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 What if we taxed 100% of a farmer's profit so they were forced to sell their
 goods at 100% market rate with no markups and we paid them based on how much
 food they produced based on market factors that are calculated and constantly
 updated according to expected and desired demand
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse/1777 ---
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 what if we taxed land not by charging money to keep it but rather by taking
 some of it and giving it to the bureau of land management
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--- #2 fediverse/2045 ---
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 what if we taxed every ounce of resource that companies wasted
 
 (maybe with a multiplier for the current relative value of the substance -
 diamonds are more valuable than apples per pound)
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--- #3 fediverse/3711 ---
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 what if instead of spending most of our paycheck on rent we spent most of it
 on food so that our food could be higher quality
 
 "but then people will starve because they can't afford food"
 
 okay how about we make food free and tax it
 
 "but then people will be fed by MY tax dollars and what if I don't want to use
 the services that the tax dollars are paying for"
 
 oh you don't want to eat, do you? or do you just not want THEM to eat? I hope
 leopards eat your face
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--- #4 fediverse/374 ---
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 @user-278 
 
 kinda makes me think it'd be nice if we had some way to quantify the amount
 that employers taxed their employees? If people saw 50-70% of their paycheck
 going straight toward executive bonuses and stock buybacks or whatever...
 maybe then we'd fix things
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--- #5 messages/584 ---
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 Crucially, which implied a constant, reliable profit of 20%.
 
 Farmers could live like kings, so long as they only tended to themselves.
 
 We don't have to conglomerate, but it helps when we do.
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 > <@gabrilend:matrix.org> What if we... Ballots, bodies, militia and?
 
 Jobs are how they deprive us of time and energy.
 
 Rent is how they deprive us of value.
 
 Fox news is how they deprive us of a well regulated militia (and point it at
 our feet)
 
 Sugar laced foods are how they turn our bodies against us 
 
 Ballots are how they deprive us of faith 
 
 Schools are how they take our curiosity, as teachers are not given freedom to
 fully explain.
 
 Meh... There's so many more. It's pointless to elaborate.
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--- #7 fediverse/4192 ---
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 whyyyyyyy am I cursed with this 1024 character limit
 
 why can't it be like, 16 characters total. I think that'd limit my thoughts
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 if you want to solve EVERY housing issue in the United States, at least in the
 short and mid-term, add a ramping tax penalty for unoccupied houses that
 doesn't reset to 0 upon being occupied but rather starts ticking down at the
 same rate that it increases.
 
 Something like 0.5% to 1% of the property value for every month it's gone
 unoccupied as a primary residence.
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 @user-1074 
 
 georgism is pretty similar to liberalism if I understand it correctly. I think
 it could be a neat simple way to say "hey what if we taxed landlords" and
 that's good enough for a start.
 
 by no means is it the desired end-state, though.
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--- #11 fediverse/3030 ---
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 @user-570 
 
 ooooo separating additive and multiplicative, I love that. I do like
 specificity unless "increased" and "more" always corresponds to +10% and +50%,
 or if the "rate of increase" is a stat stored on the character then
 "increased" could increase quality by however-many percentage,, while "more"
 could be "more soldiers" x(charisma_stat)
 
 I tend to think of percentages like "0-100 (or more) stacks" of a particular
 effect, so I think that's just how my brain works... xD clumping them up into
 discrete groups - like, anti-abstracting, or measuring things that are just a
 few.
 
 "is this belt better than this one?"
 
 "is this pair of tongs 
 
 even for larger buffs like +10% or +50% or whatever, those are just... 10
 stacks, or if percentages are usually round numbers like +10% and +50% then
 like... +1 stack which calculates to +10%
 
 the hard limit vs math limit thing you said is amazing ^_^
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--- #12 fediverse/1764 ---
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 Okay okay hear me out - but what if instead of  pumping oil out of the ground,
 we shoved a bunch of tree trunks down there and let them marinate for a few
 thousand years
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--- #13 fediverse/1622 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 yeah, fair enough... Mine was like 20$ for a year but that's like, 10% of your
 rice and bean budget so yeah don't do that
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--- #14 fediverse/38 ---
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 @user-36 ideally you'd convert to an arbitrary base (in this case 9) and shift
 from there, but shifting two places might work. idk I haven't thought about it.
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--- #15 fediverse/2639 ---
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 Lua is 100% better than Python in every way, fite me
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--- #16 fediverse_boost/4588 ---
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  @user-220 The other day @user-1704 posted a poll about "If your employer had a Mastodon server for staff, would you use it?" and I just want to say that if a company had a Mastodon server where all their engineers posted foone-style rants, I would be 1000% more likely to give that company my business.  
  
                                                            
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--- #17 messages/410 ---
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 How about when you hire foreign labor (offshoring) you have to pay taxes on
 every dollar cheaper the labor is when compared to hiring a similar domestic
 employee. Those taxes are used to pay down the national debt specifically on
 debt owed to the nation you're hiring from. If there is no debt, then it is
 given as a gift, as a form of tribute to those who would develop such valuable
 employees.
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--- #18 fediverse/2844 ---
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 @user-831 
 
 those billionaires are using their money as a weapon to "vote" toward what
 companies they think capitalism would most grow from. Unfortunately for us,
 they often aren't very efficient because they're only looking at what sells.
 
 human interest is not the only factor to optimize for, and yet that's the only
 one they're incentivized to.
 
 kinda makes me think that the only reason to replace them would be to
 institute something that could not be incentivized because it was more
 objective or decentralized.
 
 (the only reason they'd accept)
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 if you give me 1000$ I will dine with you for a week.
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--- #20 fediverse/2640 ---
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 capitalism is like if your thread allocator gave 90% of the work to 10% of the
 threads in the pool and your tech lead claimed it was more efficient because
 the remaining 90% of threads would have the results of the program "trickle
 down" to them somehow
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--- #21 messages/968 ---
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 what if you painted every house twice, to ensure you got the color completely
 applied [ bright green or yellow would shine through in little spots, clear
 and obvious to even the most undiscerning of patrons of the arts
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--- #22 messages/1063 ---
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 What if instead of listing food in our ingredients as a paragraph we instead
 listed them in tab-separated-rows-by-columns like excel spreadsheets except
 with justifications for everything has its place in the ingredient dish.
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--- #23 fediverse/5039 ---
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 leftists be like "what if everyone was fed" and the response is "ah but what
 if they gave us some of their stuff first"
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--- #24 messages/141 ---
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 Why would we say not to divide by zero? We literally do it every time we use
 the percent sign smh [silly]
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--- #25 fediverse/2429 ---
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 something I made in 10 minutes
 
 literally 10 minutes
image of a unicorn, surrounding by allies, piercing and shattering a nazi flag.  there are words present to the side. they read:  "shatter" "you are stronger than they think you are" "time is ticking for them"
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--- #26 fediverse/3736 ---
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 what if we made cat little boxes with stable "pillars" or "platforms" that
 rise just barely above the sand level so their feet don't sink into the
 litter, thus reducing the amount tracked onto the carpet
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--- #27 messages/200 ---
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 What if you were required to own stock for a minimum of 10 years after buying
 it and the government would buy it from you when it crossed 50% of what you
 bought it for
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--- #28 messages/565 ---
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 What if we told teachers to teach lessons like "the urgency of time" or "the
 frailty of life" or "divide and conquer" or whatever
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--- #29 fediverse/3156 ---
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 our economy is not tuned to how much we can work, but rather to the minimum we
 need to recover.
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--- #30 fediverse/5081 ---
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 what if mastodon recorded the date and time of every time you boosted /
 unboosted something so you can keep track of what your page looked like over
 time [in the export data functionality]
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--- #31 fediverse/1739 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 oh, you mean the "/100" button? saves three keypresses I guess!
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--- #32 fediverse/4341 ---
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 if you've liked 100 of my posts in the past, I automatically assume you're
 subconsciously liking them still. Do you really expect anything else from me?
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--- #33 fediverse_boost/666 ---
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 hey. wanna know what would be really cursed?
 
 --
 
 if trump dropped out and musk took his place
 
 --
 
 good thing it'll never happen because those dinguses can't accept defeat and
 will never tactically retreat
 
 --
 
 maybe something to keep in mind for 4 years from now. eyes on the prize for
 now means our eyes aren't to our flanks.
 
 what else could they do that would come out of left field?
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 when they say "capitalism is a competitive game" what they mean is "capitalism
 is a game where everyone wins when someone else loses" and what we hear is
 "capitalism is a game of trying to screw you out of as much money as possible"
 and the truth is "capitalism is a game that you can't play" because 95% of the
 people who will read this toot are not stock-owners.
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--- #36 fediverse/3388 ---
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 what if they made grass only able to be cut with horizontal strikes and pots
 only able to be smashed with vertical
 
 to encourage the player to learn the difference
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--- #37 fediverse/5165 ---
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 if the settlers of catan could claim land they don't deserve, then I claim my    │
 home                                                                             │
 can you imagine... some people would actually rather live in a corporation       │
 than a mobile home. maybe we can do better?                                      │
 "hey we're going to ask for a % of your wage in rent and in return we'll         │
 deliver groceries to you and grow roses instead of lawns (except for some to     │
 run and play in) and also we'll show up if you need a hand with anything"        │
 "also this apartment block was renovated after all the liberals moved out        │
 because we made it totally trash to live here and now that they're gone we can   │
 make it nice again"                                                              │
 what if we had punk-house-streets instead of punk-houses which are islands and   │
 which slowly drown                                                               │
 just... pool resources and buy things one-at-a-time. Try out organization        │
 methods. Watch out for controversy creators and reactionary infiltrators.        │
 Build your most important projects with your most trusted friends, and offer     │
 your clinical, professional, or creative talent to those who dont need you as    │
 much.                                                                            │
 or w/e works                                                                     │
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--- #38 fediverse_boost/5147 ---
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--- #39 fediverse/1313 ---
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 if we had a universal basic income then we could pay each other to solve our
 problems and they just can't have that.
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 If supply and demand were real laws that guided the invisible hand of our
 economy, then housing would have gotten cheaper after COVID.
 
 And yet, time and again, that hand is shown to be nothing more than greed.
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--- #41 fediverse_boost/668 ---
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--- #42 fediverse/581 ---
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 @user-428 
 
 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor
 that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I
 could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes
 drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or...
 
 something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an
 image that could be edited.
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--- #43 fediverse/65 ---
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 if something makes sense physically, but not mathematically, then the
 mathematics are wrong.
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--- #44 messages/89 ---
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 Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
 you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
 may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
 ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
 mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
 collective mind co-re-assigns.
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 universal basic income is nice and all, but what about universal basic rations?
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--- #46 fediverse/44 ---
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 @user-36 So, you're saying the tally system doesn't make sense, and instead
 what I suggested for base zero is instead base 1?
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--- #47 fediverse/212 ---
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 [2] players who played better should be compensated to a higher degree. no
 more than +/- 50-100% or so - this encourages players to "play their best"
 while also keeping the stakes relatively similar.
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--- #48 fediverse/1595 ---
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 all apartment doors should have a 100% local webcam next to the eye-hole that
 only the resident can see. Not even wireless data transfer allowed. But simple
 enough to be programmable with a bash script. In addition, the entire building
 should have cameras that only the people who live there can view (just like,
 the parking lot and such) so they can watch for raccoons.
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--- #49 messages/404 ---
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 They don't build toll roads to abstract taxes. They build them to keep track
 of where you're going.
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--- #50 fediverse/1385 ---
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 listen if your man page is more than like, 10 pg-down's, then you might want
 to consider breaking that utility up into smaller pieces.
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--- #51 fediverse/4901 ---
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 "hey what if we broke our product and made it impossible to use without being
 caught by github"
 
 - computer touchers in a union
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 this is what the crypto news looks like rn, if you know anyone who's into that
 kinda thing... wait, why not? me either, huh
 Latest Cryptocurrency News Malicious Crypto Wallet App Submitted to Apple Store Leads to Fraud Charges 26 minutes | news.bitcoin.com Steam’s Clicker Game Sensation Opens Debate About NFTs And Crypto Gaming 46 minutes | newsbtc.com Court allows most SEC claims to proceed in Binance suit 54 minutes | cointelegraph.com Dozens Killed in Riots as Kenya Revolts Against Tax Hikes, Calls for Presidential Resignation 1 hour | news.bitcoin.com Market Tremors: $10 Billion in Bitcoin Dumped in May Alone, What Does This Signal? 2 hours | newsbtc.com North Carolina Passes Bill to Block State Participation in Federal CBDC Testing 2 hours | news.bitcoin.com Is The Bitcoin Bottom In? Crypto Expert Predicts Bullish Price Reversal 3 hours | newsbtc.com Study: Crypto Assets Worth $572.7 Million Lost to Hacks and Fraud in Q2 2024 3 hours | news.bitcoin.com Bitcoin’s price won’t ‘dramatically’ increase from here, says billionaire 4 hours | cointelegraph.com Yield App Suspends Operations Ahead of Liquidation 4 hours | news.bitcoin.com Ethereum’s Breakout Moment: Is a $7,500 Target Achievable? Experts Weigh In 4 hours | newsbtc.com
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 @user-1782 
 
 it's not that they lost value in their company due to the lack of sale of
 their products, but instead because they don't have to pay for marketing if
 their car looks "cool" enough and they can give them away for a lower blood
 price
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--- #54 fediverse/2213 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 Perhaps something that utilizes institutions that people are familiar with
 like Walmart and Amazon to logistic goods and services around? But, like, in a
 socialist way, where everyone gets what they want.
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--- #55 fediverse/5195 ---
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 whenever you test one extreme, you must also test it's opposite, just for the
 extra information.
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--- #56 fediverse_boost/5733 ---
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  So if you're looking at the US & thinking "This isn't the country I know," you're 100% right. It's not.  
                                                                              
  We're actually fighting back in real time for once.                         
  
                                                            
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--- #57 fediverse/4789 ---
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 what if there was a bank or credit union or something which created a randomly
 generated credit card number for you every time you made a purchase? and
 randomized your account number too, just in-case they're forced to display
 their records. would be cool.
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 How to end the housing crisis with one easy change:
 
 for every month that a residence goes empty, raise it's taxes by 1%
 
 for every month that a residence is considered a "primary residence" for at
 least 75% of the month, decrease it's taxes by 1%
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 The only things we should trade across an ocean for are luxury goods.
 Nintendo, not medical supplies, hard-wood bikeframes, not piles and piles of
 "recycling". People's time on culinary thirty course weeklong meals, not cans
 of San marzano tomatoes. Tapestries and gilded statues, not thirteen tons of
 barely processed rubber.
 
 What would we offer in return? Luxuries of our own. We do still make them, do
 we not? Just think of what the 1% has gathered to rot and give away the whole
 damned lot. We shall not provide necessities, because giving a man a fish will
 feed him for but a day, and a man's gotta eat. He'll find a way.
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--- #60 fediverse/5988 ---
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 but I like moonmen T.T
 
 what if the ISS was untethered
 
 "send thrusters to space? why bother? just use them down on the surface to get
 that extra oomph!"
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--- #61 fediverse/6065 ---
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 get 10 people on a team and have each listen to 1/10th of the fediverse feed
 while working on other projects
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--- #62 fediverse/6134 ---
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 what if instead of hulu we paid for a random house in a nice area with real
 classic design to be bought by a bunch of goth girls and treated like a palace
 while they do goth girl things
 
 then we did it 500 times until we ran out of goth girls
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--- #63 messages/727 ---
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 Can you imagine 
 
 Going to your tribal shaman 
 
 Saying "hey you gotta pay rent"
 
 ... Shamans are fine on the street. I should learn. >.>
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--- #64 fediverse/1481 ---
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 if you lose someone on the Fediverse then there's a zero percent chance you'll
 ever find them again.
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 the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and
 gas infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows
 that using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most
 productive use of our state's time
 
 like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're
 stuck doing... nothing of value
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--- #66 fediverse/1234 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 kinda makes me think we should make our own capitalism, with pickles and
 healthcare
 
 actually screw the capitalism let's just take care of each other
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--- #67 fediverse/5079 ---
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 what if you boosted everything when someone liked it [when someone liked your
 post] and if they boost it then you read the first couple posts on their
 paragraph, just to say "hey" in return
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--- #68 fediverse/5176 ---
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 what if corporations gave better quality products to people who clicked
 through their advertisement
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 @user-192 
 
 saw this video a week or so ago, you might be interested
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 @user-246 
 
 ... licorice is typically considered unlikable. interesting if true 😉​
 kinda wonder what it says about our collective viewpoint, as measured against
 licorice as a control variable. solely for gauging proportion, but like... an
 interesting exercise in collective orientation and comprehension.
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--- #71 fediverse/5834 ---
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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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--- #72 messages/1229 ---
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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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--- #73 messages/1122 ---
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 > <@gabrilend:matrix.org> what if britain was a colony of canada for
 a bit
 
 Use your royal power to raise up those whose shoulders you rose upon.
 
 Build your empire anew
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 And then if there's 10 of them [clones] that are in on it...
 
 They can spy on them by being different "selves" of their own at once.
 Systematized identity refraction.
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--- #75 fediverse/6318 ---
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 what if toki pona but for hieroglyphics like the gobi desert
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--- #76 bluesky#39 ---
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 what if we deputize anyone who asks for it
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--- #77 messages/1100 ---
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 the quality of a harvest is not measured in bushels,
 
 if you need more, grow more.
 
 the quality of a harvest is measured in the size and quality of the land
 fruits.
 
 less chopping, more eating.
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--- #78 fediverse/3713 ---
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 @user-1268 
 
 Ah but then inflation wouldn't increase, and don't you know inflation is just
 a (loose) measurement of how much wealth the ruling class extracts from the
 populace each year?
 
 When the total amount of wealth increases more than inflation, it's okay. When
 it doesn't... They tighten our chains.
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--- #79 fediverse/3514 ---
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 @user-579 
 
 maybe if you pitch it to them with a presentation and offer to set up the
 infrastructure they would give you extra credit or an award or maybe just
 brownie points
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--- #80 fediverse/3405 ---
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 on a scale of notways to almostever how would you rate your pain?
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--- #81 fediverse/676 ---
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 would be nice if the Fediverse wouldn't let you post something on Mastodon
 unless you filled out a content warning for it.
 
 sorta like a post title on Reddit, allowing people to say "nah I don't feel
 like reading something from X perspective right now"
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--- #82 messages/1180 ---
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 if you give me a quintuple digit salary, I could fix all the problems of the
 world. One by one... A BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET for solving one problem
 forever... until needs chagne of course.
 
 "yeah but it's not about money it's about throughput and demand" some guy in
 arkansas probably idk I've never been
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--- #83 fediverse/5872 ---
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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
 
 [timestamp]
 
 [she must be at home because she doesn't use mastodon while mobile]
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--- #84 fediverse/1688 ---
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 │ CW: re: violence     │
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 @user-898 
 
 true, but building a house will never cost 100$. Maybe 100,000$, and at that
 point you could build but a few.
 
 Meanwhile, they're throwing around millions of dollars. we're not measured on
 the same scale as they are, and if we ever dip our toes into their end they
 will bite them off.
 
 If supply and demand were real laws that guided our economy, then wages would
 have gone up after COVID, because so many people died. Housing would have
 gotten cheaper, because fewer people were living in them. Food would have
 gotten less expensive, because people were growing their own vegetables and
 baking their own bread while they spent months isolating themselves. But alas.
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--- #85 messages/1116 ---
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 What works for me might not work for another,
 
 But 
 
 What works for me might work for another.
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--- #86 fediverse_boost/2965 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  i will use CW for #USpol if computer people start using CW for tech computer boring linux software posting. i said what i said  
  
                                                            
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--- #87 fediverse/3999 ---
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 ... most of what she says is nonsense, but that 20% that's right is like... SO
 right, y'know?
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--- #88 messages/433 ---
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 What if wind was fake and its really the ghost of the waves from the shore?
 What if trees moved on their own, to gesture at the feelings around them? What
 if the sky was home to the clouds, and we who look upward are given the treat
 to know them?
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--- #89 fediverse/6407 ---
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 what if we designed washing machines which cost twice as much but didn't
 damage clothes
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--- #90 fediverse/1822 ---
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 we should reward frugality as much as value-creation.
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--- #91 fediverse/227 ---
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 humans are notoriously bad at large scales. tack a couple zero's onto the end
 and it increases in value to them as much as if you had given them two.
 10+1010. but hey it's all 10's right?
 
 I think we severely overestimate the number of bad people in the world. I'm
 basing that on nothing but my feelings. I think people generally are just
 doing the best they can. that's what happens when you're oppressed in a
 livable way. in a time of peace you can be merry, but these days it's always
 been war. what can you do if your government disagrees with you?
 
 hey, what's the 10th root of 10? 0.1? dang that's so close to zero. I wonder
 if there's a calculation we can make that would end on a zero, but be unable
 to return? is that what dividing by zero is? just... casting it into the void?
 sure would make a lot of calculations easier if we could just return NULL
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--- #92 messages/687 ---
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 What the person you voted for represented you?
 
 At the end of rue election, the top X percent of broad demographics each vote
 for a specific candidate, yeah? What if each candidate could represent those
 people specifically and any laws they made wouldn't effect people who they
 didn't represent. Sounds like a legislative nightmare doesn't it? And
 repealing laws, they'd only be repealed for their constituents.
 
 You'd need a github page to track the changes and each demographic's "forks"
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--- #93 fediverse/604 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 the only passive income I'm okay with is universal basic income
 
 Or like, writing a book that is bought by only a few people every year until
 the sun explodes or whatever.
 
 I mean, I'd prefer if every creative product of humanity was free and open
 source, but the question was assuming exchange of currency by considering
 "income" at all...
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--- #94 fediverse/3611 ---
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 I wish they sold ramen noodle seasoning by the jar and ramen noodles by the
 package (without seasoning)
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--- #95 fediverse/896 ---
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 the purpose of an economy is to improve the lives of it's participants.          │
 why else would an ancient city trade for fabric or rare spices? to fashion       │
 soft clothes, and make flavorful food.                                           │
 my, that gold sure looks pretty in the sunlight. how about you give some of me   │
 that, and I'll make you something pretty?                                        │
 hmmm something something arbitrage once you corner the market on gold then you   │
 can use that infinitely moldable and easily sculptable metal that shines and     │
 glitters with a unique color not seen in the manes of plants and animals as      │
 the definition of value. in doing so, you could exchange bits of it (measured    │
 by weight, as it's infinitely moldable) for arbitrary goods and services. But    │
 of course, once the market is cornered, it's unlikely to get un-cornered, and    │
 well a cornered market holder holds much appeal for the powerful.                │
 hey, that guy's pretty strong. why don't we make him our leader? people seem     │
 to look up to him, and dang his muscles are cool. what a great guy, nobody's     │
 ever said a                                                                      │
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 we should treat computer production more like vehicles such as cars rather
 than fast fashion disposable vapes and shiny and pretty concrete-and-glass
 solarpunk houses.
 
 also I believe cars should be entirely and completely mechanical. Even the
 radio should be entirely analog. No capability for remote code execution if
 there's no code being run...
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--- #97 fediverse/6269 ---
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 what if the secret to LLM computation is to just not reduce the fractions and
 keep it all in english language ram
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--- #98 fediverse/4694 ---
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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                                                                   │
 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                                                                │
 what if we made decentralized, encrypted, anonymous communications and           │
 practiced speaking in code and dropping letters and writing "poetry"             │
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--- #99 fediverse/4271 ---
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 if control of a company (or other component or factor of an economy) is not
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--- #100 fediverse/1555 ---
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 @user-1018 
 
 yep. monopolies are not competition, and yet that's what we optimize toward,
 through the nature of our planned economics.
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--- #101 fediverse/1579 ---
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 fellas is it gay if I think fascists should be killed if they don't
 permanently revoke their ways
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--- #102 fediverse/1838 ---
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 Gee I sure wish my country didn't hold the decisionmaking capability from me
 by gatekeeping it behind elections and polling. Sure wish our media wasn't so
 involved in decisionmaking - isn't it something we should talk about amongst
 ourselves? To find out how we feel, and really explore our feelings around a
 topic before expressing ourselves. Ideally more often than twice a year,
 perhaps whenever we want?
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--- #103 fediverse/1535 ---
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 I only take things that aren't mine if they're in the trash. Or near the
 trash. Or in a store.
 
 so weird how the store won't let me leave until I give them some of my
 dollars. This quartermaster drives a hard bargain!
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--- #104 fediverse_boost/5566 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  We have to figure out how to take care of each other and fight alongside one another which means we have to actually, like, listen to each other.  
  
                                                            
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--- #105 fediverse/573 ---
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 already spotted a bug. Should be for(1000 / MAX times) in the last example.
 
 EDIT: Or, even better, increment that loop by +MAX instead of +1 each time
 through.
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--- #106 fediverse/4708 ---
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 what if I paid this parking ticket I found by the side of the road instead of
 paying my rent this month
 
 do you think the world would burn down
 
 do you think the apartment complex would collapse
 
 do you think my police force would throw my stuff on the road
 
 do you think they'd change the locks
 
 what if I just didn't leave
 
 what if I smoked some weed
 
 "that's against your contract"
 
 okay
 
 what if I did it anyway
 
 what if I did what I was told
 
 I think I would surely drown
rent payment history for the past couple months. Mostly just to show how much my rent is. Utilities are paid every other month. available balance: $468.55 a parking ticket I found on the side of the road.
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--- #107 fediverse/4797 ---
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 what if we built cat water stations into the walls and put 5 or 6 around the
 house to encourage them to drink water more often?
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--- #108 fediverse/2017 ---
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 @user-1129 
 
 Lemme guess, the C-suite executives have profit as their main goal, right?
 
 And they utilize their laboring force of citizens to generate profit which is
 given to the crown shareholders as tribute for their benevolent grace and
 favor bestowed upon checks notes the C-suite executives, right?
 
 Kinda sounds like taxation without representation to me. One sec, where's my
 darn musket I'm always leaving it somewhere strange like under the couch
 cushions or taped underneath my desk or hidden in the curtains right next to
 the window that has the best vantage point of the surrounding street.
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--- #109 fediverse/4940 ---
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 what if I smoked weed and played video games after a long period of time away
 from the internet which I missed dearly
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--- #110 messages/740 ---
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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--- #111 fediverse/5880 ---
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 I legitimately think computers should write code and software engineers should
 write legislation and lawyers should resolve problem tickets made by aggrieved
 citizens while judges do their best to just keep the boat floating
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 "what if we invested in cities instead of companies"
 
 ah yes, anarcho-fuedalism
 
 "what if we elevated people we respect"
 
 ah yes, anarcho-monarchism
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 anything I do I'd do for free for a leftist
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 "they should make clothing stores for tall people"
 
 uhhhh have you ever heard of "big-and-tall"
 
 "yeah but I'm not big, just tall"
 
 smh
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--- #115 messages/679 ---
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 What if we paid people to administer a database of people who needed mutual
 aid so we could keep track of them, organize them, and care for them?
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 how about this: for every stock bought back, an equal share goes to the
 government who pays in dollars for it.
 
 the more you issue stock buybacks, the more your corporation is owned by the
 people and for the people.
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--- #117 bluesky#19 ---
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 what if we treated landlordism the way we treat tipping
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 Do you ever ask yourself why we don't have mountaintop bazaars or expeditions
 to the bottom of the oceans? Why we lack tree forest cities, how we're
 struggling to find moss, sunlight, crystal, stone, and gold, all in the same
 setting?
 
 Capitalism makes it easy to think of profit as all that matters. It's not. Its
 nothing of it. It's a metric like any other. Optimize it or not, struggle for
 what you believe in.
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--- #119 fediverse/833 ---
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 @user-591 
 
 yep
 
 they're very profitable for the banks
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 @user-979 @user-980 
 
 they do it for power.
 
 power corrupts, and these profane desires they possess are the definition of
 evil.
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 why the heck would -11/2 be defined but 1/0 not be? seems kinda sus to me.
 maybe it's just... not reducible, the same way that 5+i isn't?
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--- #122 fediverse/372 ---
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 rich people should only exist when they care for the things they own and
 accumulate wealth through a lifetime of restrained consumption and temperance.
 
 like, if we actually rewarded the 7 virtues instead of optimizing for ruthless
 profit extraction.
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 @user-217 
 
 I see flossing teeth
 
 I see thongs in a butt
 
 I see a gravity well with a pinprick of a singularity
 
 I see the Mandelbrot set being caressed by inter-spatial wind
 
 I bet if I stared a bit longer I'd see more
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 @user-78 
 
 ah but if you increase it then I might be able to actually finish a thought,
 wouldn't that be a tragedy xD
 
 @user-91
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--- #125 fediverse/5047 ---
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 food should be free.
 
 it grows on trees.
 
 who pays the trees?
 
 something-something-transportation-and-processing-and-packaging-infrastructure-
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--- #126 fediverse/41 ---
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 @user-36 As a thought experiment, what do you think happens using this system
 to divide by 1? What about dividing by 0? Curious to see what you think
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--- #127 fediverse/1788 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 I mean yeah, they're like 50$ what do you expect xD
 
 But for something simple like this they should be sufficient. Perhaps if such
 a massive investment in SOCs was implemented on a national scale, we'd develop
 more reliable systems? One can hope!
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--- #128 fediverse/6279 ---
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 people can't compel you to give gifts, that's why they're gifts. which is why
 a gift economy can't be all, because sometimes you need something now.
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--- #129 fediverse/140 ---
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 @user-132 100 years ago we didn't have computers. 1000 years ago we didn't
 have electricity. 10,000 years ago we didn't have agriculture. in 100 years
 will we have something new? in 1000 will we be somewhere new? in 10,000 will
 we be something new? perhaps... if only we don't neglect planet A.
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 But the past is boring, it already happened after all! Clearly there's nothing
 to be learned... Right? Seems like there's a big market out there for examining
 what we as a species did right, even if we had to sacrifice ethics to get
 there.
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--- #131 fediverse/1790 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 The USPS is a model for how our economic system should be run, in my honest
 opinion. At least the logistical parts.
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--- #132 fediverse/1810 ---
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 some people hear words like "datastructures" and "object-oriented programming"
 and think they're made up terms that don't mean anything important.
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--- #133 fediverse/3118 ---
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 they want your stuff breaking after 5 years so that you always need them.
 
 if you have everything you need, there's nothing stopping us from revolt
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--- #134 bluesky#22 ---
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 what if bluesky users unionized and leveraged their collective power to
 "suggest" improvements to the software
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--- #135 fediverse/549 ---
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 ngl I kinda want to see what conservatives would riot over in a socialist
 system. Like "oh no we have healthcare! that sucks, so I'm going to burn down
 a police station" like bro what your basic needs are met and you're encouraged
 and enabled to pursue your passions and personal desires, are you still hung
 up on that old capitalist stuff? get a life my guy that's soOoOoOo 21st
 century of you
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--- #136 notes/running-with-rifles ---
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 this game is what we are missing
 thank goodness for that
 for if this is missing in our timeline
 we'll be better off at last
 we can have games, stories, and practice wars
 but none of them are precious
 precious implies worth
 they are worth nothing but entertainment
 no problem solving utility
 nothing of value
 save for perhaps the spatial awareness and strategization that comes
 from being a part of such a deadly ba-lance.
 
 anyway game time teehee just for me, don't worry about it I'll show
 you why it's a HORRID THING
 that won't be coming to our shores, no siree
 
 bye
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--- #137 fediverse/980 ---
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 what else would you expect from a witch
 
 50% is "no opinion" on the scale, btw, not like "I like this 50% more than
 zero" it's actually zero. This should scale from -50 to 50 with that in mind,
 instead of 0 to 100, but oh well. UX design amiright
a person's quiz results from an online test determining their sexuality direction, instead of orientation.  results summary: taken 2024, february 8th.  == Results from bdsmtest.org ==  80% Vanilla  57% Non-monogamist  46% Experimentalist  40% Voyeur  39% Exhibitionist  25% Switch  14% Dominant  11% Submissive  4% Primal (Hunter)  1% Daddy/Mommy  0% Rigger  0% Ageplayer  0% Brat  0% Brat tamer  0% Degrader  0% Degradee  0% Boy/Girl  0% Masochist  0% Master/Mistress  0% Owner  0% Pet  0% Primal (Prey)  0% Rope bunny  0% Sadist  0% Slave  end of results.  of note is 80% vanilla, meaning attachment to the more primal or innate values and experiences of sex, rather than activities built for a specific purpose.  next is non-monogamist, meaning multiple partners. Love doesn't have to be confined to a single person, it's a passionate tool that can be used to develop bonds between people and foster affection for a cause.  next is experimentalist, as in "I'll try anything once" because otherwise how would you learn  we're already at 40% now, with voyeur, as in "if it was part of art or a ritual I'd totally watch someone have sex" but not excitedly more like "yeah uhhhh if that's necessary sure"  next is exhibitionist, and for the same reason it's close at 39% - meaning I'd slightly rather watch than perform  (though I am an excellent performer.)  running out of words - okay the rest are switch 25%, dominant 14 vs submissing 11, meaning I can relate above and below, but a bit more below
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--- #138 fediverse/6319 ---
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 programming makes you smarter which is why we should teach it to everyone we
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--- #139 fediverse/959 ---
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 @user-233 
 
 they were betting on selling us spaceflight and advertisements, but wouldn't
 you know it most of us cared more for food and water
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--- #140 messages/218 ---
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 Capitalism pays developers massive salaries because it doesn't want them
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--- #141 fediverse/3199 ---
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 @user-763 
 @user-883 
 
 me three, and I was 13 T.T
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--- #142 fediverse/2811 ---
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 this is the world I want to live in and I'm not even kidding
a picture of the Earth with no lines drawn for country borders
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--- #143 messages/171 ---
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 Universal basic income AND universally distributed rations. If nobody goes
 hungry, then people can spend their money toward things they care about, and
 not things they need to live.
 
 Without the rations, UBI becomes just another tax, levied by the landlords
 instead of the government.
 
 With the rations, people can frolic in the street and do whatever they please.
 If you aren't too concerned about having enough to eat, why bother with
 capitalism? Why not just lie in a ditch?
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--- #144 fediverse/3690 ---
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 what if we demanded private servers for video games (by law? what else would
 even work??) and encouraged companies to hire people to make high-quality mods
 for their competitors games so they couldn't make as much money selling
 expansion packs and DLC
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--- #145 messages/431 ---
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 Rent is expensive because they only want you living there if you're working.
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--- #146 fediverse/3562 ---
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 @user-1550 
 
 me too T.T
 
 give it time
 
 someday everyone will be paid to do whatever they wanted
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 what if we genetically engineered cat fur to taste [good/bad] to cats and
 [good/bad] to humans
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--- #148 fediverse/3192 ---
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 @user-1475 @user-1476 @user-1280 @user-1074 @user-1477 @user-1478 
 
 You logic is sound for "this is what we should do next"
 
 it's unsound for "this is how we save ourselves"
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 @user-1443 
 
 they need to do stuff like that or else the republicans would never win...
 
 which honestly is the most heartening thing I've heard all day.
 
 there are more of us than them, thank goodness.
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--- #150 fediverse/5246 ---
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 lol I spent half an hour holding a trowel and then I designed a new type of
 digging instrument
 
 and they want me to work a job /eyeroll
 /stickey-outey-tonguey-face/pics/all/total/* -ffvagrnbeexey --no-menus 14
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--- #151 fediverse/5350 ---
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 honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
 most beautiful.
 
 like below the crust.
 
 or space.
 
 the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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--- #152 fediverse/4108 ---
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 what if you could make multiple mastodon accounts in the UI and sort your
 followers into bins that corresponded to which account you wanted to see and
 switch between with the push of a button
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--- #153 fediverse/2480 ---
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 so what if people want to sit on the couch eating cheetos? they're more than
 capable of something far greater, but of course they are allowed to spend as
 they like their life.
 
 their ONLY life.
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--- #154 fediverse/2662 ---
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 the reason rent is so expensive is because of all the surveillance equipment
 they need to pay for and upkeep
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--- #155 fediverse/5472 ---
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 give it time
 
 everything cooperative needs buy-in from everyone involved
 
 and sometimes things spontaneously develop 15 leaps per day when things are
 suddenly changing every day
 
 on days that all feel the same
 
 nothing develops
 
 we just put more ideas in our head
 
 that might be useful...
 
 one day if we're lucky. Or maybe unlucky depending on how it goes.
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--- #156 fediverse/6008 ---
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 why does nobody write bolshevik fanfiction where they were more [insert
 characteristic here] and less [insert characteristic here]
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--- #157 fediverse/2466 ---
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 do as I say, and as I do.
 
 or don't, do as you want to.
 
 I hope you do want to do what I say to do.
 
 I wouldn't say it if I didn't think it was right.
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--- #158 fediverse/4766 ---
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 what if instead of federating social media instances we federated users instead
 
 why not have an account on each and every mastodon instance? then just RSS
 feeder yourself and boom suddenly you can customize your identity on each
 fediverse house.
 
 maybe with a checkbox of which instances you'd like to post to on your "submit
 link or text post" button
 
 study encryption kids
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--- #159 fediverse/4437 ---
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 buying guns is one thing
 
 but food is just as important.
 
 stores run out, but quartermasters know where to find things.
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--- #160 fediverse/3266 ---
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 how many people do you think in the world know that screenshots of a website
 are not admissible proof because they can be trivially doctored by editing the
 html?
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--- #161 fediverse/1998 ---
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 can you imagine if cows made cheese instead of milk
 
 and you had to squeeze it out of their udders like easy-cheeze
 
 [why would you say such a thing]
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--- #162 fediverse/498 ---
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 Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
 the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
 might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
 perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
 information presented to me.
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--- #163 fediverse/4084 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 the more you try, the more you have to calculate, which is a problem, because
 endlessly recursive calculations create infinite loops, which frankly are
 impossible to compute because they defy computation! Not good, not ideal, no
 thank you, not for me, no thanks, not what I'd like.
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 here's an idea - it's illegal to spend more than a thousand dollars in a day
 
 anything else requires multiple days of planning because it's such a large
 investment
 
 (obviously kinda cursed)
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--- #165 messages/1167 ---
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 I wonder if you made a laser 1/3rd of a light-year wide and pointed it at a
 black hole, would you see a reflection?
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--- #166 fediverse/641 ---
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 something something "those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat
 it" or something like that
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--- #167 fediverse_boost/3198 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  If #Musk is allowed to say "#CivilWar is inevitable", we're allowed to say revolution and the uncompensated nationalisation of the assets of billionaires is inevitable.  
  
                                                            
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--- #168 fediverse/2622 ---
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 what kind of linux user are you if you don't even like reading terminal
 output? it's USEFUL and INTERESTING information!
 
 WHY ELSE WOULD THE PROGRAMMER OUTPUT IT???
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--- #169 fediverse/761 ---
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 would be great if all the good people had all the money. Too bad it kinda
 feels like the opposite. Huh wonder why that is . . . ?
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--- #170 fediverse/3776 ---
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 whenever repeating letters like thiiiiiiis  or thisssss make sure if you're
 doing K's that you have at least four
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 that feeling when capitalists make technological advancements that benefit all
 of mankind but refuse to open source them because... they want more money?
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 how to be a class traitor 101:
 
 step 1: actively work against the liberation of your peers
 
 step 2: ???
 
 step 3: PROFIT! ... well, for them at least. you're still oppressed.
 
 it's so easy even a "basically-everybody" could do it!
 
 to learn more, try sleeping through your history and civics classes. Or if
 that's not your style you could always watch the news in the background while
 playing games on your phone.
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 to be "rich" is to have more than another.
 
 if you are happy, they are happiness poor.
 if you have community, they are alone.
 if you have serenity, they are chaotic.
 
 I am rich in very little but fire in my soul.
 
 I have enough in most cases, but I still struggle to pay rent.
 
 I am warmed by the pearl my swirling darkness has coalesced into. It nourishes
 me and keeps me aligned.
 
 Never forget your purpose and your truth. It will not abandon you, so long as
 you do so too.
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 someday corporations will realize that the best way to maximize profit is to
 eliminate billionaires.
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 ... make that 100$. idk where the last 20 went. I love you dad.
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 If evil is concentrated in 0.1% of the population, even though that's only
 7,000,000,000 * 0.001 == 7 million (is my math right?) people actually hang on
 that's a lot, if they're dispersed. Hence why evil relies on the capacity for
 good to do what it wills. All we have to do is decide NOT to do what they
 want, and then we're fine.
 
 downside then is, of course, how do you eat? how do you survive? the world has
 been designed in such a way that food doesn't just grow on trees. The light of
 the stars burns when you're trying to sleep and it's raining.
 
 damn. Would that we had more perfect conditions.
 
 Heh, just kidding. Humanity is nothing if not termeritous [high in temerity] -
 I'm positive we're more capable than we'd wager. Hence, talk of "great
 exhultation" and "wildest optimizations" or "brightest of futures" and "honest
 conducers" - okay I made that one up but it's a representation of what I'd
 like to express. GOSH art is hard. Would anyone like to read a 20 page book I
 wrote when I was most in tune with
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 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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 what if you added "secret rules" to english. wouldn't that be a fun game to
 play? it'll be tough to keep them all remembered, but the good news is we only
 have to use the ones on which we agree. like, memes, instead of grammar rules.
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 @user-1407 @user-855 @user-1408 
 
 moving forward, for every year we have democrats in charge is another year we
 can buy solar panels, drones, 3d printers, and other supplies.
 
 every year the fascists are in charge is another year we have to fight.
 
 I'd rather buy more time than spend it wisely, as buying time costs labor
 while spending it costs blood.
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--- #180 fediverse_boost/4174 ---
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  the belief that the world consists of discrete 'objects', rather than regarding it as an undifferentiated field of matter to which we can attach various framings, is a widespread mental limitation  
  
                                                            
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 lost my thought
 
 TECHNOLOGICAL BARRIERS ARE PERFORMANCE RUINING ask any surgeon who dropped a
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--- #182 fediverse/6374 ---
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 what if a paladin got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent morality?
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 When someone remakes content into a different expression like a remake or
 reboot or whatever it gives a different message in its meaning - some
 circumstances and characters can apply for more than one message I'm it's
 meaning
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 they want eye tracking so they can tell what kinds of ads to sell me
 
 I want eye tracking on the desktop so I can select enemies in MMOs easier
 
 we are not the same
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 {[booooo that writing stinks, the writers of the first few lines were better]}
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 "I'd give my life for a rational voter"
 
 oh yeah well here's 2% of mine, what can you do with these moments I'm handing
 off to you for you to do as you please
 
 "is she talking about class again? must we always repeat old mistakes?"
 
 all for all means all
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 What if all trains were required by law to have an empty passenger cart? That
 anyone could ride for free with no ticket and no registration or tracking or
 anything. You gotta jump on tho so it's still dangerous.
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 Capitalism isn't perfect but if it's capitalism or cyberpunk North Korean
 style dystopia, I'll pick capitalism. Can we at least make it so that the rich
 aren't safe financially though? Like, if you own a billion dollars it should
 be because you make a billion dollars per year. Anything you don't spend
 should be taxed away, to be used for public services and the defence of our
 nation.
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 > <@gabrilend:matrix.org> Soup kitchens are how they get leftists to
 burn out.
 
 Every moment spent feeding the poor is another day we could be organizing.
 
 Soup kitchens aren't bad, the poor need to be fed. But it should be a paid
 position, not a charitable distraction.
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 @user-162 you're right! otherwise it wouldn't be forced : )
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 #CDCsays if you budget for 50% of what you're making then the other 50% could
 double your headcount
 
 EDIT: also that it's opposite day
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 @user-1035 
 
 Even better if you say "you do you too"
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 naturally occurring computers would never produce wires, or liquid cooling, or
 anything that ever required any sort of configuration or external
 environmental conditions.
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 tell me again why goods and services are priced according to how easy they are
 to make, and not by how many more of them we could make considering the
 current estimated amount of resources on earth?
 
 even wood runs out, when the phosphorous is gone. but take heart, for human
 ingenuity brings with it ever-increasing capabilities for accessing new
 resources. when the sun goes silent, it will not be because it burnt out, but
 rather because we surrounded it with parts of our home.
 
 and yes, it is more complicated. "how easy they are to make compared to how
 much people want them while utilizing the cheapest and worst resources and
 craftsmanship that can be passed of as quality by shiny marketing that appeals
 to our vapid human senses" is a bit closer, but still not comprehensive.
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 curling up in a ball and thinking about crying for hours is the same as
 crying. If a little bit less of a release.
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--- #196 fediverse/5829 ---
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 what if we just put two windows in each window, and made one have glass and
 the other had screen. Then, slide one or both and you can open or close.
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 @user-570 
 
 I wonder how it would feel to bind numpad enter to tab instead?
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 when you run out of a food item, put the label in your purse.
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 When you say "we need more low income housing" they hear "I want to live near
 more poor people" and they think "why would I want to live near poor people?
 They're poor for a reason! We only need enough around to work the jobs that
 suck anyway." which is basically their way of justifying slavery/indentured
 servitude, as it's not like they'd ever offer a way to climb out of that
 low-income pit. And its not like they'd ever let you pay them more, so they
 can afford to be equals, because then they wouldn't be middle-class anymore.
 They'd just be mid.
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 @user-1074 
 
 ah but you see when "maximizing profit" and "maximizing value" sound like the
 same thing to those directing the corporation (as is the case anytime they
 have greedy shareholders) then "maximizing profit" doesn't have to be very
 efficient at all, as long as it's extracting the most "value" for the
 stakeholders (which to greedy shareholders is the same thing as profit)
 
 and honestly, who would invest in a company that isn't eternally growing as
 fast as possible? that's just bad business acumen, gotta pump those numbers up!
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