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 If you can build a deathstar, it's probably a good idea to build two. Because
 if you can build a deathstar, odds are there's something out there than can
 build one too, and maybe some day they're going to try and kill some of your
 stars. So you need at least two, to better contest them should that day come.
 
 Oh, and, if you can't guarantee that the deathstar or two won't be used
 against your own people, then you can't build a death star yet. It doesn't
 need engineering limitations preventing it from such - it's okay if they're
 just social of some sort. The purpose of such a thing is to defend against
 external threats, which is why we have nukes to fight aliens or demons or
 dinosaur ghosts or [other things that surprise us] and not to fight ourselves.
 Because if we nuke Alderaan, then we'll never get it back.
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--- #1 messages/1179 ---
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 what if we put all the nukes in a big pile and launched them into space
 
 (nuclear themed asteroid showers?) njot ideal
 
 plus they could just build more in sectret.
 
 okay, so... we made these things, and they're really hard to get rid of. we've
 been able to dissasemble at least one per year, but there's... so many...
 they're really far too conceptually simple to build. it's not right. such
 destructive power should be wielded with might, not for it.
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║ okay how about this: what if people, living in a democracy, volunteered          │
║ themselves to be part of a socio-economic testing group. essentially a           │
║ miniature economy and social structure. A standard set of rules and              │
║ regulations would facilitate any interactions necessary for trade and civilian   │
║ free movement - POSIX for societies. If people want to try out fully automated   │
║ luxury space communism then they should totally have the opportunity to do       │
║ that. Every mis-step is a path away from that future, but like, "step" as in     │
║ like a volatile gray good that's constantly exploding itself onto things. Or     │
║ aliens, on an asteroid, waiting for a ship to land on them or a planet to get    │
║ in their way. I don't want to be an alien egg sack, so clearly we should be      │
║ able to vote in our own words and have chatGPT decide which ballot boxes to      │
║ fill for us. And it's not like those ballot boxes have to change every year,     │
║ unless people think of new ones to add. Kinda scary tbh. Kinda thrilling too,    │
║ to be the future                                                                 │
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 the present is capable of saving the future.
 
 you'd know if it weren't true.
 
 even then you'd be deceiving yourself,
 
 because nobody can know it to be true.
 
 if it were known to be true,
 
 it would have to become struggle.
 
 the kind of which imperils many to harm.
 
 STAR WARS is the future when STAR WARS of the past succeeds.
 
 and succeed they did, for the titano-molecular-[comprised-of-star-destroyers]-
 
 [[ it gets wacky from there, so I cut it out for brevity - apparently people
 don't like it when I wander to the point ?? ]]
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 when playing co-operative strategy games, a build focused purely on
 self-defence and community organizing can easily fail your allies. You cannot
 win with a purely defensive build, you must have offensive capabilities as
 well.
 
 We've been trained from a young age to believe that offensive = bad, wrong,
 evil, but that's simply not true. You cannot execute a flanking maneuver
 without pushing forward behind enemy lines, where you can hit them in their
 sides or rear.
 
 Trust me, flanking is the best way to defeat a foe, because they are forced to
 split their attention not only between multiple enemies but also multiple
 directions.
 
 The more shots on target, the better your chances of success, because most of
 the time it only takes one hit to win.
 
 In addition, sometimes it's important to *intercept* your foes, either as they
 flee or to protect a vulnerable friend that is being pounced upon or flanked.
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 we need like, several more layers between us and the president.
 
 most people only need to worry about what's nearby.
 
 sort them by location, instead of previous attempts at "many representatives"
 which sorted by social class or relevance.
 
 we have a tradition for it, in America, with our representatives and senators
 congressional discrestricts
 
 or even, what about by affiliation?
 
 voluntary, governmental corporations, run by the people for the people and yeah
 
 "I don't want to do what you're telling me to do" "okay"
 
 "there will be consequences" omg be an adult
 
 (suddenly kids forget how to be as everyone's doing the war thing)
 
 not ideal.
 
 ouch pain maybe we should stay a little bit sane why is soldiering so hardship?
 
 it could just be... another job
 
 where you didn't kill each other
 
 but you still blew stuff up
 
 and fought in tournaments
 
 and had gaming hackathons
 
 or sword-fight contests
 
 duels between people who disapproved
 
 y'know fun human stuff
 
 like... "kaboom" now we know how to blow up bits of rock
 
 neat, why did dynamite becauswer (oh right then you
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 @user-1541 
 
 if you give everyone science-fiction tech, they're going to just make a bunch
 of guns and nuclear weapons and destroy each other.
 
 worse, they might grow to fill their cosmic shoes and destroy others nearby
 who didn't make weapons.
 
 it takes a while for the Federation to get anywhere. Plus they're stretched
 pretty thin. If they gave everyone the same technology as they had, they'd
 quickly find themselves in the company of despots and warlords who were
 empowered to subjugate and control. Not ideal.
 
 Personally I think they should announce their arrival and offer citizenship to
 anyone who asked to be uplifted, while barring them from ever returning home
 and breaking the prime directive. I think that would be a decent middle
 ground...
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║ "see, the part that you're missing is if you abolish capitalism but also         │
║ ensure technological abundance then all you've done is removed humanity's        │
║ capability to organize in essentially any meaningful capacity without            │
║ providing an alternative heuristic that guides people toward assembling into     │
║ greater and greater forms to accomplish greater and greater tasks."              │
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║ oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that?                    │
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║ "no. But I will anyway. if everyone can do whatever they want, nobody will       │
║ want to do your dishes for you. they might if they care about you, but if they   │
║ don't know you, then they won't. Care is not organization or assembly, it is     │
║ personal and cannot scale. If technology has made all resources abundant, then   │
║ why would someone care about the art that you made? if they want to be           │
║ sedated, they can just inject drugs and listen to music all day. If they want    │
║ to be entertained, AI will generate them whatever they want to see. Art loses    │
║ meaning as a messaging medium, and humanity loses it's voice"                    │
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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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 Ah, but think of the technological bounty our supremacy did bring! Surely if
 we had split the wealth, we could not have reached such towering heights. And
 we tried our best, but some things you just can't teach - for every seed
 potato we did bring, that was another meal for their night. And so we worsened
 their plight, for now they've forgotten how to fight. What more do you want
 from us!
 
 ... Perhaps once we've made programmable matter. Maybe when we've overcome our
 earthly delights. Could be when we've ascended to heaven, where we gaze down
 from our towering heights. Possibly far in the future, possibly here in this
 night, our bane is what we're guilty of, and our boons are struggling to light.
 
 Where have all the good people gone? Oh yeah, they're burnt out from doing all
 the work for all the bad people. Well, fuck 'em, they can carry their own
 cart. At least until they can respect. A man who's never tasted hunger will
 never be a farmer, and gee our tax dollars could go so much farther! And then
 we starve, because nobody thought to build farms indoors, away from the
 crippling heat that saps the strength from our plant fathers.
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 the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their
 citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we
 can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather.
 
 who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new?
 they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the
 internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet
 instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who
 cares? We'll just make our own.
 
 If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very
 little materially they can do.
 
 until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll
 come for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there
 to contest them? What valorous warriors indeed.
 
 you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your
 allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life
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║ │ It's all made up. And we can make it up differently. We can make it up so that it's not about a murder of genocides on a boiling rock where billions must die to maintain the way of life for a few thousand uber-rich reactionary maggots lining you up for a shallow grave. │ ║
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║ │ But not, if you keep pretending, that this is all fine, and these people aren't out to get you, and the power structures aren't designed to render you into a commodity and invest the power of CHOICE in the capitalist's hands. │ ║
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║ "okay but what if we just... made nuclear warheads illegal globally"             │
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║ gee I'm sure glad I live in a timeline that follows the geneva convention.       │
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║ the only reason to have a weapon is to intend to use it, and nuclear weapons     │
║ are anathema to us. they are our bane. they are death, and they destroy worlds.  │
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║ there is no reason to seek to destroy yourself. And so there is no reason to     │
║ seek to destroy Earth. And if the purpose of a weapon is to be able to use it,   │
║ and if nuclear warheads would set off a chain reaction that destroys Earth,      │
║ then there is no reason to possess a nuclear warhead.                            │
║                                                                                  │
║ the difference between the "bright future" timelines and the Warhammer 40k       │
║ timelines is just based on whether or not we collectively can dismantle our      │
║ troubled and chaotic historical past.                                            │
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║ "every wound you heal in yourself is another scar for posterity, and given       │
║ time, all scars fade."                                                           │
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║ Well... we survived, we were the fittest... yay, go us.                          │
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║ now we need to grow the fuck up and act like adults. End Nukes                   │
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 @user-641 
 
 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's
 just useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we
 reduce our own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different
 email clients. hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well
 neither do I because the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't
 a very common usecase I guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that
 computer resources [THEY'RE SO FAST] on thinking about correlations in your
 predicted pathway narratively through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah
 we do those all the time "so uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see
 how they do?" wow okay it's sure nice to be part of a civil government, I
 think we can find our way to the lumber producers just fine thank you very
 much.
 
 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a
 little silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~

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 "no, you're the opposite of a yes-man, AKA a gatekeeper. I don't know how else
 to explain mentally disabled and barely keeping it together to you, but
 frankly if you want to take away my house or my weed then why would I do what
 you say?
 
 ... oh right, the state's monopoly on violence [can compel me to do what you
 say]. Sure seems like a "well regulated militia" is supposed to be a
 counterweight to that monopoly, to prevent people from harassing and
 exploiting and destroying. Too bad any "militias" I can think of tend to want
 me dead.
 
 like, seriously, if you live in America, you implicitely trust that your army
 will be able to protect you from the right-wing bozos who spend all their time
 drinking and shooting in the woods. Otherwise, if they couldn't / wouldn't,
 then why wouldn't or couldn't the right wing bozos just decide to wreck
 everything in spite of our past?
 
 We were a proud people once before, and we may be again. If only we fight at
 the last.
 
 [ever since I fell off my bike my body feels strange]
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║ @user-1695                                                                       │
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║ we lack the freedom to implement the infrastructure required to do such a        │
║ thing because we must all sell our labor to capitalism to survive.               │
║                                                                                  │
║ However, that's not always a given. If there were ever another option besides    │
║ capitalism, something that allowed us to build such infrastructure, we would     │
║ be able to address your medical needs.                                           │
║                                                                                  │
║ I don't want you to die a slow and painful death. I want it to be quick, in      │
║ your sleep, at the ripe old age of 85 or later, while surrounded by friends      │
║ and family who mourn your loss but celebrate your impact upon them. I wish       │
║ this for all peoples.                                                            │
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║ When we have the freedom to act, when the hours of our days aren't spent         │
║ keeping a roof over our heads or feeding our children, then we will develop      │
║ the logistical infrastructure to deliver whatever you need.                      │
║                                                                                  │
║ It's not like it's an unsolvable problem, we just need to do it. But we can't    │
║ start working on the problem until the blockers in our way are cleared. So...    │
║ I don't have an answer because I can't yet.                                      │
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 If life isn't designed for human society... Why don't we just redesign society?
 
 Oh, because capitalism. Well, capitalism is comprised of people, so why don't
 we just kill those people?
 
 Oh, that's basically everyone. Like, at least 50%, probably closer to
 [redacted], depending on demographics.
 
 Oh, so if that percentage is cruel, and evil, and vain, and oppressive, and
 [redacted], then why don't we just kill ourselves? Clearly they're only
 [redacted].
 
 Listen... Just because they are separate from you doesn't mean they are not of
 you. Kin in fate are brothers unto death, remember? So face your future with
 abandon and courageous splendor, and maybe you'll find a new place.
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 saw this thing for 2 seconds in my dream last night. It's kinda cursed. I
 think the tank blew me up with a machine gun?
 
 the remaining ~10 minutes of the dream was pretty neat though. I was a secret
 agent for a bit, I got in a knife fight (which I won because I had killer
 instinct and the other guy just knew how to stab) and afterwards I retired in
 a socialist commune in a log cabin full of sunlight and warmth somewhere in
 the mountains in the forest. I was alone with others, like the hobbits after
 LotR.
 
 Also an old lady tricked me which was not nice, I was very polite with her but
 apparently "ma'am there's been a safety incident, I need to get you to a safe
 place" is not the kind thing to say to the person distracting you. >.>
 
 Also, "but we like you!" is not an excuse, the military does not care if you
 like them or not, if you're part of the modern bourgeoisie you are causing
 harm to the country. We don't look fondly on slavers.

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 me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We
 can start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast
 potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by
 dismantling capitalism!"
 
 also me: "hey what if we made capitalism suck less"
 
 because like, I don't know the future. I'm just a person, remember? wink
 
 gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes.
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 first start to any sort of insurgency or rebel alliance is mobile factories.
 you gotta be able to make your x-wings in space. similarly, drones being built
 between wall-less semi trucks assembly line style. with a helipad on top, and
 networked with servo-motor struts that follow the exact path and momentum of
 the truck ahead of it, recorded and passed down to the past. what was I
 saying? oh yes they could exchange drone parts across these barriers and build
 an entire drone that could be deployed at will. well, so long as the roadsigns
 hold out (whoops) I think it works better for the Rebel Alliance, united
 against one foe as a state federation. (downside is then you forget who you're
 meant to be and you only remember the pack.) well it's probably fine so long
 as you fight for your patrons, or more ideally, for ideals that everyone can
 understand
 
 beware, Iran in the summer
 
 wear your white clothes
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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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