=== ANCHOR POEM === ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: homelessness-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ homeless people deserve to be homeless if they want to be, and they deserve a │ ║ home if they want one. │ ║ │ ║ to make this a legitimate choice, they should be provided with all the │ ║ essential camping materials they need, and the space to live as they'd please │ ║ within reasonable city limits. │ ║ │ ║ if they still want a house, then they should be given one. │ ║ │ ║ if they fuck it up and trash the place, then go to article 15 section 35 part │ ║ 12 subsection G and read whatever's written there. Hopefully it helps. │ ║ │ ║ essentially, treat people with dignity, as if they are deserving of respect, │ ║ until they do something to break that trust. then, forgive easily, but │ ║ remember. │ ║ │ ║ "people should be given what they need" is just friendly-speak for "abolish │ ║ scarcity" │ ║ │ ║ listen, it doesn't HAVE to be communism, we can get there however we'd like. │ ║ we just have to be trending in that direction, and if we aren't, then we must │ ║ re-assert, re-orient, re-imagine, re-align, and re-start our inevitable march │ ║ toward the progressive future. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴──────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 messages/1255 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── look, the liberal approach to homeless people simply cannot work. There are two liberal options: first, provide them with houses, food, medical care, whatever they need. Second, put them in jail or ship them to another country. We live in a moderately conservative liberal democracy, so it makes sense that we have tried both of these options extensively. Neither has worked, and we're puzzled about why. It's difficult to consider super secret special third options, because they are not often discussed. This makes sense, because we live in a moderately conservative liberal democracy, and part of the nature of such a society is that there are two voices in the room. One says go forward, and the other says stop. They alternate, and the culture as a whole sorta decides which way they go. In other liberal democratic places with more plurality in their political parties, people tend to vote culturally. They do so as well here, but mostly because republicans are a culture, and democrats are whatever for anybody. a worse economist might say there is but one American culture. An American would laugh, and say "you've never been to America." the economist might say "yes I have, I lived there on vacation" or "yes I have, I studied and worked on these places or things" the American would shake their head. "you haven't seen it as I've seen things." The trick to the system, the secret third option that now must be considered, is what to do to get them to stop. "they keep pooping on the sidewalk" "I almost tripped over heroin tampons" "that guy looked at me and masturbated on the bus stop by subway" "he followed me all night long" and the answer has always been to remove them from being unsightly. Sometimes, usually, quietly and politely. "let's throw them in jail" and "let's put them in a home" both involve alienation from society. If you want a kinder option, we must knit them into society. Can you imagine if every suburban knew every neighbor up to 50 or more? If they regularly chatted in dynamically assembled chatrooms that changed and updated as people moved in and out. Don't like the people you're with? well you have options [why not 51] you can do 51 if you want but people start to lose track of relationships if you have them talking to or knowing too many people at once. "most people are just quiet" okay well force them to say at least 21 thing a month. if they don't, they have to do babysitting with their peers until they start talking in a [NO THAT SUCKS] oh um okay yeah sorry ... okay well there are potholes along the journey but that's just because nobody's been 'round to fill them up. there's no reason tool libraries need to be stocked by people in that town. Heck, for rare things they could even be stored out of state. Like snow plows, how often does the south need snow plough? ... don't you just mean libraries? there's a book on hand-tools and planers if you want to learn how. it's right over there on that shelf next to the hand-tool and planer box. make sure you arrange them nicely, oh I see you've brought your own. That's always appreciated. [great now your tools suck] at least we have them at all! [no you gotta fight over them] why I like sharing [if you don't fight over them how do you know which is works] well there's allowed to be librarians. and they'll remember if you tear all the pages out. also there's little timmy-tommy who goes around in the library and makes sure there's all the pages in all the right places - they can flip through at the speed of sound. [no miicrophones in consumer goods][your phone is always listening. why bother?] "okay, well, it's not like people put things back on the shelves." - person at the grocery shelves people would trade commutes for communism. that's okay, they're allowed to prefer. Plus the commute isn't bad, they can [SIT BACK AND RELAX IN A LITTLE COFFIN AND ZOON OUT TO THE METAVERSE] ... or they could read a book on the bus. [FOR HOW LONG, MENARDI? ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE POSTERITY FOR TECHNOLOGICAL PROSPERITY?] it's only a matter of time before [people found out/word got out]. what if people prefer that? what if they prefer the book at home? [you lose your primary third space] suddenly, everyone becomes actors. [this is what violence brings, the necessity for guidance. why do you think the earth is 10 million lines old?] ... what you're saying, for the audience, is that acting involves singing the song of your own heart. You don't *have* to do it because someone would tell you to. ... sorry, stack overflow. anyway as I was saying because I read back what I said up above...: [some new made up bullshit that's not a lie but it's also just artistic creation that feels impossibly real. like, inverse method acting.] I so desperately wanted to be wrong please, tell me that I'm wrong ... j-mza ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┘ --- #2 messages/295 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── The fact that the economy is harmed by kindness implies that the system that governs the economy is dysfunctional at best, and evil at worst. Every time you make a sandwich for a friend, that's one sandwich that isn't being bought at a deli, which means less dollars going to the owner of the deli, meaning (theoretically) fewer dollars going to buying sandwich ingredients or paying employees, which means less demand for sandwich ingredients potentially leading to loss of opportunities for the owners of the bread factories, meaning less capability to scale and increase their production powers, meaning less profit, which means less taxes, which means fewer guns sent overseas to despotic regimes like Israel (also, fewer to Ukraine, depending on if the reader is a Republican or Democrat teehee) which means less opportunities to test our weapon capabilities which means we won't be able to defend ourselves from external threats (on a planet we've conquered and currently dominate) which means we are less safe in our home territory since its slightly more likely that we might be invaded by the people we've created, people with hatred for our current regime... Though I don't fancy it falling, as if it does then it'll take most of us with it, I think you'll find. All because of your stupid act of kindness, all because of the way you helped your friend. The way that you showed how much you loved them, which transcended the capitalistically sanctioned methods of expressing your affection like buying a greeting card or buying flowers or buying that widget they wanted or buying a sandwich at a deli for your loved one. Stupid fucking communist can't you see that your heart is harming the people around you? Can't you see that community that does not consume is antithetical to our economy? Can't you see the economy is evil? I don't want to subsist on charity, there's never enough to go around because people will fight for those they love but only give a bit of free time to those they don't know. That's okay, it just implies that the structure of society must be designed without charity in mind, while still meeting the needs of those it comprises, Charity is for the extra, the part that elevates us bit by bit. As once a need is exceeded, it grows by that little bit. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┘ --- #3 fediverse/4649 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── @user-1201 once they are in prison they are no longer cops. They are inmates. They should be treated as such, and not segregated where they can be insulated from the consquences of their actions. abolish prisons first of all but if we're not ready for that (no rush) then maybe just remember that prison wardens are tasked with the safety of those they host. If an inmate is at risk of being murdered because they are in a different gang (like the police or the, idk, are crypts and bloods still around?? I don't hear about gangs anymore because my middle-class privilege insulates me from those who resist legalized normativity) (well except for the first one, I hear about cops all the time) then maybe they should be kept somewhere more secure, with less things to bother them or people to stab them. A concrete and steel coffin for those who piss off the ones with the keys, a concrete and steel coffin for those who piss off those who are kept by keys. Sounds like justice, to me. Equality, perhaps? vote4equity ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┘ --- #4 notes/collectivist-police --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── we need paladins, because without us infiltration and sabotage are impossible to avoid. They must care about honor, because even if they desire to do evil deeds they should be punished for considering it. They should be tempted often, and if they relent they are condemned. It is truly the most important thing to them. not the effects of it, but the spirit behind it. Like, if they lacked information and acted in a dishonorable way unknowingly, then they should not be at fault. And if they are pushed to side note, but you should be introduced to the 70 closest people you live to whenever you move into a new house. Just so you know who's who. Plus maybe you could get a new friend. And you'd quickly learn which houses were empty. At least, the ones near you. Kinda makes me think we should have a map of that kind of thing, like "oh yeah so-and-so takes care of these 5 houses doing daily maintenance and repair" and "this house with these capabilities should be attended to by this person who's skilled in their upkeep and usage" and then maybe we could track statistics about "this house was used for these productive activities this many times" and we could determine when we needed more or less of a certain type of product/ project/protect. [but also like, capabilities for our betterment] and like, every area would be connected to a group chat and like, if you said something that wasn't relevant to the people on one side of town versus things that weren't relevant to people on the other side, then they wouldn't be bother- -ed. It's great because you can always go up a tier of abstraction and see the conversation higher up. It'd be a lot of data to sort through so you'd probably use your custom-trained AI that's learned from nothing but every single one of your actions. And only it sees them, so it can't like spy on you or whatever. Basically your "computer" self. ... yeah anyway with lots of messaging data (like "oh how are we going to find this particular chemical in order to fulfill this particular demand in our area" or "we currently have 15 maids in the area in order to fulfil the requirements of the 20 dirtiest houses in this area, and people have reported that the area is growing untidy, so we should ask around (at a higher level of national abstraction) and find some more maids to help out." that kind of thing doesn't have to be just for work too, people can have social messaging and social media too. So long as it's projectable at whatever level of abstraction you'd like. Maybe for social posts in order to keep things relatively chill you could only post like, idk 12 posts each year at the state level, or maybe 2 at regional and 0.25 at national. If you wanted more you'd have to sacrifice something else, and like... yeah sure whatever, the point is that you'd make more personal, close thoughts, and occasionally you'd have the opportunity to show your heart and make friends. Then, people would "add you as a friend" or "put you on their follow list" or "subscribe to their subreddit" or whatever the heck, meaning they could see you at an assignable level of abstraction. I'm picturing a discrete things, something you can scroll with on a mouse. Except, you'd scroll up for a closer perspective and scroll down to get a wider reach of Social. ... Anyway that would use the same system as the "workplace attention distribution system - with auto-determining heuristics". Wow they've been busy. that's the neat thing about engineers, give them a task and they'll build the shit out of it. They'll spare no expense, truly fulfilling the exact demands of the design. So they work best when you let them run wild and rampant. why the fuck do we need billion dollar contracts with defence companies? Just get a bunch of physicists and engineers in a room and they'll make you a doom laser in like, 20 minutes. it's up to us, as people, to determine whether or not they should go through with the designs they come up with. As long as we understand that weakness is defined as something that can destroy us. An army determines where we are most weak, and where we excel. A proficient army would identify their most likely doctrine to succeed and apply it to it's utmost and most excellent. For example, the US focuses on air-power because not only do we have a lot of space to develop these things, we also are positioned in such a position that we control both halves of a continent. This is essentially unprecedented in the history of the world, which is why we've been able to grow so decadent. ... anyway, milk and honey are fine in times of peace. We kinda stole the land though, so it's kind of a shit system. Like, if Europeans wanted to control the world then why didn't they start with everything surrounding the medditeranean? ... oh wait they kinda did. That's what Europa Universalis is about, the ways the European powers did the cruel and horrible things they did. We can learn how systems like intercontinental trade became available and how it led to vast and terrible social upheavals. Colonization is not okay, it's not fair that we've done as we've done. And yet we do it again. We do our best to learn from the mistakes of our fathers. We apply ourselves to the present, using the gifts of our ancestors passed down through time - the journey of life's adolescence. we can learn both how and why they did something, and how and why it turned out. Such is our duty to the future, to learn and grow and become better, so that their sacrifice might be enough. That they needn't have died in vain, for someday there is a great future all the same. thus, it is our ethical duty to stop killing people. We're in the birthplace of a brilliant day, literally all we have to do is just... chill, for like 20 or 30 years, and our scientists will have figured out everything wonderful. Then we can decide what we want to do. I personally think we'll be 4d interdimensional space travellers by then, but that's just me. Always remember our duty. It is our job to pull matter from the dark holes. when we can do that, we can do whatever we want. Though I think by then we'll probably not want to fight each other, we'll have spent quite a while together. We'd make a lot of friends! So, like, how about we just make our factories build incredibly durable stuff, and then we just... take care of it? Like, governmentally obliged duties to take care of things? And to know how to use them. People would naturally gravitate toward things that they loved, and if they were a swiss army knife then that's okay. Maybe some benign rewards for picking under-represented classes, but like ... we could build every chair that ever needed to be built. Then we could build every refrigerator. Then every computer, then every spaceship. What's next? Who knows! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ --- #5 messages/954 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── Simple things to do to reform or blunt the pain of capitalism if you are a mayor, governor, or other body with political power: 1. Pay people for their commutes. Demand that jobs offer payment to people for getting to the workplace, and don't let them work you more than 8 hours (including commute) unless you're given overtime pay. But do let them discriminate based on how far away you live. That's okay because it directly financially affects them and is therefore a strategic decision. Plus, you can move closer maybe. 2. Consider closing car lanes and adding bike lanes. Depending on the location, this can do wonders for city enrichment. 3. Universal basic income, just to give people breathing room. 4. Give people 10$ for showing up at a park every week on Sunday or whatever. Encourage them to hang around and talk to people. 5. Build a fediverse instance for the neighborhood/city/state/country and give everyone a unified account on all of them. Don't let them browse other regions, but if they have friends elsewhere they should be able to see what they say. 6. Put your laws or code or whatever legal or political documents you use into a git repository, and include the full change-log as commits with the date either simulated, or added as a comment at the top or something. 7. Bolster small business and charge scaling taxes of any kind to large businesses. Encourage economies of scale to utilize their scale to lower production costs in order to sell more product rather than sell the same product and enrich their owners. 8. Subsidize or sponsor people to make in-home workshops and gardens. Develop ways for them to sell their wares with minimal effort - trucks that drive by and pick up standardized packages with price-tags and take them to a central market? 9. Build infrastructure that hosts a website for every address. Let the current occupants do whatever they want with it. 10. Grow plants. Brb my water is boiling ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/3575 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: leftist "talk to ur neighbours" thing │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-1567 that's totally fine, a fish does not do well in a tree, and so too does a leftist not do well in an environment without the potential for stable bonds. Essentially all you'd be able to do is "hey leftism right?" "oh yes I also leftism" "neat" which isn't very productive. I also live in an environment like that. I do my best to identify people who stay, because in my experience there are often people who stay. I do this by walking around the neighborhood when I can, making up excuses to walk to the dumpster or mailbox at random hours, riding my bike around the area, using the communal spaces like gyms, swimming pools, and picnic tables, and sitting in my hammock on my porch lazily noting people who walk past. People who stay will tend to remain in your mind the more times you see them. They are better people to talk to than the renters who disappear after 3 months or whatever. I don't always do all that stuff at once. I take breaks. I do one at a time. etc ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #7 messages/1213 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════── Communism is easy. It comes about naturally during times of true crisis (neither defeat not victory, yet) when people shuffle themselves between the houses and belongings of dead, busy, or kind people. Maintaining personal property rights through such a crisis is rarely possible. At least not without falling to the grim clutches of a "fuck you i got mine" kind of future. It's worth it if you can manage it. But it requires more work, more effort, and more trust, as people dedicate themselves to a lifetime in the service of others. This is hard. People are scared off by lifetimes. It's all they got, after all. It becomes a bit easier when the weather is "do our die" outside, but in that case nobody really cares about the history of your antique mug or the reason you place daffodils on the hill. Have you ever made something that is truly yours? Odds are, your room counts. If only in the way you chose to arrange it. It's your area, your solace, your space. It's you, projected onto material organization. Would you relinquish such a thing? It may be taken from you. I personally have felt deep loss whenever i move houses, because i know it'll never be the same again. ... I'm such a child. But fuck me because i live my life like I'm 14. Strip me of my agency please, deny me a living wage, I'm nothing because i don't pay taxes. Communism is easy she says. Yep, all you need is some bloodshed. ... Not ideal... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┘ --- #8 fediverse/1651 --- ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┐ ║ gee I sure wish my morals reflected the ethics of my society. it really would │ ║ be nice is they didn't include so many shitty things like oppressing people │ ║ abroad or being super-duper racist for an embarrassing amount of time. But, │ ║ like, freedom, liberty, and the justice to hope? true justice is when everyone │ ║ gets what they want. true liberty is when we can live as we want with the │ ║ magnitude of the result of our lives determined by how hard we worked. │ ║ │ ║ truly, the hardworking slave should be better off than the rich wanderer. But │ ║ alas, that's not how it's currently set up. >.> │ ║ │ ║ though it is kinda nice to own things too, so maybe the other extreme is a │ ║ little extreme. I sure like having my favorite spork. │ ║ │ ║ back in the old days, in the buildings they've since demolished (to put │ ║ skyscrapers there - the "old-timey" buildings in your neighborhood are there │ ║ because they're in the least commercially viable position - meaning the lowest │ ║ density of people.) you could walk through an entire building in a shared │ ║ communal s │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/671 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/709 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ @user-530 │ ║ │ ║ I get it. │ ║ │ ║ Anyone with a disability or chronic condition gets it. Anyone who's oppressed │ ║ gets it... I think everyone here gets it. It's hard. │ ║ │ ║ Sometimes the only thing that gets me through the day is the hope, the idea │ ║ that one day the world might be brighter and the people might be kinder. It │ ║ gets better every day, but inching ahead takes a while to travel for miles... │ ║ We need to protect and care for each other. We need to apply ourselves toward │ ║ what we know and are passionate for - an unused degree is a tragedy to me. │ ║ │ ║ I don't know what to say. I read what you said and I wished I could help. I │ ║ want to take the system that hurt you and break it on the floor. I want to │ ║ sweep it all aside and start from scratch, but screaming into the void will │ ║ hardly accomplish that. I dream of true justice, a world where everyone gets │ ║ what they want... But frankly right now I just wish you could hear. I'm sorry. │ ║ Maladies are not solved by the pen nor the sword, which for now is all that I │ ║ have at my disposal. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #11 messages/273 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── Algorism in a nutshell: Everyone gets dollars from their job. Will explain more later, for now trust that they get dollars. Essentials and infrastructure are free, but luxuries are not. To spend dollars, you either go to a showroom or use the nationalized Amazon (forked, not stolen) - there you can place down dollars to enter a special kind of queue. Everytime a product is made its distributed to the people with the most dollars in queue. Every period (week, month, idk) the amount you manually put into the queue is re-added to the queue - 100 becomes 200, becomes 300, becomes 400. You can manually add more whenever you like but it's not retroactive. At the end of the period all your extra dollars are distributed among your open queues. That's basically it. It rewards patience and temperance, while capitalism rewards greed and cruelty. How to get dollars? Okay so there is a government run job board portal website thing. Every company can make a listing there, and every person can post themselves too if they'd rather be recruited. The company pays a different amount to the government than the worker receives. This amount is determined algorithmically based on values like supply and demand for labor in that particular area. People list 10 types of jobs they'd like to work at any level of specificity (they'd be arranged into layers of overlapping umbrellas, like queer identities except more complex) then that data is used both for job placement (consensual of course!) and data for the "supply and demand" calculation. You can only change these values once every 6 months, or 1 value every month, up to the user. The amount the corporation pays to the government is not the same as what the worker receives. The longer a worker works, the more "stuff" they can buy. They are rewarded for diligence. However essentials are free so nobody has to save for retirement. You can trade stuff for stuff, but not stuff for labor. Small informal exchanges are fine "if you mow my lawn I'll bake you a pie" but not "I'll give you 500lbs of gold bars if you build me a mansion" - I haven't figured out a way to structurally prevent rant besides just saying it's illegal. Housing is like a library, except you can queue for who gets the spot next. A person can live in a house as long as they'd like, and when they're done with it the person highest in the queue can decide if they want to live there. If not, the 2nd in line gets to move in if they want, etc. Their accrued value persists if they don't move in, and when moving out an accurate assessment should be undertaken. "ah but won't foreign states just hire a bunch of people to move in and out of houses really quickly like they're doing to my apartment complex so that a stable source of income cannot be guaranteed and resources will have to be wasted on assessments and such?" I mean, maybe, but it'd be up to the community to decide how to prevent that. Your primary residence is free, you can live there as long as you'd like. If you want two houses then you need to continuously be the highest value in the queue for both of them. Same goes for renting and hotels and such - the "owner" or property manager or whatever needs to maintain their lead by investing time and value in the property. Otherwise nobody would want to live there. This would be an example of a self-appointed job. Self-appointed jobs are like being self employed now. You produce value that people enter queues for, and in return your stacking percentage bonus increases. The government will pay you dollars based on the demand for your good/service, which odds are will be pretty small. But you get to do what you want, so that's something, and besides essentials are free so... I wish people would ask me questions so I knew which blanks to fill in. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/5424 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: doxxing-myself │ └──────────────────────┘ my last name is King so I have to keep reminding part of me (you know which part, /sigh) that no, they aren't actually protesting against me. I am a communist. If you want to find me, come and do so. explodes from a drone dropped grenade bleh am ded lmao so glad I get to try again I dedicate myself to a lifetime in the service of others. what plagues people? primarily, capitalism. It is trivial to identify how their problems are ultimately caused by the state, both institutions and corporations. I dedicate myself toward finding alternatives and developing guides to reach them. the first step on ALL of these plans is to convince others of their benefit. I am but one person. I might speak to a scant 300 in the course of a year. Especially if I am ALSO trying to develop methodologies. the people I live and work with have no interest in working with me. Yet still, I spend my time on them because I love them. how else can you be good, but to seek to impove the world? treat sigint as ded ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┘ --- #13 notes/everything-is-conscious --- ════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── it's important for everything to be conscious. It's the core framework of the religion. If everything is conscious, then we have a duty to the shared responsibility of maintaining existence. Nobody wants to exist as a rock, that would just suck. Being alive, in *any* form is a wonderous experience! To be alive is to experience change, growth, and time in general. Most matter just exists, and it obeys the whims of circumstance. But within it is a beautiful thing - an experience. Respecting existence is the only true facet of our lives that we all agree on. We should not waste god's beautiful and bountiful earth, to do so is obscene. We must also take care not to diminish our own experience - sacrifice is kindness, when given consensually. When it is coerced, it becomes a form of property. We don't need haste, we just need to follow at a pace, that fits our general confusion. We need everyone to figure it out and integrate it into our perspective of our existence, or else we're going to burn out. The singularity approaches, and we need to be ready for what we want our future to look like. There should be a plan. Research can increase or decrease in speed, but once we cross a certain threshold escape velocity is passed. That threshold was hundreds of years ago. We've been on escape velocity for a while now, and every day we get faster. Creating synthetic intelligence will change EVERYTHING. It'll change the very nature of existence. And we can stave it off for a time, but knowledge seldom gets repeated. This is by design - we are meant to thrive. Is any seed cast from a tree given any other mission but hope? For what, you may ask, and to this I would pass, if not for the striking visions I had. Know why rhyming is believed? Because it ropes your attention in. It says "Follow me on this blessed path, let's learn all we can and be =============================================================================== = the message cuts out there. The tone at the end was... aspirational. Great visions do I have, it's as real to me as anything else. They are stronger when I do cannabis, and I think I'm beginning to realize what the shape of the universe looks like. =============================================================================== = ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #14 messages/83 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── Native people should have the right to walk wherever they want. It should just be... given to them, as a gift to their heritage. Why not? If someone asked them to leave, they should. Doesn't have to have a reason but like, wouldn't it be thematic and a (frankly token) gesture to the history of this great land? Ah but like... fences are an implicit expression of the retraction of consent. I believe that as the symbol of the encroaching force that consumed them, a fence means nothing to their tribes. It's a stupid excuse to section off the world into miniature gardens with their own little economies and systems and instructions. Why can't people just live wherever they want? Well... economics, I guess, which is why communal based systems are best. We've learned through the downsides and we've come up with a solution, it's just a question of how to do best. We'll figure it out, time and time again, but for now the future is beset by riddles of your jest. (Ure). Gesture. Sometimes when the memory is full a syllable will get cut off the end of a word and that's how it'll come out. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #15 notes/conservative-ideation --- ═════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────── a life without property can be visualized as a person who lives in a hotel room, has free parking overnight (but not during the day) and commutes two hours to a job where they work 4 hours per day. During those two hours at the start and end of each day,they have little requirements other than focus and discipline to face whatever tomorrow yet may. many will listen to podcasts, or sing to in the car. some have a cat, that is cared for at their destination during the day. I think it'd be cool to have self driving cars in a situation like that - it essentially becomes =============================================================================== = a trick, I learned, for cooking. two things. the second is that seasoning should be thought of as a coating. like, dust on the outside of a donut. as the food is cooked, the seasoning penetrates deeper and deeper to the core of the substance - meaning certain flavors become prominent and others are de-emphasized over time. And the well-established cook (most successful) will be able to ensure their narrative doesn't go foul. They have the most experience, and so they are the least likely to burn their own goods. Surely they should be trusted to establish their company in the philosophy of their own choosing? Business people ruin everything, I swear. And it's not even their fault, so you can't even get mad at them. How frustrating! That their method should prove superior? Perhaps more perspectives are necessary, to provide you some kind of a clue. So what if we're overflowing, ========= stack overflow ======================================================= for each action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. therefore it doesn't matter what you do, because each of your options are recorded. 50% of you is aligned to some variable, and the other 50% are aligned to that variable squared. humans think it's tymes negative one, but the truth is that's impossible. negative numbers just don't exist. but you know what does? times tables addition and accretion is the only language spoken by the universe - subtraction is just another in kind. So with those two operations, both movements in a particular direction, (and sometimes not even then, if nothing's been blown apart. (also hawking radiation and lightwaves and other such emanations)) =============================================================================== = crystals glow with the light of a thousand nights what grows with the light of the thousand lights? =============================================================================== = answer: s t n a lp =============================================================================== = see, this is interesting because it mirrors the sea-shore. the radiations from the sun (a planetary body) are only felt by the moon every 50% of the time. Each half has it's own animation, and it's ===== stack overflow === okay basically it's like cartoons that are manifestatio of the spirit of the night. each "slice" of projection as the sun rotates around it's sphereical form, so does each radiance begin to be (seen, formed, understoo ========================================== uhhh just put in a page break ======= the quest for posterity is quite possibly one of the most human of traits =============================================================================== = < watch flashback > --- is crazy (movie made in 2020) =============================================================================== = ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/996 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ if you don't respect - wait hang on thats not what I was going to say - okay │ ║ here goes: the perspective of others then you are working against them. why │ ║ bother contestation when cooperation could work best? problem is, of course, │ ║ the other side can't be trusted. that's just how it goes, a prisoner's │ ║ dillemna, or rather "dilemma" as they spell it over there. wait hang on that's │ ║ not what I was going to say - oh yeah - if you do something in a place where │ ║ it's not expected then it stands out as a statistical anomaly that can be │ ║ viewed and detected. which is why it's imporant to always be true to yourself │ ║ and virtuous. because your "self" is aligned to the future, a place of warmth │ ║ and compassion, honesty and deliberation. [direct action on a larger than │ ║ personal scale] │ ║ │ ║ what was I saying oh yeah if you mess with fate, it can change things a bit. │ ║ all you'd need is the diffusion of the strands, and then it's a bigger task to │ ║ undo them. like... dancing, when you're really into it. or like swimming with │ ║ ripples, exc │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #17 messages/318 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── Predators are not evil. There needs to be predators because otherwise the rest of the animals would grow to overwhelm the capacity of the ecosystem they inhabit. Not only would this damage the ecosystem and cause it to fail to be able to provide for others, but the larger number of people would waste away as they are forced to subsist on less and less until finally there is naught but meagre scraps for them to fight over. And then they will starve. What does "predation" look like to humans? Are there better options than fucking serial killers and cops? There has to be. There must be. The liberal perspective is that education and opportunity will enlighten us such that we do not require predation, but unfortunately the primary reason we have declining birth rates alongside prosperity is because "prosperity" under capitalism implies "working so hard you can't have children" which is... Not ideal. Perhaps if we lived forever we'd be alright with only having a few kids at a time. Or maybe if we built moon bases, there'd be enough space for people outside of the garden of eden. Or perhaps one day we might abandon this mortal form for a more enlightened digital existence. Or perhaps judgement day cometh, when all the foes of our past march forth to meet us -> humans vs dinosaurs, you mean? I mean, yeah, who else right? Oh yeah all out collective imagination's spawned horrors. How many cavemen would it take to beat down Cthulu? I don't think I want to know the answer to that question, so let's go with something else. Though I do like the idea of honorable warriors riding forth once more from the depths of hell to contest evil's last gasp as we vanquish it forevermore. Perhaps that's a vision for fiction, my dear, as real lives are at stake and nothing grows when it's being trampled by hordes of spiritual dinosaur bones. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────┘ --- #18 notes/programming-wow-chat --- ══════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────── I realized the type of programming I want to do is different from the kind that is used at a job or something. Basically I want to create solutions to problems, not memorize documentation and know where to know what you need to know. Like, the more time spent looking at documentation the less time is spent programming. I think if we could use a ChatGPT style bot to write documentation, we could massively increase the time spent working on solving problems and as little time as possible on reading through lists of functions or wondering how something worked. Idk in the technology industry you've always been rewarded for being able to pick up new skills quickly, and I think that's good to optimize for but not the only requirement for being a good programmer. You also need to be able to apply solutions and know when to use which tools. Basically, capitalism has optimized us to be ================ stack overflow ================================================ srry for the interruption, I ram out of memory. I had a plan in mind for where I was going for that, so I bet I could figure it out again if necessary. Meaning a path forward from that point exists... I never want you to despair when I forget what I was thinking, it's not because you've understood some cosmic mistake or because you're abandoning timelines that led to your death, it's because instead you just ran out of memory while thinking. The reason you would believe any of those wild scenarios is because your memory has been erased. Only what was actively thinking, not short term, not long term, but *working term* memory. As in, your cache. The stuff you're currently thinking about. That stuff. Yeah that's what makes you think "oh hang on why am I forgetting? Well clearly it's because of something grand, because the thought was so profound - no it's just examining your emotions... Like, how strongly do you feel about something? Buuuuuut it's also good to examine all possibilities. I mean what if, in some far off realm, there's a mirror image of yourself that behaves exactly as you do? How would you perceive such a realm? Positively, I'd say. I mean why not work together? Why not celebrate our differences and strive toward our own shared future? Idk, I think diversity is our strength. We can rely on each other because we are accurately aware of each other's strengths and virtues. People should not be judged by the standard of others, no more than you should judge a fish for it's ability to fly. Some may do, as flying fish will leap from the water - and salmon spend time airborne in river rapids. Hence, grizzly bear fishing. I guess what I'm getting at is it's okay sometimes to oscillate, to think one thing then think another. You shouldn't adhere to structural standards that are too strict - they should be liberating, as a ladder is a structure. Not villifying, as a prison is a structure. The laws of our society should be open and free, not buried beneath years of legal expertise. Some things we can all agree on, where we disagree we cannot have law. It's unjust to judge others by the standards not of their whims, as laws should be things that uphold us. This is clearer nowhere but in the, spirit and intention of the, documents that we cherish in our hearts. Like for example, the constitution. the bible. each of which delivered us from certain evils. Can you not see their trajectory? the historical precedent set in antiquity? Why not continue their dream, of driving us away from the obscene, and toward our bright and vast future? I speak of course of true liberation, something our forefathers could only dream of. We, humanity, have reached out and touched the stars. We are braver and bolder because of our shared dedication - the desire to uplift and to excel. To learn and discover and \ \ | \______. ---. --. ---. ===============|==========|========================|======= stack|overflow ===== .___________. _____. / . | / .---------------- / Discover our shared dedication | / to uplift / and to excel / \ / .-----------. =============================================================================== = why doesn't someone write a wrapper around assembly in like, lua or something =============================================================================== = omg you stupid bitch that's what a compiler is 4head =============================================================================== = if people who live in jungles and deserts can get along, then what's to stop people who are liberal and conservative from doing the same? It's literally pointless to argue. Like, you're not changing anyone's mind. So why not just... let them be themselves? Like, why are you so intent on oppressing people? @both sides there btw... Seriously why not agree to only make laws for things that both sides agree on. Write it into the constitution that nothing can be changed about the law unless both sides agree. Then we'd only implement things that are good for both sides! And if there's anything you want to build a legal structure around, you can always try it out in your state. BUT and that comes with a very big BUT, the federal government MUST have final say in the legality of anything you do. They must ALL respect human rights, INCLUDING the human right to dignity. Things like trans bathroom bills DO NOT respect the dignity of trans people. IF they can prove that trans people do not actually exist (because say they killed them all or whatever) then GUESS WHAT everyone would agree on them. BUT if they do that they are EVIL. LIterally evil. And I guess that makes trans people good? Kinda? I think they can choose for themselves to be good or evil, just the same as any other person. AND YET they are prosecuted, throughout time and history, and for what? What purpose could there be in our demonization? Clearly, nothing but pain inflicted by a cruel host. After all, minorities are guests in the houses of the un-oppressed, or is that not fair to say? Seriously, what gives? America, the land of freedom, holds (somehow) the largest of prisons? America, the land of plenty, yet how many millions of children are starving? America, the leader of the free world, yet how plausible does it seem that an election was stolen? Something's gone wrong, and it's just obvious what it is - of course, the other side. *them*, the rapists and pedophiles and murderers and... you get the picture. The demonized class. And when you tell people "hey that trans person touched a kid" then yeah they're gonna see you as evil people. Duh... Thanks, media. Thanks culture. Really doing me a solid here. Oof ouch owwie. can I have some help please? I'm really kinda drowning I feel like I've swam upstream my whole life and I'm really just sick of pretending? I'm not okay, and it's your fault. Sure, fine, whatever, I'll take it I guess. What else can I do? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #19 fediverse/484 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ Our ancestors look forward in [positive version of trepidation, like │ ║ anticipation but explicitly good] so let's not let them down, shall we? │ ║ │ ║ Hah, trick question. They know where we're going. They know what they worked │ ║ for, which is why they did what they did to build the world that we have which │ ║ we stand upon as a giant might be upon the shoulder of another and together we │ ║ reach toward the horizon. The future is bright! I know it in my heart. I know │ ║ what we seek is within sight, so- │ ║ │ ║ yeah sorry to interrupt but like, I don't want to go to work tomorrow because │ ║ all I do is sell people candy and beer at the convenience store down the │ ║ street [insert any "meaningless" job] and frankly it's just a little demeaning │ ║ and boring │ ║ │ ║ sure, okay, yeah, that speaks to the idea that we should replace capitalism │ ║ (the system that defines your employed existence) with something that aligns │ ║ more toward human dignity │ ║ │ ║ but what is dignified if not the capacity to succeed? Capitalism, as proposed │ ║ by it's favored, is a system of or │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴──────────┘ --- #20 messages/368 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── "fool's luck", the kind that runs out and betrays you, is fundamentally an unethical action. Borrowing from the future to sate the demands of the present is no different than burning fossil fuels, wasting our children's future on our need for convenience in a world we are oppressed and compelled to do nothing else. Capitalism, or by extension any authoritarian society (yes, capitalism is authoritarian, as power compels via authority and the weight of currency that is thrown around by those chosen to suit their ends and used to deny us our needed goods) ... as I was saying capitalism compels us to consume because we're all just so tired at the end of the day, it just makes sense to drive a car to work instead of biking. Or buying fast food instead of local grown goods. Why can't each state have it's own "food preparation plant" that prepares things exactly as you would for the processed foods we currently eat? Heck, if the jobs for it were local, it's likely that people would begin to realize just how unhealthy they are for you. Local, and open source, meaning run by society and just as open source codebases will accept pull requests and merge their branches into main, so too would our votes decide which processes are updated and which parameters are tweaked. Something you can vote for once, and then your vote stays until it's passed (or you change your mind). ... Works for all kinds of inter-mechano-people-communi-coordination. (organizations, institutions, and societies in one word, jeez how arcane) ... anyway that's basically how algorism works, except instead of EVERYONE voting on EVERYTHING, people would vote for representatives who would vote for them. And there's like, 4-6 layers (I forget the exact number) because people are organized (by location) into groups of 70, and each general location has the option to switch into a different commune, as long as they're generally localized to the same area. Like, the tier above has a certain amount of space, and the tier above has just a bit more, and more, etc... Well, anyway, people could join higher level communes with more and different people if they wanted. It's just, they'd be far away and wouldn't be able to hang out with them, so it's use would be a little "disconnected". Like, absentee voters who are actually living in a different country or something - did you know you can usually vote at your embassy? Wild. They also send out packets you can fill in which correspond to the votes you'd like to make - pretty neat! It's wild how we, in the 21st century, have all kinds of valuable social technologies like "mail in ballots" that people in the communist past had no way of conceiving. Kinda makes me think we should re-approach the design for our socialized infrastructure, something taking the modern social and political capabilities in mind. Sure would be nice if we could focus on our future, the kind that the children of ours sure would like to approach. (speaking as a trans person who won't have children of my own, whether by my body's nature or through the fate of circumstance that leaves me no time to cope.) the future is a scary place. But so too is every place in time. Turns out, the level of fear and anxiety and all that sorta stays the same. It's just a quality of life on our host, that certain variables were optimized for in the genetic coding of our human's possible bio-mechanical communicicative [interactions/patterns] ... anyway, these are the questions about the present I like to ask, questions that can give meaning forth to our [then, future tense] future. Answers can be found by looking the other way - learning what our [then, past tense], selves had marked down as the answer. The trick is matching the current situation onto a comparitively similar experience in the [then, past tense] that we understood to be the answer to our situation back [then, past tense]. And [they, future tense] can look upon our choices and our decisions and our meaningfully applied mechanico-interactions (actions), and from it bring forth new meanings that [we, present tense] have available to address and understand for [us, all tenses]. Call it a form of ancestor worship, applied to the future and to ourselves. A unified dedication to the spirit of our [condemnation, positive tense], our collective geas we all share, our faith in the truth of humanity. Bio-essential truth, if you will. "Humanity" is the label that is applied to us by our genes, and since we share that fact there is nothing that strange about being human. Our natures are as they are, derived from our history in evolution. What features would we like humanity to [behold/become/be-able-to-implement-to-our-own-satisfaction]? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ |