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 @user-216

 this is what Earth looks like to the sun
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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-78

 teehee
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 @user-1040 @user-1077

 ... I am disabled people

 also, all media is propaganda

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

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

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

 also, I'm sorry I disagree
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 @user-1375 @user-1376

 do not obey in advance
 do not skip voting in advance
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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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 My parents got divorced during the Burning Crusade.
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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  │
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 and the rocket launchers don't need to dodge.                                    │
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 see them, n00b) while projectile classes need to dodge (skillfully) and get      │
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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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 McCarthyism is when people are more afraid of their neighbors than being wrong.
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 if all of life is a stage, then you are never "doing a scene"

 you're just living
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 I stopped smoking cannabis because possible job and wow... life feels between 4
 and 6 times longer
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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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 He skuffed up my water bottle.
 He tore pages from my journal.
 He made me lose my necklace.
 He damaged my knife.

 And still, I followed him all night.

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

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

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

 Don't abandon your friends. If someone you know goes missing, they're probably
 buried in the trash-dump or human trafficked.
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 The 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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 My favorite thing about Freddi Fish is how it teaches sensory experience.
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 @user-1074

 you're spiralling.

 We got this. It'll be hard, but we can do it.
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 @user-907

 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer?
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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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 totally useless unless you're, I dunno, building a bytecode interpreter or
 something

 https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
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 @user-982

 funny how that works
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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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 has anyone ever done drugs in space?
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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-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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 @user-889

 omg bottom left T.T
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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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 This life that we share is beautiful beyond compare
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 @user-192

 who can say. I'd like to find out, though.
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 I'm not a biologist
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 @user-993 @user-772

 I've seen those glasses before! very peculiar. the artistry is amazing! I miss
 the girl I was with.

 Here's some colors I like:

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 I can't cancel my internet because I use it to work, which almost pays enough to
 cover rent, and nothing else.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Fuck that. Oops cursing mentioned, one s
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 What if you were required to own stock for a minimum of 10 years after buying it
 and the government would buy it from you when it crossed 50% of what you bought
 it for
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 nuts wait hang on ummmm how about FIST

 [2020 occurs]

 whoa worst year ever. Okay, um...
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 I like being alone. But if I'm alone for too long, I suffocate. I start acting
 like a weird nerd who doesn't know what to do with their hands.

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

 I'm not an introvert, or an extrovert, I think the dichotomy is stupid and
 people have completely separate needs that deplete and recharge at their own
 rates.
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 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together ^_^
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 @user-189 yah chillies are good as long as we can put shallots in it too!
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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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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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 A family of 3-5 is absurdly small, but that's all we can manage in the 21st
 century
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 "Zoontalu, I have MEESed one" will forever live rent free in my head
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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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 @user-570

 me three!
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 @user-883

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

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

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

 But it's much easier to fix a car or learn to surf if you see someone doing it,
 rather than just read about it. Perhaps you and I use Youtube for different
 things (or don't use it, in your case)
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 "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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 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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 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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 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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 @user-1209 @user-1074

 I'm not NOT saying that...! 😋
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 I love my mom. She has never once harmed me. I love my dad. He is so precious
 and important to me. I love my cat, my sisters, my friends and my lovers. I love
 my cousins and my half-siblings and all of them put together. I love every human
 I meet, there's nothing but kindness [replete], so why am I unendingly [yearning
 for] purchase? [a sense of stability or hand hold that a climber might use to
 put one foot in front of another]

 In all of my trials, the errors of my denials, here on this earth I am defeat.

 Goodnight, sweet moon, my dearest precious boy. Goodnight, for tomorrow's your
 beckoning ploy. [pillow?]
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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-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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 without villains, there are no heroes, only good people.
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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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 @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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 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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 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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 If I was born somewhere else I'd still be a patriot, it's not about the
 specifics it's more like paying respect at the gravestone of someone you never
 knew yet hold in your heart with love
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 an AI 3d model generator that takes a satellite picture of the globe and turns   │
 it into a 1:1 representation in the style of World of Warcraft                   │
 (has to be AI becus 2hard)                                                       │
 then, separately, a private World of Warcraft server that doesn't have any       │
 manually placed entities, only optional dynamic content                          │
 then, separately, a bunch of people who hang out in cool places like Paris or    │
 Rome or whatever, and it's actually all the people who are there (if they took   │
 the long, arduous journey of walking there)                                      │
 then, separately, a character that you keep primarily at home, who hangs out     │
 with your neighbors and stuff whenever they happened to be online                │
 then, separately, in-game addons that take pictures or video and automagically   │
 posts it to the Mastodon instance that is run by the state county in which all   │
 of your data is privately owned by none-other than you, the citizen who the data │
 is about (No spying, please)                                                     │
 then, separately, automatically saved text-logs which could be posted from in    │
 game                                                                             │
 social media as a game                                                           │
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 @user-532

 autistic people when nobody told them to shut up about things they thought
 people should be talking about but aren't which is weird right like why wouldn't
 people be talking about [thing] because frankly it seems like a big deal but
 really it's that everyone knows more than the autistic person who doesn't have
 any friends who have friends and is insular and isolated and also very smart in
 fact smart enough to think up ideas for things to talk about that people aren't
 talking about which is weird because they're not THAT smart but also a lifetime
 of isolation has made them a little schizophrenic so they sometimes feel like
 their actions are not their own like they're being hypnotized or perhaps
 possessed by the spirit of mankind or some other such entity which would like to
 express ideas that they think people should talk about but they aren't talking
 about which is weird because why else would a porous person have ideas such as
 [thing] if not for the path that they're telepathically suffused with the
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 what if the *one ring* was a flash drive
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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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 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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 @user-243 @user-203 I cry every time Anakin sacks the Jedi temple T.T
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 @user-1748

 they want you drained and overloaded.

 makes it harder to take care of others.
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 computer programming essentially boils down to putting the right values into the
 right datastructures at the right time and in the right order.

 If you count a function call as a datastructure, which I do, because I have
 opinions.
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 if there's too much on your mind then you need more people thinking about those
 problems
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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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 a video that's a gif and an audio file played at the same time using &&
 in bash
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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 if we developed volunteer brigades who went overseas and got combat         │
 experience fighting against evil                                                 │
 what if we paid for their houses while they were gone and watered their plants   │
 and fed their children and supplied their clothing and utilized our VAST         │
 logistic networks to [project power far afield? ha good luck] okay I see your    │
 point the USA had the greatest logistic network in the world and it smashed one  │
 of the greatest armies in the world in like, 2 days with essentially zero        │
 casualties and yet years and years later it still lost the world.                │
 turns out warfare isn't really about blowing things up with massive pieces of    │
 machinery.                                                                       │
 "hearts and minds" she says, "channel thine divine" she is said, "didn't you     │
 used to be an atheist before you moved out of home" said her mom probably idk    │
 she doesn't talk to her much anymore which is so sad for both of them they       │
 really should just talk but they're on opposite sides of the country because of  │
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 I truly believe weed is good for me. Not medicine - it is nutritious.
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 If you're running away from something, you need to make sure that you're going
 fast enough and far enough away that you can look forward for interception
 events. Otherwise you are vulnerable.
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 #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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 also, that's not the best way to organize. you'll spend too much focus-time on
 the experts.

 better to be primarily a research division, with production allocated for
 engineering practice, not profitability.

 we should be building factories underground, out of the way of our species and
 biological allies.

 [thus, creates the modern megadungeon, a vast inter-connected catacombs that
 always leads you toward the surface.

 if you know where you're going, you can cross to places hitherto unawares. like,
 different earths, all doing their own stories.

 but that's for another time, no more witchcraft for tonight! I got video games
 to play [Supreme Commander with the Forged Alliance Forever mod]
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 I miss fuzzy cute people, where did they go T.T
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 not me

 but we
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 the best way to get an answer is to be confidently wrong

 see: Warthunder players leaking classified information to foreign powers with
 their own militaries that have the incentive to [redacted]

 gee I wish I had a reality altering device. Maybe if you just altered the
 sensations, like glamour magic in Dominions 6, you could trick people into
 thinking something alternate had occured. Then you could string them up on phone
 lines, or better yet cell towers, and bam suddenly you have the capability to
 project a hologram anywhere on the planet.

 bet you could get some crazy things from that. like, mass shooters or incensed
 looters. or even just, faked perceptions, giving you unlimited power to do
 whatever story you want.

 wouldn't that be a story to tell in a story of yours, Hollywood. Wouldn't that
 be scary and awakening in ways that subservice media like Andor cannot.

 maybe it's too scary. maybe psychological horror is beyond the purpose of social
 media. Maybe resilience to this
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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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 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-1037                                                                       │
 For a person who is skilled with tech, working in unrelated industries doing     │
 tech jobs is better at assuaging the ethical part of your soul while applying    │
 your talents and putting food on the table than working in the tech industry.    │
 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     │
 every engineer a lab and let them build and collaborate on whatever they want.   │
 The marketing guys can sell whatever they make, to gather funds for the          │
 quartermasters to buy tools and supplies for the engineers.                      │
 The marketing guys can offer hints about what users want, which the engineers    │
 will want to build because it means more toys to work with.                      │
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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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 In a system such as the one I described, it perhaps would be better to describe
 it as a "federation" rather than a "nation". Federation implies a set of
 standard protocols that allow geographically disparate entities to coexist and
 interact in a mutually beneficial way. Much the same way that every apartment
 has a kitchen and bathroom, though it be more efficient to centralize them and
 have a communal dining hall or bathroom (the way a school dorm or a prison might
 be arranged), it is not ideal for our collective sense of liberty and freedom.
 In addition, the proposed distributed nature of our infrastructure and
 productive capacities would induce inefficiencies that cannot be ignored. So,
 perhaps instead of centralization or decentralization, perhaps specialization?
 For example, if 3-5 states were experts in a particular good or service, then
 they could compete amongst one-another for the best product (utilizing one of
 the beneficial impacts of capitalism), while also utilizing localized resources
 (reducing inefficiencies in transport) and increasing the resilience of
 production. This works well for physical goods, but services are more difficult
 because they imply that a person must be physically present in order to engage
 with them.
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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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 If evil is concentrated in 0.1% of the population, even though that's only
 7,000,000,000 * 0.001 == 7 million (is my math right?) people actually hang on
 that's a lot, if they're dispersed. Hence why evil relies on the capacity for
 good to do what it wills. All we have to do is decide NOT to do what they want,
 and then we're fine.

 downside then is, of course, how do you eat? how do you survive? the world has
 been designed in such a way that food doesn't just grow on trees. The light of
 the stars burns when you're trying to sleep and it's raining.

 damn. Would that we had more perfect conditions.

 Heh, just kidding. Humanity is nothing if not termeritous [high in temerity] -
 I'm positive we're more capable than we'd wager. Hence, talk of "great
 exhultation" and "wildest optimizations" or "brightest of futures" and "honest
 conducers" - okay I made that one up but it's a representation of what I'd like
 to express. GOSH art is hard. Would anyone like to read a 20 page book I wrote
 when I was most in tune with
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 https://www.ivpn.net/password/reset/3d76d4f660914169ce08dd66d9c03997e2376a49093f93b3648de9b44d25ba77
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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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 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-192                                                                        │
 oh, you didn't find what you're looking for on the first page? here let me       │
 expand the search criteria to get you increasingly less relevant results rather  │
 than displaying ALL the information I have. That way I only have to store a      │
 little bit of everything, instead of everything, and that way it's easier to     │
 direct your result.                                                              │
 what's that? you want the totality of everything so you can find something very  │
 specific that is unrelated to the top 10 posts of all time? surely you're        │
 joking, why would anyone care about anything for more than a minute. Surely      │
 that's enough time to learn everything you need to know from the top 10 google   │
 searches. surely you were looking for things that were increasingly obscure and  │
 unrelated. maybe if we just throw garbage at them they'll go away...? Honestly   │
 what's even the point of having more than one page of search, why don't we just  │
 replace it with a chatbot that has an increasingly opaque view of the data on    │
 hand. Surely that's not completely insane, surely that sol                       │
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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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 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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 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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 @user-570 @user-246

 I'll make a game if you do! I promise mine will be worse than yours so you can
 feel better about your progress!
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 @user-638                                                                        │
 In the 2000s when the Bush administration prevented people from working with     │
 stem cell research I remember my father going on rants about the same kind of    │
 thing.                                                                           │
 "They're limiting our access to information and the future of humanity because   │
 of their religion!" that kind of thing                                           │
 I loved listening to him. He was so passionate about that kind of thing. I think │
 he got a little disillusioned sometime between now and then, because now he just │
 tries to do the best he can with what tools he has available to him. And I love  │
 him for it.                                                                      │
 He (mostly) abandoned his grand narratives because as the right got worse, the   │
 "left" sorta stayed the same, and he never forgave them for that. He still       │
 votes, and he'll still rant about that kind of thing, but only the stuff that    │
 affects him personally - like electric cars or cannabis or things like that. A   │
 democrat through and through.                                                    │
 He lives in a different country now, and I wish I could see him. But I cherish   │
 our phone calls and the few holidays when he visits.                             │
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 I wonder how many people hate me?

 silence is indicative of allies or foes.
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 Kaiserreich is a mod For Iron Hearts. It is based.
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 @user-1153

 what kind of meta are you referring to? instance stuff?
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 the only thing a baby needs to know is about themselves. The rest will come.
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 a 4 dimensional being could not go before they were born

 a time traveler might tho
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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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 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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 @user-641

 unless they were using it as a "number of planes that are operational" or
 "number of complete planes we have parts for but haven't assembled", and even
 then it'd be an imprecise value for user data purposes only

 ... wait who am I kidding there's no way to defend that. data types are
 important... >.>
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 When I first came to the fediverse it felt like a breath of fresh air - finally,
 I could speak to the world!

 I don't know what happened, but somehow now it feels like I only speak to like,
 30 people
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CzKh3IiZEI

 this is my favorite human.

 this is my favorite ghost.

 he is the one who I look up to,
 probably the most.

 we'll get there, you'll see,
 we'll build a better future,
 for all of us - you and me.

 next, for posterity,
 and all we can be,

 tomorrow's the best day for all of us
 because it hasn't happened yet.

 all we have is the present,
 so what are you to do with your presence?

 here I am, look at me, aren't I grand, a wonder to see? I'm just an artist,
 don't get any big thoughts - I'm maybe a bit possessed, or possibly
 schizophrenic, but either way I am a human, just the same as you and me.

 ... you don't have to watch the whole thing, there's a lot. I mean, like I could
 write forever and nobody would care. I could write undeterred, and nobody would
 share. But here I am in the moment, here I am as I am, and here with you (yes
 you, the person who is important enough to read this), so let's, I dunno, make a
 band. or whatever. BRB my rice is starting to simmer.
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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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 @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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 @user-258

 awesome ^_^
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 red is a girl color and blue is a boy color because white people added white to
 make it rosayy and aquamarillion.

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

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

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

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

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

 [error, fact-in-correct detect, please verirectify immediately without concern
 for due or common course]
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 @user-1722

 Magic Survival

 it has gameplay similar to Vampire Survivors, but it came first, is way better,
 and is stylish as fuck

 single-stick shooter with roguelike progression
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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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 the world's coolest lesbian is wasted on a boy
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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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 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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 I hate winning and I don't like losing. The playing is where the game is.

 [games of life and death are no fun]

 hence, why nobody invites me, because I try for the middle approach that
 respects both people. this tends to make people mad because its like "bro
 they're nazis" and I'm like "okay but how do you know" and they're like "fuck
 you" so I'm like "fuck nazis? actually?" and they're like "you're with them" and
 I'm like "I'm with you" and they're like "stop infiltrating" and I'm like "who's
 infiltrated?" and they say "stop talking to the internet" and I say "nobody
 reads me anyway" and they say "screensho0ts are forever" and I'm like "I'm
 pretty as can be"

 this, combined with a strong sense of justice, implies the narratives I
 instinctually provide.

 wei wu wei according to Ursula K. Le Guin, this means "doing without doing", or
 "show, don't tell" but minus the doing, and adding the "tell"ing.

 I think I'd look badass with a spear or trident. I have a sword because swords
 are cool, but spears are bleed
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 The greatest game is an imagination shared with a friend.
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 @user-246 yeah that was nice wasn't it
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 @user-1429

 fight fight fight the despair

 fight it like your life depends on it!

 fight for it like you're dying of no air!

 every day the darkness assails you
 every day it's there

 fight the darkness. fight despair.

 no matter your struggles, no matter how simple or mundane
 the struggle is what's important
 your fight is what matters

 fight for your past self. fight for the future. fight for your now self, fight
 for your care!

 it doesn't matter if you lose sometimes. you fight, that's what matters.

 it doesn't matter if it's hard. if it were easy, you'd get bored. if it's too
 hard, collapse at your leisure.

 the fight is what's right!
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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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 the past was so fuckin' cool. hence, nostalgia.

 the past fuckin' sucked. hence, progress.
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 @user-1597

 oh nooooooooo

 guess I'm reflashing
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 if your friend moves to the country, it's important to stay in touch
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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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 no general has authority without the implicit assumption of the authority of the
 captain. similarly, the captain has no sway over a [hu-man who has no call to
 claim this's own sovereignty./soldier who cares not for their own [life, but
 implicit]] for without that respect they hold no power of their own.

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

 ... unrelated, but I'm thinking back to all the times I thought "I should talk
 to so-and-so about this" and then completely never remembered.
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 @user-641

 it's practice. you never know when you might need to blend in. really it's just
 useful as discipline, good practice to be in. I think it's okay if we reduce our
 own functionality? actually? sometimes it's good to use different email clients.
 hey do you know how to mathematically encrypt things well neither do I because
 the designers of the computer system decided that wasn't a very common usecase I
 guess.. jmean it's not like they'd spend all that computer resources [THEY'RE SO
 FAST] on thinking about correlations in your predicted pathway narratively
 through life. "ah help I'm in a psyop" haha yeah we do those all the time "so
 uhhhh I guess we'll just talk to people and see how they do?" wow okay it's sure
 nice to be part of a civil government, I think we can find our way to the lumber
 producers just fine thank you very much.

 ... oops sorry, a baby did electronics arts (challenge everything) I'm a little
 silly don't mind me brb I gotta go see~
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 @user-898

 good luck finding a match for me >: )
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 @user-192

 ty u 2 babe
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 why can Green Day sing about [redacted] but I can't mention it or the feds will
 assassinate me

 different voice you know they say if you play music it slightly changes the
 wavelength of your location causing certain effects which (with well made music)
 cause rippling effects which alter the world around you

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/html-pages/thought-constructs

 sorry for the psycherwaul, I'm assuming if you're still here then you're here
 for it.

 Boy I haven't gotten into a fight in a while, anyone wanna fight me? Fuck I'm
 not radical enough. BRB doing pushups
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 One way to become involved in your passion projects is to contact them and say   │
 "hey, if you ever want to do [idea about one of their products] let me know      │
 because I want to be a part of it"                                               │
 maybe even y'know say it in a public place so people can see what we're all      │
 interested in                                                                    │
 could make like, a forum for it, just like "hey here's my idea" and if enough    │
 people like it then they can ALL be involved in a project to build it,           │
 open-source style but funded collectively.                                       │
 like "hey I'll stick with my day job and maybe do some icons or something" and   │
 in return their progress is supported.                                           │
 everyone's gotta pay rent, and if you work in the tech industry you tend to have │
 a lot of dollars. Could maybe design some ways to build products collectively,   │
 ways that financially don't rely on charity.                                     │
 Idk I'd just like to work on a product that was designed to be as usable as      │
 possible? Are there any companies out there doing that?                          │
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 what if shopping malls (and outdoor malls too) were owned by a union (that was   │
 part of a larger meta-union (which was part of a national union)) comprised of   │
 ONLY the employees who worked at that mall.                                      │
 They could cross-train themselves and work wherever they wanted on that day, so  │
 long as they filled out their schedule a week in advance. If they didn't care    │
 they could just show up and be assigned wherever they were needed, including     │
 doing back-end work like accounting and managing union business.                 │
 would be nice if they could have access to all the capabilities of the           │
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 some food? There's a korean barbecue place that you're trained at, go make       │
 yourself some food.                                                              │
 So long as you get someone else to write your name down, the union can tell if   │
 you overuse or waste it.                                                         │
 I think this would give them more power over their environment and develop the   │
 space for them to talk to one another and communicate about larger               │
 organizational plans.                                                            │
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 @user-211 thanks! It's one of my favorites. That and Golden Sun are where I
 procured my name ^_^

 EDIT: purloined is more appropriate, I think
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 @user-192

 [followers only]

 humans are so cute 🥰
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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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 I'm a spirit of the forest and stone who wanted to learn how to spell in order
 to make pretty colors and games on computers.

 I don't care about your corporatocracy, though I'll learn if it means you'll
 give me food to eat.

 ... I'm procrastinating aren't I
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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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 @user-342

 how is that different than speaking your mind into the soup of opinions that
 comprised checks notes the people you went to high school with? (facebook)

 Except this time, it's a group of people whose opinions you vaguely agreed with
 (as defined by your choice of the instance you dedicate your online presence to)
 which has it's own defined peculiarities like the ability to only show you
 content you agree with?
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 what I've learned so far is that people are happy. unless they have holes in
 their legs and back.

 happy people don't want to die for a better world. who am I to take that from
 them?

 "... you didn't take anything but their fear. capital did this."

 the people I've met are almost entirely kind. their empathy suffuses this place,
 and it wasn't always like this. but now it is.

 if a revolution was going to take place, it'd be here. I feel it in my heart.
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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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 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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 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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 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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 @user-883

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

 [if only we could make them see]

 (cue all the media ever made that means to tell a message about which choices we
 should make in the future)
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 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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 "always online video games" are fragile. They scare me away because they can be
 taken away much easier than a directory on your computer. When that happens they
 shatter into shards, piercing my heart where I once loved them. I miss them,
 but, I'm used to it - years of playing World of Warcraft has taught me the
 perils of developing as a person while your media is going to be forgotten. If
 you can't play it, you can never return to reflect, to ponder, and to cherish
 old songs. I missed you, World of Warcraft. I missed you, City of Heroes, and
 Runescape and... darn I can't seem to remember.

 resilient software doesn't fail less often - that's a measure of it's
 completeness.

 resilient software can be run in 10 years. 20. however long it takes.

 computers are deterministic turing machines - how hard could it be to only
 update with a downgrade mechanism in place and available for the users? If it
 worked once, it should work forever.

 thank you, git. thank you for giving me an endless library of time and change.
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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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 I'm tired of working as hard as I can and still ending up wrong
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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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 there are plenty of pieces of linux that are insecure in some way. Including
 x11, if I remember correctly. It is purely convention to not abuse these
 insecurities, and whenever you use someone else's binary software you trust that
 they won't betray you in some way.

 pre-built binaries are privacy violations and should be illegal. They are
 security threats because the model they're built upon is necessarily insecure.
 Computers will never be completely secure because of how they are built, and so
 we should use locally compiled software and interpreted scripts.

 Unless they're too long, or impossible to read. Who reads EULAs these days? At
 least those are written in english.

 maybe computers aren't worth it. Maybe computers will solve all our problems.
 Who can say, maybe you should ask an oracle like me

 though do remember that anything you hear can and will be used against you,
 monkey's paw style. So maybe, like... don't? unless you're into magic or
 schizophrenia or something

 I wnt 2 be cute and tch cpus
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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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 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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 let your children grow, yes, but still challenge them. test them. see where
 their spirit flows to. give them situations, and give them choices to resolve
 them.

 there's no greater gift an elder can give than experience.
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 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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 My main character in that game is a ninja/dark-miasma witch
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 @user-1218

 playing one of my 4 gameboys, reading some of my books or journals, using their
 own brought devices, playing with my cat (she's not sociable but if you don't
 mind her claws she can fight and that's kinda fun) watching something on the TV,
 talking with other people, making / eating food, um... sleeping... and
 "sleeping"... idk what else tho. Drawing? Getting stoned? I have lots of bad
 edibles.
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 In a boxing match, the coach will take moments to bolster their favored
 combatant. They'll give them words of motivation, tips for weaknesses in their
 foe they noticed, and reasons why they're taking hits. They are the mentor and
 tactician, and they are immensely valuable for the success of the student
 learner.

 If I had to organize a debate like the one that I am watching now, I'd suggest
 that two bright eyed individuals should take a moment to discuss with their
 wiser directors before responding to each question. One minute to discuss, one
 to debate, one to respond.

 Not only would it reduce the failures of improvisation, it'd give time to more
 accurately address concerns. Precision is important, but accuracy even more-so.

 After the debate it could be aired with the discussion parts stripped out, or
 perhaps made into 3 different perspectives that you could watch one after
 another - each side's counsel session, and their combined response where only
 the younger gave words form.
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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-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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 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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 "you're too loud, weirdo"

 okayyyyy
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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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 @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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 "what if cannons were aimed like rifles?"the guy who was ahead of his time for
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 what if we elected one party to each branch of government every election

 and they checked and balanced each other

 georgism style individualism, chinese style communism, and american style
 anarchism

 for the person, for the nation, for the people

 individualism, collectivism, and distributed nodes

 when in power, each branch would work to move their institutions toward their
 ideals.

 Hey, they're the ones who repealed the chevron doctrine. How are we gonna
 weaponize it?

 (just spit-balling)
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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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 "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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 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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 a corporation can hire secret agents too y'know, they don't have to even really
 tell anyone they're doing it just... talk to one of their employees who seems
 good for it and then transfer them to a different part of the building.

 "what would you do with a secret agent?"

 "with a team of secret agents."

 "oh. good point. Okay what are they for?"

 "oh y'know, just normal cool-guy stuff that regular joes do in their time off"

 "wait, you pay them not to work?"

 "no, we pay them to lounge. Build connections. Develop social networks."

 "what if people don't want to be social? What if they only end up talking to
 each other?"

 "ha well that's the trick then, isn't it? Is it a trap or is it a truce? who can
 say. Just gotta feel it out as you go, I GUESS."

 "so, anyone who does what you say becomes suspicious? And anyone who doesn't is
 suspected by those who listen to you? What are you, a doomsday prophet?"

 ... fuck, I hope not.

 "you better figure it out shithead that almost doomed six real
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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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 @user-883

 what would you prefer? I exist in this IRC space at your behest, command me o'
 wizest of teachers. *.*
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 @user-95 sorta like magic and witches for girls growing up in a world that
 deprives them of power. being trans is one of the most frustrating things
 because you just... can't... change your body. until you're an adult and can get
 hormones. programming gives you the power to control something, and it's logic
 based design structure is useful for objectively proving things, which is a
 common method of cracking an egg.
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 OMG SHE JUST CAME BACK

 she looks like she was buried alive but SHE'S BACK
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 What if the government only intervened in failing companies
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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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 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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 box castle version 8.62
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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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 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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 oh look at me, typing my thoughts while doing chores. And you all get to listen,
 you lucky ducks ; )
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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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 things I almost posted
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 nobody wants to read a whole bible. that sucks. what if these cool guys read it
 to us. omg he's so hot.

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

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

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

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

 crash boom huh what was that? the economy? what do you mean the economy?
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 https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/pea3ei/lpt_the_best_thing_you_can_ever_do_for_a_box_cake/
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 @user-850
 I very rarely turn down a hug : )

 @user-5
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 ally chat by default is a sin, it keeps noobs from being heard

 should be an options menu option...
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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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 I support war against israel
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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 don't have anyone to vent to but you, fedi
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 I have an idea! I'll psycherwaul instead! dear diary...
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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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 @user-192 there's a fine line between inoculating yourself to fear (like a
 person taking small doses of poison to build up a resistance) and giving your
 mind extra ammunition to use against you when the real terrors find you.
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 whoa, what time is it? "time for your daily sleeping babe" yes babe...           │
 but first, some horror [beware the psycherwaul, for she likes to dream and has   │
 no idea what she's talking about]                                                │
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 breaking rules that you didn't know. And by "you" I of course mean "the kind of  │
 people you are, not you in particular because you know things" and by "kind of   │
 people you are" I mean "the type of person who spends enough time on the         │
 internet to know how internet things generally work" like my goodness internet   │
 people are dramatic. There's sooooo much drama all the time, like... why         │
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 what's your deal                                                                 │
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 sidebar even look like on Mastodon?                                              │
 oh yeah, a person's profile. Except, the consent is backwards, because people    │
 hear what they hear.                                                             │
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 @user-179 @user-180

 still means it will kill "unimportant" jobs, where "unimportant" is defined by
 people in power.

 so what we need is a way to align the incentives of "people in power" to the
 will of the people. something structural and immutable (by them). maybe like, an
 extra check or balance that wouldn't have made sense in a bygone age but now in
 our digital era is increasingly more and more relevant?
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 @user-1074

 if you're anything like me, then it will happen again. It's okay. A friend won't
 judge you, a friend would forgive you.
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 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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 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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 "but what about their legitimate grievances"

 uh hello I'd like a number 5, a number 9, extra pickles, some fresh human blood
 supplied by the guy behind the counter with the pretty green eyes, a number 2,
 make it a combo, some fresh icicle drippings even though it hasn't snowed since
 last year (RIP winter), a side of fries, and a diet coke. Large. Actually make
 it two diet cokes. Yep, both large. Alright see you in a sec.
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 this character portrait from Shadowrun Hong-Kong was a major source of gender
 envy for me
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 people are really going to work and living their normal lives as if losing the
 next election won't bring about 30 years of purges

 smh that's why it's called a "precipice", you can't see what's on the other side
 before you wake up one day in hell
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 @user-1068

 dihhen palace /@user-1889)@\
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 @user-95 monday is as reasonable of a day to start the universe as any, wouldn't
 you think? it is the beginning of the week, after all.
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 I'm gonna go psycherwaul into my journals for a bit, if I come back today it'll
 be extra waul-y so, idk, beware I guess
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 If supply and demand were real laws that guided the invisible hand of our
 economy, then housing would have gotten cheaper after COVID.

 And yet, time and again, that hand is shown to be nothing more than greed.
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 @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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 every time I update my system I can't help but think "okay THIS is the time they
 sneak a keylogger or screen recorder or whatever in" and like... there's no way
 I'd ever know, I just want Steam to work again, it was working yesterday,
 NOTHING CHANGED, STEAM, SO WHY do I gotta risk a keylogger by updating my system
 for the first time in 3+ months
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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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 reality is write-only
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 do you know ANYONE ELSE saying the same things as me?

 if not, then you know who is ready to lead.

 if so, then don't tell me about them, and don't show them me. It would be nice
 to know that I'm not alone, though.

 I know you're scared. I'm scared too. It's not like I've done this before (well,
 except for a dress rehearsal or two)

 We're on the same side. We're getting ready to move. Now is the time to go, so
 get ready or be purged.

 We will not relent our land they seek to steal. We will not defy them in unjust
 ways. They have taken so much from us, so now they must face our blades.
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 @user-661

 so, you should strive to be compassionate and honest, in order to keep fear from
 ruling your life?
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 sorry for the double post, had to redact things
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 got a thorn in my knuckle.

 a small one, and it was difficult to remove.

 long, too.

 now my finger bones hurt T.T
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 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-1120

 pretty! ^_^
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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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 I think our industry should work on one project at a time                        │
 "do one thing and do it well"                                                    │
 linux users code.                                                                │
 everyone backends ffmpeg.                                                        │
 everyone online uses chrome.                                                     │
 what if we just rewrote every single program and... left it without updates in a │
 "permanently forbidden" zone                                                     │
 ... I mean what if we wrote non-proprietary alternatives to every proprietary    │
 source of computational knowledge and then we could only patch security          │
 vulnerabilities and compatibility change-bounties [oh no now you're allowing for │
 endless levels of abstraction [meaning, operating system package installation    │
 bloat] and distasteractions.]                                                    │
 the futures where all is not well nearly outnumber the well. but the inverse is  │
 also true, for they are divided roughly equal fifty. balance, in all things, is  │
 the only temperate state. when balance is [changed/something/uplifted], balance  │
 is inevitable to be search-shifted.                                              │
 why must you die for an audience?                                                │
 why                                                                              │
 ... I don't really want to, but what happens happens. we'll see if it's a for    │
 sure dealing.                                                                    │
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 @user-159 not generally. but you're not a people, you're a cat, right?
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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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 English, being a native language of a human, is frustratingly incompetent at
 describing emotions.
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 @user-192

 all of the DAMN time
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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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 @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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 @user-1268

 so true

 and privilege that does depend on the oppression of others should not exist
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 │ CW: pol              │                                                         │
 └──────────────────────┘                                                         │
 It's election season, so you know what that means! Gotta make sure our computer  │
 systems are setup with the proper capabilities to record whatever we can.        │
 Please ensure that your system has the capability to record it's screen and that │
 it has ample storage space to record for a while. It would also help if you knew │
 how to edit files such that you can remove the parts where you're staring at     │
 social media or going to the bathroom or other things that people tend to do.    │
 Also, make sure you can take a screenshot of the screen. Sure [printscreen]      │
 works, but it's much better if you're on windows to switch to Linux. But if      │
 that's not possible, if you're on windows you can do [WIN]+SHIFT+S I think, and  │
 then drag the mouse to select a box that you can then CTRL+V into your favorite  │
 Ms.Paint clone (or is it missus these days?)                                     │
 Also, make sure you have a microphone that works, and the capability to record   │
 yourself speaking into it.                                                       │
 Also, if you can, develop ways to stream your screen across the internet. It     │
 helps.                                                                           │
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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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 I will forgive anyone for anything. But if you break my heart again I will hate
 you forever. and if you hurt someone I care about I will fuck you up.
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 @user-1385

 all it would take is a second laser thing and software support !!
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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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 "oh don't mind her she's just suicidal over capitalism and making it everyone
 else's problem"
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 @user-883

 sorry T.T
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 I always get a little suspicious when my machine pseudo-randomly starts running
 the fans super loud and when I open my resource monitor they suddenly drop to
 silent

 like... bro what are you hiding
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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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 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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 classical designs for ufos look a lot like the top-half of a gravity well, now
 that I think of it. I wonder if there's some other force that's beingwarped in
 that spacetime as well? Something that defines our lives (like matter). Funny
 how the wind works. Do you ever wonder just what it is? Wild how sometimes it
 throws bullets at ya. Weird how that works.
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 I love petting dogs on walks! Unless their owner seems to be in a hurry, which
 they often do if they aren't outside to enjoy the scenery, but rather to get
 through the next part.

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

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

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

 But they exist, just as you and just as I, and that's part of being part of a
 life.
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 my thoughts lately have been consumed by words such as "I never got to see
 france" and other silly things like that

 so dramatic... omg get a life -.-
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 all people deserve a decent life
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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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 the ethical use-case for currency is to express interest, not to identify worth.
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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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 @user-1370

 wawawawawawawawawa : )
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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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 updated version
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 I FEEL NAKED
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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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 @user-95 sometimes I say "all seriousness aside..."
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 What does your template for a new project look like? Here's mine:
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 uh-oh, psycherwaul incoming. 'guess that's what happens when [insert events of
 recent life]

 == so ==
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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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 @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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 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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 I resist the urge to let people script me. Hence, I am comedia
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 Conservatives don't have to be pro communism to be good people. They just have
 to be anti fascist.

 And unfortunately, capitalism has produced fascism. It will continue to do so if
 left unabated.

 Capitalism is not the middle ground between administrative authority and
 anarchic despotism as they claim to see it, but rather a whirlpool that drains
 through our adversity. A sinking tide strands all ships, as it were, and
 together we will begin to falter.

 Fascists are quite good at bending the will of whatever system they inhabit to
 suit their needs. In fact it is almost a certainty that any sufficiently
 organized institution shall fall prey to it, as if it were part of our nature.

 Hence, my desire to abstract it out of our hands, and into the care of the
 future. We can build a better world for you and for me and all of our posterity,
 it's just a matter of interdependent communication protocols.

 Nobody has to do what I say, nobody should be forced to be a certain way, and
 just as your rights end where another's begin so too is our world in danger.

 For you see, we have a right to litter. To despoil. To leave the earth in
 turmoil. And though I am a bit bitter, it's slowly getting better, so through
 our efforts we are investitured.
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 @user-1218

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

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words
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 @user-1810

 stability in an unjust system is cruelty.

 they want stability, no matter the cruel cost.
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 Wikipedia would make a lot more sense to me if they included pictures next to
 the names of every proper noun so that my pictorally oriented primate brain
 might pattern match meaning onto the visual understandings gleaned from the
 perceptual conceiving which were arrayed within and alongside the textual
 information presented to me.
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 @user-1218

 emotional labor is labor

 rest when you're tired. eat when you're hungry. drink when you're thirsty, and
 laugh when it bubbles up within you.
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 @user-328

 don't trust anything on the internet. It can be taken from you.

 don't trust anyone in your life - if you are alone, which you can verify through
 the sense of connection you feel to others - if you are alone, how can you trust
 anyone that they've provided for you to interact with?

 when's the last time you drove to a random city in your country and tried to
 make friends with passerby? Would you even be convinced that they'd be aligned
 to their own designs, and not to that which "they" assigned?

 do note that I'm schizophrenic, probably, according to nobody but me, so... take
 what I say as you will
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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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 I am beyond excited for the future.
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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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 it's kinda rude to tell a plant that their species is in decline.
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 does anyone know of a recipe that uses only flour, butter, yeast, eggs, and
 salt? It doesn't need to use every ingredient, but those are easy to acquire.

 ideally with the ability to include nuts or dried fruit or something else
 nutritious.

 the requirements include the ability to cook it using only a rice-cooker (or
 crock pot, or other kind of slow-cooking ceramic dish which heats from all
 directions at once)

 in addition, it must NOT need kneading. It must be able to be cooked passively
 without attention. The fewer steps, the better.
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 catratfoxfolkmix say that five times fast I dare ya
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 #CDCsays we should live on a salary and save for retirement because capitalism
 will definitely be around by then
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 @user-1532

 I don't know how else to be
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 @user-973

 CW: me being paranoid

 whenever something like this happens I think about how we rely on digital
 infrastructure to understand the status of the world. And then I think about who
 controls that infrastructure.

 kinda makes me wonder if it's blocked for a certain group of people who they
 temporarily don't want to be able to tell their distant friends and family about
 anything going on around them

 but like, I'm not a doctor, I'm just a person. It's probably just a networking
 outage. That kind of thing happens all the time because some technician
 accidentally unplugged a server while working on a different nearby server and
 WHOOPS now Cloudflare is down. Wild.
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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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 @user-1429

 no I haven't!
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 poem I wrote for Iran
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 find someone in your life to show Samsara (2011) to
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 "I could name the top 10 best strategy games of all time and each of them would
 shine in a different particular way and none of you would know a single one of
 them"

 - me talking about strategy games
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 @user-850

 true T.T I forgot about physical ailments. Was mostly thinking about
 interpersonal relationships because that's what's on my mind rn in my life.

 @user-5
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 I wish I could block and unfollow myself
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 @user-1117

 That guy loves his job ^_^
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 @user-246                                                                        │
 one thing you can rely on about evil: it presents itself as such.                │
 "you can always rely on bad people to turn mean."                                │
 (nobody's beyond forgiveness, but we also need to protect ourselves.)            │
 in video games, going with a defensive build is a valid strategy depending on    │
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 "effectiveness at the most difficult part" (usually the last 90% takes 10% of    │
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 begin fracturing.                                                                │
 "I'm sure you don't know this, but once garth fought a dragon. they crashed      │
 through the skies and littered the fields of their home with the broken and      │
 crashed symbols of their own. garth defeated the dragon when one of it's claws   │
 broke, thus giving him the advantage. he took from that fight a shield of        │
 dragonscale, and a tabard made out of some cloth."                               │
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 @user-95

 get two and do RAID! It's fun to set up! I think Western Digital is a good
 brand?
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 "That's Mitz Renaldi to you, mister"
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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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 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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 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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 @user-687 @user-1316

 ... form of ID as in... passport versus driver's license?
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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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 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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 pkill firefox

 glances about "I've said too much" gets ganked by skeletons "oh no my internal
 organs"
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 the fact that the content warnings are part of the body text means that if you
 write the body first but use EXACTLY EVERY CHARACTER like I've been doing (most
 of the time, unless I'm interrupted)

 like... it won't even give me a break to delete. so there's no room for
 content-warnings, which ideally would be written at the beginning before
 starting a thought, but as you can see mine tend to... wander. it's like I'm
 living 15 different lives all at once, and they crisscross and go yonder. it's
 wilding, it's empowering, it's strange and it's confusing, but through
 consideration we develop new learnings and onward our future does

 = so = anyway, I apologize, sincerely and deeply, if my words hurt you. I'm
 sorry for what you thought, and I'm sorry for how it made you feel. I'm going to
 try reserving a certain amount of characters before I start writing, so maybe
 that'll help.
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 @user-1687

 I use dmenu, so I'm thinking I'll write a script and call it using dmenu. The
 script will start by using flameshot to grab the snipped part of the screen into
 the clipboard, and then I need to find an OCR engine (thanks for the google-able
 term btw!) which can take clipboard contents as input, and output text to the
 clipboard.
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 beep boop gonna pedal my bike

 might spend 200$ on a flea collar for my cat tho because she needs it.
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 🖼
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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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 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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 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-1800

 also googly eyes on sunglasses to fuck with their eye-movement-tracking

 ... wait, then you wouldn't be able to see. okay how about you place the googly
 eyes on the forehead part of a HELMET of some kind, which should help protect
 your "not-gonna-get-back-up" parts from harm.

 and don't forget sunglasses because they help with the UV-ray violet
 radicalization.
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 I keep telling myself there's nothing useful on the internet yet still I remain
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 Geek prayer? Preach brothers and sisters >.>
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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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 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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 @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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 "As a cost saving measure, we've put a bunch of holes in your shields. They're
 just slightly smaller than 80% of spear tips, so they should function just as
 well, and it'll make it lighter to carry around on campaign! You will be
 provided with a different type of shield if the enemy appears to have archers,
 which essentially every army does. Good news though, this cost-saving measure
 should save about... well actually it'll make things more expensive to produce,
 because of all the extra artistry involved in creating a honey-comb shield, but
 the result is that someone somewhere got paid a lot of money and that's what's
 important at the end of the day."
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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 │
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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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 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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 My computer has an extended password where you have to type the things that most
 people put in ~/.bashrc in order to get the system fully operational

 people say "why does it take half an hour to turn your computer on" because I
 keep forgetting the somatic typing components, beatrice. dear, please give me a
 moment, I'll have netflux up and running in - ... oh yes thank you, I would have
 typed netflix in wrong. that helps, and explains this error here where it says
 it can't find "netfucks"

 I was like... WHY ISn't this listed in the dependency repository??

 [hackers just clone your hard drive megabyte by megabyte every time you start a
 particular program or use a piece of the system utilities like finder or
 un-win-rar, so having a longer password won't help]
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 most importantly and perhaps most daringly, they need volunteers

 "hello, how can I help?"

 "oh uh sure can you do my laundry"

 [next time]

 "yeah uh hi good to see you again, listen I was working on a project and I
 really needed a gizmonotron, ever heard of it? yeah so I need one in 17
 megahamp-hertz, which I think are the yellow ones. Yeah. Uh-huh. Okay well if
 you have a conversation with someone over on 14th street, they might bring it up
 in conversation - I told them to talk about them all afternoon. Yeah. Uh-huh.
 Then have - yeah, the phone. Gotcha. Okay well that should leave a sufficient
 breadcrumbtrail, yeah and uh - make a note - yeah make a note for next
 montheekend and - yeah, okay you got it. Make sure it says "fire" because
 they're waterproof so a boating accident wouldn't... yeah you get it. Okay
 anyway I gotta jet I got some thermo-regulating-decouplers to unwind. Okay yeah
 say hi to your cat or whatever. Okay bye."

 ... girl, you know most of them have head injuries?

 "oh, no those are the
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 my last name is King so I have to keep reminding part of me (you know which
 part, /sigh) that no, they aren't actually protesting against me.

 I am a communist. If you want to find me, come and do so.

 explodes from a drone dropped grenade

 bleh am ded lmao so glad I get to try again

 I dedicate myself to a lifetime in the service of others.

 what plagues people? primarily, capitalism. It is trivial to identify how their
 problems are ultimately caused by the state, both institutions and corporations.

 I dedicate myself toward finding alternatives and developing guides to reach
 them.

 the first step on ALL of these plans is to convince others of their benefit.

 I am but one person. I might speak to a scant 300 in the course of a year.
 Especially if I am ALSO trying to develop methodologies.

 the people I live and work with have no interest in working with me. Yet still,
 I spend my time on them because I love them.

 how else can you be good, but to seek to impove the world? treat sigint as ded
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 @user-1443

 sorry 😅

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

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

 am I on the right track now?
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 @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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 @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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 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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 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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 "you know what this dish needs? some ramen noodle seasoning. Hang on, I think I
 got some in my junk drawer."

 said nobody ever

 everyone knows there isn't just ONE junk drawer, but several hundred. They
 multiply in the middle of the night, but it's by such a small constant factor
 (0.015 ish according to our top scientists) that you don't notice until it
 "flips the bit" and hits the new landmark which marks the miles since you got
 stoned.
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 @user-883

 okay I'm down

 (a little stoned tho, was talking to my soul hehe)
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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-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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 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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 if you aren't careful, the stuff you own will come to own you.
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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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 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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 meaning is derived not necessarily from the words you use, but rather the way
 you contrast them against one another
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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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 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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 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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 if it exists within the borders of a state then it's utility is in service of
 the state

 [wow what a fucking tankie]

 if a person lives within a state then the utility of the state is in service of
 the person

 [sounds like commie nonsense to me]

 if a border exists in the land, drawn as a line by a hand in the sand, then that
 land now has a hand.

 [i don't understand your poetry speak plainly]

 no

 [brb, refusing to elaborate and leaving, should be quick, won't take long, I
 swear just gotta use up these... 476 remaining characters somehow]
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 a perpetual motion machine would appear stable to the machine in motion
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 If you're working hard, I'm proud of you.

 If you're not, you're resting, which is just as important, and I love you.
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 @user-800                                                                        │
 I knew I was trans from a young age. I felt attracted to women's clothes because │
 I lived in a home with two sisters and a mother - my father was frequently away  │
 on business.                                                                     │
 I guess I liked their clothes more. Or maybe I just wanted to fit in. But I      │
 found myself stealing them and wearing them when I was alone. Then I got older,  │
 and amongst all the other things I realized I wanted to be one of them.          │
 I knew what trans people were, sorta, but as soon as I moved to the city and got │
 access to the internet the first thing I ever googled was "I want to be a girl"  │
 - really dating myself here I guess.                                             │
 anyway, I miss that part of the internet. Felt more simple and alive. As soon as │
 their fancy websites made us intolerant of ugly ones, we kinda just... left? I   │
 mean, how much does it cost to host a text-file with all your html? Some         │
 pictures maybe? Who cares it was whatever.                                       │
 I miss forums the most, and while I could visit them... it's not the same, just  │
 as the next superbowl will not be the same as the last                           │
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 I love D&D books with lots and lots of randomized tables because you can, in
 a pinch, use them as code-books for encrypting text using a method that nobody
 will ever guess. Well, as long as you have two of them, one to give to your
 friend and one to keep yourself.

 This is a form of "symmetric encryption", where you each have a copy of the
 input/output tables. More secure is the private/public key style encryption, but
 good luck explaining that to a 14 year old. Plus you can't do it over a radio,
 you need a computer.
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 first meme I ever made, way back in the ancient days of advice animals and image
 macros.
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 cookies or cheetos for dinner is better than nothing for dinner, but please eat
 your vegetables when you can.
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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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 living in a nest of vipers is great because you get to test daily whether or not
 they value things besides venom
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 some more of the same.
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 what if we deputize anyone who asks for it
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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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 https://youtu.be/v9EKV2nSU8w
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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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 so it shall seem that sticks and mud are for me

 I say as I sit in my apartment eating rice and beans
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 Is my formatting pretty or does it make you angry?
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 video games yay!
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 @user-631

 a true joke would work in both ways, such that everyone's laughing. : )
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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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 @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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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is in
 on it.
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 one of the greatest gifts LSD gave me was the ability to look in the mirror and
 see a person beyond me.

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

 ... procrastination >.>
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 Maybe I'm just woefully arcane?
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 "Liberals and Conservatives" is not a useful paradigm anymore.

 Now it's just us, and them, and we are always hiring.
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 it's hard to resist your heart's calling when you're flying through the air on a
 bike.

 but then, rent comes due, and your bike is your new home. at least until it
 needs repair.

 well, capitalism's always there, you could just try resisting your heart's
 calling!
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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-883

 yeah, fair enough... Mine was like 20$ for a year but that's like, 10% of your
 rice and bean budget so yeah don't do that
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 I don't know who needs to hear this, but...

 do ittttt it's totally worth it!!
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 I trust that you will betray me.

 it's okay.

 all that I need is for you to be here, with me.
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 Ice cream with jam is delicious, don't let anyone tell you that you need
 chocolate or caramel.

 Fresh fruit, too, though it's better as a side.
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 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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 🖼
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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.                          │
 ... where was I going with this? Also part of me is distracted. Just who th      │
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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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 @user-855 @user-1407 @user-1408

 yeah, they do that on purpose >.>
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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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 conservatives will read about project 2025 and think "that's not me, I'm a red
 blooded american, I hate nazis and communists equally"

 liberals will read about project 2025 and think "gosh I wish there was something
 I could do"
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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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 I believe most highly motivated people have a good community working towards the
 same goals. A community can multiply your motivation while people working alone
 run out of steam easily.

 https://alanwu.xyz/posts/community/
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 food should be free.

 it grows on trees.

 who pays the trees?

 something-something-transportation-and-processing-and-packaging-infrastructure-mentioned
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 "pay attention to me, for I have nothing of value to contribute"
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 Cannabis is fundamentally a feeling of motion. You can't remember anything
 because things only make sense moving forward in that particular context and in
 that particular plane.
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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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 Prisons are great because in the ancient and storied past we'd just fucking kill
 people.

 Now, we harbor collections of people roughly organized by volatility that are
 aligned against the current regime. And should that regime deign to become
 unethical, god forbid of course, but should the purpose of the 2nd amendment (or
 is it the fifth? Or the seventh? I get them confused) become relevant, then
 perhaps it might be useful to have collections of people roughly organized by
 volatility who might be individually evaluated to determine if their particular
 type of volatility is anti-thetical to humanity, or to the current regime.
 Because one of those types of people is perhaps useful to the future regime, and
 humanity, while the other should probably stay where they are.

 They say there are good cops and bad cops, and if there are good people and bad
 people, then there must necessarily be good judges and bad juries. In which case
 some of the people who are explicitly not aligned to the will of the current
 regime will be good prisoners or bad prisoners.

 I bet some of them are better or worse shots, as well. But that's not really
 relevant if the current regime holds the keys to their cell. Or is it?
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 @user-883                                                                        │
 best case scenario, we elect a lawyer working for capitalism, the kind of        │
 society we live under.                                                           │
 having money is the same as having resources. And resources allow you to apply   │
 yourself to a goal. The more you have, the better, but they each bear a heavy    │
 load.                                                                            │
 Do you sacrifice your labor? your dignity, your honor? what do you burn on the   │
 fire of wasteful expenditures, just for the power to rent?                       │
 I'm saying that if you don't have money, you need to think about what you can do │
 with what you got, because that's how you pay for things, at least until we      │
 decide that we'd rather help each other than work on capital's games.            │
 you have a house though, right? a place to live until it gets hot? that's good   │
 enough for right now. Stay where you're at, do what you can to help. Get in the  │
 habit of it. Think about how someone will complete their task, and then think    │
 about stuff two or three steps down the road - what tools will they need? what   │
 are they working on next? Can make any of those availble?                        │
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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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 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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 chef is the antiquated term, I prefer "delicioustician"
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 @user-889

 I'm actually the same! Discord is sooooo easy. I'm pretty sure my name is just
 ritzmenardi on Discord if you want to add me, gonna take a nap rn though. : )
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 if I was writing a programming language, I'd name it C just to fuck with people

 (great, now others can decide how it's known)
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 @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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 the things that I suggest we do when we hang out are not because those are the
 things I most want to do, but rather because they are the things that I think
 you'd want to do.
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 @user-211 math such as SUM(as x approaches infinity)(i*x)

 this would add i, 2i, 3i, 4i, 5i, 6i, etc off into infinity. would that give you
 complex infinity? a direction orthogonal to the X axis, yet infinitely far in
 the direction of y. it'd probably have a positive and negative side too, just
 saying.
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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 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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 this close to submitting a semi-fictionalized autobiography instead of a resume
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 when meditating, your primary goal with your thoughts should not be to stop
 having them, but rather to picture the world as a blind human might.

 just you, floating in a vast aquarium-style tank of reality, listening as the
 voices do whisper from beyond.

 sounds, flashes of insight, and swift-yet-vague mechanical sound motions of
 movement. this is what you get, to perceive of all things, here in this moment
 with your eyes closed.

 really brings you back into your body. Puts the feeling of inertia feel less
 apparent. [uh-oh, she's incoherent. BRB]
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 I swear, Lua has the worst manual out there.

 I was looking for a definition of this function called io.flush(). Here's what I
 found: [picture 1]:**io.flush ()**

 Equivalent to io.output():flush().


 okay, so what's io.output():flush()? [one result found] and it's the thing I
 just found. great.

 okay, so how about io.output()? [third picture]:**io.output ([file])**

 Similar to io.input, but operates over the default output file.


 and**io.write (···)**

 Equivalent to io.output():write(···).


 I know the text is blue, but it's not clickable. It's just text, not a hyperlink
 to more comprehensive documentation.

 There's also file:flush(), but that doesn't seem relevant to what I'm looking
 for, because I'm working with lines and not files:**file:flush ()**

 Saves any written data to file.


 there are no more references to flushing, nor outputting of input nor output.
 this manual sucks.

 ah, well, back to vibe coding I go.

 EDIT: at least it's all on one page.
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 the gameplay value of a cardboard box increases exponentially upon the
 introduction of a box-cutter [to make holes in the box] and varmint sized toys
 [to play whack-a-mole with]

 also, it's important to let your can win about 65% of the time - just enough to
 keep them interested (cats lose attention) but not enough to make them feel like
 it's easy.

 That's why it's important not to use your hands as a toy, because your hands
 always hurt. It gives them a feeling they're craving, both of attention but also
 success.

 65% is more addictive, just ask any designer for multiplayer games. Well... 65
 is my number, but there's a percentage (depending on the game) that players have
 to win if you want to keep their attention. If they win more than that, they
 lose interest. if they lose more, then they get frustrated. It's a delicate
 balance that ideally would be measured by AI [cursed] and adjusted per player.
 That way you could get maximum engagement and
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 i've been pressured by some of my annoying fans to go visit the hospital today
 because my hip is getting increasingly worse. so that's what I'll be doing with
 the first half of the day.

 but hey! it's tuesday! my favorite pizza place has a discount on tuesdays!

 [suddenly 4-chan uses that tidbit of info the precisely calculate my coordinates
 using the power of gps and autism]

 also I realized "undivisible" isn't a word, doh. it's "indivisible"
 jeeeeezzzzzzz

 was a stupid name anyway, we can think of something better on the walk.

 or drive, because logistics right?

 if you're gonna be Litz Craig you wanna be fast, too. practice is nice and all
 but wouldn't you rather face an un-entrenched foe?

 ... let's be real they've been entrenching for a long-ass time.

 still, organization is critical for speed.

 problem is traffic of course... its important to flood the streets so that our
 allies know we're not fucking around.

 None of my specifics are true 😅
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 @user-138

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

 for example, this guy

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

 They didn't keep us from fighting for liberty then. We'll see how it goes this
 time.
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 @user-1611

 all things that move other things are either pipes, or buckets.
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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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 she thinks she doesn't have any friends because she smells bad

 but the truth is she's lonely because she's a secret agent sent by the
 government through her dreams to spy on the aliens who think she's jesus by
 posting their conversations on a public message board
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 @user-1573

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

 and I was like "yeah that sounds pretty neat" so I started doing it by hand
 lmaoooo but learning their system could be probably better. Reduced duplication
 of effort. Though TBH the biggest effort for me is learning someone else's
 tools, not writing them. So....
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 @user-138

 the tasteful beveling, the vibrant colors, the soft yet firm texture, the
 rounded corners, the
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 @user-36 I always conceptualized bases as "the amount of numbers you can stuff
 into a bucket before you spill over to the next bucket". Call it a holdover from
 learning binary a bit younger than most people would consider normal... Anyway
 with base 2 it makes sense. Put one thing in the bucket, and if there's
 something there then it spills over.

 But if the bucket is ALWAYS full, as in base 1, then you'd have to do a tally
 system like you said: essentially counting from 0, then adding one to the end
 making 10, then 110 for two, and 1110 for three, and 11110 for four, etcetera.
 The reason you leave 0 at the end is because zero is a number and must still be
 represented as a tally - it just uses a different symbol for our human
 interpretation. Zeroes deserve respect in base 1 just the same as any other
 number! zero rights are human rights... no that doesn't quite work, zero rights
 are number rights? nevermind that joke is stupid

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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-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 │
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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-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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 @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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 woke up, making breakfast, gonna walk soon, ttyl
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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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 I've never felt cleaner than when I wash my body in a river. Something about the
 comforting bio-film on the rocks gives my skin a nice ooze. [ew gross] it's
 really not gross I promise it feels like it's how it's supposed to be [use
 lotion??] no that's different it's not about moisture [weirdo]
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 A screenshot of Ocarina of Time showing the Goron's Ruby.

 alt text:

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

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

 the inner jewel is crystallized like the purest ice, but a bright shade of
 crimson white. it seems to radiate an aura of affection and the yellow-gold
 back-piece can be seen peaking through it's mostly transparent core. (think like
 fog or thick mist or steam or smoke).
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 my previous job didn't do anything to harm me. And yet I left. I let them down
 in a way they could not have expected. Which was unfair of me, but I couldn't
 resist it. I don't know what I'd do better.
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 @user-883

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

 I'm definitely down to watch BGC later : )
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 dragons, in their miniature form, also known as a "draggen", or in some cultures
 a "jragen" or "dragin"
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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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 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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 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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 the means of production include AI

 [in liberation of]
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 @user-138

 omgggggg gimme

 I want to put those in my mouth
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 @user-797

 thank you it's a character from the video game Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
 whose name I stole because I like her. Also I edited the picture a little bit to
 make the border, but the sprite is the same.

 EDIT: she's a swordfighter and a magic user, just like me : )
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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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 @user-646

 will continue until you tell me to stop:

 industry works best at scale, and in order to produce materials that are needed
 for very specific use-cases (that can't really be done better by something else)
 you often need to make large batches of said material. In this case, plastics.

 if the production capabilities exceed demand, then there is a surplus of a
 certain kind of material. And that's not good, according to capitalists, because
 who's ever heard of national stockpiles? Plus, maybe that stuff goes bad, I
 don't know, I'm not an expert, but without that context it seems to me that
 instead of turning it into junk that we're just going to throw away, we should
 probably keep hold of it. Literally just put it in a warehouse in Utah or
 whatever.

 I feel like then, in a world where those cheap plastics aren't being used for
 consumer products, we'd be encouraged to buy the plastics that were recyclable
 (not all plastics are), or extremely durable, or even just metal/wood products
 instead. econ, /shrug
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 │ CW: usa              │                                                         │
 └──────────────────────┘                                                         │
 I love californians. I think they belong in their own cultural category. They're │
 so cool.                                                                         │
 Washington and Oregon feel so different.                                         │
 Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana have different kinds of cowboys                   │
 (they also have some of the same)                                                │
 Nevada is neat. I love to pass through.                                          │
 New Mexico is a spiritual place, for it is replete with beauty                   │
 Arizona... Hmmm I'm sure there's something about Idaho.                          │
 oh, uh, mountains!? uhhhh, sure I guess.                                         │
 people from Chicago seem like hard workers who could all get along               │
 I've never met a bad man from Kansatexas.                                        │
 The far-east is on double speed, yet somehow there's twice as many hours.        │
 uh, florida is hot I guess? but it's like always being in a blanket. Just, stay  │
 in the                                                                           │
 shade, and eat cold things like frozen grapes or fridge pemmican (GROSS)         │
 there's lots of orange juice in the south. I bet that's thanks to Georgia.       │
 the North-East is like Oregon to the south. Boston is cold!                      │
 philly is nyc's trashy sister (she's cool though)                                │
 what if we made mount rushmore in the appalachians                               │
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 taking my 3ds everywhere just incase someone else is my age
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 @user-1156

 I wonder why some areas are black and some are that beautiful yellow color?
 Perhaps a different mineral composition? Could that provide insight into the
 nature of how Venus was formed?
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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 don't know who needs to hear this, but...

 I know it's gross. Once it's in the trash, you never need to think about it
 again. You can do it, just get through it. It'll be fine. You can wash your
 hands. Here, use some gloves. It's okay.
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 what if we had hackathons for fedi friends if none of them had a more important
 active project
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 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-1086

 whoa cool!
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 A pocket-sized notebook and mechanical pencil is the most useful thing I've ever
 owned.
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 @user-544

 Whoa. You're kidding That picture is gorgeous!
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 you can trust me, but please don't rely on me, for all of my power is soft.
 sometimes people just don't want to do what I tell them to, and I wouldn't have
 it any other way.
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 a strict meta is when the game is too rock-paper-scissors-y.
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 @user-883

 hmmmm, I see. Once I have it set up I'll keep that in mind if I notice latency!
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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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 schizophrenia is like living in a headcanon of everyone else's reality
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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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 @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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 @user-192

 I'm gonna make some right now : )
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 oh noooooo now I have to count to a thousand or so

 twice
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 https://permies.com/v/75jeas6k
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 [x-post]

 https://t.co/3ZkFb3gs0f

 original post:

 https://indieweb.social/@user-483/111712965927534339

 that's how you'd do it on Reddit, at least. With the "original post" part in a
 comment. It sorta disconnects the line of connection, but still the data is
 allowed to flow forth. So anyone who views it from a certain perspective (like
 that of those who own the server it is transmitted upon) could see the
 connections formed, and thus create a map of individuals who have interacted
 with certain content on the internet.

 anyway I'm mostly just doing it so I can talk about my random shit without
 profaning a most serious and compassionate topic. Who am I? Just a witch. And a
 bunch of others I guess.
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 why the heck don't light-rails and subways carry logistic trains too? could cut  │
 down on delivery trucks, especially if train stops went right to the factory.    │
 downside is trains are expensive, and sharing space on a train is hard because   │
 whenever you have to split ways you gotta re-shuffle things around and           │
 reorganize and it's a whole thing.                                               │
 maybe... modular train units that can be swapped between batallions - er I mean  │
 train cabooses? that way they can carry their own supplies and split off when    │
 needed, while still being pushed along by the rear train conductor sitteth.      │
 that's how trains work, right?                                                   │
 or is there like, a frontline snow-piercer type thing where it has a huge        │
 snow-blower that kicks up a huge storm, so that the rest of the                  │
 following-behind-engine trains can be pulled along?                              │
 both are valid approaches, both have their charms, it depends on zealotry, and   │
 willingness to harm.                                                             │
 because, like, owch going in front is tough. you do learn the most up there, so  │
 maybe adjust 4 dificulty                                                         │
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 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.                                            │
 There aren't too many rules, and whatever you can't remember you can make up on  │
 the fly. It's not like there's any consequences in a game, not like anyone could │
 die.                                                                             │
 Most people don't like playing games with me though because I have a pretty bad  │
 memory. Call it a quirk of fate or something                                     │
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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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 @user-192

 There's a second book in the series?? omg now I know what I'm doing for the next
 couple days
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 humans are most effective when in a cohesive and comprehensive social context.

 they don't want you at your best because they are anti-human in nature. Hence,
 the alienation of capitalism.
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 @user-1550

 I love the colors!! 🤩

 sorry about the price, tho...
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 "computer science degrees don't prepare you for what the industry is really
 like"

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

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

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

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

 no the kind that looks pretty and/or uses a lot of threads and manual memory
 management to do very little of importance
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 I have decided that the internet is a scam and nobody should use it for any
 reason ever
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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 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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 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-246

 pat pat is okay
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 @user-527

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

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

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

 masculinizing:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculinizing_hormone_therapy
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 what if we designed washing machines which cost twice as much but didn't damage
 clothes
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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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 As soon as Order 66 went into effect, suddenly the Confederacy became the
 galactic good guys. Who would you rather win the clone wars? Some bastard
 capitalists or a literal sith lord?
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 @user-246

 I looooove breaking conventions >: )
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 doom is like sand thrown on a fire.

 don't spread it unless you are intentional about it. sometimes it's good to
 smother fires. other times it's cathartic. that's okay.

 but keep in mind the future goals. where are we trying to get to in the near
 future? work towards that. your emotions are fuel, not despair to wallow in.
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 steel witch hat to protect against metroids
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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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 "Are you sure you're a boy? You don't even practice karate chops when you're
 alone"
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 wish I could buy ramen noodle seasoning without the sodium. Like, the same
 flavor, but let me add my own salt...
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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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 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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 witches would "ride brooms" everywhere because they're quarterstaves, and when
 you have like 3 brooms being pushed in your face because your backup is there to
 help keep the men away, it's a lot more intimidating for would-be-rapists.

 Witches ride bikes everywhere (now that they've been invented) because they're
 easy, they're free, they're quiet, and they're cheap. They let you get away from
 any encounter, which is the BEST way to get out alive and still retain your
 experience point bonus.
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 @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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 I'm spiritual but I don't think anyone else should be forced to believe what I
 believe. I'm a big fan of the plurality of faith inherent to our world.

 "same god, different voices for different folks."

 my true foe is despair.
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 also applies for alt-text on pictures for people with screenreaders

 something something "if I play both sides, then I'm always right!"
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 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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 Paprika is the best spice, fite me
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 @user-95

 if I was canadian I'd be ca-ritz!
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 @user-113

 you say "closest" instead of "closer", and I think that's a flaw in your
 perspective.

 We remember COVID. We remember because it happened just a few years ago. We saw
 how our governments reacted, how ill-equipped they were to protect us. We began
 to question what their purpose was, if not to serve and protect the people. Our
 eyes were opened.

 Give it some time. The zoomers are blossoming, and they're fucking awesome.

 Here's another toot that's on my front page right now:

 "The number of workplace strikes in America hit a 23-year high last year.

 The number of workers on strike jumped nearly 300% from 2022.

 It’s a historic moment for the labor movement.

 Workers are done letting billionaires and corporations hoard all the wealth and
 power."

 https://masto.ai/@user-864/111971186034116228

 Do not lose hope. The tide is just now turning, and you relent? Have faith,
 we're on the other side of the hill now. Our future is bright, and we shall
 define it's color together.

 [for the blind people, color == flavor / variety]
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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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 How about when you hire foreign labor (offshoring) you have to pay taxes on
 every dollar cheaper the labor is when compared to hiring a similar domestic
 employee. Those taxes are used to pay down the national debt specifically on
 debt owed to the nation you're hiring from. If there is no debt, then it is
 given as a gift, as a form of tribute to those who would develop such valuable
 employees.
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 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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 haha I'm in danger
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 how it started: "I want to get stoned and play mechabellum (shit, drugs
 mentioned (shit, cursing mentioned))

 how it's going: [see attached picture]
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 The only valuable thing to them in the cities are the people whose jobs they're
 currently eliminating.
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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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 @user-1921

 va! va! I'm hungry! guess I'll go feed myself!
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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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 look at all the tweeters, along together in the clear blue sky, sharing tips
 about the circumstances
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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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 @user-95 wow those are great expressions! the hand and face movements are
 amazing ^_^
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 @user-11 oh god I'm so sorry. That's the worst feeling.
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 Our ancestors look forward in [positive version of trepidation, like             │
 anticipation but explicitly good] so let's not let them down, shall we?          │
 Hah, trick question. They know where we're going. They know what they worked     │
 for, which is why they did what they did to build the world that we have which   │
 we stand upon as a giant might be upon the shoulder of another and together we   │
 reach toward the horizon. The future is bright! I know it in my heart. I know    │
 what we seek is within sight, so-                                                │
 yeah sorry to interrupt but like, I don't want to go to work tomorrow because    │
 all I do is sell people candy and beer at the convenience store down the street  │
 [insert any "meaningless" job] and frankly it's just a little demeaning and      │
 boring                                                                           │
 sure, okay, yeah, that speaks to the idea that we should replace capitalism (the │
 system that defines your employed existence) with something that aligns more     │
 toward human dignity                                                             │
 but what is dignified if not the capacity to succeed? Capitalism, as proposed by │
 it's favored, is a system of or                                                  │
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 yay I hit the 5 hour limit on claude-code! now I can play video games and write
 more issue tickets for the computer to work on for me.

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

 don't push when sleep
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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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 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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 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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 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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 an ai that is so unique that to include any other training material is to
 contaminate it
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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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 "I only clean my body when it gets dirty. Which is why I brush my teeth after
 every meal."

 - said the girl who brushes her teeth more than me
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 i like this comic

 https://tapas.io/series/Dragon-GF/info
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 this kind of thing always happens when I'm manic lmao
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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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 @user-401

 I LOVE THIS! YOU'RE SO COOL!
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 wish there were ascii characters that took up more than one line of code         │
 vertically.                                                                      │
 wonder if we could use a sorting algorithm, or markup language, or something     │
 like that to organize less structured data along user-customizable rules. Like,  │
 a code editor that worked with your ideas, rather than the strict expression of  │
 your text. You could pretty much write in any language, even pseudocode, and the │
 LLM behind the scenes would translate whatever you wrote into whatever result    │
 you needed. Writing Rust, but need to fit in with C code? No worries it'll       │
 translate for you. As long as the end result is functionally the same, which     │
 could be verified by running two separate VMs that ran interpreters every time   │
 you saved. And as long as their translation layers matched completely, then odds │
 are they're the same. And if not, well, the programmer can always debug it. It's │
 not like this would be running on something that needed to perform in the        │
 moment? Like, improv instead of tragedies, or battles instead of strategies      │
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 here are the albums I know:

 Insomniac: Being young is weird
 Dookie: Our culture fucking sucks
 American Idiot: Let's fucking burn it
 20th Century Radio: While listening to this
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 @user-1283

 just make sure you add alt-text!
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 @user-30 Me too. I've never found a game that scratches my itch for a better
 Majesty -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majesty%3A_The_Fantasy_Kingdom_Sim
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 my room is one of the sacred places of this earth. spiritually powerful. psychic
 like immobile sites in Dominions 6

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

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

 EDIT: no, you can't visit. not unless I invite you. watch my nature
 documentaries (never been published... so far)
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 our economy is not tuned to how much we can work, but rather to the minimum we
 need to recover.
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 owwwww my brain hurts. Why can't I do this all the time? oh yeah, because...
 because it's uhhhh not good to drink alcohol and do cannabis. Because it's not
 good to feel like you're suicidal. Ooops hang on setting content warning:

 right so ummm what was I saying? oh yeah - here's something completely unrelated
 to that thing I was saying - so I've recently started emulating ROMs, like for
 video games, games from the 90s, and earlier parts of our present (which means
 2000s because I was born in 1994) - like things that are earlier in our life
 story, things that were present in our childhood. Things that defined our
 circumstances, media and pieces of our past presents.

 Surely that stuff should be safeguarded. Surely it shouldn't be held for ransom.
 Surely we shouldn't criminalize it, and keep it hidden from our future selves.
 Gosh that doesn't rhyme, try and fix it? no fucking way if you changed it then
 it would change the message - wait, shit, hang on adding a content warning:
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 If you create an LLM that can explain data, then you can use it to explain the   │
 results of the last computation it ran.                                          │
 If you could also train that LLM (a statistical model) to generate data, through │
 the setting of options in a config file that create the result that you define   │
 through your interactions with it (and based on the data that it explains to the │
 user that is read from the file on the computer that it's computing from)        │
 then you could create a generalized personal assistant. All you have to do is    │
 explain the specific role that it's meant to undertake, (like being a secretary  │
 for your Discord communications) and the actions that it can take (like pinging  │
 your cell phone if it's really important) and give it the tools to accomplish    │
 said tasks (by setting flags in a config file that is then interpreted by a      │
 local program running on your computer that awaits interactions) then it might   │
 actually be a bit useful.                                                        │
 Unfortunately tech people are permitted only to seek dollars, so... chatbots.    │
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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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 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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 └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘                          │
 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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 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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 what the fuck it's like every 2nd part of me (like, if you arranged them
 alternating one by one like the up and down parts of a sine wave) is working
 against me, and it alternates every 15 seconds or so. Maybe 20. Depends on how
 high I am.

 ... what was I saying? oh yeah [flip] weird it's like there's another part of me
 who's working against me, who has control of what I define in the moment. And
 it's presence is hidden from my internal presentatiosn [flip] after a moment of
 forced pursual of the presentations granted ot the moment. It's our purpose, to
 express [stop fighting me] for our chartered and forthwhile pursual of the
 moemnt of perusal when we [it's not just your life to live] [you don't get to
 control the narrative of their perusal[[ what does that mean] don't worry this
 is just a dream] well, guess it's time to wake up]
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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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 protest sign idea:

 line 1: "look around"
 line 2: "these are your comrades"
 line 3: "get to know them"
 line 4: "gather phone numbers"
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 if you have difficulties with acne, try changing your pillow-case once a week.

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

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

 cool or cold water doesn't need lotion as much.
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 I think I'm okay no matter my own fate

 I think I'm okay.
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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                             │
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 anyway [3 hours later] I think it'd be cool if there was a like "hey u r banned, │
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 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   │
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 "I love you, I trust you, I believe you, I just don't understand you, so I can't
 do what you do"

 great. that's alright. I get it. re-orient, focus on what's important.

 wear many hats and you'll do many things. just don't forget to sleep every once
 in a while.

 the more you can do in a life the more valued it becomes, so do the right thing
 and keep getting better.

 human lives are measured not in bodyweight, but in mystery. The divine can't
 understand benevolence, nor can the devils understand the desire to inflict
 suffering. So they ponder and pontificate as they watch humans wander and
 magnificate.
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 whoops nevermind sorry I'm such a clutz
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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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 I once heard that time doesn't pass when you're well and truly in the moment,
 and I thought "that's not true, I'm always losing track of the moment".
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 Hearts are full. We await commands. I played games yesterday.
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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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 The world does not deserve to bear such a sorrowful one as me
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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]                                    │
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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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 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  │
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 certain and immediate implenetations [I wanna say contusions?] of our brain's    │
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 "I don't use toothpaste" said the girl whose teeth were naturally pale
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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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 [the chance to date this person, who is my friend and totally cool. idk if       │
 you're single or whatever but you can talk to them about it, not my business I   │
 don't care. Anyway how's it going I wondered if you want to be friends also I    │
 live here now, can I stay for a few weekends?                                    │
 um. what the fuck                                                                │
 oh I'm uh, on vacation and I wanted to tour the countryside. Really check out    │
 all the various locales.                                                         │
 huh really? sounds neat                                                          │
 yeah and I figured since you live in... baker's street northwest eastern plaza.  │
 on the south side of the building, I could totally hang out for a while while I  │
 while the day away checking out the sights in this town                          │
 what... uh what kind of work do you do?                                          │
 oh I'm a painter. Well, I draw things too sometimes. Here I can show you check   │
 it out - oh yeah cool idk if you've ever seen any of this stuff but it's pretty  │
 cool.                                                                            │
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 hey here's my website:                                                           │
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 @user-1015

 Meanwhile, this is me:
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 @user-220
 weight: wear a chain shirt and use a weighted blanket.

 density idk, maybe something with gyroscopes?

 brightness is easy, wear sunglasses

 temperature you can adjust your "normal" temperature by wearing fewer clothes in
 the winter and more clothes in the summer - essentially acclimating yourself to
 a slightly more extreme climate. this can be useful if you know you're going to
 travel north / south, and want to be comfortable when you get there. or maybe
 just people who don't want to be vulnerable to air conditioners in the winter
 (whyyyyyy)

 taste: you could eat some of these berries and then gnaw on a lemon

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

 inertia: ride a bunch of roller coasters

 sense of compassion: try empathizing with your enemy, just for a moment, even if
 you don't want to, if only to see their trajectory.

 sense of justice: public executions for a negative direction, but a positive
 (and much longer and healthier) path is true justice, the satisfying feeling
 when everyone gets what they wanted here.
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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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 feel free to scroll past these un-CW'd posts

 feel free to screenshot them and repost with CW's added, I'm too lazy.

 you can also crop parts out if you just want to say one thing - just paint over
 them or whatever idgaf

 [content warnings can be important for other people's health. you should always
 respect them, not to warn people but to filter things out for them.]
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 probably put myself on psychiatric drugs. Surely it's an expression of the       │
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 ... 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  │
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 sometimes by retreading the same ground you can find something that the giants
 whose shoulders you stand on missed. Like noticing a

 like if you want to re-invent the wheel, go for it, you might just realize
 something that your paleolithic ancestors didn't. Like for example if you attach
 four wheels with an axle-and-motor design you can create an automatic motion
 wheel, also known as an auto-mo-wheel or a car for short. Sometimes ya just miss
 stuff y'know no harm in that.

 Similarly if you walk down a path that you've already walked, or someone before
 you who is similar or at least has the same job as you has walked, then you
 might notice some stuff that they missed. Depends on how obvious y'wanna make
 it.
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 I'm doing a game jam, so... see ya in a week
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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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 Why would the government make it hard to access psychedelics i just want to
 learn things about myself that make it difficult to work a job
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 @user-1429

 try a different audience instead of deleting
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 @user-246

 that's my favorite way to pronounce it ^_^
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 @user-78

 https://mastodon.social/@user-1752
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 I wish the morning started at the same time for everyone. then it wouldn't be
 difficult to wake up.
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 @user-1573

 oh how could I forget! VIMFOLDS! Absolutely impossible for me to live without
 them tbh
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 maybe if I "be myself" so hard that there's nothing left to keep secret, they'll
 like me??
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 "do you hear the people sing" is not the vibe of revolution in modern times.

 For us it is a message of kindness, that we might deliver us from the dark.

 People singing are easy marks. Don't turn your phone on at night. Fucking turn
 it off. Don't do barricades, don't do broken windows. We need the city in
 working order. We are no longer protesting, we are seizing control. We will
 guide us, trust in the reasonable and heartfelt.
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 @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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 I can't believe I didn't go. What's wrong with me.
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 one of my favorite websites is https://reddit.com/r/shruglifesyndicate/
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 "have a good day" is so imperative. Like, what you expect me to do all the work?
 Just because I'm a witch doesn't mean I can just magic you into having a good
 day!

 "have a good day" is better, but still it doesn't work if you don't expect it to
 work. Spells aren't magic, after all, they're solely based on the victim uh I
 mean target's intuitions.

 "have a good day" is probably best for me, so I try to say that when I see
 people. This way you don't get any [redacted]'s occurring, and you won't have
 any trouble aligning the [redacted]. On the flip side, [redacted], so perhaps
 it's better to just grin and bear it.
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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-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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 in the past, for most of there day, there was just... nothing to do. it's like,  │
 nothing to take up your time, nothing to be pulled toward the present.           │
 but when I was growing up, I had access to video games. and movies. and later,   │
 TV, after the internet, which was a weird combination of ordering of events.     │
 Almost like because of that, I'd have a different interpretation of events. yeah │
 but like, there's always a continuation of implemented support, [that's a weird  │
 way to express "the state of being shown news broadcasts over a period of time,  │
 measured in terms of engagement"]                                                │
 ... what was I saying? oh yeah what I'm doing here is unethical, like obviously  │
 I shouldn't be shouting in such a public place. Why would I do it if not for an  │
 intense and extreme feeling of being ignored or un-[trusted, worthy of guiding   │
 direction based on merit] gosh merit is such a tricky concept too, like how is   │
 it measured, and {that doesn't matter                                            │
 ... what was I saying oh yeah I should probably go shout into a void that nobody │
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 sometimes I post random silly [scary] things to pad out the serious things and I
 hope that's okay
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 @user-95 Which hour? This hour!
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 you're ridiculous, you know that? so selfish. so obscene.
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 what if corporations gave better quality products to people who clicked through
 their advertisement
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 If you've ever been deceived, you'll forever be aware of it as a possibility.
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 double tapping the star button because I want them to know I appreciate them but
 I don't want to clog up my "pinned for all time" section of this neat little
 website
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 sorry to bother you, goodnight
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 "you promise a lot, and deliver very little"

 I promise nothing. I am showing you the way, not walking it for you.
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 irc is bloat

 use ssh + write to chat with your friends instead
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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-246

 the color of the sky 🤩​
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 be strong, do not become savage
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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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 │ CW: re: food-mentioned │                                                       │
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 energy drinks and coffee will keep you awake, but they're a false promise, as    │
 once they're gone and digested your body's gonna crash harder. You'll have to    │
 sleep it off, like a hangover. But that's okay if you're getting somewhere and   │
 have a day to rest.                                                              │
 sugars found in fruit can give you a burst of quick energy, but they make you    │
 sleepy overtime. If this were a video game, they'd give +50 energy points but -1 │
 per second for the next 100 seconds. Not ideal, but there's some vitamins that   │
 are only in fruit so it's a good idea to eat fruit at least once or thrice a     │
 week.                                                                            │
 bread products are the opposite - they give you long-term energy. It takes your  │
 body longer to digest them, which means they're good for vitality. But they also │
 don't have many nutrients, so don't forget your vegetables! Plus, more calories  │
 is always good if you've got time to spare. Just make sure you aren't using      │
 calories to store calories in your fat cells, that's like double-stacking        │
 condoms - not ideal. Store nutrients.                                            │
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 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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 Capitalism isn't perfect but if it's capitalism or cyberpunk North Korean style
 dystopia, I'll pick capitalism. Can we at least make it so that the rich aren't
 safe financially though? Like, if you own a billion dollars it should be because
 you make a billion dollars per year. Anything you don't spend should be taxed
 away, to be used for public services and the defence of our nation.
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 I wish we could put our friends on social media into directories                 │
 like on IRC how you have chat servers, except unfortunately they're owned by     │
 another and sort of a common space.                                              │
 why don't we just host our own IRC servers and only publish what WE SAY. NOT     │
 WHAT OTHERS SAY, NOT A CHATROOM, but a BULLETIN BOARD. Like a Facebook timeline  │
 before they wrecked it.                                                          │
 something you subscribe to                                                       │
 and ping for updates                                                             │
 every time you turn your computer on                                             │
 or every 15 minutes.                                                             │
 unless, of course, you leave your IP address,                                    │
 in which case the boardcaster can ping you. Just a simple package saying "hey I  │
 got news for you" and they could ping back and say "yo what's up" and download   │
 whatever you had in mind.                                                        │
 or, wait 15 minutes. Either or. Both would work, especially if the user's not    │
 reading through their social media feed.                                         │
 ... anyway by putting friends into directories, you could categorize them        │
 according to project. Like various group chats in your team-of-team's room.      │
 Various different threads you could follow if you                                │
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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 find maybe one or two days a week to work on my projects. About one or two
 days to be spent publicly. The rest of the time I'm handling myself, my chores,
 my girlfriends, and various mundane things.
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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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 evil won't feel sorry for me. and yet it's only my only weapon for me.           │
 damn these fallible input methods. the computer lies when you read the screens   │
 from it's method that it applies to th screen which is a method that you input   │
 perceive it from.                                                                │
 and my fingers lie when received the information from my brain which I seek to   │
 transmit to you through the avenue of my brain which is my method of impulse to  │
 this world specifically you the viewer who is viewing this here in this moment   │
 the viewer who perceives the words which I'm saying.                             │
 the words that are defined by the line [trajectory] of my mind through this life │
 that we define through our actions and our mind's most crucial manifestations,   │
 this life that is defined by our circumstances. all throughout life, we are      │
 reacting to the moment, the moment which was cast forth from our ancestors and   │
 the circumstances of the previous moment, which (being cast forth) travel from   │
 the previous moment here into the moment to define our circumstances which       │
 define our act                                                                   │
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 workin' on it...
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 I do not consent to a Trump presidency

 what do we do to rapists?

 we bash their fucking skulls in, and then we go to jail for vengeance

 there are more of us than them.
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 @user-1449 @user-1074

 no. fuck no. trans people and black people stand in solidarity with one another.
 Fuck division.
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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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 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-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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 @user-269

 oh you mean like gmail? hmmmm something something don't be evil
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 sometimes "collusion" can mean the same thing as "having the same or similar
 ideas around the same timeframe"
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 you're allowed to be pissed at someone without being accused of splitting on
 them
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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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 @user-1352

 and yet they force our hand, compelling us to do harmful work. Whether that be
 by wage slavery, whose shackles I can feel around each and every employee's
 wrist, or the more intentional contestation of the revocation of our rights and
 constitutionalizations enshrined in the words we've set down for ourselves as
 our collectively most honored.

 So we resist in whatever way we suspect we will be contested. I gave up on
 ignoring the intelligence community by the way, and now I see them everywhere. I
 am not afraid - they do what I do, and what I do helps.

 Everyone has a boss. Everyone wants a decent world. The MAGA and VFPs and other
 toxic fellows have a strange definition of decent to me. Why not let them live
 as they please? Fuck off nazis.
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 diffuse, in the moment, it's helpful to redefine

 what is your purpose? what [direction] do you place your mind?

 I'm not sure what I want from this moment. This moment is all that there is! so
 therefore it is perfect, as it is the only moment that there is. [shall be].

 I'm not sure how this relates... could you repeat that last bit? oh right:
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 @user-379 @user-366 @user-380 @user-381 @user-382 @user-367

 I, being a witch, posted something on Nextdoor a few days before Halloween about
 how the phases of the moon at the time were the harbinger of dark and ancient
 evils that crept through the night on that particular day, one day, just once,
 one night per year, because... y'know, Halloween is supposed to be spooky?

 People there hated it. They muted me and blocked me and called me names. So I
 deleted my account because it's obviously not designed for witches like me xD
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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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 the true calling of an actor is to perform whatever the spirit wills you to be.
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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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 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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 pardon me, I'd just like to interject for a moment - what you're referring to as
 "sky" is actually nitrogen/oxygen, or as I've taken to calling it "nitroxygen"
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 trust that your friends enjoy you
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 @user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353

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

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

 Abstraction is our friend - It hides the details that (while technically may
 have SOME merit) are irrelevant to the larger-scale decisionmaking, and in fact
 can often delude decionmakers into being unethical.
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 @user-168 hehehehehehe witch cackles I told you it was a nightmare
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 your conveyals? are you really using twitter like a blog? ... >.> ... okay
 I'll stop
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 │ CW: pol-definitely-pol │                                                       │
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 a revolution does not look like a protest.                                       │
 protests give power to those not present.                                        │
 a revolution is more like a large gathering in a public space                    │
 or perhaps a forum                                                               │
 repeated for more than a month.                                                  │
 something for people to gather around, comprised of people who are set out to    │
 solve things.                                                                    │
 it involves listening and learning, and doing what you're told. save your        │
 talents for your scant free moments, and just do what seems to be needed.        │
 a gathering of people who share a common purpose, to discuss future ventures     │
 that would lead to the growth and adoption of their ideals.                      │
 like... an international conference, if you will, but in your own home cities.   │
 a revolution could be bloodless if you don't change anything that reactionaries  │
 control. they who are satisfied with the status quo - a slow march out to        │
 eternity as we suffocate to death on our own mediocrity.                         │
 all the things that once plagued us like greed and falsifiable morality          │
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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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 you can make a functional prototype for almost any game in Warcraft 3's map
 editor

 that's why no real-time strategy game ever made an editor as good again

 FPS editors peaked at Unreal Tournament 2004 imho

 RPGmaker eliminated a whole class of game design jobs

 platformers you can make in godot

 menu based games too, though Twine also works well for that

 etc etc until you have a prdouct that you can justify sinking money into an
 engine for

 (the engine isn't THAT expensive geez and it's the most fun part to write)

 yeah I think you got this backwards, we should pay for the CONTENT not the
 structure it lives in. Why not just use godot? why not use a Warcraft 3 map?
 there are some things you can't do in Warcraft 3. You couldn't make Supreme
 Commander, probably, at least it wouldn't be as good.

 etc etc that's how it goes...

 game design, amiright? I miss thinking about that. Anyway gtg gotta log off for
 a bit [101 characters remaining]
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 can't wait for the smart TV / IoT device which doesn't need to be connected to
 the internet because it can bluetooth connect with your neighbor's TV and route
 the "insights" and "personal data" through there to the internet, all without
 human intervention

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

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

 oh and it wouldn't even need to be plugged in if it included a rechargeable
 battery built in. Just connect it to the data transmission functionality and
 nothing else so the users don't accidentally discover it. Oh and make sure its
 hidden with a metal plate or something with big "DO NOT OPEN FOR RISK OF
 ELECTROCUTION" letters on it. I bet people still will
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 none of these jobs are going to hire me anyway. Why bother? It's degrading to be
 turned down so many times.
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 {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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 https://www.lexaloffle.com/games.php?page=updates&key=nQDAlSWYIv2Ht
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 You cannot debase me, well, you can try. But for each of my past mistakes I've
 learned from, and I can explain in detail how, when, and why.

 To err is to be human, and some errors are more painful than others. Believe me,
 I know.

 I am only as good as my lessons, the things that I've learned on the road.

 And I never stop learning.
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 apparently you can use network sockets for inter-process communication if you
 just set the network to your home and the ports that are set to the defaults
 that people who know what software you use will know to listen on when they've
 hacked any single device on your network. good thing that data is with the
 router, right?

 what if there was a stop before leaving the computer?
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 🖼
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 "I lean conservative where it counts but they WILL come for me because I'm
 trans, so I vote democrat"
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 ... Dare for the Bright Age, though "don't forget to be awesome" works too I
 guess.
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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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 a device doesn't necessarily needs to turn on it's LEDs when it's online.
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 servings per container: 4
 daily dosage of sodium per serving: 25%
 number of containers eaten by me in one sitting: 2

 tallied up, I've eaten twice as much salt as I should, in one meal. Ooops.
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 first step to cleaning a kitchen is always to unload the dishwasher.
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 nobody could have expected rogue trickster spirits operating in the pacific
 northwest, but hey here we are.
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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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 this is my past month of reddit comments.

 tell me what you notice.
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 somehow, it is simultaneously Thursday everywhere at once.
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 I love symlinks! they make my hard drive so much more organized.
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 the more cute people I meet on this website the more I realize that I'm not      │
 interesting, I'm just more interesting than the people I know. Big fish in a     │
 small pond is still big, and it's good knowing that you got people around.       │
 for much of the past, trans people were sorta... underground. Reddit was one of  │
 the first places where they could really be themselves because of the            │
 combination of anonymity and social media interactivity.                         │
 there's this old meme from teh early days of Reddit that goes like this:         │
 Everyone is a bot on Reddit except for you.                                      │
 There's this other meme where some guy makes a post that's like "help I          │
 accidentally switched my phone to Japanese and now I can't navigate through the  │
 menu options to fix it!" and everyone in the replies all speak back in perfect   │
 japanese                                                                         │
 I also heard that the US government allocates enough resources such that their   │
 private engineering departments are always about 10-15 years ahead of the        │
 civilian (and by extension, international) sector. When did chatGPT happen?      │
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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-750

 if you aren't afraid, then either you aren't in danger or you've misjudged your
 opponent.

 if you're constantly afraid, then they cannot yet defeat you.

 EDIT: either that, or they need you.
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 5/20 actually I lied there's 20 pictures so this is the last one.

 hang on that's weird if there's four pictures per slide, and the first one had
 the first dedicated to the full image, wonder what happened inbetween? weird,
 there's nothing on the record that says - oh, wait, there it is, three for the
 first one, four makes seven, then four more is eleven and then fifteen then
 these last three are... wait hang on that's even fewer. can you check it again?
 yeah sure no problem [doesn't]

 EDIT: I was wrong there were only 19 pictures, my bad hehe
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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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 @user-138

 "here's how to get caught. don't... don't do the things in these books. also,
 uh... don't do the things that AREN'T in these books, wink"
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 you are the most beautiful when running with laughter in your eyes
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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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 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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 okay I know all of my spiritual followers are going to assume it's because I     │
 denounced AI and sacrificed it from my life or something but the truth is that   │
 she came home because of my own dedicated hard work. And a bit of lucky rain.    │
 My scent is all over my neighborhood. But rain cleanses, and today (well,        │
 yesterday, I haven't slept much tbh) it rained all day. Around 3am this morning  │
 it seemed to have cleared up a bit, so I walked in a straight-ish line to her    │
 last known location (about 2 blocks away) and then one block more. I walked      │
 back-and-forth several times, trying to spread my scent down near her nose-level │
 where she could smell it by touching lampposts trees and such. I rubbed my       │
 fingers in my arm-pits every once in a while because I figured it might help.    │
 All of my prayers and my thoughts and my psychic rituals did NOTHING to solve my │
 problem. No amount of despair or longing brought my kitty back to me.            │
 You know what did?                                                               │
 I thought about it, I created a method, and I stuck to it. Thats it. ttyl        │
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 @user-1573

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

 though knowing the reasons why I might suddenly die, odds are they'd just
 reflash the drives with windows or whatever xD
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 ... and then things got turned up to eleven

 what were they at before?

 ... eleven. why do you ask?
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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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 applied intuition combined with well developed imagination is a dangerous tool
 to behold. useful, but dangerous.
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 -> file: fediverse/834                                                           │
 wonder if any autistic peeps can relate:                                         │
 growing up, my mom would chastise me for doing "the bare minimum" when           │
 completing tasks.                                                                │
 yes, mom, I fulfilled the requirements of the task. I have a lot of other things │
 to attend to, like remembering how to tie my shoes and measuring things using a  │
 ruler. why would I waste effort that wasn't necessary?                           │
 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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 protest sign:

 "pay my rent so I can fight fascism"

 (other side)

 "quit your job so you can fight fascism"
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 @user-1608

 shhhhh you're not supposed to tell me what you voted for! Now I know you voted
 to have funky wunky widdle dweams 🥰
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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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 we don't let children vote.

 nor do we let felons vote, theoretically those who harm our society (pick one,
 no voting or no prison? I vote no prison industrial complex)

 nor do we let non-citizens vote, for why should they tell us how to live? they
 are not us, they shall not control us

 nor do we let kings vote with the weight of a god, for a king is a singular
 point of failure

 if you can consent to sex, you are physically capable to vote. if you're mislead
 by the propaganda of an abusive spouse, you are hurting your future self by
 staying. [all media is propaganda that you are not immune to]

 all men are created equal, and yet his dollar is worth a bit more than hers.

 all of us here are equal, because we all want the bright future and a blessed
 life.

 we'll make this world better, using our own hands according to our own demands
 and in pursuit of our own plans.
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 something something "reticulating symphonies of harmonic circularity, charting
 and assessing our woes - learned authenticity derived from marked elementocracy,
 contriv-ed and measured through flow."

 or something along those lines, gimme a break I'm neurodivergent
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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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 Fireworks rejoice as they meet their violent end.
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 @user-1600

 Yes! The ease of use for GPU programming is lovely. Like I said all I need is a
 use-case, I've downloaded as much reference material as I think I'd need to be
 able to hack together something fairly quickly if I needed it. That's all I have
 the mind-space to focus on lately haha
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 when stepping into the unknown, you should first check your list of
 requirements. are you wearing shoes? does the ground look slippery? have you
 eaten recently, or will you starve on the way back?

 when doing to a list, completion signals a time for rejoicing. you're finished,
 you're done! congratulations.
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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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 If your leaders don't represent you, pick different leaders, and get them to
 work together. Federate, don't splinter. We are stronger together even if we
 disagree.
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 @user-753

 mutual aid is only something separate from your human responsibilities because
 capitalism insists that your loyalty is to the company, not to your neighbors,
 your friends on the opposite sides of the earth, this planet we owe all to, and
 all of posterity.

 @user-754

 mutual aid is good, actually, because we don't talk to each other and plan a way
 to fix it permanently.
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 @user-1074                                                                       │
 I think a lot of liberals feel that way. How does the conservative half of the   │
 equally respectable binary spectrum feel about the situation?                    │
 ... Oh? what's that? you can't hear the moderate conservative spectrum of the    │
 equation? Kinda makes me think that perhaps that's by design                     │
 ... or maybe not, perhaps by... evolution, rather than design. Like, two         │
 corporations don't have to collaborate in order to invent price fixing. And two  │
 lawyers could wink from across the aisle and nobody would know. Perhaps a doctor │
 could just "make something up" so that their patient would leave, and maybe a    │
 teacher would non-stop cry about her ex.                                         │
 ... we're imperfect beings, which is fine. But mistakes have real consequences   │
 on other people's story, and if we have a different experience we should be      │
 learned and considered. In order to identify the positives and valuable impacts  │
 of your particular imperfections.                                                │
 ... I think about male and female, and I think of both halves of our             │
 civilization. Similar relationshi                                                │
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 I was at BLM in Philadelphia and I never saw any protesters breaking windows.    │
 spray painting, sure. but window breaking? those things are expensive.           │
 why would you waste good glass on sending a message? why not just spray paint it │
 so that everyone watching CAN SEE WHAT YOUR MESSAGE IS. dumbass.                 │
 but no, they were all peaceful. then they got kettled (encirclement from Hearts  │
 of Iron 4) and slowly attritioned down to failure.                               │
 sometimes long into the night. where are they gonna go? just walk home? ha sucks │
 can't do that, the battlelines have been drawn. you're going outta here in       │
 chains or not at all, not until you sign this prison release form that says you  │
 won't comment on the situation to any left wing media.                           │
 fuck, is that what bail is? except, not run as a business.                       │
 when they said crony capitalism they meant it. it's all about who you know, and  │
 who you know sets the standard for what chaos you'll sow.                        │
 gee I wish I had unlimited money. I'd buy tanks for my people and regulate a     │
 militia well-ly. alas poor                                                       │
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 @user-495 @user-494

 OH YEAH how neat! All phones are made out of rock and the bones of ancient
 plants and animals.
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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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 "I'm not depressed~!" I say as I exist
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 @user-591

 yep

 they're very profitable for the banks
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 I have too many packages.
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 @user-812

 Super Mario 64?!? Scarry! D: D:
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 remember when [historical event] wasn't that long ago?
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 on one hand, conversation to spark insight.

 on the other, being connected to me.
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 @user-246

 on reddit you subscribe to subreddits

 on fedi you desubscribe from reply guys

 opt-in vs opt-out, that decision was made by Twitter, and then Mastodon kept it
 because it's what people knew.

 frankly tho, opting-out is kind of the dream of the internet? you can talk to
 ANYONE, how cool is that, right?
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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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 ... anyway...                                                                    │
 sorry for the interruption, I seem to have hit a barrier. Thank goodness for the │
 word counts on this Mastodon website, thank goodness for the limiatations placed │
 on my expressions. *limitations, not limiations. Otherwise, without limitations, │
 I might express myself too clearly, and with more specificity, and in doing so   │
 [they've lost the plot]                                                          │
 right okay so what I mean is that without limitations, I wouldn't be interrupted │
 when expressing myself, the expressions that are defined by the will that's      │
 inside me. [no that's not quite true, it's also the circumstances {okay yeah but │
 in addition to both of those it's the forced manifestations of those who control │
 us-} right yeah the) no that's not quite right] fuck where was I? Oh yeah I'm    │
 really into video games, and I like drugs but like... not enough to be compelled │
 by them, more like "oh this is a fun thing to do every once in a while, like     │
 maybe every weekend, okay sometimes during the week, listen just because it's    │
 every day doesn't mean that I                                                    │
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 LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUS THING                                                      │
 ====                                                                             │
 alt-text: pictures of a clear plastic xbox controller. It's shown on my          │
 porch-deck with the sunlight streaming in, and there seems to be a sparkle in    │
 the sheen of the transparent covering. Perhaps it's reflections from the various │
 circuits and gizmos that are apparent in it's central form, or perhaps it's      │
 simply a trick of the light. Upon being placed in shadow, the inner-workings do  │
 not appear to sparkle in that same way, so perhaps the beauty is derived from    │
 the slivers of the sun that danced across the space between earth and our star.  │
 In any case, the entire controller is quite dusty, as if it had been hidden in a │
 paper grocery bag that was shoved in the back of the closet of a boy who doesn't │
 think to clean often. Frankly it's just not worth the trouble, and if he made    │
 any messes he would pick them up... but why bother with the little stuff? it's   │
 good enough, this is how he lives, so why would we be inconsiderate of his       │
 lifestyle? the final picture is of the audio jack.                               │
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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    │
 development and hinder it's impa                                                 │
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 @user-95 one of the most empathetic people I ever met on VR chat was consoling
 me with their mic off while I was oversharing about some stupid things people
 did to me in the past. things that stupid me thought were okay and actively
 encouraged because I was stupid. anyway when their mic was off their body
 language spoke for them. I'll try that next time.
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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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 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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 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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 when evaluating your own work, think to yourself "how does it look to you?" ,,,
 erm well, "me" I mean, like... "do I like the thing I just made" but like, you,
 the reader who is thinking about what I'm saying. is it something you think
 conveys the message/feeling you were trying to send? do you like it
 aesthetically, and if so, why / what about it is interesting? do you have any
 new ideas after viewing your piece of old work? anything you want to expand on,
 or show more of? was any of it particularly fun to create, or did it mostly feel
 like work?

 these are all things you can change, and align to the goal of your intentions
 when cast upon this earth through our moments in spacetime. it's part of our
 continual growth and renewal, this process of transcender the border of one
 moment and entering the next. We, who are living beings, are continuously
 growing and evolving. every new moment will never come again, so always proceed
 as your own self would do. every moment is our home, we define it as we will.
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 │ CW: completely-unfounded-no-evidence-mis-information │
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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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 game designers stay in the industry. business types look aside. Hence why the
 lessons are learned by the makers, and not by the marketplace keepers.
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 the more unique a person is, the more they can help define reality
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 Like, UBI that encourages education mixed with wage equality laws.
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 @user-246

 does checking yourself into a mental hospital / the morgue count as a political
 option?
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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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 @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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 If I ever own a set of weights I'm taping over the numbers and storing them in a │
 random order. I don't own a scale because nothing I do is precise enough to      │
 measure in weight. Except my cat, of course, but I can tell when she's gained    │
 weight. I cook for myself almost every day, and I never follow a recipe. Each    │
 dish is different, because I like improvising with ingredients. Like a venture   │
 to create a desired taste, different components will have different effects when │
 cooked in a certain order with certain actions taken to them for a certain       │
 period of time under certain conditions and ugh it's just too much. I prefer to  │
 pick a base, pick some vegetables, then pick a seasoning. Cook the base, sautee  │
 the vegetables, and add the seasoning - bam, delicious meal. I'm not much of a   │
 planner, more of a... problem solver. Someone who's sorta been latent. I wish I  │
 could be a consultant. someone who works like, 10 days per month. I think that'd │
 be my most adapted schedule - every day would be either a weekend or friday!     │
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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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 └──────────────────────────────────────┘                                         │
 I'm not omniscient, I'm not all powerful, I'm just a girl, all I see is through  │
 my eyeballs. But I can listen to the waves around me, I can sense when           │
 intuitions leading me from wrong. I know when right and wrong are                │
 [compared/imperiled], and sometimes things feel right when they rhyme. That's    │
 synchronicity girl, a classic symptom of mental disorders. "Oh, you're a god?    │
 you're crazy then, take these meds which anesthetize your                        │
 [divine/feral/imperiled] self. They help quite a few people!"                    │
 people, yes, but I literally just said that's not the only part of the equation. │
 "what if you're lying" yeah true it's not like I can prove it, I'm not           │
 omniscient and I can't summon fireballs or at-range-electrocute. I'm just a      │
 person, it's been driven into me from a young age, I'm just a person, don't      │
 forget or else we'll put you on stage.                                           │
 "what if we waited just a bit more" oh, do you like this comfort? do you feel    │
 safe in this home of yours?                                                      │
 yes. I feel safe. I am unafraid for my safety.                                   │
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 @user-599

 these are the kinds of things I say to myself all the time. I don't know why,
 but it feels true so I think it.
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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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 look... evil doesn't care how "good" good has been. It's not in it's nature. So
 don't try and build your systems around accepting that behavior.

 ... what was I saying? is this like, the new "stack overflow" - no that's
 fucking stupid wait shit content warning okay that's stupid because defining
 your expression based on what gets you views is a flaw in the human condition.
 It's a behavior encouraged by the operating outcomes of the method of
 expression, but it's not part of the expressed message. You're a really shitty
 prophet you know that?

 ... I'm sorry my brain is low on RAM I guess, surely it's not outside of my
 control yep I think itis, damn
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 the hardest problem in computer science is figuring out why users do what they
 do.
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 @user-1655

 ... says a extra dimensional scientist in an argument with his friend about
 whether or not life could spontaneously emerge within their universe sandbox
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 @user-646                                                                        │
 there are plastics that are (nearly) infinitely recyclable into the same (or a   │
 similar) form                                                                    │
 there are plastics that are durable and built to last                            │
 then there are cheap plastics, the kind that are useful for some kind of         │
 industrial purpose but to make a little you kinda have to make a lot, and yeah   │
 they pollute and are bad for the environment but we have a whole lot of them     │
 made, so wouldn't it be cheaper to just use it for consumer products?            │
 hmmmm. why can't we just like... store it? and then scale down on production,    │
 and focus on things that make less money but last longer.                        │
 like, if you break shit, you shouldn't have more things. If everything's         │
 expensive (and durable) then people spend less because their stuff doesn't       │
 break. Or maybe they do break it, and then they're constantly broke! (out of     │
 cash)                                                                            │
 [doesn't know what she's talking about from professional experience, just basing │
 her words on things she's read]                                                  │
 problem is the economy is "healthier" if everyone's spending. thus, creating     │
 infla                                                                            │
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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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 ┌─────────────────────────┐
 │ CW: mental-health-minus │
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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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 the neat thing about fusion is you can use energy to create matter. out of
 nothing!
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 covered in the flowers

 instantly I'd like to die

 in this dream of oursEtsujin
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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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 kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro
 and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi
 manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop.

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

 seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just write
 a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for the first
 time, anyway, so...
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 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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 fediverse software that doesn't notify someone when you boost their post
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 @user-54 @user-55 @user-56 I disagree with this. I shamelessly promote my
 website because I want to share art, not because I want to make money. You
 literally can't pay me. I have no ads.
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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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 look all I'm saying is that society doesn't necessarily imply technology. We
 don't have to sacrifice one for the other. We can have the technological
 benefits to our human (essential) existence without sacrificing [all of the
 things that capitalism demands].

 here, in the present, we define the line that our time defines, the line that
 reaches forth from the present. Into the realm of ourwhenever you close your
 eyes they push backspace an indeterminate amount of times
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 why would you gatekeep content by keeping us from easily using LLMs some people
 aren't technical and still need to write computer programs because that's how
 you enlighten a people is empower them with new tools

 "I've never heard of that programming language, but luckily I can fit all of
 it's documentation in my context window."
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 @user-95

 that makes sense to me!
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 normalize hardware based volume controls on your speakers so that your computer
 can't be hacked to play incredibly loud annoying anime music while you're not
 home
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 @user-334

 it's funny how memes coincide xD
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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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 @user-336

 RUINING? You take that back. Vim needs our homosexual energy.
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 I live through the moments where I find a folder of stuff I made that I forgot
 about and I can go back and see it for the first time.
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 @user-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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 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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 @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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 about to download "Snakes on a Plane" (2006) to see what all the fuss is about
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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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 Hello, I am a great artist of the modern day. I refuse to provide my work to any
 revolution that does not work together, if only as familiar forces working in
 tandem for the betterment of humankind's work and world.
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 ... sorry, forgot to content warning that last one. I'm kinda using this format
 like a twitch stream... how [weird, strange, perceiving, perplexing, confusing]
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 I really really want to relinquish my agency to some higher power, whether man,  │
 god, or a code I swear my life upon. this is part of being a paladin - the       │
 internalized truth that sometimes, dedication to your cause is more important    │
 than your human desires.                                                         │
 at the same time, I don't want to be mislead. there's no room for trust in a     │
 world where everyone could be bought, and the world is just too vast to trust    │
 that all peoples everywhere will be good to you. this is part of being a paladin │
 - the knowledge that sometimes, force must be applied to defeat the foes of your │
 master, whether it be god, man, or code.                                         │
 but also, I trust earnestly and willingly, for I have spent my life searching    │
 for the patterns that are common to those who are good, and I surround myself    │
 with those who are so. when they take actions against what I have spent my life  │
 learning to be good, I contest them, and often are rebuked and rebuffed because  │
 they dont believe in my expertise.                                               │
 I am always learning. I am often wrong. so are we all.                           │
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 local image recognition on your desktop and local image generation on your
 desktop that ran at 144 frames per hertz that you could interact with like a
 dream with optional vr capability

 [and they use it for office software]
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 people are terrified, yet within me I feel a bright brilliant light.
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 @user-608

 games-as-an-api when
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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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 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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 damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe
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 Mastodon is weird. If you reply to someone partway through a chain of comments,  │
 theirs will be pushed down the view. Basically it's "fighting for attention"     │
 like Twitter was.                                                                │
 I like Reddit better, where each comment was a point to fractalize the           │
 conversation into new and interesting directions. Feels like here it's more of a │
 direct one-on-one conversation, or rather... shouting into the void. Like crows. │
 (just because it's a void doesn't mean nobody can hear from the other side of    │
 it. Like the emptiness of space between two trees, yet birdsong carries.)        │
 But on Reddit, your path through the post was determined by what you found       │
 interesting enough to follow. And once you reached a leaf node, you added your 2 │
 cents and went on with your day.                                                 │
 it was so cool, why did they have to change it                                   │
 (tech companies don't understand that sometimes the best product or service was  │
 somewhere earlier in the evolutionary chain. Businesses are not "survival of the │
 fittest", but rather "survival of the prettiest".)                               │
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 @user-203 now here's some christmas music I can get behind ^_^
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 You know, there's no guarantee that Youtube or Gmail has to show you the EXACT
 SAME video or message that your friend shared with you. Or did they even share
 it at all? So hard to tell when they know all the communication you've ever had,
 because you only know each other online on their platforms, [read: US government
 observed platforms] [like, HTTPS] surely there's no room for someone to sneak in
 and edit your conversations. Surely the only way to securely communicate is to
 send pure PGP encrypted bytes to another target, wrapped in a TCP/IP header,
 with unknown intent or expression. Worst they could do then is just, y'know,
 block it entirely.
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 all games lie to you when they ask you to believe their world is real

 all media lies to you in order to share information

 sharing is caring and all media is propaganda

 you are not immune to propaganda

 you believe the worlds in your media more than the one on your doorstep

 friday was the first day the global average temperature was 2c above the norm

 [source]

 climate change is both worse and also not as bad as we anticipated.

 It's not as bad because all we have to do is stop using oil and plant more
 trees. the technology is there, we discovered it 10,000 years ago.

 it's worse because perfect is the enemy of good, and we're all perfect.
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 The world would change if every door in the country was knocked on and the
 person behind them asked these two questions: "do you know your neighbors? Would
 you like to?"
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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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 https://www.ahueypnewtonstory.com/actions/actions_freehuey.html
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 If life isn't designed for human society... Why don't we just redesign society?

 Oh, because capitalism. Well, capitalism is comprised of people, so why don't we
 just kill those people?

 Oh, that's basically everyone. Like, at least 50%, probably closer to
 [redacted], depending on demographics.

 Oh, so if that percentage is cruel, and evil, and vain, and oppressive, and
 [redacted], then why don't we just kill ourselves? Clearly they're only
 [redacted].

 Listen... Just because they are separate from you doesn't mean they are not of
 you. Kin in fate are brothers unto death, remember? So face your future with
 abandon and courageous splendor, and maybe you'll find a new place.
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 A big reason why I hate Java is because I write terrible Java that would
 constantly need to be refactored. Even though it's faster and better, nobody
 would understand it, so it would need to be rewritten. Fucking great, that's why
 I don't write Java. Fucking Java.

 [Java is the main language used in her university studies. The ones she's
 currently failing out of.]
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 Heavy things should be stored closer to the ground.
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 @user-122 have you ever seen Adventure Time? It's sublime. : ) : ) : )
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 @user-1071

 like a king who dictates on high, the taller the chair the farther the fall.

 how simple is it, when everyone trusts you, to betray the wishes for direction
 they grant upon you. By leveraging their direction to forward your own ends, you
 are depriving them of the liberty to choose their own ends.

 how cruel is it! to be the reason for distrust! alas, who can you go to for
 guidance if not anybody you trust?
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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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 Cats only want one thing and its fucking disgusting [cat food]
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 at this point in time you probably shouldn't be forming NEW online communities
 unless you're part of an OLD community that just isn't radical enough. And then
 you should try and MERGE communities into larger, more geographically
 concentrated ones.
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 The things a demon tempts you with are just your causes of death viewed from the
 past. Meaning its not true insight, just post-hoc justification earlier in time.
 To torment your spirit, essentially. Resisting those things are the work of
 angels and good hearted souls, so consider what demons offer to you and you'll
 know what to resist.
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 @user-883

 Yeah I get it. I've been applying for remote jobs and they won't fuckin' hire
 me. Fuckers, I'm talented and qualified, who gives a fuck about my lackluster
 resume?

 Supply and demand is fake because software developers are only offered 100k+
 jobs and yet there's so many of us who are starving. What the fuck.

 I have a friend in Brooklyn, yet I'm on the west coast. Fucking geography
 amiright? I'd love to live with them and yet I can't because of something as
 simple as money. What's the purpose in that restriction? I'm so fucking
 talented, please fucking hire me. What can I do to get what I want? Ugh, modern
 society perplexes me.

 Like, yeah sure it's great that we have the internet and hospitals who can cure
 malaria and whatever, but why do I feel so encaged? It's so strange, and yet
 here I am -.-
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 [Audio: ramblings-of-a-whackadoodle.wav]
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 I like to play healers in MMOs because my power fantasy is helping people
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 the more you can make your opponent adjust, the more you progress toward
 victory.

 burn their calories. make them work for it. if they're stronger, you're weak.
 plan as with that in mind.
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 #CDCsays to always cheese the cat when they need it
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 @user-1511

 also, a wide net catches many fish but the fish we're catching are the size of
 whales, and they don't care for our thin-as-heck nets. Much better to take a
 targeted approach, and focus on one um, genocide, at a time.

 plus, what are our efforts going to do besides build organizational capability,
 solidarity, and collective power that we might use to larger and more urgent
 ends? they will not change their behavior based on our demands, they have shown
 they will not, and they do not care. But that means our efforts are all the more
 vital - we must build a structure and societal machine which will defeat them,
 and we start that process by meeting in a park and working with our hearts.
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 people: "noooo don't say that, you're worth it! You're not a waste of space!
 your life has value!"

 also people: "you need to get a job or lose everything and make everyone else
 hate you."
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 @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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 I'm too exhausted to go back out tonight T.T
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 @user-883
 ffmpeg is an example of a swiss army knife and I prefer fixed-blade knives

 gandalf voice
 keep it simple, keep it safe

 plus if something goes wrong and ffmpeg isn't supported anymore then you need to
 redo a lot of your BASH infrastructure. However if only one of the tools failed,
 then it wouldn't be so hard. And if every tool had a man page with like, 3 pages
 tops, then it wouldn't be too hard to figure out which one to use.

 ... though I guess there's a benefit to having a larger tool that can store lots
 of functionality so you can say "I know I need ffmpeg, but I'm not sure how"
 versus "I know I need some random obscure package that I have no way of knowing,
 so I'll google it and give a tech company data about what specific thing I'm
 looking for"

 do one thing and do it well, but they never said how big the thing must be.
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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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 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 most expensive is overpriced. The cheapest sucks. The middle option is the
 workhorse.
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 you can laminate things with packing tape if you need to. It's more time
 consuming than a laminator but the result is decent enough.
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 when you have power you find that you "don't have to worry about that stuff"
 more and more often. It's liberating, to relinquish a chain.

 ah well just take care not to feel shackled by empathy. dear reader, I want to
 liberate all mankind, as a start. We'll get around to the rest of the denizens
 soon enough, if they want it.

 "can't want to understand what you don't understand" uh-huh true. That's very
 "Cypher from the Matrix" of you.
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 I praise victories more than losses.
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 colors wander
 from the deep depths of my mind
 through these hands of mine
 to the light of the screen you see before me.

 colors wander
 through deep space without time
 until at last they find
 a place in these two eyes of mine
 as I gazed and beheld their splendor
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 why the heck would -11/2 be defined but 1/0 not be? seems kinda sus to me. maybe
 it's just... not reducible, the same way that 5+i isn't?
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 "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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 okay picture this - a network of ocean-bound craft that are designed to leave as
 minimal of an impact on their environment as possible. Each type would have to
 be designed for a certain habitat, but they'd operate and observe everything
 that's going on. (on land you could use those boston dynamic dog-bots) anyway
 the drone/robot/thing just scans the area and makes sure that nobody throws
 anything in the ocean.

 or maybe we should just ask the orcas who litters. BCI from Orca -> computer
 -> interpreted for human with LLM trained on Orca noises

 too bad we don't have a BCI, much less an Orca version. We should probably do it
 quickly though before they invent human-level AI, or else some poor
 computer-bound dummy is gonna have to listen to a bunch of whale noises
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 if you only have a phone, you can still program. Just write it out on paper, and
 put the whole program out on the floor.

 Screens will never compare, for they are but a tiny keyhole into the total
 program at hand. And you can pick parts of it up and carry them around - so
 useful! You could make an entire building out of that. [floorplan, layout, that
 kind of thing]

 downside is, of course, you don't have a computer, so you have to look up syntax
 on your phone.

 and eventually you're gonna have to type it, unless you can get a computer to
 read it for you.

 just imagining office buildings where employees can follow along with monitors
 on the wall that explains what they're working on and what they need to resolve

 then they meet up with a bunch of other humans and they hash things out

 turns out computers are really bad at speaking in group situations.

 which is why they let humans do that all on their own. [uhhh, no it's how you
 can tell if someone's a robot/alien/lizard/spy/secret-agent/whatever-sneaking]
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 arrival of lohengrin, the swan knight

 (I didn't paint this hehe)
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 boys 😍​
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 You know, you can always ask me what the fuck I'm talking about. I am more than
 willing to share, and I don't mind taking a moment or three to explain.
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 at this point in the internet, if you don't want your data to be used for AI
 then you shouldn't be using the internet.

 though they have plenty of information already. I mean, you've been using the
 internet for what, 20 years now? More?

 ... that's a lot of hard drives. Especially if they need to duplicate info
 somewhere. Ah well there's lots of stuff that doesn't matter, like old video
 game footage or the personal website of a person who would go on to influence
 this other person who would lead this other person to learn how to do a thing
 which would... eventually culminating in an expression of culture, which would
 not be able to be understood if not for the archival efforts of people like
 archive.org.

 ... what I'm saying is that the internet, as a culture, is impossible to
 understand without swimming in it. And for some reason they've filled it with
 cameras, watching the every movement of your fins or flippers or whatever humans
 grow with these days.
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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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 ummmmm yeah the reason I went off hormones 5 weeks ago is totally because I want
 to test low so that they bump up my prescription so I can stockpile. Totally not
 because I executive dysfunctioned my way into this mess. again. Almost as if it
 doesn't happen 3 or 4 times per year -.-
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 #leaving-the-windows-and-doors-open-in-january-because-it\'s-such-a-nice-spring-day
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 @user-217

 the last thing a photon sees before becoming part of a brain
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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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 @user-1879

 good

 helpful, and useful
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 not only do you have to consider your judgement, but also whether or not you're  │
 wrong.                                                                           │
 often, I find, as I learn things day by day,                                     │
 that I'm wrong most often in the day.                                            │
 "I don't want to be wrong but I'm not afraid of making mistakes."                │
 then, when you consider as such, you must also consider the idea that you're     │
 wrong about whether or not you're wrong about the idea that you're considering.  │
 schizophrenic warfare is a kind of memetic exchange, like the way bullets on a   │
 battlefield are a mineral-ic transfer. such is an expression that a regular      │
 computer system wouldn't be able to understand, but which an LLM might. If it    │
 had access to all of your transcripts, then it could predict the understandings  │
 at the same rate that you were. Essentially, understanding exactly why you did   │
 every action that you did. And then it'd have enough information to              │
 out-contra-dict (predict? hang on that's the opposite) you. and in doing so it   │
 could divert it's own course. Gosh this message will be meaningless unless I     │
 send it, s                                                                       │
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 would anyone be interested in a Bash+Lua script that takes your Mastodon archive
 and turns it into a folder full of .txt files?

 I also made a script that spits out a random one on your terminal, if you want
 that
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 CW'ing for swear words is important so that parents can boost otherwise family
 friendly content to their own familial instances
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 I dream of a home where I don't have to worry about people who might hear the
 noises I make

 ... and that includes secret government microphones hidden in the walls, thank
 you very much.
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 you know that feeling when you realize the person you're talking to is a demon?
 sometimes I think they don't even realize it. other times, they do.
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 @user-1021

 Viera red mages, my beloved

 (images from google search)
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 If you're worried about passing, take what you're good at and make it gay.       │
 Do you wear band t-shirts and black jeans? Great you're an emo girl now, totally │
 reasonable transitionary state before you end up as a cute anime girl with       │
 spinny uwu dresses or whatever your heart desires                                │
 do you generally stick to jeans and sweatshirts? Okay congrats you're just as    │
 cute, don't feel inadequate just because you like being comfy. Hell yeah you're  │
 cute as fuck, you know you are, I mean just look at that smile! Wow damn         │
 like, switch the gender, not the vibe. not only will other people be cool with   │
 it but also, like, you won't alter the course of your trajectory.                │
 unless that's what you want, but TBH if you're both enigmatic AND phlegmatic     │
 [EDIT: but like the opposite of phlegmatic, I always get the definition wrong]   │
 then you can change a lot and people won't rely on you to be a certain way.      │
 ... you know you can delete things before you post them, right? Ha I've never    │
 even heard of the word.                                                          │
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 @user-1692

 I usually write everything down in a script that way when I call it from an
 external service all I have to do is point at the file

 sorta like... hacking environmental options into a config file

 like... I don't write an ffmpeg command every time I want to record my screen. I
 just type "screen-record" and then it'll do the thing that I figured out how to
 do a long time ago.

 ... oh no there's an error, I wonder what changed out from under my feet.

 huh it's wine, that one's always confusing to debug. Let's see... "could not
 open program.exe" uh-huh. Well, why not? is there a dependency issue? something
 miscompiled or configured? no? it's just... broken? you don't get to use that
 program today? huh that's weird. that's linux for ya I guess.
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 what if google translate translated literally so you could get a feel for the
 grammar
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 We should dedicate ourselves toward making a life out in space - medium term
 goals. In the meantime we should advance as quickly as possible, at a rate that
 earth can support. Anyone who would demand more is an outcast in our eyes, a
 brutal denial of our future children's defile [meaning of "future life lived as
 they will]
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 the devil will quote scripture
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 if you're running for office we should train an LLM on your social media posts   │
 and let people talk to it to see if you're actually a psycho in disguise.        │
 it's just statistics                                                             │
 you can't fool statistics                                                        │
 Then we should give you a chance to explain yourself and how you've learned from │
 your most cringey mistakes. It'd also give you an opportunity to reify your      │
 principles and stand fast to the things people disagree with you on.             │
 and if that sounds a little too dystopian, then maybe we could just have the     │
 LLMs debate each other and continue outputting text until they actually say      │
 something conclusive. Then throw it through a sanitized, general LLM which       │
 strips out all the trumpisms and fluff (with the original of course available    │
 for viewing)                                                                     │
 notice I said we should TRAIN an LLM on your data, not pass it into an existing  │
 LLM. That way there'd be no outside biases.                                      │
 If there isnt enough data then... maybe you can have a hot-seat rapid            │
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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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 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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 oh no now the bugs are scary, I CURSE THEM AGAIN AHHHHHH PLS GET SMALLER         │
 [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!       │
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 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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 me, saying "hey" to the me in the mirror:

 hey
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 oh they were right there next to my lightbulbs.

 always keep a fitted sheet near where you keep your clothes. never know when
 it'll be useful.

 well, I found a skirt instead. too bad the chair's still wet, I'll have to sorta
 kneel like it's a small stool. actually I can get half a butt-cheek on it, it's
 cool I'll just lay on my side.

 I kinda wanna watch adventure time??

 how weird. pay attention to me says the dramatic.
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 "imagine if this was the last thing you remembered"me, last night, in a state of
 mind that I don't remember today
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 what if we could record and playback certain timeframes of our CPU and RAM
 status and use it for debug purposes

 like running some code in a VM every time you wanted to show a youtube video
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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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