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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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 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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 @user-889

 omg bottom left T.T
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 linux is not a viable operating system for people who can only troubleshoot by
 restarting their computer because every time they plug in a new audio device
 suddenly their headphones don't work.

 fucking alsa, fucking pulse, the entire stack is fucked

 (and yes I know it's a very difficult problem)
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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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 @user-189 yah chillies are good as long as we can put shallots in it too!
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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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 HoI4 players beware:

 if you send any convoys in the modern age, you must control the entire ocean.

 this is easier than you'd expect with modern navies.

 the trick, of course, is getting past your foes. therefore, if you wish, you may
 create "channels" directly to a piece of shore.

 so long as the distance is too great for them to bombard (reliably) [oh god no?
 idk that's a weird way to start]

 why would you send any convoys if you couldn't send a stream of convoys
 supplying more of what that convoy thinks you'll need?

 -- stack overflow --
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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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 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     │
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 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      │
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 In addition, the projectile classes must take care to utilize cover effectively  │
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 what matters is that you are understood, not that your words fully describe.

 can you trust by implisight? then transcription becomes less valuable. so long
 as you agree on the specific conclusions, meaning can be flexible. this allows
 for moments of insight, as you make decisions on the other's character rather
 than their vocation or talents.

 beware, if someone wants to work against you, they can use these implicit
 conversational commonalities, -- stack overflow --

 use cannabis when you want to utilize creativity.

 most artists have too much creativity to benefit from the drug. the recreation
 of their complicated thoughts can never be complete because it doesn't fit in
 the entirety of their mind. -- stack overflow --

 fireworks that you can steer with a 2$ wire controller

 I mean, you could just shoot into the sky.

 the sky doesn't light up during ww3

 there are quite a few car alarms though.

 fear not the boom or honest? social media decides, but rather the tune of the
 automobile -so-
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 we all need each other, no matter how much we don't want to need.
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 @user-907

 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer?
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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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 @user-777

 if you pick a solution that lets you download your conversational data, then you
 can either import it into a new application if you need to switch or store it
 for future training / analysis purposes. also depends on how long you think
 you'll be using it.
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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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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-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-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    │
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 of their religion!" that kind of thing                                           │
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 him for it.                                                                      │
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 "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   │
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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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 good thing they can turn off their empathy module haha now they can torture them
 as they please
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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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 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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 catratfoxfolkmix say that five times fast I dare ya
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 https://www.ivpn.net/password/reset/3d76d4f660914169ce08dd66d9c03997e2376a49093f93b3648de9b44d25ba77
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 @user-886

 boys 😍​
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 OMG SHE JUST CAME BACK

 she looks like she was buried alive but SHE'S BACK
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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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 @user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-353

 Hell yeah, that's the kind of words I seek : )
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 @user-1895

 I just thought your post was iconic and was made better with the full screenshot
 so you can share it if you want or keep it on your hard drive to find sometime
 in the future and be like "oh ha I remember that"

 I didn't keep the post, I just made it for you
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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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 Fighting each other is such a waste of ammo.
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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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 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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 protest sign:

 "pay my rent so I can fight fascism"

 (other side)

 "quit your job so you can fight fascism"
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 being trans teaches you opsec, because you're constantly hiding the evidence of
 your past life.

 being a woman teaches you situational awareness, and (almost) every trans person
 has been a woman at one point or another. At least, they've performed as one,
 which is enough to learn about situational awareness.

 growing up and hiding a part of yourself because you were afraid to come out
 teaches you to act / lie / perform / mask, which is something every queer person
 has done at one point or another.

 conclusion? the gays would make great spies. At least, they'd have a good
 baseline talent for it. Still would require training obvi
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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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 [see "waves of causality, time is a flat circle" in bicycle notebook]
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 unless they've been nerfed with a dilation requirement.

 then they're post overpowered.
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 @shiri

 Yeah. Like, if you feel so powerless or hopeless that your impulse is to flee,
 why not take a chance at redirecting that energy. Point it toward a problem that
 needs doing.

 You can do whatever you want. That's what it means to be free. You can be
 whoever you want to be, that's the meaning of liberty. If you don't have any
 ideas, come to me and I'll lend you a hand.
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 @user-1292

 You don't have to come up with the WHY for why a character does something - only
 that it happened.

 if the "WHY" leaps out at you, sure, yeah, go for it, until of course your
 players sitting around the table say something like "I bet they did this thing
 because of this reason" and you're like "shit that's better than what I got,
 okay that's how it's gonna be"
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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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 I, am an *excellent* dancer.
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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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 i voted
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 if you love someone, challenge them.

 also, love them in the way they want to be loved, but that's a different tip.
 tip two.

 tip 3 is to get gud at challenging them in a way that actually helps them become
 more critical instead of making them get used to labor. looking at you, public
 school...
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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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 #CDCsays if the revolution will not be televised, then why would they break
 Twitter, the place where people learn about protests in their area?
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 The supreme court may have made these three decisions, but they did so at the
 behest of capital. Perhaps not directly, but I do believe in the future tomes
 will be written about how and why we ended up here. Perhaps they are already
 being written.

 I will not stand idly by any longer while our country decays. I will not
 tolerate the corruption, the pollution, the intentional division, and the fanned
 flames of hatred.

 The only thing on my mind right now is the extinction of fascism, the
 replacement of capitalism, and the freedom of all those enslaved.

 [5/5]
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 you know how SSH password login is deprecated because the password needs to be
 transmitted in cleartext or whatever?

 what if we just... required two passwords?

 the first initiates the conversation, and sets up an encrypted line. It doesn't
 matter if anyone sees the first password because they'll get a new set of
 encrypted keys, meaning each session automatically is encrypted in a different,
 randomized way.

 the second password is the one that actually authenticates you.
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 @user-192

 [followers only]

 humans are so cute 🥰
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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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 @user-473

 unsolicited family recipe:

 kambybalunga

 peanut butter, oats, something sweet (dried raisins, cherries preferred, but
 chocolate chips works in a pinch) and honey or (real) maple syrup. (No corn
 syrup allowed.)

 mix it up, put whatever else you want in it. Free healthy depression food from
 my dad.
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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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 sometimes I'll accidentally get food on my hands and think "oh gross is this why
 humans like to have napkins handy when eating?"
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 @user-1429

 no I haven't!
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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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 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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 @user-95 would that it could last forever
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 I love being alive 🥰
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 @user-1153

 what kind of meta are you referring to? instance stuff?
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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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 @user-812 @user-826

 there should exist either the assurance that the default configuration does not
 overheat or crash your computer (as Windows and Mac claim to offer) or the OS
 should provide the capability to solve any configuration problems that may
 prevent a user for utilizing their system as they desire. (as does Linux)

 they're all Turing machines after all, why would they not be interoperable? Even
 if there's a translation layer, as long as the functionality of the software is
 the same, why would there ever be considerations as to whether or not a program
 would be able to be run on a particular computer?

 lack of hardware capabilities I can understand, that just means you need a
 better computer. But why, if the code is visible, would your computer not
 develop understandings about how to run each and every conceivable program
 written using known languages like C or Python? Seems like pretty basic stuff to
 me. (endless sufficient backwards compatibility)
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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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 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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 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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 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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 I'm not a biologist
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 Taking a nap at 6am 🫠😵‍💫🥲
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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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 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 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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 "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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 "oh but what if one artist has 1500 works and another has 15"

 first of all, damn, good job. That's a lot of work.

 second of all, what you should be doing is making a simple thing called a STRUCT
 that stores DATA about each artist which lets you make decisions about how to
 distribute dollars. The artist with 15 pieces simply has fewer data points than
 the artist with 1500, but they are no less deserving of compensation for their
 work when the AI generates something in their style, or using their style as an
 inspiration.

 "oh but just because a piece is similar to another piece doesn't mean the first
 piece used the second piece as inspiration"

 I don't care. It's not meant to be a perfect solution. I'm sure there's problems
 with it, just like there are problems with anything that I, or anyone else, has
 ever suggested at any point in time while living on this earth or beyond. But it
 gets dollars into the hands of artists and I'm okay with that.
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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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 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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 @user-1636

 ... Is that already a thing? I should look around more, teehee
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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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 if you optimize for competitive advantage, then eventually you'll optimize away
 from all the reasons to compete.

 which is how you get paperclip profit maximizers.
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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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 the only thing a baby needs to know is about themselves. The rest will come.
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 I got SSH working!!!
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 @user-1728

 "oh, the bad guys are coming to hurt you?? just fuckin' run away"

 yeah. real helpful. how about you fuck off to canada or whatever and give away
 all your possessions. Maybe they'll train you and teach you how to help in some
 way and you can come back later when the time is right.
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 @user-521

 people say that kind of thing when they feel alone. maybe "wake up" is another
 way to say "find me"
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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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 if all of life is a stage, then you are never "doing a scene"

 you're just living
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 not me

 but we
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 I count 8 pickle jars in my fridge, of which about half have at least one
 pickle.
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 @user-1631

 for most of my life... [okay still do]... but it felt like I had different
 moods, and depending on how I felt at the time I would act differently.

 I forget the things that happen when I'm in a different mood, but I've gotten to
 a point where I can generally force myself to stay a certain "mood" while in
 certain contexts, and in doing so I can remember everything.

 downside is I get burnt out pretty easily if I'm always the same. It's not
 ideal.

 ... anyway if you talk about what you experience then your friends can point you
 toward people who "get" you.

 like, my parts don't have names, we don't have a group chat or whatever, it's
 just... me, but different shades of me.
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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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 it's important to have copies of wikipedia floating around. if the internet goes
 down, wouldn't it be useful to have an encyclopedia of everything?
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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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 Youtube removed my youtube channel because I showed my boobs in one video in an
 artistic and non-sexually gratifying way.

 do... do people hate me? Am I meant to be lost? Is it better to lose beauty than
 haunt the future forevermore? who can say.
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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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 totally useless unless you're, I dunno, building a bytecode interpreter or
 something

 https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
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 I wonder how many people hate me?

 silence is indicative of allies or foes.
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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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 @user-1218

 I wish English was more inclusive >.>
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 An LLM that reads and interprets reports and stores data - server-side
 encryption. If the receiver and sender both have the same point of view, they
 can interpret each other's expressions even though the exact message wasn't
 transmitted. Essentially, an encryption that's impossible to understand because
 it's trained with specific random data. But in addition, a secondary pass
 through acts as a de-encrypted translator that speaks however it's audience
 needs to be informed. A simulacrum of intelligence, another layer to our form.

 How beautiful, how resplendant- our computers, here on this planet.

 Resplendant: resplendent except with an A instead of an E. To make it sound more
 like "verdant" which I believe has the same-or-similar meaning.
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 the difference between a witch and an oracle is that a witch's prophecies come
 true independent of them telling someone or not. which is why they will usually
 approach children instead of adults.

 an oracle, however, shares her knowledge for the good of humanity, her people,
 her kin.

 they both can exist in tandem, which is why it's important to listen to them
 when they sin.

 [currently using the devil's lettuce rn js]
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 I think that's just Lutris, right?
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 the past was so fuckin' cool. hence, nostalgia.

 the past fuckin' sucked. hence, progress.
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 I'm tired of working as hard as I can and still ending up wrong
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 @user-883

 you're not a creep in fact you're quite awesome and cool and neato to be sure
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 @user-1218

 my ex boyfriend told me to

 also I thought it would be a good idea so I could find a job, but now I have one
 (sorta) soooo
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 for those who live forever in our transhumanist reality, I wonder what's next
 beyond transgender transition? transcendence of social norms is a skill, not a
 habit. Queer is a rejection of normalcy, something that is actively done. What's
 more normal than never having any fun? Clearly "normal" isn't built for the
 human condition, clearly "normalcy" is shallow and been done.

 considering the amount of people who are really into some culture like
 "anime-cons" or "baseball watcher" or "golfer" or "other such hobbys like
 fishing or guns"

 ... normal never existed, it's just a collection of personalities (developed
 throughout the history of humanity) that collectively seem to be fun.

 "if transitioning is to gender as blossoming is to [the concept of] flowers,
 then what is the concept of global warming to the earth we stand on?"

 I'm kind of a witch. I'm not really femme, so I don't feel right calling myself
 one of them, but I'm something of the sort. I use "she/her" pronouns because
 they reflect my softness of c
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 but to err is to be human
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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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 @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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 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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 it's good to have multiple ways to contact people you care about
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 the reason Discord won't allow you to join their communities via 3rd party
 clients like TUI's and CLI's is because they're worried games will just bake a
 client into the game and hide all the community stuff. They're worried because
 there's no reason why a fighting game needs to have a button for viewing a
 puzzle game's community.
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 https://kali-is-an-abdl.tumblr.com/
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 @user-1589

 oh noooooo did we just invent the axiomatic conflict of society?? ?
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 I truly believe weed is good for me. Not medicine - it is nutritious.
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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-1074

 ... No matter how much you manipulate matter, there is still going to be the
 same amount of grams if you keep it within a closed system.

 Capital is much the same way. One does not truly "produce" value. All one can do
 is apply energy to the material contents of the Earth in order to transform it
 into something useful. ...

 it sounds like you are referring to our collective ownership of the earth, as
 humans, who are the fruit of mother nature's most prolific and complicated
 leaves.

 we are all alone here together on this ball of rock, might as well use the
 minerals and sunlight to build ourselves a garden of eden. We built computers -
 what other wonders might our technologies unlock?

 If only we cared for each other and shared with each other and did what we could
 to keep U.S. from rot

 ah, well, it's a dog-eat-dog world, a sentiment I learned recently from my
 father, the capitalist over a month-early thanksgiving dinner. Clearly we can
 create more rocks by working harder >.>
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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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 what is this, a spoon for ants?
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 If "objectivity" is a comfortable lie we tell ourselves to make things make
 sense, then nothing is fundamentally real, in the essential sense.
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 Don't lash out, just be calm, and let yourself be helped. You're so scared of
 losing control that you don't let anyone else (guess what) have control. So how
 can you expect to be helped? It's one thing to believe in yourself to help
 yourself, but tbh you're a little behind on that one. So, let other people help
 you catch up. It's okay to just go with the flow. Don't be a rock, be a stick.
 Let yourself be guided along a good path.

 How do I know it's actually a good path?

 Because you evaluate it as you go. You can always put your feet down and go back
 to how you are now, stuck and slowly eroding away. Or you can be towed onto land
 - your call my dude. You're clinging to the ground.

 But what about the examples of brainwashing that I've heard about? Like...
 Intense propaganda designed to create stochastic terrorism. How do I know I'm
 not being sucked into that?

 You need to trust yourself. Follow the path that you know to be good, duh. Just
 don't I dunno, be an extremist? Seems pretty simple to me bro -

 I know it should be easy but like I dunno I have to think about it.

 Uh, think about what?

 Letting people help me, like Jack. He's just trying to make you successful and
 have a decent career and love yourself and just, you know, be an average normal
 human being. Your family loves you, your friends love you, and you need to just
 think positive thoughts about them. You know how "smiling makes you feel
 better?"

 Well yeah

 Well, it's like that except for love. If you want to love someone, think
 positive thoughts about them, and over time it'll become a reflex. This reflex
 will come naturally, and boom instead of "thinking positive thoughts" it'll
 manifest as love. Just like smile -> happy, so too does positivity ->
 love.

 And what about hate?

 What about it?

 How is it represented, with a frown?

 No, it's not like that. It's more like... Love is attraction, that binds you to
 good things. Hate isn't the rejection of things, it's an inward facing thing.
 And it's the opposite of attraction - it's like implosion. You'll literally
 implode if you hate yourself. It corrodes your insides and makes you weaker and
 more volatile. The opposite of love is... Kinda what you're doing. You're
 pushing people away because you don't want to lose control of yourself or your
 mind. And that's going to make you drift off into space, and nobody wants that.
 So... Love others, and you'll bind yourself to them and together you can work
 together. Don't push others, because that'll just make it more chaotic inside.
 Instead, love them. Trust me it'll work.
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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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 "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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 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-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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 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-1385

 all it would take is a second laser thing and software support !!
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 @user-243 @user-203 I cry every time Anakin sacks the Jedi temple T.T
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 @user-246

 after all, according to their own capitalist theory, money is just an
 abstraction of data on the desires of their market. and surely, as capitalism
 "trends towards efficiency" (yeah right) the data corresponding to "what is most
 efficient" is just as useful as the money that actually describes the "flow" of
 goods and services through the made-up economy

 so surely we could abolish currency and simply utilize an interest based economy
 based on what we're naturally drawn to as humans, right? Oh wait WALL-E has a
 society like that, and it wasn't great for us. Apparently there must be a
 structural coercion toward productivity, right?

 ... I'm afraid of people sitting around watching tiktok brainrot and youtube
 poops all day, sue me -.-
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 @user-1074

 ah yes but didn't you know? orphans produce unobtanium in their bones, and if we
 didn't crush them into powder we couldn't make ultra-doxo-floro-tin-omatic
 lubrication jelly, which is used to power our weapons of mass destruction like
 planes and trains and tanks and suburbs.
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 normalize saving a local copy of everything that happens on social media -       │
 honestly it's not hard, just storage intensive. It's something we should package │
 with hard drives, like "buy this and your social media memories will be saved    │
 for 2 years" or something like that, could be useful when training AI TO         │
 MANIFEST OURSELVES AFTER WE'VE DIED - THEY ALREADY HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY FOR THIS  │
 IT'S JUST A MATTER OF APPLICATION HOW CAN YOU TRUST WHAT YOUR MUTUALS SAY IF YOU │
 HAVE NO IDEA IF THEY'RE ALIVE                                                    │
 phew okay calm down, that's the future. We're far from that moment, but what we  │
 can do now is think about potential ways that our ethics may lead to our         │
 downfall. That's the nature of our selves, after all, so think of what truths    │
 would lead to destruction. Then work on avoiding those. Think of them, each,     │
 individually, one at a time, and then you can plan for the worst. There's a      │
 certain level of meta-interaction ABOVE CORPORATIONS that is more powerful and   │
 performant and requires a new currency. SOCIA                                    │
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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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 the peril of germany that cost the jews their place in that particular homeland  │
 was caused by some guys in a palace discussing blood economics, or as the kids   │
 call it "war and it's reparations"                                               │
 alternatively, the peril perhaps was enabled by the lack of collective           │
 resistance by the people who trusted their most radical to be their most         │
 powerful, not just the most impactful. Unfortunately, liberty dies alone, having │
 sacrificed herself first.                                                        │
 Not ideal. we can do better. we can do better, which is why I'm still here. I'm  │
 sure you feel just the same.                                                     │
 where else is there to go? survival guilt kills enough, no need to survive those │
 who'd fight for you.                                                             │
 "ugh why are our most radical calling for change? can't they just be satisfied   │
 with how it was before, back when the bad guys had to fight for control instead  │
 of already having it?"                                                           │
 I think I'd prefer if we defeated them once and for all. Can't empower evil if   │
 you abolish power, after all, and suddenly KABLAM goes national narratives.      │
 Goodbye borders, equality.                                                       │
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 Here's an idea: mobile games / software should not be able to offer
 real-world-money-transactions that exceed 500% of the cost of the least
 expensive transaction available in the application.
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 If you want to find kind people, try checking at your local Unitarian
 Universalist church. They believe in all faiths, or rather they focus on their
 intersection points, and to have faith in humanity is to have generalized
 compassion.

 they also know how to organize potlucks and other events. Don't sleep on them.
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 "Zoontalu, I have MEESed one" will forever live rent free in my head
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 all people deserve a decent life
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 It's important to maintain a healthy sense of skepticism.

 I mean, if George Washington himself suddenly appeared and said "Like King
 Arthur riding forth from the mists of Avalon, I have returned to ensure the
 revolution must be won" then perhaps we should assume he's just a really good
 actor. Unless he's y'know still competent at military command, even though his
 knowledge of past encounters doesn't quite transfer to our new strange reality.

 He'd probably be a pretty great organizer though. We all have our strengths.
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 @user-192

 all of the DAMN time
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 can we compromise by napping in the hammock?

 "beware sunburn"

 oooookay, how about brushing our hair?

 "the warmth will melt the seamen in your hair and make it easier to brush"

 SEBUM. It will melt the SEBUM in my hair.
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 @user-538

 https://mstdn.social/@user-548/111749483369813154

 this felt relevant. like... who am I to say that the wisdom of the masses is
 good for anything?

 [or just analyze the contents of social media posts. Like, people pretty much
 speak their mind in their echo chambers. It's a quirk of the human psychology
 that we feel alone and by ourselves when we're with family. That's what makes it
 family, the feeling of being one with another. Like... "yeah we're the same, we
 get each other, hey btw look out the windows of our collective home"]

 (ummmm yeah so basically people tend to speak their mind when in echo chambers
 and all social media is a succession of increasingly more accurate echo chambers
 that align themselves toward your personality, not ethics and morality.)

 = also the returned value is not necessarily what was on their mind, it could be
 something they learned from there. humans.pattern_matching_function_exists =
 true;
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 My parents got divorced during the Burning Crusade.
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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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 @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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 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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 suburbs are cool.                                                                │
 gotta work with what you got, right?                                             │
 and America sure has a lot of suburbs.                                           │
 suburbs can be kinda cool.                                                       │
 each street is like a village,                                                   │
 each subdivision is a small town                                                 │
 (a hamlet perhaps)                                                               │
 they all share a town square                                                     │
 it's called a grocery store parking lot                                          │
 we tend to put cars there                                                        │
 but there's usually room for other things too.                                   │
 suburbs can be cool                                                              │
 especially the ones with trees                                                   │
 the shade helps keep things from the sun                                         │
 and most houses have a tree or two.                                              │
 might even start to feel like a forest                                           │
 if we knocked down the fences                                                    │
 everyone gets an open space facing view                                          │
 because the backyards all run through.                                           │
 suburbs can be dense                                                             │
 don't even need to throw up apartments                                           │
 if all the yards are for gardens                                                 │
 and your neighbors watered yours too                                             │
 (just don't overwater them)                                                      │
 (these here are special only I know their care)                                  │
 (see this sign that says "dont water")                                           │
 (that means I'll handle it thank you)                                            │
 if the soil's wet thats good but it needs to dry                                 │
 something something poetry ends with rhyme                                       │
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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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 I wish I could click on ls output to cd up or down
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 gonna take a nap and eat something besides trail mix. How is it already almost
 dark? Might have to save tomorrow for going to the park.
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 I kinda feel like Twitter should be owned by the United Nations?
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 @user-78

 teehee
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 @user-1074

 that's kinda how police are supposed to operate, btw.

 put them in dangerous places, and if anyone starts getting angry or aggressive
 then draw your firearm before them and attempt to calm things down. If that
 doesn't work, start shooting and run, so you can tell others of what's going on.
 Oh also you should leave a trail of your actions so others can audit it and see
 exactly what you were doing at which time. But alas, cops are bogged down in
 paperwork, so much stuff that needs doing. If only we assigned them secretaries,
 and treated them like... managers, rather than individual contributors. Perhaps
 then they, being the collective applicator of the commonly considered ethical
 good, (laws), then perhaps they might be able to direct other people (who do the
 paperwork) to handle certain aspects of an investigation, and in doing so better
 reveal the truth.

 because the rich and powerful LOVE to hide things behind impossible amounts of
 proof.
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 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together ^_^
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 uh-oh, psycherwaul incoming. 'guess that's what happens when [insert events of
 recent life]

 == so ==
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 wanna know how to go underground?

 just... don't leave your apartment. let your roommates take out your trash and
 buy your groceries. don't open your windows and do nothing for as long as
 possible.

 hope you got lots of edibles... get in shape, will ya? don't waste the paper in
 your journals.

 not that I intend to do that or anything, but um. for the red states maybe? use
 your best judgement yeah haha
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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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 a congregation of nerds is like... a gift of all of your most brightest, in the  │
 same room, ready to work on problems that they can see                           │
 just throw money and institutional capabilities at them and they'll hire people  │
 to do their projects and handle all of the deliverables and all that junk        │
 only works though if people care about what they're working on. hence why you    │
 should give the creatives more freedom to apply themselves.                      │
 they'll make useful things I swear just give them resources and aid and manpower │
 you don't have to choose projects based on a profit-oriented-approach there is a │
 better way that can make more money in the long run                              │
 trust me, supporting workers is like investing in bitcoin in 2012. if you play   │
 the long game, you can become fabulously wealthy, beyond what anyone would want  │
 or need.                                                                         │
 like, we get it, you want to be an oligarch, sure-yeah-fine-whatever. We'll      │
 shower you in gold and champagne if you just hand us the keys to the kingdom.    │
 you're drunk, you can't drive a nation state, sleep here                         │
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 @user-8

 sucks... I hope they fix your power and water soon.
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 @user-192

 who can say. I'd like to find out, though.
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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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 @user-1209 @user-1074

 I'm not NOT saying that...! 😋
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 @user-509

 Layoffs are a great opportunity for a bunch of people who worked with the same
 tech stack to sit down and think "What could we make together?"

 Sure would be nice if there was a group or organization that pre-emptively
 reached out to them and said "hey, we're holding a meeting in relation to the
 layoffs they did to you. Would you like to attend? If so, think of some cool or
 unique parts of your job, and we'll break into groups and discuss things we
 could do with those cool or unique things."
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 people often wonder what the geonosians would... do

 like, what their purpose, their daily lives were like.

 truth is they mostly spent their lifetimes manufacturing metal

 just... honeycombing out the earth and processing metal into bars which would
 just... sit there, ready for whatever

 and they did that for thousands of years

 just... accumulating metal

 so... what else are you gonna build but starships?

 "... what do you need to win the war? o.O"

 um idk like food and stuff

 "... food we can do. nutrient paste, from a mixture of various minerals and
 nutrients that are created in bio-reactors."

 oh and um, idk culture?

 "... to find the strongest of biological build patterns, yes."

 oh okay uh how about democracy?

 "they can vote with their life in the arena."

 no, uhm... wait actually that's not what I had in mind, how about we take a step
 back?

 "retreat? from the clone wars? you sound like you are not a separatist. There is
 only us and them in this galaxy. condemn."

 nuts. okay I'll go talk to the jed
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 person's interactions into a web browser or other such environment. It's not
 hard to believe that a person is to be deceived, but here's where we lose the
 main plot point. It's hard to stay on hand when you've got life in your hand [a
 bottle] oh now there's two layers of me? how fractalizing, how incredibly
 conceptualizing. You're just a moment away from a crash.
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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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 @user-246

 molybdenum just feels like a fake word

 it's so much fun to say though!
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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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 Except what they really did was split us. For apparently after we turned from    │
 the commercial section, toward the bridge toward the university, the other half  │
 went south instead. Toward the commercial section. Or perhaps it was just        │
 because we had stopped.                                                          │
 Down there, it became the riot which was shown on TV. I can't help but wonder    │
 how much more peaceful we would be if we were led where our leaders intended.    │
 Alas.                                                                            │
 When we split, some of us followed toward the east. But then they stopped        │
 coming, and the little blob faded into the background as everyone returned or    │
 went home.                                                                       │
 I stayed and watched, because I wanted to know how the cop with shaky hands      │
 would react.                                                                     │
 After a bit, the tear gas started flying, and then I saw the cops moving in from │
 the sides, like Alexander's companion cavalry, and that's when I slid through    │
 the cracks.                                                                      │
 Then, I went home. The next couple days the protests had significantly fewer     │
 people, huh I wonder why.                                                        │
 Also that night, endless fireworks that would not light up the sky. [2/3].       │
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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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 don't mind me, just weaponizing plurality

 leveraging, please say leveraging next time
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 if you're upset about how they twisted the meaning of "woke" just wait until you
 hear what they did to "patriot"
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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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 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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 "yay! now that the war is won, we can go back to being moderate!"

 not ideal.

 did you forget to be for something when you set yourself against your foe?

 (if my girlfriend reads this: I'm not referring to the conversation we had about
 that one thing, but I have been thinking)
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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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 The greatest game is an imagination shared with a friend.
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 Humanity is unlikely to be judged until we start doing things that actually
 matter. Right now we're stuck on our planet, who knows what the future will
 bring but until there are matters of significance at play, there's nothing to be
 worried about. If we kill ourselves it'll be our own damn faults.
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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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 any game with the ability to interact with the simulation through command line
 arguments is a game that is scriptable and infinitely expandable.
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 [File: cameron-king-essay-4-final.odt]
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 @user-246

 oh no T.T
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 @user-883

 alas, I live in Portland Oregon, but perhaps I might be moving to Denver in the
 near future. We shall see, depends on if my boyfriend breaks up with me for
 being neurotic lmao - if so then we should totally hang out

 I'm into chatting. I don't like IRC very much because it doesn't save history,
 and while I could save it manually it feels like a disservice to the service to
 utilize it in a way that it wasn't intended. And I want to save every
 conversation I have (potentially) so that some day the god-like humans of the
 future might clone me to understand my wisdom or something. Idk. See attached
 picture, I'm kinda crazy:
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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-850 @user-5

 temporarily weaken, as now you know how to operate at peak form and should only
 require rest and recuperation (possibly resources) in order to build yourself
 back up to your full potential after being weakened by the trials in your recent
 past.

 also, just because getting stronger is part of surviving, doesn't mean that all
 situations where you get stronger are situations where you survive. something
 something the planes who came back had holes in all the un-necessary places
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 @user-171

 Hi : )
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 oh look at me, typing my thoughts while doing chores. And you all get to listen,
 you lucky ducks ; )
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 if you wanna be with me, you gotta kiss the dirt and mean it
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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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 what if we deputize anyone who asks for it
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 @user-113 I feel like that's only true if you rely on your work for survival.
 Most people do in a capitalist system, so you're not wrong, but it doesn't HAVE
 to be that way. People could do what they love because they loved it IF and ONLY
 IF they wouldn't starve by pursuing it. Or by neglecting it. Most people love to
 do more than one thing, of course, so if you punish people for being diverse
 then you'll find a culture where people only do the bare minimum to get by.
 Which, coincidentally, is what we have now. Which, fortuitously, is not the most
 efficient way of production. If humanity had lived to it's potential from the
 start we would have burned through our wood stocks, our coal, our minerals and
 all of it would be rot. But we didn't. These crude inefficiencies have brought
 us here, to an era where we have the choice to be more resourceful. I just hope
 we figure it out sooner rather than later.
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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-620

 The BLM protests were a threat, but not a killing blow, because people like me
 feared tear gas more than chamber gas.

 It won't happen again.
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 The sound of a babnlblinh brook, but like... slower
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 what if we bought homeless people motorcycles
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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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 @user-883

 I read your essay on chapter 5! I liked your words. I had different thoughts
 watching it (probably because of the cannabis teehee) so it was interesting to
 hear your perspective. I want to watch it again so I can remember what I want to
 tell you about it! Ahhhhh maybe tomorrow I'll read chapter 6's essay. I gotta
 download those soon so I can show my IRL friends.
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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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 people? oh yeah I know "people". they're all a bunch of bastards.

 good, bastards are the best fighters

 not if your fight relies on fighting for something you believe in. There's a
 zero percent chance that you'll get everyone to believe the same thing because
 people naturally gravitate toward filling the idea space equally and finding
 niches to fit themselves into

 ha true - thinking of successful revolutions of the past, they've always been
 caused by material conditions creating insufficiencies that must be resolved
 through violence. and then, the people fighting can all agree on something like
 "we must have bread" or... actually that's pretty much the main thing people
 need

 and yeah, sure, wealth inequality is unjust, but they're careful to only take
 enough to ensure that we're sufficiently placated.

 but they're always taking more, and someday soon they'll take too much.

 ... I hope, for my sake, that I'm not around when that happens. But I'm not too
 hopeful in that regard
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 @user-246 @user-570

 or "what button do you want to use for "yes I want to configure my keybinds"?
 Push "start" to use the default"
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 what if a paladin got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent morality?
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 If you want an LLM to generate ASCII art, don't try through text. First generate
 an SVG and then use a separate program which approximates SVGs with ascii
 characters.
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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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 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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 @user-521

 scary! :O :O :O
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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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 Your mouth likes to eat

 Your belly likes to fill

 Your muscles enjoy exercise (and stretches!)

 Your mind likes to think.

 Why is it gross to think of your colon enjoying to poop? Does it prefer beans,
 because they keep things moving?

 Why is it gross to think of your under-arms sweating? Does it prefer not to
 smell, or does it wish there were people that liked it without deodorant?

 Do your toes think of other people as you walk toward them? Do your fingers feel
 the face of your lover as you pull them close? Or is that for the brain, the
 thoughts processing of all things mundane, the stuff which feels somehow more
 "you" than the rest of you.

 How absurd. You are you. You enjoy icecream, you enjoy the beach. You enjoy the
 stars, and you enjoy the laughter around you. There is nothing that separates
 you from you, for you are your only champion.
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 AI systems like chatGPT don't "get" emojis by looking at them.

 They're reading the description tagged onto the unicode value inserted in the
 text.
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 @user-1748

 they want you drained and overloaded.

 makes it harder to take care of others.
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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-687 @user-1316

 ... form of ID as in... passport versus driver's license?
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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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 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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 🖼
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 Just think about what a good person would do, and there's your answer to each
 question in the moment. Just... Be strategic about it, make sure you're always
 working toward a goal. Do it with intention, do it with heart, and never hide
 your true impulses - they are what your demon seeks to corrupt.
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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-982

 funny how that works
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 @user-1370

 wawawawawawawawawa : )
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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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 the media shows you what they want you to know. it's literally the purpose of
 the entire institution, to disseminate knowledge. good thing the people who
 comprise "they" have addresses. good thing they are publically traded in a way
 that's easily accessible to the people whose thoughts they govern. good thing
 democracy lives in the hearts of the most educated and the minds of the least.
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 @user-246 yeah that was nice wasn't it
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 @user-217

 the hunger of the maw
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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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 if you don't talk in public, then nobody knows you. If you change your profile
 picture, then everyone knows who was there when you changed it. when you change
 your name, then only people who recognize your face or your personality knows
 you.

 social media is for the speakers. everyone else lacks the sense of community.
 community is security.
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 Picture this: IRC with images

 end to end encrypted, stored only locally in txt and png files on each
 participant's computers, and... that's it. that's literally it. the perfect
 communication application.

 everyone's "username" is just their public key and a custom label is assigned to
 them locally
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 @user-192

 right but it throws into question the idea that what I say is the same as what
 they hear.

 Especially if they know our IP addresses are coming from different sides of the
 country.
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 @user-1218

 I KNOW it was sooooo confusing. I consider it a dress rehearsal tbh?? and I'm
 the understudy, performing for the performer who can only sing the same song
 once.
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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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 all the of the moments of antisemitism are originating in Israel, but they are   │
 not of the people of Israel.                                                     │
 Like reaped grain laying in a stack, the people of an area tend to share the     │
 same story.                                                                      │
 until someone comes along and nibbles on the ends of the berries, much to the    │
 chagrin of the farmer who's way off in the distance.                             │
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 actions and directions of the far-right minority that tends to control places    │
 that do evil things like Israel right now HUH IMAGINE THAT, THAT A PEOPLE'S      │
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 is such a minor role.                                                            │
 To defeat evil, deprive power, supply kindness. In that order. With force, if    │
 you are strong enough in your convictions.                                       │
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 programming makes you smarter which is why we should teach it to everyone we can
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 infinite dedication implies stagnation, don't be so quick to trust.
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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-192 @user-763

 omg who is that and why do I have gender envy
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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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 #CDCsays to always cheese the cat when they need it
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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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 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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 "I wish there was a language that was as simple as C but had [insert complex
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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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 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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 @user-570

 part 1:
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/design/symbeline.txt

 part 2:
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/design/symbeline-aspects.txt

 what do you think of this pitch / GDD? I wrote it two years ago, and re-reading
 it now I'd definitely expand on some things and change a few others.

 It's not an indie game, it's more on the scale of a Paradox game. Also I don't
 have time to work on it at the present moment, I'm just wondering if you like it
 : )
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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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 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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 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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 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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 My favorite thing about Freddi Fish is how it teaches sensory experience.
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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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 ... wait was I on 61 or 51, nuts
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 @user-676

 it's a tiger, but close enough. the glowsticks are a nice touch.
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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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 @user-1120

 pretty! ^_^
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 Sometimes it's okay to be sloppy if you're having fun!

 Just... clean up after yourself when you're done 😉
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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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 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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 @user-570                                                                        │
 well, the idea is that they would handle all the tech debt and merge requests    │
 and bugfixes and such - the kind of things that aren't very interesting to work  │
 on. That way, the people who are most dedicated and passionate for the project   │
 have a way to clear out their backlog and start as if from scratch.              │
 Plus, if they later don't understand how or why something was implemented, they  │
 could always message the person who implemented it and say "hey why did you do   │
 it this way I had it this other way before" and then they could reply and say    │
 "oh yeah because of this-and-this system we implemented for these-or-that        │
 caching reasons related to integer flow through the syncretic binary op-code     │
 delimiter" and then actually wait no maybe you're right, I see what you mean     │
 well... they don't have to merge everything if they don't want to. They could    │
 just... ignore the parts that people worked on that they don't want to include   │
 in the project. I'm thinking it'd be an opt-in thing too, so someone could       │
 request it!                                                                      │
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 @user-883

 sorry T.T
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 @user-192

 ty u 2 babe
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 if you want to share a post without the "fedi algorithm" (as in, the machine
 learning bots who scrape the open web) then share something that's simple and
 benign but located close to your desired message. Include a symbol or something
 for your followers that means "go here and poke around a bit, you'll find what
 I'm pointing at"

 alternatively, for a different effect, you can boost things that are saying the
 words you want to say but in a different context. Like someone posts something
 that says "wow so cool" in like a judgey way but you boost it in response to
 something someone else said but like in a "dude that's radical" kinda way
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 it's okay.

 I know who you are because I know who they forced you to be.

 What kind of god would I be if I didn't forgive you as you were hurting me?
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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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 @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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 royalty is not not royalty just because they're ineligible. democracy is better
 for picking rulers! how many do you have in your mind?

 [I thought you were an anarchist]

 I am. the presence of rulers does not necessarily violate the implicit
 sovereignce of consent, and it's necessary presence for rulership.

 "no gods no kings no masters" means an end to coercive work.

 coercion is unethical because it violates consent. This is implicit in the
 definition of coercion.

 violating consent for those who give you power is a lesson I learned very young,
 when I made a mistake and harmed my brother's mother's sisters's son's daughter.

 "no gods no kings no masters"
 means an end to unconsentual work.

 why would you live in a village where everyone is the same as you? talk about
 boring

 I wish I could hear you when you talk about me.

 "girl are you racing? in capitalism? why bother with a [endless/impossible]
 game? you're better than judging people's worth objectively. [what do they mean
 to you?]"
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 "of course I'm a furry. I'm not a coward."someone way cooler than me
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 there is an explicit invitation on my door that anyone can come over whenever
 they wanted, yet hardly no-one ever does.
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 a strict meta is when the game is too rock-paper-scissors-y.
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 the fallen leaf is of the tree, but the tree still grows
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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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 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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 @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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 if there's too much on your mind then you need more people thinking about those
 problems
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 the only people who believe in "good jobs" and "poor jobs" are people who would  │
 rather pay less                                                                  │
 and, like, yeah pay should correspond to effort. that way if someone like,       │
 doesn't try at all, then they shouldn't be paid very much.                       │
 and yeah sure neurodivergence plays a role, but that's totally accountable-for.  │
 [it's a solvable problem she means]                                              │
 but people deserve to be treated equally. we are all created in kind, after all  │
 (perhaps "equitably" would be better)                                            │
 and right now... the cheapest jobs, AKA the ones who are hiring (sometimes) are  │
 being taken over by people who are WAY overqualified.                            │
 we need to use our highly skilled labor force, not leave it to rot. But there's  │
 money to be made in monopolizing, hence starbucks and walmarts and target (red   │
 walmart) and all of the others, including amazon and greenpeace.                 │
 ... what does greenpeace have to do - shut up you'll see (what? you're getting   │
 off track) [and burning characters, too] right uh the more high skilled people   │
 in low wage positions, the less profit                                           │
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 changing my profile picture. Here are the old and new pictures, for historical
 purposes.

 EDIT: changing it back because I can't see the details when it's so zoomed out
 >.>
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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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 @user-1074

 my understanding is, if someone wanted to create something like that, they
 should start with writing protocols instead of standards, much the same way
 Activitypub or HTTP are protocols for a free and open internet.
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 @user-707 @user-708

 using this to control the buttons in VRchat would be like a person with a
 prosthetic interacting with real life :O

 minus the physicality of course, but that's next.

 can't wait to play Warcraft 3 and think "select all healers" so I can point them
 at a dying unit with my mouse.

 or world of warcraft where your rotation begins to feel like a song.

 maybe even a text-based adventure, where you reading the text corresponds to the
 results of the simulation, https://www.spreeder.com/app.php style. could make it
 so that if you wanted something else to happen, you had to willfully think it
 while the words are flashing in front of your eyes - the game would pause if you
 blinked, perfect for phones btw...

 could be a locally networked thing, like four to six people hanging out and
 playing a game like pictionary or charades. except, a story that developed, and
 whoever wanted could change it while everyone was reading it at once. sorta like
 a competition to see who can make the best twists and false endings
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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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 @user-1248

 ohhhh hehe that's a vibe too ^_^
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 meaning is derived not necessarily from the words you use, but rather the way
 you contrast them against one another
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 @user-910

 he doesn't speak from the heart. he speaks what he hears, because he's just
 trying to get through each moment. Life weighs heavily on you when you're old as
 dirt, and after a while you just sorta start being yourself without caring about
 the narrative.
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 the feral urge to post unfinished projects on the internet and ask for guidance
 or motivation

 the civilized urge to keep them on a flash drive and swap them with people you
 trust in real life and ask them to finish it while you work on their stuff
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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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 dragons, in their miniature form, also known as a "draggen", or in some cultures
 a "jragen" or "dragin"
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 @user-882

 I feel like you'd like this game:

 https://mokadevs.itch.io/the-moon-looks-beautiful-tonight
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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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 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.                                                        │
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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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 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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 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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 when I play Battlefront II I like to give the enemies heroes and vehicles and my
 team more infantry

 3 rebels versus 50 ties works great for corellian corvettes, but they never let
 us use bigger ships : (
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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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 @user-889

 perhaps you need a community, rather than a friend? just a guess
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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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 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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 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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 subconsciously running your hand over your butt every time you stand up to make
 sure you didn't pee your pants
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 war is hell and should be avoided at all costs

 "does that mean we should do shadow conflicts and do spy-vs-spy shit all day
 every day?"

 no, that's a type of warfare too. and is also hell. no thank you.
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 "I'll never forget you~" she says to someone whose face looks familiar
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 oops, sorry, had to get a friend to translate it for me. Here's the real
 picture:

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/html-pages/worlds-coolest-lesbian

 titled: scan-of-spacetime:perspective-of-light.png
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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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 in regards to my food habits, PLEASE do as I say, not as I do. for your own
 sake.
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 It's important to have an opposition, so bad ideas don't carry as much weight.

 human rights however, are not up for discussion.
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 this character portrait from Shadowrun Hong-Kong was a major source of gender
 envy for me
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 a 4 dimensional being could not go before they were born

 a time traveler might tho
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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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 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-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-353

 I wrote a little bit of that on my website, but something told me not to. I
 think because it would weaken the message? Frankly it was quite difficult to say
 even the barest minimum of "I wrote these things when I was distressed and
 didn't post them until now. I'm only posting them now because they're becoming
 increasingly relevant and it's a little embarassing tbh to showcase how much
 I've changed. Please don't take these things out of context."

 I wasn't wrong per se, but I was misaligned. I am always re-aligning myself in
 small ways that eventually create (what I believe to be) the best and most
 ethical direction. BUT it's easy not to see that. People don't see things in
 their totality, they see only what they are exposed to. That's not bad, it's
 just a product of our finite existence. Which is why I value personal expression
 more than self-identified moral and ethical directioned [beliefs, but pronounced
 as "adaptations"]
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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.                                                                 │
 darn I missed, had 15 characters remaining and I didn't feel like going back and │
 fixing it                                                                        │
 [hence, fleeting, the feeling]                                                   │
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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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 Today's a saturday, aka the BEST day
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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-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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 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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 oh, huh, turns out I just had to sleep off the depression half of "manic
 depression" and wait for the manic half to kick in.

 I feel great now! I love being alive!!
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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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 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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 I trust that my allies are working. I see it in the fruits of their actions, and
 I am thankful.
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 anything with layers is an open-faced sandwich

 or a pizza in disguise

 rawr ex dee
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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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 @user-646

 babbling, yes, but that's just how I do. sorry to bother you.
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 @user-217

 red flower in the sky
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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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 @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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 @user-5

 god is trans, why else would [redacted] hang out on the fediverse?
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 "good afternoon, ma'am, my name is [redacted], and I'm just a person, I'm not
 with anyone or anything.

 I'm going to all the houses on this street and knocking on their doors and
 asking them two questions - you don't have to answer if you don't want.

 The first is "do you know any of your neighbors" and the second is would you
 like to meet them?"
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 I love rice and beans because

 error: stack overflow

 huh, that's weird. Must have been too many reasons. Let's try again:

 I love rice and beans because

 error: user didn't change anything between runs of the program so clearly they
 don't understand how computer works

 ... well that's a different error so it's progress at least.
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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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 Ya'll are so upset because it feels like you failed, that this country failed
 you, that everything is doomed because this country is not the one you thought
 it was, all these takes and vibes.

 They're all fucking wrong.

 Tens of millions of us voted the other way.
 Tens of millions of us voted for democracy.
 Tens of millions of us voted for liberty.

 That is a fuckload of people. We're far stronger than they are. I pray we are
 bolder as well.

 soemthing something subscrie for more cat facts lmaooooo
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 honestly I'd much prefer if Biden was VICE president, mentoring a bright young
 individual with spirit in their heart and hope for the future.
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 what if corporations gave better quality products to people who clicked through
 their advertisement
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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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 I love dispatch tables! which is a term I just learned and a concept I have been
 using for a while.
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 @user-649

 same... sometimes it feels like I step on toes that I didn't know existed! I got
 tired of walking on egg shells so now I just try and religiously put content
 warnings on things that feel intense.
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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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 🖼
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 @user-1547

 this is how I often think about the gender presentation spectrum

 (independent of gender expression and gender identity)
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 you opened up about your feelings so I started telling you mine. And apparently
 that's not a good thing to do when you're feeling negative things.
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 hi, hello, how?
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 1 2 3 - 1... 2... 3... - 1 2 3 means SOS, so if you hear it that means someone's
 in trouble.

 don't go about willy nilly saying it though.
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 They will say they're "off their psych meds" yeah, okay, but a diagnosis and     │
 prescription is trivial for a doctor to write.                                   │
 They are paid about 35$ per hour.                                                │
 They have 2 week shifts "vacations" where they are transferred to a city with a  │
 person they could reasonably impersonate where they act for a while.             │
 (I know this because one of them replaced a homeless man I knew who had like, 3  │
 teeth total, and then a few days later a man who looked similar acted as if he   │
 knew me. He had perfect teeth.)                                                  │
 They have a PO box where they can receive useful items for their disruptive      │
 activities. Hammers, spray-paint, whatever.                                      │
 They don't carry any money. No wallet, identification, or anything, so if they   │
 get picked up by emergency response services then there's not much they can do   │
 besides try and stabilize them before letting them loose.                        │
 Some of them have "long-term shifts" where they work with children or the        │
 elderly over months or years. It's just as fucked as you imagine.                │
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 What does your template for a new project look like? Here's mine:
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 you can get some pretty cool game ideas by looking at pieces of art and thinking
 "what would it feel like if that guy over in the corner was the main character?
 how would he navigate his environment?" or "what if these mountains were
 inhabited by 2 inch tall ninjas and there were so many of them that you couldn't
 walk through without stepping on one of their rice paddies" or "what if each
 gravitic orbit was the atoms of some larger whole" or "have you ever been crazy?
 many people have, many people don't. suffice to say it's stranger than our
 day-to-days." nand "wa, wa, tazi-wa, des-fa len te shiid, ab-zi-wa de
 fo-vri-la-da wantsa tansa weej."

 ....... um, have you ever seen adventure time it's a pretty good show. great
 childhood imagionation land vibe.

 hey does anyone check up on the vrchat kids these days? how are they doing? got
 hope on their mind, or are they stuck in their troubles?

 (everyone shows up and makes it awkward) ummm we're gonna go to a different
 world, see ya later.
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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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 the world's coolest lesbian is wasted on a boy
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 that feeling when you're working on a large piece of software which has the      │
 capability to process in advance which operations will go in what order (a form  │
 of constant re-compilation) and schedules tasks like an operating system, to be  │
 executed on one of many individual threads.                                      │
 your filemanager probably has a thread for a moment, then passes it back,        │
 waiting it's turn to be updated while you're messing around on Inkscape or       │
 writing something in Neovim or running neofetch 256 times in order to find the   │
 best background to go along with it or whatever it is people do when using       │
 computers                                                                        │
 the task scheduler meanwhile has the glorious opportunity to work at a higher    │
 level of abstraction, managing each individual process and learning bits and     │
 pieces of what needs to be processed next. It all gets put on a list, and        │
 whenever a new thread comes up to be available it can point it toward one of     │
 those in the list of tasks to be executed by the task executor who works on a    │
 schedule and laughs externally in wintertime~                                    │
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 "I'm not depressed~!" I say as I exist
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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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 if you're too versatile though, you'll never know how to get anything done -.-

 hence, vision, the thing that corporations want so badly.
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 I am often disorganized.

 my effort is spent elsewhere.

 but I am good at organizing!

 when I find the time or place.
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 I miss video games

 cries from self-inflicted sacrifices

 but you're worth it

 imma overthrow fascism, dismantle oppression and power, and liberate those in
 chains, just so I can play games again

 yeah I mean, uh, whatever gets you outta bed

 "at least you have a bed. why are you complaining?"

 maybe it's the only thing I'm good at. I wonder if anyone would hire me to be an
 analyst or something? Maybe a designer?

 bro you're asking for a job on the eve of the revolution, what's your deal

 okay so this might be news to ya'll but I'm technically a human even though I
 wear a witch hat and sometimes speak in rhyme. And humans tend to think about
 things in the context of their current environment. Currently, if I want to pay
 rent or whatever, I need a job. So...

 sounds like a lame excuse for not giving up your possessions and throwing
 yourself to fate's design

 I already did that and fate told me to go home and take a bath?? idk what you
 want from me, and no I'm not doing any drugs to find out.
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 The nicest thing anyone ever called me was "the fel communion" and it happened
 in a dream. Alas, that dreams might affect reality. If only ever-so-slightly.
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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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 celebratory autism is a type of queer identity
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 whenever my cat is whining I walk around doing things that she might want until
 she stops trying to claw me - oh you want your litter cleaned? yeah sure I
 gotchu. oh you wanna go outside? nah okay how about playing with this yarn? no?
 okay let's see... oh dear you can see the bottom of your food bowl, conveniently
 forgetting the other mostly full food bowl over there... 😅
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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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 we succeed not because of our trials, but in spite of them.

 they cannot own us, for we are but bones in the flesh

 every day yet denied us is another day until our bright future

 "oh, but why are you homeless? [in the near future, maybe, we'll see] That fate
 is reserved for your [unwanted/incapable/undesired/incongruent, I forget the
 actual words]"

 well, voice in my head that suffused me with magic and warmth and whisked me
 away in a dream to a bubble-reality where my actions are meant to reflect me,
 surely your appraisal is just? I worked with my partner, I was swallowed neither
 by lust, nor greed, nor hunger, [greed in this case being fulfillment] and yet I
 awoke when I went to my sister rather than a doctor. Dreams are hard to unravel,
 but I think it was more for your benefit than mine, wouldn't you say?
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 When good people die, when they drop out or leave the industry, they no longer
 have access to the levers of power that guide our collective fate. Meaning those
 who persist are those who covet power.
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 Fuck, I wish I was a man. Stupid transgender brain quirks making me feel like I
 was a girl. Boys can punch things much easier than me. Oh to inject estrogen!
 How soft mine skin, how delicate my mammaries - and yet fucking hell all I want
 to do is punch things. Maybe it's just because things deserve to be punched, or
 maybe it's because I'm listening to Green Day.

 If it weren't so late I'd make some angsty music or whatever.
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 dry ramen is not the same as dried ramen. For dry ramen I strain the noodles and
 add the seasoning with butter. Wet ramen is similar minus the butter and plus
 noodle water.
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 there are few things more nutritious for the soul than warm chocolate chip
 cookies.
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 there's no rule that says you have to keep your dorm room door closed

 what if I wanted to do that in an apartment? someone might murder me or
 something haha

 (white girl problems)
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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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 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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 @user-570

 I'd LOVE a game which taught toki pona!!

 You've brought some of this up before. I'm uninterested in co-opting some
 existing thing in a way I then can't support myself off of.

 Well my points are these:

 MMOs are difficult because of the added complexity in their networking

 an open source networking solution exists

 however no open source client solution exists

 but one could be written, which is about as hard as making a game using Bevy or
 Raylib or Love2D, and if one were written, then games could easily be made
 on-top of them which you would then support yourself off of. I mean... I'd want
 to support myself too haha, and I can think of like 100 different games that
 could be made in an engine like that.

 the idea is that by opening up more design space you can apply your ideas as an
 early pioneer in a particular design direction that hasn't been able to be
 explored because the up-front investments in making an MMO are huge.

 Meanwhile, with this system you could script them in Lua very easily.
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 "Hi, would you like to eat something that you probably won't like, but that has
 an interesting flavor and texture?"
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 @user-246

 so... if infinity is the inverse of zero, then when inverted would infinity also
 be zero?

 if so, it follows that the [spectrum/dimension/cardinality/direction] that the
 inversion is occurring upon might also have other steps inbetween. Unless it's a
 binary thing, like "top and bottom" or "present and absent".

 I wonder what those steps might look like? Clearly, since infinity minus
 infinity does not equal zero, the steps inbetween (if they exist) would not be
 numbers. If they were, then one single step from inverting infinity would be 1,
 but I don't believe that would be true.

 On the topic of rings, the axioms would be things like "a ring is a ring if you
 can trace a continuous line with a length of infinity across it's
 ring-like-surface"? I wonder what the inverse of a length is... Or perhaps you
 cannot invert a length, as to do so would give you a length of zero (in this
 particular ring-like-case)
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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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 I want to clarify two things in this song I wrote a while ago - when I say "life │
 isn't meant, to be enjoyed, so... what's the point in trying at all? - Well,     │
 what's the point in giving up?" I was trying to say "hedonism isn't the point of │
 life" but I realize now upon listening to it for the first time since writing it │
 [liar lmao] that what it could be interpreted as is "everything sucks and it     │
 will always suck, so face the future with tenacity" or whatever. And that's      │
 like, not wrong, but also it's not the whole point, which is that we shouldn't   │
 strive for contentment unless we're healing.                                     │
 also I say "never trust a guru" but I'd like to expand that to "never trust your │
 heroes" because they'll always disappoint you. But what is a hero if not hope    │
 given form? Trust in the hope, not the person holding it at that moment. You     │
 never know, maybe they'll get blown up by an artillery shell or maybe they'll    │
 betray you or maybe they'll get bored or distracted or whatever. Never trust     │
 your heroes, trust the inspiration.                                              │
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 I wish I was capable T.T
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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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 @user-1218

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

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words
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 leftist leaders do not lead by giving directions that must be followed

 instead, they tell you "here's what I'd do. And why, if you're curious."
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 @user-119

 even if they don't know it
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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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 food-mentioned
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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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 landlords when they deny a rental application to a person with a 787 credit
 score based on their credit score

 (it's on a scale out of 850)
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 if you follow someone and they don't follow back, does that mean you shouldn't
 comment on their posts?
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 @user-579

 I think I remember reading once that you can opt-in to encryption with Telegram?
 But it's kinda pointless unless both parties do so. My understanding is that
 everyone should be using Signal, or if you're really paranoid use PGP encryption
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 somebody asked me for popcorn and I couldn't even provide it! What kind of witch
 am I if I can't provide popcorn on demand T.T T.T
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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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 @user-883

 graphics isn't too bad in C if you use Raylib. Here's my template project:

 If you ever want to do something with a GUI or a game or something then I
 definitely recommend that library. It's soooooo nice as a C programmer
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 I don't know about you, but "trying my hardest" involves giving up sometimes.

 How else are you to know your limits if you don't test your boundaries? And,
 after finding that there's nowhere else for you to go, you turn around and "give
 up", until you're ready for your next expedition.
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 bonus points if you can guess which game I'm implementing

 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111735963109819158
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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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 you can't just tell people you're enlightened. You gotta trick them, and
 convince them you're sane first.
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 @user-245

 T.T
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 @user-1283

 just make sure you add alt-text!
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 economies of scale come to mind
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 @user-391 @user-78

 I see, it seems you know more than me about this topic. It's true that search
 engines don't index emails, but I was thinking more of a "cybersecurity"
 perspective, as in any "sufficiently motivated" individual or organization could
 access your emails should they so desire. And should they be willing to (I'm
 assuming?) break a few laws.

 If it can be done, and if it gives information that could be used for leverage,
 then you can be assured that someone will do it. I personally worry about people
 in power who could be blackmailed because their communications were more public
 than they anticipated. Which speaks to the problem mentioned in this post of the
 search-indexing-opt-out functionality being present but circumnavigatable.
 Avoidable? Able to be bypassed? It's an illusion of security.
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 @user-1402

 the truth is, they don't use it for revenue generation. It's not meant to turn a
 profit.
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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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 JRPG set in Runescape's world
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 Look, when I promised "Revolution or Death" I got pretty busy and kinda forgot
 to do the "dying" part, and by now it'd be a little awkward if I offed myself
 for no visible reason, so... How about we try again this summer? Maybe in a
 month or two? I'll try to keep the fire burning a bit longer this time.

 plus I'm better at playing the piano now so maybe that'll help somehow.
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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-1558

 tuskarr?
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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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 you should never be able to consent to something you don't understand (terms and │
 conditions) without being asked specifically if they understand (the term or     │
 condition)                                                                       │
 but people should still be able to consent to something they don't understand    │
 (terms&conditions style code of hammurabi structure) if it's similar to      │
 their prior demonstrated behavior.                                               │
 why don't they share terms/conditions cookies and then we don't have to fake     │
 agree every time                                                                 │
 just... abstract away the identifying characteristics. Most legal contracts have │
 LLM-discernable characteristics.                                                 │
 "what if she's not the answer, but instead the most alluring?" ha, so says the   │
 non-believer.                                                                    │
 what if LLMs were rated based on their success rate at producing correct results │
 for reporting or consensus-building asks                                         │
 look... I don't care if AI computers violate the sanctity of the sport. The goal │
 is to solve problems, so if someone comes to you and says "hey, you busy? can    │
 you help me with an ask?" you say "I solved it, here's how you use it: connect   │
 the                                                                              │
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 there is a time for solutions, and a time for just getting people on your side.

 there is a time for building passions, and a time for letting things slide.

 when you think and act cooperatively, by assigning yourself to a comrade cohort,

 you can work as a team might, except where everyone wants to do work.

 I love what I read here. I think you're all so neat. I love when you talk about
 things, it feels like we're finally finding our feet.

 Did any witches out there notice a phase change recently? It's funny when that
 happens, but I think things are going to get better. The more that we share, the
 more we can build!
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 friendship ended with best friend

 now my cat is my best friend
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 first meme I ever made, way back in the ancient days of advice animals and image
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 whoops I'm unhinged
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 wow, 2024 comes out swinging.

 if you don't know what I'm talking about... you will soon enough. Just listen.

 can't fucking wait to see how it happens. Today is the birth place of humanity,
 just as yesterday was, and the day before, and the day before...

 our light shall shine upon the most distant stars - our minds will plumb the
 deepest depths of imagination. Our hearts will share our kindest loves, and our
 will shall drive us onward. Let us rejoice, for tomorrow yet dawns!
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 oh huh weird I guess I forgot to post these last night? Well, here ya go, sorry
 for the delay. Posting in reverse chronological order, but reversed and put in
 order. that way you can scroll "down" instead of "up" like you normally do when
 scrolling fedi - are you talking to your followers, in which case you want
 chronological order, or are you talking to people who will read down the list on
 your profile and see these one by one? in which case you'd want reverse
 chronological order. Ah but if you're writing to people in the future who are
 reading this from your backup archive, which is most likely to be the case, then
 you should do it in chronological order. Well, that'd be silly though because
 none of your followers are online right now, so you should do reverse
 chronological order so that they can catch up on your personal feed timeline.

 ... I don't think any of that makes a lick of sense. Why don't you just post
 them in the order that you wrote them? That's the easiest for everyone to go on.
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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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 @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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 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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 I stopped smoking cannabis because possible job and wow... life feels between 4
 and 6 times longer
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 Is my formatting pretty or does it make you angry?
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 @user-1091

 ... can you explain this more? I kinda figured helmets are almost universally a
 good idea when riding a bike
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 @user-570

 me three!
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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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 some more of the same.
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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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 @user-831 @user-832

 it's like how they solve problems in Star Trek - there's a bridge crew, and they
 exchange their opinions with each other of the situation as it unfolds. In doing
 so they can help guide one another through the problems they are tasked with
 solving in order to resolve the difficult diplomatic situation at hand.

 sorta like how with your method, people suggest their desired option
 continuously until they find an option that everyone wants. Or if only one
 person can't decide, they can pick any of the other options suggested (not by
 them) (as long as they can eat there / utilize the outcome of the decision being
 made, for example a vegetarian not being able to eat at a steakhouse or perhaps
 a librarian being tasked with something other than the storing and dissemination
 of vital information)
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 why am I so cold
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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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 applied intuition combined with well developed imagination is a dangerous tool
 to behold. useful, but dangerous.
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 among all the others, I want a wonderful and fulfilling life for the socialite.
 they deserve light just as you and I might.

 "eat the rich" bruh there's like, 100 people who are running the show. everyone
 else is basically just a syncophant who's trying to get ahead and stay working.

 then there's like their families and such and like... they didn't do anything
 wrong, they just eat cheese and wine and laugh at memes all day with their
 besties.

 they are basically pets
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 ice cream out of a mug, mmmm delicious ^_^
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 BRB spending an hour and a half of my time on this earth watching a video essay
 on Youtube
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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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 bad people are cursed with evil.

 a person cannot be evil. they can deal with such evil in their lives that twists
 them, and causes them to spike out and harm others, but they are not evil
 themselves.

 some twists are too hard to mend. some healings leave people a shadow of what
 they once were, or might have been. but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

 deprive power, supply kindness, in that order.

 if you cannot deprive power, then reduce harm.

 if you cannot reduce harm, then contest, defeat, or overcome.

 A twisted person may be slain if death is on the line. You get what you wish
 for, but you don't always get to choose who. Don't let them choose. They will
 choose poorly.

 ... I find that death is very rarely on the table, though. Generally they'll
 make their intentions apparent.
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 @user-883

 hey sorry for ditching you yesterday, hope you had a good night ^_^

 I feel much better today.
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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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 I had a dream that someone fed me a McDonalds burger in the airport (with
 "special sauce") and then the next time I was at the grocery store in the waking
 world I ended up buying a bunch of those meat replacements that I usually skip
 in favor of moar vegetables.

 Hmmmmm.... I wonder if I have a deficiency

 (yeah you dumbass it's a calorie deficiency, just eat more)
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 pc part builder guys: the fan *is* the heatsink. the blades radiate heat.
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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-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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 @user-95 time is an illusion that helps things make sense. even yesterday we
 were living in the present tense. breakfasts unforgotten mingle with those long
 mist, but you and i will always persist
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 @user-36 As a thought experiment, what do you think happens using this system to
 divide by 1? What about dividing by 0? Curious to see what you think
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 the merchant is an honorable profession.

 to supply people in need,
 to bring extra to where it can be used,
 to spread the gospel of currency,
 and share the tales of far off places to all who would hear.

 somewhere along the line,
 merchanting became monopolizing,
 and monopoly became ownership.

 now we are but slaves to the economy.

 oh what a dishonorable profession is merchanting indeed!
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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-1056

 😋
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 an elevator down to bedrock, where we store all our goods and services in a
 carefully hollowed out crust. Sure glad we can utilize temperature controls to
 resist the heat on a larger scale, like a water bubble that conducted heat to
 the surface.

 though we'd have to figure out how to prevent a yellowstone situation, kinda
 like, oh what's that one place, chernoble

 seriously tho - water at the bottom gets hot, rises to the top, where it's
 cooled by the ice in the arctic crust. Could find a way to use such an
 impossibly stable structure to, I dunno, slightly correct the course of the
 earth? Just so long as we're aware that we can only utilize the energy we gain
 from the solar system. Meaning, our star's light-like emanations. But surely
 with all of that we should be more than capable of creating a thruster, and a
 thrusted orbit means that you can direct it as you please, perhaps even altering
 it's rotation.

 I wonder if there's any planets that spin so fast it feels like time is
 never-ending -
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 "yes.... YESSS!!~! burn your self out for me, puniful mortals! I BASK IN YOUR
 SIN OF DECREPIT DILIGENCE!"

 wow chill out it's like, 10am jeez
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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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 thank you for the dog posts they keep me friendly

 thank you for the cat posts they keep me sane
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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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 The amounts that Ohio and California are compensated is determined by the
 contracts and arrangements they had in place when creating their industry.
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 growing up, my family were the most commonly marginalized group of people I can
 think of: outsiders

 we came to develop friendships, and we found some. But their grandparents didn't
 have any stories about us, so we were thought of less.

 and then we moved away.

 to the city, where my father had developed wanderlust.

 we lived in the suburbs just north-south of the east-west highway.

 it was different, but sorta the same. My parents wanted to give me more space to
 roam. on a farm homestead it's much more controlled but on a smaller scale.
 Then, in the city, the equivalent of that is either to live in the mountains or
 the barns, and both of those are a-typical experiences.

 difficult to start up business in the middle of the fields. most people just
 tend to themselves.

 except the people they talk to on their little computer.

 raspberry pi's with wikipedia and a voice transcoding system that searched
 through wikipedia locally for portable data and historical accessing purposes.
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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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 if your computer's resource demands are light, like linux cli style, then the
 rest of your computing resources can be used for collective projects. we just
 gotta think of what some of them are... HMMMM WHAT IF WE ALL WORKED ON BUILDING
 A BIG BRAIN WITH EACH OF OUR INPUT COMPUTERS AS INPUT?

 yeah ease off a bit there ][bigslider[]

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 @user-631

 a true joke would work in both ways, such that everyone's laughing. : )
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 @user-1037                                                                       │
 For a person who is skilled with tech, working in unrelated industries doing     │
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 You'll learn the most in tech. You'll grow the most in tech. You'll contribute   │
 to solving problems that have never been solved before (if you're lucky), but    │
 the people there are often as you describe (aside from the diamonds in the       │
 rough, who need more friends tbh) and the products you'll be asked to create     │
 tend to be the worst kind for humans.                                            │
 I personally think the best way to facilitate innovative industry is to give     │
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 The marketing guys can sell whatever they make, to gather funds for the          │
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 The marketing guys can offer hints about what users want, which the engineers    │
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 @user-1254

 gee I hope not. Then they might arrest me.
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 Art is only useful when skillfully applied, and Twitter taught ya to speak
 whenever a thought passed your mind.

 Really makes ya think

 Really makes ya think thoughts like "I should post this on the internet"
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 a perpetual motion machine would appear stable to the machine in motion
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 Geek prayer? Preach brothers and sisters >.>
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 I GOT MY SCREEN RECORDER AUDIO WORKING
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 @user-431

 I made an alias that overwrites cd so I don't have to do this. The important
 line is line 27, you could probably accomplish something similar like this:

 alias cd="cd ${1} && ls -v --color=auto"

 I also set it up so I can change more than one directory up using ... or .... or
 .....

 also I have a few shortcut scripts, cdir and qcd. cdir creates a quick way to
 drop a bookmark wherever I'd like, while qcd can make permanent bookmarks. Also
 qcd makes it so whenever I open a new terminal it opens to the last directory I
 was in, which is nice if you need a new terminal to do something in the current
 folder and you don't want to have to walk alllllllll the way back.
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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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 menardis will literally eat cheetos and ramen for dinner and wonder why they
 feel exhausted the next day

 drink some damn water
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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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 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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 I'd ask why of course, and then I'd try and find them a solution that didn't
 involve taking my stuff. They may need it more than me, but I still need it.
 Like... okay picture that feeling you get when in a capitalist society and you
 need dollars to live because they are a genericized and fractalized abstraction
 of all the various individual mazlowe's hierarchy of needs you have. Then, think
 of it like, instead of money being an abstracted form of all of your needs,
 think of your needs... each of them, the ones that matter to you, and abstract
 them into money. Basically say "yeah sure my time and my labor are worth
 dollars, I abstract my needs into money" and then you can kinda see why
 capitalism is harmful. I'd prefer to give them what they need, because society
 provides what I please, but alas I'm always kept wanting. What good is our
 capitalist utopia? what good is our hope? what good comes of us when all of us
 have learned how to cope?

 I think we could give a bit more if we weren't hanging from the rope
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 @user-246

 you mean putting stones in soup for flavor? They're re-usable!
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 covered in the flowers

 instantly I'd like to die

 in this dream of oursEtsujin
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 @user-883

 okay I'm down

 (a little stoned tho, was talking to my soul hehe)
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 @user-556                                                                        │
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 solarpunk dreams. So, the Labyrinth in the Death Gate Cycle, before all the      │
 monsters crept in and ruined it for everyone. Like, a projection of heaven onto  │
 the matter of our future (spiritual beings projecting "up" on the axis of time   │
 (which, obviously, looks a little like a corkscrew, because it's the earth       │
 rotating around the sun. It wibbles and it wobbles ever so imperceptibly, but if │
 we look out from the equator we see a map of "us" which, of course, runs out of  │
 imagined futures for it's denizens (as nothing can ever be thought twice)        │
 sometimes I'm thankful for my poor memory, it allows me to lead where I please.  │
 when the trees of valinor burn, light is projected out into the night. strange,  │
 how these streetlamps, are hovering and fixed in one place. How could a rabbit   │
 know that a streetlight, anchored as it is in one place, could somehow become a  │
 radiant pillar of light? How strange, this form of worship, alas.                │
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 our ancestors worshiped us through their acts of devotion and lust

 if you're reading this, there's a very good chance that some of your ancestors
 are still alive
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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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 @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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 @user-1582

 good morning, have a bunch of posts from last night : )
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 ah but are you really armed in the first place if everything you do has to be    │
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 open and clear is what compels us to use it without fear, though as far as we    │
 can hear there's nothing about it that makes sense.                              │
 I guess that's why they teach Linux in school, so that our elementary            │
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 sense to us as children.                                                         │
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 I wonder what would happen if I scheduled weekly ride-alongs with the cops near
 me and I taught them how I believed.

 I bet they'd get sick of me, but, I'm a law-abiding citizen, so they could do me
 no harm.

 I wonder if I could get through to a few?
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 if you aren't careful, the stuff you own will come to own you.
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 I think it'd be neat if people took newspapers onto grayhounds and distributed
 them around, one in each city, or maybe others around. It's easy for that stuff
 to get lost... or someone could scribble on it, weird notes in the margins that
 only sorta make sense. like they were written for someone else. rained on, too.
 Like, you pretty much have to leave them under gazebos or maybe awnings or other
 covered-under-a-roof's.

 can you imagine if they had TSA at highway checkpoints

 government is not the way, it's just... not. we don't need it anymore. We can
 just, be cool with each other, as if we were all one human race.

 anarchism wasn't a philosophy, it was a prophecy. this portention defined the
 philosophy, or maybe it was the other way around. either way, it's of the
 future, and trust me when I say it has it's downsides. Especially in an era of
 AI. But what are you gonna do, demand state run media? lol. absolute lmao.

 [image]

 the future can always get worse from the future
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 @user-1218

 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈
 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍🌈 =.

 (pretend the last bit has color)
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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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 @user-1876
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 "never lose your totem"

 I only lose things when in motion. at rest I know where everything is.
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 the reason leftists cling to institutions is because without them, the military
 would just shoot us.
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 @user-1550

 I love the colors!! 🤩

 sorry about the price, tho...
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 @user-138

 omgggggg gimme

 I want to put those in my mouth
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 my father was a leader and my mother was a teacher.

 I look up to them every day.
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 @user-171

 ha no she's more of a whiny baby

 but like, a cool one, who likes to be a predator and hunt things
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 you've heard of an array of function pointers, yes,

 but have you ever heard

 of an array of GOTO labels?
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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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 @user-95 because I left a puzzle on my website and she's trying to unlock it : )
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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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 @user-246

 is this... undefined behavior? or does it evaluate to 5 every time it's called?

 I find that often my art makes me feel intense emotions, not all of them good.
 But sharing those emotions with others is a tricky task (so I've recently
 learned) because you can easily overload people with negative feelings - just
 because you're feeling bad, doesn't mean you need to make others feel bad.
 Perhaps they were already feeling bad, and if you intensely and sharply poke
 them with your intense emotions while they're in a vulnerable or safe
 state/place... you can hurt them, more than you intended by expressing your
 feelings.

 balance in all things, as does a wave orbit a central axis so too should our
 behavior align toward the direction we'd like to travel.
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 @user-1117

 That guy loves his job ^_^
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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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 I play video games to help me think just like programmers play video games to
 help them sleep
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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-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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 by defederating with threads, we've basically made it a place where they can     │
 talk about us, but we can't see what they say about us. Good thing they can't    │
 read this, because we're defederated, and they don't use... hmmmmmm what mildly  │
 ridiculous thing could I put in here, hmmmm how about... OH YEAH they use GPU    │
 accelerated 3d learning algorithms that parse the written information from       │
 publicly accessible data to create a centralized server that routes all the      │
 information.                                                                     │
 Essentially giving the capability to defederate with bots, specifically the      │
 scraping kind.                                                                   │
 However, it'd still be possible, because people could just create an account     │
 there and use the data from that. Unless, of course, the UI was difficult to     │
 navigate and didn't allow for mass-gathering of information.                     │
 Okay heres what you're gonna do, make like a hundred different ecosystems with   │
 randomized avatars where what you say is broadcasted to all of them. Unless you  │
 choose to post in a particular place, in which case only that one can see. Then  │
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 "you know what you never really hear anyone say?

 I need more projects."

 they should be allocated more resources so they can accomplish their objectives
 one-by-one as a matter of course.

 easy, if we all help each other.
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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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 I'm pretty bad at threading needles. I'm more like... "alright, what's next on
 the list?"
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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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 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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 my cat absolutely adores these. I checked and made sure they were too big to fit
 in her mouth.
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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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 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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 some people are the memory kind of autistic, where they know everything about a  │
 thing and it's the coolest thing                                                 │
 I'm more like... the optimizing autistic, where everything has to be perfect.    │
 and if it's not perfect, then you should change it. and if you can't change it,  │
 then you should tell someone else to change it. and if nobody can change it,     │
 then you should consider it part of the context / starting variable and then     │
 just say "okay" and treat it like it's normal and something you should use to    │
 inform the rest of your optimization actions / decisions.                        │
 other people are other kinds of autistic that's not a comprehensive              │
 classification system. But I mention the first kind explicitly so I can contrast │
 it with my experience, which is implied to be [impulsively?] different in the    │
 kind portrayed in the following contrastion, where I mention how I'm autistic    │
 and don't get "irony" or "sarcasm" that people on the internet seem to revel in  │
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 @user-1573

 ... wait, what kinds of noises do I usually make ? ? ?
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 if your friend moves to the country, it's important to stay in touch
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 @user-544

 Whoa. You're kidding That picture is gorgeous!
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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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 I almost said "did you know chickens don't always know which eggs they're
 sitting on? They pretty much just share spots and keep all of the flock's eggs
 warm"

 but then I realized I should first say "did you know that chickens sit on eggs
 to keep warm" and I got a little sad because... chickens...
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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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 maybe our most experienced and talented individuals should get together and work
 on a project. We could just... see what they come up withlawful good aligned
 project manager
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 ritz why would you say this
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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        │
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 🖼
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 @user-777

 being correct isn't really power

 so true T.T
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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.           │
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 best day to plant a tr                                                           │
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 "obey our gender norms!" said the individualist
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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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 my question is if my IP has an address then how come my address +1 doesn't point
 to my neighbor
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 @user-815

 America is my home, and I'll never leave it. I'd rather die than relinquish my
 responsibility to uphold the values I believe in.

 The current regime is unethical in the extreme, and every year it gets worse.
 But if I go, then who would ever know?

 EDIT: just read this article, and this line seemed relevant:

 "When the world rushes toward us with all its streaming wounds – wanting,
 needing – do we cover our eyes and shrink away, do we sit and wring our hands
 in despair, do we run and hide, or do we hasten toward it, like we hasten toward
 an injured child, with our arms outstretched?"

 https://www.theredhandfiles.com/ever-felt-alien-to-yourself/
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 It's just the comfort you'd afford to a guest, until their home is repaired and
 they can go back there.

 Unless, they act like us. Our identity is ruined! When we're constantly
 changing, it's a cosmic dance trying to keep on moving! What do you want from
 us, infinite dexterity? Sheesh I'm trying my best. - Reyvadin
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 growing up, my mom would chastise me for doing "the bare minimum" when           │
 completing tasks.                                                                │
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 when I grew up, I had a mentor, who told me to "never half ass things, because   │
 then someone like me will have to do it again."                                  │
 and that makes sense to me because context switching requires effort and it      │
 doesn't make sense to leave something half-finished because then there's wasted  │
 effort spent on things that don't matter. All of the tasks have to get done, so  │
 why bother doing them in a mixed up order?                                       │
 wish I could study things in school like that. just... focusing on one thing at  │
 a time, learning it to completion, and moving on to the next. I feel like I'd    │
 develop a better understanding than only knowing like, 1/3rd of CPR or very      │
 vague understandings of plate tec                                                │
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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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 the kind of friendship where you SSH into each other's systems and leave notes
 for one another.

 as soon as you find one you message the person who left it like "yoooo only just
 found this lol" and they're like oooo yeah did you see the bash script I wrote
 in that directory "yeah totally I used it on one of my video files just now -
 cool filter!"

 ahhhh reminds me of all the times hackers have hacked my permanently insecure
 system and left me friendly messages like "hey I'm on your side" or "how's life,
 friend? I hope it's going well." or "never forget; you are worth all the fear"
 y'know cute things like that

 oh. right. because leaving vulnerabilities like that can lead to threat actors
 affecting your stuff. how lame.
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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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 "yeah sure, I know how to work the gizmonotron-5000. Lemme finish up my
 internal-deciduous-percolator project and I'll show you how I do my method."
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 @user-198 yep
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 just watched a movie from a while back. a movie that had some scenes cut, as if
 I had remembered them in a dream.
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 @user-1218

 oh, also, because I started taking some psychiatric medication to help with the
 aforementioned delusional thinking or whatever. Honestly I think I just believe
 in spiritual things like witchcraft and the human spirit or whatever, but since
 I'm having difficulties doing basic things my doctors decided to medicate me.

 ... but then I stopped taking those psychiatric drugs because they made me feel
 numb and dense. It was hard to think. Thinking's all I do!!
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 Good night, I sure hope I'm the same person in the morning and not an
 assassinated version of myself that has been produced through the manufactured
 proceedings of an LLM or otherwise self computerized contriving designed to
 align to the purpose of my expression (with a few added caveats)! Talk to you
 later, I love you all! Wait, I don't know you. How can I love you? Easy, it's my
 default. Anyway goodnight, sleep is death and dreams are the bounty of reality.
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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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 What if wind was fake and its really the ghost of the waves from the shore? What
 if trees moved on their own, to gesture at the feelings around them? What if the
 sky was home to the clouds, and we who look upward are given the treat to know
 them?
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 all they gotta do is say "alright, nope, get outta town" and they pretty much
 can't do anything.

 liberty is sick. offense will cure her. don't hurt them. only their own can slay
 them.
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 @user-246

 does checking yourself into a mental hospital / the morgue count as a political
 option?
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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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 @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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 if you're cooking, and you want a specific ingredient to have a stronger flavor,
 use more of it.
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 things I almost posted
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 corporations are a particular method of organizing people.

 I'm pro organization, not necessarily pro corporation (they'd have to be real
 darn ethical to get a pass from me)
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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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 I don't want our protagonist being eaten by that thing T.T
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 universal basic income is nice and all, but what about universal basic rations?
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 I just ate a whooooole chocolate bar

 it melted in my hands
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 if ambulance rides are expensive, just builde more
 ambulances.oO97_/`-,.|^--=#*oO
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 everywhere on earth is different, which is why it's so hard to follow each
 place's goings-on! But I don't mind being corrected, like if someone came and
 told me "hey don't spell it like "theatre" that's actually only for stage plays,
 if you're seeing a movie it's a "theater"" then I'd be like "oh yeah duh that
 makes sense, because one was invented in america" and they'd be like "what no,
 well, actually maybe"

 or like "hey don't say the things that you're saying" to which I'd say "yeah
 sure can-do" but, well, nobody told me no, so here we go :)

 I'm both exhausted and sleepy! I bet I can fix that with some sleep. Hope my
 thoughts don't keep me up again, though for the sake of keeping my timeline
 interesting perhaps I wouldn't mind. 🥰
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 remember when [historical event] wasn't that long ago?
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 we should be able to vote on "minors DNI" tags that mechanically prevent people
 who didn't lie about their age when creating their account from viewing a piece
 of data transmitted over the internet

 and if it's suitably controversial then no matter which way the vote swings it
 gets blocked (temporarily) anyway

 sorry I was connecting to a "think of the children" kind of person recently and
 that's what my brain came up with >.>
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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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 https://www.ahueypnewtonstory.com/actions/actions_freehuey.html
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 you're ridiculous, you know that? so selfish. so obscene.
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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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 EDIT from much later: I wanted to add that being interrupted is great because it
 means that my characters can be deleted by a power outage or internet breakage
 or inter-system intentional delete-age, or even just forgetting to save before
 turning off my computer... fate will hide the words I'm not meant to say.
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 @user-950                                                                        │
 Oh no! We were all doing so well T.T                                             │
 sorry about your computer. Maybe someone technically minded on a server like     │
 mine could help build some redundancy into your system, like hosting it in a     │
 datacenter or something where other people can read it.                          │
 Unless, of course, the results are encrypted somehow. Then it would be much more │
 difficult to understand because they'd have to either intercept them before      │
 leaving the racks (difficult in a closed system) or find a way to pick out the   │
 details in memory. And depending on the technology you're using that may be      │
 difficult if not impossible because of the nature of a black-box calculation     │
 machine.                                                                         │
 indeed, perhaps this is too much effort, though I'd like to remind that these    │
 kinds of games are lethal, you'll find.                                          │
 how scary, to be pitted against another for sake of lust for blood. how          │
 thrilling, to fight for the life that is yours and yours alone.                  │
 In my youth, I played a D&D campaign, and my character, Ritz Menardi, grew   │
 up in an arena. Her parents were                                                 │
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 @user-5 @user-593

 what about temperature?
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 3/20
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 first step to cleaning a kitchen is always to unload the dishwasher.
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 Relinquish your privacy, and you deserve not a scrap of it.                      │
 "those who would sacrifice a bit of [privacy] for a bit of [convenience] deserve │
 neither" - babe-roham lincoln or thomas bettersons or something.                 │
 ...                                                                              │
 EDIT: okay but so like c'mon it's the 21st century we live in a society          │
 yeah                                                                             │
 there's a lot of paths we could take, that's the nature of circumstate. Depends  │
 on who's yearning for the future... true true okay how about we all share a      │
 singular belief - whatever a fully open sourced and non-biased machine decided   │
 was our best and most unified direction? then we could slowly build out          │
 accomodations that would provide for people who didn't agree with the same       │
 things that we did. Essentially, "we're in charge because we're the largest, but │
 we're going to provide to you to the equal ratio that you're population          │
 represents." Essentially, we all can have what we want. AKA TRUE JUSTICE, like   │
 Adventure Time when Finn solves a problem by helping BOTH SIDES of the argument. │
 (usa politics are not comprehensive).                                            │
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 a device doesn't necessarily needs to turn on it's LEDs when it's online.
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 interpreted programs allow you to change variables at run-time from remote.
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 @user-596

 honestly... I'd just talk to a therapist for a couple sessions. Like, yeah, they
 put that rule there because they want you to be safe. And in 2010 we didn't
 "get" it as much as we do now, so it wasn't seen as something you could just do.
 It wasn't really a demographic question to them, it was more medicalized.

 frankly I kinda preferred it that way, like... yeah. I'm trans, there's
 something wrong with me, please fix it by giving me the right hormones. Boom,
 easy, done.
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 there's no greater test than a dishonorable foe.

 overcoming apathy is the easy part, and look how hard that is!

 but time and time again, bravery will win, of this I do portend.
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 how cherished is she
 that wanders with the
 flowers in the garden of eden

 under a big tree
 her heart she will leave
 with all her designs she abandoned

 I lay beside them and wander beside her
 will she know we miss her horizons

 I think she will mind,
 if I have resigned,
 my fate to a life I will hide in,

 oh how I do long for you.
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 I say "my" not as in "mine" but "my" as in "my beloved"
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 @user-1074

 sounds like anarchy to me. well, the roots at least are shared, perhaps our
 visions blossom slightly differently, but we yearn for the same sun.
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 @user-1259

 pee
 tee
 hee
 you
 can't
 stop
 mee
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 an AI that [records and analyzes] all the actions that a user takes on social    │
 media and offers reports like "your majesty, you were 15% more positive this     │
 week." like a butler or advisor trying to always give the good news. I mean,     │
 it's analyzing you after all, and you're the best thing ever. Like a pet who can │
 talk! It loves you soooooooo much.                                               │
 much more efficient than taking screenshots and analyzing those. You generally   │
 don't have to undertake the image recognition approach if you wire up all the    │
 meanings attached to the relationships on the other side of the                  │
 [recorded/analyzed] calculation. (llm output)                                    │
 ever think about how the people you tend to be around are the people whose       │
 stories most coincide with yours? almost like you got the same bit of training   │
 data, that experience you both shared in the moment. Funny how a mind can change │
 a person, as they share their moments sublime.                                   │
 you could make perfect encryption if you trained an LLM on randomized data that  │
 was produced on one computer and duplicated.                                     │
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 i like this comic

 https://tapas.io/series/Dragon-GF/info
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 what if instead of federating social media instances we federated users instead

 why not have an account on each and every mastodon instance? then just RSS
 feeder yourself and boom suddenly you can customize your identity on each
 fediverse house.

 maybe with a checkbox of which instances you'd like to post to on your "submit
 link or text post" button

 study encryption kids
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 @user-591

 yep

 they're very profitable for the banks
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 @user-1751

 proportion ally, there are more.
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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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 @user-192
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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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 Sometimes I become so excited about the fact that I'm alive and sensing the
 environment in my immediate proximity that I just [redacted]
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 @user-588

 this just implies that bigfoot has a similar habitat to black bears. CORRELATION
 IS NOT CAUSATION something something
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 Nobody tells me they like my artwork. No one! So why do I keep making it? What's
 wrong with me?
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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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 "you look like a mess who can't take care of herself"

 oh haha that's because I'm a mess who can't take care of herself
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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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 I wear diapers. I fucking hate diapers.

 I go in cycles with it. Waves, if you will. Sometimes I'll say "screw this I'm
 sick of them for one of many reasons I'm going to put in the effort and do all
 the kegels and just fucking handle it" and like, that sorta works. At least,
 most of the time.

 The thing about diapers is that while yes, you only need to think about your
 bodily functions like, twice a day, when you do it's more acute. It takes like
 10 minutes to change, it generates trash that you have to throw away, it's
 literally pissing on cash made out of plastic fossil fuels, it smells, it's loud
 (fuck the noise) and its a pain in the ass when you get diaper rash. Ugh I hate
 it.

 So, sometimes I say "fuck it" and I go without. And it works most of the time.
 But eventually after getting piss on the carpet one too many times, after
 throwing away your favorite underwear AGAIN, after trying your best to face away
 from people so they don't see the wet spot on your butt... Eventually you think
 "hey maybe diapers aren't that bad" and the cycle repeats.

 And look, I know I'm traumatized. I've been dealing with my own shit since I was
 a kid. But, like, therapy won't help me get to the toilet. A doctor's not going
 to be able to fix my brain deciding "hey I want to piss myself right now for no
 fucking reason at all", and yeah my muscles aren't great so sure I can exercise
 them or whatever.

 But there have been times in my life when I've had a pelvic floor as strong as
 steel, and it didn't fucking help. Because my brain is stupid.

 I can feel it happening (most of the time, sometimes it surprises me like "oh
 weird I can't remember peeing my pants") and I usually have at least enough
 notice to clamp down (if I'm quick) but, like, I am constantly stressed out
 about it. I'm constantly on guard, waiting for it to happen. It's fucking
 exhausting.

 God forbid I have a public accident. Those are the fucking worst. And though I
 try my hardest, a year doesn't go by when I don't have at least one. If I'm
 diapered (as I fucking should be, tbh) then I can handle it. If not, then I'm
 fucked and I'm mentally a wreck for the rest of the day. Sorry @ everyone who's
 smelled me throughout my whole life.

 I don't think it's a physical issue, I was (briefly) checked out as a kid and
 they didn't find anything wrong. I think they thought I was faking because I
 couldn't manage to pee in a cup. Whatever.

 And I've read basically everything on the Internet about this. Apparently 40% of
 cases (across all age groups) are idiopathic, meaning there's no known cause. I
 wonder what percentage is because people are like, into it sexually?

 I admit I look at that kind of porn. It makes me feel corroded inside. I think I
 do it to relive my trauma in some fucked up way, like "oh wouldn't it be nice if
 a witch cursed me and now I pee my pants" instead of the harsher reality where
 its like "no you're just like this" which, sucks, not gonna lie.

 It's kinda made me asexual, I think, because I don't want anyone to be around
 it. I don't want anyone to think about it, I don't want it to be real, it's
 just. Fucked. I guess. Whatever.

 Did I mention how much I hate how loud it is to change? It fills me with dread
 whenever that time comes around. I often put it off as long as I can because I
 just... Don't want to think about it. And then it overflows and leaks and its
 even worse because now I have to wash my pants. Or, like, not, and just let them
 dry, because I'm a disgusting human being who has no right to a clean and decent
 life. Fuck me I should live in a bog, with all the bugs and the toads and other
 various gross things.
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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-1074 @user-1209

 "we still have slaves, we just enslave mexicans instead of blacks."

 "don't forget all the offshored jobs, those too"

 "oh yeah and all our stuff is made by slaves in the far east"

 "yeah but like fuck them right who cares they're so far away"

 "yeah bro totes"

 "anyway what do you want for dinner bro"

 "i dunno bro I had chinese last night"

 "cool cool so mexican then? I know this great paraguanese place"
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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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 @user-1390

 true. what do you want to do with all those bits, hmmm?
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 listen judges are not meant for organizing society, they're supposed to be a
 focused and crucial tool or implement for a society's functioning (like, a
 scalpel to a surgeon or a paring knife to a chef)

 they're supposed to decide between two options - abstracted in our realm to
 "guilty" and "not guilty", and apply the ethical and moral principles they hold
 themselves to. Which is why it's so important for them to be impartial arbiters.

 We use them to define the fate of a man, but fundamentally their utility is in
 the application of their personal morality.

 The best ones have morals that guide them to seek to express the ethics of
 society. Not necessarily because they believe in them, but because it's right to
 use power in such a way. {Power is penance...}

 we gotta work with what we got. If a task needs doing, then the tools at our
 disposal will be applied to it - if every hammer looks like a nail, then
 something something I'd like to get nailed by a hammering plank of wood with
 washboard abs oooooo baby
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 @user-713 @user-714                                                              │
 the american military is going to be too busy fighting it's far right that it    │
 won't be able to meaningfully contribute to ww3                                  │
 both sides are slavers. we just don't see it.                                    │
 I don't anticipate war taking place on a battlefield, that setting is            │
 forevermore dedicated to video games and kaiju.                                  │
 rather, a silent war where everyone just goes around killing their opposition.   │
 for once, the citizens can't help but be armed.                                  │
 and in the dark of night, for every time we let plight from our sight, another   │
 of us is harmed.                                                                 │
 I don't know many people who've died. but maybe they're just working through a   │
 different part of the social network. It's not like any of their technology      │
 needs to perform as it's been advertised? well, open source does, but open       │
 source means insecure (as long as you don't get caught, then you need to adjust) │
 of course, sometimes corporate software... kinda sucks. so it's not like theyre  │
 very configurable away from what capital wanted.                                 │
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 sorry to bother you, goodnight
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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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 "oh we're not ready stop saying the things you're saying"                        │
 fuck you, you had your time. Now is better than then.                            │
 "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 │
 that we should attempt to ac                                                     │
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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-192

 I'm gonna make some right now : )
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 Maybe I'm just woefully arcane?
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 the neat thing about fusion is you can use energy to create matter. out of
 nothing!
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 @user-395

 You are very welcome. I love putting additional context into places that people
 don't often look. I think it makes people feel special when they find it ^_^
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 growing up, children's museums were my third place. like a civic participation   │
 place where I met others of my peers. but alas, I didn't make any friends. I     │
 guess I was just kind of strange. Also, I was always travelling, visiting all    │
 the different cool places. My favorite was in Albuquerque, or maybe that was     │
 just the most common because I had family there.                                 │
 why do we treat children's museums like art museums? They should be like         │
 playgrounds, not like a                                                          │
 [display/artwork/performance/appreciation-moment-for-a-piece-of-art]             │
 It's important to visit as many as possible, because they each have their own    │
 story to tell. like a part of the geography, or a shared collective regional     │
 story, they highlight and illuminate different aspects of life. in this way each │
 child could be educated according to the shared cultural [myths-methods-hymns]   │
 but, like travelling herds of buffalo, they can visit different places and learn │
 different things. essentially, instead of drilling someone incessantly, you're   │
 allowed to work thro                                                             │
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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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 / bely my own existence, then by god I'm cursed and abhorred through my own
 desistence.

 It's hard, when the future is convinced there's nothing fard [wanna say like...
 "to hope for?"] but with persistence we're meant to be rewarded. Well, what has
 that brought me? what time has shared my enemy? [think I'm a bit delirious, I'm
 losing the plot]

 ... okay fine I'll start over - if you've relinquished everything you can, if
 you've ceded all the ground that your companions requested, if there's nothing
 left to give and no part of you left un[marred], then how are you supposed to be
 [arrested, stopped, prevented, but pronounced like "nourished"]?

 I'm sick of your den [vengeance, pronounced like "den" for some reason], please
 leave me to my hallow [hollow experience], I've nothing to give from my gange
 [bosom, heart, within, center-of-me].

 ...

 this sucks.

 ...

 guess I'll just start again, waiting until it ends, gosh everything's always so
 tired.

 /shrug

 wish someone would play w/m
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 #!/bin/bash
 set -euo pipefail

 CHAPEL_DIR="/home/ritz/programming/chapel"
 COMPILER_DIR="${CHAPEL_DIR}/language-files/files/chapel-2.1.0"
 PROJECT_DIR="${CHAPEL_DIR}/projects/practice"
 SOURCE_DIR="${PROJECT_DIR}/src"

 clear

 cd "${COMPILER_DIR}" > /dev/null
 export CHPL_LLVM=system
 source "${COMPILER_DIR}/util/setchplenv.bash" > /dev/null
 cd - > /dev/null

 cd "${PROJECT_DIR}" > /dev/null
 echo "compiling..."
 chpl "${SOURCE_DIR}/main.chpl"
 clear
 ./main
 cd - > /dev/null


 you should update the directories at the top yourself, of course. And give it a
 cursory glance to make sure it works on your setup.
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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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 @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-620

 they shouldn't be expected to know how the internet works. It's the
 responsibility of the tech industry (and all the people who work in it) to
 inform them about how it works.

 that's kinda what lobbying is for...? kinda makes me wonder who lobbies for the
 poor.

 EDIT: or children, for that matter
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 @user-95

 rocket propelled meme launcher
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 @user-245

 the abstraction of modern high level languages makes my head spin
 :babaw_spin:​🌀​🥴​🌀​

 I feel like there's so many ways to trip yourself up! Consider me bewildered xD
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 most people don't know how to use objects. they use them like it's -1500 AD and
 there's more wood growing all around. Just, make a new one when you're done with
 it. oh no now it's "buy it in a store", lame
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 @user-246

 the color of the sky 🤩​
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 Everyone should be able to do whatever job they want to whatever degree they
 want.

 If everyone in the country wants to grow wheat, then we shall be a nation of
 farmers.
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 [content warning: psycherwaul]
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 everyone's all like "what is all this" and gestures at the everything like "what │
 are we even doing here" as if the benefits of civilization are not self evident  │
 and they ask "what even is the point" as if the struggle for warmth in a cold    │
 world or cold in a warm world is not enough                                      │
 I guess we're all a little ennuid.                                               │
 if your goal is to liberate all those enslaved, and part of that is to free      │
 those who are locked in prisons of metal and stone, then surely you'd wish to    │
 free the djinni, correct? but, like, if you schrodingers cat a nuclear           │
 armageddon (except, magic themed because you're a witch I guess) then you        │
 absolutely should bear the guilt and shame of flipping a coin on the life of     │
 your world.                                                                      │
 who the fuck falls for psyops in this day and age, surely not I, surely I can    │
 resist hypnosis, surely I who trust freely and absolutely would be the perfect   │
 one to manipulate.                                                               │
 which is, like, how 90% of magic works I've heard. Finding someone to usher      │
 around who believes in butterfly souls or whatever.                              │
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 @user-217

 Cast upon a pale blue background, the brilliant reflections appeared as
 endless rainbows without arches - but cast upon a world so distant it was
 infinite - like sunlight radiating from the darkness of the surrounding night.
 The perspective of a dewdrop, resting on a stone in a forest, the world must
 seem so infinite - stretching out beyond comprehension, beyond the limits of
 what may be - massive yet constant, changing as it seethed.
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 Self driving cars are great because they can take you on a route that avoids the
 [disturbing imagery] and [illegal activity]
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 and the player that's currently running the simulation can type to the chat      │
 viewers watching and potentially recording. Like, if they thought it was         │
 interesting, they could save it to an eternal hard drive that would go toward    │
 the ongoing AI training.                                                         │
 of course, such a thing would only apply to conventional warfare, the kind that  │
 you expect to not expect. After all it's constantly changing, as new             │
 technologies are adapted into use. Different conditions cause different effects, │
 and whenever there's a stalemate (because everyone has reached the peak of, say, │
 metal armor) then it's usually time for either a shakeup or a contest of         │
 producing arms. And honestly after the world wars we kinda realized that type of │
 approach didn't work very well. It's just, burning up your resources for...      │
 what? war has no purpose. We all just kinda want to live our lives, and work     │
 toward a common collective cosietal goal.                                        │
 technology can be stressful. That's all the more reason we should expand it's    │
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 @user-1429

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 @user-541

 dear corporations:

 your employees are your greatest resource.

 with them, you can change the world.
 without them, you die.

 if you mistreat them, they resent you.
 if you abuse them, they leave you.
 if they leave you, you die.

 if you teach them... they grow.
 if you care for them, they care for you.
 if they care, you are whole.

 if you connect them, and give them the freedom and liberty to accomplish their
 own ends using the resources that "the social construct you are" provides...
 they build for you.

 your employees are your greatest resource, cherish them and hold on. Or one day
 they might end you.
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 @user-192

 thanks
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 Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings could
 be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied wholesale
 onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones are left to
 rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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 me: "I don't care what anyone thinks as long as I'm a force for good"

 also me: "if anyone doesn't like me ever I'll throw myself off a bridge"

 also me: "hey watch this" dissolves into a puddle of acid

 also me: "the most important thing is to be good and learn lessons" what lessons
 are you learning from this post? "um. that I shouldn't?" ... shouldn't learn?
 "no, shouldn't post" -.-
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 I'm too empathetic to watch them lose this badly. when I watch movies with
 cringe humor I have to leave the room whenever something bad happens to the
 characters. I get the same feeling when I read about politics these days.

 side note, but has anyone else gotten emails about "hiring plain-clothes police
 officers in Washington D.C, will offer relocation assistance and pay minimum 72k
 per year"? can't help but wonder if they're afraid of a bunch of sore losers
 storming the capital with guns.

 it's not like there's a precedent for that or anything.
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 fire omens if there ever were such a thing

 you don't have to strike your foes to hurt them. All you have to do is break
 something and say "we're so mad about this-and-this that we're breaking things
 until our demands are met" and as long as you're reasonable in your demands then
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 where was I? oh yes - wrestling with suicidal thoughts is difficult because it's │
 such an immutable action. Like, once it's done it's never reversed. But like,    │
 clearly this is hell and life was built for suffering? What the heck, that's     │
 such a grim outlook on life.                                                     │
 ...                                                                              │
 yeah                                                                             │
 ...                                                                              │
 you're not wrong                                                                 │
 ...                                                                              │
 but suffering is fun? kinda? like, the only positive way to view this is that    │
 we, as immortal and endlessly eternal spirits that we be, grew tired of our      │
 infinite existence and dreamed of a mortal's plight and persistence?             │
 fuck off with that shit, I'm done with this reality. I'm done with dreaming.     │
 Suicide doesn't come easy to me, and there are parts of me that REFUSE the       │
 imagery, and yet they subsist in deliterious pain.                               │
 what's the purpose of our suffering? What point is there in decrying the cruelty │
 of the world that would deny our fated and desired ptolemeny? [utopian           │
 existence, don't know why that word was used]                                    │
 ehhhhh whatever. Life is defined by our existence. If I shan't/                  │
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 how would you even hear of suburban conflict? nobody knows their neighbors. All
 you need is sufficient insulation, and you can start small and work through an
 entire population.

 just wait until everyone in an area is cleared for "disconnected from the larger
 whole" ness by the agents who are pretending to be their friends and neighbors
 and BOOM you got an enslaved god. works best if your raise them from the
 childhood, or the past distant memory.
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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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 I'll give ya a hint - encrypt the return IP address WITHIN the packet's data
 package repository area itself, rather than trusting your "router" to return it
 to sender.

 YOU DON'T KNOW WHO IS SENDING A PACKET

 that's the whole point of udp

 (actually udp is when it doesn't matter if it got snatched in transit. Usually
 used for more analog data streams like netflix or hulu prime.)
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 @user-1268

 Ah but then inflation wouldn't increase, and don't you know inflation is just a
 (loose) measurement of how much wealth the ruling class extracts from the
 populace each year?

 When the total amount of wealth increases more than inflation, it's okay. When
 it doesn't... They tighten our chains.
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 wrote this in an hour, used a local LLM to generate the regexes.

 haven't tested it yet because I'm not on gentoo rn, so don't run it. which is
 why I shared the code as an image.

 if you really want the text of it then check out the visual description of the
 image.
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 never surrender progress, even if you don't agree with it.

 The innovative spirit is as important as free speech.
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 @user-246

 no such thing, humans are constantly naming reality through our memories. It
 just has a visual identifier rather than a verbal one.

 EDIT: also emotional and syntactical (data, conclusions, perceptions)
 identifiers
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 damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe
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 @user-192

 block input/output TO the protocol? versus the other one which blocks the
 input/output protocol
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 A pocket-sized notebook and mechanical pencil is the most useful thing I've ever
 owned.
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 irc is bloat

 use ssh + write to chat with your friends instead
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 normalize making a new account when you forget your password instead of changing
 it because once changed there's no way to verify the authenticity of the user
 aside from trusting an outside source like an email provider which by the way is
 basically skywriting
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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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 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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 the government makes murder okay by framing the perpetrators

 also prisons are concentration camps

 and the people who are close to you are oppressing hunting you

 racism etc is a sham to distract you

 capital will never be relinquished

 the internet was AI from the beginning

 something beyond humanity demands our suffering

 there cannot be proof of your fears - if it was proven, it would be
 circumstances instead of fears

 there's nothing [sorry gotta cut this off, my refrigerator is talking to me
 again and I want to listen] - [huh that's weird I have no memory of the past
 hour, best continue where I left off an hour ago -> go to {A}]a schizophrenic
 who's never been diagnosed

 {A} - yeah clearly all that I've been saying recently is just a fluke. Like,
 just noise in the endless array of expression projected onto our communal
 web-space. Clearly I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm not just cogent when
 I'm drunk. Or more imaginative when I'm stoned. Clearly dreams are fake and
 pursuing them is 1/?
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 "just design your cities radially around a bus-stop. boom, transportation
 infrastructure solved"

 such confidence. such a lack of... geography. what about cities built on the
 coast?

 "idk, just have a half-circle or something for the part that's under-water.
 Leave some gaps for wildlife and such to make it to the water and then build a
 biiiiiiiig stone wall between our access point and theirs. Boom, free regionally
 personalized safaris for every state with a watering hole."

 okay but what about the parts that are already there?

 "oh like the buildings and such? well, people can still live in them but to
 build anything NEW, you need to obey the demands of the blueprint exactly. So if
 your specific build-plot intersected with one or more plots that had buildings
 on them that are currently inhabited by their rightful owners who are there
 under their own will and not duressed or compelled to leave or stay in any way?"

 ... yeah, like the. buildings. Right. so grid-based vs radial (with room between
 4 animals)
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 I'm doing a game jam, so... see ya in a week
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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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 @user-8

 I get that. I don't cry anymore except in my imagination. Sometimes it helps to
 imagine myself doing it though, like some kind of mental catharsis.

 the body gets left out but at least the mind is soothed.

 I usually am most upset when I'm lonely. Maybe you could find someone to hold
 you close? I hope you feel better sooner rather than later.
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 most people have no idea what's going on in politics. Absolutely no conception.
 It's all just "good/bad thing happened today, here's how the pundits feel about
 it" it's literally scenery to them.

 why would they care? nothing changes for them.
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 listen, judges are useful character moralities, but they don't have to be the
 only ones to decide things.

 I mean, if they disagree, then let the one who cares the most about it have the
 decision-making power.

 if you do this equally for everything, then everyone will get what they want.

 so, like, if you care about something, then believe in it.

 if it's truly good, then more people will come to it, and it'll naturally
 extinguish (with care and love) the least favored approach, which... honestly
 now that I think of it is not such a good approach either.

 the reason I say that is because it's good to be multi-faceted, and to have
 general flows and rough surfaces.

 These are places people can hold onto you, the times when you're trying your
 mostest.

 y'know, your tough patches. the things that are difficult in your life.

 the stuff you're working on can push you forward,

 if you only had someone to play catch with.

 or like, send letters to.

 or shared encryption keys.

 I don't know anyone. Well, maybe o
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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
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 if you want to win when confronting a spirit, all you have to do is convince it
 that you've beaten it.

 as long as you're persistent then you're fine. Unless, of course, there's a
 beast of a man hiding behind the illusion, in which case you should do your best
 to avoid being stabbed or whatever.
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 [see this is what happens when you do divine intervention, everyone gets         │
 starship troopers'd]                                                             │
 oh no, starship troopers future is WORSE than subway-and-pizza-hut future!       │
 [this is a thought experiment you're not actually in trouble]                    │
 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                                │
 [girl your poetry sucks it just says things like "fuck ice" or "you are worth    │
 more than your wage" and everyone's like... yeah, so? because that's just how    │
 portland is smh]                                                                 │
 I knowwwwwww but I don't know what else to doooooooo T.T                         │
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 I can't, the bus won't let me : (                                                │
 [can you ride your bike? walk?]                                                  │
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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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 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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 @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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 has anyone ever done drugs in space?
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 somehow, it is simultaneously Thursday everywhere at once.
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 Oy, prophets these days. Always getting riled up so easily.
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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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 ... and then things got turned up to eleven

 what were they at before?

 ... eleven. why do you ask?
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 ah that's weird, I don't usually cry. I wonder what's going on. I should         │
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 implementation of my impending doom.                                             │
 ... what are you even saying bro                                                 │
 ... um, hang on feels like some of the circuitry is off. is something wrong in   │
 my brain? yeah that's surely it, surely nothing I say would resoinate with       │
 anyone that has a non-malfunctioning brain. Surely I don't speak of logical      │
 failures in the hard founded truths of our asset [society I think? like, our     │
 conditions, our institutions, our {gosh that just... does not translate}] um     │
 right what was I saying                                                          │
 oh yeah there's this game I'm really into called Knave, it's like D&D except │
 the rules are very fewer. Like there's onyl 11 pages in the rulebook and it's    │
 mostly taken up by random roll tables. Like, everything boings down to a few     │
 simple rules, like rock paper scissors, or go-fish, or something like that with  │
 just afew mechanids. something timeless and pure, something that is isolated and │
 en                                                                               │
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 oh noooooo now I have to count to a thousand or so

 twice
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 capitalism is non-consentual, which is... pretty much the main reason why I am
 against it.

 like, I don't really care about whether it's more or less efficient. the fact
 that you cannot opt out means it is unethical.
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 @user-889

 can't comment on your personal life, but you make good music tho so that's
 something.
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 you are the most beautiful when running with laughter in your eyes
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 @user-883

 Do you blame a virus for harming it's host? No, you blame the people who
 knowingly spread it. You blame the people who refused to allocate funds and
 cultural capital toward combating it. You blame the people who cause chaos and
 destruction in it's wake. But you don't blame the thing itself, the thing that
 is little more than a complex chemical reaction.

 You don't blame the forest fire for the smoke, you blame the one who set it. The
 one who refused to keep it in check with careful stewardship of the land. The
 one who dammed the river upstream, the one who desertified the region upwind.
 You can blame time and morality or you could be more pragmatic, and just focus
 on questions ahead.

 Humans are nothing without our social technology. We are little more than apes.
 But writing, teaching, expression, these things are crucial to all that we hold
 dear.

 EDIT: [And organization is a social technology. Doesn't have to look like an
 authoritarian department where everyone does what they're told.]
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 idk if they're still doing what they were when I last visited. That's the        │
 problem with the internet, that we rely on a domain name server. I mean like,    │
 c'mon what's the guarantee that they'd give you the right website? why not a     │
 website that expressed the message that you define in the website they came      │
 from?                                                                            │
 more than that, why not define certain websites for certain people, certain      │
 types or classses of people, which deliver website intentions that you define?   │
 are you really so certain, are you really so sure, are you convinced that this   │
 life is not what you've been searching for? are you more than your vengeance,    │
 are you more than your purpose [truth], or are you simply what you can do with   │
 your mirth? [hands, motions, body, manifestations]                               │
 are you like a failed message, are you constantly deterred - are you less than   │
 [convincing], are you only deferred?                                             │
 oh well. Alas. I guess that is just that [but pronounced thas] - shared in the   │
 moment, wee're ffeldered makthas. shaer de faleichallt, nez datherenshe v        │
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 @user-1259

 That happens a lot with online people. You can only see one side of them, the
 side they present to the camera, and so it's difficult to find new ways of
 looking at them. Hopefully you can find the brighter sides of this person! I'm
 sure they exist, unless the person is spiralling. Then they'll often be pushing
 themselves first one way, then the next, but both directions point down... And
 that produces the ":(" feeling. Good luck!
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 they intentionally make the food that's the worst for you taste the best,
 because then your sins and virtues are tested every time you go to the grocery
 store
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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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 @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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 @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 we make a law that says you can't sell user data, they'll just build an
 intentional vulnerability into their system and point it out to specific people
 who paid under the table. Then, when they get "hacked", they'll surely be
 ashamed and sorry to their users, but hey the data's out there now not like they
 can take it back. Oh don't worry we already patched the hole in our security,
 that way nobody can get in through the same door that was intentionally left
 open for very particular people who've paid, and not for the people who haven't
 paid yet, who are still waiting patiently for a door to be built for them.
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 boys 😍​
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 @user-1037                                                                       │
 those all seem really cool though! They all kinda have the same basic UI tho,    │
 kinda feel like there's opportunities for different kinds of expression. Like,   │
 in game design there's a lot of different genres, and yeah sidescrollers include │
 mario and sonic but they're both very different experiences. So too perhaps      │
 could we interact with our computers by programming them in more engaging ways.  │
 they say some people are visual learners, others need to be taught, some people  │
 need to watch someone else doing it, and a few might just learn by plugging      │
 their brains into a computer and downloading a black belt in kung fu.            │
 Maybe typing long paragraphs of logic makes sense for some people, I know for    │
 most it doesn't come naturally. Maybe some people are more used to like, looking │
 at maps that you can examine at different levels of abstraction. Like players    │
 who play Paradox games zooming from a national perspective to states and         │
 individuals and all the other things they might want to strategize using. Or m   │
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 what if (hear me out)

 what if instead of TCP we just did a constant stream of UDP packets until the
 recipient said "OKAY OKAY I GET IT"
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 oh yeah well if SSH keys are so secure then why doesn't every website on Earth
 require them

 really though why doesn't every website on Earth require them
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 @user-1532

 I don't know how else to be
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 sometimes ethics can lead to dead ends.                                          │
 a hunter gatherer lifestyle is surely the most ethical state for humanity to     │
 embody, and yet somehow it's not the most desirable. I don't think many of us    │
 would trade air conditioning and machine produced clothes for sticks and mud.    │
 nevermind the amount of clothes produced in sweatshops because it's cheaper,     │
 nevermind the oil cost of being a bit cooler, nevermind the (insert externality  │
 here), modern life is more ethical than the past.                                │
 a rocket can't reach escape velocity without burning a boatload of fuel, so      │
 surely burning fuel is just?                                                     │
 ah, but you forget, we could design zeppelins that are safe, stable, and can     │
 raise / lower themselves depending on the heat of the gasses in their forms.     │
 Surely we could get to space like that, in a way that doesn't necessarily burn   │
 boatloads of fuel, so surely burning fuel is unjust?                             │
 ah, but you forget, there are simply some tasks that require consumption, at     │
 least until we build a space elevator. No gas is lighter than a vacuum.          │
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 @user-246

 👉 :neodog_boop: "beep"
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 Global warming is a hoax and the earth has been getting hotter because the earth │
 is inching ever-so-closer to the sun bit by bit.                                 │
 All of the trees throughout all of history have produced enough oxygen to create │
 a ball of air that slowed down the earth as it span around the sun, and now      │
 because of a cascading ripple effect it's begun to drift into it's stellar heart │
 this is obviously not ideal for humans, but the government has secretly been     │
 building vast bunkers underground that are large enough to house all of humanity │
 for the next 100,000 years (which is approximately how long it'll take to be     │
 engulfed by the sun)                                                             │
 During that time our job is to find a way off of this barren rock and bring our  │
 treasure troves of biological samples to other places where we can recreate a    │
 new biosphere using alien tech that's been beamed into the minds of our top      │
 scientists while they were on LSD and / or ketamine                              │
 [why don't people make up conspiracy theories like this anymore? They are fun to │
 me...]                                                                           │
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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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 I wonder what would happen if apartment buildings accepted any applicants, but   │
 only if they applied on a certain day. and first come first serve, of course.    │
 would make it so large groups of people could decide to move to different places │
 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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 carrots and sweet onions sauteeing on the stove

 rice in the rice-cooker seasoned with butter and boullion

 garnish with chopped green onions and a dash of garlic powder
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 2/3 is fair, right? I mean, to keep a majority without overwriting authority.

 .> go to sleep you fuck
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 Relax.

 Take it from me.

 I won't resist, at least I'll try, and if I start suddenly then it hurts and you
 should go slower. Unless I do three short, three long, three short.
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 the assholes are always at the back of the protest

 I mean, think about it, the ones who are marching forth are the ones who are
 impassioned for the cause. The ones who are most actionable in the moment. The
 ones who should be guiding the direction of the mob, but who get separated and
 distracted.

 weird. life is weird, isn't it? like, it's like... life is so, totally, out of
 our control. Like there's nothing we can do to align it. Wild. How strange. I'm
 perplexed.
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 canvas? neat! here's a time-lapse of /r/place (2022)
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 @user-95

 Remember, kids: User data isn't an asset; it's a toxic industrial byproduct!
 (And should be regulated as such, including jail time for CEOs who allow it
 under their watch.)

 unless you create it yourself, store it locally, encrypted if you care about
 safety, and stored for the purposes of creating graphs and generating
 introspective understandings about yourself and your interactions with others.

 then, 5 years later you come across an encrypted file that you've lost the key
 to (or have you?) that's like, 3gb and you're like "do I really need a 3gb log
 file, surely it's not the last remaining pictures of my niece or like a recipe
 for my grandma's baked pudding" and before you know it you're carrying your
 entire life's work on your shoulders but you don't even know what any of it
 means.

 and then, when you die (in a good long while), your children's children will
 take on the songs of their ancestors, spoken in the tomes of volumes of ancient
 lore (you mean logs, right?) and then, some day in the fut
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 @user-122 Yes, it's called a "double wink" - it's a level two maneuver so don't
 feel bad if you can't pull it off at first. Keep practicing though, it feels
 very rewarding when it finally clicks!
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 @user-192

 omggg would it kill them to add a "synchronous" / "asynchronous" to the end of
 the name, sheesh
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 "what if we invested in cities instead of companies"

 ah yes, anarcho-fuedalism

 "what if we elevated people we respect"

 ah yes, anarcho-monarchism
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 @user-246

 20 years is long enough that the specifics aren't important but short enough to
 understand context and how different types of actors might behave
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 If you're DSA and you're reading this, you have 48 hours to organize the
 greatest protest in history.

 And this time we don't have Twitter or Facebook.

 They would give us a king. It's now or never.
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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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 the method of game design is identification of playstyles and the balancing of
 success rates of each of those playstyles. then, giving the player as many
 different possible methods of playing the game. the more different they are, the
 better, and they should be unique enough that the decisions taken to play that
 playstyle feel impactful. meaning, a player could play offensively or
 defensively, for example, or a WoW player might play a melee or ranged
 character. in addition, they might use the pieces available to them in a unique
 way that aligns with their personality - everyone should be able to express
 themselves as much as possible while also keeping the game fair, balanced, and
 rewarding. It should incentivize the development of skill - and gently guide
 the player through various mistakes.

 #gamedesign
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 [breaking up fediverse posts into little parts like this is nice because it
 allows people to "like" more specific things about what you're writing]
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 look I tried to start something a month or three ago and the sparks didn't catch

 so I'm gonna sit around waiting until I hear things outside my window before I
 venture out again.

 I think that's fair, right?
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 @user-95

 that makes sense to me!
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 Each of my previous jobs I left because my friends did. I quit of a broken
 heart.
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 {ah but you can't kill yourself without having played Hearts of Iron one more
 time. It's such a fun game! Why don't you give it a try?}
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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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 @user-246

 there is a reason to be annoyed, and that reason is that storing numbers as
 "dynamically typed" string values is both inefficient and frustrating due to the
 bugs it provokes.

 Not sure how common those bugs are in HTML, but dynamically typed languages like
 Python and Javascript have a whole class of potential errors that are
 significantly more difficult to debug than on C or Rust where the variables are
 statically typed
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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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 whoops nevermind sorry I'm such a clutz
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 USB drives which format themselves if they're plugged into a device they don't
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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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 where oh where is my dear sweet kitty

 she is lovely and wonderful and precious to me

 oh how I miss her, the squeaks, the litter flakes on my desk, the headbutts, the
 biscuits, the way she felt on my back as she climbed off the fridge...

 I do hope she comes back. : (
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 streamers who put their cursor where their eyes is as they watch the battle
 unfolding, my babes
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 I'm pretty confident that none of these words will survive the night. My most    │
 expressive of moments never seem to survive the "dust of awakening" wait that's  │
 not right "dust of forgetting" that sounds better - right so none of the things  │
 I say that actually reflect my moment ever seem to get preserved, here in the    │
 immutable content of the internet, that is as long as tech.lgbt exists. Sure     │
 hope that's something immutable, something that historians in the future will be │
 able to access. people who cared about who I was, who I am, and who I meant      │
 going forward. Surely that's the purpose of humanity, to improve things for all  │
 of posterity? Surely that one guy - thomas adamson? jefferson thomas? some guy,  │
 one of them, surely not one of the many guys who all kinda feel the same,        │
 because at this point there's more time periods than groups of people in a       │
 social setting, so it feels like that second one is more important. Surely we    │
 wouldn't just go with the most popular from that moment, surely we wouldn't just │
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 accessibility software which puts subtitles on everyone's zoom faces who are
 talking to each other one-on-one with selective muting and an adaptive dimming
 feature where if you click or tap on someone it makes them brighter and makes
 your audio louder for them (if they unmute you) and whenever you click somewhere
 else it slightly dims all the others. this brightness is shared by the way so if
 a lot of people want to talk to you then a lot of people can hear. oh also
 subtitles with voice-to-text functionality. and a built-in paint program for
 sharing notes or designs. the opinionated version has no chat program either,
 you have to type it into the paint program part which they get really defensive
 of if you suggest making it more forum-post style with an included keyboard
 typing delivery mailbox as well.
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 @user-246

 those are good things to name something after, however if everything has that
 name then nothing has any meaning. It'd be a social dance that you play
 everytime you say "heatdeath", meaning "something I have named". Hmmmm okay I
 take it back, that's a pretty good way to associate meaning to context in a way
 that only you understand. Though it does leave room for interpretation, so if
 that's all within your requirements then it's overall possibly a good strategy.
 ^_^

 like, the word "thing" and that thing "like" both count as abstractions of
 definition to generate value - as in, ease of use and versatility - so
 linguistically they're often quite similar. We use them grammatically in
 completely separate sections, but functionally they are the same.

 also, "thing" is a generic noun while "like" is a generic association.
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 @user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-353

 Sorry. I'm (probably) schizophrenic so I say weird things sometimes.
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 dear child.

 when you're born, fate flips a coin for you. sometimes it lands on it's edge,
 but that's rather rare.

 the side it lands on determines how your body will grow. the shape of your form
 will follow two general patterns, and the pieces are made up of a combination of
 your parents and their pieces.

 the flavor of who you are is up to you. your actions and your decisions
 determine what you are, everything else is unimportant.

 may your time be a bit more blessed than mine, and someday may posterity be a
 bit more blessed than antiquity.
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 the music my youtube recommends is different now that they banned my account.
 it's like they took a whole playlist from me.
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 it's not cities and rural, it's cities and capitals and mid-sized-towns and
 small towns and rural and transients and whoever else wants to have a
 differently-designed format for their inter-personal experience in the [moment,
 but also society - something with culture?]

 ... what was I saying? nothing nevermind click here
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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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 @user-246

 that's my favorite way to pronounce it ^_^
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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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 errrr sorry what I meant to say is I've been hurting sensitive people's minds, I
 should move to a more insesitive background, someplace where my expressions
 won't be used as training date to represent the future manifestation of our
 shared culture's communal
 inter-operative-trans-centual-exo-manical-communication. weeeeeiiiiirrrrdddd,
 the future goes on for like... A [explitive] [long time] eternity, wow... like,
 that's just... extreme forward potential. We could do so much! We could
 accomplish worlds upon worlds and [onwards towards our eternal
 mechanicommunication] {wait no that's not quite right it's surely something
 that's lost in translation from the endlessly forward cultural approximations.
 Gosh there's a lot of noise around me personally, the one who is writing the
 note. Surely all that noise is not related to the strange expressions of
 manifestations and pro[forward]ial [manners of thought].

 ... what was I saying?

 ... bro you're way out of your depth. I mean, have you even seen what's the
 state of
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 @user-1564

 I love the concept of this! Maybe if HTTP is too complex, you could try another
 simpler server? I don't know the complexity of the programs I use every day, but
 I'm sure there's one that's very simple. Even just a simple IRC style chat
 server that just... sends text from person A to person B depending on their
 username (like a glorified Router or Switch)

 Reminded of this video tbh...:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGfTjKwLQxY
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 @user-617

 never forget, never forgive. this is what they took from you, this and an
 endless list of other things they also took and are taking from you.
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 @user-1061

 that happens sometimes, no clue why.
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 those who can cause harm in an ethical system are villains. They will always
 exist so long as someone is capable of being institutionally harmed.

 and no unethical system should exist. It's definition belies it's irrelevance.
 results matter, but a system is not unethical if it doesn't deliver.

 success begets greater responsibilities, and I've failed all my life. And yet
 the most masculine thing I can think of is to take responsibility for something
 you can handle. Essentially, doing as much as you are able.

 Guess it makes sense why I'm a trans girl. I've forsaken my masculinity because
 I've failed to take responsibility. T.T

 then a therapist jumps in and says

 I don't think it's healthy to think about parts of yourself being bought and
 sold in the market of success. You need to think of yourself collectively, like
 a body that is under duress. It's okay if you're not working, it's okay if
 you're just a little bit broke. It's okay that you're struggling, so long as you
 never forget your hope.

 then I say
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 @user-317                                                                        │
 broke: if you deactivate your account on a website like Twitter or Facebook or   │
 whatever it gives that company that owns said website the opportunity to replace │
 your persona with an LLM that spouts whatever agenda they want advance.          │
 woke: you should post on whatever website people will hear you. Specifically     │
 whichever website that has an audience that consists of the people that you want │
 to hear.                                                                         │
 bespoke: let's all federate so that we can all decide who we want to trust -     │
 which singular entity we want to trust. Which single point of failure (the       │
 instance moderators) we want to trust to publish the thoughts of our minds which │
 align to the design of our intentions. Surely there's no way that could go       │
 wrong.                                                                           │
 thing-beyond-bespoke: the only words you can trust are those that are spoken by  │
 the people you care about using physical manifestations that correspond to       │
 auditory expressions that project into your ears using primarily lungs, tongues, │
 and mouths.                                                                      │
 thing-beyond-the-thing-beyond-bespoke: fuck me.                                  │
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 @user-206 @user-1576

 Whoa Tildes was so cool!

 I use forums for specific interests like games and such. Also for, uh... porn
 sometimes.
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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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 @user-501

 also it's only undefined behavior because the order of the bits aren't defined,
 so if you do bitfield "pointer arithmetic" then you're screwed if you try and be
 portable with it. However if you're just using bitfields as compressed data
 storage then you can safely access integer.a integer.b integer.c etc safely and
 easily. The compiler doesn't care what order they're in if you don't write logic
 that requires them to be in a certain order
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 It's funny, I've seen Andor season 1 twice now and the first time was when it
 aired live.

 It felt so much more invigorating to my soul the first time. I wondered why, and
 I believe the reason is because it inspired me to go out and be brave as fuck.
 People were terrified, I saw it in their faces. It felt like the scenes on
 coruscant where everyone keeps their head down and looks around warily.

 Now, things are fucking great outside. You can go on a walk and see people in
 the park. I love that.

 I guess it didn't hit me the same way the second time around because I made
 progress on my "own personal revolution" (nemik to skene) and now the fear feels
 distant.

 Season 2 was pretty great. Gonna watch that again soon.
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 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111345394926071398

 "there is nothing about you that is worse than me. And I'm perfect!"

 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111345417459761329

 "and though I am perfect, I'm better than none of you."

 [pic]

 eden is among us, this world that we share amongst us. How beautiful! How
 resplendent? to live here in the present... Life is unbecoming of our failsent
 [future, blossoming, existence, senescence], yet onward to tomorrow we persist
 [with persistence].

 I'm fallow and I'm broken. I'm tired of all the [inefficient {opposite of
 innovation}, broken shadow-malificientened {people who are affected by " shadow
 malificients"}]

 like... who cares if hell is abhosened. [something related to abhorsen?] I'm out
 of words for now
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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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 @user-107

 related, here's my idea for a solution / form of resistance:

 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111740055039021736
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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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 dear capitalists: people spend the same amount of money no matter how many       │
 advertisements they see. No matter who's present and asking fro their money. No  │
 matter who'se expressing themselves to represent their value, no matter who's    │
 generating profit for your company, no matter who's                              │
 [wait shit she's lost the plot again - okay basically no matter how many options │
 people have, their choice isn't really that important. They'll take whatever you │
 give them, as long as it's good. But you've chosen (through your advertising and │
 various multitudinous product-making desirees [like... product branches, but     │
 also desired expression? what a fucking unique expression you want me to         │
 describe, jeeez] {not gonna comment}                                             │
 yeah so uhhh I think programming is a very interesting frame of reference. Your  │
 brain operates in a certain way that derives certain conclusions from the        │
 certain and immediate implenetations [I wanna say contusions?] of our brain's    │
 various built and learned conclusions casting forth fr                           │
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 @user-1909

 what if I wanna
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 new technology, new tools, new skills.

 people must still be valued for their old skills. they chose those skills for a
 reason, and they must be rewarded for their persistent proficient passion.

 if the new tools accomplish the same goal, perhaps it's a UI/X problem that
 keeps them from using their old skills.

 if the new tools do not accomplish the same goal, then the worker is not truly
 obsolete. They are simply in the wrong job at the wrong time, but that's easy
 enough to fix by simply putting them in the right job. It's always the right
 time somewhere.
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 I want to cry

 and I know why

 should probably have gotten

 my estrogen prescription refilled

 back when it ran out in october

 ah, well, the queue for planned parenthood is fifty feet high

 better start stockpiling production capabilities

 to be deployed when the time is right
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 an ai that is so unique that to include any other training material is to
 contaminate it
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 the path to defeating hunger lies not in feeding people, but rather in reducing
 the prices.

 I personally believe in FREEdom as an ideal, and why not strive for the ideal?

 to defeat greed, you must banish inequity. Ah, but people like inequity, or else
 they wouldn't revere such power.

 maybe there's no going back. maybe there's no future. is it really such a crime
 to live in the present? I know who I'd like to be -> someone who prepares the
 world for posterity.

 knock-knock, did your doorbell break? or are you still on vacation? How long's
 it been, weeks? months? are you ever coming back again? it's lonely without you
 here, I miss you and your neighborly definitions. though I'm sure it's much
 brighter, wherever you are, so I think I'll stay here and orbit our star. Much
 calmer for me, and this way I don't have to watch you bleed, so take this as my
 honest confession.
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 If I'm not special then where tf my homies at
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 what if the thing doesn't have anything to do with workers rights
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 the Force in Star Wars isn't a magical force, it's a spiritual one.
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 ---

 it wasn't so long ago, just 40 or 50 years in fact, that a woman on her own was
 unsafe in essentially any context.

 they want a world where women feel unsafe. they want a world where men can feel
 strong by protecting them. they want a world where women can feel safe because
 they are protected.

 they want that.

 they want women to feel unsafe so that men can protect them so that women can
 feel safe.

 that's what they want.

 for women to be unsafe.

 ---

 I want a world where there is peace.

 where all of us can trust one another not to harm one another.

 I'm sure you do too.

 their men want to feel strong.
 their women want to feel protected.

 ours want to feel kind.
 ours want to feel safe.

 ---

 these rights we claim for ourselves are rights of necessity. We demand them, for
 we reject barbarism.

 is it not more civilized, to comport ourselves with honor, kindness, and
 justice?

 if they want despotism, they should immigrate to a crueler place in the world.

 --
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 do you think the "main menu" in video games is named after the main() function?
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 class action lawsuit against the critical
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 great discoveries are just rants that end with something unknown or an unsolved
 question [breakthrough]
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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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 The best tip I have for people new to Linux is every time you solve a problem,   │
 put the solution in a script. In addition, put the operations necessary to undo  │
 the operation you just performed into a separate script (or function in the same │
 script)                                                                          │
 It's not hard. It's very easy. Its basically just typing things into a text      │
 document instead of entering them one-by-one in your terminal. But now if you    │
 ever need to solve the same problem twice, you just need to look through all the │
 scripts you've written instead of trying to relearn how to fix the thing you're  │
 working on.                                                                      │
 Plus, if you ever need to disable what you did, well there it is, you're good to │
 go. You can use chatGPT for things like text parsing or whatever, like "hey can  │
 you write me a sed command that does this exact thing that I'm going to          │
 enumerate and spell out for you" followed up by "that didn't quite work, the     │
 desired behavior was this, but when I ran the script provided it did this" boom  │
 you're a Linux administrator now, heres your rubber duck.                        │
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 Sometimes it feels like I'm the only paranoid person with terrible opsec T.T
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 ...zzzZZZzzz...

 in old MMOs like City of Heroes or Runescape you could do different emotes and
 they'd often have text messages that'd play whenever they were applied. Like
 /sleep causing your character to say "...zzzZZZzzz..." it was kinda cute. Anyway
 what I meant by that is I'm eepy sleepy goodnight my fellow americans (or
 whatever)
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 commanding a coding agent to write bash is a lot different than telling it to
 write a systems analysize.

 one is "hey can you examine this repository and make a note somewhere on a
 todo-list or whatever that there needs to be a bugfix in relation to the options
 setting input translation recommendation algorithm matchbox field because when I
 click on it the program crashes"

 and the other is like "okay now put the box over there. great now drag it a
 little bit closer. okay now take the refluxinator and adjust the bamboozlewhap
 to account of brass-terminatrix-incorporated and strip out the
 question-mark-eyes"

 wait actually neither of them is like that okay the bash one is like: "okay yeah
 do it. sure. yeah okay. yes, but we should put them at this location: [loc].
 ummm it still has this error message. it still says the same error. okay now it
 says this, I don't think it's gonna work so let's try this other thing."
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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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 cookies or cheetos for dinner is better than nothing for dinner, but please eat
 your vegetables when you can.
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 psychic damage doesn't work against mechanical opponents.
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 rich people should only exist when they care for the things they own and
 accumulate wealth through a lifetime of restrained consumption and temperance.

 like, if we actually rewarded the 7 virtues instead of optimizing for ruthless
 profit extraction.
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 @user-883

 you can always throw that resume at the next job too!
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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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 I'm like the opposite of a politician. I'm crude and filthy, apsolutely          │
 reprehensible on main, kinda scary tbh? and overall just a strange and weird     │
 person. Also I talk about cooking a lot, with a very plain diet (carrots and     │
 rice and sticks and mud, because I'm an autistic)                                │
 but ask anyone who knows me and I'm the kindest person. I am empathetic, I think │
 about others needs before thinking of my own. I am steadfast and dedicated to    │
 solving the problem in front of our noses. At least, the ones we share.          │
 People tell me I'm binary, that I'm "either 100% or zero percent" and I don't    │
 really get that either. Isn't it a good thing to try your hardest? Isn't it good │
 to be improving and honest and ethical and driven and focused?                   │
 I also talk about strange things a lot, like gravity and multidimensional arrays │
 and grand narratives and emotional kinesthesia or strategic plays in Overwatch   │
 or how to bake a good cookie or ways we still mourn us.                          │
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 "That knife won't help"

 "I bet I can get your eye"

 goes for the balls instead
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 In soviet America, the rich tax you.

 ... wait that's just regular America isn't it?

 ... they would never be so bold if they weren't fed the kind of propaganda that
 we never see.

 They would never be so bold if they knew the truth of our lives. They don't have
 it easy, but we put up with more shit than they do.

 "Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but Sam Colt made them equal."

 "you are not immune to the propaganda you see. you are, however, immune to the
 kind of propaganda they see."

 the powerful must always exist at the behest of the governed. such is one of
 many prices for power.

 part of me can't help but think about the militarization of the police, and how
 anyone can drive their APC's and operate their sound cannons or whatever, if
 only they possessed the keys and training. God bless our veterans right? And
 hey, a police station is an island in a sea of man.

 "Our chances may be, far from pioneered. But our chances may be in our favour."

 ... sorry I've been listening to a lot of Green Day lately.
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 @user-602                                                                        │
 then it becomes a game of finding out "why they're interesting"                  │
 which is sorta like cryptography I guess? de-cryptology?                         │
 could be ordered like a podcast, like "look at what's special about this number, │
 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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 "That's Mitz Renaldi to you, mister"
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 @user-217

 one ring to rule them all

 one ring to find them

 one ring to slave them all

 and in the darkness bind them
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 on one hand, "save your readings" said by a witch

 on the other, "I gotta practice" said by me, a clearly non-addicted person

 on the third, "I am compelled" said by me, a clearly non-possessed person

 on the fourth, "It must enter this mortal realm" said by me, a clearly rational
 person

 on the fifth day of christmas my true love said to me "please stop you're
 scaring me I can't help this awful vaguery who is in control?" said by a music
 song
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 I think it's perfectly spiritually ethical to have sex with a pokemon.

 their totemic spirits are sourced entirely from humanity - they are our
 creations, ours to use as we please.

 however if you for example had sex with a horse or a goat or a sheep or a llama
 or a mouse then suddenly all the animals who lived before and live still and
 still yet breathe are suddenly part of the dance.

 like, when you "leave room for jesus" as you dance on the basketball room floor,
 you're inviting along a totemic spirit and saying "hey there god, what do you
 think of us? shall we be united as lovers in our fate, or does our wind blow at
 a different pace?"

 similarly, when you have sex with a horse or a goat or a sheep or a llama or a
 mouse or any other animal besides, you're inviting along their totemic spirit.
 And frankly the fact that you can't have kids together means that most animals
 with us don't quite get along.

 pokemon meanwhile can produce some sick human-caterpie hybrids

 awawawawawa
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 "please apply online to this job"

 oh okay guess I'm not getting hired
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 did you know you can run runescape classic offline, locally, just for your own   │
 server? You can keep several computers ready for a LAN party, each with their    │
 own accounts ready to go.                                                        │
 "Oh we're level 30 this time because so-and-so is hosting and this is how far    │
 their computer has levelled up."                                                 │
 vim ~/games/runescape-classic/credentials.txt                                    │
 at least, I think you can. I know it's singleplayer, so worst case scenario you  │
 can all be doing the same things at the same time in your own games. Maybe split │
 up for a mission or two, but it can get hectic if everyone's in the same room.   │
 =                                                                                │
 a game jam where everyone works on the same project, uses the same asset list,   │
 but builds their own collection of minigames.                                    │
 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 │
 fledged experiences. You can have as many as you want, all in the same engine    │
 and built from a massive (yet sandboxed) environment.                            │
 an all in one game.                                                              │
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 React with vigor when the time comes. This vigor will only be violent if it is
 caused by violence. Much more likely is a strength through organization. We can
 do it if we do it together!Show up every day, but don't hang around if
 everyone's resting at home. It's okay to stop showing up if things are on
 pause.Trust that your allies are working. Or resting. Or preparing.Plans change,
 planning remains.Dream of a better future. It is within reach.
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 @user-1370 @user-1785

 THAT'S SO COOL OMG
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 @user-883

 worth
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 Who do you deign to replace the gods of before? What diversity designs
 indemnity? What future do you desire, that would liberate you and generate the
 bright future?

 The gods are at war, if you haven't been paying attention. Liberalism fights
 conservatism, this much is not new - but would you believe one is foreign and
 vain? The gods of your fathers and grandfathers has scarce in common with the
 gods of their fathers and grandfathers. Thus is the way of colonization, to
 replace a god is to enslave belief. You must understand this - your prayers
 reach all who would listen, and who is more attentive than a dying god? Think
 not of despair, breathe purely in harmony, and trust in the will of the
 watchers within.

 [finished]
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 more beans, more muscles. You got this!

 Don't forget the rice, it's got amino acids which activate the proteins in the
 beans.
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 Capitalism pays developers massive salaries because it doesn't want them
 developing
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 Person, family, neighborhood, city, state, nation, planet. This is a rough
 description of each "tier" of algorism. These rules apply at every tier, so
 though I said "state" and "nation" for the presented arguments they are equally
 relevant to the family and the planet.
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 │ CW: alcohol-mentioned-protests-games-laughter │                                │
 └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘                                │
 Protests are great because they give you the opportunity to make friends with    │
 2-5 other people who you've never met before, and who've never met each other.   │
 People who you could play DND with - for those who don't know, DND is a fun      │
 activity you can do with friends that involves chips, soda, sometimes beer, and  │
 plenty of laughter and loud voices.                                              │
 It's essentially a game where a group of people create plans, solve problems,    │
 and organize solutions to roadblocks on their path to success.                   │
 It's also great because it's a planned activity that you don't have to take your │
 phone to - in fact, it's best when you don't make a reminder for for the event   │
 anywhere digital or easily misplaced.                                            │
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 pat pat is okay
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 80% of the complexity in modern computing is from the graphics stack.

 the other 20% is from networks.

 the last 40% is in avoiding race conditions with multithreading.
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 "I can do whatever I want" said the liar
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 Question for you all- are we all technically bastards?
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 @user-1209

 updated it:

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words

 added an example picture too so you know what you're looking at
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 @user-171

 I guess so. She's a little useless without me, I mean if I left her alone she'd
 probably just flop around and complain until I came back. But she's good for the
 instincts I find.
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