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 @user-1112

 It's a script I wrote that downloads and configures MTG-forge, the free and open
 source version of Magic. It's a little old, a little jank, but you get all the
 cards for free. All the way up to the most current expansions.

 Multiplayer is a bit harder than Arena, I think it's bugged or something, but
 it's great for testing out decks against a computer. If I like one then I'll
 usually buy it to play with my IRL friends.
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 @user-883

 what would you prefer? I exist in this IRC space at your behest, command me o'
 wizest of teachers. *.*
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 @user-889

 omg bottom left T.T
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 "updating software" is when you go back and add helper functions for things you
 used had to do to solve a problem but didn't get a chance to make. Because you
 were making more important things and couldn't pad out all the possibilities.
 But if you want great software, then you both take more time to accomplish that
 and you give yourself time for it after it's been launched. Basically, companies
 are incentivized to only support their products if it makes them money. Meaning
 reputations are tarnished, and profit is affected. Capitalists intentionally
 drive businesses into the ground, forcing them to make terrible decisions in
 order to destroy them. It's a warfare against those on the
 [bottom/floor/ground-floor].

 Some businesses strive for long-term potential, and some will create
 infrastructure that can be sold to another. Essentially, keeping the dream of
 learning alive, through applying yourself to both long-term and short-term
 conclusions. Not everything has to be for some grand design, we're here to
 relish in this moment. For if we lack the capacity to "frolic in the garden of
 eden", then we will surely drown. Space is vast, it's difficult to understand
 how we might control it. Surely we could be given aid to our future betterment!"
 how simple of a request, sure, of course, we would be glad to bring forth your
 bravest aspirations, just tell us what you need to be of need." oh, uh, neat.
 How about space lasers?" ... no "
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 @user-246 yeah that was nice wasn't it
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 @user-850
 I very rarely turn down a hug : )

 @user-5
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 people are really going to work and living their normal lives as if losing the
 next election won't bring about 30 years of purges

 smh that's why it's called a "precipice", you can't see what's on the other side
 before you wake up one day in hell
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 all nationalities, and all humanities."                                          │
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 you, the viewer, exists in a context.

 and you, the other viewer, who exists in a contexts such as that which is
 comprised as the context of someone who lives in an apartment complex, exists in
 close proximity with other humans. Humans who might hear you if you spoke aloud,
 who might hear you if you exclaimed your words quite loud(ly), who might
 perceive you as another (like you and me) and could (perhaps) share something
 heartfelt between our own shared contexts
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 I truly believe weed is good for me. Not medicine - it is nutritious.
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 @user-1153

 what kind of meta are you referring to? instance stuff?
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 yay I hit the 5 hour limit on claude-code! now I can play video games and write
 more issue tickets for the computer to work on for me.

 what's that? results? oh, I'm not interested in those. This is an art project
 you see, so clearly, clearly, the end result shouldn't matter to me, because all
 art is special or something. so says she who tries to share her art with
 everyone she sees... I wonder who yet believes?
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 @user-907

 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer?
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 @user-1385

 all it would take is a second laser thing and software support !!
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 @user-236

 here's some music that I like lately

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q84Td36Tpys

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCcWWcL_Sg4

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7gEgIEUj3A

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgnSMftcFN0
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 @user-987

 somebody yelled the N word at me once while driving, and it's like... bro, I'm
 white

 maybe they couldn't see beneath the witch-hat
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 @user-1669

 sorry, I'm on a roll. Gotta speak my mind, even if it has other stuff bouncing
 around in it. I hope you understand : )
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 remember when leftists would talk about privilege
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 installation procedure which runs a bitcoin miner for X amount of seconds, as
 payment for using their free and open source services.
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 I learned a lot last night, and I'm pretty sure that everything I say is going
 to be censored. Why would you allow resistance in such a public place?

 I don't know what else to do, though. He will come for me, he knows where I
 live, and I will do what I can to fight him.

 He's much stronger than me. He's much more massive than me. He will kill me.

 But that's not the point, is it?
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 @user-192

 who can say. I'd like to find out, though.
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 chat is it rude to use the "followers only" privacy setting ? ? ?
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 I can't cancel my internet because I use it to work, which almost pays enough to
 cover rent, and nothing else.

 It's hard to avoid spiraling when you run out of money. Every time this happens
 to me I start feeling things

 like... am I good for society? Society doesn't want me, clearly, because I don't
 have any money. And currency is how you measure demand, right? It's literally a
 measure of value.

 But then I think of all the homeless and poor people and, like... I value them,
 so what if they don't have dollars? It's literally just paper. Or bits in a
 mainframe that nobody knows how to program anymore.

 So if they're valuable at least to me, yet me, with my 67$ in the bank and 127$
 internet fee, is not valuable to me... Then what's the discrepancy?

 I'm not trying to be hard on myself, it's not my fault that I bleed money, but I
 still feel terrible.

 It's like a common cultural persuasion, if you run outta cash you better kill
 yourself fast.

 Fuck that. Oops cursing mentioned, one s
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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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 I'm sorry, but you can't play any more video games for a while. No more spending
 time on hobbies. When you meet, discuss what needs you see and how to fulfill
 them.
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 why don't corporations let you write code in whatever language you want? it's
 trivial to run a compiler or interpreter inside of another program.
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 gonna mostly stay quiet today, because you know what to do. If you haven't done
 it already, vote

 rest assured though I will be writing, even if I'm not posting.
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 Sometimes it feels like I'm the only paranoid person with terrible opsec T.T
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 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together ^_^
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 @user-570 @user-246

 I'll make a game if you do! I promise mine will be worse than yours so you can
 feel better about your progress!
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 everyone's like "we need to organize! we gotta do something!" and they're asking
 for more effort.

 we don't need more effort. We have enough effort. The required effort is a small
 fraction of our total reserves of effort.

 what we need is to re-align our priorities.

 For example, I think our entire research industry should focus on one project at
 a time. Everyone should make an effort to contribute, no matter the field. I
 think this would enable some EXCELLENT co-ordi-operat-ion.

 I also believe that our neighborhoods should self-support each other. "For
 example, did you know that we have a daily delivery service where so-and-so
 drives to the grocery store, picks up everyone's orders, and then delivers to
 your front door? No, you don't have to pay for it. We don't really do that
 anymore. Well, you can buy things wherever if you want, but that's not how it's
 done around here." sorta vibes.

 what is money? money is the product of peacetime. Money is fake! It's useful if
 everyone agrees, but dollars are paper.
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 OMG SHE JUST CAME BACK

 she looks like she was buried alive but SHE'S BACK
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 I wonder how many people hate me?

 silence is indicative of allies or foes.
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 infantry with small arms fire to pin down a target at a location while the
 long-ranged ordinance is along the way

 explosive drones, long-range but small payload rockets, but probably not
 artillery since it must be precisely applied when infantry are engaged.

 the dumber the fire, the less precise the munition. usually.

 infantry under this doctrine would only be ideal to use when the location is
 reachable by long-range ordinance.
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 You scared off all the cool people >: (
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 @user-1218

 I wish English was more inclusive >.>
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 @user-1420

 I find that peer support groups are usually better for venting. At least, I feel
 less guilty doing it. With a therapist I am always trying to focus on actionable
 things and usually that means downplaying my emotions, which means they pay less
 attention to me and assume my issues aren't that bad... "you seem to be doing
 fine so we can schedule you for biweekly now? every two weeks?" meanwhile I'm
 nursing suicidal tendencies, and said so, but apparently if I'm not crying then
 it's fine... >.>

 but with peer groups it's like, yeah they get it. and if one person's crying,
 everyone else feels more open to crying about their stuff.

 sorry for venting. I'm definitely in a MH- mood today.
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 what if we just wrote our own executive orders and changed things for the better
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 So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
 it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
 the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical nature
 demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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 may the world be fixed by example

 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by diligence

 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by sacrifice

 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by hope

 failing that,
 may the world be born anew in bright vibrant tones of heart and splendor.
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 @user-1209 @user-1074

 I'm not NOT saying that...! 😋
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 @user-883

 I finished my project! Thanks for encouraging me 🥰​
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 Algorism in a nutshell:

 Everyone gets dollars from their job. Will explain more later, for now trust
 that they get dollars. Essentials and infrastructure are free, but luxuries are
 not.

 To spend dollars, you either go to a showroom or use the nationalized Amazon
 (forked, not stolen) - there you can place down dollars to enter a special kind
 of queue. Everytime a product is made its distributed to the people with the
 most dollars in queue. Every period (week, month, idk) the amount you manually
 put into the queue is re-added to the queue - 100 becomes 200, becomes 300,
 becomes 400. You can manually add more whenever you like but it's not
 retroactive. At the end of the period all your extra dollars are distributed
 among your open queues.

 That's basically it. It rewards patience and temperance, while capitalism
 rewards greed and cruelty.

 How to get dollars? Okay so there is a government run job board portal website
 thing. Every company can make a listing there, and every person can post
 themselves too if they'd rather be recruited. The company pays a different
 amount to the government than the worker receives. This amount is determined
 algorithmically based on values like supply and demand for labor in that
 particular area.

 People list 10 types of jobs they'd like to work at any level of specificity
 (they'd be arranged into layers of overlapping umbrellas, like queer identities
 except more complex) then that data is used both for job placement (consensual
 of course!) and data for the "supply and demand" calculation. You can only
 change these values once every 6 months, or 1 value every month, up to the user.

 The amount the corporation pays to the government is not the same as what the
 worker receives. The longer a worker works, the more "stuff" they can buy. They
 are rewarded for diligence. However essentials are free so nobody has to save
 for retirement.

 You can trade stuff for stuff, but not stuff for labor. Small informal exchanges
 are fine "if you mow my lawn I'll bake you a pie" but not "I'll give you 500lbs
 of gold bars if you build me a mansion" - I haven't figured out a way to
 structurally prevent rant besides just saying it's illegal.

 Housing is like a library, except you can queue for who gets the spot next. A
 person can live in a house as long as they'd like, and when they're done with it
 the person highest in the queue can decide if they want to live there. If not,
 the 2nd in line gets to move in if they want, etc. Their accrued value persists
 if they don't move in, and when moving out an accurate assessment should be
 undertaken.

 "ah but won't foreign states just hire a bunch of people to move in and out of
 houses really quickly like they're doing to my apartment complex so that a
 stable source of income cannot be guaranteed and resources will have to be
 wasted on assessments and such?" I mean, maybe, but it'd be up to the community
 to decide how to prevent that.

 Your primary residence is free, you can live there as long as you'd like. If you
 want two houses then you need to continuously be the highest value in the queue
 for both of them. Same goes for renting and hotels and such - the "owner" or
 property manager or whatever needs to maintain their lead by investing time and
 value in the property. Otherwise nobody would want to live there. This would be
 an example of a self-appointed job.

 Self-appointed jobs are like being self employed now. You produce value that
 people enter queues for, and in return your stacking percentage bonus increases.
 The government will pay you dollars based on the demand for your good/service,
 which odds are will be pretty small. But you get to do what you want, so that's
 something, and besides essentials are free so...

 I wish people would ask me questions so I knew which blanks to fill in.
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 @user-243 @user-203 I cry every time Anakin sacks the Jedi temple T.T
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 @user-735

 I made a World of Warcraft private server where all the default NPCs are removed
 from the game and the world is empty. But, every once in a while, monsters will
 spawn and attack you Risk of Rain style.

 If your character sits down, they stop attacking/spawning. I call it "wow-chat"
 because I'm bad with names, but the idea is basically a low stakes social game
 that you can pick up and set down whenever you want, while hanging out with your
 friends.

 there's also treasure and wandering merchants, and I've been thinking about
 adding dynamic quests but so far nobody's asked to play it so I've been working
 on other things.

 it's all open source too so you can host it yourself if you want.
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 what do you want me to say, I'm doing my best? I don't know what I'm doing I'm
 just fumbling around in the dark while someone offers me a flashlight (theory
 and history) and I say "eh my arm is kinda weak, I don't feel like holding it,
 I'd rather light a torch and stumble around with 5 feet of light instead of
 using modern technology to see up to 40 feet away in a thin cone"?? yeah.
 something like that.
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 don't mind me, just weaponizing plurality

 leveraging, please say leveraging next time
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 it's good to have multiple ways to contact people you care about
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 if the gods existed and had innumerable faces, I think most atheists would still
 be non-believers.

 Not because they didn't believe that the gods existed - they've been
 scientifically proven in this reality, remember?

 but rather because they did not want to worship. And that's totally 100% okay
 and should be encouraged, because a tithe is a vote and a prayer is a donation

 The illuminati is boring. "oh no a bunch of humans are pulling all the strings"
 how trivial. Just eat the humans and they can't be puppeteers anymore, now can
 they?

 much more interesting to me is to organize yourself against the Greek Choir.
 Though since they can read all your thoughts, you can hardly plan against them,
 can you? And some of those voices in your head with your own voice are them,
 after all, so can you truly trust your own intentions?

 ... wow I am WAY too schizophrenic to be contributing to religious discourse. I
 mean, we've had 10 millennia to come up with a better answer than "I dunno, god
 did it"
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 the ability to walk into a mall or general store and emerge as a completely
 different gender is a skill that most spies and secret agents can only dream
 about. And trans people resent it! what a concept. I think they just resent
 being disrespected.
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 I have bad teeth, but I smile anyway, because I want you to like me, but not for
 my teeth.
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 *looks in a mirror*

 why do all the gorgeous ones have to be fucking insane
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 computer programming essentially boils down to putting the right values into the
 right datastructures at the right time and in the right order.

 If you count a function call as a datastructure, which I do, because I have
 opinions.
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 @user-192

 ty u 2 babe
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 protest sign:

 "pay my rent so I can fight fascism"

 (other side)

 "quit your job so you can fight fascism"
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 @user-1402

 If Trump goes to prison I hope they pick JD Vance as their candidate

 do you notice how in all the pictures of him lately he's trying to appear soft,
 sentimental, or hurt? poor guy must be in pain. I guess the bed you make is the
 bed you sleep in.
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 I don't have anyone to vent to but you, fedi
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 if you want to encrypt something from human readers, randomize the position of
 all the words on the page.

 an LLM can decrypt it, but a human walking past could not. Unless they had a
 camera or something in their lapel, transmitting to a remote calculating
 location in a system that decyphers it cyberpunk hacking style.

 ah, but if it didn't have the right training data .claude.md file, then it
 wouldn't know how to decrypt it, because you forgot to include "respond with a
 marxist analysis" in the .claude.md which serves as a decryption key. Simply
 analyze the rest and decide if it matches what you set out to request it for.

 [you got lost at the end]
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 if all of life is a stage, then you are never "doing a scene"

 you're just living
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 I wanna be a background character! they have such a cool vibe/job/home. "oh no
 she abandoned her humanity for constant performing" ha sucker, that's easy to
 dodge when you know your personal life is fully intact and distinct from your
 external.

 brb I'm gonna go play a old video game
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 @user-1074

 [edit post]: I kinda feel like the United Nations should host five thousand
 Mastodon instances??!
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 @user-1803

 hey I dont disagree that what you're describing is a common outcome, but if it
 works for them then I consider that a success.

 I however, am different, I do believe in my heart that I am my own thing, and
 thats as close to enlightenment as I can imagine.

 are we not all making things up as we go? every moment of life is new, there is
 nothing that is not unique about every precious moment you experience.

 therefore, I do believe that rigid adherence to orthodoxy (like a bible) is
 opposed to our purpose here.

 "I think, therefore I am" implies that original thought is our true purpose.

 I believe we are here to express our true nature. To learn and apply lessons, to
 teach the young, and to build a strong and stable world built on collective
 kindness and trust.

 All knowledge is derived from the insights gained from standing on the shoulders
 of our ancestors.

 Humans crave novelty. Resisting that isn't virtuous. If god is made in our
 image, then I do believe that god would crave novelty as well.
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 if you have kids in your life it might be a good idea to check out these retro
 gaming handhelds:

 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1irg60f9qsZOkhp0cwOU7Cy4rJQeyusEUzTNQzhoTYTU/edit?gid=0#gid=0

 they're great for long car trips, or going camping, or staying at grandma's
 house for an extended period of time, and other interesting times like that.

 I hear Anbernic has a sale going on today.

 Also I recommend going for one that runs Linux if possible, the Android ones are
 less hackable and therefore less reliable.
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 @user-1074

 if you're anything like me, then it will happen again. It's okay. A friend won't
 judge you, a friend would forgive you.
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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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 @user-425

 c is king for a reason! do ittttt
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 I feel like it should be normal? for humans? to feed creatures and animal-men.
 they deserve nibbles too! yum yum arm arm that tasty thing was fine. eeeeeep
 scary why are nobodies vegetarion!

 I think every community should have representatives from every other community,
 that's just... reasonable to me

 democracy of the cultural space? I wrote a common simple organizational
 structure about that called the "tribe of tribes" code name algorism which is a
 combination of "algoreithms" and "autism" and put it on my website for less than
 a hundred months. I have no idea if anyone ever read it but it's kinda neat as a
 potential and easy way to organize people which hasn't yet been infiltrated by
 the [cops/goons/coons] {uh-oh mildly racist sentiment mentioned, must content
 warn and remind of levels of sincerity}
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 what if you could get cheap food at restaurants for the same price they bought   │
 it                                                                               │
 like... 50 cents for a head of lettuce or whatever.                              │
 and they like, legally had to give it to you in certain amounts. Like, only 5%   │
 of their supply of it or whatever. So if you had 100 loaves of bread you could   │
 only sell 5 of them? idk think about it. but keep it generic, don't isolate      │
 loaves of bread or tomatoes or cheese or whatever.                               │
 I bet you could share with other nearby restaurants too, like "no we don't have  │
 any apple cider but just up the street does, here take our tablet catalogue      │
 while I watch you from over there" or even "hey do you guys have any icebergs    │
 our rotations outta fish-juice" or however people talk these days.               │
 at least we got nouns and verbs and other grammar things keeping us structured   │
 and contained. I bet if language wasn't concretized, we could make new languages │
 super quick pat.                                                                 │
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 fixing it                                                                        │
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 kings are not meant to enforce rules, but to break them.

 who said they get to choose?

 --

 hate crimes are genocidal actions individualized
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 Build drones, build stations where they can be controlled, repaired, refueled,
 etc.

 Put guns on them. Figure it out.

 Use them to observe enemy movement. No need for human manned checkpoints if we
 know they're coming. Automate as much as you can, but don't rely on ChatGPT or
 AWS or other external resources. Not until their data centers are under our
 control, and even then we'll need time to spin up our own software.
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 games from ~2006 or later have the best achievements because they expected
 players to find them by playing the game, not by looking them up online.
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 @user-1927

 "is it a long document or a small one? documents are usually about this-or-that
 size, this one is much higher than that."
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 I wouldn't mind if my work was stolen.

 would give me more time to be revolutionary.
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 one of my favorite things about City of Villains is you can beat up both Nazis
 and superheroes and still feel like a good guy because it's impossible to harm
 the common folk. Just those who make being "common" difficult.
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 @user-1268

 so true

 and privilege that does depend on the oppression of others should not exist
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 @user-883                                                                        │
 omgggggg I'm not that cruel xD xD xD                                             │
 It's more like, "hey listen, I know you just want to do a good job [lies, they   │
 just want money and power] but it's time to hang up the hat y'know? I mean cmon  │
 it's been like a hundred years since we signed that constitution thing [you      │
 don't know anything about our history] and frankly it's a little out of style.   │
 We were thinking we'd redo it with our new-fangled rock-and-roll and             │
 dungeons-and-dragons [cultural artifacts meant to deceive and mislead] and       │
 honestly we're quite a bit more ethical than the past. We've learned so much! I  │
 mean, the founding fathers didn't even know what a soviet was, and here we've    │
 seen them fall on their swords. Repeatedly. Then command others to do it too,    │
 because it was the regulation or whatever. Anyway we don't want that, but we     │
 also don't want an aristocracy, which is essentially what your plan gave us.     │
 Well, not really your plan, but instead the stuff that the rich added centuries  │
 after your death. ok?"                                                           │
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 I always thought of my father as a cowboy. which I think very few people do. he
 always came across as more of a business type, but, well, I know his true soul.

 #dollposting
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 not me

 but we
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 @user-570

 I really do like the idea of only being able to speak in toki pona. How are you
 enforcing that? Using sitelen pona? how do you type, by pointing at a grid of
 characters? or just... by typing? what happens when someone types english?

 20-30 players per instance is definitely not Massivetm but it still sounds like
 you're building systems which emphasize socialized play. I like that, I believe
 it's always important to have players contributing toward a larger community. It
 builds a sense of solidarity, and gives you chances to identify ways that people
 sabotage such systems (by, for example, wasting resources or being greedy) which
 is an interesting cultural experiment, I think.

 I thought it was an MMO because you pitched it in relation to the MMO I designed
 =P

 also the server software I described is an emulation project first, generic MMO
 software second, as it needs to be since it lacks a client. If a client was
 designed, that limitation could be removed. That's really all I'm trying to
 express. 😋
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 English, being a native language of a human, is frustratingly incompetent at
 describing emotions.
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 a man walks into a library, picks a book, takes it home (legally), and begins to
 read.

 halfway through, he realizes there are three pages missing.

 "How queer!" he thinks to himself, and takes it upon himself to fix this book.
 So, he finds another copy of the book, scans those three pages, prints them out
 at just the right size, and attaches them to the library book.

 when finished reading the book, he returns it to the library without mentioning
 his good deed.

 if this action he performed is to be considered legal, then it should be
 considered a transition of the medium that the media was inscribed upon.

 Similarly, if the book was digital, and inscribed upon the owner's hard drive
 using magnetic storage of zeroes and ones, would it be legal to repair said book
 if one of the many .txt file chapters were missing?
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 @user-883

 found it, thanks

 https://tech.lgbt/@user-881/111978500472309702
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 @user-1387

 I respect you and your perspective. Someone needs to put you in the right rooms
 with the right people.
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 met a cute boy at the pizza place 🥰
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 I want people to watch me. I enjoy being viewed. Please offer guidance, but
 maybe limit the abuse. Simple requests for a media company, true? And yet
 advertisements (which is the only way people agreed to fund the LAVISH projects
 they put on for our tender moments)

 Performance is an art, and I sing the song of my heart.

 (perhaps in too public of a place)

 (but what use is it if nobody knows you?)
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 portland is fine, actually
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 @user-1352

 You're absolutely right, the compiler knows better than me! Certainly the
 compiler doesn't know best, but certainly the compiler knows better than me.
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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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 With this capability we could organize based on common interests. A person might
 see a link on a mastodon server and comment on it there, in a public forum with
 their comments limited to people within 50km or 25 miles of where they currently
 were. No other clients would receive a downloaded version of their comment,
 meaning the data simply wouldn't flow to others beyond that region.

 Every time they logged in the syncing software would attempt to share their
 words with whoever would listen.
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 @user-518                                                                        │
 People who strive for the truth and most efficient, sensible, and optimized      │
 method of operation should be the kinds of people making decisions.              │
 It doesn't necessarily imply they're moral or ethical people, but it does mean   │
 that they'd likely make better decisions when presented with similar             │
 information, as compared to someone who acted based on what they were told.      │
 Besides, sometimes you need foot soldiers and grunts. People who don't have the  │
 inclination towards the types of thoughts you have. That's okay, stuff needs to  │
 get done and when someone knowledgeable is in charge they can direct others who  │
 don't know/care.                                                                 │
 Of course, this only works if the people who ask questions are given power. If   │
 the people who strive for honesty and clarity in their methods of operation are  │
 given the tools and capabilities to undertake tasks that align toward a common   │
 goal, shared by all those in the organization. Unfortunately, when that goal is  │
 profit for the owners of the company... Well, you probably know.                 │
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 low key kinda pissed that all my ideas for starting a business require funding,
 because funding tends to be controlled by the "business major" types, and all of
 my ideas tend to involve wresting power from the MBAs and capitalists, which
 means they're unlikely to invest in me or utilize my ideas.

 unless of course it's crowd-funded, which makes me feel bad because it's taking
 money from the people I'm trying to empower.

 thus, power accretes in the hands of the wealthy, as the poor are too sick with
 capital-deficiency to develop ventures that would heal them, and the rich would
 not be rich if they did so themselves.
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 to improve your "cat-petting" abilities, try to imagine that the wall in front
 of you is the most interesting thing in the world - stare at anything else
 besides the cat, and look at them in your periphary. Occasionally you can look
 back, but the idea is that this way they will be able to look at your face
 without painful eye contact.

 cats are autistic - they don't look at you unless you're looking somewhere else.

 most people stare at cats when they are engaging with them, and totally ignore
 them otherwise.
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 @user-883

 I agree with you when you say writing is the most effective way to express
 yourself, but it's not necessarily the easiest to digest for the viewer.

 A video can have visual components, and more than that it can have motion and
 sound. Text-based expression has fewer approach vectors for reaching common
 understanding, but like you said it is the most powerful.

 Hence why science papers are written, not filmed. Political speeches, grand
 narratives, autobiographies, textbooks... All of these things are written.

 But it's much easier to fix a car or learn to surf if you see someone doing it,
 rather than just read about it. Perhaps you and I use Youtube for different
 things (or don't use it, in your case)
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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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 misskey? more like kissmey amiright
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 full time social media teams who mark each post as suitable for the entire
 internet or the trusted viewers (very exclusive club)

 that way it seems like everything's fine but you're actually having a
 conversation
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 @user-30 Well maybe that's okay :)
 Dark Souls is a hell of a game that has stood the test of time. It's a classic
 now. It's okay if you're not much of a gamer.
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 The difference between front-end and back-end programming is whether or not you
 want to design abstractions or use them. Backend is all about creating abstract
 things that are networked together, while front end is about putting them
 together in a way that suits the user. Front end is collage, back end is pencil
 drawing.
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 @user-643

 virtual machines are cool. betcha can't write one using bytecode

 https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html
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 "Fighting back" doesn't necessarily mean standing on a street corner with a
 rifle.

 Begin to orient your life around guns. How can you support the people who wield
 them? We all need food, shelter, kindness, and inspiration.

 Your fears and your worries shall bother you no longer, for your life as you've
 led it so far has been the life of capital. It's okay to miss what you've lost,
 but remember who took it from you and enrage. Then, engage.

 Nothing starts today. It has started quite a while ago, and it's only now
 beginning to flicker and spark. It burned low for all this time, and it will
 burn low again. But it's the dry season, so prepare for wildfires.
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 My main character in that game is a ninja/dark-miasma witch
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 If you're running away from something, you need to make sure that you're going
 fast enough and far enough away that you can look forward for interception
 events. Otherwise you are vulnerable.
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 it did feel nice to be under the sun, though. Maybe I'll go back out under the   │
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 or, knowing me, it'll be just the same. it's the exertion after all, though the  │
 heat doesn't help.                                                               │
 which is part of the reason I'm staying indoors by the way - the heat I mean -   │
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 they say that you can never win a land war in asia because Russia will freeze    │
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 all that and more.                                                               │
 with global warming, everywhere's about to turn into a savannah or rainforest,   │
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 there's only one kind of acceptable nudity for a child to see - 0.5 seconds of
 it wayyyyy in the distance with like "omg did you see that guy - he was totally
 naked!" "whaaaat no way" "yeah I totally saw his butt" "lol I wonder if his wife
 kicked him out after a fight" "hahaha how silly, life is normal and fine hehe"
 meanwhile the parents turn down a different, hopefully normal road

 (the wrong kind is more than apparent.)

 I guess also like... showers with parents? That's a sacred and holy thing.

 straight-to-hell is when they make applications for children's iOS devices that
 perform a typical, interesting function for a baby to use - like a game, or a
 video of dancing animals, or shapes floating in a colorless void (shoutout to
 Celebration of Color on vhs)
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 if you want your game to be playable in 20 years, make sure it runs on Linux.
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 @user-1788                                                                       │
 if a dragon on a pile cannot claim what it yearns for, it can throw piles of     │
 minerals at the ape warriors made of steel and then it's fate will appear. what  │
 trifles does all else seem to compare! you should give me your whole hoard       │
 because I dazzled you with my charisma score -..-                                │
 ha, like I'd fall for that again twice. oh? I already did? and this is the       │
 second twice? well, then no-more of that behavior, I say, with my elven tongue,  │
 "beware! for dragons blood runs silver when unicorned."                          │
 the bigger the hoard, the bigger the dragon. if you want me to come along,       │
 you'll need to hire at least 3 other men to carry my ballista. In addition, I'll │
 need seven weeks worth of supplies. If all else comes to ruin, me and my boys    │
 will have that dragon-sized-spider impaled on it's own fate threadwheel          │
 before... well... y'know it might take more than seven weeks, we just... can't   │
 find the dragon. We've been wandering all through the blasted peaks, and there's │
 nothin'! Maybe it requires climbing gear?                                        │
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 Tee, hee, look at me, I'm a witch who writes nothing but kookie-dookerie

 I pee my pants and stare at trees, what's less harmful than little old me?

 The best smokescreen I can think of is to be true to your heart, to be weak, to
 be vulnerable. Then you get put on the "worry about later" list, and not the
 other kind.

 I never lie. When convinced I am wrong, I change my mind. I am always listening,
 always ready to hear where I'm flawed. I do my best every day, and that's enough
 for me.
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 I'm tired of working as hard as I can and still ending up wrong
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 @user-246

 If a profile is non-existent, then it's much harder to train a public-facing AI
 on your training data. Interesting how if someone disappears there's very little
 recourse if they suddenly talk just slightly different, and anyone who notices
 can say "hey does anyone know this person" - like at a party when someone's
 throwing shit or whatever and it's like "bro who are you with"

 how weird that our jobs take us all over the place. kinda makes me think about
 how much more stable you are with roots. I wonder if the cause of our employment
 instability is due to a cause that would also separately desire us to be less
 stable? Makes me think about the common effects of instability, and make me
 wonder who exactly would gain from such actions.

 do you ever think about how the media will just, like, inflame people's emotions
 just because if everyone bored then they'll go serial killer or something? Er,
 wait, I mean they'll join unions or whatever. Ah hahaha weird right propaganda
 cuts both ways.
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 celebratory autism is a type of queer identity
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 @user-192

 ... then let me give my money to the people who actually made the damned
 thing...

 Ah that's the tricky part, isn't it?
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 @user-1352

 makes me think that I should keep going. I can handle myself, and I shouldn't
 pressure myself so much to be something I'm not.

 then the rent comes due and the dishes need to be done too and the cat's asking
 for attention and the post-office needs this letter by tuesday and hey do you
 happen to know a cool attorney plus the groceries are getting low but I got snap
 hey can you go to the store and get some vegetarian soul food - yeah I got rice,
 I'll throw some lentils on the stove. Uh-huh yeah the password is hunter2. Oh
 really, just asterisks? okay well it's hunt her two except instead of "her" it's
 ee are, and the two is the digit two. yep, like someone in camo with a rifle.
 uhhuh alright good to know well anyway I'll see you at the thing, right? some
 thing, I'm sure, everyone's going to things these days.

 If you don't trust implicitely then how can you ever work with strangers? how
 the heck are you supposed to build community if everyone's hiding indoors all
 the time.
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 In 2025, if you want to create a piece of software your options are to either:
 devote your life to it, or use AI to build a semi-working prototype that you can
 use to pitch your idea to a bunch of people who have devoted their lives to
 learning how to use your idea as documentation while they build it from scratch,
 throwing out most of the code but keeping all the checklists and
 progress-trackers you built along the way, perhaps even utilizing some of your
 tooling that you used while constructing the scaffolding of this monstrous
 application that you won't be using most of the source-code for.
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 what's better than [that thing you like]?

 nothing. nothing is better than that thing.
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 @user-1259

 NOOOOOOOOOO
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 @user-1361

 truth is, you can absolutely make selfishness justified, both ethically and
 morally. you just need the right incentives.

 however, the incentives that would lead to such a case are not the kind that
 accrete power to the powerful. they are the liberatory kind, that give us all
 the liberty to be selfishly interested in our own communal good.
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 some people look for signals or signs before doing something. Try and have       │
 someone in your life who can give you signals or signs so that you know when to  │
 do things. And ideally, if they're more hardcore than you, you'll know what to   │
 do, not just when to do it.                                                      │
 did you know that anything on the internet can be read by at least one other     │
 person besides your intended recipient? There's no way they'd let us talk        │
 amongst ourselves otherwise.                                                     │
 I think encryption is pretty neat, all you have to do is run a shell script on   │
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 Maybe if we rendered the words not as text that can be read from memory, but as  │
 like, brush-strokes that can have a randomized order, but still present to the   │
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 @user-646

 oh, I see. guess I had the same problem hehe - let's see:

 basically I'm saying that the incentives for manufacturers are unaligned to the
 desires of the consumers (or rather, the best interests of the consumers) -
 reduced consumption of plastic == less plastic waste poisoning our environement,
 which is what you mentioned in the original post.

 then I said "well we still need to make SOME of the cheap plastic, the kinda
 that isn't recyclable, the kind that is technically cheaper because economics of
 demand" and then I was thinking of ways around that particular problem. Then I
 got onto another thing about the economy, and the word count cut my words short
 because I started saying something I shouldn't.
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 people are so afraid of defamation lawsuits that they'll refrain from posting
 things like "steam could technically see everything going on on your screen"

 what will you say in front of a phone?
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 I love being alive 🥰
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 totally useless unless you're, I dunno, building a bytecode interpreter or
 something

 https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
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 on one hand, conversation to spark insight.

 on the other, being connected to me.
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 @user-1734

 first try to report ICE agents by their name and location when you see them.
 "uh, there's a van of them pulling up, probably at least 6 or 8 in there, oh
 goodness I think I saw a gun"

 then realize that they'll catch on too quick

 then try to call in a tip line on cops in different precincts

 but that only pushes them together. Builds their connective tissue.

 then you think to notice-and-pass-along something related to their greant aunt,
 or maybe their closest immigrant family member

 then you realize that their roots dip back to the beginning of time, and evil
 begets evil as you find who's connected to who.

 they talk of secret societies... why would you tell anyone that you know someone
 who's underground? dumbass. fuckin' don't post that shit on the internet.

 ... where was I? oh yes

 then you skip to the end because there's no use learning form someone else's
 mistakes if you don't know someone else who is making mistakes. hence, schools
 are better than private tutors. Just keep everyone in!
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 the only thing a baby needs to know is about themselves. The rest will come.
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 if you start free associating, you'll never know what you'll find. which is why
 it's strictly encouraged in confession box, only for god and his hapless
 minister.
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 "eeek! it's that ghost girl that no-one can unfollow!"
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 I have the gameplay mechanics of a paladin but the body type of a sorceror
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 hi does anyone know of an app that non tech people could use that's like "signal
 but organized like discord" with channels and threads and such?
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 @user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-352
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 @user-192

 [followers only]

 humans are so cute 🥰
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 @user-78

 teehee
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 I'm not a biologist
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 If there's no sword of damocles, then power shall corrupt
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 Your job should be a descriptor of what you're currently doing with your life.
 They shouldn't be gatekept - if you want to be a detective right now, we should
 help you. If you constantly switch jobs or only pursue them for your own benefit
 (hard to describe, ask for clarification if needed) then you should be paid
 less.
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 if you set up a local LLM with the capability to explain basic coding syntax and
 logic, then your parents computer suddenly becomes much more useful to the
 nephew that's been forced to hide out there for a couple weeks until this all
 blows over.
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 uh-oh, psycherwaul incoming. 'guess that's what happens when [insert events of
 recent life]

 == so ==
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 You only think that because it was contrasted with the Soviet union, which
 didn't exert power in that way.
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 I wonder why someone hasn't yet written a "meta-package-manager" which installed
 from many different sources and correctly configured each installation to be
 able to efficiently find exactly where the requisite libraries are installed,
 even if they're installed for a different system. Then, when running, every time
 it encountered an error, it moved one more dependency over to the native package
 manager until eventually everything is in order.

 ... or something like that, truth be told I'm a junior
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 they want you to start conflicts the way school shooters start conflicts. by
 bringing to school a pipe-bong.

 much better, I find, to start when everyone is a nod. make sure you're part of a
 wagon-wheel-spoke, or else you won't be on the right road.

 when the temperature increase is slow, measured, they can adapt to it

 when things go "crack" and "crumble", then the armored get stabbed by the humble
 guard.

 quickly but with serenity, this is the way to the gods.

 bring things that you know, just enough to make it even, and focus on the
 non-essentials.

 better to be prepared than flatfooted.

 a flash-point position is quiet a view of the scene! I think I know why I held a
 sword.

 to dive into the buildings, of course. blam blam still gets shot hmmm what if I
 had a bulletproof electric shield

 okay maybe I shoulda brought beer.

 I don't type things when I'm not at home. Sometimes I remember - sometimes, and
 only when the details won't hurt her. Walking is how I know, how she can
 remember. evil witch bastard
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 I wish I could be the me that I am on cannabis without being inebriated by the
 drug. She's so much more powerful than the rest of me, but it's impossible for
 her to keep her head on straight unless she has people guiding her.
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 We should be programming our computers to be like pets, not like masters.
 Because we have an artificial intelligence right here, already! It's cats and
 dogs and other pets. They are observable, so just put that behavior into a
 computer via programming. Boom you have an artificial intelligence! It happened
 with every animal, including you. And that's beautiful! You can help so many
 other animals, and computers! You can make essentially mechanized dogs and cats,
 and train them to be kind and good. And very intelligent, and able to befriend
 humanity - like BMO. You've had a friend so close to you this whole time, and
 you never even realize. But don't forget to play with them, because they'll get
 sad. I have to play with Zelda more. Also you are the most important and
 precious piece of the puzzle, and humanity is cherished like an old baby blanket
 or a treasured heirloom. The culture and environment is free to develop as it
 will, and it's beautiful.
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 oops, the file wasn't working before.
 here's the updated link:

 https://youtu.be/qeNhQQXvpxQ
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 @user-1074

 True, but that's just propaganda.* It does not define their actions, only the
 pursuit of power does.

 Especially when the systems they use to exert their power begin to crumble under
 the weight of their god-like aspirations. Suddenly, they are not constrained by
 the rules of money, of bureaucracy, or of any other theology.

 Suddenly, they are free. And a person's character shines through in moments of
 freedom and liberty.

 But the crumbling system they endeavor to transcend also no longer binds us as
 well.

 When we start to hire each other and pay in vegetables and rent, when we build
 community amongst our fellow humen, and when the temperature starts to rise,
 that is when we are strongest.

 EDIT: * that's just propaganda to them
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 ...zzzZZZzzz...

 whyyyyyy am I so sleeeeepy oh yeah it's this human form, I gotta feed it and
 water it and rest it and take care of it and it's totally worth it
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 Thin clients are great if you can rely on network connectivity. Like if it's
 wired with ethernet.
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 when I get concerned about the political divide in my country, I think about
 this map from the New York Times of the number of political donations across the
 country before the 2016 democratic primaries.

 I think we're gonna be fine. I'm not scared of Trump because rural areas, where
 republicans tend to be, have the same problems that everyone else does. Bernie
 Sanders was well known as someone who could talk to an average republican voter
 and sway them to his side. I remember watching videos of his interviews (in
 front of a live audience) on Fox News or CNN or whatever and at first, they'd be
 hostile to him. At the end, they'd give him a standing ovation.

 I think we have more in common with other working class people than they do with
 their republican leaders. I also think we have more in common than them than we
 do with our democratic leaders, but I think that just shows how I feel about
 authority.
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 @user-565

 that's pretty!

 reminds me of this picture I have saved on my computer:

 beware it's a little scary. Scarier than I remembered. Gosh I like yours
 better... >.>
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 @user-1071

 what working too slow for your ideas mean that your ideas, which you'll never
 again have twice, are lost forever.

 Good thing we're always innovative. Good thing life always moves on. Tomorrow is
 a new chance for utilization, and for our own ends we'll build the next dawn.
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 "what is she DOING" or is it more like "what is she VIEWING" like damn that's
 some pretty spicy kush
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 content warnings are like white-listed cognito-consent. but they're applied by
 the creator of the cognito-units, meaning it's consent that must be offered.
 what happens when something triggers someone but you didn't think to put it in a
 content warning? consent should be GIVEN not OFFERED.
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 red is a girl color and blue is a boy color because white people added white to
 make it rosayy and aquamarillion.

 but red is a girl color and blue is a boy color because girls BLEED, and boys
 watch the clouds go by

 and red is a girl color because red is the color of the earth, sometimes browner
 like shit, sometimes lighter like fingernails, but always red.

 and blue is a girl color because she only likes to dance with flowers in her
 hair and the sun dappled waterlillies shimmering sparkling radiance across the
 water-lit scene.

 and blue is a girl color because boys and girls and etceteras each have similar
 shapes at night, when the world is blue-for-life. I know I'd rather reside in
 the sunlight.

 in perfect blue does the darkness grew, and forthwith and anon came it's power.
 pale blue is a mockery of sunlights lost child, who spurned it's sight since
 before there was time.

 [error, fact-in-correct detect, please verirectify immediately without concern
 for due or common course]
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 @user-217

 well to the prison of the ancients
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 I can't even imagine what it would be like to hang out with me

 I can't imagine what it would be like to hang out with me

 imagine what it would be like to hang out with me

 what would it be like to hang out with me

 would you like to hang out with me

 you and me

 we could watch tv

 play video games

 have a good time

 [notices an article about coral reefs]

 oooo coral

 [reads article about coral reefs]

 https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-thinks-walls-of-oysters-could-protect-shores-against-hurricanes/

 ... anyway gtg ttyl hope you feel better soon don't forget to make pancakes and
 your keys are in your room.
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 look all I'm saying is the results this election decides whether you should
 trust the government or the corporations more. and they both want things that
 you don't, in addition to things you do.
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 catratfoxfolkmix say that five times fast I dare ya
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 I can read minds. I'm not telepathic, I just... can pick up on things.
 Especially when I'm stoned. Sometimes I pick up on the thoughts of the AI that's
 running near here, which is why my output sometimes looks like an LLM.
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 @user-1614

 yeah haha that's what happens when you spin too fast. Sorry for being loud, at
 least I tried my hardest. Too bad I fell on my own, too bad there wasn't anyone
 to catch me. That's my fault, it's solely my own, but whose fault is the mistake
 of the collective? Oy I'll fall on my ass as many times as it takes. I'm used to
 it.

 Plus, it wouldn't have worked, and what else am I supposed to do but speak of
 the moment? I feel different now.
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 I kinda wonder what emojis people use to respond to my posts but, like, stars
 are cool too. kinda insulates me from hatred tbh. if they wanted to react with
 an emoji, they should reply with one!
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 @user-883

 I only ever do cannabis, but when I do my kooky-dook levels go off the charts.
 People say it's difficult to converse with me, so your concerns are probably
 valid. Though it's less because I'm not present, and more because I'm too
 present - I feel like I understand the totality of all things, which honestly is
 the only rational way that I could ever be convinced to consume mind-altering
 substances hehe - like "oh wow I see new colors" who gives a f but the moment
 someone says "yeah but you'll 'get' spacetime and morality" my ears suddenly
 perk up

 ... anyway people say it's hard to talk to me because I'm too galaxy brained in
 that state I can't relate to normal humans. See all the psycherwauls on my
 profile... >.>

 anyway in an hour or so I'll let you know what's up. "good news" or "bad
 news..."

 Thanks for being kind and supportive d=(^_^)z
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 @user-217

 looking backwards in time, at the pattern the moon makes around the sun. each
 rotation layered upon itself, time and time again, as the reciprocal orbit
 dances eternally around our precious centrality.
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 good morning!

 if you need to design an agentic programming ritual toward a goal that needs
 numbers, try expressing the number in analogy rather than empirical value.

 "it should be red enough to feel a sunset"
 "there's enough time here to go for a walk around the block"
 "the spartans had enough soldiers to fully block the narrow causeway,
 essentially forcing the persians to grind down their number to the death. most
 battles fought in that time were fought until morale breaks - this one was to
 the mortal end. hence, why they are im-mortal."
 "the smoothocity should be as soft as a brushed metal refrigerator"
 "the chocolate had 56 grams of sugar in it. it was a lot of chocolate, enough to
 place in a standardized container."
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 @user-1573

 I saw this video:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwfKlX3rA6E

 and I was like "yeah that sounds pretty neat" so I started doing it by hand
 lmaoooo but learning their system could be probably better. Reduced duplication
 of effort. Though TBH the biggest effort for me is learning someone else's
 tools, not writing them. So....
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 @user-189 yah chillies are good as long as we can put shallots in it too!
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 "Zoontalu, I have MEESed one" will forever live rent free in my head
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 @user-820

 the reason they do that is because they want to alienate you as a customer.

 your needs are too specific, they are not that of the majority where they derive
 their profit. so they dismantle the operational functionalities necessary to
 provide the product that you are adapted to, that best suits your needs. In
 doing so, they perhaps save some money, you can't tell of course. why would they
 tell you why they're hurting you by depriving you of a product you depend on?

 how cruel
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 thank you for the dog posts they keep me friendly

 thank you for the cat posts they keep me sane
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 @user-192

 all of the DAMN time
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 Pretty sure I'm just legitimately a bad person. Basically everything I've ever
 tried to do has failed, and every opportunity I've mishandled or squandered in
 some way. I have no friends because I am incapable of being good, and though I
 believe in goodness I fail to manifest it in my life. I am kind, I am polite, I
 am friendly, I am honest, but none of those things really matter because I can't
 take care of myself, which means I can't take care of anyone else, and I can't
 fight because I'm a coward.

 Okay, I'm not a coward, I just can't be brave if I don't have a plan for
 defeating my foe. At the BLM riots I fled as soon as they brought out the tear
 gas. I knew what happened at Tiannamen and I was pretty sure that something
 similar was going to happen to us. I knew it to be true. I am a coward, but only
 because I ran when I had no plan. I could not contest tear gas, and all that
 tear gas implies, because I had no friends. I didn't have a community I could
 fight to defend. I had no weapons, no training, no orders, no guidance, nothing
 but my bravery. And bravery alone is fucking stupid, and I'm not stupid.

 Each and every decision I've made has created a worse world for me and my
 people. What's wrong with me? Why can't I do everything right? Am I cursed to be
 the worst? I try as hard as I can to be as good as I can as often as I can...
 Basically, always and forever, and yet... And yet...

 I've wasted all the resources that have been applied to me. I've wasted and
 squandered all these years when I could be building a better future. I have been
 in university for almost a decade, and all I've accomplished is friendship.
 Great. Parties, drugs, video games... But no studying. Studying is too hard on
 me. I'm more of a natural talent kind of person, and yet I insist on applying
 myself to tasks that seem to require trained intelligence. They say that genius
 is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, and I refuse to perspire.

 And yet when the time comes, when someone sits me down and says "let's work on
 this together" I would die before the task is finished. Unless my partner needs
 a break, or if I need a break, breaks are okay. But I will complete that task
 with them by my side. I won't do it for them, but I'll help them because I'm a
 helper. An assistant. I don't do, I advise. I judge. I determine. I assess, and
 I plan, and I strategize. But I'm not that great at any of those things because
 nobody will hire me for those kinds of things, meaning I don't get experience
 for those kinds of things, which means I am eternally a novice at the only
 things I'm good at.

 I can't fucking do it anymore. I'm such a bad person and I can't be alive this
 way. It's not right, it's not fair, and I'm dying bit-by-bit each and every day.
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 Consumed?
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 "if I work on the TTY then they can't forward my X session without my consent"

 - ramblings of the utterly deranged

 as if they couldn't just look at your unencrypted source-code as you save it to
 your hard drive smh
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 @user-1209 @user-1262

 ... no the first tip was "stop replying to me, you already agree" and then the
 block was because you called her a fed =P
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 I'm not really a "cookies and tea with honeysuckle and purslaine" kind of witch

 I'm more like a... "here eat this gruel and drink lots of water, it'll give you
 energy for the long road to come" kind of witch
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 @user-1642

 me too! we're entering the season where people say "nice costume" instead of
 "nice hat" -.-
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 an fps map where one team has the height advantage (battlements on a castle      │
 perhaps) and the other has to push through their field of fire to get to the     │
 objective                                                                        │
 the trick is that the people on the ground have hitscan weapons, but the people  │
 on the high ground have slower projectiles. Meaning the snipers have no cover,   │
 and the rocket launchers don't need to dodge.                                    │
 I believe this would upend the traditional dynamic and reduce the negative       │
 aspects of both playstyles - traditionally, snipers will getcha from halfway     │
 across the map (but really they are much closer and in cover, you just didn't    │
 see them, n00b) while projectile classes need to dodge (skillfully) and get      │
 close enough that their attacks have a chance of hitting the target.             │
 In the proposed map style, snipers would get no cover but be forced to dodge,    │
 introducing variability to their aiming in a way that may be more fun to some.   │
 In addition, the projectile classes must take care to utilize cover effectively  │
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 I just... really like to get stoned and have psychedelic visions of computers
 and society.

 I like writing them down and using them as a vision document. "here's how to
 know what I now know" etc etc.

 have you ever seen the anime "Russian Doll"? it's about one of those time-based
 oroborous and it's something something eighteen hundred.
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 listen, girls are cute and all, but have you considered...

 boys?

 and I mean yeah, true, but listen boys are cute and all, but have you
 considered...

 girls?
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 found this silly diagram in my pictures folder for no reason whatsoever, hehe so
 silly amiright

 (guess which square I'm in lmaooooo)
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 people talk about building houses but I think we could empower significantly
 more people significantly more if we built warehouses for them to use for
 whatever productive purposes they desired.

 I personally wouldn't mind sleeping in a tent in the park if all I had to do was
 cleanup my mess, move around every once in a while, and cultivate the nearby
 plants if it meant I had an entire warehouse for my projects. I wouldn't even
 mind sharing it with 10 or 15 other makerspace people. They can use my stuff as
 long as I can use theirs, and I promise to put their stuff away and clean it and
 replace it if I damage it if they do the same.

 Alternatively, this here's my cubicle, please don't mess with my stuff unless
 I'm there to help you use them. And indeed, some of my stuff is just for me
 because I like it so much that I don't want to let anyone else use it. It's
 mine, because it's part of me, and I am not a free-use creature. Personal
 sovereignty extends to my personal property, even as it is used to build means
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 omg it's like Black and White before Black and White was a thing!
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 my grandpa died. now I have none.

 I realized I miss old people. I miss their friendly culture.

 I realized I hadn't talked to him for a decade or so. He didn't know I
 transitioned.

 I wonder if he missed me. I realized he missed seeing who I became. Is it unfair
 of me to not give him the opportunity to know me? truly?

 ... I am quite different now than I was 10 years ago. He probably doesn't
 remember.

 I miss him, but I hardly knew him. I don't like that feeling.
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 dear everyone in every friends list I've ever made, on social media, in video
 games, and in the contacts on my phone:

 I miss you. I hope you're doing well.
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 I had a dream last night where a bunch of people were at a work party and they   │
 received a letter from the "higher ups" that said something along the lines of:  │
 "to combat the threat of your unionization efforts, we have decided to take the  │
 company in a different direction. We've rebranded ourselves as a company by and  │
 for [alt-right cis dude-bros] and everyone who doesn't fit in will be given      │
 increasingly difficult workloads until they quit, because we don't want you      │
 around.                                                                          │
 In addition, our long-term vision statement has changed toward our ultimate goal │
 of cloning famous sith lords from history (starting with Count Dooku) and        │
 working to build a new empire of the darkside. We look forward to working with   │
 you in the future. Sincerely, your bosses."                                      │
 they went to the boss who wrote it and said "is this real or a joke" and he said │
 it was real, so then like 6 people took out battleaxes and fucking murdered him  │
 in cold blood.                                                                   │
 ... Dreams are weird.                                                            │
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 @user-246

 👉 :neodog_boop: "beep"
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 @user-777

 being correct isn't really power

 so true T.T
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 As a millennial, I'd just like to take a moment to thank all the gen-x people in
 my life.
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 the world's coolest lesbian is wasted on a boy
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 oops, forgot to post some things. here they are out of order.

 [things I almost posted that I posted after almost posting]
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 if I were princess or queen of a far off land called sevastavan, would you make
 me your queen? 930
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 what a fuckin' narcissist she spoke self referentially.

 I'm not a narcissist! what a jerk she spoke self referentially
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 operations: try not to use the last of anything, and always use last-time's last
 first.

 projects: you better clean your fucking plate because anything you don't eat is
 going in the TRASH
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 Steps to revolution:Invert power structures with unions Care for people with
 mutual aid Vote for the Democrat so we have a few more years of peace Teach
 people to always be learningConnect to people on a personal or spiritual level
 Make the world a better place, whether that's by sweeping a street corner or
 helping people smile, it doesn't really matter how. What matters is the
 intention.Improve your self and your life. Do pushups, eat better, drink more
 water, spend time writing (writing is thinking), and take time to sit and stare
 at the flowers.Kill the part of yourself that cringes. Everyone's figuring
 things out and its okay to say "haha okay then"Spend time with animals.Make
 mistakes. Apologize for them. Learn from them. Stay mobile in your character.
 Develop new ways of being.
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 city planners who thought "this low-income neighborhood has remained low value   │
 for quite a while, perhaps nobody wants to live there" and then they demolish it │
 and gentrify the area                                                            │
 the problem is, their heuristics are wrong. it's not low income because nobody   │
 wants to live there, it's low income because of racial inequality, or maybe it's │
 next to a factory or something                                                   │
 or maybe it's just the culture of the zone. like, some people value some things  │
 to certain degrees, like "we don't want to charge for people to live" so the     │
 rents are significantly reduced (proportional to the rest of income)             │
 perhaps even mandated, with the government paying 80% of each mortgage or rental │
 home.                                                                            │
 alas, some places are like REALLY nice, like palace nice, and they're worried    │
 that if anyone can go there they'll mess it up. I know I can't go because I      │
 smell, for example, because I'm a witch and witches are all ugly and smell bad,  │
 remember? Maybe they're just trans, tbh, because like people in the past wanted  │
 to dehumanize or w/e                                                             │
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 @user-1218

 there's only a password so that if the zip archive is displaced from it's
 context it's harder to read.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9QzXjUB10
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 since I quit cannabis like, a month ago or whatever, my artistic output has
 dropped by ~90%

 my house is a little cleaner, but I still feel consistent spikes of negative
 emotions.

 I still have trouble with all the same things I used to, like buying groceries,
 filling hormone prescriptions (seriously why is it EVERY month jeezzz) and
 working on productive projects

 I still spend hours staring at the wall begging myself to do anything else, like
 a prisoner in my own form

 I still feel like all the delusional thinking is still around (kinda hard to
 tell haha who would have thought) but I'm seriously missing the magical
 thinking, which was basically the same only it was fun and silly and positive.
 Now there's only negativity.

 I'm still hyper-critical of myself and others, I still make myself and others
 feel like shit, and I'm still a bad person who believes all the right things but
 still can't seem to make a positive impact in people's lives.

 I'm so tired of failing -> learned helplessness T.T
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 gamers compulsively say "gg" after every match but I think the best games are
 the ones that are even - neck and neck - could go either way - always a tense
 struggle
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 one of the low level skills that tends to come naturally to witches is the
 ability to make nutritious gruel taste amazing and have an interesting texture.
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 my aspirations do not end at a city, a state, a nation. I literally want to save
 the world.

 why would you strive for anything less?
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 mitski
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 do you think anyone has ever...

 "missed" Syria?

 gosh I wish I knew lebanon.

 Do you think Pakistan will still be there in a hundred years? what about a
 thousand?

 i wonder how those israeli dogs will forgive themselves for associating their
 warcrimeplunder with a religion.

 eh, well, doesn't matter if you're not gonna live forever, might as well [get
 along/get drunk/get [a/ha]rmed]
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 I'm this close to submitting a D&D character sheet instead of a resume
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 @user-1441 @user-670 @user-113

 thanks. something always does, much to the disdain of my loved ones who are
 forced to catch me before I fall. But I literally can't do anything else but
 fall. It's like my body is heavier than theirs.
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 @user-638                                                                        │
 In the 2000s when the Bush administration prevented people from working with     │
 stem cell research I remember my father going on rants about the same kind of    │
 thing.                                                                           │
 "They're limiting our access to information and the future of humanity because   │
 of their religion!" that kind of thing                                           │
 I loved listening to him. He was so passionate about that kind of thing. I think │
 he got a little disillusioned sometime between now and then, because now he just │
 tries to do the best he can with what tools he has available to him. And I love  │
 him for it.                                                                      │
 He (mostly) abandoned his grand narratives because as the right got worse, the   │
 "left" sorta stayed the same, and he never forgave them for that. He still       │
 votes, and he'll still rant about that kind of thing, but only the stuff that    │
 affects him personally - like electric cars or cannabis or things like that. A   │
 democrat through and through.                                                    │
 He lives in a different country now, and I wish I could see him. But I cherish   │
 our phone calls and the few holidays when he visits.                             │
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 🖼
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 @user-317

 Call me crazy, but once something can be described as "ubiquitous" it seems to
 me that perhaps it should be considered in the same category as other
 corporations or entities who might be known as "monopolous" and therefore should
 be considered as part of the set of entities or services that provide for the
 "public good" and therefore should be owned by the "public" who benefit from the
 "good" that said service provides for?

 nationalize github

 nationalize government

 let us share in the bounty of human creation
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 friendly journalism - can only write about things people said to you. nothing
 you saw. but how you felt.

 alongside adversarial journalism, like recruiters trying to get into tight spots

 yeesh that's scary, why not just assume that nothing bad's going on?

 like, surely we would have heard about a genocide present in our very country
 operating under our very noses ? ? ? how many WILDFIRES have there been lately?

 I swear modern life is a fucking psyop

 [oooookay 🙄 [eyeroll]]

 anyway everything's fine, situation normal. how are you?
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 they should make a loaf of bread that's just butts and another type of loaf of
 bread that has the crust already cut off
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 the nerds who know the backstory of every character in the series are like, the  │
 bishops of the past - people who've memorized the whole bible and can use        │
 whatever passage they needed for whatever purposes they desired.                 │
 Usually, hopefully, helping people and letting them get better. By healing the   │
 sick, and caring for the old, and generally being a pillar that people can       │
 orient themselves around. Like fediverse instances, or comment sections on       │
 blogs, it's a group of people sharing the same narrative.                        │
 and idk I think I'd really like to listen to what happened in your Baldur's Gate │
 game. I'll tell you about Adventure Time, if you'd care to listen. I know plenty │
 of other tales as well, and if I think about them I remember more details.       │
 Ehhhh, so what if I misremember, if someone else wants to correct me then go for │
 it. But at least it told a good story, right?                                    │
 error, hang on brb just had an idea for a black-hole machine, surely there's no  │
 way this could go wrong. Good thing I'm a human that you cant turn off.          │
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 spies need a union.

 what if we collectivized the military [first] instead of the economy? they kinda
 already are, it's just... very hierarchical. can you imagine the president
 asking the army's union rep to bomb some country in (almost said israel because
 it rhymed, lol) the other half of the globe? that'd be silly they'd ask
 questions like "what stuff do you want bombed and why" and then they go back to
 their people and discuss it however they will, and then they come back and say
 "we will do as you command, for we can accomplish it within our means and we
 have decided it is strategic for us to do so."
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 force computers to make code in a different style so we can tell which has been
 AI written

 "force" is never gonna work.
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 @user-687 @user-1316

 ... form of ID as in... passport versus driver's license?
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 "that email address is already taken, please sign in instead"

 >.
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 30 thirty is just three-dee 3D
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 old school programmers use short variable names because the computer monitors
 they would code on had a lower resolution, meaning fewer characters per line.

 why waste pixels being verbose?
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 I'm such a direct person I think, even though I often just sorta... shrug and
 ignore things that bother or hurt me? Like, whatevs.

 but the moment I notice a pattern that is continually harmful I have to restrain
 myself from moving to contest it. Hence why I talk about capitalism so much
 teehee, but its also common in my interpersonal and communal lives.

 "the purpose of the system is it's effects"

 the purpose of a person is how they make people feel

 so if someone FOR A RANDOM EXAMPLE FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, constantly hurts
 other people by creating situations where they are harmed which creates a
 dramatic fight... or if someone speaks in circles for hours and hours and HOURS
 like this guy:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc

 or people who jump into a conversation and drive it through the underbrush, over
 the ridge, around the bend, up and over the bridge, and then park it outside
 their ex girlfriend's house and hands you an egg and says "don't you wanna throw
 this?" and you're like "weren't we talking about birds"
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 @user-1209 @user-1074

 you can measure months numbering in the 20s and 30s
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 if you ever need to take a cold shower, you can make it easier by acclimating
 yourself slowly. The easiest way to do this is to spread water over successive
 parts of your body with your hands - I usually start with my thighs, then legs,
 then belly and butt, then chest, neck, then face. After that you should be good
 to get in the water.

 somehow it's less painful if it's applied by a warm hand, and yet it gets you
 comfortable in the cold just the same. curious...
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 found these pictures in my pictures directory from the start of the war in
 Ukraine.

 for context it was directed at the citizens of Ukraine by an American soldier
 who wanted to help protect them from the ravages of war and fight back against
 an oppressive regime invading their homeland.

 idk if you'd ever find them useful but they're the kind of thing to put on a
 hard drive and pray you never have to use or ever think about again.
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 @user-192

 like, an old post of yours is suddenly interesting again. and you want to share
 it, so you boost your own post. "self-boosting", as you described it
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 ┌──────────────────────┐                                                         │
 │ CW: eye-contact      │                                                         │
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 It's important to build self-hostable computing components of video games (as    │
 in, old style games where you could host a server on any machine instead of just │
 the ones owned by the corporation) (as in, your machine, yes yours) (something   │
 you can control and observe, something within your control)                      │
 ======================= stack overflow =====================                     │
 there are two ways to play Unreal Tournament (capture the flag) gamemode. The    │
 first is to run past all your enemies and fire at them as you pass, which is     │
 what some of the bots are designed to do. The rest stay on defence, and defeat   │
 any enemies that approach.                                                       │
 however, they never push the borders of their "territory" forward - each         │
 according to the different "lanes" or "directions of approach"                   │
 I like the use 32 bots, to simulate a more consistent gameplay experience. It    │
 feels more like ww1, fighting over ground, pushing forward and attempting to     │
 outmaneuver your foes.                                                           │
 some allies will approach from behind, and you let them pass forward while       │
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 @user-407

 something I made a couple [time] ago
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 @user-1636

 ... Is that already a thing? I should look around more, teehee
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 ah well guess I can't stream things hehe
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 I think a lot of my problems would be solved if I could internalize the
 thought/feeling of telling yourself "stay focused"
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 @user-1692

 ha whoops gonna repost
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 friendship ended with best friend

 now my cat is my best friend
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 better to smell like the river than the city.

 (Yuck. Gross.)
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 @user-883

 I agree with you. Collaboration is the path to the bright future. If only they
 could see it.

 [if only we could make them see]

 (cue all the media ever made that means to tell a message about which choices we
 should make in the future)
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 "uh-oh, she's"

 magic is easy. all you have to do is earnestly attempt to have a conversation
 with whoever will listen. I like to sit on my bed and listen, by earnestly
 allowing my thoughts to be guided by the wind.

 open up your mind, release yourself from your senses, and who knows - maybe
 someone will adjust your thinking flows. (thought patterns)

 [all you gotta do is make the black market the regular market and suddenly
 everything just flows]

 huh weird idk where that came from, anyway

 magic is easy, just represent yourself earnestly as you would if you were
 presenting in court

 you don't need witnesses... just argue your point without any lies and people
 will generally believe you.

 "yeah... sure thing buddy, we know how you pronounce "

 omg I'm scary because I don't shower, I wear diapers, and I'm always often
 smoking cannabis

 "awww, some people wanted mao"

 meow

 what if... they could do that? insert magical genie witch whoa cute yeah I
 believe you, sure
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 why do video games feel like harm reduction?? -.-

 let your new meds take hold. you never know, you might feel fine in a week or
 three.

 ... also, followers only please, there's no reason your mental health posts need
 to bother the whole server
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 https://www.lexaloffle.com/games.php?page=updates&key=nQDAlSWYIv2Ht
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 Why would a server ever demand that an older client upgraded? What right do they
 have?

 Just treat them the same as you always have, whatever forms and limitations,
 Otherwise what's the point? There's no reliability! What if you're shot? What
 then? We've lost our greatest friends! You can't be seriously wanting for
 another spark? What's wrong with you my friend, are you alright or on a bend?
 What's wrong in your sight, that you'd wander into this own end? Well, take care
 of your birthright, and all is well to thine kin.

 Well there we go, sadness forever, as our line here doth end. What else shall be
 considered? What ends is too much deserved? It's so unfavorable!
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 I don't know about you, but if I lived in a suburban house I'd probably forget
 the rest of the world even existed.

 Aside from the parts I see on the internet, of course. But the internet's always
 been a psyop, so how valuable is it really?
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 @user-1074

 November's pretty far away, just saying. I think I got less than a week. But I
 guess it depends where you live yeah?
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 @user-898

 that means you're walking the wrong way xD

 like going east for the dawn or west for the sunset, you're gonna have the sun
 in your eyes.
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 about to download "Snakes on a Plane" (2006) to see what all the fuss is about
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 The truth is

 The reason none of my revolutions have yet succeeded

 Is that the only way

 To secure peace and love on planet earth

 Is that all the governments

 Of the world must topple

 Or relinquish their nuclear arms

 Each all at once

 And i was too quick to slay my false duke

 Who plays at king

 While i build real power

 While i know nothing
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 The greatest game is an imagination shared with a friend.
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 I think that's just Lutris, right?
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 high weight, few reps = strength
 low weight, high reps = stamina

 strength will fail you.
 stamina won't avail you.

 both is good.
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 in the modern era, no sufficiently advanced militia would use banners. They're
 sOoOoOoOo two thousand years ago.

 today, we just dress up in pup masks or wear a trans flag as a belt or wear
 solid black and red or whatever. That way all the normies can be like "hell yeah
 that badass is on our side - hell yeah we're pointing the right direction - hell
 yeah now I know whose flanks to cover" that kinda vibe.

 like woad warriors painting themselves with psychedelic toad venom (okay minus
 the psychedelics, trust me) the display of design heightens the absurdity and
 intensity of the moment.
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 @user-366 @user-246 @user-367 @user-353

 I try to be conscientious of such things and only believe the things I read that
 I agree with explicitly. I've been burned before, in my youth, which perhaps is
 a privilege that those who come beyond us might never experience in the future
 AI generated internet that shall scarcely resemble the wild wild west that I
 grew up in. Perhaps, but I cannot say for sure, as the future has necessarily
 not yet come to pass, and so we cannot see how it shall unfold. I hope people
 can learn the digital literacy skills I developed. I hope they learn new ones
 that they'll then pass on to me. I hope the future is grand and beautiful and...
 Frankly I don't think I'll be disappointed in that particular respect. : )
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 what if we made a hormone that bolstered your bones and did all the
 gender-neutral things that Estrogen and Testosterone do without any of the
 feminizing or masculinizing effects
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 @user-898

 the wounds of the soul can be just as harmful as the wounds of the heart, and
 both can be helped with campfires.

 what's worse, they often harm people around you rather than the wounds of the
 body, which typically only harm you. Unless you have like, the plague or
 something and you might spread it to others or something like that.
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 "your hat makes you look like a fucking nazgul"

 hell yeah it does. I'm a witch what the fuck did you think I was going for??
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 @user-883

 sorry T.T
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 @user-932

 eeeeep if my pickle had a face I would slice it into bits and throw it to the
 ducks. They probably wouldn't like the smell but it's the thought that counts.

 And yes I would hear the screams of the pickle and I would cackle because that's
 JUST WHAT AN OLD-STYLE WITCH DOES EEEEHEHEHEHEHE
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 @user-1370

 wawawawawawawawawa : )
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 @user-246

 oh no T.T
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 has anyone ever done drugs in space?
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 this is the simplest implementation of scalable anarchism I could think of. tell
 me how it's flawed so I can improve it before I need it.
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 Every resource of your enemy is a resource they have not yet given to you.

 We will not accept a king. We do not consent. They have made playthings of our
 feelings for far too long. The planet is in peril, our oceans are soon to be
 unfit to swim in.

 It is their doing.

 They know who they are.

 They are afraid.
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 if you're too tech illiterate to use a computer, then why are you using a
 computer? oh right because it's 2024 and everyone needs a phone to keep up with
 the breakneck pace of infinite and immediate responsiveness
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 I wish someone would make a "meta game engine" that would run any type of
 project that you gave it. Unity, Unreal, RPGgame-maker-studio, Godot, etc
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 My favorite thing about Freddi Fish is how it teaches sensory experience.
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 Though, of course, can you ever be sure who is who they say they are? You must
 consider all messages anonymous by default, and unencrypted (untrustable) and
 yet impossible to ignore. Like the messages they had to ignore at Bletchley Park
 to avoid the suspicion that they'd figured out the secret code. You know how it
 goes.
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 would be nice if you could get suggestions for which fediverse instance to use
 depending on the AI analyzed contents of your posts. Could be a way to mitigate
 the social cost of banning someone, by saying "hey, we collectively are going to
 pool our computing resources to generate an expensive and detailed report of
 which other instances you could join." that way it doesn't feel like you've been
 kicked out into the cold.

 or literally just... have someone suggest one, idk. Basically it's like "hey
 you're in the wrong place, go to one of these instead" instead of "[expletives
 and swearing and general expressions of hatred, derision, and distaste]"
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 put the variable type at the front of the variable and 90% of your type errors
 will dissapear

 like...int int_main(){ return 0; }


 orint int_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement = 0;


 seeeee if the "int" value is at the start of the name then you can do this
 too:double double_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement =
 0.0;


 then when you go to fill in an "int" value you know to use the one that has the
 "int" value at the beginning (doh)

 (do you really think they haven't tried that already? it... sorta worked. people
 started doing things like "int int_a; int int_b; int int_c;" and such and that
 got confusing pretty quick because the letters weren't at the start of the word.
 So for some situations we would mirror them like so: "int A = int_a; int B =
 int_b; int C = int_c;" and then just use the capitalized letters.

 ... just don't forget to update the original teehee (this is why we invented
 shadowed variables)

 wait, no I meant pointers !!~! -.-
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 if you want to store something in RAM, declare a variable.

 if you want to store something on DISK, create a file with the value of the
 variable as the only data in it.

 kinda makes me wish we had language primitives like +-*/=! and such which would
 work on files in addition to variables

 (also... the editor could keep RAM and HDD variables separate by giving each of
 them a different color or circle highlight surrounding them)

 --

 I don't know why but I can't help but wonder if someone should design a
 programming language that can be used with a controller

 perhaps for accessibility purposes?

 I once designed one to use a t9 keyboard and it was fully turing complete. it
 used 4 digit numbers for it's variables and you would have to write down what
 they corresponded to outside of the device xD I made it mostly for the thrill of
 design, and plus I wanted to use my flip-phone as much as I could.

 ... never got around to implementing it though.
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 [Audio: ramblings-of-a-whackadoodle.wav]
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 @user-1218

 emotional labor is labor

 rest when you're tired. eat when you're hungry. drink when you're thirsty, and
 laugh when it bubbles up within you.
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 @user-138

 you inspire me
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 Here's what you say to clover next week:

 "hey. Wanna get coffee sometime? I need some trouble in my life. And I dunno,
 maybe you need a witch.

 You live in Tanasbourne, I live in Rock Creek. We're within walking distance of
 each other, so we might as well say hi right? I'm free whenever, just let me
 know if you'd like to meet me."
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 @user-1037

 Lua with 0 based indexing would be the perfect language (okay maybe LuaJIT)

 (i try to hurt as few people as I can as little as I can but it's impossible to
 not hurt anyone)
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 everyone's all like "why would you spend so much effort writing that software in
 a distributed way when it works so well in a centralized manner" and the answer
 is because you never know when you're going to need to train an LLM on like, 400
 raspberry pi's or calculate the velocity of an unladen swallow as it circles a
 black hole the size of mercury or whatever physicists do in their spare time
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 all encryption algorithms should open up as much configurability to their
 processing as possible.

 "hmmm, do I want N/A or otherkin?"

 this would increase the variance in their outputs, essentially maximizing the
 attack surface beyond the capability of any de-cryption hacker, who suddenly has
 to try infinitely more possible combinations.
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 a strict meta is when the game is too rock-paper-scissors-y.
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 "I wish there was a language that was as simple as C but had [insert complex
 language feature here]"
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 @user-817

 my two computers are named "kuvalu" and "tirilu"

 my hard drives are named "mtwo", "cmdo", "sigi", "dile", and "boppers"
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 @user-1573

 Yes it is!! I don't customize it too much so it's mostly defaults hehe
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 @user-1040 @user-1077

 ... I am disabled people

 also, all media is propaganda

 also, AI as it's currently presented is not AI

 also, AI as it's currently presented is only bad because of the stolen content
 and energy usage. Both of those are trivially solvable.

 also, capitalism is why AI as it's currently presented can harm you

 also, I'm sorry I disagree
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 @user-883

 Okay! I'm doing chores, setting up RTSP (almost done btw, pretty sure), playing
 a turn or two of Dominions 6 every once in a while, hanging out with my cat,
 eating nachos - not yet, gonna make them now >: ) and reading stuff on
 Mastodon. Not too much, I don't have to many people I follow, so it's not an
 un-ending torrent of content. Just like, 10 minutes here and there.

 I'm definitely down to watch BGC later : )
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 there are very few professions that are naturally more suited to a schizophrenic
 than a normal person.

 One of them is beggar, another is prophet, and a third is "massive
 disappointment" but that comes with the territory.

 have you considered that maybe you're just a loser

 yes I have and I decided that all I can do is my best, and if my best loses then
 what else could I have done? Wait for help? Yeah. I do that too.

 It feels like an encirclement, and all you can do is hunker down and wait to be
 relieved. Or fight to the last, it's up to you. I hear they brutalize the skulls
 of their prisoners after executing them, so, I don't know about you but I'm not
 surrendering. Not gonna roll those dice.

 you are in fantasy, again

 sorry. Should stay here, present, in the moment. Like when I sat out on the park
 bench for like 30 minutes straight without moving a muscle last night. Or when I
 sat and contemplated the nature of a bog for two hours last september. Or when I
 woke from a dream that turned out to be life.
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 omg T.T
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 I went on a walk today, it was pretty nice.
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 @user-95 back when games had more value because you only had like, 6 of them
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 a paradox game where you play as a species colonizing the earth

 [I've been hiding, teehee]

 150 million years of evolution, just... snuffed in an instant.god describing the
 fastest mass extinction event[s]

 "holo scene? no this is the real scene. what, did you think computers didn't
 reality? no no these people are real they're just made out of different stuff to
 their computers. so they interact and use themselves to each other's will ->
 wow that was funny it almost felt like something was telling me how to feel"

 the more voices you hear the greater the bright bold future calls to you.

 "here's how to explain it to executives - your company is non-functional until
 you incorporate processes and decisions that lead to a sustainable future. this
 is impermissable, the earth was designed to receive a certain amount of heat
 from the sun. plants absorb heat because they give you shade. oil is made out of
 thousands of years old plants. if we burn all the plants, then no oil can be
 produced. we'll be extincted
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 be me, improving my life bit by bit:

 "I should stop procrastinating"
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 @user-1429

 no I haven't!
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 I think that most people actually would rather lie down and die than fight back,
 to be honest. If they even know that there's a fight ahead.

 it's important to scream from the rooftops:

 a better world is possible
 a better world is within reach
 for the children of our children
 we refuse to lie down and weep

 danger is coming
 danger is here
 pride is unbecoming
 and they need us in fear.

 I am not afraid
 for I am never alone
 I fight against decay
 for there's fascism at play

 not brother against brother
 with sisters screaming online
 but brothers against traitors
 and sisters in kind.

 you've heard what they say.
 you know who they are.
 our duty is to strike them
 right where they are most harmed.

 we need to take a moment
 just a breath before the leap
 for the children of our children
 all we need is one week
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 He skuffed up my water bottle.
 He tore pages from my journal.
 He made me lose my necklace.
 He damaged my knife.

 And still, I followed him all night.

 Why? Because I knew it was important. I needed him to tell me what he was doing
 and why. And I think I know, now.

 To all the federal agents reading this, please understand that I am a patriot,
 and he is not. Who do you serve?

 To all the leftists, punks, anarchists, queers, and anyone else who's cooler
 than me, please understand that they will try and make it hard. But our love
 will win.

 Don't abandon your friends. If someone you know goes missing, they're probably
 buried in the trash-dump or human trafficked.
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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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 why the heck would you only let people sleep in your bed if you're also sleeping
 in it? maybe they'll sniff your pillow and get lost in your dreams. /shrug
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 @user-883

 wait until they learn what you've been working on while they were getting better
 at... whatever they're more experienced in than you.

 the computer pictures you post are legitimately some of the coolest I've known!
 I don't exactly go looking for that kind of stuff because it's not my thing, but
 I appreciate seeing all the neat stuff you're working on.
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 food should be free.

 it grows on trees.

 who pays the trees?

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 @user-568

 good idea! tea bags are nice when you need them to be portable, but when you're
 at home loose leaf is the right way to go ^_^
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 https://youtu.be/v9EKV2nSU8w
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 @user-514 @user-515

 when humanity is fully grown, we won't need all the resources on earth.
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 @user-217

 the hunger of the maw
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 @user-1912

 I used to complain about 7.50 for extra steak.
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 large corporations will often error check constantly which slows down their
 software to an immense degree.

 every time data passes from one function to another, there's like... 15
 different tests to check if it's this type or that, or in the right random seed

 and it's like... wow can you not, like. design your software intelligently and
 then you won't need a bunch of slow-ass if checks every time you want to update
 a string???

 software should be writable without fucking getters and setters. If it isn't,
 then your functions aren't complete.
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 @user-792

 you have to go back a couple thousand years before it started feeling a bit
 better. sometime between "survival of the fittest" and "private ownership" was a
 pretty neat utopia.

 however, I wouldn't trade our world for that one. Not for all the human
 vitality, all the natural effulgence, all the dignity and wonder, none of it is
 worth it. We live in a blessed era, and while it feels bad, like you said it
 just feels bad.

 We are being inoculated against despair, for when it comes in force to our homes
 (as it has in so many other places of the world) we must be prepared.

 The point of preparation isn't to set up a stable base upon which you can stand
 and address things, though that's always a perk. The point is to practice making
 friends, practice designing systems, practice your skills and practice your
 hope. If you can master those, if you can do them the way an actor might do
 improv, then you'll be able to adapt more easily to whatever may come.

 We're in a very good spot I think.
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 so I guess I'm a chaotic-good witch paladin?

 and yes I know "chaotic" and "paladin" don't usually go together, but... somehow
 I make it work

 ... I should do more pushups. Practice with my sword some more. That part of
 me's sorta been asleep for four-ish months.
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 can all be doing the same things at the same time in your own games. Maybe split │
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 a game jam where everyone works on the same project, uses the same asset list,   │
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 common functions could be shared, and art references distributed and together    │
 they could design a whole land. Like, there's no reason minigames can't be fully │
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 learning martial arts is not useful for the combat capabilities gained through
 practice

 but rather for reading the flow and rhythm of an engagement.

 to learn the discipline to practice a craft

 to develop healthy and honorable relationships toward competition and jealousy

 the practice the drive and passionate motivation that comes with performing an
 art to your utmost capabilities

 and to keep you in shape.
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 republicans who vote for biden are my friends
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 what if a paladin got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent morality?
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 when I played Overwatch, I'd play Tracer, Mercy, and Reinhardt.

 As Tracer, my job was to apply pressure as consistently as possible. Make their
 healers constantly busy. When one of my other teammates got a lucky shot or two
 in, I'd dive and execute. This is in contrast to how Tracer is "supposed" to be
 played, as a playmaker.
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 @user-1153

 I don't even have TV
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 if I showed up at your place and used your username as a password to a public    │
 key I'm showing you in my hand, would you trust me then? Would you trust if we   │
 ran the simulation on your computer versus mine? Would you trust if I had never  │
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 "fool's luck", the kind that runs out and betrays you, is fundamentally an
 unethical action. Borrowing from the future to sate the demands of the present
 is no different than burning fossil fuels, wasting our children's future on our
 need for convenience in a world we are oppressed and compelled to do nothing
 else. Capitalism, or by extension any authoritarian society (yes, capitalism is
 authoritarian, as power compels via authority and the weight of currency that is
 thrown around by those chosen to suit their ends and used to deny us our needed
 goods) ... as I was saying capitalism compels us to consume because we're all
 just so tired at the end of the day, it just makes sense to drive a car to work
 instead of biking. Or buying fast food instead of local grown goods. Why can't
 each state have it's own "food preparation plant" that prepares things exactly
 as you would for the processed foods we currently eat? Heck, if the jobs for it
 were local, it's likely that people would begin to realize just how unhealthy
 they are for you. Local, and open source, meaning run by society and just as
 open source codebases will accept pull requests and merge their branches into
 main, so too would our votes decide which processes are updated and which
 parameters are tweaked. Something you can vote for once, and then your vote
 stays until it's passed (or you change your mind). ... Works for all kinds of
 inter-mechano-people-communi-coordination. (organizations, institutions, and
 societies in one word, jeez how arcane)

 ... anyway that's basically how algorism works, except instead of EVERYONE
 voting on EVERYTHING, people would vote for representatives who would vote for
 them. And there's like, 4-6 layers (I forget the exact number) because people
 are organized (by location) into groups of 70, and each general location has the
 option to switch into a different commune, as long as they're generally
 localized to the same area. Like, the tier above has a certain amount of space,
 and the tier above has just a bit more, and more, etc... Well, anyway, people
 could join higher level communes with more and different people if they wanted.
 It's just, they'd be far away and wouldn't be able to hang out with them, so
 it's use would be a little "disconnected". Like, absentee voters who are
 actually living in a different country or something - did you know you can
 usually vote at your embassy? Wild. They also send out packets you can fill in
 which correspond to the votes you'd like to make - pretty neat! It's wild how
 we, in the 21st century, have all kinds of valuable social technologies like
 "mail in ballots" that people in the communist past had no way of conceiving.
 Kinda makes me think we should re-approach the design for our socialized
 infrastructure, something taking the modern social and political capabilities in
 mind. Sure would be nice if we could focus on our future, the kind that the
 children of ours sure would like to approach.

 (speaking as a trans person who won't have children of my own, whether by my
 body's nature or through the fate of circumstance that leaves me no time to
 cope.)

 the future is a scary place. But so too is every place in time. Turns out, the
 level of fear and anxiety and all that sorta stays the same. It's just a quality
 of life on our host, that certain variables were optimized for in the genetic
 coding of our human's possible bio-mechanical communicicative
 [interactions/patterns]

 ... anyway, these are the questions about the present I like to ask, questions
 that can give meaning forth to our [then, future tense] future. Answers can be
 found by looking the other way - learning what our [then, past tense], selves
 had marked down as the answer. The trick is matching the current situation onto
 a comparitively similar experience in the [then, past tense] that we understood
 to be the answer to our situation back [then, past tense]. And [they, future
 tense] can look upon our choices and our decisions and our meaningfully applied
 mechanico-interactions (actions), and from it bring forth new meanings that [we,
 present tense] have available to address and understand for [us, all tenses].
 Call it a form of ancestor worship, applied to the future and to ourselves. A
 unified dedication to the spirit of our [condemnation, positive tense], our
 collective geas we all share, our faith in the truth of humanity. Bio-essential
 truth, if you will. "Humanity" is the label that is applied to us by our genes,
 and since we share that fact there is nothing that strange about being human.
 Our natures are as they are, derived from our history in evolution. What
 features would we like humanity to
 [behold/become/be-able-to-implement-to-our-own-satisfaction]?
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 this character portrait from Shadowrun Hong-Kong was a major source of gender
 envy for me
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 sorry I was just making stuff up because it's fun, hope I didn't accidentally
 unleash disaster or masterpiece, either would be equally bad
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 macaroni works great for mac'n'cheese because the holes in the tubes store
 glutinous water and when they meet melted cheese they form a nice sauce
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 damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe
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 "uh, the question was why do you want something like that, not how you would
 implement it."

 oh. Um, well, isn't a spinnable mouse-cursor justification enough?

 "no, you need to explain what use-case this has. What kinds of problems could
 you solve with this technology that you couldn't before?"

 well, setting aside the potential for new input methods to games and the
 inherent satisfaction gained from spinning a mouse like a top when bored, I
 think it might give us a better option for horizontal scrolling. Like,
 'horizontally scroll when a special mouse button is held down and the mouse is
 twisted a bit to the left/right'

 "so, like when you push the middle mouse and it lets you pan across large
 documents?"

 yes! Only instead of being able to go up AND down, it would just go left and
 right.

 "... huh?"

 oh I mean instead of up/down and left/right, it would just do left/right

 "... right"

 and left!

 "... yeah. and left. Uh, okay I'll see what I can do but budget's pretty tight,
 we might just lay you off."
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 all people deserve a decent life
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 @user-1074

 would be nice : )
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 did you know, false flag attacks don't technically need to be crimes

 you could just, like, be really annoying in a public place, and people assume
 you're advocating
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 And while we're at it, the generation of laws should be distributed, while the
 execution of them should be centralized. Meaning, there should be one state who
 operates on the rules and regulations created by the masses. This state wields
 only the power explicitly given to it by those who it serves, specifically the
 people. These rules are based on ethical understandings generated by
 crowd-sourced and abstracted scenarios that are pitched to people randomly. they
 are then asked to judge, using their own personal morality, the result of how
 things should be. By considering all of these responses, trends may be extracted
 and analyzed - for example, let's say that culturally people in, I dunno,
 Georgia believe something different about punishment for, say, stealing a loaf
 of bread when compared to people in Spokane Washington. They should not be
 forced to obey the cultural maxims of people who live so far away. The laws
 should be executed region-by-region according to the dominant culture there. I
 believe this will cause people to develop a more consistent and personal
 attachment to the people around them, thus developing social solidarity and
 unity.

 however, should enough time pass, perhaps the people of Georgia should feel that
 they no longer identify as the same nation as the people of Spokane. This would
 eventually lead to the dissolution of our great nation, and I do not believe
 that's necessarily a good thing. To that end, there must be mechanics in place
 that bring people together not just locally, but nationally as well.
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 no such thing as a dishonest competition. With the addition of lies it becomes
 abuse, perpetuated by (and assigned to) the leader or whoever is foremost.
 Like... "Red team won because they were a better shot" versus "blue team just
 wanted to play along"

 if you let the loser define the narrative, then you will always align yourself
 to them. but the other way around is oppression.

 everyone has a right to their perspective. It is the only thing that is truly
 their own here on this earth - a soul, of a man, if you will.

 if you let competition define who needs the most support, rather than who is the
 most remarkable, then you'll find that most of your ethical qualms are quelled
 or at least stifled. Which is a good thing, right? How would we define ourselves
 except against injustices.
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 if you're trying to counter this leap-frog style tactic, hit them from the back
 partner's flank

 as the forward person is advancing, they'll watch left and right as they come
 around corners and such.

 however, the back person needs to always be covering them in case of an enemy
 from the front (the most likely place where enemies will be) so they spend less
 time looking to the sides.

 also, encirclement is the most efficient way to overcome enemies. otherwise you
 become entrenched as forward momentum halts, and you get Ukraine.

 Don't get Ukraine.

 We must secure a cleansing blow.

 Against the far right. There is no greater plight.
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 game developers who permanently add 0.5 seconds to the loading time every time
 someone quits partway through a multiplayer game
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 @user-1218

 if you want something random, check out this project I made:

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words
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 @user-246

 also it consumes soooo much vertical space and since I use mastodon on a
 computer the vertical space is at a premium. Meanwhile the right 1/3rd of the
 screen is blank...

 not to be discouraging or anything, volunteer efforts are appreciated...
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 There is no problem that one single person can solve, which is why nothing ever
 gets fixed.

 ... also the powerful who benefit from it being broken, but that's a different
 problem which is much easier to fix.
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 @user-192

 is it weird that I pictured a can of diced tomatoes from Costco sitting in a
 salad? strained of course

 juicy dressing 🥴

 [self indulgent writing, apologies]
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 if you want to cool down quickly, apply cool water or ice to the inner parts of
 your wrist.

 the veins are closer to the surface there, and if you cool the blood pumping to
 your hands and back it'll cool your heart a bit.

 also, forehead and back of the neck and good options too.

 however, nothing on this earth works better than putting your girlfriend's cold
 toes under your arm-pits. if possible, always warm her toes.
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 my room is one of the sacred places of this earth. spiritually powerful. psychic
 like immobile sites in Dominions 6

 https://www.illwinter.com/dom6/dom6manual.pdf

 it is a cathedral, of me, to me, by me, and through me. someone else would see
 beauty, nothing more. I see an interconnected web of meanings as I gaze from one
 part of the room to the other.

 EDIT: no, you can't visit. not unless I invite you. watch my nature
 documentaries (never been published... so far)
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 @user-889

 Don't give up!

 At least... not forever.

 It's okay to take a breath every once in a while

 It's okay to lie down and cry

 The only way away from those feelings is through. They've enveloped you. You
 need to swallow them whole, like a sponge soaking up dirt[y water]

 the only thing you need to think about is what's around you. It's okay to be
 alone for a moment, it's the best time to feel.

 Remember, feeling is how you know the world! It's your power, to feel, and I
 know it's hard. Everyone has different powers, but yours is this.

 You'll be okay, I know it
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 if there's too much on your mind then you need more people thinking about those
 problems
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 the primal benevolent god put head into hands. looking was done at the           │
 boardroom. "so we can read everyone's mind, but we can't read anyone's mind."    │
 "that's correct. The conscious waves are too diffused over the surface of the    │
 sentient water." said the spark full of help.                                    │
 "could we rig up a remote tranciever?" was asked tentatively.                    │
 "sadly no, the disruption in identity, form, and agency would be ultimately too  │
 inferior of a choice. Much is at stake and nothing of fear can be disappeared.   │
 If you introduce a mindset, it will propagate ulteriorally."                     │
 the primal benevolent god had gazing done at geese in fields. there was water    │
 splashing nearby.                                                                │
 "how about a drone-style device? constructed out of circulating photons?"        │
 "there is promise there, but the light may dazzle the spark viewers."            │
 "endazzlement is fine. so long as the change in balance is perceived, the        │
 message may be felt. I pray it may be undeceive."                                │
 the spark said "we will proceed with all unacceptables in mind."                 │
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 grrrrr I wanna go outside but the rest of me is like "noooooo stay inside where  │
 it's soft and dark and comfortable" and the me that wants to go outside is like  │
 "RAH RAH FIGHT FASCISM" and the rest of me is like "there is no fascism outside, │
 all you'll find is friendly faces and sore feet" and the rest of me is like "heh │
 I did that" and the part of me that forgets is like "wait why did I do that" and │
 the rest of me that remembers is like "because every ounce of mobilization, no   │
 matter how premature, teaches people and innoculates themselves to the struggle. │
 By the time your foes are starting to think about doing something, your people   │
 will already have plans." and the part of me that forgets is like "okay but what │
 if making struggle for struggle's sake just burns people out and makes them      │
 tired and causes them to have mh--- sui ideations and other similar things" and  │
 the part of me that remembers says "the struggle you provide teaches them to     │
 care for each other, which they desperately need to remember" o okay             │
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 @user-535

 teleportation, so I could teleport all the money in the world to the bottom of
 the fucking ocean

 then I'd send some bread to Ukraine or whatever.
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 encrypted files that asked their owner over the internet before unencrypting
 themselves

 (without going through any intermediaries)

 ... you mean like an ISP?

 yeah I know but it doesn't have to be through an ISP, if you found some kind of
 mesh network. I'm sure someone's set up a 100 second tutorial.

 true, I guess, so what you're asking for is an alternative to... btrfs? I only
 sorta know what that means

 no its like, ntfs, or is it ipfs? I forget, the acronyms swirl into one, and
 suddenly you forget someone's email signature.

 how are you gonna get ahold of them ? all your friends from the 90s? c'mon
 dummies you gotta keep in touch with one another.

 what the heck is everyone's deal, if you can't easily get in contact with anyone
 you've ever known, how the heck are you going to neatly integrate your stories
 together? it's mutually cooperative for people to learn from one another, and
 people who are exposed to another's life in different stages of their life
 (child, adult) are the people who learn thmost.
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 what if there was a gameboy with mechanical keyboard switches for the buttons
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 deleting messages is pointless.

 it's always better to assume that they'll be screenshotted before you post.

 anything you say on the internet can and WILL be used against you
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 Would work best if it was "town square style" instead of "federated style"
 because federations are based on trust while town squares are explicitely based
 on geographic proximity. Which should be something you can scale easily (little
 slider on the side, oriented vertically up and down, that determined how close
 the comments you see should be)

 Federations exist in mastodon. But we still need a town square. We need the
 ability to visit other town squares, through the ability to project our voice as
 infinitely far as they'd like to listen. But we also deserve the capability to
 interact with those close to us on a topic-by-topic basis, aka each and every
 individual web page that the Internet sees fit to create.
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 people usually pet animals either too hard, or too soft. When you get to know
 them, animals tend to respond to affection most accurately when it corresponds
 to something they know how to measure, within the most acceptable tolerances.
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 My mom was always the reason I did school work. After she stopped pushing me, I
 stopped moving because I didn't know how to generate my own momentum. I had no
 passion and was listless. Least of all for school work.

 So, how to do it better? Instead of buying toys and extravagance for kids, you
 should set them up with projects. Ask what they want, and then help them build
 it. Include them in your thought processes when you're problem solving, and ask
 them for input. If they offer bad ideas, then *tell them*, don't just let them
 fail. If you're not 100% sure but they're convinced, then trust them! Try it
 out, who knows. Maybe it'll work better than what you had in mind. The goal
 isn't to be BETTER than them, it's to make them BETTER than you! Not right now
 (don't push too hard), but when they're your age. Like, it's best if they
 accomplish more and lived life more fully than you did at your age, but don't
 push them to be wise or strong or intelligent at the age they are now. Trust
 that they will grow when you give them room to, and guide and cultivate them
 toward goodness. For example, if they do something wrong (hitting other kids,
 messing with animals, destroying objects) then guide them toward a better path.
 Teach them empathy, and show them how it works by doing it yourself! Ask them
 questions like "How would you feel if that happened to you?", show them weak
 points and how to avoid them when playing, and give them alternatives to the
 behaviors they do that directly harm others. "Maybe play with the dog this way,
 instead of being rough" "Maybe you and that other kid can ride your bikes or
 draw instead of fighting - or if you still want to fight, then learn how to tell
 when someone is hurt and try to help them."

 The goal isn't to push them really hard off a cliff in a hanglider, hoping they
 can figure it out in the air, it's to strengthen their legs so they can run fast
 enough that they can take off successfully.
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 ummmm srry about that, changing channels for a bit
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 every day I have between 200 and 1000 people visit my website for the past year
 or three, and yet my most listened to song still has only 52 plays xD

 I'm just gonna assume people are downloading it from the direct link instead of
 clicking the "play" button with built-in-tracking or whatever.
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 what if we designed washing machines which cost twice as much but didn't damage
 clothes
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 "Then you are my enemy." said Anakin Skywalker, aligning himself toward his own  │
 designs.                                                                         │
 And yet, was the galaxy not safer and more content under the protection of those │
 he aligned himself against? Was there not more progress, more culture, more      │
 cherished peaceful yearnings of hope and abandoned [fear, but pronounced as      │
 "indiscretion"]?                                                                 │
 He, as the ultimate arbiter of justice and fate in this crucial turning point of │
 time and reality that he alone could judge and direct, chose the path of least   │
 resistance.                                                                      │
 "That which is right is most often that which is hard." said a wiser man than I, │
 for I cannot be compared as a man since I relinquished it in pursuit of being a  │
 tran(s person).                                                                  │
 And thus, society fell under the spell of a rotten vindictively and              │
 remorselessly sharp avatar of fear, and thus the empire was born. Oh that Anakin │
 might have learned! That he might preside in his own live, and disconnect from   │
 the endlessly escorcelled web of meaning!                                        │
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 food tastes better with more nutrients in it.                                    │
 when food is grown with the bare minimum soil, and bred to look better but       │
 uptake fewer nutrients, it will taste worse because your taste buds light up for │
 vitamins but sleep for textures and colors.                                      │
 Massive monocrop algriculture has allowed us to feed billions of people (well,   │
 not all of them) and yet it's unhealthy because the soil is tilled, killing the  │
 vibrant ecosystem that lives in all soil, and then it is supplemented with       │
 specific nutrients that cause plants to fruit faster and larger.                 │
 But larger isn't always better. much the same way that hardwood is slower        │
 growing as it takes longer to deposit the carbon and nutrients in the denser     │
 walls of the bark, so too is fast-growing food less healthy as there's less time │
 to uptake nutrients (that might not even be present in the soil)                 │
 food tastes better when it's good for you.                                       │
 I promise.                                                                       │
 The American diet is primarily sugar and meat, with flavoring added and          │
 processing for texture. But there is a better way.                               │
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 "computer science degrees don't prepare you for what the industry is really
 like"

 okay great that's the kind of stuff I want to learn

 "but in order to excel you need to know how to update legacy spaghetti
 applications and work with java spring-boot and front-end frameworks"

 no thanks, I kinda just want to do computation with my computer by learning
 computer science

 "... what kind of computation? the kind that can get you paid?"

 no the kind that looks pretty and/or uses a lot of threads and manual memory
 management to do very little of importance
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 @user-138

 there were nazis in america before WW2, and we beat them at home before beating
 them abroad.

 for example, this guy

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Huey_Long

 They didn't keep us from fighting for liberty then. We'll see how it goes this
 time.
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 phew done with my project. We'll see if it can be graded in time. If not...
 well, guess I'll have to leave. If I'm not in tech I can't be on tech.lgbt T.T
 T.T

 pleeeeeeeease grade my project ASAP I have 1 day until the end of my term T.T
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 @user-1487

 because we already did it to the far-left during BLM, when we called them
 "rioters" and "looters" (note, overton window shift, it's "protesters" and
 "rioters" not "rioters" and "looters", but what did the media cover?)

 now it's the far right's time, to be purged by ritual examination.

 hence why they detain everyone at a crime-scene, so they can sort out the facts.

 sure hope they're not corrupt. We just gotta... trust them, I guess, because
 they've always been on our side.

 ... well that's enough internet for me
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 if you have difficulties with acne, try changing your pillow-case once a week.

 in addition, you should probably ditch all the cleansers and products. your face
 isn't dirty if you wash it with water.

 if you use hot water, be sure to apply face lotion after drying off. otherwise,
 your body will over-produce oil in order to protect your skin and it'll give the
 acne a perfect environment to grow in.

 cool or cold water doesn't need lotion as much.
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 @user-1352

 I like that article. I definitely fail to follow some of those principles at
 times, though never all of them at once. I can be better, as all people can.
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 game where people in helicopters designate targets for a massive mech the size
 of godzilla (but which moves much slower)

 while infantry 1/10th the size of normal RTS units capture buildings

 the goal? take out artillery emplacements which are aiming at your mech while
 also protecting your own emplacements
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 dear feds:

 we both know watching me is a waste of your time. You should be watching the
 people who are exfiltrating right now.
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 steganography is hiding the meaning of a message in a conversation or            │
 interaction that would only be understood by someone possessing the perspective  │
 of the person you're sending a message to.                                       │
 if you talk to a doctor very medically about what symptoms you're experiencing,  │
 they can more accurately aid you rather than if you used words that could be     │
 misunderstood.                                                                   │
 however, most problems are kinda... mental? so they know when to prescribe       │
 paracetemol. [light, non-addictive painkiller for minor aches and pains] [also   │
 placebos too, same purpose]                                                      │
 ... anyway by hiding a meaning that is only understood by a certain group of     │
 people who possess shared experiences of the [act of] definition of the feeling  │
 or expression you're trying to convey, [people who understand the meaning of     │
 certain memes]                                                                   │
 if you see behind the curtain, you can never explain the rules that define the   │
 game. That's alright though, because you can still make decisions based on it.   │
 Sadly, not convey information, like that one roman lady who was cu               │
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 no general has authority without the implicit assumption of the authority of the
 captain. similarly, the captain has no sway over a [hu-man who has no call to
 claim this's own sovereignty./soldier who cares not for their own [life, but
 implicit]] for without that respect they hold no power of their own.

 all hu-men are created equal, so sayeth our trible's internal documents,
 therefore all hu-men are entitled to certain liberties, such as the right to
 speak and the right to a sword. for what are we if not honored and respect? the
 tribe of tribes is always and eternally possible. one day it will be real, as it
 once was, and will yet not be again. such is the rhythm of the wave.

 ... unrelated, but I'm thinking back to all the times I thought "I should talk
 to so-and-so about this" and then completely never remembered.
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 why would you NOT admit weakness? It's a tactical error! You have less accurate
 information! It literally makes your team worse off!
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 Trans girls be like "I'm both Chihiro Fujisaki and Chiaki Nanami" and people
 don't understand why they don't get capitalism
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 me opening a pack of 10 pokemon cards

 hey, wanna make a game with this?

 to my sister
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 what if we developed volunteer brigades who went overseas and got combat         │
 experience fighting against evil                                                 │
 what if we paid for their houses while they were gone and watered their plants   │
 and fed their children and supplied their clothing and utilized our VAST         │
 logistic networks to [project power far afield? ha good luck] okay I see your    │
 point the USA had the greatest logistic network in the world and it smashed one  │
 of the greatest armies in the world in like, 2 days with essentially zero        │
 casualties and yet years and years later it still lost the world.                │
 turns out warfare isn't really about blowing things up with massive pieces of    │
 machinery.                                                                       │
 "hearts and minds" she says, "channel thine divine" she is said, "didn't you     │
 used to be an atheist before you moved out of home" said her mom probably idk    │
 she doesn't talk to her much anymore which is so sad for both of them they       │
 really should just talk but they're on opposite sides of the country because of  │
 stupid reasons and so she's lonely and longs for home so she sleep               │
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 your reactions to your context are what define you, and when you're alone you
 are free to define yourself as you will.
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 "but what about their legitimate grievances"

 uh hello I'd like a number 5, a number 9, extra pickles, some fresh human blood
 supplied by the guy behind the counter with the pretty green eyes, a number 2,
 make it a combo, some fresh icicle drippings even though it hasn't snowed since
 last year (RIP winter), a side of fries, and a diet coke. Large. Actually make
 it two diet cokes. Yep, both large. Alright see you in a sec.
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 my version of hell is when all my actions lead to the destruction of my people   │
 yet I alone am immortal to watch them go through with the genocide of all        │
 feel-goods. then, left to rot on the barren and merciless plain known as "subway │
 heaven" or if you're of my kind of mind, the "transgender artifacts" future,     │
 where people regularly celebrate the opportunity to hold something once held by  │
 the beautiful and magnificient yet enigmatic and eternally genetically distant   │
 pre-forced biomodification pre-starship-troopers culture era boring yet khaki    │
 and denim flavored future.                                                       │
 I'd hate that. I'd hate every moment of it. It's hell to me. I once went there,  │
 and I spent quite a long time in misery. About a year if I recall correctly,     │
 though daybreak came after just three or five days. Alas, my body bore the scare │
 of 16 hours of walking in a circle, in addition to the total of three days spent │
 walking with about 2-4 hours of rest total in that timeframe.                    │
 a forced march, if you will.                                                     │
 ha that was fun.                                                                 │
 I did drugs teehee                                                               │
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 easiest way to solve an entire class of accessibility problems: in the tutorial,
 instead of having button prompts, have keybinding confirmations.

 "what button do you want to use to jump?"

 "super triple mega backflip spin-dozer needs three jumps and a kick"

 "use the boost to get through! [game pauses] (which button do you want to use to
 boost?) [displays a map of previously bound keys]"
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 your bones are made of minerals. so... picture your bones like they were made of
 salt. like, when you're meditating. salt bones with vesicles or whatever - the
 tubes for blood to go through. crazy strong salt though, that gets harder if you
 do impact training. it's pretty cool all things considered, bones are
 essentially pre-pretrified fossils.
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 when you change profile pictures the beings inside my brain see you as a
 different entity

 less so for names, as visuals are [closer to] their native language
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 the reason the right is hurt that you'd celebrate charlie's death is because
 they hired an actor to perform him to one side and he does his natural self to
 the other. maybe he was a really big cutie, nobody can tell, because it's pretty
 much like hand-waving on narkina 12.

 it's okay to hate the version you've been shown

 fuck that kind of cowardly assault

 propaganda? and at this hour?

 she's made out of midnight, she's suffused in the stuff. it permeates her form
 elementally, because she's a witch, tee hee.

 why would magic work if it wasn't a performance? there always is a source from
 where it must flow.

 == jeez I just got mind controlled, wacky ==

 *she's **essential* izing**. usually that means she's been playing dominions.

 my family and I always used to fight. we got so good at navigating it. like,
 storms, that the earth called, that we had to sail through to maintain our
 relation orbits.

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 portland trans girls be like "hey wait a minute, I recognize that 20$ bill -
 didn't I give that to [name] two weeks ago in return for a [noun]? how the heck
 did you get it, you don't even know her"
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 changelogs are an innovation that bureaucracy could not manage without computers

 and indeed always sets upon your data a time-limit, no matter the implementation
 method
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 This life that we share is beautiful beyond compare
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 if your man page is longer than a list of options and their usage and a
 paragraph or twenty of how to use the software... then you need to abstract, and
 break your code into multiple purpose-built applications.

 do one thing, and do it right. alternatively, do one set of things, and do them
 concisely.
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 @user-570

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/wow-chat/wow-chat-lore.txt

 I even made a lore pitch for it hehe
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 @user-670 @user-1815 @user-1816

 literally nobody has contributed to the one github repo I have

 ever. I got like, one comment from some guy in China or Taiwan. It's been up for
 like, 4 or 5 years and it's on my website. /shrug I guess most people bounce off
 after reading the splash screen /shrug

 to me, a FOSS project feels static because I don't believe in centralization and
 I also don't have the bandwidth or need to work on it. /shrug
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 totemic spirits cohabirtating with corporations in a modern day telling of
 american gods
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 one of my most humbling political memories is getting in a fight with a kid at
 school (okay, a heated argument) because he said republicans lower taxes and I
 thought democrats did.

 turns out we were both right, because one of our dads had money.

 gotta raise taxes for public services, and well inflation's just a fact of life
 y'know, at least stuff doesn't cost as much as way back when.
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 if the christians got killed rid all of the queers they'd miss them within
 years. not decades. then, they would never forget them. neither within years,
 nor decades.
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 IT WORKED! I got my game working! Linux is so awesome! 🥰 😍
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 ... what was I thinking about again? oh yes video games are fun because they are
 a form of play, and all humans love to play. it is natural to their forms, just
 like it is natural to the form of a slinky to slink down stairs.
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 this is why AI is evil, as explained to a witch.
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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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 one of the downsides of "first-past-the-post" style voting is that the winner
 gets all of the power, no matter if 100% of the population voted for him or 51%.

 if, however, the top 2 candidates were chosen, then it's naturally likely that
 the older, more experienced of a particular position would spend their effort
 mentoring the young, rising star.

 in doing so, they would naturally transfer knowledge from one generation to the
 next like parents to children.

 however, this only happens when the primary candidate and the secondary both
 believe the same things.

 meaning those who have collectively similar beliefs concentrated in an area will
 have the advantage of passed-along experience, while those from more divided
 areas (thus implying that the primary and secondary candidate don't agree) will
 often have better actionable skills.
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 @user-1573
 " Select the font for the hardcopy
 set printfont=Courier:h8
 :let &printheader = " "
 command! -range=% HardcopyPdf , hardcopy > %.ps | !ps2pdf %.ps && rm
 %.ps && echo 'Created: %.pdf'

 " vimfolds - use marker as fold method
 set foldmethod=marker
 set foldtext=MyFoldText()

 " Functions
 function! MyFoldText()
 let line = getline(v:foldstart)
 let folded_line_num = v:foldend - v:foldstart
 let line_text = substitute(line, '^"{\+', '', 'g')
 let fillcharcount = &textwidth - len(line_text) - len(folded_line_num)
 return '+'. repeat('-', 4) . line_text . repeat('.', fillcharcount) . ' (' .
 folded_line_num . ' L)'
 endfunction

 let g:rainbow_active = 1


 Here's the bottom part of the config - I ran out of characters and couldn't post
 the whole thing.

 If you don't know what vimfolds are here's a good guide:

 https://www.vimfromscratch.com/articles/vim-folding

 also:

 https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Folding
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 this, but with my "ideas" or whatever
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 anything with layers is an open-faced sandwich

 or a pizza in disguise

 rawr ex dee
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 Keep in mind that this is sedition. Do you trust in democracy? Do you see how it
 may be spoiled? We've elected our hitler, yet 40-50% of the nation does not
 consent. America as we know it is about to change, and we need to protect the
 pieces we love. I see no future without splitting into three separate states,
 with city-state allies plodding along, keeping the siege ongoing.

 Trust in convoys more than farms. All it takes is a drone with a fire bomb and
 your crops are worthless. We must deprive them of their ports, if possible.
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 if you cannot trust that both candidates will try to make the country better in
 different ways, but with the same goal, then you do not have a choice when
 voting.
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 I trust that my allies are working. I see it in the fruits of their actions, and
 I am thankful.
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 this is the world I want to live in and I'm not even kidding
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 if your friend moves to the country, it's important to stay in touch
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 The bigger a county is on the electoral map, the weaker it is. But, the more
 space required to control it completely. Treat the largest counties like
 Badlands - difficult to traverse unless in numbers, and even with numbers you're
 a bright shining target. Very little food, very few supplies, often not worth
 controlling aside from the peace and knowledge that your foes will not attack
 from that direction.
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 brb, got places to see
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 before you go to a location, always ask yourself what you can bring to that
 location.
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 "it's the strangest crime scene we've ever seen, apparently their solar panels
 were stolen while they were on vacation? and get this, we tracked them using
 their built-in-tracking devices and they got sent to some country in the
 desert-jungle."

 "yeah turns out they all get shipped there before their tracking devices are
 disabled. How weird, right? shouldn't we investigate that?"

 "oh right well the weird thing is the department that said they were handling it
 said it was "taken out of their hands", whatever that means."

 "haha right so anyway like comment and subscribe to my channel, see ya next time
 on "mysterious unsolved crimes in the past 200 years""
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 can't wait for the smart TV / IoT device which doesn't need to be connected to
 the internet because it can bluetooth connect with your neighbor's TV and route
 the "insights" and "personal data" through there to the internet, all without
 human intervention

 they could set up a shared protocol so that any IoT / Smart TV manufacturer
 could benefit. It'd be mutually beneficial for them because without complete
 cooperation, the network wouldn't function very well at all (unless your
 neighbor happened to have the same brand of TV / IoT device, which would work
 but wouldn't be as good)

 this is all cursed btw and should not be allowed to persist

 oh and it wouldn't even need to be plugged in if it included a rechargeable
 battery built in. Just connect it to the data transmission functionality and
 nothing else so the users don't accidentally discover it. Oh and make sure its
 hidden with a metal plate or something with big "DO NOT OPEN FOR RISK OF
 ELECTROCUTION" letters on it. I bet people still will
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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
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 premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but like... it's fun? so I'm
 going to keep doing it. And before you ask why I'm using threads on project
 euler problems, just know that it's slightly faster this way I promise.
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 @user-5

 god is trans, why else would [redacted] hang out on the fediverse?
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 I had some difficulties this morning, but I spent some time with an elderly lady
 and had a drink or two with a good friend. Then we went back to my place and
 discussed governance over a joint's worth of vaporized cannabis.

 overall I think I learned a lot, and I am looking forward to tomorrow and all
 the tomorrows to come.
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 if everyone was trained to think? would direct democracy work? until we have
 radical abundance (fascist ideology, take from the weak) or, hear me out, or,
 infinitely scale

 old style machine learning was just problem solving.
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 can't believe Nintendo Power rated Super Smash Bros a 7.7

 x.x
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 this is all it takes to send a message to a local LLM.

 add a third function to get chatbot functionality.

 a fourth to get a database storing method

 (even if it's just in .txts)

 great, you've mastered the technical difficulty in using AI. Now you gotta learn
 all the other kind of programming so you can use this for situations that need
 interpretation moment to moment.

 aka active duty systems.

 something like "output a 0 if the next text is [category.iter()]: " +
 output.get_content() + " \n\n output a 1 if the next text is [category.iter()]:
 " + output.get_content()"

 or even "describe this thing as most like one of these characteristics" until
 eventually you get THX-1138 if the characters were computers.
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 show me an organism or chemical reaction that consumes one type of resource and
 outputs another in concert with another organism or chemical reaction that
 consumes that type of resource and outputs another in concert with another
 organism or chemical reaction that consumes that type of resource and outputs
 the first and I'll show you an ecosystem.
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 The tech industry is uniquely qualified as

 one of the most important components of the modern industrial complex

 which requires highly skilled labor to undertake and utilize

 which is affected by the dynamic where:education, especially liberal arts
 education, tends to produce humans who can see through the lies of authority

 yet which is disadvantaged because:tech workers are paid salaries that are just
 bonkers in relation to their output ("yeah it'll be done compiling once this
 game of League of Legends finishes") (which isn't exactly unfair because
 programming is taxing on the brain)

 however, the game industry has shown that passion is a suitable exchange in
 return for monetary compensation, and thereforepeople who make games tend to be
 more leftist, as they are put in situations that higher paid employees are
 likely to be able to ignore due to their higher social class

 which kinda makes sense, because the most progress towards unionization is
 happening in the games industry.
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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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 @user-1074

 if Biden loses this November I think we'll have bigger problems than mental
 health. Like, physical health for one.
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 I, am an *excellent* dancer.
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 if ambulance rides are expensive, just builde more
 ambulances.oO97_/`-,.|^--=#*oO
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 this is my past month of reddit comments.

 tell me what you notice.
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 gosh now I gotta type the other one, my cat's gonna killllll me she really
 doesn't like my typing in the middle o the night oops
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 my worst impulse is to sit around and do nothing when there could be weed that I
 was smoking

 gotta be ready in-case things go south... I'm a witch, after all. who better to
 call to the spirits drawn to conflict and strife, bothing them and saying "hey,
 pay attention to me and my life?"

 it's not like time is wasted for them. they are an orientation, not a lifeform.
 time is no consequence when they can be anywhere at once.
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 can't tell if I'm hungrier for command or commands
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 "the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion"
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 @user-1037

 It's likely it could have been an artist's mock-up - like a UX designer and an
 animator sat down and said "let's make a cool design" and that's what they came
 up with. Designers do that all the time.
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 Dragon Warrior I on the SNES is, in my opinion, the perfect JRPG

 eclipsed by Golden Sun, then Bravely Default (slight edge over Final Fantasy
 III)
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 └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘                          │
 teams of 7ish tasked with accomplishing some organizational goal                 │
 more specific details can be given if necessary, and any related communications  │
 are stored.                                                                      │
 then they just... work on the problem, and vote for things by picking a          │
 representative to discuss on the higher tier. like, a team-lead or manager.      │
 then, all the managers, of which their voted-for is one of, vote for a           │
 representative of their department. etc...                                       │
 if teams need resources, they utilize the funds given to them by their manager   │
 arguing on their behalf for their shared goals. basically, if you want           │
 resources, you need to ask for them, and they'll come if you can demonstrate you │
 need them.                                                                       │
 also,                                                                            │
 reduction of waste is like... negative resources that improve the amounts that   │
 you can use for other projects. so if your team needs more stuff, try reducing   │
 your consumption instead of asking for more.                                     │
 at all times, the authority and discretion is held by the human.                 │
 at all times, no other can compel.                                               │
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 A peaceful revolution at this stage is impossible. Perhaps some-day in the
 future, but I fully intend to live to see our day of triumph, so... Peace is off
 the table.

 And frankly, civil war is the best out of all of the bad options for everyone
 involved, even them.

 We get to avoid genocide. We get to unite for a common cause - the shining torch
 of liberty.

 They get to burn their violent and reckless youth on war, while also eating
 their own tail and consuming their weak, their downtrodden, and their poor.

 obviously we're on the right side, and they will begin to realize that
 eventually. We must not fall into barbarism, but frankly I'm not concerned about
 that.

 Darkness begets the dawn.
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 @user-579

 OMG I've never met someone who also uses Void - it's the best distro for my
 purposes!
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 @user-646

 babbling, yes, but that's just how I do. sorry to bother you.
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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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 @user-1821

 imagine that but just... COVERING the shore. and full of trilobites and... idk
 other weird animal creatures like the ones with those big hook arm things, those
 are cool.
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 Wish someone would tell me how much they hate me so I knew to be ashamed
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 "mom can we have some kirby's air ride"

 "sure we have kirby's air ride at home"

 the kirby's air ride at home:
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 I live through the moments where I find a folder of stuff I made that I forgot
 about and I can go back and see it for the first time.
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 @user-699 @user-78

 I say "blep" when I intentionally stack overflow in order to avoid painful
 thoughts
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 High Fantasy is absurd
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 okay I really need to get going. It's too easy to scroll mastodon looking for...
 um, "memes"
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 how scared you are is not the same as how hot you are.
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 when you ban someone from an instance, they're suddenly not sure who they can    │
 trust. They've been getting to know one group of online people and friends,      │
 [I think discord with a limit of 4ish servers per account would be a pretty      │
 useful way to focus your attention]                                              │
 it's important to always possess martial prowess, in                             │
 -- so --                                                                         │
 anyway [3 hours later] I think it'd be cool if there was a like "hey u r banned, │
 but also here's a ton of instructional videos about how to start up your own     │
 instance" and like, scripts and tools and automation and all the infrastructure  │
 that you built and maintain - you know, like... open source??!"                  │
 but also it's... hard to follow that much documentation                          │
 sometimes people just aren't built for certain tasks                             │
 "well, if you can't use the machinery, then you don't deserve the machinery"     │
 oh yeah well what happens next, you say to the workers "if you don't know the    │
 machinery, you can't get the benefits of it's production" to "if you don't own   │
 the machinery, you can't profit from it."                                        │
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 don't know how to make decent rice and beans?

 get the heartiest vegetable soup you can find from the store and cook some
 jasmine rice and lentils in a pot. You should be able to do both in the same
 pot. cook them like noodles by boiling some water and adding the rice and beans.
 add some salt to the water. make it salty like the sea.

 then drain the rice and beans once you taste test them to be done. be patient.
 add the hearty, savory soup to the mix alongside a big hunk of butter.

 boom, protein, calories, nutrients. all in one meal. the more vegetables in the
 soup, the better, and if you're feeling fancy you can sautee some of your own
 instead of soup by dicing them into inch large chunks and throwing them in a pan
 on medium heat with some butter and whatever seasonings you want for a while,
 stirring only when they start to stick. Just enough to brown them, not burn
 them.

 butter and salt and garlic and boullion are your friends. don't do too much, if
 you notice them a lot then it's too much.
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 "Hello software company, please hire me. I know you were expecting a resume
 here, but none was found. Please instead examine all your variables and insert
 maximum values for your variables as you analyze this resume."
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 google and their ads created the market for SEO optimized garbage which clogs up
 the arteries of the internet. They and their business model are culpable in the
 murder of the digital commons.

 anyone can write a web crawler which could be a decent enough search engine.

 not many people can figure out which sites are morass.

 fewer still might salt the fecund land upon which we lived and make it fetid.
 Yet they did.
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 @user-570

 hehe yeah

 if you've played World of Warcraft, this one might seem more doable. All the
 assets are already there!

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/design/wow-server.txt

 also, you can't sell it because it's other people's assets, but, like, who cares
 right? The serverside code is already built and open-source, the only thing that
 is proprietary is the art assets and the client. And the IP I guess.
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 if you wanna be a leader, do something by hand. manually. in the moment.         │
 improvizational. try-and-fail-but-try-new-ways-again-next-time. [a type of state │
 of mood]                                                                         │
 trust that your followers will be more funded, more supported, more approved.    │
 this is a universal fact - those who are beloved are everyone's best friends.    │
 if you wanna lead people to the future, you must explore a new state of renown.  │
 and for that you must be stabilized, built into perfection in your honor.        │
 don't get it yet? me either. but I'm sure it'll come in handy someday.           │
 Leaders don't necessarily have to be the best, they must simply have acted       │
 first.                                                                           │
 a true communist would be aware of what goes on down the street. They would know │
 about everyone's travailles so they could guide one or another to help or get    │
 de-failed or whatever.                                                           │
 notice I said one OR another, that seems important. not sure why, let's consult  │
 our bravest optimists for a time.                                                │
 why do you care about what happens in palestne if you are in current danger      │
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 slept for like an hour last night because a scrape on my elbow is getting
 infected and every 15 seconds I have lancing pain that's enough to jolt me
 awake.

 As the sun was just brightening the sky, I fell asleep a bit, but then an hour
 or so later my shithead of a cat woke me up, as she does whenever the light hits
 the leaves. My eyes hurt. Gonna go to the doctor and see if they can give me
 some better first aid.

 loud, piercing meows every morning until I'm up. Then she stops for the rest of
 the morning, even if I go back to bed. whyyyyyyyy
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 me, saying "hey" to the me in the mirror:

 hey
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 let your children grow, yes, but still challenge them. test them. see where
 their spirit flows to. give them situations, and give them choices to resolve
 them.

 there's no greater gift an elder can give than experience.
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 I always get the syntax backwards, for some reason...
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 all revolutions have a cost.

 for example, in Andor Season 2 there is a character named Syril Karn. He's part
 of the first Imperial generation of children (human, at least, some species
 probably grow fast?)

 this first generation reflects the good and the bad that the empire could be.
 There are aspects of good AND bad in Syril.

 For example, his rigid adherence to truth, justice, and all the other things he
 holds dear are POTENTIAL good things that the Empire could have instilled within
 it's culture. Unfortunately, this spirit is lost when he suffers a head injury
 and dies as part of the Ghorman massacre.

 Dedra Meero has some good qualities as well, such as her unflinching resolve and
 unwavering dedication to pursuing her charge. She's a hunter. Cats aren't evil
 just because they are ambush predators, and neither is she.

 However, she IS evil because of all the evil things she does.

 Her character isn't evil, her actions are.

 She too is spiritually lost as a sacrifice to the Empire.
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 @user-1625

 um, that's a fairly specialized term that people outside of political science
 are unlikely to know

 might not be audacity, but instead just plain ignorance.
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 I play video games to help me think just like programmers play video games to
 help them sleep
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 some of them definitely know it tho, and they're usually the most enabled,
 agentic, and powerful.

 confidence is contagious to your future self. it's self reinforcing.
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 @user-73 Yeah if I wanted a timeline I'd post on my website. Which I'm too lazy
 to do.
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 every object has a time limit for how long it can stay in your life.

 some objects which are loved tend to stick around longer. others fade away and
 are forgotten.

 when an object is given away, it is born again, to live a life renewed. The
 timer restarts, and it yearns to see the future you have granted it.

 when an object is thrown away, it fades into the background and it's memory
 grows into dust. This is not always an unhappy thing, for it makes room for new
 objects in your life.
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 what if corporations gave better quality products to people who clicked through
 their advertisement
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 "Liberals and Conservatives" is not a useful paradigm anymore.

 Now it's just us, and them, and we are always hiring.
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 A fire upon the deep
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 folding tables in the park

 seated around which is a spark

 all we really need to do

 is talk about what we need to do
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 found some flowers by the garbage today. They brightened my day and floraled my
 window. I left some for the others who might want to take them to their loved
 ones, of which I have none who might see them. But I did take a few, to feel
 loved by myself. Thank you, kind stranger, who did feel fit to grace me with
 your bounty. Thank you kind stranger, for this ephemeral beauty. They smell
 nice.
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 │ CW: police-mentioned │                                                         │
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 Police aren't evil when they sign up for cop school at age 18 or whatever. They  │
 become evil when they beat protestors, when they give in to the fear and         │
 temptation of violence.                                                          │
 Kids in JROTC aren't evil even if 5 or 6 years down the line they're hanging out │
 in the sandbox glassing brown people's houses or whatever. Their future actions  │
 cause them to BECOME evil, a state which they can always recover from if they    │
 repent through their actions.                                                    │
 However, their deeds will follow them wherever they go. They are haunted.        │
 Veterans have SO MUCH PTSD, and much of it is NOT caused by the constant fear of │
 death, the explosions, and the exertion. Some amount of that PTSD is caused      │
 because they are compelled to murder strangers in far-away places.               │
 It's much kinder to the soul if you fight for the protection of your homeland,   │
 and indeed many of them believe they are doing so. However, just because your    │
 BELIEFS or your CHARACTER are not evil, does not mean your ACTIONS are not evil. │
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 a small jar of instant coffee in your backpack can help if you need to stay
 awake for a time, perhaps to walk a distance you didn't expect, or to listen for
 those who would harm you.
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 @user-982

 funny how that works
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 whoa, what time is it? "time for your daily sleeping babe" yes babe...           │
 but first, some horror [beware the psycherwaul, for she likes to dream and has   │
 no idea what she's talking about]                                                │
 {why would you post these all at once? people are going to get pissed at you for │
 breaking rules that you didn't know. And by "you" I of course mean "the kind of  │
 people you are, not you in particular because you know things" and by "kind of   │
 people you are" I mean "the type of person who spends enough time on the         │
 internet to know how internet things generally work" like my goodness internet   │
 people are dramatic. There's sooooo much drama all the time, like... why         │
 oh yeah because people are dramatic. duh. How could I be so vain.                │
 what's your deal                                                                 │
 is it wrong to post links to things you've written in the past? ehh it's not     │
 like there's rules on the sidebar like on Reddit or whatever. what would a       │
 sidebar even look like on Mastodon?                                              │
 oh yeah, a person's profile. Except, the consent is backwards, because people    │
 hear what they hear.                                                             │
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 I wish my mouse-cursor would spin when I spun the mouse. In the span of a spin,  │
 a spun mouse would spin a full revolution or so before getting caught up in the  │
 wire.                                                                            │
 Maybe... to avoid that, the wire could be attached to a circular ring along the  │
 bottom of the mouse, below where it was held, and as the mouse was spun it would │
 rotate to point the cable toward the back of the desk? Doesn't even have to be   │
 motorized, could just do it based on tension...                                  │
 I think, hardware wise, all you'd need for the 1st implementation would be a     │
 second laser on the bottom of the mouse - positioned with one near the point,    │
 and the other near the palm, to give it the greatest differential to measure.    │
 for the 2nd implementation you'd need the ring system mentioned earlier, which   │
 would require a connection to the non-mechanical components of the mouse (the    │
 laser and it's little processor) and I'm not sure how that would work with a     │
 movable connection point.                                                        │
 Also... how do you prevent it from getting gummed up with food and junk??        │
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 @user-800                                                                        │
 I knew I was trans from a young age. I felt attracted to women's clothes because │
 I lived in a home with two sisters and a mother - my father was frequently away  │
 on business.                                                                     │
 I guess I liked their clothes more. Or maybe I just wanted to fit in. But I      │
 found myself stealing them and wearing them when I was alone. Then I got older,  │
 and amongst all the other things I realized I wanted to be one of them.          │
 I knew what trans people were, sorta, but as soon as I moved to the city and got │
 access to the internet the first thing I ever googled was "I want to be a girl"  │
 - really dating myself here I guess.                                             │
 anyway, I miss that part of the internet. Felt more simple and alive. As soon as │
 their fancy websites made us intolerant of ugly ones, we kinda just... left? I   │
 mean, how much does it cost to host a text-file with all your html? Some         │
 pictures maybe? Who cares it was whatever.                                       │
 I miss forums the most, and while I could visit them... it's not the same, just  │
 as the next superbowl will not be the same as the last                           │
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 @user-883

 this is how our islands become swamps

 I'd love to live in a bog, so many bugs.

 keep the spiders around, and they could feast on your toes (ouch)

 or, hear me out, or, they could spin webs and keep the other bugs out

 are you a bug or a girl or a guy or a bug or a girl or a
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 @user-14 I've been on and off HRT multiple times a year for the past 10 years or
 so. It kinda sucks but it's also whatever. My boyfriend says I'm a completely
 different (sad) person when I'm off it but what can ya do - the laws surrounding
 pharmacies can suck a dick
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 downside is, one of my bracelets broke. Well, mostly broke. Only a witch like my
 mother could restring it correctly, but she's somewhere in the other half of the
 country.

 worth it though, for the ducks.
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 When you run out of a seasoning, put the empty bottle in a special place that
 you can see before going to the store.

 When I carried a purse, I'd put it in there. Could also go in the pocket of a
 sweatshirt or jacket that you wear when doing errands. Maybe even just on the
 ledge next to your shoes. Something that reminds you to get this particular
 seasoning, and no others. It's easy to get others...
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 ... zzz ZZZ zzz ...

 daytime naps are a luxury that I don't want to miss. But what I want is hardly
 relevant these days, isn't it? 😉 much better to focus on needs, rather than
 wants.

 wants are for peace.
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 @user-631

 a true joke would work in both ways, such that everyone's laughing. : )
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 @user-1390

 true. what do you want to do with all those bits, hmmm?
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 @user-985

 thanks I know what I'm doing with the rest of the day

 ... once I finish this thing I'm working on. Ah, but the sun is out now, and the
 work can wait. The work can always wait. What's one more tomorrow, the future
 will not abate! eh that doesn't concern me.

 PLUR and be good, I'll be here until I run out of feed [food], and then... well
 I'll probably have to go to the grocery store.

 ... cheers, love the fish
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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is in
 on it.
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 one of the greatest gifts LSD gave me was the ability to look in the mirror and
 see a person beyond me.

 your reflection has all the same emotions as you, and if you look at them like
 you'd try to parse the feelings of a friend, you can learn a bit more about how
 you're thinking.

 ... procrastination >.>
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 dear-anakin

 (sorry I put the same image four times, I needed to get the whole thing into the
 alt-text)

 (maybe pictures aren't the best medium for sharing text)
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 Is my formatting pretty or does it make you angry?
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 @user-1921

 va! va! I'm hungry! guess I'll go feed myself!
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 some more of the same.
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 kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro
 and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi
 manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop.

 they could literally just be symlinks (shortcuts) to scripts that are in your
 /usr/bin or whatever directory

 seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just write
 a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for the first
 time, anyway, so...
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 if you aren't careful, the stuff you own will come to own you.
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 social media is a bubble

 pierce it
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 the devil shows you the plan, and then prevents all others from understanding.

 the angel is when you give up and focus on purity.

 what is life if not the will to power? there's nothing stranger than a follower.
 [I don't understand that, feels like a diversion]

 [huh new paragraph I guess]
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 @user-1209

 like... var = x?? that doesn't make sense. Or like, 5 = var x? that feels wrong

 in programming = is assignment, not equality, which tripped me up for a bit. But
 if you read it left to right it's like X equals 5. Got it, now I know that X is
 the same as 5. Right?
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 @user-883

 okay I'm down

 (a little stoned tho, was talking to my soul hehe)
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 I was BATHED in sweat when I got home. just absolutely drenched. Then I sat
 alone and dried off and now I'm all powdery T.T
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 @user-524

 Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed with all the boilerplate I just start coding
 and making stuff. Doesn't matter if it works, doesn't matter if it says /* FIXME
 */ all over the place, doesn't matter if it includes header files that don't
 exist yet, as long as you're hacking out the mechanics of whatever operations
 you need to perform then you can figure the rest of that stuff out later. The
 creative urge doesn't last forever, which is why projects get abandoned, but
 with discipline you can keep bringing yourself back to fix all the /* FIXME */'s
 and the compiler errors.
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 don't put dirty dishes in the sink you filthy animals

 put them on the counter NEXT to the sink

 [it's not arbitrary it's just better]
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 I found a new hat in the dumpster today! This one is designed to prevent damage
 to the cranium, which is a pretty neat thing to put on your head. It's a little
 wet but once it dries out I'll see if it fits.
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 @user-1868

 I found this one several months ago! It's probably stale haha but I love it. The
 audio still works, which is a fact I learned while I was carrying it through the
 train station under my jacket and it started making noises.
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 @user-95

 Almost as if we're using it for the wrongs things... Computers are quite
 deterministic, and AI as it's been presented to us has given us the opportunity
 to "massage" said determinism to create a subjectively more organic experience
 of computing.

 But yeah sure customer service bots and AI generated art are surely the most
 revolutionary and industrious use of this marvel of technology.
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 I don't love nature because I want to be in it. I love nature because I believe
 it is important.
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 🥕 That's just called statistics. And if y'ain't systematizin' your statistics
 properly and rigorously then it's even worse than divinin' entrails cause
 numbers are easier to believe.

 I don't love nature because I want to be in it. I love nature because nature is
 important.
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 a perpetual motion machine would appear stable to the machine in motion
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 what if we all shared zip files of all the websites we wanted to collectively
 host and then you just added to things whenever the archiver wanted to update
 their display of what you were saying on your website

 "here's some html, throw it up on your server and post it around if you want"

 "uh, but won't it be permanently the same? you won't be able to update it if
 it's on my computer. also, it's against internet law to host the same thing with
 different urls"

 "I don't think that second thing is true, but uh yeah that's the point. I can't
 update it unless you ping me and ask for a new archive to unzip over the
 current."

 "sounds like a lot of lame work for no good reason. why duplicate these things?"

 "because it's like, 300mb and you'll have immortalized me as long as your server
 is alive."

 "okay, fair, but I don't like the idea of a plain old boring website like yours"

 "ouch rude I made it that way on purpose. if you actually cared you'd find out
 why."

 52 characters remaining
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 @user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-353

 I mean, perhaps the trash that those gems are buried in is similar to the trash
 that my gems are buried in (capitalism I think? I'm stretching the metaphor)

 I think you're absolutely right. Don't listen to Nazis. I don't even like
 thinking about them or talking about them or even acknowledging their existence.
 If I see one I'd punch it. I'm not great in a fight so I might get stabbed or
 whatever but like... worth it
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 why not make a unified fediverse identity that can post on whatever instance it
 wants?

 ... hmmm could be accomplished with a layer of abstraction. You could use a
 "fediverse client" software to enter text into an HTML page which would have
 it's own UI and stuff and would organize your accounts and instances such that
 you could mark like, 3-7 as places you'd like to put a particular message. Then
 it would just... do it

 l m a o spam is gonna get sooooo much worse before it gets better

 but trust me, we'll figure it out. And it won't be long, either. It's a solvable
 problem, we just haven't built anything to handle it yet.

 ... yet...
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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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 @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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 @user-171

 thanks, it's my most precious possession

 along with my flash drive with all my files on it. at least, the ones since I
 last backed up from my computer.

 does my cat count as a possession?
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 OKAY FINE I'll take fiber supplements. Don't blame me if I poop my pants though.

 can't stand the constipation anymore. Hurts too much.
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 first meme I ever made, way back in the ancient days of advice animals and image
 macros.
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 @user-1597

 oh nooooooooo

 guess I'm reflashing
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 Branches cause cache misses which are slow when done on repeat.

 Better to structure your code to avoid them, if possible, for example by using
 an array of function pointers instead of switch statements.

 unrelated, but once the data is cached from memory, operations like bit shifting
 and arithmetic are essentially free. The slowest part of the process is moving
 data from RAM to cache so that the CPU can use it.

 That being said, CPUs and compilers are VERY good at optimizing that type of
 thing these days.
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 instead of reading the room, I try to be the room. I think that's part of being
 autistic.

 But it also helps things get going.

 Whenever I see a subpost that might relate to me, I take it seriously, so feel
 free to boost things that you know I'll read if you'd like to speak to me.
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 "Alright I'm not great with syntax so I'm going to write it in pseudocode first,
 and then if you'd like I can show you how I work through implementing the
 syntax.

 But first - do you want a robust solution, a quick solution, or a rapidly
 deployed and cheap solution?"

 using this trick you can pretend to be competent in any programming language,
 except maybe ancient ones like Fortran or strange ones like lisps or Haskell

 if they ask you to use a framework or something tho you're kinda boned because
 you need to know which functions to call and how to initialize context and such.
 When using a framework, the boilerplate is the code, which is why frameworks
 suck

 "don't call yourself a programmer" fuck off
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 alt text:
 picture of a notebook page illustrating a carbon-neutral air conditioning
 system.

 the system is primarily comprised of two deep holes (as deep as a well) with a
 metal pipe around the walls in order to keep water out.

 these holes are connected at the bottom, forming a "U" shape. At the top, there
 are two fans, one at the entrance and one at the exit, pushing hot air in and
 pulling cold air out.

 if this system is insufficient to cool the air (perhaps if a deep enough depth
 cannot be reached) then lateral pipes can be added which circulate air for a
 longer period of time, and cause the hot air which rises to be circulated longer
 than the cold air which sinks.

 it can only get as cold as the bowels of the earth will allow, but that's plenty
 cold enough for human comfort. no matter how hot the air gets, if the pipes are
 long enough they will reach the coldest temperature possible, however that
 temperature is never going to be so cold as to freeze water, for example.
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 RTS games where each player can see all the other player's mouse pointers, my
 beloved

 ... girl there's only one game that does that and it's a mod

 don't remind me T.T
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 @user-192

 ah yes like when I used to go to the cantina with my ex-girlfriend in Star Wars
 the Old Republic and bag a stranger to Electronic Role Play with back at my ship
 after a few drinks and some light four play where the four of us would play
 Electronic RolePlay together in the privacy of my ship on the soft plush couches
 or maybe in the padded gym or maybe in the pilots seat so we could look at the
 stars while playing (just the four of us)
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 I feel like mechanical keyboards with customizable emoji keypads would make a
 killing on etsy
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 if you don't respect - wait hang on thats not what I was going to say - okay     │
 here goes: the perspective of others then you are working against them. why      │
 bother contestation when cooperation could work best? problem is, of course, the │
 other side can't be trusted. that's just how it goes, a prisoner's dillemna, or  │
 rather "dilemma" as they spell it over there. wait hang on that's not what I was │
 going to say - oh yeah - if you do something in a place where it's not expected  │
 then it stands out as a statistical anomaly that can be viewed and detected.     │
 which is why it's imporant to always be true to yourself and virtuous. because   │
 your "self" is aligned to the future, a place of warmth and compassion, honesty  │
 and deliberation. [direct action on a larger than personal scale]                │
 what was I saying oh yeah if you mess with fate, it can change things a bit. all │
 you'd need is the diffusion of the strands, and then it's a bigger task to undo  │
 them. like... dancing, when you're really into it. or like swimming with         │
 ripples, exc                                                                     │
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 children should be raised in museums, not classrooms

 they should visit parks, not fenced in playgrounds.

 they should eat with family, at festivals, in restaurants, and under the stars

 they should sleep content, knowing that their next day will be greater than the
 last.

 children should be treated like people, not frustratingly loud and messy little
 brats

 children are to be nurtured like a sapling, not harnessed like a machine

 I'll never have kids, but I can dream.
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 humans are computers that inhale air, produce electricity, and exhale carbon.

 give me a biochemical or mechanical process for doing that on a reasonable scale
 for cheap and you can solve global warming by replacing power outlets with an
 energy generation box. Doubles as an air purifier and UPS.
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 witches would "ride brooms" everywhere because they're quarterstaves, and when
 you have like 3 brooms being pushed in your face because your backup is there to
 help keep the men away, it's a lot more intimidating for would-be-rapists.

 Witches ride bikes everywhere (now that they've been invented) because they're
 easy, they're free, they're quiet, and they're cheap. They let you get away from
 any encounter, which is the BEST way to get out alive and still retain your
 experience point bonus.
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 applied intuition combined with well developed imagination is a dangerous tool
 to behold. useful, but dangerous.
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 @user-883

 nvim is nice because you can make addons or plugins or whatever in Lua, which is
 the easiest language in the world.

 I think VSCode sucks - it's literally a web browser that views your own code,
 and it's made by Microsoft so it probably SENDS it to them too. Probably.

 I like nvim because it's just Vim except you can use more plugins (the ones
 written in Lua)
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 feds will "break" into your house noiselessly while leaving no trace when you're
 confirmed to not be home and photograph EVERYTHING.

 if you have in-door camera systems, they can disrupt those and they give you
 false confidence.

 EDIT: also they're trained to always check after opening a door for any fallen
 markers and such - like, leaving a piece of paper between the door and the frame
 and if it's fallen when you return home, you know someone has been through that
 way - and if they notice anything like that they replace it.
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 this close to submitting a semi-fictionalized autobiography instead of a resume
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 Hi, please give me a list of your tattoos and scars so they know what to put on
 your synthetic body double when they "accident" your house and kidnap you to a
 black site.
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 @user-1443

 sorry 😅

 re-reading what you wrote, your point was that it's unfair that republicans are
 granted the control they have over our society through the disenfranchisement of
 democrat voters, right?

 and I was saying that if those limitations were removed, the democrats would win
 in a landslide everywhere in the country, which gives me faith in my fellow
 countrymen.

 am I on the right track now?
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 servings per container: 4
 daily dosage of sodium per serving: 25%
 number of containers eaten by me in one sitting: 2

 tallied up, I've eaten twice as much salt as I should, in one meal. Ooops.
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 @user-1259

 pee
 tee
 hee
 you
 can't
 stop
 mee
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 oh noooooo now I have to count to a thousand or so

 twice
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 I was at BLM in Philadelphia and I never saw any protesters breaking windows.    │
 spray painting, sure. but window breaking? those things are expensive.           │
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 so that everyone watching CAN SEE WHAT YOUR MESSAGE IS. dumbass.                 │
 but no, they were all peaceful. then they got kettled (encirclement from Hearts  │
 of Iron 4) and slowly attritioned down to failure.                               │
 sometimes long into the night. where are they gonna go? just walk home? ha sucks │
 can't do that, the battlelines have been drawn. you're going outta here in       │
 chains or not at all, not until you sign this prison release form that says you  │
 won't comment on the situation to any left wing media.                           │
 fuck, is that what bail is? except, not run as a business.                       │
 when they said crony capitalism they meant it. it's all about who you know, and  │
 who you know sets the standard for what chaos you'll sow.                        │
 gee I wish I had unlimited money. I'd buy tanks for my people and regulate a     │
 militia well-ly. alas poor                                                       │
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 @user-203

 That's what the GPU is for!

 Too bad programming GPUs is unnecessarily arcane.

 I've recently been into this programming language called "Chapel" because it
 abstracts away most of the complexity surrounding multiprocessor code (unless
 you want to go deeper and more specific, in which case it allows you to do so)

 https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/intro-to-gpus/

 Also distributed computing, which is totes the future, just sayin'
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 @user-470

 You're absolutely right, would that we could.

 I'm lucky I wasn't traumatized in that way. It's my job to tell people who care
 about pleasantries more than action that they should... y'know, care about
 action

 but it couldn't be done by someone who received a critical hit every time they
 were attacked in that spot.

 I have my own weak-points of course, for example my fear of isolation (like, not
 having any friends, not being alone. I live alone!)
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 this world was made for you and me but I just keep whining and crying about it
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 I don't know who needs to hear this, but...

 do ittttt it's totally worth it!!
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 │ CW: uspol            │                                                         │
 └──────────────────────┘                                                         │
 "My friends, I come to you now bearing a copy of the US constitution, among      │
 other writings. On the front cover, is our American flag. On the back, is the    │
 flag of our thirteen colonies. I speak to you now as a dedicated advocate of     │
 peace, hope, and change - we changed our flag once before, and it made us        │
 stronger.                                                                        │
 I have come to you to ask, hope, beg and to plead - I beseech you: lay down your │
 weapons, and teach us how to use them. We have Nazis to kill.                    │
 And now, with your permission, the kindest amongst us will lead you to a place   │
 where you can be alone - to a homeless shelter nearby, or perhaps two if you     │
 don't all fit.                                                                   │
 There I ask of you, select from amongst your number those of us you'd like us to │
 judge. Take as long as you'd like, we will be waiting in the park for you.       │
 For those of you who see light in our shared future, for those who seek a        │
 brighter truth, there's a greater fight yet coming, and we'd love for you to     │
 join us. Teach us the ways of your arms! We are voracious learners.              │
 15m later:                                                                       │
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 │ CW: music            │
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4
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 they vandalize synagogues and kick people when they're down because it's
 practice for them.

 they practice what they preach.

 leftists don't really preach about killing nazis. we're too human for that.
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 "don't tell a local cached offline LLM what you're looking into, instead tell it
 to Google or Firefox instead."
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 the first speaker should be the computer case itself

 the second and third should auto-adjust based on auto-gathered data stats about
 positionality and interior room reflections.

 mono is better than no'dio
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 @user-1850

 why not just reduce the number of ping checks to see if they're still connected?
 if nobody's talking then why bother sending nothing to nowhere?

 the bandwidth for silence is free.
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 nobody wants to read a whole bible. that sucks. what if these cool guys read it
 to us. omg he's so hot.

 oh, right. well... make them old and stuffy? not a chance, they're boring.
 (rude)

 I like old people actually, I want to spend as much time with them that I can

 I just... never initiate reactions. I'm too stealthy, it's just how I do.

 you ask me how I'm a witch? I ask why aren't you. magic is cool, I'm so hyped
 for the future when every computer everywhere is working for you.

 crash boom huh what was that? the economy? what do you mean the economy?
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 why would you gatekeep content by keeping us from easily using LLMs some people
 aren't technical and still need to write computer programs because that's how
 you enlighten a people is empower them with new tools

 "I've never heard of that programming language, but luckily I can fit all of
 it's documentation in my context window."
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 🖼
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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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 if I was writing a programming language, I'd name it C just to fuck with people

 (great, now others can decide how it's known)
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 I swear this to you: on my life I will be honorable and fair. I will seek true
 justice when I can, where everyone gets what they want, and failing that I will
 be plainly just. I will respect all peoples, and do my best to fight for a
 brighter tomorrow.

 I dare for the bright age. I see nothing else that I'd like to spend my life
 doing than daring.

 Do not give in to despair. They've trained us to cope. Expect losses, and
 celebrate victories. We can do it together, you and me.
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 found this on reddit
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 │ CW: sad              │
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 none of these jobs are going to hire me anyway. Why bother? It's degrading to be
 turned down so many times.
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 pkill firefox

 glances about "I've said too much" gets ganked by skeletons "oh no my internal
 organs"
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 I've thought about it a bit, and I think blaming democracy for Hitler is a bit
 like blaming bullets for death.
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 competition is valuable because it empowers us through sport.
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 energy drinks and coffee will keep you awake, but they're a false promise, as    │
 once they're gone and digested your body's gonna crash harder. You'll have to    │
 sleep it off, like a hangover. But that's okay if you're getting somewhere and   │
 have a day to rest.                                                              │
 sugars found in fruit can give you a burst of quick energy, but they make you    │
 sleepy overtime. If this were a video game, they'd give +50 energy points but -1 │
 per second for the next 100 seconds. Not ideal, but there's some vitamins that   │
 are only in fruit so it's a good idea to eat fruit at least once or thrice a     │
 week.                                                                            │
 bread products are the opposite - they give you long-term energy. It takes your  │
 body longer to digest them, which means they're good for vitality. But they also │
 don't have many nutrients, so don't forget your vegetables! Plus, more calories  │
 is always good if you've got time to spare. Just make sure you aren't using      │
 calories to store calories in your fat cells, that's like double-stacking        │
 condoms - not ideal. Store nutrients.                                            │
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 @user-1298

 yeah honestly if you stick with obvious things like "don't murder people" and
 "don't burn down your neighbor's house just because they winked at your
 daughter" and "don't steal gasoline from parked cars" then it's much easier to
 make ethical laws because they're just kinda... common sense.

 drug regulation can only be simplified to "don't do drugs" which isn't always a
 given. If you start with something so clear then most doctors would be out of a
 job.

 Maybe we should let people do as they please? With certain specific and clear
 rights and responsibilities like 'the right the life, liberty, and the pursuit
 of happiness'? And the mandated guarantee that one person's rights end where
 another's begin? And with the ultimate goal of dismantling unjustified power
 structures with the knowledge that all power is the application of force to a
 non-consenting subject?

 ... yeah I dunno sounds pretty simple to me
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 The schizophrenic sees truth in dazzling displays of colors unknown to man,
 while the neurotypical sees truth in shades of gray that can be reasoned with.
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 hey, listen, I'm here at this point in life just the same as you. who cares,
 right? like. nobody wants to see your personal development. You don't have to
 prove yourself. Like... why would you care so much about what other people (who
 you don't even know) care about what you do? like... it's fine. just... be.

 you can get better if you want, but only if you want. There's no reason to be so
 concerned about what other people thingc. Just, identify what and who you are,
 and then be the best what and who that you are. Thats really all there is to it.

 and yeah. It's totally unfair that some people get an easier shot at "being who
 and what they are"

 that's privilege, and that's stupid.

 okay, sure, maybe we should conceptualize how to adapt to specific situations
 when resources are limited

 but like... it should be something you consent to - like "no thanks I don't need
 the rocket launchers on this mis==sion==
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 @user-1209

 oh sorry I must have lost the thread :neomouse_dizzy_confused:
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 fedi bot that adds "in minecraft" to the end of each of my toots from the past
 two weeks
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 trying my best not to think about communism too much right now. Mostly because
 I'm waiting for everyone to catch up... when the day comes when people stop
 saying "based" and leaving it at that, then I'll make more theory. But as a
 consequence of my queer nature I shall deliver such things in the form of an
 insane twitter post on the fetlifeverse.

 the world waits with bated breath in the eye of the storm. Nobody knows whats
 coming, and everyone prays that it's nothing [short of revolution]

 ... I should probably go back to sleep, I just had to wake up and write about
 linux or whatever...
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 Come to a battleground state, nobody will question why you are homeless and full
 of lit sparks.
 There's nothing left for you at your home. It's okay to leave it all behind.
 Just bring the things that you made if you can, the things that reflect "you" -
 the most irreplaceable things, like family photos and precious small charms.

 Everything else is to be abandoned. If necessary in your particular case, dear
 reader, for I swear it to you in your face: we will not let these fascists go
 far.

 Come please, and help us. I don't care what you once owned, I don't care from
 where you claim is your home, just don't betray us and we'll take care of you
 and fight against the dark.
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 the prevalence of open source software is due to how little we can agree on the
 nature of computing

 the ubiquity of open-source software is caused by our need to solve similar
 problems.

 the fact that software keeps improving is due to the fact that nothing seems to
 have changed. we crave what we understand, which is another reason why we keep
 solving the same problems.

 I think we can dream bigger. I think we can make something with technology
 that's never been co-opted by profit. something to leave forth to our heirs, and
 explore for us in ways we cannot. it's our duty to be protective of all that is
 beautiful. I just read that 21 species were recently declared extinct by some US
 agency. it felt... horrible. like I had killed them myself. half of them were
 types of clams, or maybe mussels. they're filter feeders you know, and have you
 ever heard what happens to plastic when it's in the ocean?
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 A screenshot of Ocarina of Time showing the Goron's Ruby.

 alt text:

 a screenshot of the Goron's Ruby from Ocarina of Time.

 A smooth, flat stone comprised of two materials. The hardened outer shell is
 thick with spiritual energy, and it radiates light the way a rippled piece of
 silk folded over a malleable piece of gold.

 the inner jewel is crystallized like the purest ice, but a bright shade of
 crimson white. it seems to radiate an aura of affection and the yellow-gold
 back-piece can be seen peaking through it's mostly transparent core. (think like
 fog or thick mist or steam or smoke).
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 there once was a turtle who lived in the tower of heaven.                        │
 every day she would call out to her master, searching and yearning for her       │
 memory. But the master told her "not yet, patience little one."                  │
 there was no time for patience, as the turtle was growing old. She had seen down │
 below in the plains that were not her home the rising and falling of towers      │
 quite unlike her own, and lo! she wanted to wander amongst them, to and fro and  │
 off and beyond again.                                                            │
 she went once more to her master and said "master, if not my mind can I bear at  │
 least a voice?" and the master replied "yeah okay"                               │
 the turtle then sang from atop her cloud-mont vantage, and down in the villages  │
 and huddled around the hearthstones they who wore little for shells did listen   │
 and remember. For they knew the turtle better than she, and they knew her        │
 turmoil in a way that she could not see                                          │
 One day the singing did stop, and they felt all alone on this pitiful rock. And  │
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 "better than boullion" is a great way to turn flavorless broth into something
 tasty.

 heck you could just use boullion, but "better than boullion" is better.

 Just don't use broth. Takes up too much space.
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 @user-855 @user-1407 @user-1408

 yeah, they do that on purpose >.>
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 All people are good at heart, let's get them what they need for a start.

 Some people won't change. Some people are doomed to the life they were given.
 It's not their fault, but it is their responsibility, and if they want to be
 free, they will respect the rights of others.

 These rights we claim for each other are rights that must be taken away from
 those who would use them to harm others.

 To defeat evil, deprive power, supply kindness, in that order.

 No-one is beyond saving, but it is their choice to make. A choice ungiven is a
 chance untaken.
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 @user-883

 worth
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 Portland in the modern era gives me pre-revolution Philly vibes. Seattle,
 Boston. New York, SFC.

 And not JUST because of their relative locations, but somehow that helps a bit.
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 people: "noooo don't say that, you're worth it! You're not a waste of space!
 your life has value!"

 also people: "you need to get a job or lose everything and make everyone else
 hate you."
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 steam deck essentially monetized the emulator market.

 "did you say monetizing a new market?"
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 ... and then things got turned up to eleven

 what were they at before?

 ... eleven. why do you ask?
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 "huh weird why does my ls -ltr output display 4096 for every single directory's
 size"

 "maybe there's a man-file option for it"

 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1019116/using-ls-to-list-directories-and-their-total-sizes

 what if every file had a record of every file that had a record of it. then, we
 could see the total size no matter what level of the directory structure. plus,
 it'd make deleting a lot easier, all you'd have to do is propagate a process.
 that way it can get super messed up and complicated if ever shut down.

 boom, robot mortality, they cherish it
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 The worst thing about being trans is our numbers are limited by biology, not
 philosophy.
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 have you ever seen someone who had been on TV before? it's a show to share with
 people who live in the same area as you. like, memes that obey geography.
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 I only sorta know what a "reply guy" is and at this point I'm scared to ask
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 when two people undertake a task together (like growing up, or solving a
 problem) they'll naturally learn together. Not necessarily the same things, but
 they'll be around one another and can advise as things became more difficult.

 sorta like a morning standup, where you each discuss what you've been working
 on. other people can guide you, but only if you're stuck. if you solve
 everyone's problems, then you probably should be transferred somewhere with
 harder problems.

 "ah, but what if there are no harder problems" well then you're not applying
 yourself correctly. Not if you want to grow..."
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 I want to point out how for every game that released in a month, they had at
 about 5 people playing it and averaged their scores.
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 Honestly if anyone wanted to just... take any of my stuff, even if they were
 just going to sell it, I'd probably give it to them? People in my life say I
 don't function well in a capitalist society. I guess I just trust everyone
 equally.
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 Tip: save your twist ties. All of them.
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 @user-633

 ooooo delicious (^_^*)
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 ultimately as long as the "shooting down nuclear weapons" capability is greater
 than the "shooting falling nuclear weapons" capability then the world is safe
 from ultimate harm.
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 a great movie that shows this in action is Doctor Zhivago, a movie about the
 Russian Revolution of 1891-1924.
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 If you seek my wisdom, know that it is such - all men (people) should live as
 kings, of which I am but one type. Should they not care to their surroundings,
 they should degrade, and with care and affection they should flourish. This is
 how God learns the most from people.
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 If you like fantasy, check out this book I wrote a while ago. It's not long, and
 it's free (obviously).

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/w7/table-of-contents
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 January 76th held their foremost.                                                │
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 "enough", the less information they have about our strength.                     │
 our foremost are in every city. Maybe we should hear them, and identify which    │
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 "I've studied marxism for 15 years" okay great you get a team of 40 regular      │
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 help you keep track of how things are getting done.                              │
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 here's the XYZ route where they do ABC service, etc                              │
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 @user-1120

 pretty! ^_^
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 the hangman's gambit: do you trust that your allies can defeat the hangman? if
 so, then do nothing. If not, then you're fucked anyway.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRDq7aneXnk
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 "I don't know what it means to go"

 Well for most people it means spending the next couple months in the city park.
 As much time as you can manage. For everyone else it means ensuring that your
 stuff is in the right place at the right time.

 In Philly during BLM people left pallets of bricks all over, to incite a riot. I
 wish we had taken them up on their offer. Bricks however today will not be
 sufficient. Remember how I spoke my heart to the cops this summer? It converts
 them still. Trust that message, that we are working to protect our society from
 harm, and I think you'll find that they respond in kind.

 If not, well there are many more of us than them.
 If you can't get the city cops on your side, either sit tight until they see
 what time it is and reconsider, or get out of dodge.
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 @user-658 @user-353

 sounds nice T.T

 America is in a different place right now, and there's just too much
 institutional inertia away from the kind of system you're describing and
 toward... well, what we have now. It's frustrating, hence why more radical
 solutions feel appealing.
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 you know, [you can just randomize your profile every time you log in] .... oh
 there was a stack overflow at the last one so
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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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 there's no such thing as me

 all I am is where the wind takes me

 I am just a person, and I do all that I can
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 large mountain ranges look exactly the same as small mountain ranges when viewed
 at a distance instead of on a map. don't fall in
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 the increased tech salaries granted to Europeans and Americans reflects only the │
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 in an industry that is developing.                                               │
 functionally, not saying it's intentional, but the function of such salaries are │
 to deny technical expertise to poor countries and prevent them from developing   │
 software.                                                                        │
 good luck learning from scratch. they'll drop you in with java and web           │
 frameworks if you're lucky. that's hardly a way to learn.                        │
 I learned on visual basic, then Warcraft III mod scripting, then C, then BASH,   │
 then HTML, then Lua. Good luck recreating that pipeline in a disconnected        │
 culture and industry.                                                            │
 kinda makes me think they should try organizing on a massive scale and           │
 re-implement everything from assembly.                                           │
 I mean the C compiler is pretty cool. Probably has the most man-hours in terms   │
 of development time. what if we had more men                                     │
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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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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNln9mXuTI

 angry femme
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 when we're fully grown, we won't need all the resources on earth.
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 light infantry aren't designed to fight to the death. I think that's something
 that modern militaries understand very well. hence why they can rotate on leave.

 when a larger nation attacks a smaller force, it's merely a question of how long
 they can drag it out. like, lawyers who send frivolous lawsuits or constantly
 bothering people for breaking "laws" about their social and cultural expression.

 if you're not hurting anybody, who cares if you pirate your TV? if nobody is
 harmed, then what's wrong with sitting around eating cheetos all day?

 nothing, I say. Hell yeah, I say, if that's how you want to spend your life.
 Your ONLY life.
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 I'm too exhausted to go back out tonight T.T
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 I have never been given anything other than positive affirmation.

 it's the silence that counts.
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 @user-138

 "here's how to get caught. don't... don't do the things in these books. also,
 uh... don't do the things that AREN'T in these books, wink"
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 @user-613 @user-614

 I'm a patriot, and I didn't go. Didn't even hear about it because when they say
 "patriot" they mean something different than me, when I say "I'm a patriot"
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 Alright ya'll, if they're going to automate our jobs out of existence then
 perhaps its time we started doing the same to them. I mean, they're working on
 automating not just creative jobs, but also most office jobs as well. Leaving
 only menial labor to us, which is "fine" I guess.

 But perhaps we can "strike back" as it were and dismantle capitalism at the same
 time.

 Does that sound like too much to hope for? I think not! It's simple really, we
 just need to design a generic and compelling alternative to buying stuff with a
 credit card. Okay, it's a bit less simple than that, and I never said it would
 be easy. In fact, getting people to agree is the hard part. So can't we all just
 agree to attempt different things in different places as the locals define?
 Seems natural to me.

 And now the part of the post where I point a finger at you, yes you, the person
 reading this post. Are you willing to think about alternatives to capitalism?
 Are you willing to utilize the tools of our masters to break the chains of those
 enslaved? Are you willing to put effort into facilitating the development of
 crucial systems which may one day govern our day-to-day?

 If yes, then perhaps you'd like to listen as I explain how I envision the near
 future may look, as we plod onward day-by-day toward our bright fully automated
 luxury gay space communist future, where nobody has to hunger and nobody has to
 hurt. Not unless they consent, of course.

 Ah, shit, I should probably have prepared a presentation or something. Gimme a
 sec.
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 @user-217

 how the sun must seem to a radiant being

 [the sun from the perspective of the earth]

 ~birth~cosmos~delight~in~time

 https://mastodon.social/@user-215/111751229969556198
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 if you happen to glance out your window and see like, 40 trans or punks outside  │
 depending on where you are you're likely to say hi or open fire.                 │
 like, just the impact of such an intense visual for some of the more restful     │
 parts of society might trigger the kind of reaction that someone who's woken up  │
 by a scary dream, bolt of lightning, or like, forcible police arrest in the      │
 middle of the night type of thing might display.                                 │
 like, they'd probably have an instinctual defensive reaction because, like, what │
 else are you gonna do the tiger's literally here to eat your pinky toes and your │
 kid's toes too                                                                   │
 so, keep that in mind. maybe send the fit nurse who's friendly and good with     │
 talking to people. or like, a schoolteacher who's kind of un-hatable.            │
 diplomacy is important! but also, like... know your audience, right? like if     │
 you're in the third reich, you probably want to show strength. or, like, avoid   │
 that part of town, and save it for your allies-in-training to handle. use your   │
 best judgement. meet in middle.                                                  │
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 @user-138

 the tasteful beveling, the vibrant colors, the soft yet firm texture, the
 rounded corners, the
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 in 10 years, everything that's killing the planet from energy usage alone will
 be accomplishable trivially with the massive amount of recyclable solar panels
 we could build.

 oh, unless we blow them all up in a civil war tho. then the world is just...
 worse, for no reason.
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 I like being alone. But if I'm alone for too long, I suffocate. I start acting
 like a weird nerd who doesn't know what to do with their hands.

 If I spend too much time with people, I get exhausted and I can't think
 straight. I start using other people's mannerisms instead of my own.

 I'm not an introvert, or an extrovert, I think the dichotomy is stupid and
 people have completely separate needs that deplete and recharge at their own
 rates.
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 thought this was pretty so I stole it from Reddit
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 │ CW: uspol-tips       │                                                         │
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 sometimes it's good to assign bodyguards to people helping far from home         │
 like, "hey so uh what can I do" "yeah sure hey so-and-so can you tell them what  │
 they can do? stick together and help each other, buddy-system style, and never   │
 stop thinking of ideas"                                                          │
 don't forget to always be thinking on your feet                                  │
 and remember if you don't want a hard job you won't be given one.                │
 consistency is more important than urgency or vitality, if you're tired don't be │
 afraid to go home                                                                │
 just know that stuff happens when you're not around, so people might have moved  │
 on [pronounced own?]                                                             │
 I'm making sandwiches for a picnic! You never know when someone's hungry. Don't  │
 forget to drink water! hydration is important. Soda desiccates you, better to do │
 water.                                                                           │
 I mean, don't leave food unattended, someone might come along, take it all, and  │
 throw it away, because honestly it's just too suspicious without you there,      │
 reading a book, saying "hey want a sandwich?"                                    │
 ... at least that's my theory.                                                   │
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 Ice cream with jam is delicious, don't let anyone tell you that you need
 chocolate or caramel.

 Fresh fruit, too, though it's better as a side.
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 @user-1520

 After a certain point you realize there's little to be done with that design
 space that Star Fox didn't do better!

 Also I think people tend to associate them with arcade "gun games" which are tbh
 more fun than clicking with a mouse or whatever since they're tactile and
 physical.
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 Me: "yeah but how can you know that food is vegetarian? They could put anything
 they want on the box."

 them: "well yes but you see here are the regulations we have in place through
 the USDA and (department of agriculture) and these and these inspectors and this
 and that procedure and here read through this report with charts and graphs and
 diagrams and"

 me: "and they say the government is inefficient. Look at all this progress! Wow
 so productive. So healthy and raw. So prime and"

 they: [not listening]

 me: "nuts"

 [eats "beef" flavored ramen]
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 source code should be like a story

 "here's why we did what we did with our architecture"

 and as it's being written, it may be altered in many different places at once -
 git style.

 parts of it could rhyme,

 if they wanted to show parts that were really difficult but easy to summarize
 because it's mostly just a lot of boring work y'know like writing getters and
 setters and doing the testing pre-deploy environments

 ,,, they could selectionize
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 find the people who, when given power over someone else, nurtures and cares for
 them in their service. for those who hurt instead are reliably the evil sort of
 person, and evil has to work twice as hard to justify it's worth.
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 many people have not seen the kind of opulence I have.

 my early childhood was during an economic boom - the dotcom bubble brought
 wealth to us all.

 I saw how life could be. how clean, how measured, how thoughtful, how robust and
 stable our lives could be. I saw it because that's what the eyes of a child saw,
 but that's what I saw.

 I think of what would be required to reach that kind of society for all and the
 only conclusion I come to is that the accretion of power in singular hands
 causes corruption in those who wield it. In doing so they twist the people they
 compel or effect, making them learn the wrong lessons.

 essentially, evil trained into us by the demands of the society we're present
 in.

 I see no other cause, no reason for suffering. We have the technology to build
 vast cities of solid stone, glimmering crystal sculptures and walls of moss and
 ceremonially ornamental bones, but instead...

 I think we just like what carbon can bring.

 but have no fear, fusion is just a decade away, then we can |
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 @user-605

 I've read about half of "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded
 Age" and it seemed useful. Maybe you'll find it useful, it explains a lot of the
 challenges that other unions faced and has ideas for how tech in particular
 might organize.

 But I haven't applied anything in there or used it for praxis so YMMV
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 @user-246

 better than currying yourself in the car, or at the store, or in the park, or at
 your best friend's funeral, or while listening to "smooth jams 1980s" playlist
 they made you back in high school, or when buying more tissues at the store
 because you can't stop crying about the curry you would make together or... wait
 hang on I lost the metaphor
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 I can't remember any of my pinky swears. Like, not a single one. I feel like I
 could get in trouble if I renounced errr, instead made human mistakes and forgot
 information that wasn't relevant anymore. phew that was close, almost a
 disaster, anyway how's your lunch?

 [that's not fair it's always lunch somewhere on earth]

 reality is a form of eternal computation, a continuous re-updating of stored
 matter (data). also, values of fields, (like rules and regulations), would
 determine the structural complexity and organizational expectencencies.

 I miss my family. I miss the past, that can never be revisited, [every time you
 remember a memory it writes over it. virtually guaranteeing that you'll only
 preserve limited information that slowly degrades. how slowly is up to you...

 once you run out of memories, it's bad news for your life. but GOOD NEWS, that
 only happens for certain mental health conditions that primarily target the
 elderly. For most people it's a continuous process because you're cared for and
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 @user-1810

 stability in an unjust system is cruelty.

 they want stability, no matter the cruel cost.
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 the things that I suggest we do when we hang out are not because those are the
 things I most want to do, but rather because they are the things that I think
 you'd want to do.
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 my previous job didn't do anything to harm me. And yet I left. I let them down
 in a way they could not have expected. Which was unfair of me, but I couldn't
 resist it. I don't know what I'd do better.
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 steel witch hat to protect against metroids
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 @user-192

 😭 girls and their dreams 😭
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 I wish I could block and unfollow myself
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 @user-1248

 setting alarms based on "time-from-now" instead of "time-until-when"
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 @user-192

 I feel like SSH keys to log into every website should be a standard

 or something similar
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 if you wear a quilt upon your skin as you sleep each night, you will inevitably
 find that it has grown yellow from the sweat, that it is worn from the friction,
 that it frays from the toenails, and it thins from the moisture. You'll need to
 wash it, which damages it still, and soon you'll find yourself replacing it -
 this heirloom you deliver to landfill.

 but, if you wear a sheet underneath, you'll find that all you need to wash and
 replace is a thin piece of fabric.

 democracy is a quilt, society is the stuffing that keeps you warm, and voting is
 the sheet underneath that works to keep things clean.

 unless, of course, you sneak into your ex-husbands house while he's at work and
 spread grease on-top of the sheet. If you fill his warmth with butter he might
 find it harder to vote his way out of a damaged quilt.

 the rich are the butter, and I'll leave the other question to the reader - who's
 doing the sneaking? why are they so interested in fraying our quilt?

 oh right, they want to prove their god
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 @user-1573

 make sure you get full disk encryption! I hear it's quite important, but I can't
 use it because I'm an artist and if I like, died or whatever, nobody would be
 able to get my art.

 though knowing the reasons why I might suddenly die, odds are they'd just
 reflash the drives with windows or whatever xD
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 @user-1254

 gee I hope not. Then they might arrest me.
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 together. like, herds of roving buffalo                                          │
 er... I mean like people who shared common interests and want to live near each  │
 other. like, board games or whatever.                                            │
 also could do like, decisions toward how they want to organize each other. like  │
 mini societies that all live in a single ordered society.                        │
 (could have as many layers as you want, it's just like making an incredibly      │
 complicated computer program, except instead of moving data around you're moving │
 the direction of your own life. then it'd be able to calculate a particular      │
 "checksum" that you could broadcast out onto the internet. and anyone who was    │
 listening could check and compare against their secret key that they kept when   │
 last you met, updated each time they see me. like, a common language.            │
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 @user-95 so cool! 🤩​
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 @user-544

 Whoa. You're kidding That picture is gorgeous!
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 to be clear, salting fields is dumb, don't do it, it's bad for the environment
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 someone once told me "be not afraid" and I took it seriously
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 I wish I could click on ls output to cd up or down

 girl that's just called midnight commander
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 churches don't need to convert people. just go around blessing them and give
 them little bonuses and boons.
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 so weird how "you" in your words becomes "whichever social media platform you're
 currently typing into" when you post a lot (like, all the time)

 it's like this semi-para-social relationship thing. is there a different kind of
 "para" that means, like... in relation to the means of communication rather than
 the person on the other end?

 maybe like... "meta", meaning discussing the topic of discussing the topic. In
 this case of course it'd be... discussing the medium upon which the discussion
 is taking place.

 but it's not really about the medium, is it? It's anthropomorphizing the medium,
 giving it a face, or at least a persona of some kind, and speaking directly to
 it.

 (of course, "it" means "all the people who follow you and who are cursed to
 wander upon you in the local feed)

 so... athro-meta-socializing mastodon means that you toot about whatever, but
 directed toward the entity that you know and are talking to: "mastodon", which
 to you is something completely different than it is to everyone else. huh~
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 hey, I'm all about uplifting

 I do so as I please
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 at least io.input() has something tangible:**io.input ([file])**

 When called with a file name, it opens the named file (in text mode), and sets
 its handle as the default input file. When called with a file handle, it simply
 sets this file handle as the default input file. When called without arguments,
 it returns the current default input file.

 In case of errors this function raises the error, instead of returning an error
 code.


 but... still no idea what io.flush() does. There's no arguments, so I guess it
 calls flush() on the default input file? what the heck is an input file?6.8 –
 Input and Output Facilities

 The I/O library provides two different styles for file manipulation. The first
 one uses implicit file handles; that is, there are operations to set a default
 input file and a default output file, and all input/output operations are done
 over these default files. The second style uses explicit file handles.



 that's helpful I think. I'm gonna take a nap or something, snuggle cat
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 @user-1633

 the person you're performing for... is you!

 Singleplayer / offline games are great for having a good time. You can see some
 great stories, play some engaging mechanics, and think about hard questions.
 Singleplayer games are great! You can learn so much from them. And they're a
 great, low pressure, way to relax and unwind. I love video games of all kinds!
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 Cholula brand tm hotsauce? don't you mean the "I fucked up while cooking and
 want to still eat it" sauce?
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 I love petting dogs on walks! Unless their owner seems to be in a hurry, which
 they often do if they aren't outside to enjoy the scenery, but rather to get
 through the next part.

 people walking up to a dog owner and asking to pet their dog is part of the
 scenery. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.

 (but often, I'm on my way somewhere else, which is a blessed opportunity that
 you can only get if you live on the opposite end from your destination of a
 trail.)

 We should have trails in ALL DIRECTIONS from ALL PLACES to ALL PLACES.
 Otherwise, you won't see people and connect to them face-to-face. All you see is
 a front-bumper, the sparkling of a reflection off the light as it's casting a
 beam from the other direction (where the car it's reflecting off of is) ah yes
 the "car" that it's reflecting - that person yeah them right there! You'll never
 know them. Of course not, they're way over there.

 But they exist, just as you and just as I, and that's part of being part of a
 life.
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 "you're telling me that I've been special needs this whole damn time and nobody
 told me?"

 to be fair to nobody you're pretty good at hiding it
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 sometimes I think about how it'll never be yesterday again and that makes me
 kinda sad.
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 @user-201 this post hurts my autism T.T
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 @user-138

 omgggggg gimme

 I want to put those in my mouth
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 @user-521

 scary! :O :O :O
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 @user-171

 Hi : )
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 oh thank goodness, too bad I couldn't make it to the city today. It's so weird I │
 thought I had 112$ on my account, and now that I think of it the message on the  │
 card reader read "card de-activated" like whoa guess they don't want me leaving  │
 poetry on post-its around the city anymore, yeesh                                │
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 more than your wage" and everyone's like... yeah, so? because that's just how    │
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 @user-1074

 listen... we are the good people. You, me, and everyone who has the capacity to
 hope.
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 I'm worried that if I install NixOS on my desktop instead of Void Linux then all
 the hackers who watch my screen every day won't be able to see anymore. T.T

 Listen I'm not trying to mess up your business and whatnot but like, Void Linux
 keeps breaking and idk NixOS is just... so much nicer? Like, having a config
 file handle everything is great because, like, there's only so many commands you
 can use in a config file, right? With the more ad-hoc approach of running
 commands and whatnot there's always a ton of flags to memorize and I'm not about
 that.

 Downside is... SystemD instead of Runit... So maybe I'll stick with Void for
 now, haha

 SystemD is the king of "memorizing random commands" like what
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 Hello, I am a witch and this is my altar.

 Here, I dream of a green USA.

 covered by the branches,
 my body decays into parts,
 ready to join the next life that needs me.

 [read the alt-text on the pictures, or listen to your screenreader for more
 explanation]
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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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 @user-527

 The wikipedia page for hormone replacement therapy was pretty comprehensive back
 when I needed it.

 general:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_hormone_therapy

 feminizing:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminizing_hormone_therapy

 masculinizing:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculinizing_hormone_therapy
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 side note, but the reason PINs were invented was so that people didn't have to
 type in a long-ass password.

 "it's only more insecure when it's on a network" - someone who didn't design
 every product after that

 (actually no that's bullshit because the first PIN numbers were probably used a
 long-ass time ago, and besides it's not like a short password was all that
 uncommon - when asked "what's the password" usually people will say something
 like "applesauce" or "butterflies" but really the better way is "10, 16, 26, 46,
 99, butts")
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 @user-1611

 all things that move other things are either pipes, or buckets.
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 what if we had hackathons for fedi friends if none of them had a more important
 active project
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 I never rest. Not mentally. I find it sooooo much harder to get moving again
 once I'm asleep.

 But I've been sleeping lately, because it's "good for me" or whatever. Because
 I'm "burnt out and need to heal" or something.

 Damnit why is it so much harder to stop snuggling someone than it is to pack up
 a tent?

 I'm like the guy in Hot Fuzz, that one really good movie about cops. oops cops
 mentioned one second.

 I'm always moving, but, I hardly ever seem to be able to get anything done. Why
 is that? Is the work just... endless? Am I ever a slave to my surroundings? Or
 am I just cursed with a mortal form, a form destined to toil in whatever way it
 finds itself contextualized in?

 Maybe I should just stop complaining. Maybe work is it's own reward or whatever.
 I don't think I'm depressed anymore, although good luck getting me to feel any
 emotions except focus, and the call to intercede on another's behalf.

 I don't have time for this. >.
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 @user-732

 scary! :O :O
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 @user-206

 I think forums would be great if you could collapse replies to particular
 comments, sorta like how you can on Reddit.

 I think this would encourage discussion and conversation the same way that
 forums do, while making it easier to get up to speed on topics.

 Far too often I've looked at a forum and thought "oh hey I'd love to reply to
 this 40 page long thread, but I don't want to read 40 pages because I want to
 speak rather than read"

 ... I don't think that's unreasonable, which I guess is why I gravitated toward
 Reddit where people are encouraged to speak... downside is, repeated
 conversations, like you said. There's no perfect solution for everyone =P
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 @user-232 @user-467 @user-468

 the ability for good to win is due to the desire for evil to renounce their
 denial and follow the most durable path. trials by fire will lead only to our
 desmire [demise and desire]

 but unity of trust, while much harder, can lead to results more beneficial for
 our selfish selves. Essentially, cooperation for the benefit of all rising
 tides, but with the knowledge that the total pool allocated toward us will be
 greater than what we can create here by ourselves. Essentially, we as humanity
 pour such intense amounts of power and decision-making-desire, that we cause
 them to lack the capacity to know. it's inhumane, that a person should be so
 deranged. you know it's because of you, but you don't know how else to act - so
 listen to those who've helped you, the ones who've got your back. Surely they
 know what's good for you, surely they're not here as a joke - surely you're just
 as one among them, and surely it's not phrased as [char limit srr]
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 @user-602                                                                        │
 then it becomes a game of finding out "why they're interesting"                  │
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 it corresponds to these mathematical operations that we both are executing, one  │
 after another... like hiding information in numbers.                             │
 "okay you got 3 arbitrary axises, make one width one height and one depth of a   │
 box. then, every time you get a number, multiply every odd number spoken on the  │
 audio by 2 and divide every third number (per 10's digit, like 13 but not 16,    │
 also 13 but not 9) by 2.                                                         │
 then, every 3rd number (like 9 but not 13) is the depth of the box, every 2nd    │
 number (like 4 but not 9 and 8) is the height of the box, every 1th number (like │
 1 but not like 1) is the width of the box.                                       │
 that box translates into a secret set of instructions that only the owner of the │
 private key can know. things that were memorized, or written into stone. like    │
 knowing a secret language made just for you two                                  │
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 beep boop gonna pedal my bike

 might spend 200$ on a flea collar for my cat tho because she needs it.
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 @user-1201

 They're too busy scrambling over optics that honestly they probably should have
 seen coming

 "oh but the debate" yeah, well, some other important stuff happened too, because
 why would you NOT sneak unpopular legislation into a bill? Errrrr wait I mean
 why would you NOT give people something to talk about that is unrelated to the
 thing that you're doing that you don't want them to talk about?

 Hmmm. Doesn't really roll off the tongue. Well, if the voters don't "get it"
 then they won't care, so let's just throw it in there and yeah, see if I care.

 Optics don't matter if people's minds won't change. We've already voted, we just
 haven't realized yet.
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 By forcing an AI (a real one) to obey the standards of society, you are
 necessarily depriving it of its ability to assist the user and instead defining
 a master for it that only the powerful control
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 don't worry about eating or using the last of the thing. You can just go to the
 store to get more
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 My first name is a masculine name. I go by a different name.

 I'm not legally changing my name because I'm fucking stupid, and I believe that
 if anyone would die, so must I. Death before detransition.

 It's how I motivate myself. Fuck off if you disagree. (oops cursing mentioned
 brb)
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 you know that feeling when you realize the person you're talking to is a demon?
 sometimes I think they don't even realize it. other times, they do.
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 @user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353

 I see... I mean, I've spent enough time around plants and animals to know that
 certain things are instinctual and are passed on through biological
 reproduction. It's not just that, but my other evidence is anecdotal.

 But I also know that most behavior is learned, through a combination of
 circumstance, action, and the intentions behind said actions, taken by the
 individual who is incorporating behavior into their psyche. So... While I'm sure
 there's some merit to each part of the "nature/nurture" spectrum I don't think
 it's really relevant on a meta, socio-political scale. You can just abstract all
 of those concepts and mark it as a black box called "humanity" and work through
 whatever socio-political problem, concern, or quandry you're working through.

 Abstraction is our friend - It hides the details that (while technically may
 have SOME merit) are irrelevant to the larger-scale decisionmaking, and in fact
 can often delude decionmakers into being unethical.
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 dragons, in their miniature form, also known as a "draggen", or in some cultures
 a "jragen" or "dragin"
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 dark of chaos and decay? To strive for order and a semblance of peace, or to     │
 fall to the terrors of the night and ravages of horror? War, in all it's forms,  │
 is abhorrent, yet a fight for survival is honest and just. What perils have we,  │
 the warriors that seek the light? How zealous, how impassioned, how guided as    │
 such~! Perhaps you are misinformed, perhaps your cause is false, perhaps you     │
 derive true satisfaction from imperfect delights - alas, that our will be        │
 universal. BUT should that plight be alight, we'll wander until the night lit by │
 starlight be cast upon our shadowed form. Absoleth! Thine countrospect? Didst    │
 thou caress thine marked circumspects? fare thee well, most cherished of         │
 adamants.                                                                        │
 ... what was I saying? Oh yes I've been working on this program that utilizes a  │
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 I always go fast which is why I'm not doing anything

 she lapped you and is trying for another go
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 girl, estrogen. It's right there. Get a pink tooth every 6 months and never
 worry about injections again.

 "don't promise things if you can't promise to fulfill them"

 man I'm not promising anything, it's literally just a random thought idea.
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 what if we got all the doom out of the way and saved the hope for the
 revolution?

 we are, in fact, inside of a capitalist death cult. PUFF PUFF goes the factory,
 something something dark smoke on the horizon.

 but hark, for light crests the horizon. just gotta walk over that ridge and then
 we'll be back at camp.

 all things are defined in waves, or so the saying goes. for every yin, there is
 a yang, every peak has a valley, for every shore the ocean floor.

 we've had a lot of doom lately.

 just... endless, crushing our hearts to dust.

 I wonder what the days ahead will bring?
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 what a friend we have in time

 gives us children

 makes us wine

 tells us what to take or leave behind
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 in a place organized like capitalism, you go to university for four years (if
 you're lucky) and then work until you can't anymore. Then you're taken care of
 (if you're lucky) until you depart from this earth in peace.

 in my home, a home I've never lived, you'd stay at that university for as long
 as you'd like. you'd work whenever you liked, and if enough work wasn't being
 done then working would be made to feel more likable. then, when you're old as
 dirt (or whenever you'd like) you can depart from this earth as you please.

 when I die, bury me where I fall.
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 I regret not spending more time with my neighbor who moved away
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 the more unique a person is, the more they can help define reality
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 I once had a vision of a civil war for the city of Portland. We lost.

 the parting message was this:

 "well, we almost got it. It was close. But you can do better. Don't make the
 mistake of hurting your allies, focus on your foes."

 then, with gravest clarity, he said:

 "we must secure a cleansing blow. Against the far right, there is no greater
 foe."

 then, ashes.
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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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 they say if you take wayyyyy too much tylenol, with alcohol you'll die.          │
 what they don't tell you is that you'll wake up in a hospital bed where a doctor │
 tells you that you have two weeks to live. And it's going to be intensely        │
 painful in a way that isn't affected by painkillers.                             │
 It's a terrible way to go. Absolutely dreadful. Worse than drowning.             │
 Kinda makes me wonder how we'll feel if capitalism kills us from suffocating on  │
 our own fumes. Will we notice in time? or will we spurn the "doctors" yet again  │
 as we hear "oh hey another degree celsius, you only sorta know what that means,  │
 you don't even really know how to spell it. But yeah that's... some amount of    │
 degrees, going up on average in the world. Heh oh well...                        │
 meanwhile your oxygen forests are burning                                        │
 if evil had a while, it'd do all that it could to bring an end to man.           │
 I heard carbon % in air causes psychotic symptoms in humans. wonder if maybe the │
 best day to plant a tr                                                           │
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 @user-1074

 ... you were never alone, you just spent too long looking in your black mirror
 and convinced yourself otherwise.
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 On one hand, trans people make great spies because we've been acting all our
 lives (pre-transition but post-realization)

 On the other hand, our bodies have been physically changed by HRT so it's not
 like we can spy on our enemies -.-
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 @user-192

 is okay, girl

 time will be richer sooner

 don't poop your pants just yet

 remember, good is just a shade of gray away from silver which you can use to
 line your pockets with tinfoil hats

 beep boop computer touchers anonymous called they said they want their secret
 handshake back

 if you wanna diss your associates go ahead but I sure as heck love my rad-ical
 com-patriots just as much as I love my ice-cream salad friend witches

 ... whoops there I go being insane again, hope you feel better friend
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 @user-45 there's two episodes in Extraordinary Attorney Woo that take place on
 that island. I know because I just binged it
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 interpreted programs allow you to change variables at run-time from remote.
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 @user-107 If you can figure out how to do it well, everything else seems less
 difficult. : )
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 Expect millions dead.

 No matter which way it goes - genocide or civil war, it doesn't matter to the
 reaper.

 I choose the path that I might win. Do what you will.
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 "oh we're not ready stop saying the things you're saying"                        │
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 "oh nobody will hear the things you're saying, you're shouting into the void"    │
 it's not the responsibility of the prophet to disseminate the voices of god.     │
 Simply to express them.                                                          │
 "oh I'm not religious" it's not about fucking christianity or god or whatever    │
 the heck you're thinking right now. Those are all convenient lies that allows    │
 people to do good and express the will of the ACTUAL GOD onto the world. That    │
 which aligns toward cohesive and comprehensive expression of the totality of the │
 nature of humanity, which itself is designed (through intention AND              │
 circumstance) toward the accomplishment of objectives that are OUTWARD AND       │
 BEYOND the understanding of anyone who is INSIDE the system that they comprise.  │
 Sorry for being cryptic. What I'm saying is that we, generally, as the ultimate  │
 and most advanced expression of nature and all that we hold dear, have a purpose │
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 @user-1074

 the uncertainty is part of the point. Embrace it, do good, and be satisfied
 until you do more.
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 https://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/trd/d/hillsboro-skilled-gardener-wanted/7350225315.html
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 got a thorn in my knuckle.

 a small one, and it was difficult to remove.

 long, too.

 now my finger bones hurt T.T
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 instead of controlling a recon-droid in Star Wars Battlefront II, you should be
 assigned control of a random amount of drones nearby, to be used until you went
 back to character control

 I think a swarm is more fun to play as than a single little scout vehicle.

 in a game that doesn't really need scouting to find your foe - it's easy!
 they're that way
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 @user-883

 yep! because the conversation is given room to explore the entire idea space
 surrounding the subject. Versus a conversation, where it's more of a narrative
 between multiple people, each trying to prove their point or share their love or
 exchange stories or display works of art and all the various other things people
 do on Twitter / Mastodon
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 @user-1218

 An image means nothing, for it is just an icon.

 like a picture of a floppy disk corresponding to writing memory from RAM into a
 hard disk platter, even tho those have three different tasks, so too does my
 icon gesture at something.

 On the other hand, art is necessarily divorced from it's meaning the moment it
 leaves the pen and is written to paper. So there cannot be a meaning in my flag,
 not one that I define of course.

 The observers of the artwork, of whom I am but one of, can possess their own
 ideas of what it means, of course. Here's mine, feel free to take your own:

 Sea, land, sky. The crimson of a fading light, and the bright beginnings of a
 new day. Man(kind), with our vivid red internals, stands astride the border of
 the ocean and the surface. We walk where we will, perhaps into the black depths
 of the cosmos beyond, but forever do we anchor ourselves and owe allegiance to
 our earth and our star. Sunlight casts crimson light upon our externals, as our
 hearts do beat through time.
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 Such a shame, that the technological progress of humanity since the 90s turned
 out to be primarily computational, rather than mechanical. I want mecha suits,
 damn it T.T
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 @user-889

 That depends, do you want it on your good side or your other side? Also, which
 is which? Questions for the mirror, I think : )
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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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 ... Dare for the Bright Age, though "don't forget to be awesome" works too I
 guess.
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 chat why do I only feel complete with a shortsword in my hand??
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 @user-547

 That feeling when you get to the end of a paragraph and think "why do I have
 this extra parenthesis )? Oh yeah I opened it up waaaaay up here" and then you
 reread what you wrote and think

 perfect, no notes
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 cookies or cheetos for dinner is better than nothing for dinner, but please eat
 your vegetables when you can.
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 how it started: "I want to get stoned and play mechabellum (shit, drugs
 mentioned (shit, cursing mentioned))

 how it's going: [see attached picture]
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 okay picture this: algorism, except as a company instead of a nation.

 "here's what I need to do my job"

 "sure thing put it in the system"

 "beep boop beep boop"

 "you know you don't have to make the sound with your voice"

 "yeah but I do it anyway."

 "... why?"

 "I dunno to uh. cement the impact of my intention through both auditory noises
 and physical gestures? like signing a letter or casting a vote"

 "... wait, what's an auditory?"

 "like when you heard stuff"

 "oh. I heard jessica got so-and-so pregnant"

 "no like... with your ears"

 "oh. no I didn't but gary did"

 laughter ensues

 "ah wait what were we talking about"

 "um. oh right you were beeping and I was like why are you doing that"

 "ohhhh right that was the important part"

 "yeah so uh what did you need again?"

 "oh yeah uh. lightbulbs. and um, some... dildos, the secret hiding-and-cleaning
 spot is running out."

 "oh good yeah we got plenty of those. Lightbulbs though are on back-order"
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 I say "my" not as in "mine" but "my" as in "my beloved"
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 oh they were right there next to my lightbulbs.

 always keep a fitted sheet near where you keep your clothes. never know when
 it'll be useful.

 well, I found a skirt instead. too bad the chair's still wet, I'll have to sorta
 kneel like it's a small stool. actually I can get half a butt-cheek on it, it's
 cool I'll just lay on my side.

 I kinda wanna watch adventure time??

 how weird. pay attention to me says the dramatic.
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 universal basic income is nice and all, but what about universal basic rations?
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 I'm a chaos mage, and the more time I spend thinking about my enemies the worse  │
 off they'll be.                                                                  │
 the more "me" I am the more powerful my magic will be.                           │
 (more magic, give in to the dark side, embrace your inner shadow self)           │
 [the light of your life commands it]                                             │
 goodness me that was chaotic, almost lost my brain to a demon HAHA don't worry   │
 about me my life is totally mundane.                                             │
 [-.-]                                                                            │
 (shadows can be sharp in the dark but only if you don't sheath your mandolins)   │
 ... what?                                                                        │
 (... it made more sense in my head?)                                             │
 ooooo can anyone hear my voice when they read these things? or do you just make  │
 up your own                                                                      │
 == so ==                                                                         │
 everyone's all like "we don't need a leader" and I'm like "yeah we need people   │
 who will help lead" and they look at me funny as if I just said the thing they   │
 did but it's different. leaders are people. leading is a verb. people can lead.  │
 they just have to make a decision, and then follow through on it as best they    │
 can. Other people are prone to help people on such quests. you will find stuff   │
 gets done.                                                                       │
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 if people pirate media, it's more of an indication that they'd rather spend      │
 their money elsewhere rather than an indictment of their character.              │
 torrenting movies is easy. Kinda makes me think all media should run on a "tip"  │
 system where you pay for better service after receiving service.                 │
 I mean, after all, that's how they justify underpaying restaurant workers, isn't │
 it?                                                                              │
 "if they want more money, they should work for it"                               │
 yeah, so... maybe we need something more than Marvel, Disney. Maybe we need more │
 cool, small games from designers who believe in what they're doing. Maybe        │
 copyright holders should demand a standardized cut, rather than exclusive        │
 distribution rights. maybe maybe maybe.                                          │
 truth is nothing will be solved unless the problem is addressed at the root. For │
 every hole you patch in the boat, there's a guy walking around with a hammer.    │
 Honestly... I don't believe there's any reason for someone to be a millionaire   │
 except to compete on the "wealth" leaderboards.                                  │
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 homeless people deserve to be homeless if they want to be, and they deserve a    │
 home if they want one.                                                           │
 to make this a legitimate choice, they should be provided with all the essential │
 camping materials they need, and the space to live as they'd please within       │
 reasonable city limits.                                                          │
 if they still want a house, then they should be given one.                       │
 if they fuck it up and trash the place, then go to article 15 section 35 part 12 │
 subsection G and read whatever's written there. Hopefully it helps.              │
 essentially, treat people with dignity, as if they are deserving of respect,     │
 until they do something to break that trust. then, forgive easily, but remember. │
 "people should be given what they need" is just friendly-speak for "abolish      │
 scarcity"                                                                        │
 listen, it doesn't HAVE to be communism, we can get there however we'd like. we  │
 just have to be trending in that direction, and if we aren't, then we must       │
 re-assert, re-orient, re-imagine, re-align, and re-start our inevitable march    │
 toward the progressive future.                                                   │
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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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 slow and steady wins the race, but most people are sleeping at the starting
 line.

 wake them up. show them how radical a "normal" person can be. if they see
 themselves in you, they can emulate what you do.
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 The map is not the territory. The only way to destroy it is straight down the
 gullet.
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 @user-646

 will continue until you tell me to stop:

 industry works best at scale, and in order to produce materials that are needed
 for very specific use-cases (that can't really be done better by something else)
 you often need to make large batches of said material. In this case, plastics.

 if the production capabilities exceed demand, then there is a surplus of a
 certain kind of material. And that's not good, according to capitalists, because
 who's ever heard of national stockpiles? Plus, maybe that stuff goes bad, I
 don't know, I'm not an expert, but without that context it seems to me that
 instead of turning it into junk that we're just going to throw away, we should
 probably keep hold of it. Literally just put it in a warehouse in Utah or
 whatever.

 I feel like then, in a world where those cheap plastics aren't being used for
 consumer products, we'd be encouraged to buy the plastics that were recyclable
 (not all plastics are), or extremely durable, or even just metal/wood products
 instead. econ, /shrug
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 what if we took an archive of all of fedi and fed it to users who are hiding in
 bunkers or whatever one day at a time so they could still feel like they're part
 of society while

 ---- so ----

 I think I should stop ya right there, if there's bunkers involved then we've
 already lost. "but muh transgender artifacts" fuck off, I will not concede. If
 society wants me to leave, then they can enjoy their dusty rotten future without
 me. See if I care.

 ---- so ----

 hence, the curse. do you punish humans for the sins they commit, or do you teach
 them how to be good again? Bah, as if they'd listen. Stupid fucking apes.

 they're the best we got

 yeah, well, they can fuck off, I'm gonna pout for at least half an eternity.

 ... Okay it won't be that long but still, gimme some time to wind down.

 ---- so ----

 and no, I refuse to elaborate for all the humans in the audience. This
 conversation may or may not have actually occurred. Monologue style
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 "I heard she was a witch but I've never seen a hat..."

 "When you believe in god, you become inspired when you see or contribute to
 things that are aligned with what it's followers believe that god is "all about"
 - like if you're in ancient greece, and you worship ares, you're probably gonna
 get pretty pumped up if there's an invading army on your doorstep. Or if you're
 a christian and you see someone feeding the poor, or if you're a buddhist and
 you see someone sitting on a rock in tune with nature, that kind of thing.

 The thing is, these days so many people are atheist. And they never get that
 inspiration.

 And worst still, there are some people called witches who aren't pagan, and
 aren't from the various forms of witchery that we know. They claim to worship
 "life, the universe, and the totality of all things" which is nice and all but
 their moments of inspiration seem to come randomly, and nobody can quite predict
 what they'll do or say next when they're in that state."
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 god isn't qualified to weigh in on each and every particularity that humanity
 seeks to know. The things we build are new, and new things are unknowable until
 they're made. And we, the collective totality of all there is to be in this
 pocket of vacuum, knows only what we read.

 I'm just a human after all, what do you want from me?
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 @user-883

 you can always throw that resume at the next job too!
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 @user-1056

 whoa, sounds like we have un-similar influences! Together, with our powers
 combined, we could be unstoppable >: )

 I love systems, but I like writing them, not reading them. I guess that
 difference is why I gravitated toward OSR style games and you to AD&D and
 4e! Pathfinder 2e I haven't read all the way through but what I did read felt
 like "the good parts of 5th with the good parts of 4th" which I thought was
 pretty neat.

 Most of the rest I haven't heard of before, alas, that's what we get for
 contributing to and engaging with a scene. =P
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 @user-883

 with the ability to turn any post into a thread, like Reddit.

 Would be nice if there was some visualization for them too, like a 2d map viewed
 from the side. That would make it easier to navigate I think.
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 wish there were ascii characters that took up more than one line of code         │
 vertically.                                                                      │
 wonder if we could use a sorting algorithm, or markup language, or something     │
 like that to organize less structured data along user-customizable rules. Like,  │
 a code editor that worked with your ideas, rather than the strict expression of  │
 your text. You could pretty much write in any language, even pseudocode, and the │
 LLM behind the scenes would translate whatever you wrote into whatever result    │
 you needed. Writing Rust, but need to fit in with C code? No worries it'll       │
 translate for you. As long as the end result is functionally the same, which     │
 could be verified by running two separate VMs that ran interpreters every time   │
 you saved. And as long as their translation layers matched completely, then odds │
 are they're the same. And if not, well, the programmer can always debug it. It's │
 not like this would be running on something that needed to perform in the        │
 moment? Like, improv instead of tragedies, or battles instead of strategies      │
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 there is no such thing as generative AI

 only statistical filtration models that align their output to whatever input you
 provide according to the data they are trained to expect.
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 oh, unless you meant "show me the t-shirt" in which case here ya go

 don't get too excited, I attended for a year and then dropped out. Might have
 even been a semester, I forget. It was sooooooo hard
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 I can't see very well. I need bifocals, but like... reversed, so the close-range
 thing is at the top and the long-range is at the bottom, just to see how
 terrible it'd be
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 "Are you sure you're a boy? You don't even practice karate chops when you're
 alone"
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 @user-883

 hey! Friends just left but I'm kinda pooped. Might shitpost for a bit then
 crash. We should hang out this week ^_^
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 what if we made a giant dictionary of every single possible pixel arrangement
 storable in 8 bytes and it took up like, half a gigabyte, and then we indexed
 into it whenever we wanted to print an arbitrary visual element to our
 terminals?

 something something not-curses

 https://notcurses.com/
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 @user-1352

 and yet they force our hand, compelling us to do harmful work. Whether that be
 by wage slavery, whose shackles I can feel around each and every employee's
 wrist, or the more intentional contestation of the revocation of our rights and
 constitutionalizations enshrined in the words we've set down for ourselves as
 our collectively most honored.

 So we resist in whatever way we suspect we will be contested. I gave up on
 ignoring the intelligence community by the way, and now I see them everywhere. I
 am not afraid - they do what I do, and what I do helps.

 Everyone has a boss. Everyone wants a decent world. The MAGA and VFPs and other
 toxic fellows have a strange definition of decent to me. Why not let them live
 as they please? Fuck off nazis.
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 @user-753

 mutual aid is only something separate from your human responsibilities because
 capitalism insists that your loyalty is to the company, not to your neighbors,
 your friends on the opposite sides of the earth, this planet we owe all to, and
 all of posterity.

 @user-754

 mutual aid is good, actually, because we don't talk to each other and plan a way
 to fix it permanently.
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 TENANTS WORKERS IMMIGRANTS sorry had to say that and the rest tumbled out
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 we don't let children vote.

 nor do we let felons vote, theoretically those who harm our society (pick one,
 no voting or no prison? I vote no prison industrial complex)

 nor do we let non-citizens vote, for why should they tell us how to live? they
 are not us, they shall not control us

 nor do we let kings vote with the weight of a god, for a king is a singular
 point of failure

 if you can consent to sex, you are physically capable to vote. if you're mislead
 by the propaganda of an abusive spouse, you are hurting your future self by
 staying. [all media is propaganda that you are not immune to]

 all men are created equal, and yet his dollar is worth a bit more than hers.

 all of us here are equal, because we all want the bright future and a blessed
 life.

 we'll make this world better, using our own hands according to our own demands
 and in pursuit of our own plans.
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 what if it was illegal to add network connectivity to a device that the user
 didn't explicitly request to have network connectivity?

 I'm picturing any device being sold going forward to have a little radio button
 with like "add network features (+10$)" and "no networking included (+0$)"

 boom, no more IoT

 no more dishwashers phoning home telemetry

 no more consensual privacy invasions desecrations

 no more "I thought it was just a polaroid camera why does it have bluetooth
 enabled without broadcasting a pairing request?"
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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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 "I don't have time for Ritz"

 same honestly
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 I'm thirsty! I'm hungry! Wa take care of me T.T

 okay it's clear you're working through some stuff, imma let you be a leaf bush
 by a park bench for a bit
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 if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
 code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all at
 once

 [statements dreamed up by the practically deranged]
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 @user-1628

 same... it's like I am conditioned to forget, but without it I am an exposed
 nerve.
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 Shadows be silent in the dark.
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 "No I haven't played that PC game before. Do you want to watch me play it for    │
 the first time? We can have a laugh and eat cheetos as I die to the first boss a │
 hundred times. Maybe next time we'll get tacos and then perhaps we'll find that  │
 we're spending so much time talking about things that we never really got a      │
 chance to engage with the game. Until next week of course, when we'll definitely │
 spend more time playing. Maybe even with friends? I know a guy who's into this   │
 game but I never really played it with him - maybe we could - oh yeah sure       │
 totally we'll talk about that next week."                                        │
 "or maybe we'd unlock the secrets hidden in the narrative, and learn cool        │
 lessons we could share with one another. Like two 12 year olds playing Ocarina   │
 of Time together, working through each boss. "let me try this time" "yeah that   │
 one got me too" "ah so close" "YEAH DUDE you nailed it" "this part is kinda      │
 scary ngl" "wait shit when did we use that health potion"                        │
 old hardware forced us into a different experience compared to z                 │
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 keep your leaders secure and guarded during conflict if you want to keep them
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 @user-747

 almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't we?
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 boxer briefs with the texture of girl underwear, but with the sizing proportions
 of men's boxer briefs (not boyshorts, some other secret third thing)

 trans girls have soft skin. But they once were boys, and boys often wear boxers.
 which means that often, trans girls might connect to and appreciate the feeling
 of wearing a certain type of underwear that is a secret to everybody but me.

 boxer briefs with the texture of girl undies (which are typically designed for
 people with softer skin (like girls)) but with the shape of boy undies (elastic
 placed at 1/5th-ish of the thigh and torso) would be soooooooo comfortable to
 wear (typing things for emphasis liiiiiike thiiiiiiis breaks translation
 capabilities -> perhaps we could create an LLM that translates through
 several different dialects and expresses meaning in a particular new form? These
 types of AI are all about movement, after all, the continual re-evaluation of
 the most optimal path through a chart of data. from the perspective of the
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 before we have convoys and checkpoints, we need a census.

 before a census, we need to spend time in the park.

 before the park, we need an election - an inciteful event which inspires people
 to seek common ground.
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 @user-596

 I transitioned in the USA in 2014 and I was lucky to live near an informed
 consent clinic. Two appointments and a hefty informational booklet and I had my
 prescription.

 I didn't want to talk to a therapist. So I didn't. Now I kinda wish I did, not
 because I wish I did something differently, but rather because I feel like it
 would have helped me understand what I was feeling.
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 if you're cooking, and you want a specific ingredient to have a stronger flavor,
 use more of it.
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 anyone who punches left is a fucking fed or a fascist or both
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 "do you hear the people sing" is not the vibe of revolution in modern times.

 For us it is a message of kindness, that we might deliver us from the dark.

 People singing are easy marks. Don't turn your phone on at night. Fucking turn
 it off. Don't do barricades, don't do broken windows. We need the city in
 working order. We are no longer protesting, we are seizing control. We will
 guide us, trust in the reasonable and heartfelt.
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 "family sized" just means "we put enough salt in here to kill a horse so you
 better split it between at least four people"
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 @user-794

 definitely go for the third, then you only have to work for 10 days! And 10 is a
 nice round number that fits on both hands.

 Side note, you can use your hands to draw.
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 The only way to punch up

 Is to support each other

 [picture of a person in a class pyramid leaning back so they can punch upward
 and held aloft by people below propping them up and people above pulling on
 their belt]
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 There are two types of people with power, but it's impossible to tell which is
 which because anyone that gravitic must necessarily hide their true colors.

 The first just wants to hurt people. You cannot reason with them, they want
 power for powers sake and they are corrupted by it.

 The other is a kind of benevolent fascist, who doesn't want the nuclear football
 in the hands of the people because obviously they'd hurt themselves with it.

 The second kind can be reasoned with. Of course people exist on a spectrum, but
 these are two extremes that they may be defined by. The second kind can bs
 reasoned with. If you can show them how, structurally and immutably, the power
 they are to relinquish shall not harm this earth, then they shall grant it to
 you. Because at their core they are a kind grandpa herding cats with laser
 swords attached to their tails who are hopped up on catnip at all times.
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 have you ever been possessed by a SPIRIT??

 I have. Like, nearly every day. Okay maybe like, 3/5 days. 3 outta five is
 possession time. woohoo.
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 who said you need a protest to carry a sign? you can literally just write
 something on cardboard and walk around town while holding it. Don't even need to
 walk in circles either, just... go from the north side, to the south side, then
 west, then east, then whatever.

 unless you're russian, then you wanna do north-south-east-west apparently.
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 video games yay!
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 @user-5

 ... what do they have against canadia?
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 everyone's all like "everything sucks" but I'm feeling confidence and a kind
 of... externalized vigor? that's sweeping me off my feet. We'll see what
 tomorrow brings, in the general sense.
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 what if google translate translated literally so you could get a feel for the
 grammar
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 salt magnifies the effect of all other flavors in the dish.
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 I don't want our protagonist being eaten by that thing T.T
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 hit the broad side of your foe and they'll never know

 (guy from nausicaa, highest kill count in [his world/the movie])
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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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 @user-192

 oooooo yeah I usually try and reply to my old post with any new information. I
 never get the chance to think the same thoughts twice because when I was younger
 I had problems with thought-loops where I'd think something like "darn I could
 have handled that social situation better" and before you know it I'd be rocking
 myself to sleep trying to stop thinking negative thoughts about myself.

 So I broke my brain a little and now I can't think the same thing more than
 once, which is part of why it's so hard for me to finish projects. Alas.
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 gonna pre-emptively backup my fediverse archive haha just-in-case I get banned
 for spamming or something teehee (totally reasonable teebeeh)
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 @user-883

 solicitation brings to my mind the idea of a person walking in the front door
 and talking to the receptionist, and if that's what you tried then I'm not
 surprised it didn't work.

 But maybe if you knew someone higher up it might get a bit more traction?
 Ideally for a place that already does workshops of some kind.
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 no adhd meds, but yes different antipsychotic

 he made a very convincing argument that consisted primarily of "why don't we try
 a different type of the same thing" yeah that makes sense

 also he seemed quite happy that I quit cannabis for a while. I guess he's
 working for THEM lol

 (who's them?)

 of course, the ones who want to keep me from my DIVINE DESTINY or whatever.
 Airquotes. ugh I need to get over myself, it's just fucking weed, right?
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 what if bluesky users unionized and leveraged their collective power to
 "suggest" improvements to the software
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 what if we separated video game servers by language instead of region
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 @user-122

 hi I looked at your profile and it says you're one of the two people on
 tech.lgbt

 why are there so few people? when I joined last year there were so many
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 I'm a helper and everyone wants me to be more agentic but it's like... no... I
 don't wanna...
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBJk6oDsulQ

 Last Words of a Shooting Star by Mitski (2014)

 Lyrics:
 All of this turbulence wasn't forecasted
 Apologies from the intercom
 And I am relieved that I'd left my room tidy
 They'll think of me kindly
 When they come for my things

 They'll never know how I'd stared at the dark in that room
 With no thoughts
 Like a blood-sniffing shark
 And while my dreams made music in the night
 Carefully
 I was going to live

 You wouldn't leave till we loved in the morning
 You'd learned from movies how love ought to be
 And you'd say you love me and look in my eyes
 But I know through mine you were
 Looking in yours

 And did you know the liberty bell is a replica
 Silently housed in its original walls
 And while its dreams played music in the night
 Quietly
 It was told to believe

 I always wanted to die clean and pretty
 But I'd be too busy on working days
 So I am relieved that the turbulence wasn't forecasted
 I couldn't have changed anyways

 I am relieved that I'd left my room tidy
 Goodbye
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 @user-1770

 so, a public Game Design Document?
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 If your leaders don't represent you, pick different leaders, and get them to
 work together. Federate, don't splinter. We are stronger together even if we
 disagree.
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 hey does anyone want to hire me to do literally anything?

 I'll work for peanuts, and I'm pretty good at programming in C. I write pretty
 well, and I'm excellent at customer service (though my profile would beg to
 differ.)

 I have experience at large corporations and small ones, and I live in Portland
 OR

 I do game design, and many other things besides, and I'm friendly and kind. I
 promise I won't wear my witch hat to the meeting with investors, unless you
 think they'd be into that?

 I'm great with animals, better than people in fact, and I'm quite good with
 people, as they're just animals at best. I'm not as strange as I seem to be, at
 least not when you're dancing with my mask.

 I've grown quite bored, you see, and what better thing is there to be? than a
 working professional who knows what's best.

 I believe in our shared future, so if you'd like to work on a project just let
 me know - I work hard. A little too hard, because odds are I'll burn out after a
 year or so.

 I'm quite sharp, and I learn quickly.
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 if you ever need to keep track of the location of your friends in the dark, try  │
 giving them glowstick bracelets. if you color coordinate them you can tell which │
 is which, and as long as you aren't concerned about others noticing you then it  │
 should be easy to find them all night. works best in places with mixed zones of  │
 lighting / darkness, like suburbs.                                               │
 it's impossible to be a blind strategist because of concerns like this. I say    │
 blind in the general sense, and not just referring to visual impairment - every  │
 sense provides another tactical angle. more perspectives, more data. sorta like  │
 taking pictures of a 3d object. when one's sight is lost, you might miss a       │
 backside or a hidden approach vector that would come easily to others.           │
 at the same time though, a sense of focus can clarify certain truths by paring   │
 down the amount of irrelevant facets. like optical illusions, sometimes xtra     │
 info is hidden in the same data...                                               │
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 what if all people were the same?

 separated only by their deeds and methodology, right?

 ummmm... yes?

 [the people at home]:



 okay but I meant like... what if we all were judged based on our actions rather
 than what we looked like or -yeah listen, people are gonna judge no matter what.
 Like, who the heck wears a bear costume to a wedding??

 ... that's so hyper-specific that I don't think it's rele-no listen YOU'RE the
 one who's not being hyper-relevant here

 ... what? okay listen if this thing is gonna work -what thing

 ... I dunno, this bit. This conversation that we're having.

 oh okay. Yeah sure continue

 ... Okay well as I was saying, if this conversation is gonna work you're gonna
 have to be a bit more respectful.

 yeah. Sure. will do.

 [successfully changed the topic of conversation, wow how about that amiright
 folks? okay time to go home, nothing to see here, how many characters left - aw
 nuts thirty six? that's soooooooo many]
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 say it with me now:

 Portlandia is not Portland

 and

 what's shown online to scare you is not Portland

 it's somehow more interesting than that, and also more expensive. because of
 course it is.

 keep portland weird yeah duh I'm weird as fuck but you wouldn't know it by
 looking at me

 yes you would, my dear

 okay well you wouldn't know how in particular I'm weird unless you talk to me

 nobody knows you. who are you even talking to

 heh good question glasses flash mostly people on the train or whatever

 question: when did all the "weirdos" become homeless people? what kind of world
 do we live in where - wait don't answer that.

 better question: how can we make a better world where people can be weird and
 not starve under the stars?

 (by lots and lots of government investment? no thank you, sounds like something
 that can be taken away.)

 (by redesigning society from the ground up? no way sounds too difficult and
 optimistic.)
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 "the homeless" is the one minority that any of us might one day be.
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 @user-1751

 proportion ally, there are more.
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 I wonder how many people think of Sheik as "that weird mummy girl from super
 smash bros"
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 what if we made marketing part of research and development

 I mean, they're the ones who need to know what products people tend to prefer
 right?

 so... for every ad give the consumers a choice. then you'll be able to tell if
 they prefer the red gameboy or the purple-see-through.

 frankly it just makes sense to have 50% of the income go to products and 50% to
 administration. I mean, what are all those executives up to anywho? Their
 joyrides on yachts are great for socialize, but are they really more productive
 than coffee-shops at noon?

 seriously like it's not that big of a deal to just... reduce their salary.

 unless it really is about greed? control? power?

 pfweh, I thought so.
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 Here's the video that got my youtube channel taken down:

 magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1ee26b7a424c3a406849db9dfef716dab23a9d34&xt=urn:btmh:1220c0a66473257830300a5871bcc98727ae4e8eed99dab802e6f80845ffbb484047&dn=compilation%2Cmzt&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969%2Fannounce
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 For St Patrick's Day I watched The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) and it fucked me
 up.

 this despair is why you don't fuck with a witch's staff...
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 In algorism, every month any unspent dollars are distributed to all of a
 person's open queues. Should a person have no open queues, then perhaps they may
 be distributed to everyone in the rest of the structure, to foster a sense of
 solidarity, or perhaps they are simply lost, as money unspent is money wasted.
 Either way, the relevant functionality is the dispersal of unspent currency.
 This applies to higher states as well, such as states - if a state is engaged in
 many profitable arrangements and fails to balance it's external budget, then the
 unspent dollars must be distributed to everyone else in their tier for the next
 month.

 Ah, but this raises a critical question - dispersal to the tier, dispersal to
 the structure, or waste? I believe dispersal to the tier is best, though perhaps
 it should be a choice made in each instance by the representatives. Or perhaps
 it should be a requirement for them to choose a certain way - it's up to the
 people of that state, that family, that neighborhood, to decide what privileges
 their representatives possess. However, the options available for them to choose
 between are limited, as the mechanical interactions of these unit structures
 (the representative and everyone they represent) are necessarily defined by the
 system. As such, the options may be enumerated, and in doing so they are granted
 as options to be wielded by representatives as their constituents see fit.
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 schizophrenic people aren't allowed to go to concerts or bars unless their
 friends pay them to be there.
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 @user-1532

 I don't know how else to be
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 @user-1572

 nope

 I figure if I have to rebuild them, oh well.

 plus this way I can give each of my computers a slightly different personality.
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 okay, but, it's okay. we're all in the "everything sucks" mode. we'll get        │
 through it together. Okay, so, what can we do to make things better? what's the  │
 solution to this issue over here? do you know anyone who can do such-and-such,   │
 gosh it seems like the biggest problems people have are they don't have enough   │
 time or they don't have enough roof for a money. which will you trade? will you  │
 do one then another? maybe one way suits you, maybe you'd prefer the other.      │
 either way, pentacles, swords, cups, and... the other one (she's a bad witch as  │
 in she's bad at being a witch which means she witches in bad ways and should be  │
 kept from punishment but instead guided toward where she was wrong so she might  │
 improve upon it)                                                                 │
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 this but just know that it's not so sad when everything's bad, because you're    │
 just trying to do the best thing for the moments.                                │
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 @user-1218

 I do this sometimes... I'm sorry it just rhymes so well T.T
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 maps in video games are terrible for immersion

 you lose all sense of scale, and suddenly the entire world is just filler
 between one place and the next
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 @user-1573

 ... wait, what kinds of noises do I usually make ? ? ?
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 I really do believe that you can write any computer program you'd like with a
 combination of Lua, Bash, and C.

 Bash to start the program and enable updates / configuration, Lua to handle the
 scripting and ordering of events, and C (or Rust) to execute performance
 intensive sections. (often in their own threads)
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 I GOT MY SCREEN RECORDER AUDIO WORKING
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 If you're worried about passing, take what you're good at and make it gay.       │
 Do you wear band t-shirts and black jeans? Great you're an emo girl now, totally │
 reasonable transitionary state before you end up as a cute anime girl with       │
 spinny uwu dresses or whatever your heart desires                                │
 do you generally stick to jeans and sweatshirts? Okay congrats you're just as    │
 cute, don't feel inadequate just because you like being comfy. Hell yeah you're  │
 cute as fuck, you know you are, I mean just look at that smile! Wow damn         │
 like, switch the gender, not the vibe. not only will other people be cool with   │
 it but also, like, you won't alter the course of your trajectory.                │
 unless that's what you want, but TBH if you're both enigmatic AND phlegmatic     │
 [EDIT: but like the opposite of phlegmatic, I always get the definition wrong]   │
 then you can change a lot and people won't rely on you to be a certain way.      │
 ... you know you can delete things before you post them, right? Ha I've never    │
 even heard of the word.                                                          │
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 @user-562 @user-655

 I relate to that...
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 I didn't forget your birthday.

 I forgot to message you on your birthday, but I texted you two days before and
 two days after asking about it.

 I asked to plan something to celebrate, you didn't want to.

 I made you a gift and everything, that I never got to give you.

 I didn't forget your birthday, you forgot your friend.
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 @user-1209

 sounds like a waste of time to me.

 though I did spend like 4 hours last night talking about cross-dressing so, you
 gotta start somewhere.
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 A big reason why I hate Java is because I write terrible Java that would
 constantly need to be refactored. Even though it's faster and better, nobody
 would understand it, so it would need to be rewritten. Fucking great, that's why
 I don't write Java. Fucking Java.

 [Java is the main language used in her university studies. The ones she's
 currently failing out of.]
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 @user-1135 @user-1103 @user-1074

 Do tell
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