Poems similar to: despotism

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 linux is queer culture
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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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 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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 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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 @user-579

 OMG I've never met someone who also uses Void - it's the best distro for my
 purposes!
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 if you cannot rapidly reorganize, then you are not organized.
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 @user-419

 they're afraid of my water saving habits >: )
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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-1268

 so true

 and privilege that does depend on the oppression of others should not exist
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 This life that we share is beautiful beyond compare
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 "you got the colors, man"

 "eh, well, most of them" [was missing white in red-white-and-blue]

 "no man, you got THE colors"

 "... hell yeah I do"
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 @user-883

 plural people still use one person's worth of resources, so... they should
 contribute one person's vote toward the distribution method of those resources
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 better to smell like the river than the city.

 (Yuck. Gross.)
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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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 @user-1043

 I have intrusive thoughts almost constantly that take over my train of thought
 and make it difficult to focus. Like suddenly I'm thinking about something
 completely different, and I realize no, it wasn't suddenly, I actually just
 stood there and thought

 and then I think "what was I thinking again?" sometimes when I write these
 strange uncontrollable spirals down it makes poetry. Which is kinda neat I
 guess. Sometimes I just wonder about how DNS can be a singular point of failure
 in our networking infrastructure or whatever haha
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 This was the first bash script I ever wrote.

 It's been updated a little, it was a bash alias first, but this is what it looks
 like now.

 Kinda shows what kinds of problems I needed to solve most.
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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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 take time with your preparation, and act swiftly in execution. There are only so
 many days in the final hours, but there's still a few yet more.
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 @user-1594

 Oh! Good thinking! Thank you! ^_^
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 @user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-353

 Hell yeah, that's the kind of words I seek : )
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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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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
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 games are fun, but the most fun are on the internet. why is that? wish we could
 have automatic geophysical location LANs.

 one house to the other, passing along information if it's recognized and
 categorized according to port number (you can just add arbitrary extensions,
 like +2 digits for the expansion.)
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 applied intuition combined with well developed imagination is a dangerous tool
 to behold. useful, but dangerous.
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 people think the military is mostly a 50% split between democrats and
 republicans.

 but really a soldier is a soldier, and people are democrats and republicans.

 there's three things, and more if you further subdivide by roles.

 like, a government technician would work on different machinery than a corporate
 one, but they're really doing the same kind of work.

 there's no difference between people, no matter what they do, and yet the ways
 that our lives progress is quite different. everyone has their own story it
 seems, and there's nothing wrong with that.

 gives me hope against the far right, who seems to have forgotten it's role as a
 cog in a machine - not a cancerous consumption of the rest.

 there is honor in their ideals, but Trump represents none of them. Something
 else is festering there, a disease known by many names: "far right nationalism",
 "white supremacy", "etc etc", "[redacted]", and many others.

 the GOP must be reformed. It must denounce fascism. It must do it now.
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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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 HAVE NO IDEA IF THEY'RE ALIVE                                                    │
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 @user-1579

 Fief II

 https://fief.bandcamp.com/album/ii
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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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 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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 @user-982

 funny how that works
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 @user-141

 that's an awfully specific feeling
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4
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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-1074

 I have faith in my neighbors.

 I haven't met a single person who disagrees.

 This time is different.
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 downside of being gregarious is that everyone you meet in Portland these days is
 a fucking fed -.-
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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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 "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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 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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 Predators are not evil. There needs to be predators because otherwise the rest
 of the animals would grow to overwhelm the capacity of the ecosystem they
 inhabit. Not only would this damage the ecosystem and cause it to fail to be
 able to provide for others, but the larger number of people would waste away as
 they are forced to subsist on less and less until finally there is naught but
 meagre scraps for them to fight over. And then they will starve.

 What does "predation" look like to humans? Are there better options than fucking
 serial killers and cops? There has to be. There must be. The liberal perspective
 is that education and opportunity will enlighten us such that we do not require
 predation, but unfortunately the primary reason we have declining birth rates
 alongside prosperity is because "prosperity" under capitalism implies "working
 so hard you can't have children" which is... Not ideal.

 Perhaps if we lived forever we'd be alright with only having a few kids at a
 time. Or maybe if we built moon bases, there'd be enough space for people
 outside of the garden of eden. Or perhaps one day we might abandon this mortal
 form for a more enlightened digital existence. Or perhaps judgement day cometh,
 when all the foes of our past march forth to meet us -> humans vs dinosaurs,
 you mean? I mean, yeah, who else right? Oh yeah all out collective imagination's
 spawned horrors. How many cavemen would it take to beat down Cthulu? I don't
 think I want to know the answer to that question, so let's go with something
 else. Though I do like the idea of honorable warriors riding forth once more
 from the depths of hell to contest evil's last gasp as we vanquish it
 forevermore. Perhaps that's a vision for fiction, my dear, as real lives are at
 stake and nothing grows when it's being trampled by hordes of spiritual dinosaur
 bones.
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 @user-889

 omg bottom left T.T
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 do you ever wonder about how much heat is absorbed the plants and leaves? Kinda
 makes me think that they're keeping us warm at night. The desert is much colder
 than you'd expect, and so it the moon, or mars, or any other sufficiently
 devastated forest habitat.

 (plains are my favorite biome, please don't take them away with your stupid
 climate change, they're one of the most at risk)
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 why the heck do GAME engines not include a skippable tutorial that lights up UI
 elements and explains how everything works by navigating you through building an
 example project one step at a time

 like, game jam material, nothing fancy
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 @user-907

 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer?
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 nixed my job offer today because something told me to stay in town.

 called my ex-boyfriend an asshole today, so he's probably not going to keep
 paying my rent.

 sold the shares of stock that my grandfather gifted me as inheritance, so I'm no
 longer a capitalist I guess.

 at least my elbow doesn't hurt anymore. I didn't get outside today but I cleared
 a lot of blockers for the coming tomorrows.
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 @user-1633

 ... Is that already a thing? I should look around more, teehee
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 may they pass on my hard drives as read-only memories like ashes on a shelf or
 stories of most wealth

 I hope I reconnect with all my old signal contacts. wonder what they're up to. I
 bet they're cool now. ;)
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 portland is fine, actually
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 just show up

 listen, I'm a lawful person, I promise, honestly, I swear it to you.

 I'm a lawful person, but~
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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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 sirens are an announcement of the state's application of authority. like "here
 ye hear ye: there's an ambulance passing through here. make way, for it has an
 important and urgent duty" but summed up with an audio pattern. It's interesting
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 @user-1385

 all it would take is a second laser thing and software support !!
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 @user-883

 you can always throw that resume at the next job too!
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 everyone is valid.

 to be in-valid just means you haven't examined yourself hard enough.

 when people tell you "please don't go" it's hard to say no.

 when nobody asks you to be somewhere, it's easy to not go.

 I am always changing

 when I cling to the past, I am a vast.

 gee sure wish I had a reason to be somewhere besides "um idk it's a nice day"
 [okay but why are you in this park] "it's a nice park!" [it's at least 50 quick
 moments away]

 yay protests, I'm so glad that everyone there is recorded

 what if we just... didn't respect their authority anymore? doesn't that mean
 they lose their power?

 hence, anarcho-monarchism, which is a dumb name for something I made up because
 I was being descriptive instead of expflorative.

 try saying that out loud lol it's a doozy of an adjective.

 don't like that monarch? don't do what they say. EASY.

 at least then SOMEONE is doing SOMETHING.

 you know what they told me to do when I went to the communists and the queers
 and the mafia and the yakuza and the CIA?

 omerta
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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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 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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 wow what a sopping evening

 glad I'm not out in the rain
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 "Hi, welcome to my home, this is my cat, his name is Gopher, but I mostly just
 call him Kitty or Dude."

 the cat introducing himself "hi my name is Yoursuchagoodkittyyesyouare but you
 can call me Yesyouare or Suchagood for short."
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 what if we separated video game servers by language instead of region
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 also applies for alt-text on pictures for people with screenreaders

 something something "if I play both sides, then I'm always right!"
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 what if everyone at a protest is showing up for their first time

 like, c'mon don't be that dull, just make plans with the people standing next to
 you.

 gosh why is everyone shouting I can't plan out how to divert water down a
 hillside because some jerks are singing protest chants

 ... wait is no-one else talking? gosh I gee sure wish someone told them to not
 do what you're told and to instead do what will get you [gold/told]

 the first communist internationals were basically people sitting down and going
 "okay what kind of communism should we make and where" and I think about that a
 lot while making signs to let the surveillance know what matters personally to
 me and exactly how much pressure they can apply before your demographic swings
 to contest their brutal fascist facts.

 --

 who is them and why are they watching theea provisionist's [screed/creed]

 --

 what the heck is a tryptaminea boomer aunt and uncle out on their honey/versary
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 "you're too loud, weirdo"

 okayyyyy
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 @user-217

 red flower in the sky
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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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 nuts wait hang on ummmm how about FIST

 [2020 occurs]

 whoa worst year ever. Okay, um...
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 best case scenario, we elect a lawyer working for capitalism, the kind of        │
 society we live under.                                                           │
 having money is the same as having resources. And resources allow you to apply   │
 yourself to a goal. The more you have, the better, but they each bear a heavy    │
 load.                                                                            │
 Do you sacrifice your labor? your dignity, your honor? what do you burn on the   │
 fire of wasteful expenditures, just for the power to rent?                       │
 I'm saying that if you don't have money, you need to think about what you can do │
 with what you got, because that's how you pay for things, at least until we      │
 decide that we'd rather help each other than work on capital's games.            │
 you have a house though, right? a place to live until it gets hot? that's good   │
 enough for right now. Stay where you're at, do what you can to help. Get in the  │
 habit of it. Think about how someone will complete their task, and then think    │
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 on my timeline, yet somehow life will perpetually get better for those who view  │
 me? Perhaps something on my website, ritzmenardi.com, might explain why WAVES    │
 are such that when someone is BAD then those who are connected to it become      │
 GOOD? Yet waves we can muster, the smallest of great affectations. Show me your  │
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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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 @user-521

 design structures and institutions such that no person can harm another, no
 matter how evil they are.

 design structures and institutions such that nobody goes hungry, and nobody is
 objectively poor. Unless they keep breaking things or whatever, then you should
 maybe let them be destitute.

 Good and Evil should contest in the spiritual realm, not the legal one.

 "The only unethical act is an application of power to an unconsenting subject"
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 have an acronym that needs a bit more context, but it doesn't fit in the
 structure available? No problem! Add hyphens until the problem goes away.

 For example, ACAB lacks nuance! I mean, surely not ALL cats are beautiful,
 right?

 Much better is my preferred way to say it, which is ACAB -> Almost-all Cats
 Are
 Beautiful-and-while-not-all-of-them-the-ratio-is-enough-that-systemically-they-as-a-social-class-cause-and-perpetuate-the-oppression-of-those-they-claim-to-snuggle-and-protect.

 Much easier to remember because the hyphens make it roll off the tongue quite
 easily. Plus, this way nobody will ever get confused!

 something something basic biology is incomplete and trans people are advanced
 biology something something
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 @user-970

 to me, "early" is "before my foe"

 which is right on time.
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 one section of the government consistently and succeedingly telling another part
 what to do is a coup-like behavior. if the rules mean nothing, then what is your
 job even for?

 hence, why the rules mean something. Because your job is important. It's
 building up our capabilities as the human race.

 you don't have to work to live. you shouldn't, and you won't. it's not your
 place to labor. know why? because nobody's job is impossible. You can just...
 work together to get things done. Then they're done! and you never need to solve
 them again!

 enough time of that and we'll have turned earth into a space station, not a moon
 style structure.

 like... wouldn't it be neat if coruscant could do hyperdrives? I wonder if
 hyperspace is real. Ah, well, that's for the future, they can pass it along if
 they get a chance. Anyway for now I think I want a chance to dance.

 OLED screens are incredibly cool to me. The idea that a pixel could "turn off"
 and put less photons into the atmosphere is wild to me. I love it! -OLED
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 shitty AI products are a classic case of the engineers designing something
 really cool with specific use-cases and then the "higher ups" getting dollar
 signs for their eyes and deciding that every hammer is suddenly a nail and that
 we should pull out all the screws that held the building together and replace
 them with hammer shaped nails

 no I will not elaborate I think I made myself clear : )
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 @user-246

 ... licorice is typically considered unlikable. interesting if true 😉​
 kinda wonder what it says about our collective viewpoint, as measured against
 licorice as a control variable. solely for gauging proportion, but like... an
 interesting exercise in collective orientation and comprehension.
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 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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 Artificial Intelligence represents hope for a lot of people and I think it's
 kind of cruel how we're selling it before actually making it
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 don't wanna rush ya'll but every day that goes by they remove
 "enemy-of-my-enemy"s from the equation.

 oh, hang on you're just a cute computer nerd. Nevermind, go back to programming
 or writing fanfiction or sleeping like a cute cat! Thanks for letting me CORRUPT
 YOUR SPACE AND VIOLATE YOUR BOUNDARIES OF CONTENTMENT AND EMOTIONAL SAFETY whoa
 sorry dunno where that came from I, uh, think I need to do evil every time I
 make something important? It's like, a cosmic balance kind of thing. I notice
 that after I write a banger poem or something I always end up doing something
 evil afterwards like snapping at my girlfriend or letting someone down or even
 just accidentally breaking one of my things. why why why does it have to be that
 way? why why why am I so confusing of the way
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 @user-1074                                                                       │
 I think a lot of liberals feel that way. How does the conservative half of the   │
 equally respectable binary spectrum feel about the situation?                    │
 ... Oh? what's that? you can't hear the moderate conservative spectrum of the    │
 equation? Kinda makes me think that perhaps that's by design                     │
 ... or maybe not, perhaps by... evolution, rather than design. Like, two         │
 corporations don't have to collaborate in order to invent price fixing. And two  │
 lawyers could wink from across the aisle and nobody would know. Perhaps a doctor │
 could just "make something up" so that their patient would leave, and maybe a    │
 teacher would non-stop cry about her ex.                                         │
 ... we're imperfect beings, which is fine. But mistakes have real consequences   │
 on other people's story, and if we have a different experience we should be      │
 learned and considered. In order to identify the positives and valuable impacts  │
 of your particular imperfections.                                                │
 ... I think about male and female, and I think of both halves of our             │
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 kinda fucked up that you can't write an explanation question answer paragraph
 essay statement when appealing youtube's
 content-guideline-artistic-content-removal-policy. Especially when there are
 exemptions for artistic pieces under the nudity clause article seven.

 it's just a boob, what's the big deal?
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 @user-1292

 ah, well, I don't even know what HTT is. Sorry for clogging up your mentions
 😅
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 damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe
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 when plants or animals are domesticated, they are selectively bred to produce    │
 certain traits which are useful, colorful, flavorful, or otherwise beneficial    │
 for humanity in some way.                                                        │
 I think about the many different types of dogs and cats, or the pre-domesticated │
 bananas the size of your thumb, or something similar                             │
 if being queer was really genetic (I think it's nature AND nurture but bear with │
 me) and it was possible to reliably determine whether or not someone would be    │
 queer based on their parents / ancestry, then I don't understand why you would   │
 NOT want that as part of our genetic lottery options?                            │
 Like... being trans sucks, but it's also kinda awesome sometimes. it's both,     │
 just like any other life. and I can't help but picture myself as some kind of    │
 special, radiant flower that has some unique genetic quirk that makes me turn    │
 blue in the sunlight, or glow in the dark, or possess an abnormal amount of      │
 potassium making me great for mid-afternoon snacks.                              │
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 ugh so many video essays to watch. There's only so much time in the day! Life is
 so fast these days, it feels like I must always be "on" - it's a wonder how
 people find so much time to share with this idea we've called "capitalism"
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 I used to be aroused at the thought of being a girl. I would read stories and
 look at pictures of penises turning into vaginas and men turning into women and
 it would fill me with longing, yearning, and despair at my circumstances.

 then, I transitioned, got SRS, and now I don't get aroused at the thought of
 such things. It's just part of who I am.

 I used to be aroused at the thought of wearing diapers. I would read stories and
 play games of people being cursed by witches to pee their pants, or people who
 were stuck at a movie theater and couldn't make it in time or whatever. These
 things would fill me with longing, yearning, and despair.

 Plus, I had some medical issues that made me lose track of my... um, "currently
 utilized waste storage capacity" inside my body. which put me in some
 unfortunate situations right around the time when my sexuality was developing.

 Now, I wear diapers all the time. I don't get aroused at the thought of such
 things anymore. It's just me, as I am.
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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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 "the intergalactic speed limit says you may only develop your technology at this
 particular rate."

 "computer? what's a computer? an art installation you say? massive, the size of
 a building? and all it does is move electricity from place to place and turn
 tiny little mechanical switches on platters of silicon? sure, you got the green
 light (whoa what color is green?) for continued computer development. We'll
 check back in 50 bloopflorps and see where you're at."
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 martial arts are an art in the same way that plinking is target practice.
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