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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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 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-982

 funny how that works
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 you're allowed to be pissed at someone without being accused of splitting on
 them
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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 want to point out how for every game that released in a month, they had at
 about 5 people playing it and averaged their scores.
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 You only think that because it was contrasted with the Soviet union, which
 didn't exert power in that way.
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 I can't cancel my internet because I use it to work, which almost pays enough to
 cover rent, and nothing else.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Fuck that. Oops cursing mentioned, one s
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 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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 deleting messages is pointless.

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

 anything you say on the internet can and WILL be used against you
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 do you ever wonder about how much heat is absorbed the plants and leaves? Kinda
 makes me think that they're keeping us warm at night. The desert is much colder
 than you'd expect, and so it the moon, or mars, or any other sufficiently
 devastated forest habitat.

 (plains are my favorite biome, please don't take them away with your stupid
 climate change, they're one of the most at risk)
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 all people deserve a decent life
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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.                 │
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 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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 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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 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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 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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 full time social media teams who mark each post as suitable for the entire
 internet or the trusted viewers (very exclusive club)

 that way it seems like everything's fine but you're actually having a
 conversation
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 Problem: there are trans people and leftists and people of color and plenty of
 others who live in red areas who fear for their lives

 how do we help them? They need to be given the tools to escape those conditions

 However, many of them are poor. They lack the resources to escape, even if they
 had the tools. These are who I think of the most, for they have the least to
 leave behind.

 A solution: what if we got a bunch of people together and drove around to every
 red place we could find and invited them along? We could pay for their food and
 gas, and potentially save their lives.

 I think it would help if we could stick together. Not only would we have time to
 spend together learning and having fun, but also we could practice supplying a
 large group of people traveling across large distances.

 In terms of people, we'd need some to drive, and some to stay home and supply
 resources like dollars or... other things.

 I'm thinking 2-3 staying at home but potentially as many as 10 per driver.
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 @user-1633

 ... Is that already a thing? I should look around more, teehee
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 nixed my job offer today because something told me to stay in town.

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

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

 at least my elbow doesn't hurt anymore. I didn't get outside today but I cleared
 a lot of blockers for the coming tomorrows.
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 All people are good at heart, let's get them what they need for a start.

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

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

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

 No-one is beyond saving, but it is their choice to make. A choice ungiven is a
 chance untaken.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNln9mXuTI

 angry femme
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 an fps map where one team has the height advantage (battlements on a castle      │
 perhaps) and the other has to push through their field of fire to get to the     │
 objective                                                                        │
 the trick is that the people on the ground have hitscan weapons, but the people  │
 on the high ground have slower projectiles. Meaning the snipers have no cover,   │
 and the rocket launchers don't need to dodge.                                    │
 I believe this would upend the traditional dynamic and reduce the negative       │
 aspects of both playstyles - traditionally, snipers will getcha from halfway     │
 across the map (but really they are much closer and in cover, you just didn't    │
 see them, n00b) while projectile classes need to dodge (skillfully) and get      │
 close enough that their attacks have a chance of hitting the target.             │
 In the proposed map style, snipers would get no cover but be forced to dodge,    │
 introducing variability to their aiming in a way that may be more fun to some.   │
 In addition, the projectile classes must take care to utilize cover effectively  │
 without falling off the thin battlements.                                        │
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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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 capitalism is like if your thread allocator gave 90% of the work to 10% of the
 threads in the pool and your tech lead claimed it was more efficient because the
 remaining 90% of threads would have the results of the program "trickle down" to
 them somehow
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 damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe
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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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 @user-1429

 no I haven't!
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 wow what a sopping evening

 glad I'm not out in the rain
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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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 the nerds who know the backstory of every character in the series are like, the  │
 bishops of the past - people who've memorized the whole bible and can use        │
 whatever passage they needed for whatever purposes they desired.                 │
 Usually, hopefully, helping people and letting them get better. By healing the   │
 sick, and caring for the old, and generally being a pillar that people can       │
 orient themselves around. Like fediverse instances, or comment sections on       │
 blogs, it's a group of people sharing the same narrative.                        │
 and idk I think I'd really like to listen to what happened in your Baldur's Gate │
 game. I'll tell you about Adventure Time, if you'd care to listen. I know plenty │
 of other tales as well, and if I think about them I remember more details.       │
 Ehhhh, so what if I misremember, if someone else wants to correct me then go for │
 it. But at least it told a good story, right?                                    │
 error, hang on brb just had an idea for a black-hole machine, surely there's no  │
 way this could go wrong. Good thing I'm a human that you cant turn off.          │
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 @user-171

 ha no she's more of a whiny baby

 but like, a cool one, who likes to be a predator and hunt things
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 "you're too loud, weirdo"

 okayyyyy
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 a strict meta is when the game is too rock-paper-scissors-y.
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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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 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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 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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 @user-889

 omg bottom left T.T
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 "I wish there was a language that was as simple as C but had [insert complex
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 @user-883

 Shows how long I've been without playing SWBF2 with friends 🙃

 I'm sure there's a MUCH better way to do it on Linux. I just haven't looked into
 it yet.
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 i am a sinner
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 @user-907

 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer?
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 @user-274 @user-275

 ouch why did that hit so close to home T.T
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 I'm making progress, I can feel it in my bones.

 maybe we're just ALL making progress, which is why it feels like I'm moving
 forward.

 in any case, I look forward to the future we have a say in, when all things are
 more impactful due to our hearts.
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 everyone is valid.

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

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

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

 I am always changing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 at least then SOMEONE is doing SOMETHING.

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

 omerta
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 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-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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 "No I haven't played that PC game before. Do you want to watch me play it for    │
 the first time? We can have a laugh and eat cheetos as I die to the first boss a │
 hundred times. Maybe next time we'll get tacos and then perhaps we'll find that  │
 we're spending so much time talking about things that we never really got a      │
 chance to engage with the game. Until next week of course, when we'll definitely │
 spend more time playing. Maybe even with friends? I know a guy who's into this   │
 game but I never really played it with him - maybe we could - oh yeah sure       │
 totally we'll talk about that next week."                                        │
 "or maybe we'd unlock the secrets hidden in the narrative, and learn cool        │
 lessons we could share with one another. Like two 12 year olds playing Ocarina   │
 of Time together, working through each boss. "let me try this time" "yeah that   │
 one got me too" "ah so close" "YEAH DUDE you nailed it" "this part is kinda      │
 scary ngl" "wait shit when did we use that health potion"                        │
 old hardware forced us into a different experience compared to z                 │
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 don't mind me, just weaponizing plurality

 leveraging, please say leveraging next time
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 @user-883

 you can always throw that resume at the next job too!
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 ugh so many video essays to watch. There's only so much time in the day! Life is
 so fast these days, it feels like I must always be "on" - it's a wonder how
 people find so much time to share with this idea we've called "capitalism"
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 @user-1209

 sounds like a waste of time to me.

 though I did spend like 4 hours last night talking about cross-dressing so, you
 gotta start somewhere.
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 January 76th held their foremost.                                                │
 Our protests happen much more often, and bear all of us.                         │
 well, not all of us, but enough, and the fewer that attend while still being     │
 "enough", the less information they have about our strength.                     │
 our foremost are in every city. Maybe we should hear them, and identify which    │
 among them have the most useitude and enable them.                               │
 "I've studied marxism for 15 years" okay great you get a team of 40 regular      │
 people, see what you can make with them.                                         │
 "I've been in politics my whole life" okay here's some administrators, they'll   │
 help you keep track of how things are getting done.                              │
 "I'm a family of five" alright we'll add you to the grocery route, here's where  │
 we'll put you on the laundry route, where people either pick up your laundry and │
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 here's the XYZ route where they do ABC service, etc                              │
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 @user-217

 the hunger of the maw
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 @user-1071

 whoever at OpenAI that came up with those tiers doesn't understand the science
 behind it.

 consciousness does not come about from exceptional capability - after all, a
 child is conscious, and they're useless in a fight.

 consciousness comes from tiny bits of awareness given a story and life. that's
 it, it's not too complicated, but they're building something else.

 like, a complicated analytical engine of some kind.

 I feel like the people their press release was for is the kind of people who'd
 give them money, not the kind of people who'd help them build it y'know? like
 "what the investors don't know won't hurt them, besides we're making progress"
 right
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 @user-1074

 ah yes but didn't you know? orphans produce unobtanium in their bones, and if we
 didn't crush them into powder we couldn't make ultra-doxo-floro-tin-omatic
 lubrication jelly, which is used to power our weapons of mass destruction like
 planes and trains and tanks and suburbs.
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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
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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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 good morning!

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

 "it should be red enough to feel a sunset"
 "there's enough time here to go for a walk around the block"
 "the spartans had enough soldiers to fully block the narrow causeway,
 essentially forcing the persians to grind down their number to the death. most
 battles fought in that time were fought until morale breaks - this one was to
 the mortal end. hence, why they are im-mortal."
 "the smoothocity should be as soft as a brushed metal refrigerator"
 "the chocolate had 56 grams of sugar in it. it was a lot of chocolate, enough to
 place in a standardized container."
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 @user-777

 being correct isn't really power

 so true T.T
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 catratfoxfolkmix say that five times fast I dare ya
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 if you want to do communism in a city, you must first buy a parking lot.
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 just show up

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

 I'm a lawful person, but~
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 what a fuckin' narcissist she spoke self referentially.

 I'm not a narcissist! what a jerk she spoke self referentially
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 "eat food, dearest one. Tea has no calories."
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 At this moment in time there should be nothing on your mind but the defeat of
 capitalism, fascism, and unjustified authority.

 Make no new plans but for the defence of your people.

 I'm still in my pajamas. I haven't eaten breakfast. Once I've found my single
 pair of shorts, I'll be on my bike again.
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 found this on reddit
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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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 @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-246 or is it 010010 which == 18 in binary?
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 @user-883

 I'd say "content warning: fear-cursed-if-true-not-politics" that way people who
 had "Fear" or "cursed" on their filter list wouldn't see it. Things that are
 commonly content-warning'd are also commonly content-filtered by people who tend
 to be the biggest beneficiaries of healthily designed content-warnings. so
 putting keywords in there that filter out people who don't want to see intense
 or damaging things to their psyche can avoid it more easily.
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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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 @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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 this is the simplest implementation of scalable anarchism I could think of. tell
 me how it's flawed so I can improve it before I need it.
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 may they pass on my hard drives as read-only memories like ashes on a shelf or
 stories of most wealth

 I hope I reconnect with all my old signal contacts. wonder what they're up to. I
 bet they're cool now. ;)
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 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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 totemic spirits cohabirtating with corporations in a modern day telling of
 american gods
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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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 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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 "you're telling me that I've been special needs this whole damn time and nobody
 told me?"

 to be fair to nobody you're pretty good at hiding it
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 @user-1218

 An image means nothing, for it is just an icon.

 like a picture of a floppy disk corresponding to writing memory from RAM into a
 hard disk platter, even tho those have three different tasks, so too does my
 icon gesture at something.

 On the other hand, art is necessarily divorced from it's meaning the moment it
 leaves the pen and is written to paper. So there cannot be a meaning in my flag,
 not one that I define of course.

 The observers of the artwork, of whom I am but one of, can possess their own
 ideas of what it means, of course. Here's mine, feel free to take your own:

 Sea, land, sky. The crimson of a fading light, and the bright beginnings of a
 new day. Man(kind), with our vivid red internals, stands astride the border of
 the ocean and the surface. We walk where we will, perhaps into the black depths
 of the cosmos beyond, but forever do we anchor ourselves and owe allegiance to
 our earth and our star. Sunlight casts crimson light upon our externals, as our
 hearts do beat through time.
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 @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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 the ethical use-case for currency is to express interest, not to identify worth.
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 "never lose your totem"

 I only lose things when in motion. at rest I know where everything is.
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 Portland in the modern era gives me pre-revolution Philly vibes. Seattle,
 Boston. New York, SFC.

 And not JUST because of their relative locations, but somehow that helps a bit.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4
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 No plan survives contact with the enemy, and any plan that everyone knows is a
 plan that your enemy knows.
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