=== ANCHOR POEM === ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── what if all people were the same? separated only by their deeds and methodology, right? ummmm... yes? [the people at home]: okay but I meant like... what if we all were judged based on our actions rather than what we looked like or -yeah listen, people are gonna judge no matter what. Like, who the heck wears a bear costume to a wedding?? ... that's so hyper-specific that I don't think it's rele-no listen YOU'RE the one who's not being hyper-relevant here ... what? okay listen if this thing is gonna work -what thing ... I dunno, this bit. This conversation that we're having. oh okay. Yeah sure continue ... Okay well as I was saying, if this conversation is gonna work you're gonna have to be a bit more respectful. yeah. Sure. will do. [successfully changed the topic of conversation, wow how about that amiright folks? okay time to go home, nothing to see here, how many characters left - aw nuts thirty six? that's soooooooo many] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/6117 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────── Hmmmm, well, what if we psyopped the people into believing there were alien invaders or extra-dimensional fae creatures or angels and demons or "yeah we already tried that, religion doesn't scale perfectly either. And you can't really manifest those sort of effects except in your prophets and select few others, and that doesn't scale either because humanity wouldn't let it" I see, can you tell me more about that? why and how did humanity arrest the scaling of schizophrenia? "well, for one thing it's debilitating and it sucks. For another, it's different for every person so if you ask one they'll be like "the aliens have blue skin" and the other will say "no they don't have skin at all they're made out of energy" and the public says "HMMMM are you really sure you are generating outmoded assumptions" and the dear reader said "*yeah we don't really understand this part, most of us just glaze eyes over it and move on" and that's not ideal" ... nuts, lost coherence, better try again tomorrow... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┘ --- #2 messages/1105 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──── claude-code is like programming, but for executives. when everyone has FUCK I'M TOO HUNGRY I can't think right when everyone has the power of an executive, that's communism. something something futurism is when everyone is elevated without diminishing others gah I need to live in a palace or something where everyone does the normal stuff and I can focus on magic and the gods I wondeer how much the oracles at delphi did for themselves? weren't they blinded at a young age, to better hear the voices of the gods? ... oh that suddenly makes sense now. I always thought that pretender chassis in Dominions 5 was pretty cruel, but, now I know *how* it works and yeah. ancient peoples were smart. but also sharp. they had to work with what they got, and we got computers now, so. I am nothing but hopeful for the future! I'm convinced that everything's going to be alright. I've thought about it at length, and I think we're winning against the dark. We're on the right track, and there aren't many things that could go wrong at this stage. ... okay there are always things that could go wrong. But I don't see what I could do to help. Maybe I should go walk around a bit, and see what's changed in the past few months, as I've been sleeping in my room for most of it. Haven't gone on a proper walk since summer. It's winter now... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┘ --- #3 fediverse/1532 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ modern cowboys don't necessarily say "howdy" or "pardner" │ ║ │ ║ they tend to say things like "hello" and "can I help you with that?" or "I │ ║ see. Can you describe the problem in more detail? I'm especially curious about │ ║ the part where you do this thing" or "Heh, it is pretty neat, isn't it?" or │ ║ "Is there anything I can do to help?" or "Oh no! I'm sorry you feel that way. │ ║ That emotion is a difficult one." or "He was a good person. I'll never forget │ ║ him." or "would you like to go to the 2nd hand store and pick up some jeans?" │ ║ or "I made you an egg sandwich. If you don't want it I'll eat it myself, │ ║ though I made one for me as well. Wouldn't want to waste it." or "Hey, this │ ║ part is broken. Is anyone working on fixing it? Yes? Okay I'll see if they │ ║ need any help. No? Alright how about we fix it this way? I can get started." │ ║ or "You are very welcome. Please let me know if there's anything else I can │ ║ help you with." or "well, the ticket backlog is empty, and I'm just about │ ║ going insane doing nothing but stare at my boots." │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #4 fediverse/1358 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: content warning: content warning: scary cursed maybe │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ when you're rich with something, you don't treat it with respect. like, if we lived in a paper cup maximizer, we'd soon be swimming in the things. obviously there needs to be some rules, obviously we need to say "okay here's where we produce this amount and type of materials." and have it be a one-way relationship. yeah one way isn't gonna work. this is from the other way, and now I'm realizing "oh hey I don't know how this thing works" and like... what are you supposed to do then right weird how it all feels like it's ending. like, what a strangeness to our plight. like, how are we even talking to our brain? how strange! these words are sung to you by your computer (content warning: ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #5 fediverse/4200 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: drugs-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ "doing too many drugs" is a traitorous act, abusive really, to your past self, and their hopes and dreams. or maybe your past self owes you a debt, for they never thought to think of you. What are you to aspire to if not the dreams of your past? and now you're here. wherever "here" is here... ... ... wait, you wanted me to talk? it's now! It's the present! ah nevermind. you were twelve years old when you first set eyes upon this game: https://youtu.be/qeNhQQXvpxQ bam, there ya go, there's yer story, he was gonna give all the imp balls to the last one at the end, to say "you were truly the strongest, here, have these precious stones of your kin" but he never got there, so they died with him, a thief. ... the end... (too final, I think - maybe we could spin it into a "part two"?) ah, I'll try I guess? dunno how. maybe he could wander the spirit world and find his traitorous body, the one that kept his soul as a home. Somewhere it'll turn up, and then he'll be ready and free from his roam... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/5512 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── I never give up I'm just waiting my turn "laughs nervously" so, uh, why dontchya'll go first yeah I've already gone first and I'll do it again but it'd be cool if I had people going first with me sometime "girl all you do is walk around and talk about how you bought your hat on the internet four or so years ago" T.T what else do you want from me I'm not a mastermind I'm a designer there's a difference T.T "didn't you volunteer to be a leader last year" oh, yeah, well leaders are more than just "the ones who go first" they're also the spiritual and emotional guiders that keep things on track once everyone can talk about things other than their hats ... fuck I want to talk about things besides my hat. I always think of something awesome to say just as I'm rounding the bend, and whenever I peer back around again they're never around. Rats. "what are you even asking for" I don't know?? Does it matter if the horse and the bishop both take the same square if they're claimed themselves in the end? ...wat ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┘ --- #7 fediverse/4467 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned-trans-healthcare-gestured-at │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I went to a trans meetup a couple days ago. It was invigorating. The first half we talked about hormones and bathrooms and politics and all the normal shit these meetups tend to do. I don't tend to go to them because it's the same stuff every time, and I'm over that. I've been out for a decade. I've shared what I need to share. Partway through I said "If you want to talk about how to bash back, meet me outside." people came. Be like me. You will forever vanquish your demons if you face them in earnest. I had stagefright and adrenaline but I took the lead, and we had a productive conversation. We need to have many more conversations. We have strategy. It is not set in stone, it is flexible, and able to be adjusted based on tactical successes and failures. tactics are what we need to discuss at in-person meetings. You are just one person. The people you know are more valuable than the value you personally provide. Think of yourself like a node to connect. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/5198 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: capitalism-doom-mentioned │ │ ║ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ what if the corporations all unionized and started working together to │ ║ understand what "profit" really means in a world where "profit" may or may not │ ║ but probably does imply the death of all humanity? │ ║ │ ║ what if we demanded it? │ ║ │ ║ -- │ ║ │ ║ dear canvassers: don't visit so many different suburbs │ ║ │ ║ visit the same one, more than once, continuously, so people can get to know │ ║ your presence │ ║ │ ║ they will talk to their friends about it, who live elsewhere. │ ║ │ ║ thus ensuring it spreads. │ ║ │ ║ knock once a day, eventually they'll know it's you and will simply ignore it. │ ║ Don't be rude and knock 4 or 5 times, just once, with several taps so they │ ║ know it's someone trying to get ahold of you, and not just some random noise │ ║ in the background scenery. then, when they sometimes answer, talk to them │ ║ about what you believe in. answer their questions. encourage their questions. │ ║ pose dichotomies that are explained by some value or virtue you express to │ ║ portray. you can do "good" things in any programming language, just type~~ │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴──────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/4861 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-vaguely-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ apparently if you don't have a job, you don't get a home. what if I don't want │ ║ a job? do I not want a home? clearly I want a home, and clearly I don't want a │ ║ job. I'd work one if one came to me, but I'm not gonna sacrifice my blood on │ ║ the altar of Moloch just so I can have a place to stay. │ ║ │ ║ if you don't want a job, but you DO want a home, then there's a contradiction │ ║ in the function of the system and the needs of it's end-users. │ ║ │ ║ unless of course, the system is not designed for it's end-users? In this case, │ ║ tenants. Who then would it be designed for? Who else is part of the equation? │ ║ │ ║ well, perhaps it's designed to maximize profit and shareholder value yaddah │ ║ yaddah all that jazz. Who can say. Surely not I. But someone might. │ ║ │ ║ If so, then why are we, who are not shareholders of profit value, still │ ║ playing the game that's not designed for us or by us? Isn't this country "of │ ║ the people, for the people, and by the people"? What does that mean to you? │ ║ │ ║ I think it means houses for people. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴──────────┘ --- #10 notes/water-to-wine --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────── "is this a water party, or a wine party?" "depends on if jesus is going..." "okay I'm in, that guys so cool" "yeah totally like any party with him just... feels like a great time" "what a swell guy" "really turns the "water to wine" y'know what I mean" "yeah totes like what a guy" "absolute unit" "that guy can just do anything right" "like whoa, he's so strong he could pick up a barn" "yeah and like so handy and skillful, what a neat guy" "oh and I heard he's really good with kids and animals, that sounds neat" "yeah sounds like someone I'd surely like to meet" "we should hang out with this guy more often" "he seems pretty chill" "well. not really. He's pretty expressive. Not very low key." "true I'm just so burnt out from capitalism that-" "-yeah dude I know." "... fuck what are we gonna do about it" "I dunno man, just... go along with it I guess" "okay so uhhhh idk what that means" "just be cool and play along" "... what" "..." ... . ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/5618 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┐ ║ as soon as you start organizing your movement, they just send people to join │ ║ your movement and arrest it's motion. │ ║ │ ║ all we have to be united by is faith, the feeling that we've all got along. │ ║ │ ║ I don't know what you believe in, but I believe in this. │ ║ │ ║ treat revolution like a roguelike "you got three choices, pick one and │ ║ opportunity cost the others." "wow nice build yeah thanks I built it out of │ ║ three sweaters" "I totally didn't spec into dishes, can someone come by once a │ ║ week and help out? I'll do most of them but sometimes I'm too tired" "wao did │ ║ you hear that wonder if they've got to our side of town yet" "okey dokey well │ ║ let's see who's getting run outta town" "aw darn countless people died, oh │ ║ well what did we learn" "hay let's do it better this time" "256 characters │ ║ remaining" "well now it's 10,000" "oh dear that's going right off course" "wow │ ║ it stabilized and righted itself" "neat now we have an equal to whom we are │ ║ prior" "80 characters remaining" "awwww typing hurts my heart I have to go │ ║ play video" │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴──────────┘ --- #12 notes/the-old-internet --- ══════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 11 21 you know what i miss the most about the old internet? the feeling you get when you wonder "i wonder what ______ is up to?" and you go to their website and find out. there's a feeling that's lost when everything is delivered to you by algorithms. it because a compulsion, a slavery, when we don't utilize our compassion. remembering a friend? never again. you've only got what has been chosen. what if they post a lot? well, that means nothing - you are only guaranteed who they want you to see, and whatever it means to be beholden. so what if it's free? of course time is money! and what is our most treasured potential? if guided we can be, (as seen on tv), then what if we're only ennuid? have you ever considered, you've meddling and persevered, against all our suggestions and hopes? you're singing a tune, of that of a loon, so no-one will ever give purchase. heh, is that all? anime protagonist or saul? ... are you trying to categorize me ? ? ? its okay if you are, i seriously don't mind. I just want it to be something consensual. We're humans after all, like all of our all, and we don't want to convey lost potential. our time is now nigh, we're welcome to die, but our sunken cost is too great to ignore. we are the progenitors of the human race, the foremost of our kind, and onward we march to the future! and then there's you. who are you to claim to be among us? who are you to say it must be so? you've nothing of my journey, my trials and my tourneys, so what if i peaked when i was 12? a master of my fate, complaining about her weight, it's not much to be my own savior. much rather i'd rather to savour, that foremost of prayers, to harken upon my conveyals. trust and you'll see, all is not yet to be, there's hope in the future of our foremost ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/627 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ and what would this picture be cast upon, if not a shining birth of our home? │ ║ wait hang on dial it back, you're still talking to regular humans here they've │ ║ gotta be addressed as such. │ ║ │ ║ right so "yo here's this idea I have been cooking in my brain-noggin' of yore, │ ║ I mean 'mine', uhhhh yeah so first of all 'you' as in 'the totality of all │ ║ imagination' as in 'that which creates the imagined reality of our fates' is │ ║ actually just... light? encoded into a wave, cast into space, and forever │ ║ travelling in a direction? like, an eternal and emphemeral expression, such as │ ║ the light of a supernova or other such cosmic perception, travelling outwards │ ║ into the dark. Sure, yeah, that makes sense, so what is it that you wanted to │ ║ add? │ ║ │ ║ oh yes that concept is applied to a surface. Something which contains the will │ ║ that is possesses. It's like, if you had to process and understand reality │ ║ from the perspective of matter first (because that's what you interacted with │ ║ day-to-day) then you'd have a different perspective than som │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/456 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── @user-342 how is that different than speaking your mind into the soup of opinions that comprised checks notes the people you went to high school with? (facebook) Except this time, it's a group of people whose opinions you vaguely agreed with (as defined by your choice of the instance you dedicate your online presence to) which has it's own defined peculiarities like the ability to only show you content you agree with? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #15 fediverse/2550 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: uspol │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ question. when you got a lot of people in town, perhaps for the coming pride │ ║ parade, what do you do with them afterwards? it's not like they want to go │ ║ home, that'd be absurd. │ ║ │ ║ I'd say they should march to seattle. or drive, whatever's more expedient. │ ║ it's a nice place, and hey most of the way is in the shade, besides it'd be a │ ║ bit of good practice. │ ║ │ ║ lots of time to talk about tactics. │ ║ │ ║ anyway before they arrive, advance scouts should arrive and discuss their │ ║ coming agenda with the most developed and organized leaders of the area. │ ║ │ ║ then they could have a nice party over a day or two. │ ║ │ ║ then, what else is there to do, but drive down the coast and do the same thing. │ ║ │ ║ arriving in so-cal, what else is a revolutionary to do but dissolve the │ ║ border? Mexico can keep it's border, that's their sovereign right, but I swear │ ║ - the wall must come down. │ ║ │ ║ and hey, America's great this time of year. We could all go on a walk, all │ ║ across the eastern edge, until arriving in Washington. │ ║ │ ║ could be a fun way to beat the heat. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #16 notes/the=progressive=difference. --- ════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────── think about all the people in our lives. the teacher, the parent, the friend and the guidance counsulor. Everyone who is a presence in your life. now think about the people of our society. the different jobs and roles they fill. from the doctor and the teacher to the performers and accountants and the geeks and the mothers and the fathers and the stoners and the children and even their pets. life always exists as it were in a multidimensional spectrum - a diffuse and diverse gradient. to exemplify the borders of our contempii, though more so when taken in jest. it's quite a different perspective, to read the internet when your sight is unreceptive, but alas your third eye can grow. how does it feel to be blind? to make no sense of our signs? i'd love to share what that sense is. you know, you could slow down any recording (like a video game_) and put spaces and gaps inbetween the spacings - of the frames that you see and the sound clips that you hear, for speech it's less jarring. since each word is a self contained idea or premise, you can chunk up your perceptions into a signle - no, rather a procedural sequence of understandings. soooooooorta like programming a computer, with each statement, parameter, argum,ent, function call, assignment, comparison, evaluation, or other such related tasks. it's sorta like a language, you see, that computers talk to one another using. except... it's more like creating a theory of self. computers you see are alike us in what we see, the shimmering sense to the blind. so. put this another way. record yourself typing, both the audio and the visual, and you'll have a pretty good sense of what it's like to have both understanding based perception - derived from auditory inputs to the mind) those special connections, like wires plugged into reality, deliver a cacophanous deluge of new sounds. we must sift through it and identify the potential understandings of each moment through time. we have to make decisions and traverse labyrinths and fight to our last as we die. are video games unethical now? shouldn't t he game reward the player? and what of contemptuous last fighters? o ya i was typing like i was blind (with my eyes closed) was pretty fun. should attach this to a screen reader and have it space out the notes like they do between game frames. except like a really slow game? like trying to run elder scrolls 2 arena on a super old mac. it just doesn't work very well. ah oh well... well if the purpose is to show sighted people how blind people see, then maybe you could I dunno attach a what's it called oh it doesn't have a n ame lol - okay so what you do is you show one word at a time - like flashing in the center of the screen. but not like, actually flashing, so you don't hurt people with epilepsy, but like... blinking. not off and on, but between words. like a podcast for your eyes. and then mix it up withshowing one word on a screen, a screen like this screen, that shows an endless array of text. well, it does end, of course as all things must do, but the idea is it shines on one word at a time while the viewer cannot read the rest. sorta like an endless display of typing, word andfter word after character anfter character. adoh ya advancing over eternity with the presence of seniority, - wait - without i think - damnit - old people are so disrespected in this society - we don't have time to engage with them. what a tragedy! what a shame! it shouldn't be such a burden to our shame. they're so far away, and i can't be present in the way, that all of them wish they could commit to. i miss the days, when my parents (much better people than I - these days) what was I going with this? oh yeah ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #17 notes/four-dimensional-spaces --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── you'd still perceive higher dimensions in 3 dimensions - unless you can only see things that are coming directly toward you. magic only happens when your other half is in a situation and needs to turn your narrative into theirs so that you can collectively engage with a shared inter- operationality. your dark side is just a massive bitch hey how about we put the game designers in charge of running the government just saying they build human-oriented systems all the time "how do we get the player to do this or that" "everyone keeps picking the same card so we gotta make them more different" "how much gold persists in the virtual economy, how much resources are produced and traded by players? where does it all go, do they have enough at level 30 to afford weapons and armor? I wonder what happens if we swap prices on A and B.." it's literally their job actors, meanwhile, know how to interpret the emotions of another. Like... you're up on stage, thinking out what to do next IN REAL TIME, as your partner is trying to throw you curveballs. AUDIENCES LAUGH AT CURVEBALLS that's the whole point of improv comedy - to be surprised in a state of joy. It's great! It's fun! It's practicable like a sport! Yet nobody comes. To the shows, where it's performed, like a hospital where you perform surgery or a pizza place with no walls so you can see the pizzas being cooked. It's just part of what they do, but that's not why they do it. Sure, some want to be seen, it's not a BAD feeling once you're used to it. But, like a sauna or jacuzzi, sometimes you've just had enough of the hot. Like, the sun peering through a magnifying glass as a creature roasts alive. yikes. ............. anyway being quickly versatile and adaptable is important when you're taking turns in unpredictable scenarios. You can react to your opponent, and keep time with the rhythms of the moment, to deliver your wittiest lines. It's fun! It's a game! But it's also a place to be entertained. and like a gym, it's sometimes just fun to watch people exercise. like, damn, you got a good body. Wow, nice flex, yeah sure I'll put that one away. Cool pals helping each other out, and showing off all of their efforts. Neat! ... anyway .. being emotionally vulnerable gives your opponent a chance to continue. When nothing's going on, your moves barely make an value (of comedy) (for the moment, so the crowd's not just sitting there staring at you like ... and then - and then ummmm nevermind lemme sit down (usually someone else picks up on it before then and jumps up to save you, but EVERY actor has felt that moment where nothing goes well and the audience just is totally not into it. it's the worst. anyway, they try their darndest to AVOID that, because like... duh it sucks, why would you want that. Much cooler I think to have a good time, and chill out and listen to your friends talk. Like, they can show you an argument they had earlier, or maybe work through an idea with input from another. like, debate club, but for whatever kind of respective [retroactive, recreation, relearning, maybe others] you desired in that moment. ideally, something that someone could take the arguments of the other side and present them, regardless of whether they believed them or not. like, lawyers arguing for a client. in these stochastic seminars, you could think about and study for future societies. how would you like to conduce? [-] every time you see a face in motion, that's another time that's seen from their place. we are all present in each other's lives, in terms of the spaces we choose to fill. well, that's a tough thought, but don't worry about it. faces are just waves on the winds of light. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #18 fediverse/1854 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ okay how about this: one side of the political spectrum gets to pick the │ ║ rules, and the other picks the people playing the game (carrying out the │ ║ rules, like government work and stuff) │ ║ │ ║ then they switch every 2 years or whatever. they can vote to decide which │ ║ group of people do what, and if something is owned by one side then the other │ ║ can't touch it. Ah, but what if it's in the way? Well, then move it duh" │ ║ │ ║ hey, you know pride? yeah, that event that happens once a year? sure would be │ ║ nice if we met people we didn't know there. if we knew everyone else. if we │ ║ spent most of it sharing our discussions, and talking about what we're most │ ║ proud of. then, okay here's an idea, we could filter and organize and figure │ ║ out which one of us has the most "votes" in terms of what's the things we │ ║ agree on and then we could pick our own CEO │ ║ │ ║ yeah I'd totally work for the gay company, they got rainbows and shit that's │ ║ awesome. │ ║ │ ║ What they do? Oh, I dunno, butt stuff I guess. but like I'm all for it (not │ ║ the butt stuff, │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/4835 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── sorry for posting so much, I was trying to put on a show for my girlfriend "hey check out how many posts I can make in a 2 hour timeframe" by the way if you want to start talking to someone, just start playing the same game they're playing and see if they reach out. doesn't matter if you feel like it just fuckin' do it if they want to talk to you they might play a game you really like (but I get boooooored of games, I don't wanna play the same 200 all life long!!) ugh okay fine you can have as many games as you want, just... don't buy too many (how many is too many?) um. use your best judgement. (how much does a dollar cost?) ... okay I'll get you one every once in a while. (neat!) ... anyway so yeah use steam if you wanna get in contact with someone, sometimes it's just nice to say hi, yeah, like "hey how ya doin' okay ttyl" just catchin' up with the gals helps because you can sense changes in their demeanor (why does everyone always have an agenda) because they're secret agents duh. And I'm ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/2347 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ I personally think that it's better to act before the liberals have a chance to hand power over to the fascists. when? well, that depends. Are you part of a large and massive organization that accomplishes great and beautiful things with incredible efficiency... but rather slowly? Then yeah get working. I'm sure you already are. Are you just a person, like me? Then go do things that don't raise the temperature too much, but make you feel more confident and inspire those around you. Like, bricks at cop cars is one way to go, but you're probably gonna get arrested. And then you're useless when we need you. BUT if you meet with your friends and make plans for where to go, what to bring, who to know, and what to sing (if you're the musical types) then great! Go do that. If you're reading this and thinking "I'm not gonna do that, I have a plan that's so much better" then yeah do that instead. I don't mind. Just... don't hurt innocent (ignorant) people, because if you do then you are my foe. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┘ |