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what if there was a drone that did nothing except fly directly between you and
the sun so you never got sunburned and never got vitamindeed
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[she must be at home because she doesn't use mastodon while mobile]
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--- #1 fediverse/6133 ---
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if there were a drone, 15 feet above my face constantly observing, I would not
act different *at all*. It will feel as if nothing has changed.
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--- #2 fediverse/4722 ---
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what if I stayed inside all day and closed my eyes and pretended to be made
out of water
at least 70% give or take when I take a drink
of water, because soda corrodes your insides just a tiny little bit, while
water washes away the goop they feed us, grown from polluted fields that never
asked for this
I yearn for the fantasy of a life unrequited
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if the sun rose in the west one day, do you think anybody would notice?
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║ what if you bought me a refrigerated semi truck and I drove it around to rural │
║ communes and took their extras and brought it into the city to urban communes │
║ and gave it all away for free and then took the stuff that the urban communes │
║ scrounged from the trash and cleaned and repaired and brought it to the rural │
║ communes along with their art and poems and artistic nudes and exchanged it │
║ for their canned peaches and knitted scarves and drove it back to the urban │
║ communes and exchanged them for vintage furniture and computer parts that we │
║ didn't have room for because cities are dense and lack the space for keeping │
║ historical artifacts and then took them to the rural communes to exchange for │
║ jalapenos and goat cheese which I then brought back to the urban communes and │
║ traded for a bunch of catgirls who visited a rural farmhouse and threw a │
║ kick-ass rave for the rural people who are totally into that kind of thing │
║ like, once per year because frankly they moved to the country to get away from │
║ the noise thank you ve │
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people are afraid of robo dogs but... like...
robo-horses
centaurs even
[scary scary ogre]
rarrraaar i'm gonna eat ur bones
bwahahaha evil necromancer
ahhhhhhh scary
-- stack overflow --
did you know in the movie They Live they give a fairly specific formula to
creating the glasses themselves? I wonder if anyone's tried that
I wonder what they then did see
kinda wish big corporations would use their research division to like, rethink
the oldest of prophecies? or okay hear me out or solve difficult human problems
... ah but where's the profit "she's getting stoned at home"
meanwhile she made something of such beauty she felt simply sublime
I wonder what it'd feel like to get your spine replaced with a metal rod
I bet my posture would be amazing
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you, right now:
"what the... who would doxx her."
me, in 2 weeks:
"what the... who would doxx me?"
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║ what if all the followers on your profile who only know you through the │
║ fediverse (after having known each other in person, this part is crucial) who │
║ don't talk anymore were like, killed and replaced with someone who is always │
║ busy │
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║ so many people just... disappear from things │
║ │
║ where did they go │
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║ why is their chair empty or filled with another │
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║ why can't I place their name │
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║ what kind of clothes did they wear │
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║ oh right they had such-and-such │
║ boots-or-piece-of-adorn-jewelry-handheld-possession-just-the-same-shape-as-some │
║ one-i-knew │
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║ then I heard they gave them to so-and-so so that they could wear them for clout │
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║ ah, well, I guess they're busy, got stuff going on, things to write about │
║ today... Guess I better hear the story, what's the news, ah, well, okay, guess │
║ I'll go back to programming. │
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║ I wonder what she'd say? │
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║ if everyone knows the gay agenda, then they can work on it by being gay and │
║ doing crime │
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what if your roomba brought you the cable from behind the computer and/plugged
you in to the right port
"hey can I get an access panel over here"
[plugs in headphone jack]
boom suddenly TV is muted for everyone else
need to connect to something remotely? here's a line to your aunt jane. it
goes directly to her. right over the cable that's connected to whoeverplace
she'd find herself [from here far afield]
I personally think rooms should be bigger?
why are there small bedrooms? build more, not better, space
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║ what if we pooled our money and bought an apartment building and put 10 people │
║ in each two bedroom apartment but reserved like, 20% of the apartments for │
║ common spaces and designed each one around a theme and shared chores and │
║ shared our SNAP budgets and each paid like, 200$ for rent and gave away all of │
║ the stuff we made with our hobbies and handled conflict with radical empathy │
║ and had movie nights where we watched movies about socialism and trains and │
║ bugs and stars │
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║ what if we went into the forest and LARPed as french resistance fighters under │
║ nazi occupation and practiced peeing on trees and starting fires and moving as │
║ a team and firing rifles without hitting our friends and staying oriented as │
║ we changed directions and dug trenches and built treehouses that were nearly │
║ invisible from the ground and didn't radiate heat because they were covered in │
║ mylar or whatever │
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║ what if we made decentralized, encrypted, anonymous communications and │
║ practiced speaking in code and dropping letters and writing "poetry" │
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what if we hired each other and paid in rent and vegetables
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okay what if we bio-engineered a shield that would grow around your nuts
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would you feet a cat at your door?
how about a crow?
would you water a dying plant? (don't, they get waterlogged if the soil is
already moist)
what if a dear
what if dear food
what if bear
what if bear food
what if dogpack
what if dogpackfoodtearchompbitepullsavor
I'd feeeed my self but dollars and errands are hard : (
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What if we just banished people who broke the rules? Then nobody would rarely
get hurt. [do they take care of them elsewhere?]
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what if we put extremely unrepentant and violent criminals, the true dangers
to society, into a zoo-like enclosure where they could talk to the public.
and, if the public wanted, they could be released.
then, everyone else can be TRAINED AND DRILLED AND FORCED TO OBEY THE
TASKMASTTERS WHIP gently and politely informed that their behavior is NOT
HELPING CAM heh sorry
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can we compromise by napping in the hammock?
"beware sunburn"
oooookay, how about brushing our hair?
"the warmth will melt the seamen in your hair and make it easier to brush"
SEBUM. It will melt the SEBUM in my hair.
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if you live far enough away, they can build a telescope of arbitrary
magnification. the sky is vast, there's birds and bugs about. huh what's that
over there, a thing that was placed there just for me
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║ honest question: if they cut off internet to a medium sized town like │
║ Nashville or Spokane and man-in-the-middled every attempted communication out │
║ and sabatoged any plans to visit... they could kill everyone in that city and │
║ replace them with an LLM that sorta posted the mostly correct things, and if │
║ users comment things like "hey are you okay you don't sound like yourself" │
║ then just have a human operator study their data for a bit and pretend to be │
║ them using deepfakes over zoom or whatever. Then, any time they say "I miss │
║ you, I want to visit you" just say "darn I'm actually visiting my grandma in │
║ afghanistan" or "sorry my cousin is visiting from peru" and suddenly they're │
║ completely isolated and alone. Oh and their teams at work? Cut off from the │
║ rest of the corporation who doesn't even know they exist. how, uh, how would │
║ you even notice if all these people who live around you were suddenly replaced │
║ by those you don't know? What if they cycle through, like a slaughterhouse... │
║ I don't want to │
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what if there were wildlife crossings (bridges over highways) but underneath
each house for the creepy crawlies
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what if we bought homeless people gasoline for their c~
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I don't know about you, but if I lived in a suburban house I'd probably forget
the rest of the world even existed.
Aside from the parts I see on the internet, of course. But the internet's
always been a psyop, so how valuable is it really?
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║ if the government/the nsa/ an organization had your password, they could │
║ migrate you to another custom instance that was designed to look exactly like │
║ 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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║ first they came for the bishop, and nobody knew who could spiritually lead │
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║ then they came for education, and nobody knew what was suddenly true. │
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║ then they came for the de-market-ation-ists, and nobody knew how social │
║ communities grew. │
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║ then they came for the afghan, the jew, then the mexican, then the [bastard] │
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║ then it was up to you and me, to love and get through. does that philosophy │
║ win? every cuddly cat has fangs. │
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║ herding cats is one thing. │
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║ herding 600 catgirls is much more social. │
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║ "oops brb gotta pee" said the girl-witch, and suddenly she's disappeared and │
║ you're like "well alright then" │
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║ "are witches evil?" said the darling with favorable hair, "sure, I can be │
║ evil. What do you think it'll get for thee? wouldn't ye prefer sweet?" │
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║ I really want to bio-engineer my scalp to produce a certain type of nutrients │
║ and fed to bio-organically-engineered grass-stalks which are masoned on by an │
║ architect to the surface of your scalp. │
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║ it'd be sooooooo cool to grow grass for hair │
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║ especially if it tasted good │
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do you ever just look at the sky and think "who gave you the right to be a
single color? in this world of infinite complexity, how dare you be the one
thing with a consistent color?" and then the sun sets and you think "ohhhh I
get it now, the color is always changing"
meanwhile the sky is shaking it's head like "bro, no, I'm just the scattered
diffusion of light waves from the sun. The sky is black."
and the earth spins on...
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you can guide a person's life experiences by controlling what life experiences
you put them through. if a certain reaction or moment of attention is keyed to
a certain experience, you can always intercede. a person losing their home, in
whatever way shape or [form, but pronounced forum], then you can give them each
option to proceed. like a text based storyline, given day-to-day by an
LLM-processing and co-creating bot.
one day for 365 years, then you are this many years old. each year of which
includes a change in style or form.
the yearstones are milestones, as you've walked this far upon life.
[hey guys what if women can blow up their boobs like air balloons and they just
don't do it when any guy is watching] [sister code]
... this far among life, chosen as you please, based on what most mattered to
thee.
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what if words were made up and we communicated in plausible deniabilities
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what if everyone on earth meditated for 24 hours together
do you think we would meld into a collective consciousness
or do you think we'd develop world peace?
either way that's like, one single day, and even if it doesn't work out
exactly as planned, it's worth a shot, I think
ah, well, I forgot about the people who haven't had the "the world is stranger
than you'd expect" revelation. maybe those hippies who wanted to put LSD in
the water supply were onto something.
*you can't force transcendence, you stupid girl*
hey at least I'm trying
*do something material like feeding homeless people or farting on cybertrucks*
... I don't think that'll fix anything.
*why don't you find out*
because cybertrucks can't smell
*it's the thought that counts*
okay what if I just think about it really hard
*that doesn't count*
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║ any laptop can be a thin-client to a computer system of arbitrary complexity. │
║ All it's doing is issuing commands. I wonder what we could do with a │
║ "species-computer" or, hear me out, or we could figure out how to do that on │
║ ourselves, first, to A. see how it works and B. do so out of hand. If there │
║ are backups of yourself stored in the │
║ │
║ if furries are a type of pearl (steven-universe style) and flowers are a type │
║ of pearl (layers of sedimentate on layerings upon) then what else is there a │
║ flower to be but the prettiest thing there can be? │
║ │
║ what if we genetically engineered roses to pierce and strangle the invasive │
║ ivy and wow for a week in whenever there's roses of this type and kind. I mean │
║ there's already tons of blackberries, why not just swap them out for │
║ marionberries and embrace the bramble? │
║ │
║ could make houses out of dense bramble. they are quite an effective wall. And │
║ so long as the sounds are muffled enough, you can always be forever safe from │
║ harm. │
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║ "whoops, dropped my laundry" │
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we should put a big ass-mirror in space so nerds with telescopes can take
earth-selfies
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"hey you're cool, can I get your socials?"
sure, I mostly post on the fediverse
"what's that"
oh, like... Mastodon
"oh, no haha I meant like a real social media"
ah. well I make comments on Reddit sometimes.
*you make them sound like a jerk*
no they're cool they're just misinformed. the fediverse is the future, or
like, something like it, I'm sure. who wants to go back to capitalism? not me
hehe
... I'm getting silly, gonna go to sleep.
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"what if we all took showers at the same time so nobody could ~~hear the
screams~~"
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what if we paid people to answer questions about their life?
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║ if they could put a camera behind your screen they could direct your attention │
║ however they wisdeed. magic doesn't work unless it's instantly halted, that's │
║ why it's magic. trans girls still get brotherhood. (sometimes) │
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║ don't teach me how your way works │
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║ tell me how to do my way right │
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║ -- stack overflow -- │
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║ "hello tech company that I work at, can you buy me a camping set complete with │
║ tent, sleeping back, and storage compartments for attachements full of gear? │
║ you can have any profits I make from it" │
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║ "hello civilian supply company that I work at, can I use the printable budget │
║ for creating magazines in my design? I'll let the lawyers distribute the │
║ expenditure." │
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║ "hi grocery farm, can you make us more peaches we can let [our/your] │
║ biochemists figure out any practical problems to growing them in these │
║ climates" │
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If robots and AI and space colonies and monorails and solarpunk beauty are
part of our future history, wouldn't you rather build a world that you'd like
to live in and automate it toward that vision of beauty,
rather than build the robots that automate our current society, with all it's
flaws and woes?
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