Poems similar to: mlem

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 to improve your "cat-petting" abilities, try to imagine that the wall in front
 of you is the most interesting thing in the world - stare at anything else
 besides the cat, and look at them in your periphary. Occasionally you can look
 back, but the idea is that this way they will be able to look at your face
 without painful eye contact.

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

 most people stare at cats when they are engaging with them, and totally ignore
 them otherwise.
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 @user-1722

 "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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 you said you wanted a revolution, and, well, I could not be more proud of you.   │
 It's actually getting done and if I stop and think about it I'm kind of amazed.  │
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 do you hang out in the park                                                      │
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 and leave it on a park bench, be loud, claim the space, it's yours, that's what  │
 it's there for.                                                                  │
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 @user-777

 being correct isn't really power

 so true T.T
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 many people have not seen the kind of opulence I have.

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

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

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

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

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

 I think we just like what carbon can bring.

 but have no fear, fusion is just a decade away, then we can |
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 @user-1218

 true, which is why such an idea should be more than a formality, more than a
 technicality, and closer to a schedule or event-driven system.

 "Well, the duration on this-or-that project elapsed, and the team assigned to
 study it has produced these scientific results. Look on page 7 there's a pretty
 cool graph! What should we try next, to compare with what we just tried?"

 repeat until we all decide that one of the methods we tried was the best, then
 re-implement that one if necessary and mark it as "long-term"
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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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 I wonder how many people hate me?

 silence is indicative of allies or foes.
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 @user-1153

 what kind of meta are you referring to? instance stuff?
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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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 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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 @user-246

 Maybe a design that put weight on the sternum instead of the breast area? With
 more support for the waist, like hiking backpacks sometimes do. That way you can
 spread out the physical cost of toiling to carry it, like wearing a belt with a
 chain shirt to distribute the pounds.

 seriously just, arm straps that meet in the middle instead of the shoulders.
 Probably won't be as good but it might be better. Could do under the boobs as
 well, for like a triple attachment point.

 You can sorta simulate this by clipping the two straps together and pulling them
 to the center, but not all backpacks support that.
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 if the christians got killed rid all of the queers they'd miss them within
 years. not decades. then, they would never forget them. neither within years,
 nor decades.
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 humans are computers that inhale air, produce electricity, and exhale carbon.

 give me a biochemical or mechanical process for doing that on a reasonable scale
 for cheap and you can solve global warming by replacing power outlets with an
 energy generation box. Doubles as an air purifier and UPS.
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 @user-119

 even if they don't know it
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 @user-192

 it is rarely more efficient to think through a problem than it is to calculate.

 But, speed isn't everything, so think we do some more.
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 capitalism is non-consentual, which is... pretty much the main reason why I am
 against it.

 like, I don't really care about whether it's more or less efficient. the fact
 that you cannot opt out means it is unethical.
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 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 │
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 tired and causes them to have mh--- sui ideations and other similar things" and  │
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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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 I wish I could be the me that I am on cannabis without being inebriated by the
 drug. She's so much more powerful than the rest of me, but it's impossible for
 her to keep her head on straight unless she has people guiding her.
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 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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 the standard keyboard was designed when global variables were more common, hence
 why the CAPS_LOCK key is so prominent.
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 @user-907

 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer?
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 gamers compulsively say "gg" after every match but I think the best games are
 the ones that are even - neck and neck - could go either way - always a tense
 struggle
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 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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 what if we just wrote our own executive orders and changed things for the better
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 damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe
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 @user-889

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

 (plains are my favorite biome, please don't take them away with your stupid
 climate change, they're one of the most at risk)
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 I trust that my allies are working. I see it in the fruits of their actions, and
 I am thankful.
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 large mountain ranges look exactly the same as small mountain ranges when viewed
 at a distance instead of on a map. don't fall in
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 we're spending so much time talking about things that we never really got a      │
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 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      │
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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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 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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 hey, listen, I'm here at this point in life just the same as you. who cares,
 right? like. nobody wants to see your personal development. You don't have to
 prove yourself. Like... why would you care so much about what other people (who
 you don't even know) care about what you do? like... it's fine. just... be.

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

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

 that's privilege, and that's stupid.

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

 but like... it should be something you consent to - like "no thanks I don't need
 the rocket launchers on this mis==sion==
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 me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We can
 start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast
 potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by
 dismantling capitalism!"

 also me: "hey what if we made capitalism suck less"

 because like, I don't know the future. I'm just a person, remember? wink

 gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes.
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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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 not me

 but we
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 it's good to have multiple ways to contact people you care about
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 @user-1402

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

 do you notice how in all the pictures of him lately he's trying to appear soft,
 sentimental, or hurt? poor guy must be in pain. I guess the bed you make is the
 bed you sleep in.
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 I want people to watch me. I enjoy being viewed. Please offer guidance, but
 maybe limit the abuse. Simple requests for a media company, true? And yet
 advertisements (which is the only way people agreed to fund the LAVISH projects
 they put on for our tender moments)

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

 (perhaps in too public of a place)

 (but what use is it if nobody knows you?)
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 the only thing a baby needs to know is about themselves. The rest will come.
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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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 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together ^_^
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 @user-192

 who can say. I'd like to find out, though.
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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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 awwwww, I wish I was tacticool : (

 sure would be nice to have SOMETHING going for me >.>

 ah well guess I'm more of the "eepy sleepy" type teehee
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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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 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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 full time social media teams who mark each post as suitable for the entire
 internet or the trusted viewers (very exclusive club)

 that way it seems like everything's fine but you're actually having a
 conversation
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 @user-1248

 ohhhh hehe that's a vibe too ^_^
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 @user-192

 all of the DAMN time
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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-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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 you can only vote with your words if your words sway your audience.
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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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 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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 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-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-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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 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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 you've heard of an array of function pointers, yes,

 but have you ever heard

 of an array of GOTO labels?
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 the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and gas
 infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows that
 using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most productive use
 of our state's time

 like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're
 stuck doing... nothing of value
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 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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 catratfoxfolkmix say that five times fast I dare ya
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 listen, judges are useful character moralities, but they don't have to be the
 only ones to decide things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 if you only had someone to play catch with.

 or like, send letters to.

 or shared encryption keys.

 I don't know anyone. Well, maybe o
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 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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 @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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 what if a paladin got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent morality?
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 what if we designed washing machines which cost twice as much but didn't damage
 clothes
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 sirens are an announcement of the state's application of authority. like "here
 ye hear ye: there's an ambulance passing through here. make way, for it has an
 important and urgent duty" but summed up with an audio pattern. It's interesting
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 I have never been given anything other than positive affirmation.

 it's the silence that counts.
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 this character portrait from Shadowrun Hong-Kong was a major source of gender
 envy for me
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 @user-391

 Just want to point out that email is about as private as skywriting. Which means
 that everyone knows what you buy on Amazon or which forums send you messages...
 So if you want to keep your posts secret, you should use encryption - such as
 gpg, for example.

 Actually, wouldn't that solve the problem that @user-78 is talking about? Just,
 build encryption into everything.

 Ah, nope, wouldn't work, just realized that public means public, and you can't
 encrypt a public post. Well, you could, but then it's no longer public, just
 noise transmitted on a public channel.

 Idk. My opinion is that the fediverse is (and should be) like email. Like
 skywriting. If you mark something as public, it should be seen by anyone who
 wants to see it. It's an opt-in option. And frankly I miss Myspace, so I'm okay
 with archives.
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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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 I wish I could "like" the "so-and-so is typing..." message on messaging
 applications
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 @user-883

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

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

 I like nvim because it's just Vim except you can use more plugins (the ones
 written in Lua)
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 @user-1074

 i know that feeling
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 all people deserve a decent life
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 #!/bin/bash
 set -euo pipefail

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

 clear

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

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


 you should update the directories at the top yourself, of course. And give it a
 cursory glance to make sure it works on your setup.
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 @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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 what if all people were the same?

 separated only by their deeds and methodology, right?

 ummmm... yes?

 [the people at home]:



 okay but I meant like... what if we all were judged based on our actions rather
 than what we looked like or -yeah listen, people are gonna judge no matter what.
 Like, who the heck wears a bear costume to a wedding??

 ... that's so hyper-specific that I don't think it's rele-no listen YOU'RE the
 one who's not being hyper-relevant here

 ... what? okay listen if this thing is gonna work -what thing

 ... I dunno, this bit. This conversation that we're having.

 oh okay. Yeah sure continue

 ... Okay well as I was saying, if this conversation is gonna work you're gonna
 have to be a bit more respectful.

 yeah. Sure. will do.

 [successfully changed the topic of conversation, wow how about that amiright
 folks? okay time to go home, nothing to see here, how many characters left - aw
 nuts thirty six? that's soooooooo many]
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 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 │
 return it or go in your house and run it on your washing machine - their choice, │
 here's the XYZ route where they do ABC service, etc                              │
 "I study computer science" cool here's your computer, help make stuff in         │
 whatever way you decide is best.                                                 │
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 [Image: Screenshot_20240113-003148_Firefox.png]
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 @user-883

 you can always throw that resume at the next job too!
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 oops bye for now
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