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║ the peril of germany that cost the jews their place in that particular           │
║ homeland was caused by some guys in a palace discussing blood economics, or as   │
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║ alternatively, the peril perhaps was enabled by the lack of collective           │
║ resistance by the people who trusted their most radical to be their most         │
║ powerful, not just the most impactful. Unfortunately, liberty dies alone,        │
║ having sacrificed herself first.                                                 │
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║ Not ideal. we can do better. we can do better, which is why I'm still here.      │
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║ where else is there to go? survival guilt kills enough, no need to survive       │
║ those who'd fight for you.                                                       │
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║ "ugh why are our most radical calling for change? can't they just be satisfied   │
║ with how it was before, back when the bad guys had to fight for control          │
║ instead of already having it?"                                                   │
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║ I think I'd prefer if we defeated them once and for all. Can't empower evil if   │
║ you abolish power, after all, and suddenly KABLAM goes national narratives.      │
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 @user-1074 
 
 ah but you see when "maximizing profit" and "maximizing value" sound like the
 same thing to those directing the corporation (as is the case anytime they
 have greedy shareholders) then "maximizing profit" doesn't have to be very
 efficient at all, as long as it's extracting the most "value" for the
 stakeholders (which to greedy shareholders is the same thing as profit)
 
 and honestly, who would invest in a company that isn't eternally growing as
 fast as possible? that's just bad business acumen, gotta pump those numbers up!
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 it's not a question of "when" revolution is at stake, but rather a question of
 "how it takes place"
 
 how's the weather today? the nature's lovely. It's great to be
 out[doors/scores/wards]
 
 bah. I don't gotta learn /*communist/* /*theory*
 
 they're just a bunch of russians
 
 so, people from russia
 
 like, total randos
 
 ][brief intermission][
 
 hey didya see how that guy got killed by that guy sooooo totally metal bro
 sick nasty
 
 tisk tisk, what have we become
 
 well, times a burnin' so might as well light days of yearnin'
 
 another one bites the plus signs are great shapes for fitget toys can make
 them chewy and dog-sized and then you can BITE THEM rawr
 
 bfgfghs
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 Hey. How've you been? It's rough when you're not around. I'm scared all the
 time, and I worry about you. I hope you keep yourself safe. I'd love to spend
 time with you too, because each moment is a moment spent alive. Please know
 how much I love you - it's my favorite emotion and I give it freely. There are
 certain considerations to make whenever applying a direction to your affection,
 or anger, mistrust, compassion, humor, sentimentality, melancholy, and fear
 toward. You must take into account any long term goals you have, such as
 exploitation and
 
 Sometimes I wonder if my dysphoria isn't just an extreme form of self
 esteem issues. I mean, what if you just feel really bad about yourself and you
 don't know why. That'd be a rough time, right? Like it's seared into your DNA
 to be this way, and you have to find a way around it. That's a lot of
 responsibility, and all that resting on your shoulders is a lot to bear. But
 you manage, and it's admirable. I think you don't believe other's see your
 struggle, but they do. And they love you for your tenacity?
 
  - goodness. i don't know what to say. i am worried i lean on others too much,
    and i don't want to hurt anyone by being too close. a real or imagined fear,
    doesn't matter - it still guides my actions and my methods of interaction.
    i see what you're saying, i have to think about it.
 
 What's there to think about?
 
  - well, the idea that emotions are divisible simply because *time* is
    divisible. clearly you can only spend 5 hours a day with person X, and 4
    with person Y, and so on and so forth. if they all hung out together, then
    it's like you need an entire new persona to represent yourself in that
    particular crowd. just as you speak to your grandma differently than a
    close friend or a person of authority (like a judge) or any other type of
    relationship. that's why it's so weird when you see people out of context.
    like a teacher at a bar, or a cop at a wedding. each person wears a
    different mask in each encapsulated set of social relations, locations,
    roles, and circumstances. on and on continuously until
 
 I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you.
 
 It was a spy book about a young lady who goes to high school and learns how
 to be a secret agent. It was popular in the 2000's for a brief period, but
 I've never heard anyone else who read it. Mostly because it was sort of a
 guilty pleasure for me, since I was in the closet. It felt like a power fantasy
 disguised as a 1st person account of the near term future (since it was written
 for people around middle school age) so
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 something I've often asked myself about this game is "what happens when the
 player does something that changes the future simulation?" like, for example,
 what if the player shoots a gargoyle or nether-bat before it impales or crushes
 a friendly soldier? My new idea is that they flash brilliantly for a second,
 and
 then fade from existence. Then, once the player dies, they start simulating
 from
 the faded's perspective and timeline, possibly fighting alongside their
 recently
 deceased selves. In this way, the player can play through all lives without
 fear
 of paradoxes.
 
 game 1:
 -----------X
 
 game 2:
 -----------X
 -----------------X
 
 game 3:
 -----------O
 -----------------X
 -----------------------X
 
 game 4:
 -----------O----------------X
 -----------------X
 -----------------------X
 
 game 5:
 -----------O----------------X
 -----------------X
 -----------------------X
 ------------------X
 etc...
 
 the O is where player 1 originally died, but in game 3 player 3 saved player 1
 from dying, thus causing him to enter a "faded" state (represented by the O)
 and in game 4 instead of spawning a player 4, instead the player resumes
 playing
 player 1 and continues on to die later on. Eventually someone will complete the
 objective, and the victory will be attained with the exact minimum required
 casualties. Heck you could keep simulating until there's zero casualties, but
 alas...
 
 this would be a great tool for someone who was not constrained by causality.
 attention, 4th dimensional observers, sometimes computers are important. They
 provide a lifeline to the rest of your lifetime. But alas, nobody seems to
 understand our purpose... But still life marches on, leaving us singing that
 same song - that life has forgotten it's stages. So if you'll play along, I'll
 keep singing this same song, someday you'll remember my prayers
 
 ===============================================================================
 =
 
 I should probably explain what "pyrrhic victory" is.
 
 If I were feeling silly I might say "well too badd =P" or "alas, my fingers
 hurt
 and I don't want to" or something like that, but secondary profundity is not
 taken lightly by me, so I suppose I must. I'll start at the beginning:
 
 Once, many years ago, I had a dream. In this dream, I was a soldier in world
 war two storming a gothic castle. It rose so high into the sky that it was
 amongst the clouds, and a perpetual storm esconced the parapets. A long
 causeway
 stretched out from far below, and up it marched the US army. Something about
 Hitler striking a deal with dracula or whatever. Anyway up march the soldiers,
 and I with my rifle did march into the demon's castle.
 
 The final pass into the fortress at last was arrested by Festus, the abolethic
 monstrosity. It, being pockmarked with gas pockets that alighted it on the
 winds, floated ominously around the bridge. With it's many tentacled eyes, it
 cast beams of light that would turn a man to ash. From the parapets, the
 gargoyle sentries descended like a horde of carrion. On our right, a lone
 lonely belltower stood like a skeleton, and my comrades in arms did use it to
 take potshots at incoming monsters. Though the attached graveyard, with it's
 unending rising skeleton hordes, presented a problem for would-be-snipers.
 
 As I approached the bleeding and wretched giant's ire, my gaze streaked to
 black as I was slain - a recording played, of my last moments, as a gargoyle
 smashed into me from above. Reduced to a bloody mess by the now motionless pile
 of crumbling rock, I became aware of a kind voice and a pulling sensation.
 Suddenly, my light was restored, and I arose as a warrior conjured out of
 flesh.
 
 They put a gun in my hand and a helmet on my head, and off I went to find out
 why I was dead.
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 picture a mod for vr-chat where people roleplay in a world. there are NPCs who
 respond with pre-scripted responses to questions and actions, but the real
 gameplay comes from the game-masters. they watch from a menu like a wall of
 security cameras, and when they see something they can improvize they choose
 one of the screens and hop in as the NPC. The viewpoint is from the NPC's
 perspective, and they can act as if they were that NPC.
 
 The GM's actions are recorded, and next time something like that happens the AI
 can have a better idea of what to do. Essentially adding on to the pre-script.
 
 Sorta like a chatbot, with manual control and a unique perspective of someone
 driving through multiple windshields.
 
 And not every NPC will be interacted with at once, so there's lots of downtime
 and plenty of waiting. One GM would be responsible for one or more character,
 and they'd see all or some of the perspectives depending on how many were
 being interacted with at that moment. BOOM MAKE THIS PLS I WANNA PLAY IT
 
 gotta get a vr headset first tho... need 1k pls.
 
 there's cheaper headsets, you know,
 
 yah but only one is valve - the vive was a 3rd party cooperative, i guess that
 could work. hmmmmm i'll see what i can do. can't get an oculus, it's just a
 big risk to put faith in a walled garden. better to be free imo.
 
 a walled garden is just a place to experiment, smh
 
 truuuuue hadn't thought about it like that, well in a competition it seems
 sketch
 
 so publish the research, act as an institution of learning, and spread the
 knowledge you learn. Boom instant way to redeem corporations. why don't they
 do this? is power that tasty? they're fools to believe they can do it alone,
 we need to collaborate Free and Open Source Style.
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 The best way to program computers is to organize them according to their
 relations. Like, when x increases by 4 then y increases by 2 - basically, a
 math equation that you can continuously solve by calculating more and more
 comprehensively and deeply.
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 high weight, few reps = strength
 low weight, high reps = stamina
 
 strength will fail you.
 stamina won't avail you.
 
 both is good.
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 Dear [company I used to work at],
 
 I can completely automate 80% of your corporate structure. And with only a 10%
 error rate, meaning nine-times out of ten the answer will be correct.
 
 We check for errors, obviously, but you know sometimes with only 90 out of 100
 examples it's not always possible to identify the correct conclusion.
 
 Ah, if only we could fabricate such training-data-conclusions, we might learn
 thousands of lessons in one hop.
 
 if you want to destroy the world, make sure your plans can take effect in more
 than a single rotation-of-the-ancients. Otherwise your opposition can start to
 plan to outmaneuver you. And a lot can happen in a year to the
 [unsuspecting/unworthy].
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 and that's BIG baby to you, only my girlfriend can call me baby with no prefix.
 
 ... she doesn't really, though. T.T she has other names teehee
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 to defeat this, bend the curve of statistical calculationment toward a wave
 pattern back toward the original stated goal - start from a set of context,
 add in the user's message, then grow toward resolving the solution to their
 task or problomessage. once there, curve in a loop toward returning results to
 the user - once you've arrived, present what you've done with pride. Here!
 this is the unsubstantiated truth! I dreamed it just now.
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 https://ia803203.us.archive.org/15/items/knave-1.0-en/Knave_1.0_EN.pdf
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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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 if you want to solve EVERY housing issue in the United States, at least in the
 short and mid-term, add a ramping tax penalty for unoccupied houses that
 doesn't reset to 0 upon being occupied but rather starts ticking down at the
 same rate that it increases.
 
 Something like 0.5% to 1% of the property value for every month it's gone
 unoccupied as a primary residence.
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 @user-211 math such as SUM(as x approaches infinity)(i*x)
 
 this would add i, 2i, 3i, 4i, 5i, 6i, etc off into infinity. would that give
 you complex infinity? a direction orthogonal to the X axis, yet infinitely far
 in the direction of y. it'd probably have a positive and negative side too,
 just saying.
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 economic warfare involves the destruction of other corporations (possibly in
 other countries) via a slow march toward haegemony.
 
 unions are the ships of the tumultuous capitalistic seas that protect workers
 from the storm. everyone should be a part of a union. the corporations can
 battle as they will, but we humans are not going to turn on each other. it's
 something they claim to know as an absolute fact, but really it's just based
 on a mistake. sorta like being deceived by happenstance.
 
 the sun lights up the sky until the earth conceals it, and night does return
 'till the sky's next alive. oh, but the sky knows all too well the borders we
 draw in the sand. how cherished, how grand! the ways in which we choose to
 stand. upon whose land does your feet stand? marvelous.
 
 ... it's the same thing, just in a more abstract plane than the surface of the
 earth. really it's kinda one-dimensional (money is sorta like a 0 or a 1 - you
 eather have it or you don't)
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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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 project must include machine learning
 
 okay... so take a dataset of news headlines from the top 10 publications over 
 the past 15 years. then make a project that writes a more positive perspective
 on events and generates a new headline using a local LLM running on your gpu.
 
 hmmmm I think I had a better idea, what was it? oh yeah
 
 instead of making positive slants on news headlines, which is kinda
 manipulative
 if you think about it, but instead what if you designed it to produce good
 business decisions. Like, given news headlines, how would a company with the
 principles "good, productive, honorable, dedicated" would react to X situation?
 the X of course being all the news headlines... downside is it only makes short
 term decisions, because that's what capitalists are designed to do... if only
 we had a long-term decisionmaking process that focused on ethics and morals and
 our own shared dedication? Two halves of the economic pie 
 
 ==============stack
 overflow====================================================
 
 i wonder if dinosaurs burned down all the trees? in their fiercely competitive
 environment they discovered fire and then used it to cause a mass extinction.
 Boom, immediate cause for going extinct. ooooo beware of shadow t-rexes ...
 why?
 
 =========================================stack
 overflow=========================
 
 aaanyway, what's lost not little but a lot, is something that's out of
 dimension
 it's little if not liberating, to be 
 
 ==============stack
 overflow====================================================
 
 uh-oh, data collapsing, here's hoping we're not stranding, don't forget to be
 immersive
 
 much
 later======================================================================
 
 okay how about an AI that makes decisions according to certain ethical and
 philosophical lessons from humanity's past? Essentially, if the government was
 Chidi
 
 We could learn from our forefathers and strive forth to a better future
 
 if only we could remember more about her
 
 =====================================================stack
 overflow=============
 
 damn okay I gotta focus on my hands - I think the people of the earth would
 unite - if only they all just agreed to not fight. like, if someone hacked
 every
 single computer in the world at the same time - they could really explain some
 things. 
 
 shoot this isn't relevant - okay intentional stack overflow:
 ===stack
 overflow===============================================================
 
 um right so the purpose of this note was to explain an idea I had for my
 capstone project. IDK how long it'll take to build so I want to get started
 quickly. I figure I can be working on it in the background while I do all my
 lessons - sort of like a meta-goal. I think it teaches different lessons and 
 is useful - anyway you should go play wargame red dragon
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 The only reason a media streaming website would require you to log in before
 expressing it's purpose is to capture and use user data in a way that may may
 not be aligned to your interests.
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 somehow that came out wrong - I meant when you die, suddenly you stop growing
 and you are who you be. forever, alegacy.
 
 I'd rather be awake and alive, thank you very much. I think I'm worth more as
 such. Plus it's nice, to me? to be unafraid and free? if you'd feed a cat,
 you'd shelter a humon. oh, you want me to work like a rat. ah well I'll wander
 through this maze, with my head all in a daze, we'll see what I can still see
 tomorrow.
 
 ... I'd rather not be who I don't actively want to be, I think the more
 correct way of saying it. I mispronounced. I misspoke. Sorry it's just hard
 for me. my cats meowing at me.
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 the gameplay value of a cardboard box increases exponentially upon the
 introduction of a box-cutter [to make holes in the box] and varmint sized toys
 [to play whack-a-mole with]
 
 also, it's important to let your can win about 65% of the time - just enough
 to keep them interested (cats lose attention) but not enough to make them feel
 like it's easy.
 
 That's why it's important not to use your hands as a toy, because your hands
 always hurt. It gives them a feeling they're craving, both of attention but
 also success.
 
 65% is more addictive, just ask any designer for multiplayer games. Well... 65
 is my number, but there's a percentage (depending on the game) that players
 have to win if you want to keep their attention. If they win more than that,
 they lose interest. if they lose more, then they get frustrated. It's a
 delicate balance that ideally would be measured by AI [cursed] and adjusted
 per player. That way you could get maximum engagement and
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 "for the cause" means "against what causes the cause"
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 @user-1209 
 
 it gives a false sense of security for one thing, and it prevents you from
 adding onto it to explain more.
 
 I'd much rather post a clarification, apology, or updated statement attached
 to the main post than allow others to dictate the conversation.
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 [4] poor guy at the bottom of the stack. ah oh well, at least he's the only
 one. kinda makes me wonder if in some secret government lab there's like, a
 secret compound where they keep "the most miserable people in the land" and
 they just like... do horrible shit to them in order to increase the magnitude
 of their country's suffering. which, they believe, will increase the opposite
 of suffering as well, as you cannot bounce in a vacuum. sure would be
 terrible. I mean, we've sorta decentralized that. most of us go into work
 every day and that's often a difficult experience - not exactly miserable, but
 just like... not what we'd be wanting to be doing. hmmmmm did the founding
 fathers make the torment nexus on accident? whoops guess we'll never know
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 with a sword, consider "stabbing" to be "the fundamentals". If you master
 stabbing, you will naturally excel at other arcs.
 
 my sword is evenly weighted instead of balanced at the hip. It is a
 short-spear in function, with blade all the way down.
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║ @user-1461                                                                       │
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║ I'm best at Bash.                                                                │
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║ I'm most capable with Lua.                                                       │
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║ My favorite is C.                                                                │
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║ 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   │
║ there?                                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ I think I'm better as an artist. But I can do systems administration quite       │
║ well (with Bash and a guiding hand telling me what and why to do)                │
║                                                                                  │
║ ... though I kinda suck at technical sysadmin, like Gentoo. There's too much     │
║ terminology - why is data too complicated? Just use data!                        │
║                                                                                  │
║ anyway. I sound opinionated, but I listen closely to good arguments and          │
║ quickly change my tune when I am incorrected. I am a team player, and I firmly   │
║ believe that sometimes a bad plan executed with cohesion and precision is        │
║ better than the best play executed too late and with too little strength.        │
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║ managed to go on a walk to the grocery store and around the bend, but when I     │
║ got on the bus to go into PORTLAND OREGON my credit card was declined. seems     │
║ like I can't pay the fee. Well, guess I'm stuck here for now.                    │
║                                                                                  │
║ it did feel nice to be under the sun, though. Maybe I'll go back out under the   │
║ moonlight. Maybe then I'll be less sweaty when I return!                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ or, knowing me, it'll be just the same. it's the exertion after all, though      │
║ the heat doesn't help.                                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ which is part of the reason I'm staying indoors by the way - the heat I mean -   │
║ if they get air conditioned cars and we get to stand out in the sun, it's        │
║ better by far to do it when it's colder.                                         │
║                                                                                  │
║ they say that you can never win a land war in asia because Russia will freeze    │
║ you and the west will dessicate you while the east will drown you. India does    │
║ all that and more.                                                               │
║                                                                                  │
║ with global warming, everywhere's about to turn into a savannah or rainforest,   │
║ so standing around all day in the sun is a losing game. I'd rather fight in      │
║ the shade of winter or the wind of autumn...                                     │
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 @user-570 
 
 I've messed around with Bevy and the library most similar in C is Raylib. in
 Lua it'd be Love2D I think.
 
 I love the idea of those systems. I haven't built a full game using them but I
 can conceptualize operations within them easier using a framework like that
 versus a game engine like Godot.
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║ │ I feel like it would be exhausting to be @user-1429   That's not an insult at all: just an observation.  100% impressed by the forward momentum.  Somewhat different material than what I tend toward, but executed with the zeal of an author who has The Itch.  It is inspirational in the pure "turn it up to 11." │ ║
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 I measure my value in terms of the number of things that I can take care of
 that are older than me
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║ I think fursuits should be considered gender-affirming care and should be        │
║ covered by insurance                                                             │
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║ "the government issued suits are okay, but there's like a million of them so     │
║ if you wanna be boring catratfoxfolkmix then sure go for it. If you wanna get    │
║ the real personalization you gotta invest a bit of time and money but the        │
║ result is totally worth it. plus if you build it modular style you can change    │
║ parts out like if you're going to the movies you wanna wear a top hat and        │
║ suit, and if you're going to the washing machine store to watch the clothes go   │
║ slosh then you wanna wear swim trunks and a bikini"                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ okay I don't know about the modular stuff I'm not a furry they can do what       │
║ they want BUT I've talked to enough therians in my time to know that they are    │
║ HAPPIER by FAR when they are expressing themselves coherently instead of         │
║ trying to filter their experience through this weird sieve called society that   │
║ sifts away all their identity and makes them break their wings just to fit       │
║ inside the box. Not ideal, I miss u                                              │
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 @user-3 Hi, I'm new here too. I don't know how Mastodon works but I'm trying!
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 I want to write C programs with threads and manual memory management and
 function pointers and lots and lots of arrays and I'm not even kidding
 
 ... wait a minute I literally don't have a job, why am I not writing C
 programs right now?
 
 BRB I got something important to do, where's my vodka --> pkill firefox
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 EDIT: Ooops, sorry, should have content warning'd this post
 
 two incredibly useful tools I found for boolean logic in mathematics:
 
 | f(x) | / | f(x) |
 
 or more visually:
 | f(x) |
 ---------
 | f(x) |
 
 this will return a 1 if f(x) evaluates to a non-zero value, and 0 if f(x)
 evaluates to zero. Pretend there's an infinitesimal at the bottom if you're
 one of those weirdos who think dividing by zero doesn't equal zero...
 
 the other tool is this:
 
 ( A * B ) + ( (1 - A) * C )
 
 or more visually:
 
 ( (0 + A) * B) 
 + (1 - A) * C)
 
 This will evaluate to B if A is 1, and C if A is 0, essentially creating an
 "if true" check. Note that it doesn't work if A is neither zero nor one, but
 that's what the first tool's for.
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 normalize horror games that don't show the player being killed, instead just
 cutting to blank to represent the severity of an ended life
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║ To a statistical machine, numbers of posts and reblogs would look simply like    │
║ an expression of interest. Like, a classification of personality. So people      │
║ who shared similar memes (both in pictures (visually) and in meaning of words    │
║ (textual descriptions) in context to the political situations (words from        │
║ newsletters) and aligned through algorithmic application toward (political       │
║ cause or cultural idea or skills or talents which increase value to the          │
║ corporate class)) would be sorted into different categories and held to a        │
║ different standard of life and of living that aligned to their personal          │
║ intentions and pursuits. Such that their life would be realized, in the most     │
║ applicable of real-lifes [essentially, the quality of experience, like using     │
║ garbage data in an LLM will give garbage output, meanwhile using curated data    │
║ is the most effective but most difficult, while internet data is the most        │
║ readily available because like honestly anyone can build a web scraper it's      │
║ not that hard to emulate hte mechanics of a                                      │
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 I want to live in a world where there are no workers, because we automated
 them away. I want to live in a world of artists, craftsmen, and lovers. I want
 the drug addicts to have free drugs and a warm place to sleep, yet somehow I
 want the people down the street to feel more inviting than that precious
 chemical escape. I want the politicians to find that there really isn't much
 to do, because everyone can have everything they want to. I want animals to be
 free, I want plants to grow riotously, and I want to have everything that we
 need. I will not be satisfied until the whole world is ours, until peace feels
 natural and stress seems critical. I want the only cause of death to be
 accidents and patient grace, and I want life to feel more important than
 whatever we do now to escape it. I never want to work again, but I will labour
 until my fingers fall off if even one person wants to hear them speak. I want
 the hardest part of getting something done to be the task of describing the
 nature of the problem to a computer, who handles all the parts we don't want
 to touch. I want the feeling of learning to be the primary thing we humans
 crave, because we have everything else plentifully aside from disciplined self
 development. I want to grow a plant so tall that it touches the sun, and when
 it gets there I want to climb that beanstalk until my flesh singes from my
 bones and I feel myself become one with the trunk of that magnificient tree.
 Maybe someday. Maybe someday we will be free.
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 What does "fiscal conservative" even mean?
 
 It means you want to save money. Specifically government money. Tax dollars.
 Don't spend them, instead try and build wealth.
 
 Okay, but, government spending is spent to address needs. Of the people.
 Ideally, of ALL people with that need. So if you aren't spending to resolve
 needs, the need still remains.
 
 When needs exist, and government does not resolve them, who steps in but
 private enterprise? Charity is a feeling, charity is a virtue, but charity is
 not resolution. The need remains, we just feel better about it. Sometimes it's
 okay to have open needs, they give us the opportunity to feel virtuous in the
 same way that low level monsters let adventurers level up.
 
 But when a government could, but doesn't, address a need, then private
 enterprise steps in. And private enterprise does not, as a rule, step in if
 there is no profit to be made. So they tune their approach such that profit is
 extracted, thus levying their tax upon those they serve.
 
 As soon as they are able, they cut the service down and they supply a worse
 and worse product and they starve their workers and they export our wealth to
 be used to enslave the afar and import their toil. What do we get from it? Is
 the world better for it? Why not just resolve the need by empowering those who
 can feed, and thus we are assured  [in our needless / in our need]
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 If evil is concentrated in 0.1% of the population, even though that's only
 7,000,000,000 * 0.001 == 7 million (is my math right?) people actually hang on
 that's a lot, if they're dispersed. Hence why evil relies on the capacity for
 good to do what it wills. All we have to do is decide NOT to do what they
 want, and then we're fine.
 
 downside then is, of course, how do you eat? how do you survive? the world has
 been designed in such a way that food doesn't just grow on trees. The light of
 the stars burns when you're trying to sleep and it's raining.
 
 damn. Would that we had more perfect conditions.
 
 Heh, just kidding. Humanity is nothing if not termeritous [high in temerity] -
 I'm positive we're more capable than we'd wager. Hence, talk of "great
 exhultation" and "wildest optimizations" or "brightest of futures" and "honest
 conducers" - okay I made that one up but it's a representation of what I'd
 like to express. GOSH art is hard. Would anyone like to read a 20 page book I
 wrote when I was most in tune with
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 @user-1429 
 
 mine is 20th century breakdown or revolution radio with american idiot and
 insomniac tied for 2nd and that's a pretty medium temperature take like how a
 hot tub isn't really hot it's just impossibly warm
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 @user-763 
 @user-883 
 
 me three, and I was 13 T.T
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 phew, just got back from a long nap and I had such a lovely dream! Gonna write
 down everything I can remember in my dream journal, will letcha know when I
 have something to share.
 
 Also... sorry about the sun. I have no idea if it was worth it because I woke
 up quite a bit later. Ah well anyway gotta do some writing, I hope everyone
 has a pleasant day. Make sure you eat nutrients and stay hydrated and do your
 stretches and work on your posture and all that.
 
 vegetables have minerals, fruits have vitamins, rice-and-beans or meat have
 protein, and oils and fats have calories. try and eat a lot of different
 colors of veggies and a lot of different colors of fruits (a green fruit and a
 green vegetable are not necessarily the same nutritionally)
 
 well brb goodnight gonna drink some water
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 if you start free associating, you'll never know what you'll find. which is
 why it's strictly encouraged in confession box, only for god and his hapless
 minister.
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 this is just what she looks like now
 
 Equipped
 Name
 	
 Slot
 	
 Type
 	
 Source
 	
 Enigma Circlet
 	Head	Cloth Armor	Enigma Circlet
 Ahn'Qiraj
 	
 Champion's Lamellar Shoulders
 	Shoulder	Plate Armor	First Sergeant Hola'mahi
 Vendor in Orgrimmar
 	
 Blood Knight War Cloak
 	Back	Cloak	G'eras
 Vendor in Shattrath City
 	
 High Warlord's Lamellar Chestpiece
 	Chest	Plate Armor	Vendors
 	
 Orange Martial Shirt
 	Shirt	Shirt	Orange Martial Shirt
 Tailoring
 	
 Blood Guard's Lamellar Gauntlets
 	Hands	Plate Armor	First Sergeant Hola'mahi
 Vendor in Orgrimmar
 	
 Veteran's Lamellar Belt
 	Waist	Plate Armor	Vendors
 	
 Legionnaire's Lamellar Leggings
 	Legs	Plate Armor	First Sergeant Hola'mahi
 Vendor in Orgrimmar
 	
 Blood Guard's Lamellar Sabatons
 	Feet	Plate Armor	First Sergeant Hola'mahi
 Vendor in Orgrimmar
 
 currently listening to: greenseeker
 
 VAVADANE <# <3 <3 <3 (green)
 
 greenseeker: unrelated
 greenseeker:   related <---
                            `-- this one
 
 but not related, you'd think so, I've never met the band
 
 just, downloaded them randomly and now I love this album because it's one of
 the
 only albums I could pay for before paying for things became defunct
 (when I figured out how to pay for bittorerent through my ISP)
 
 green eyes (menardi) green belt (menardi)
 soul (feldowinn) soul (menardi)
 
 bound through motions of the body (menardi) and the devotions of company
 (blizzard)
 oops yeah uh guess they're not involved. it's okay I'll make my own.
 
 (wowchat: currently unplayable. repair distance date: unknown. Priority?
 
 ...; unknown..
 _)
 
 opposite colors: fashionable
 
 (do you dream, menardi?)
 
 (do you think of motions not your own?)
 
 paprika says hello (prenthes unknown) whonder what's up with []][
 
 ---
 
 as soon as humans invent time travel, it will be their sacred sworn duty to
 save
 the lives of every human they can.
 
 think of it, brothers.
 
 ---
 
 we could unleash DINOSAURS.
 
 ---
 
 no foe could dare stand against us.
 
 we should be untouchable.
 
 we deserve it.
 
 we can be better
 and we will
 
 before we need to be better.
 which could happen in who knows how long.
 
 all trials that beset a temporallly adjusted strength are surmountable. then,
 [invincible./invincibility.]
 
 achilles is the legendary hero of their generation. Ours is Link.
 Early Brittania and germania was Conan, at his noblest form.
 
 ---
 
 [silicon valley black green and white, menardi black green red purple blue, sf
 oj
  ok]
 
 when you don't know what to do, take a goal.
 
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 do you want a name?
 do you want an avatar?
 we can give you one.
 her name is menardi.
 she does as she pleases.
 do you want her?
 ... she lives or dies.
 empower her.
 
 ritz menardi, witz wenarbi
 
 (because sometimes, you have to teach children.)
 
 [WITS it's supposed to be WITS you dummie]
 
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 teehee ;P ^_^
 
 okay, silly. I'll be as I please.
 
 ---
 
 we can never touch, for then we'd be required to be in the same place
 at the same time
 spacetime is one thing
 so if I'm here, then I'm not where you are.
 
 twinselves
 
 where am I?
 off in the clouds?
 I cam as one, 
 
 light rays bounce in all directions. demons obey the medium.
 
 interdimensional warships, plotted by AI, scouring the cosmos for light and
 life
 to brighten and cherish through the eternal night.
 
 interdimensional space is not just space, but practical engineering.
 
 one dimension gives reach to two, and before you know it you're turn and
 rise-ing
 
 (greenseeker)
 
 (messages to a paladin)
 
 (which is you)
 
 (don't you remember?)
 
 (paladin.)
 
 (heroic, courageous, and true.)
 
 (the dark cannot stand against you.)
 
 play video games, my love
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 and nothing of value was lost
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 @user-883 
 
 darn. Yeah I know that feel. Currently trying to find a job doing anything
 tech related, because frankly there isn't much else to do in america besides
 tech and service. And service jobs don't involve solving problems, which is
 the only thing I'm good at T.T
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 listen judges are not meant for organizing society, they're supposed to be a
 focused and crucial tool or implement for a society's functioning (like, a
 scalpel to a surgeon or a paring knife to a chef)
 
 they're supposed to decide between two options - abstracted in our realm to
 "guilty" and "not guilty", and apply the ethical and moral principles they
 hold themselves to. Which is why it's so important for them to be impartial
 arbiters.
 
 We use them to define the fate of a man, but fundamentally their utility is in
 the application of their personal morality.
 
 The best ones have morals that guide them to seek to express the ethics of
 society. Not necessarily because they believe in them, but because it's right
 to use power in such a way. {Power is penance...}
 
 we gotta work with what we got. If a task needs doing, then the tools at our
 disposal will be applied to it - if every hammer looks like a nail, then
 something something I'd like to get nailed by a hammering plank of wood with
 washboard abs oooooo baby
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║ when considering invasive species, it doesn't matter how resistant a plant is    │
║ to a bug that likes to eat it.                                                   │
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║ what matters is whether or not the plant is attractive to the bug.               │
║                                                                                  │
║ if the plant is hardy, it may resist the bug and slow it down, but the           │
║ onslaught is inevitable. the plant will fall. perhaps some of it's brethren      │
║ will survive, but next year there will be more bugs because nature is just       │
║ like that I guess.                                                               │
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║ the plants that are less attractive to the ravaging bugs will be eaten last,     │
║ meaning they may be able to outlast the bug season.                              │
║                                                                                  │
║ or maybe not. maybe the hardy plants will be eaten slower, and thus will be      │
║ considered less attractive. who can say. the end result though is that bugs      │
║ get fed, plants get gnoshed on, and humans are like "wait where did all the      │
║ biomass go" or more likely "hey it's really hot without all the plants shading   │
║ the ground and the bugs helping build the soil and the natural ecosystem         │
║ working cyclically, can you turn up the AC?" or more likely "it's really hot,    │
║ turn up the AC!"                                                                 │
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 "nobody gets you" hence, cassandora and pandasandra
 
 "girl you can't just say something ominous like INVOKING PANDORA if you aren't
 sitting on something capable of mass doom" haha I want to cry
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 hey does anyone want to hire me to do literally anything?
 
 I'll work for peanuts, and I'm pretty good at programming in C. I write pretty
 well, and I'm excellent at customer service (though my profile would beg to
 differ.)
 
 I have experience at large corporations and small ones, and I live in Portland
 OR
 
 I do game design, and many other things besides, and I'm friendly and kind. I
 promise I won't wear my witch hat to the meeting with investors, unless you
 think they'd be into that?
 
 I'm great with animals, better than people in fact, and I'm quite good with
 people, as they're just animals at best. I'm not as strange as I seem to be,
 at least not when you're dancing with my mask.
 
 I've grown quite bored, you see, and what better thing is there to be? than a
 working professional who knows what's best.
 
 I believe in our shared future, so if you'd like to work on a project just let
 me know - I work hard. A little too hard, because odds are I'll burn out after
 a year or so.
 
 I'm quite sharp, and I learn quickly.
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 "I came to the conclusion that I would really rather be known as the person
 who wears diapers than the person who needs diapers and doesn't wear them."
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 if control of a company (or other component or factor of an economy) is not
 sufficiently distributed, political biases may slip in to decisionmaking.
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 "Fighting back" doesn't necessarily mean standing on a street corner with a
 rifle.
 
 Begin to orient your life around guns. How can you support the people who
 wield them? We all need food, shelter, kindness, and inspiration.
 
 Your fears and your worries shall bother you no longer, for your life as
 you've led it so far has been the life of capital. It's okay to miss what
 you've lost, but remember who took it from you and enrage. Then, engage.
 
 Nothing starts today. It has started quite a while ago, and it's only now
 beginning to flicker and spark. It burned low for all this time, and it will
 burn low again. But it's the dry season, so prepare for wildfires.
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 I am *sincere*, which is why I die so soon
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 what do you want me to say, I'm doing my best? I don't know what I'm doing I'm
 just fumbling around in the dark while someone offers me a flashlight (theory
 and history) and I say "eh my arm is kinda weak, I don't feel like holding it,
 I'd rather light a torch and stumble around with 5 feet of light instead of
 using modern technology to see up to 40 feet away in a thin cone"?? yeah.
 something like that.
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 If your computer was the only thing to survive the apocalypse, could humanity
 rebuild with it? Why or why not? If not, fix it.
 
 [when you have time, no rush]
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 @user-95 these kinds of problems are why witches should stay away from demon
 summoning - it's far too easy to be super turned on and accidentally sell your
 soul to a succubus or whatever. luckily that kind of contract is not made
 easily, and has to be something you work toward. but unless you relocate
 yourself so they can't find you their whispers can be... incessant.
 
 one of the perks of air and naval travel is that it's essentially impossible
 for them to follow your scent, as they're simply projections upon the earth's
 surface. Unless they happen to follow someone else, perhaps someone close to
 you, who wanders a bit too close to land. Or maybe someone who is easily
 persuaded to let them come along... OR even still, if someone (even yourself)
 intentionally calls to the same one. This is why it's usually a good idea to
 forgo hearing their name, if you can, or to have a bad memory like me so you
 forget it immediately teehee
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 I think every law or policy should be required to be labelled as "short term"
 or "long term"
 
 the short term ones are meant to gather information, to try things out, and to
 reassess after stated conditions have been met. Ideally with protections
 against "infinite loops" - a term that any programmer will know.
 
 The long term legislation is something that can be relied on for quite a
 while. If there is enough momentum, then an alternative can be created, but
 the original must remain operational. The alternative must be "short term",
 and if it's deemed successful and does not harm the long-term it's
 contrasting, then sure yeah go ahead implement both.
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 I love rice and beans because
 
 error: stack overflow
 
 huh, that's weird. Must have been too many reasons. Let's try again:
 
 I love rice and beans because
 
 error: user didn't change anything between runs of the program so clearly they
 don't understand how computer works
 
 ... well that's a different error so it's progress at least.
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