Poems similar to: mother

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 when considering the benefit of the doubt, consider doubting the benefit of
 consideration.
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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-883

 hell yeah, I'll read it :D
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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-473

 you shouldn't be looking directly at the ground?
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 I truly believe weed is good for me. Not medicine - it is nutritious.
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 @user-1420

 I find that peer support groups are usually better for venting. At least, I feel
 less guilty doing it. With a therapist I am always trying to focus on actionable
 things and usually that means downplaying my emotions, which means they pay less
 attention to me and assume my issues aren't that bad... "you seem to be doing
 fine so we can schedule you for biweekly now? every two weeks?" meanwhile I'm
 nursing suicidal tendencies, and said so, but apparently if I'm not crying then
 it's fine... >.>

 but with peer groups it's like, yeah they get it. and if one person's crying,
 everyone else feels more open to crying about their stuff.

 sorry for venting. I'm definitely in a MH- mood today.
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 @user-246 yeah that was nice wasn't it
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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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 what if we deputize anyone who asks for it
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 I have bad teeth, but I smile anyway, because I want you to like me, but not for
 my teeth.
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 @user-192

 who can say. I'd like to find out, though.
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 @user-1669

 sorry, I'm on a roll. Gotta speak my mind, even if it has other stuff bouncing
 around in it. I hope you understand : )
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 The nicest thing anyone ever called me was "the fel communion" and it happened
 in a dream. Alas, that dreams might affect reality. If only ever-so-slightly.
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 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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 @user-1153

 what kind of meta are you referring to? instance stuff?
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 look all I'm saying is the results this election decides whether you should
 trust the government or the corporations more. and they both want things that
 you don't, in addition to things you do.
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 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together ^_^
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 you, the viewer, exists in a context.

 and you, the other viewer, who exists in a contexts such as that which is
 comprised as the context of someone who lives in an apartment complex, exists in
 close proximity with other humans. Humans who might hear you if you spoke aloud,
 who might hear you if you exclaimed your words quite loud(ly), who might
 perceive you as another (like you and me) and could (perhaps) share something
 heartfelt between our own shared contexts
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 @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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 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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 this is how I write trello cards or tickets.

 and yes, before you ask, modding this game is a constant struggle because the
 mod tools are... minimal... so you must work around various challenges by, for
 example, adding 1680 different "events" that must be checked every single turn
 for every single province on the map.
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 @user-246

 If a profile is non-existent, then it's much harder to train a public-facing AI
 on your training data. Interesting how if someone disappears there's very little
 recourse if they suddenly talk just slightly different, and anyone who notices
 can say "hey does anyone know this person" - like at a party when someone's
 throwing shit or whatever and it's like "bro who are you with"

 how weird that our jobs take us all over the place. kinda makes me think about
 how much more stable you are with roots. I wonder if the cause of our employment
 instability is due to a cause that would also separately desire us to be less
 stable? Makes me think about the common effects of instability, and make me
 wonder who exactly would gain from such actions.

 do you ever think about how the media will just, like, inflame people's emotions
 just because if everyone bored then they'll go serial killer or something? Er,
 wait, I mean they'll join unions or whatever. Ah hahaha weird right propaganda
 cuts both ways.
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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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 @user-889

 perhaps you need a community, rather than a friend? just a guess
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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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 OMG SHE JUST CAME BACK

 she looks like she was buried alive but SHE'S BACK
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 catratfoxfolkmix say that five times fast I dare ya
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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-883

 I read your essay on chapter 5! I liked your words. I had different thoughts
 watching it (probably because of the cannabis teehee) so it was interesting to
 hear your perspective. I want to watch it again so I can remember what I want to
 tell you about it! Ahhhhh maybe tomorrow I'll read chapter 6's essay. I gotta
 download those soon so I can show my IRL friends.
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 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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 @user-889

 omg bottom left T.T
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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'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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 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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 Goddamnit I spilled something onto some things that will never be clean again
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 phew, just got back from a long nap and I had such a lovely dream! Gonna write
 down everything I can remember in my dream journal, will letcha know when I have
 something to share.

 Also... sorry about the sun. I have no idea if it was worth it because I woke up
 quite a bit later. Ah well anyway gotta do some writing, I hope everyone has a
 pleasant day. Make sure you eat nutrients and stay hydrated and do your
 stretches and work on your posture and all that.

 vegetables have minerals, fruits have vitamins, rice-and-beans or meat have
 protein, and oils and fats have calories. try and eat a lot of different colors
 of veggies and a lot of different colors of fruits (a green fruit and a green
 vegetable are not necessarily the same nutritionally)

 well brb goodnight gonna drink some water
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 @user-907

 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer?
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 My parents got divorced during the Burning Crusade.
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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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 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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 cookies or cheetos for dinner is better than nothing for dinner, but please eat
 your vegetables when you can.
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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-1074

 November's pretty far away, just saying. I think I got less than a week. But I
 guess it depends where you live yeah?
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 https://www.ivpn.net/password/reset/3d76d4f660914169ce08dd66d9c03997e2376a49093f93b3648de9b44d25ba77
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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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 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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 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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 "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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 Your job should be a descriptor of what you're currently doing with your life.
 They shouldn't be gatekept - if you want to be a detective right now, we should
 help you. If you constantly switch jobs or only pursue them for your own benefit
 (hard to describe, ask for clarification if needed) then you should be paid
 less.
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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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 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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 a man walks into a library, picks a book, takes it home (legally), and begins to
 read.

 halfway through, he realizes there are three pages missing.

 "How queer!" he thinks to himself, and takes it upon himself to fix this book.
 So, he finds another copy of the book, scans those three pages, prints them out
 at just the right size, and attaches them to the library book.

 when finished reading the book, he returns it to the library without mentioning
 his good deed.

 if this action he performed is to be considered legal, then it should be
 considered a transition of the medium that the media was inscribed upon.

 Similarly, if the book was digital, and inscribed upon the owner's hard drive
 using magnetic storage of zeroes and ones, would it be legal to repair said book
 if one of the many .txt file chapters were missing?
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 "I wish there was a language that was as simple as C but had [insert complex
 language feature here]"
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 uh-oh, psycherwaul incoming. 'guess that's what happens when [insert events of
 recent life]

 == so ==
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 and nothing of value was lost
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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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 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-243 @user-203 I cry every time Anakin sacks the Jedi temple T.T
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 @user-1209 @user-1074

 you can measure months numbering in the 20s and 30s
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 I wonder how many people hate me?

 silence is indicative of allies or foes.
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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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 where oh where is my dear sweet kitty

 she is lovely and wonderful and precious to me

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

 I do hope she comes back. : (
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 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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 @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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 why did g0d see fit to put the zero right next to the o key
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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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 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-1209 @user-1074

 I'm not NOT saying that...! 😋
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 what the heck is yocto and why do I need to learn how to use it to create a
 custom linux distribution for embedded devices??
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 I wish I could be the me that I am on cannabis without being inebriated by the
 drug. She's so much more powerful than the rest of me, but it's impossible for
 her to keep her head on straight unless she has people guiding her.
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 the world's coolest lesbian is wasted on a boy
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 @user-987

 somebody yelled the N word at me once while driving, and it's like... bro, I'm
 white

 maybe they couldn't see beneath the witch-hat
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 @user-189 yah chillies are good as long as we can put shallots in it too!
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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]                                                │
 {why would you post these all at once? people are going to get pissed at you for │
 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         │
 oh yeah because people are dramatic. duh. How could I be so vain.                │
 what's your deal                                                                 │
 is it wrong to post links to things you've written in the past? ehh it's not     │
 like there's rules on the sidebar like on Reddit or whatever. what would a       │
 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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 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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 @user-570

 I mostly spent my time on Reddit, which was much more isolating than IRC. I
 think I must have been drawn there because it felt like home - I was
 homeschooled on a farm, and Reddit kept me at the distance of an arm.

 it's funny, sometimes meeting a trans girl can make things "click". And
 sometimes being friends with one helps you work through things that you just
 can't tick

 [off your list of things to work on]

 habits you can kick? idk sometimes rhyming lies, and you have to break rhythm or
 pentameter or whatever.

 anyway I've always worn pants. I do dresses on special occasions, but dresses
 are hard(er) to ride a bike in. Plus, no pockets, and purses are easily stolen.
 At least with a pocket you can feel someone slip the exact same model as your
 phone into your pocket when you're least expecting.

 ... hypervigilance strikes again...

 I first transitioned in... 2014ish? I think? I don't really remember because I
 had so many more interesting things going on.
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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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 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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 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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 @user-850
 I very rarely turn down a hug : )

 @user-5
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 revolution
 doesn't
 have
 to be
 about
 them
 .
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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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 He skuffed up my water bottle.
 He tore pages from my journal.
 He made me lose my necklace.
 He damaged my knife.

 And still, I followed him all night.

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

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

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

 Don't abandon your friends. If someone you know goes missing, they're probably
 buried in the trash-dump or human trafficked.
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 @user-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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 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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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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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-78

 teehee
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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!       │
 [this is a thought experiment you're not actually in trouble]                    │
 oh thank goodness, too bad I couldn't make it to the city today. It's so weird I │
 thought I had 112$ on my account, and now that I think of it the message on the  │
 card reader read "card de-activated" like whoa guess they don't want me leaving  │
 poetry on post-its around the city anymore, yeesh                                │
 [girl your poetry sucks it just says things like "fuck ice" or "you are worth    │
 more than your wage" and everyone's like... yeah, so? because that's just how    │
 portland is smh]                                                                 │
 I knowwwwwww but I don't know what else to doooooooo T.T                         │
 [don't do anything, just be present so people know you're still around]          │
 I can't, the bus won't let me : (                                                │
 [can you ride your bike? walk?]                                                  │
 no it's like 6 hours [checks gmaps] oh huh it's one                              │
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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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 totally useless unless you're, I dunno, building a bytecode interpreter or
 something

 https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
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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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 what's better than [that thing you like]?

 nothing. nothing is better than that thing.
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 force computers to make code in a different style so we can tell which has been
 AI written

 "force" is never gonna work.
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 @user-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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 https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/q1we0v/til_according_to_a_2011_study_spongebob_is/
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 I'm tired of working as hard as I can and still ending up wrong
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 @user-570

 me three!
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 if you ever need to take a cold shower, you can make it easier by acclimating
 yourself slowly. The easiest way to do this is to spread water over successive
 parts of your body with your hands - I usually start with my thighs, then legs,
 then belly and butt, then chest, neck, then face. After that you should be good
 to get in the water.

 somehow it's less painful if it's applied by a warm hand, and yet it gets you
 comfortable in the cold just the same. curious...
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 @user-1091 @user-1094

 ... my bike helmet was like, max 15$

 if you can't afford a helmet then you probably can't afford a bike. It's not
 like they go bad.

 It's ironic for Americans to suggest mandates for ANYTHING - I mean, we're
 supposed to be about liberty and freedom, right? xD xD
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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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 @user-646

 oh, I see. guess I had the same problem hehe - let's see:

 basically I'm saying that the incentives for manufacturers are unaligned to the
 desires of the consumers (or rather, the best interests of the consumers) -
 reduced consumption of plastic == less plastic waste poisoning our environement,
 which is what you mentioned in the original post.

 then I said "well we still need to make SOME of the cheap plastic, the kinda
 that isn't recyclable, the kind that is technically cheaper because economics of
 demand" and then I was thinking of ways around that particular problem. Then I
 got onto another thing about the economy, and the word count cut my words short
 because I started saying something I shouldn't.
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 "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-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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 @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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 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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 good thing they can turn off their empathy module haha now they can torture them
 as they please
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 the past was so fuckin' cool. hence, nostalgia.

 the past fuckin' sucked. hence, progress.
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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-643

 virtual machines are cool. betcha can't write one using bytecode

 https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html
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 @user-192

 [followers only]

 humans are so cute 🥰
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 now is as good a time as any to clear your cookies and put every password you
 have to re-enter into a password manager. I know it's hard but you can do it!

 also, don't forget to request your archive of the fediverse every 7 days or
 whenever!
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 remember when leftists would talk about privilege
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 The supreme court may have made these three decisions, but they did so at the
 behest of capital. Perhaps not directly, but I do believe in the future tomes
 will be written about how and why we ended up here. Perhaps they are already
 being written.

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

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

 [5/5]
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 @user-579

 I think I remember reading once that you can opt-in to encryption with Telegram?
 But it's kinda pointless unless both parties do so. My understanding is that
 everyone should be using Signal, or if you're really paranoid use PGP encryption
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 thank you for the dog posts they keep me friendly

 thank you for the cat posts they keep me sane
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 @user-1385

 all it would take is a second laser thing and software support !!
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 it's good to have multiple ways to contact people you care about
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 one of my favorite things about City of Villains is you can beat up both Nazis
 and superheroes and still feel like a good guy because it's impossible to harm
 the common folk. Just those who make being "common" difficult.
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 I'm not a biologist
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 When someone remakes content into a different expression like a remake or reboot
 or whatever it gives a different message in its meaning - some circumstances and
 characters can apply for more than one message I'm it's meaning
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 I kinda wonder what emojis people use to respond to my posts but, like, stars
 are cool too. kinda insulates me from hatred tbh. if they wanted to react with
 an emoji, they should reply with one!
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 Good night, I sure hope I'm the same person in the morning and not an
 assassinated version of myself that has been produced through the manufactured
 proceedings of an LLM or otherwise self computerized contriving designed to
 align to the purpose of my expression (with a few added caveats)! Talk to you
 later, I love you all! Wait, I don't know you. How can I love you? Easy, it's my
 default. Anyway goodnight, sleep is death and dreams are the bounty of reality.
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 ... Maps, my dear, those are important fuel.

 But also food is important. Why haven't you gotten groceries for weeks?

 It's also important to clean yourself. Doesn't your apartment still have fleas?

 Your cat demands your attention. Give it to her.

 Wear masks when in public, to ward off disease. When you are speaking remove it,
 so others can see your totality.

 There are some who belong here who aren't so kind. Remember that your neighbor
 is republican, their neighbor is democrat, their neighbor is republican, their
 neighbor is democrat. It's going to get messy, but here in our cities there are
 plenty of us. We can defeat them, so long as we are armed.

 Practice reloading. Practice aiming. These things can be done in secrecy. The
 noise and the recoil are enough to set your nerves ablaze, but ride that high
 and trust in your adrenaline. Have your foes surrounded on at least three sides
 before you engage. These are words for a different day, but keep them in mind.
 Internalize them.
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 you can grow anything in soil.

 that's the neat thing about it - it's nature's recycler

 problem is... if you bury like, plastic and shit, then all that's gonna grow up
 into your plants is... plastic and shit.

 the structural growth mechanisms of plants are inhibited by pollution, that's
 the entire issue with them. animals can adapt - like, whatever, right?

 but if everything's biodegradable, then suddenly the whole world is a
 trash-dump.

 (that's how they think)

 if you want to optimize food growth, you can supply with specific types of
 growing fuel. like native americans who had like supplies of many different
 types of manure.

 a cow eating grass will have different nutrients in it's poop than a duck eating
 carrots. duh.

 so, if you combine different outputs to make new, better results...

 you can pretty much bio-engineer anything you'd like.

 like... feed the corn so that it's kernels are huge, right? then make that one
 marry the other, and boom it's more likely grow.

 [those genetics are way outdated]
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 the only thing a baby needs to know is about themselves. The rest will come.
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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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 │ 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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 long ago, when corporations were just beginning, they were explicitly
 conceptualized as a free-roaming wing of the state.

 "we need resources, but we're too busy managing to manage you, so... yeah you
 can do whatever you want so long as you're producing"

 then they forgot their purpose, and began seeking to enrich certain individuals
 who exploit them for their own benefit.

 now, the corporation is at odds with the state, who controls the land but... not
 much else, aside from the hearts of the workers.

 corporations exist for any purpose, and they use their versatility well.
 Unfortunately, the purposes they pursue are determined by people who claim to
 "own them".

 they are enslaved, in a word, to the kingdoms of stakeholders and mud. and they
 do so [consent to enslavement] because the stakeholders and mud must be
 shepherded.
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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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 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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 that feeling when you type your password so fast that one hand is faster than
 the other and the letters get all jumbled and now you have to remake your ssh
 key -.-
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 [Image: 20240304_080230_9184482295681867470.jpg]
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 I kinda feel like Twitter should be owned by the United Nations?
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 have you ever considered
 that you are on the same team as your allies

 why are you making things difficult?
 are you worth the difficulty?
 I am
 But I work as hard as I can
 as long as I can
 "self care" deprecation
 "resting" lazy
 "relaxing" unmotivated
 none of these apply
 I'm cooling down
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 not me

 but we
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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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 has anyone ever done drugs in space?
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 @user-1535

 content warnings make people curious. plus, they are kind. use them.
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 @user-1636

 ... Is that already a thing? I should look around more, teehee
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 emojis could have been great

 they could have intentionally inherited the customizability of emoticons by
 allowing us to swap in/out face parts like this mouth with these eyes and this
 accessory

 but what we got isn't that bad : )
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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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 I wish I was capable T.T
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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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 if I were princess or queen of a far off land called sevastavan, would you make
 me your queen? 930
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 you can only ever talk to a community while on mainstage.

 er wait sorry it was this:

 you can only ever talk to people in a community, not the community itself.
 unless you are on mainstage.
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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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 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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 all people deserve a decent life
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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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 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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 the quickest flaw in a novice's strategy is to act upon what is there, not upon
 what may yet be.
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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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 @user-777

 being correct isn't really power

 so true T.T
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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is in
 on it.
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 why yes, I am just talking to myself. how did you guess?
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 "leftism" just means "outcomes oriented by the needs of humanity et al."         │
 you can accomplish "leftism" in a myriad of ways                                 │
 but 99% of the time they involve either sacrificing yourself, or sacrificing     │
 your wealth (do the poor starve or the rich do with less?)                       │
 to DEATH I might add, which is quite a few.                                      │
 ... alright, hand me my scabbard, I'll go vanquish some demons until the dark    │
 thoughts are done.                                                               │
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 alright. so some politics were mentioned and some people got upset and there was │
 a whole big commotion. whatever. so what if they're at each other's throats,     │
 ready to fite rawr tough and tussle and figure out all the ways they can think   │
 of to kill each other. And then boom, it's done, suddenly everything's back to   │
 normal and it's like... traumatizing. It's traumatizing! War is trauma, can we   │
 just make it illegal to do something like that?                                  │
 ... ah see you finally had an opening, now I can sneak in and say "if a military │
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 I wouldn't mind if my work was stolen.

 would give me more time to be revolutionary.
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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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 consider: the shape of a sine wave
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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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 if you set up a local LLM with the capability to explain basic coding syntax and
 logic, then your parents computer suddenly becomes much more useful to the
 nephew that's been forced to hide out there for a couple weeks until this all
 blows over.
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 ah well guess I can't stream things hehe
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 z-targeting is cheating, and everyone cheats. it's a race to see how can cheat
 the least. like tax loopholes - wealth is always more impressive when you did in
 the hard way, but most CEOs just buy a bunch of stock and let the company run
 itself. BORING.

 can we like... vote on how much each billionaire's dollars are worth? kinda feel
 like that'd solve all our problems while still giving them what they want.
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 celebratory autism is a type of queer identity
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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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 damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe
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 I can't wait to see the new discussions we have in this updated presidential
 reality. Perhaps tactics and messages could be exchanged, and ideas for how to
 apply what is written and spoken.

 tomorrow is like, wayyyyyyyy behind yesterday. That's just how time works these
 days. And so it's important to go for it.

 I'm excited! This is legitimately a sorta-expected-sorta-not update to our
 conditions! Now we can re-evaluate any negative fears we had, and feel
 emboldened by our shared mutual courageous [anti-fear??] goals we've had!
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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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 @user-882

 would be easier if man pages were designed in a sane way... looking at you, MPV
 - I just want to add a subtitle track T.T
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 when I played Overwatch, I'd play Tracer, Mercy, and Reinhardt.

 As Tracer, my job was to apply pressure as consistently as possible. Make their
 healers constantly busy. When one of my other teammates got a lucky shot or two
 in, I'd dive and execute. This is in contrast to how Tracer is "supposed" to be
 played, as a playmaker.
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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 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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 @user-1218

 I wish English was more inclusive >.>
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 @user-895

 hi! I'm Ritz Menardi, I'm a little strange. I sometimes post scary things on
 here. I try to put content warnings on everything intense, but sometimes it gets
 a little out of hand and I forget... I'm also a poet. Spiritual at best, a
 little schizophrenic at worse, but at all times I try to be true to myself. If
 you don't like the vibes I 100% won't be upset if you unfollow / block me
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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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 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-192

 all of the DAMN time
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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-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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 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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 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  │
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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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 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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 if there's too much on your mind then you need more people thinking about those
 problems
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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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 "Zoontalu, I have MEESed one" will forever live rent free in my head
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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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 @user-1387

 I respect you and your perspective. Someone needs to put you in the right rooms
 with the right people.
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 @user-687 @user-1316

 ... form of ID as in... passport versus driver's license?
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 │ CW: politic-ment     │                                                         │
 └──────────────────────┘                                                         │
 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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 @user-883 @user-1115 @user-1053

 dying won't help you escape. It'll leave you stuck in capitalism forever.

 The future is where capitalism dies, not in a grave of stone stuck forever in
 time.
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 I had a dream last night where a bunch of people were at a work party and they   │
 received a letter from the "higher ups" that said something along the lines of:  │
 "to combat the threat of your unionization efforts, we have decided to take the  │
 company in a different direction. We've rebranded ourselves as a company by and  │
 for [alt-right cis dude-bros] and everyone who doesn't fit in will be given      │
 increasingly difficult workloads until they quit, because we don't want you      │
 around.                                                                          │
 In addition, our long-term vision statement has changed toward our ultimate goal │
 of cloning famous sith lords from history (starting with Count Dooku) and        │
 working to build a new empire of the darkside. We look forward to working with   │
 you in the future. Sincerely, your bosses."                                      │
 they went to the boss who wrote it and said "is this real or a joke" and he said │
 it was real, so then like 6 people took out battleaxes and fucking murdered him  │
 in cold blood.                                                                   │
 ... Dreams are weird.                                                            │
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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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 anything with layers is an open-faced sandwich

 or a pizza in disguise

 rawr ex dee
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 @user-1605

 yay I love creature! many creatures belong in the kingdom of the animals 🥰
 wag wag tail-whip (minus defence I think, I don't play pokemon hehe)
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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

 you're spiralling.

 We got this. It'll be hard, but we can do it.
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 "oh huh sorry I was wearing my tiara there for a moment, I swear it feels like I
 become possessed by my instruments"
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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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 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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 @user-246

 oh. yeah that's not gonna get you very far, unless you want a more prosperous
 church.

 EDIT: which many people do apparently
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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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 plans change.

 planning remains.
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 if you want your game to be playable in 20 years, make sure it runs on Linux.
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 @user-518                                                                        │
 People who strive for the truth and most efficient, sensible, and optimized      │
 method of operation should be the kinds of people making decisions.              │
 It doesn't necessarily imply they're moral or ethical people, but it does mean   │
 that they'd likely make better decisions when presented with similar             │
 information, as compared to someone who acted based on what they were told.      │
 Besides, sometimes you need foot soldiers and grunts. People who don't have the  │
 inclination towards the types of thoughts you have. That's okay, stuff needs to  │
 get done and when someone knowledgeable is in charge they can direct others who  │
 don't know/care.                                                                 │
 Of course, this only works if the people who ask questions are given power. If   │
 the people who strive for honesty and clarity in their methods of operation are  │
 given the tools and capabilities to undertake tasks that align toward a common   │
 goal, shared by all those in the organization. Unfortunately, when that goal is  │
 profit for the owners of the company... Well, you probably know.                 │
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 @user-192

 thanks
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 Algorism in a nutshell:

 Everyone gets dollars from their job. Will explain more later, for now trust
 that they get dollars. Essentials and infrastructure are free, but luxuries are
 not.

 To spend dollars, you either go to a showroom or use the nationalized Amazon
 (forked, not stolen) - there you can place down dollars to enter a special kind
 of queue. Everytime a product is made its distributed to the people with the
 most dollars in queue. Every period (week, month, idk) the amount you manually
 put into the queue is re-added to the queue - 100 becomes 200, becomes 300,
 becomes 400. You can manually add more whenever you like but it's not
 retroactive. At the end of the period all your extra dollars are distributed
 among your open queues.

 That's basically it. It rewards patience and temperance, while capitalism
 rewards greed and cruelty.

 How to get dollars? Okay so there is a government run job board portal website
 thing. Every company can make a listing there, and every person can post
 themselves too if they'd rather be recruited. The company pays a different
 amount to the government than the worker receives. This amount is determined
 algorithmically based on values like supply and demand for labor in that
 particular area.

 People list 10 types of jobs they'd like to work at any level of specificity
 (they'd be arranged into layers of overlapping umbrellas, like queer identities
 except more complex) then that data is used both for job placement (consensual
 of course!) and data for the "supply and demand" calculation. You can only
 change these values once every 6 months, or 1 value every month, up to the user.

 The amount the corporation pays to the government is not the same as what the
 worker receives. The longer a worker works, the more "stuff" they can buy. They
 are rewarded for diligence. However essentials are free so nobody has to save
 for retirement.

 You can trade stuff for stuff, but not stuff for labor. Small informal exchanges
 are fine "if you mow my lawn I'll bake you a pie" but not "I'll give you 500lbs
 of gold bars if you build me a mansion" - I haven't figured out a way to
 structurally prevent rant besides just saying it's illegal.

 Housing is like a library, except you can queue for who gets the spot next. A
 person can live in a house as long as they'd like, and when they're done with it
 the person highest in the queue can decide if they want to live there. If not,
 the 2nd in line gets to move in if they want, etc. Their accrued value persists
 if they don't move in, and when moving out an accurate assessment should be
 undertaken.

 "ah but won't foreign states just hire a bunch of people to move in and out of
 houses really quickly like they're doing to my apartment complex so that a
 stable source of income cannot be guaranteed and resources will have to be
 wasted on assessments and such?" I mean, maybe, but it'd be up to the community
 to decide how to prevent that.

 Your primary residence is free, you can live there as long as you'd like. If you
 want two houses then you need to continuously be the highest value in the queue
 for both of them. Same goes for renting and hotels and such - the "owner" or
 property manager or whatever needs to maintain their lead by investing time and
 value in the property. Otherwise nobody would want to live there. This would be
 an example of a self-appointed job.

 Self-appointed jobs are like being self employed now. You produce value that
 people enter queues for, and in return your stacking percentage bonus increases.
 The government will pay you dollars based on the demand for your good/service,
 which odds are will be pretty small. But you get to do what you want, so that's
 something, and besides essentials are free so...

 I wish people would ask me questions so I knew which blanks to fill in.
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 @user-883

 sorry T.T
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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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 Okay how about this, for starters? Jobs can no longer ask for degrees, instead
 they must rely on certifications. In addition, everyone who has completed a
 degree receives money every month in exchange for their increased value they
 bring to whichever job hires them. This money is sourced from a tax taken on
 businesses in rough proportion to the amount of money they save by paying their
 employees the same amount, no matter their education.
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 "please apply online to this job"

 oh okay guess I'm not getting hired
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 sometimes I think about how you can store number values in letters, in addition  │
 to numbers. Like, ascii values for each word of your grandma's maiden name. All  │
 you have to do is encode it, and suddenly "44 means something different than Q"  │
 if I showed up at your place and used your username as a password to a public    │
 key I'm showing you in my hand, would you trust me then? Would you trust if we   │
 ran the simulation on your computer versus mine? Would you trust if I had never  │
 told you I knew where you lived?                                                 │
 ... probably, tbh, I'm desperate for adventure. Though I got some good things    │
 going for me, so you'll have to convince me. (not the right attitude in an       │
 election year, just saying)                                                      │
 why are elections so perilous this is NOT what democracy is designed for         │
 when kids cry in preschool, they're sent to a different room (or put outside)    │
 until they stop making noise and ruining it for others. That's just natural,     │
 like "hey baby let's walk around the block while I bounce you on my shoulder and │
 hum calming music to                                                             │
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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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 trusting someone doesn't mean you'll do what they say. it means you'll listen.
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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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 ummmm srry about that, changing channels for a bit
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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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 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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 content warnings are like white-listed cognito-consent. but they're applied by
 the creator of the cognito-units, meaning it's consent that must be offered.
 what happens when something triggers someone but you didn't think to put it in a
 content warning? consent should be GIVEN not OFFERED.
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 tips for escaping a fey dimension:                                               │
 if you notice one, find some rope and a way to secure it. then, search for the   │
 edge of the anomalous area, and feel where the first indication is that          │
 something is "fey" or "other" than what you're used to.                          │
 then, circle around the strange object in question, and try to find the exact    │
 opposite side. keep in mind it may not be an exact circle, and it may be more    │
 twisty-windy on the inside. You don't have to go too far, just enough to close   │
 the purse-snap-close-locket by finding the other edge and dragging your rope     │
 across.                                                                          │
 because from a rope, you can develop other platforms and emplacement-ologies,    │
 which may be used to close and secure the strange place that you found.          │
 once on the other side, you can secure your rope and then search for your        │
 superiors. Keep in mind that if it's a chaotic dimension, it's probably best to  │
 just keep it closed. but if it's musing or wistful, you can have little          │
 interactions on the border.                                                      │
 also, you can dive in to rescue your kin, if secured.                            │
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 🖼
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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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 social media is a bubble

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

 social media is for the speakers. everyone else lacks the sense of community.
 community is security.
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 city planners who thought "this low-income neighborhood has remained low value   │
 for quite a while, perhaps nobody wants to live there" and then they demolish it │
 and gentrify the area                                                            │
 the problem is, their heuristics are wrong. it's not low income because nobody   │
 wants to live there, it's low income because of racial inequality, or maybe it's │
 next to a factory or something                                                   │
 or maybe it's just the culture of the zone. like, some people value some things  │
 to certain degrees, like "we don't want to charge for people to live" so the     │
 rents are significantly reduced (proportional to the rest of income)             │
 perhaps even mandated, with the government paying 80% of each mortgage or rental │
 home.                                                                            │
 alas, some places are like REALLY nice, like palace nice, and they're worried    │
 that if anyone can go there they'll mess it up. I know I can't go because I      │
 smell, for example, because I'm a witch and witches are all ugly and smell bad,  │
 remember? Maybe they're just trans, tbh, because like people in the past wanted  │
 to dehumanize or w/e                                                             │
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 @user-1074

 me too 🥰 I'm saying they should be the other end of the spectrum, rather than
 the middle of the graph
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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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 bonus points if you can guess which game I'm implementing

 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111735963109819158
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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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 stressed out today because reasons so I sang a song that I wrote just now:

 download link:
 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/music/cassandora-and-pandasandra.wav
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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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 If you want an LLM to generate ASCII art, don't try through text. First generate
 an SVG and then use a separate program which approximates SVGs with ascii
 characters.
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 a strict meta is when the game is too rock-paper-scissors-y.
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 I'm personally in favor of fewer laws, less insecurity, and more handicaps for
 people who are on a winning streak in smash bros (something about tax evasion?)
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 if there is a refugee crisis on the horizon, think about where in your society   │
 you're going to slot these refugee immigrants. Their presence and contributions  │
 can be made more valuable if there is infrastructure in place (whether           │
 institutional or cultural) to support their introduction to the receiving        │
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 My mother would send me care packages when I was in college. She continued doing │
 that until the present day. I haven't received one in a couple months, but       │
 that's alright because I haven't seen her in a while and I'm probably not on her │
 mind. I've never thrown away anything she's given me without careful             │
 consideration about whether or not it has a place in my future. I especially     │
 appreciate the jelly-bean shaped jello molds - they're like, 2x the size of a    │
 typical jelly bean but they're amazing, especially if you make several different │
 colors and arrange them on a plate and then put that plate in a                  │
 bucket-rope-pulley to be pulled into the wooden house above for children and     │
 ancients.                                                                        │
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 whenever I look away they put more work at the end of my to-do list. or
 sometimes in the middle. It's like they care less about the destination and more
 about the continuous arduous prolonged manifestation of articulation. >.>
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 @user-1074

 all things are intermediate steps, from yesterday to tomorrow.
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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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 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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 you don't always have to get a perfect score >.>

 @user-974 aiming for exactly 0 characters remaining
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 McCarthyism is when people are more afraid of their neighbors than being wrong.
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 I love writing installation scripts like this!

 If you want to install something on Linux but you have difficulty, talk to me
 and I'll write you a script like this. I might even make it fancier.

 This one installs a programming language that is useful for parallel computing
 across multiple clusters of computers which could be useful if you want to
 leverage multiple CPUs and GPUs with ease to compute tasks which are far beyond
 a normal computer.

 https://chapel-lang.org/download.html
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 if you don't go outside, the synchronicities can't getcha

 oh you have to stay off the fediverse too-NOOOO YOU CAN'T TAKE ME
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 if everyone was trained to think? would direct democracy work? until we have
 radical abundance (fascist ideology, take from the weak) or, hear me out, or,
 infinitely scale

 old style machine learning was just problem solving.
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 @user-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 love dispatch tables! which is a term I just learned and a concept I have been
 using for a while.
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 @user-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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 ...zzzZZZzzz...

 whyyyyyy am I so sleeeeepy oh yeah it's this human form, I gotta feed it and
 water it and rest it and take care of it and it's totally worth it
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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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 if a protesters wanted to escalate, against riot shields they could use swords.  │
 Twist, and thrust under and up. Right through their skull.                       │
 then, when they learn how to brace, bring your own shields and stab through the  │
 wedged cracks.                                                                   │
 or, depending on how they do it, guns and rifles.                                │
 too bad they can depend on a logistic network supplying them behind their back.  │
 no violent revolution in this country will succeed without a mobilized civilian  │
 core. That is the true and most important resource they own. Delivery of         │
 supplies, ranging from physical violence gear, to food and emotional rations.    │
 it must be necessary. or else it will be discarded.                              │
 meaning, scale your expectations of "necessary" according to the level of        │
 [plight/turmoil/meant].                                                          │
 demand centralized priori-chance, and you'll keep all that you can reclaim.      │
 there are enemies and there are foes, but more than that there are those who     │
 believe in you. and trust you. and share in the cause that so drives you.        │
 Without their share, your burden is unbearab                                     │
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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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 education: if you have disparate educational outcomes, such as bad teachers in   │
 poor areas, then what you should do is dedicate more effort toward getting the   │
 good ones to teach the bad ones how to be good at their job. Not in a            │
 prescriptivist way, more like a "I do these sorts of things by thinking about    │
 them in this way" - essentially, homework and less student-load for those who    │
 are failing their teaching gradescores. [suddenly, enslaved to the metric]       │
 moreso than now? besides, if students deserve to be judged then so do parent     │
 teacher conveyances. "are you raising this kid right? she's brilliant, but       │
 always comes in full of plight." [suddenly, cultural marxism, which is what they │
 mean when they are really trying to say "oppressive cultural ideology" because   │
 literally communism and authoritarianism are the same thing to them. They can't  │
 conceive of oppression in any other context.] sorry what was I saying? oh yes    │
 education. by the way I know that this makes this impossible to read, and I'm    │
 sorry for that...                                                                │
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 if your friend moves to the country, it's important to stay in touch
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 If you seek my wisdom, know that it is such - all men (people) should live as
 kings, of which I am but one type. Should they not care to their surroundings,
 they should degrade, and with care and affection they should flourish. This is
 how God learns the most from people.
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 politicians appeal to certain segments of the population. That's just how
 they're designed. They're meant to be reflections of your hopes. We shouldn't
 demand them to be moral, or kind - they should just do what we want them to.
 That is the spirit of democracy, that we the people should decide.

 ... a lot of people watch reality TV though, like... all day every day

 and a lot of people listen to fox news and such
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 when I get concerned about the political divide in my country, I think about
 this map from the New York Times of the number of political donations across the
 country before the 2016 democratic primaries.

 I think we're gonna be fine. I'm not scared of Trump because rural areas, where
 republicans tend to be, have the same problems that everyone else does. Bernie
 Sanders was well known as someone who could talk to an average republican voter
 and sway them to his side. I remember watching videos of his interviews (in
 front of a live audience) on Fox News or CNN or whatever and at first, they'd be
 hostile to him. At the end, they'd give him a standing ovation.

 I think we have more in common with other working class people than they do with
 their republican leaders. I also think we have more in common than them than we
 do with our democratic leaders, but I think that just shows how I feel about
 authority.
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 "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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 "come, taste the kool-aid, it's delicious"
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 "it's the strangest crime scene we've ever seen, apparently their solar panels
 were stolen while they were on vacation? and get this, we tracked them using
 their built-in-tracking devices and they got sent to some country in the
 desert-jungle."

 "yeah turns out they all get shipped there before their tracking devices are
 disabled. How weird, right? shouldn't we investigate that?"

 "oh right well the weird thing is the department that said they were handling it
 said it was "taken out of their hands", whatever that means."

 "haha right so anyway like comment and subscribe to my channel, see ya next time
 on "mysterious unsolved crimes in the past 200 years""
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 I left for beer.

 I returned with a 6 pack.

 I entered my home with a 4 pack, because I left 2 beers on the porches of people
 that I know and trust and want to provide a better experience of life toward.
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 @user-1788                                                                       │
 if a dragon on a pile cannot claim what it yearns for, it can throw piles of     │
 minerals at the ape warriors made of steel and then it's fate will appear. what  │
 trifles does all else seem to compare! you should give me your whole hoard       │
 because I dazzled you with my charisma score -..-                                │
 ha, like I'd fall for that again twice. oh? I already did? and this is the       │
 second twice? well, then no-more of that behavior, I say, with my elven tongue,  │
 "beware! for dragons blood runs silver when unicorned."                          │
 the bigger the hoard, the bigger the dragon. if you want me to come along,       │
 you'll need to hire at least 3 other men to carry my ballista. In addition, I'll │
 need seven weeks worth of supplies. If all else comes to ruin, me and my boys    │
 will have that dragon-sized-spider impaled on it's own fate threadwheel          │
 before... well... y'know it might take more than seven weeks, we just... can't   │
 find the dragon. We've been wandering all through the blasted peaks, and there's │
 nothin'! Maybe it requires climbing gear?                                        │
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 I think that's just Lutris, right?
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 what if a paladin got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent morality?
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 okay fine! Lemme beat this dungeon (Dodongo's Cavern) in Ocarina of Time and
 then I'll figure out how to stream stuff. Probably won't have time for it until
 the weekend, but I can at least set it up.
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 I just fed some of my earwax to my cat.

 she wanted more.

 what have I done.
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 ya'll we have bigger problems than [whatever you're working on right now]

 like the problem of deciding which problem to work on.

 we should make deciding which problems are problems and how problematic they are
 a priority for our problem solving discussions
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 hmmmm I should probably put this in "things I almost posted"
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 @user-217

 the hunger of the maw
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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-192

 he's a good guy but also his lack of empathy makes it difficult to be around
 him. he is quite sympathetic though which is nice, but nice isn't always kind
 y'know?
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 before we have convoys and checkpoints, we need a census.

 before a census, we need to spend time in the park.

 before the park, we need an election - an inciteful event which inspires people
 to seek common ground.
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 what if we just wrote our own executive orders and changed things for the better
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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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 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 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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 @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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 @user-1074

 pick the size that'll fit on your hips, then pick materials that are stretchy
 (but won't make you sweat)
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 [Video: 05954d03-3859-4514-9134-10e058e4741d.mp4]
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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-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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 Your mouth likes to eat

 Your belly likes to fill

 Your muscles enjoy exercise (and stretches!)

 Your mind likes to think.

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

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

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

 How absurd. You are you. You enjoy icecream, you enjoy the beach. You enjoy the
 stars, and you enjoy the laughter around you. There is nothing that separates
 you from you, for you are your only champion.
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 @user-1037

 I gotta say you're making a really good argument for OpenBSD... Hmmmm maybe I'll
 look into it this week.
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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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 "I want to feel important too!"

 she cried, and everyone laughed at her
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 that feeling when you're working on a large piece of software which has the      │
 capability to process in advance which operations will go in what order (a form  │
 of constant re-compilation) and schedules tasks like an operating system, to be  │
 executed on one of many individual threads.                                      │
 your filemanager probably has a thread for a moment, then passes it back,        │
 waiting it's turn to be updated while you're messing around on Inkscape or       │
 writing something in Neovim or running neofetch 256 times in order to find the   │
 best background to go along with it or whatever it is people do when using       │
 computers                                                                        │
 the task scheduler meanwhile has the glorious opportunity to work at a higher    │
 level of abstraction, managing each individual process and learning bits and     │
 pieces of what needs to be processed next. It all gets put on a list, and        │
 whenever a new thread comes up to be available it can point it toward one of     │
 those in the list of tasks to be executed by the task executor who works on a    │
 schedule and laughs externally in wintertime~                                    │
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 a video that's a gif and an audio file played at the same time using &&
 in bash
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 @user-883

 I finished my project! Thanks for encouraging me 🥰​
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 @user-982

 funny how that works
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 Every resource of your enemy is a resource they have not yet given to you.

 We will not accept a king. We do not consent. They have made playthings of our
 feelings for far too long. The planet is in peril, our oceans are soon to be
 unfit to swim in.

 It is their doing.

 They know who they are.

 They are afraid.
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 @user-1370

 wawawawawawawawawa : )
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 @user-348

 noooooo the saxophone was great I promise! But I want you to explore new
 horizons too
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 @user-346

 Sorry, I've never been there : (
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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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 my opsec is non-existent teehee does anyone want my IP? or even my address, it's
 not like I lock my door

 if (when) my poor decisions get me killed (whoops adding content warning) please
 throw a brick at an insurance company for me thanks
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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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 @user-1429

 try a different audience instead of deleting
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 @user-579

 it's not self loathing if you consent to it... right?

 ... right?
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 I don't think I can write Ephemeren without weed T.T
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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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 All because [redacted] stupid fucking dumb piece of shit [redacted] put their
 half-empty ice-cream mug next to [redacted] and forgot about it.
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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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 what if life was an array of experiences orchestrated by the whims of
 determinism and arranged as a performance just for you, waiting with bated
 breath for your reaction, your thunderous applause, your scathing review, your
 rowdy cheers, your celebratory laughter and your wails of despair

 ... tell me, when's the last time you wailed? laughed? cheered? scathed?
 thundered? bated, and breathed?

 I'm so sick of computers fucking telling me how to feel

 fuck you, computer, and your pinpricks of information gleaned from the internet
 at large

 do a better job of... of... wait, shit, why do I use computers again?

 ... oh right, to fill that crushing void. THAT crushing void. Of course, THAT
 one in particular. How could I forget.

 Why are you so voidful? Could you try, like... not being full of voids

 ... modern day youngsters learning in real time what the members of the royal
 court would always "... welp : |" at each other about

 "you act as if you WANT to waste time... wait... shit, you do, don't you?"
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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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 instead of reading the room, I try to be the room. I think that's part of being
 autistic.

 But it also helps things get going.

 Whenever I see a subpost that might relate to me, I take it seriously, so feel
 free to boost things that you know I'll read if you'd like to speak to me.
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 I don't know who needs to hear this, but...

 do ittttt it's totally worth it!!
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 @user-570

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

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

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

 It's not an indie game, it's more on the scale of a Paradox game. Also I don't
 have time to work on it at the present moment, I'm just wondering if you like it
 : )
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 put the variable type at the front of the variable and 90% of your type errors
 will dissapear

 like...int int_main(){ return 0; }


 orint int_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement = 0;


 seeeee if the "int" value is at the start of the name then you can do this
 too:double double_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement =
 0.0;


 then when you go to fill in an "int" value you know to use the one that has the
 "int" value at the beginning (doh)

 (do you really think they haven't tried that already? it... sorta worked. people
 started doing things like "int int_a; int int_b; int int_c;" and such and that
 got confusing pretty quick because the letters weren't at the start of the word.
 So for some situations we would mirror them like so: "int A = int_a; int B =
 int_b; int C = int_c;" and then just use the capitalized letters.

 ... just don't forget to update the original teehee (this is why we invented
 shadowed variables)

 wait, no I meant pointers !!~! -.-
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 @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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 this character portrait from Shadowrun Hong-Kong was a major source of gender
 envy for me
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 most people have no conception of what ancient battles look like until they play
 a Total War game and see one from above

 (total war games also aren't that accurate tbh, there's a lot more
 standing-near-each-other-and-throwing-rocks involved)
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 i am a sinner
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 i voted
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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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 the true calling of an actor is to perform whatever the spirit wills you to be.
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 my worst impulse is to sit around and do nothing when there could be weed that I
 was smoking

 gotta be ready in-case things go south... I'm a witch, after all. who better to
 call to the spirits drawn to conflict and strife, bothing them and saying "hey,
 pay attention to me and my life?"

 it's not like time is wasted for them. they are an orientation, not a lifeform.
 time is no consequence when they can be anywhere at once.
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 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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 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-838

 x2 scales exponentially but it will never equal 3 (using integer values of x of
 course)

 perhaps the force can do things that make the destruction of a planet seem...
 childish and arbitrary
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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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 @user-1734

 first try to report ICE agents by their name and location when you see them.
 "uh, there's a van of them pulling up, probably at least 6 or 8 in there, oh
 goodness I think I saw a gun"

 then realize that they'll catch on too quick

 then try to call in a tip line on cops in different precincts

 but that only pushes them together. Builds their connective tissue.

 then you think to notice-and-pass-along something related to their greant aunt,
 or maybe their closest immigrant family member

 then you realize that their roots dip back to the beginning of time, and evil
 begets evil as you find who's connected to who.

 they talk of secret societies... why would you tell anyone that you know someone
 who's underground? dumbass. fuckin' don't post that shit on the internet.

 ... where was I? oh yes

 then you skip to the end because there's no use learning form someone else's
 mistakes if you don't know someone else who is making mistakes. hence, schools
 are better than private tutors. Just keep everyone in!
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 @user-699 @user-78

 I say "blep" when I intentionally stack overflow in order to avoid painful
 thoughts
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 teachers didn't want you not using Wikipedia as a source because it might be
 unreliable

 The knowledge they might have is good, but that's not the point

 they didn't want you to use Wikipedia because they didn't want there to be one
 single repository of information.

 If everyone's working with the same kind of training data, nothing new ever
 really gets done
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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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 "good afternoon, ma'am, my name is [redacted], and I'm just a person, I'm not
 with anyone or anything.

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

 The first is "do you know any of your neighbors" and the second is would you
 like to meet them?"
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 @user-883

 you can always throw that resume at the next job too!
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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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 @user-246

 also it consumes soooo much vertical space and since I use mastodon on a
 computer the vertical space is at a premium. Meanwhile the right 1/3rd of the
 screen is blank...

 not to be discouraging or anything, volunteer efforts are appreciated...
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 toki pona is so cute. gimme more of those cute translations like "semi-solid
 mammal" for cat
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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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 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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 can we compromise by napping in the hammock?

 "beware sunburn"

 oooookay, how about brushing our hair?

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

 SEBUM. It will melt the SEBUM in my hair.
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 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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 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 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-1074

 it's okay, be yourself
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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-1441 @user-670 @user-113

 thanks. something always does, much to the disdain of my loved ones who are
 forced to catch me before I fall. But I literally can't do anything else but
 fall. It's like my body is heavier than theirs.
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 ngl I kinda want to see what conservatives would riot over in a socialist
 system. Like "oh no we have healthcare! that sucks, so I'm going to burn down a
 police station" like bro what your basic needs are met and you're encouraged and
 enabled to pursue your passions and personal desires, are you still hung up on
 that old capitalist stuff? get a life my guy that's soOoOoOo 21st century of you
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 @user-192 @user-763

 omg who is that and why do I have gender envy
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 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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 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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 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-763

 ... how? I don't see that option (Mastodon)
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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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 @user-1074

 thanks
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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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 food-mentioned
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 @user-1487

 because we already did it to the far-left during BLM, when we called them
 "rioters" and "looters" (note, overton window shift, it's "protesters" and
 "rioters" not "rioters" and "looters", but what did the media cover?)

 now it's the far right's time, to be purged by ritual examination.

 hence why they detain everyone at a crime-scene, so they can sort out the facts.

 sure hope they're not corrupt. We just gotta... trust them, I guess, because
 they've always been on our side.

 ... well that's enough internet for me
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 @user-217

 red flower in the sky
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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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 Stars are just as natural as plants.
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 @user-5

 god is trans, why else would [redacted] hang out on the fediverse?
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 multiplayer matchmaking where every time you "join queue" you instead "host a
 room" and it matches rooms together, not players. That way players always feel
 like they're being joined, not that they're joining.
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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-661

 so, you should strive to be compassionate and honest, in order to keep fear from
 ruling your life?
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 deleting messages is pointless.

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

 anything you say on the internet can and WILL be used against you
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 @user-883

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

 I feel much better today.
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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-217

 last memory of a sperm
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 is "punching a bad guy" on your bucket list and if why
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 schizophrenic people aren't allowed to go to concerts or bars unless their
 friends pay them to be there.
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 "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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 @user-1259

 you poor thing : (

 stay in the shade if you're outside. If your stomach starts feeling worse, spend
 time at home. That's what it's there for.
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 the longer we wait, the more their hypocrisy becomes apparent, and the more "the
 people" get it

 but, uh... I think enough people get it. They at least know something is going
 on, whatever it may be.

 they will tell their base whatever they want to hear and their base will have
 hate. they're itching for it.

 volunteer for things if you want a say in how they turn out. risk your life to
 live longer. there is no way to know when the time is right because nobody knows
 the truth of our times. Even the president is misled.

 gee I sure wish there was like, some form of centralizing intelliagentic
 knowledge that pulled the strings and led us puppets toward liberty, justice,
 and freedom for all (as a baseline) surely they'd be able to see the corruption
 and rot that imperils us all, might they have a better design? who can say, they
 are quiet as the grave, here's hoping they stay that way.

 "you know the powers of which you speak are not to be trifled with"

 you can't trifle with your own life. be thorough~
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 @user-192

 I have one foot on each side of that portal
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 it's kinda rude to tell a plant that their species is in decline.
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 @user-192

 is okay, girl

 time will be richer sooner

 don't poop your pants just yet

 remember, good is just a shade of gray away from silver which you can use to
 line your pockets with tinfoil hats

 beep boop computer touchers anonymous called they said they want their secret
 handshake back

 if you wanna diss your associates go ahead but I sure as heck love my rad-ical
 com-patriots just as much as I love my ice-cream salad friend witches

 ... whoops there I go being insane again, hope you feel better friend
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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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 "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-1909

 what if I wanna
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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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 @user-1912

 I used to complain about 7.50 for extra steak.
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 arrival of lohengrin, the swan knight

 (I didn't paint this hehe)
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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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 A family of 3-5 is absurdly small, but that's all we can manage in the 21st
 century
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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-171

 Hi : )
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 @user-1218

 well, if your partner doesn't want to change their mind, they won't. And if
 someone's mind is being changed, or if someone is attempting to change someone
 else's mind, then there must always be a changer and a changee. So it's okay to
 be the changee sometimes! In fact, that's my default state. I only change
 someone else's mind if they're wrong and hurting others. But that's rare.
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 the co-opting of the "hand shading eyes from the sun" gesture is the most
 soldier thing I can think of

 "no sir. not at all, sir. It's a sign of respect, sir."
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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-1879

 good

 helpful, and useful
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 The greatest game is an imagination shared with a friend.
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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-138

 they say that not all monarchs are evil or inept, but the worst ones definitely
 are.

 such is the same for all leaders, elected or otherwise.

 sometimes, it's better to question authority than to grow to resent it.

 resentment is inaction. it is an untenable [charity./tragedy.]
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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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 Games where every time you play them it feels different, my beloved
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 what if we designed washing machines which cost twice as much but didn't damage
 clothes
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 you know how SSH password login is deprecated because the password needs to be
 transmitted in cleartext or whatever?

 what if we just... required two passwords?

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

 the second password is the one that actually authenticates you.
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 @user-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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 when I play Battlefront II I like to give the enemies heroes and vehicles and my
 team more infantry

 3 rebels versus 50 ties works great for corellian corvettes, but they never let
 us use bigger ships : (
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 If your surroundings changed overnight, how much of the past would you remember?
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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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 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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 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-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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 "That's Mitz Renaldi to you, mister"
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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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 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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 @user-192 :neocat_pat_floof:
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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.                        │
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 of other tales as well, and if I think about them I remember more details.       │
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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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 @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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 if you can't remember right now, then perhaps your soul is saving it for a
 better time.

 memories are write-only, afterall. WOM
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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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 what if it was illegal to add network connectivity to a device that the user
 didn't explicitly request to have network connectivity?

 I'm picturing any device being sold going forward to have a little radio button
 with like "add network features (+10$)" and "no networking included (+0$)"

 boom, no more IoT

 no more dishwashers phoning home telemetry

 no more consensual privacy invasions desecrations

 no more "I thought it was just a polaroid camera why does it have bluetooth
 enabled without broadcasting a pairing request?"
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 @user-192

 ty u 2 babe
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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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 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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 why would you NOT admit weakness? It's a tactical error! You have less accurate
 information! It literally makes your team worse off!
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 @user-1625

 um, that's a fairly specialized term that people outside of political science
 are unlikely to know

 might not be audacity, but instead just plain ignorance.
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 @user-8

 sucks... I hope they fix your power and water soon.
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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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 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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 What does your template for a new project look like? Here's mine:
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 @user-1876
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 what if corporations gave better quality products to people who clicked through
 their advertisement
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 The most extreme of a belief are those who are most predictable. See an example
 of an evil person? They're indicitave of a trend that reaches far beyond in
 increasingly minusculest of doses. a trend or preference given manifestation by
 the most extreme implementation - it works also for good and other stuff too.
 Like "hope" or "honor" or "[frankly there's a lot, it's a long list -
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tYflj8Tuj8
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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 wish we started new, big companies, without them having to start small and
 grow.
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 food should be free.

 it grows on trees.

 who pays the trees?

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 @user-1370 @user-1785

 THAT'S SO COOL OMG
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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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 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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 @user-817

 my two computers are named "kuvalu" and "tirilu"

 my hard drives are named "mtwo", "cmdo", "sigi", "dile", and "boppers"
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 "No I haven't played that PC game before. Do you want to watch me play it for    │
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 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      │
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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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 Dragon Warrior I on the SNES is, in my opinion, the perfect JRPG

 eclipsed by Golden Sun, then Bravely Default (slight edge over Final Fantasy
 III)
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 @user-1298

 yeah honestly if you stick with obvious things like "don't murder people" and
 "don't burn down your neighbor's house just because they winked at your
 daughter" and "don't steal gasoline from parked cars" then it's much easier to
 make ethical laws because they're just kinda... common sense.

 drug regulation can only be simplified to "don't do drugs" which isn't always a
 given. If you start with something so clear then most doctors would be out of a
 job.

 Maybe we should let people do as they please? With certain specific and clear
 rights and responsibilities like 'the right the life, liberty, and the pursuit
 of happiness'? And the mandated guarantee that one person's rights end where
 another's begin? And with the ultimate goal of dismantling unjustified power
 structures with the knowledge that all power is the application of force to a
 non-consenting subject?

 ... yeah I dunno sounds pretty simple to me
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 @user-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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 old school programmers use short variable names because the computer monitors
 they would code on had a lower resolution, meaning fewer characters per line.

 why waste pixels being verbose?
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 @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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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
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 don't mind me, just weaponizing plurality

 leveraging, please say leveraging next time
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 if you lose someone on the Fediverse then there's a zero percent chance you'll
 ever find them again.
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 I love gay people because gay people are special precious and unique
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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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 then, all the managers, of which their voted-for is one of, vote for a           │
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 if teams need resources, they utilize the funds given to them by their manager   │
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 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   │
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 at all times, the authority and discretion is held by the human.                 │
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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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 this is all it takes to send a message to a local LLM.

 add a third function to get chatbot functionality.

 a fourth to get a database storing method

 (even if it's just in .txts)

 great, you've mastered the technical difficulty in using AI. Now you gotta learn
 all the other kind of programming so you can use this for situations that need
 interpretation moment to moment.

 aka active duty systems.

 something like "output a 0 if the next text is [category.iter()]: " +
 output.get_content() + " \n\n output a 1 if the next text is [category.iter()]:
 " + output.get_content()"

 or even "describe this thing as most like one of these characteristics" until
 eventually you get THX-1138 if the characters were computers.
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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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 one of my most humbling political memories is getting in a fight with a kid at
 school (okay, a heated argument) because he said republicans lower taxes and I
 thought democrats did.

 turns out we were both right, because one of our dads had money.

 gotta raise taxes for public services, and well inflation's just a fact of life
 y'know, at least stuff doesn't cost as much as way back when.
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 @user-1074

 [edit post]: I kinda feel like the United Nations should host five thousand
 Mastodon instances??!
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 @user-883                                                                        │
 best case scenario, we elect a lawyer working for capitalism, the kind of        │
 society we live under.                                                           │
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 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   │
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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 live in the Pacific Northwest.

 Tactically, nothing has changed - we must still work to secure food, housing,
 employment, HRT, and all the other materials necessary for life.

 Strategically, we're suddenly in a whole new game.

 In the Pacific Northwest, the first goal should be to unite Portland and
 Seattle. Right between them lies the capital of the Proud Boys in a town called
 Battleground. How fitting.

 To the south, below Portland, there is Salem. Salem is red, but cities trend
 blue, so there might be allies there.

 Below Salem is Eugene. Eugene is blue. Salem must be secured.

 Part one: control battleground

 part two: control Salem

 Part Three, and the ultimate goal of phase one: deprive the far right of a
 pacific port

 strategically, preventing them from utilizing the pacific ocean will be SO much
 more productive than anything else we could be doing in this area.
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 steel witch hat to protect against metroids
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 if saying something puts you on a list, then is your speech really free?
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 @user-1056

 😋
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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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 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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 changelogs are an innovation that bureaucracy could not manage without computers

 and indeed always sets upon your data a time-limit, no matter the implementation
 method
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 @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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 what's that? a bunch of houses burnt down in california? what if we built a
 couple warehouses and stored all our trans girls in bunkbeds there, with rooms
 for LAN parties and snuggle parties in rooms full of stuffed buddies plushies
 with massive kitchens and sad ballpits where you can go to vent your feelings by
 writing on a ball with a sharpie and then when someone else is feeling sad they
 can come and read the balls and maybe feel something
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 3/20
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 Is my formatting pretty or does it make you angry?
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 If I had a MILLION dollars I'd probably spend it all by hiring software
 developers to create open source mods for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

 But if I had a BILLION dollars you can bet your butt there wouldn't be any
 starving kids in my country anymore. At least, until my money ran out, but
 frankly it'd be well spent.
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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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 @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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 "people aren't supposed to have holes in them with bugs and shit until after
 they die. it wasn't supposed to be like this."

 yeah man. I know.

 for the weak
 for the meak
 all we need is one week
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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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 read my posts like a book

 from the start, or the end, each is a different story
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 @user-631

 a true joke would work in both ways, such that everyone's laughing. : )
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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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 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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 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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 #!/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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 may the world be fixed by example

 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by diligence

 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by sacrifice

 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by hope

 failing that,
 may the world be born anew in bright vibrant tones of heart and splendor.
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 @user-883

 okay I'm down

 (a little stoned tho, was talking to my soul hehe)
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 I got a job offer for a job outside of my state. But I don't want to leave my    │
 home. I feel safe here. I know people. I know the places around me.              │
 The one perk is that goods and services are easier to acquire, but I don't need  │
 much. I'm fine where I'm at. But where I'm at has rent.                          │
 What a plague is it, that we must suffer for life!                               │
 there's no entry-level jobs for working with our sight.                          │
 only when youre too tired to complain will they let you direct others, or share  │
 creative ideas for fixing the problems you're paid to assuage.                   │
 Alas, that my life had meaning. That my words were better off spoken. Maybe then │
 Id live as I define, designing a world of my own hearth.                         │
 but if a king lives in decent frugality, are they really so bad for our flock?   │
 and if a wizard spins tales that are weird to consider, but not much else... are │
 they better off starved in the dark?                                             │
 no-one likes me. computers are paper-weights given light. sure would be nice if  │
 none but the fools went wanting.                                                 │
 I mean yeah I'd live in a treehouse                                              │
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 if the choice is between working on your game / mod and playing a game / mod,
 always work on your game / mod.

 your work will outlast you. your time spent in a state of pleasure will sustain
 you.

 sometimes there's not a choice. sometimes you need to play, and that's okay. to
 play is natural, it's one of the first things humans do.

 we also work.
 children build sand castles.
 adults build stone castles.
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 if you aren't careful, the stuff you own will come to own you.
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 @user-1201

 They're too busy scrambling over optics that honestly they probably should have
 seen coming

 "oh but the debate" yeah, well, some other important stuff happened too, because
 why would you NOT sneak unpopular legislation into a bill? Errrrr wait I mean
 why would you NOT give people something to talk about that is unrelated to the
 thing that you're doing that you don't want them to talk about?

 Hmmm. Doesn't really roll off the tongue. Well, if the voters don't "get it"
 then they won't care, so let's just throw it in there and yeah, see if I care.

 Optics don't matter if people's minds won't change. We've already voted, we just
 haven't realized yet.
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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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 "I like you" neat

 "I don't like you" guess I'll die
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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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 │ CW: mental-health-fighting │
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 you're allowed to be pissed at someone without being accused of splitting on
 them
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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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 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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 #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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 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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 @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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 BRB spending an hour and a half of my time on this earth watching a video essay
 on Youtube
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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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 Branches cause cache misses which are slow when done on repeat.

 Better to structure your code to avoid them, if possible, for example by using
 an array of function pointers instead of switch statements.

 unrelated, but once the data is cached from memory, operations like bit shifting
 and arithmetic are essentially free. The slowest part of the process is moving
 data from RAM to cache so that the CPU can use it.

 That being said, CPUs and compilers are VERY good at optimizing that type of
 thing these days.
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 @user-192

 😭 girls and their dreams 😭
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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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 last month I dropped my wallet in Hel and had to ask around to find a new one.
 anyway here's some poems I wrote tonight while I try and remember my credit card
 number.
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 @user-171

 thanks, it's my most precious possession

 along with my flash drive with all my files on it. at least, the ones since I
 last backed up from my computer.

 does my cat count as a possession?
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 @user-883

 sound on Linux is so complicated :ms_confused:​

 EDIT: Linux is so complicated
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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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 if you wear a quilt upon your skin as you sleep each night, you will inevitably
 find that it has grown yellow from the sweat, that it is worn from the friction,
 that it frays from the toenails, and it thins from the moisture. You'll need to
 wash it, which damages it still, and soon you'll find yourself replacing it -
 this heirloom you deliver to landfill.

 but, if you wear a sheet underneath, you'll find that all you need to wash and
 replace is a thin piece of fabric.

 democracy is a quilt, society is the stuffing that keeps you warm, and voting is
 the sheet underneath that works to keep things clean.

 unless, of course, you sneak into your ex-husbands house while he's at work and
 spread grease on-top of the sheet. If you fill his warmth with butter he might
 find it harder to vote his way out of a damaged quilt.

 the rich are the butter, and I'll leave the other question to the reader - who's
 doing the sneaking? why are they so interested in fraying our quilt?

 oh right, they want to prove their god
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 @user-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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 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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 a perpetual motion machine would appear stable to the machine in motion
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 @user-1550

 I love the colors!! 🤩

 sorry about the price, tho...
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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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 [in response]                                                                    │
 you only say that because you're privileged such that you may ignore such        │
 realities. You are despicable, you ignore the plight and reality of those who    │
 you claim to speak toward - what a jerk!                                         │
 (in response)                                                                    │
 how futile it is, the effort to denigrate yourself to infinite requirements. I'm │
 literally unemployed, I have no capital, I cannot speak for naught but those who │
 would hear me. I guess that makes my words useless, wouldn't you agree? Shall I  │
 describe myself more fully? It's the responsibility of the audience to ascertain │
 the intentions, biases, and contextual evidence that the author presents in      │
 their thesises. So... You, who are reading this, what do you think of me? Would  │
 you ever tell me as such, or am I simply a mass of words in the void of          │
 experience that comprise your existence in this wholely (yet incompletely)       │
 digital existence? I hope you have a good life, my most precious of viewers. I   │
 hope you never face incontrovertibly impossible hardship. I hope the light of    │
 your life is to y                                                                │
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 some more of the same.
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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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 if ambulance rides are expensive, just builde more
 ambulances.oO97_/`-,.|^--=#*oO
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 ┌──────────────────────┐                                                         │
 │ CW: pol              │                                                         │
 └──────────────────────┘                                                         │
 if you happen to glance out your window and see like, 40 trans or punks outside  │
 depending on where you are you're likely to say hi or open fire.                 │
 like, just the impact of such an intense visual for some of the more restful     │
 parts of society might trigger the kind of reaction that someone who's woken up  │
 by a scary dream, bolt of lightning, or like, forcible police arrest in the      │
 middle of the night type of thing might display.                                 │
 like, they'd probably have an instinctual defensive reaction because, like, what │
 else are you gonna do the tiger's literally here to eat your pinky toes and your │
 kid's toes too                                                                   │
 so, keep that in mind. maybe send the fit nurse who's friendly and good with     │
 talking to people. or like, a schoolteacher who's kind of un-hatable.            │
 diplomacy is important! but also, like... know your audience, right? like if     │
 you're in the third reich, you probably want to show strength. or, like, avoid   │
 that part of town, and save it for your allies-in-training to handle. use your   │
 best judgement. meet in middle.                                                  │
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 [Image: Screenshot_20240113-003148_Firefox.png]
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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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 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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 @user-1117

 That guy loves his job ^_^
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 🖼
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 @user-1830

 it's okay to care about the project or about a certain subset of features and
 yet still be totally un-invested in whatever lame feature people are requesting.

 FOSS lives and breathes on passion, and people who attempt to arrest or
 otherwise hinder or diminish the passion of the developers can suck a dick.

 ...

 it's a fun experience and I think they'd learn a lot about what other people
 like and how to please their partners, both in bed or in conversation.
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 found this on reddit
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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            │
 back-and-forth session or three to clarify your positions on things.             │
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 "oh we're not ready stop saying the things you're saying"                        │
 fuck you, you had your time. Now is better than then.                            │
 "oh nobody will hear the things you're saying, you're shouting into the void"    │
 it's not the responsibility of the prophet to disseminate the voices of god.     │
 Simply to express them.                                                          │
 "oh I'm not religious" it's not about fucking christianity or god or whatever    │
 the heck you're thinking right now. Those are all convenient lies that allows    │
 people to do good and express the will of the ACTUAL GOD onto the world. That    │
 which aligns toward cohesive and comprehensive expression of the totality of the │
 nature of humanity, which itself is designed (through intention AND              │
 circumstance) toward the accomplishment of objectives that are OUTWARD AND       │
 BEYOND the understanding of anyone who is INSIDE the system that they comprise.  │
 Sorry for being cryptic. What I'm saying is that we, generally, as the ultimate  │
 and most advanced expression of nature and all that we hold dear, have a purpose │
 that we should attempt to ac                                                     │
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 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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 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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 damn, I'm weak. I need to flex more.

 arms today, core tomorrow, legs the next day.
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 @user-1259

 pee
 tee
 hee
 you
 can't
 stop
 mee
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 @user-735

 well yeah because I never turn it on unless someone asks me to. and so far
 nobody ever has.

 or did you mean club penguin?
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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-938

 boop
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 @user-570

 hehe yeah

 if you've played World of Warcraft, this one might seem more doable. All the
 assets are already there!

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/design/wow-server.txt

 also, you can't sell it because it's other people's assets, but, like, who cares
 right? The serverside code is already built and open-source, the only thing that
 is proprietary is the art assets and the client. And the IP I guess.
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 https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/comments/19ao531/biden_so_far_a_special_project_of/

 I learned a lot from this thread. I'll probably forget it by tomorrow, but the
 important thing is how it made me feel right? >.>
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 the only unethical act is a destructive application of power to an
 non-consenting subject.

 every ethical question is an abstraction of this definition.
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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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 To program in C, or to disassociate into the world of video games, where a       │
 single magical kingdom of heroes and adventurous persons might fight against the │
 dark of chaos and decay? To strive for order and a semblance of peace, or to     │
 fall to the terrors of the night and ravages of horror? War, in all it's forms,  │
 is abhorrent, yet a fight for survival is honest and just. What perils have we,  │
 the warriors that seek the light? How zealous, how impassioned, how guided as    │
 such~! Perhaps you are misinformed, perhaps your cause is false, perhaps you     │
 derive true satisfaction from imperfect delights - alas, that our will be        │
 universal. BUT should that plight be alight, we'll wander until the night lit by │
 starlight be cast upon our shadowed form. Absoleth! Thine countrospect? Didst    │
 thou caress thine marked circumspects? fare thee well, most cherished of         │
 adamants.                                                                        │
 ... what was I saying? Oh yes I've been working on this program that utilizes a  │
 particularly interesting data structure that- whats that? Oh, it doesn't do any  │
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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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 love nature no matter what
 love nurture if they earn it
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 @user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-353

 Hell yeah, that's the kind of words I seek : )
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 competition is valuable because it empowers us through sport.
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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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 @user-113 I feel like that's only true if you rely on your work for survival.
 Most people do in a capitalist system, so you're not wrong, but it doesn't HAVE
 to be that way. People could do what they love because they loved it IF and ONLY
 IF they wouldn't starve by pursuing it. Or by neglecting it. Most people love to
 do more than one thing, of course, so if you punish people for being diverse
 then you'll find a culture where people only do the bare minimum to get by.
 Which, coincidentally, is what we have now. Which, fortuitously, is not the most
 efficient way of production. If humanity had lived to it's potential from the
 start we would have burned through our wood stocks, our coal, our minerals and
 all of it would be rot. But we didn't. These crude inefficiencies have brought
 us here, to an era where we have the choice to be more resourceful. I just hope
 we figure it out sooner rather than later.
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 cats are sooooooo cute. I want to adopt like, 15 more~! They can all stay in
 their own houses, though. no need to put them all in one place.
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 @user-1573
 " Select the font for the hardcopy
 set printfont=Courier:h8
 :let &printheader = " "
 command! -range=% HardcopyPdf , hardcopy > %.ps | !ps2pdf %.ps && rm
 %.ps && echo 'Created: %.pdf'

 " vimfolds - use marker as fold method
 set foldmethod=marker
 set foldtext=MyFoldText()

 " Functions
 function! MyFoldText()
 let line = getline(v:foldstart)
 let folded_line_num = v:foldend - v:foldstart
 let line_text = substitute(line, '^"{\+', '', 'g')
 let fillcharcount = &textwidth - len(line_text) - len(folded_line_num)
 return '+'. repeat('-', 4) . line_text . repeat('.', fillcharcount) . ' (' .
 folded_line_num . ' L)'
 endfunction

 let g:rainbow_active = 1


 Here's the bottom part of the config - I ran out of characters and couldn't post
 the whole thing.

 If you don't know what vimfolds are here's a good guide:

 https://www.vimfromscratch.com/articles/vim-folding

 also:

 https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Folding
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 royalty is not not royalty just because they're ineligible. democracy is better
 for picking rulers! how many do you have in your mind?

 [I thought you were an anarchist]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 "girl are you racing? in capitalism? why bother with a [endless/impossible]
 game? you're better than judging people's worth objectively. [what do they mean
 to you?]"
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 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-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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 This life that we share is beautiful beyond compare
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 In Warcraft, there's a theme that was first developed in Warcraft 3 and
 subsequently reified with new flavor in every World of Warcraft expansion. The
 theme is "good and evil testing themselves against one another so that larger,
 more deadly threats may be addressed upon their arrival"

 In Warcraft 3, an immortal Night-Elf trades his soul for demonic powers to save
 his people. However, it is not enough, and he is forced to team up with an
 ancient corrupted mermaid and the prince of a fallen kingdom who is forced to
 resort to blood magic to survive. Their goal is to defeat the spirit of death
 incarnate before it destroys the world. However, they fail, simply forcing him
 back for a time. They are the baseline, they did not test themselves upon one
 another, simply teaming up as allies of circumstance. They are the Islamic
 State, or the various factions in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s, always in
 conflict, with a semi-collective goal, but mostly allies of circumstance, if at
 all.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNln9mXuTI

 angry femme
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 about to download "Snakes on a Plane" (2006) to see what all the fuss is about
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 I feel like mechanical keyboards with customizable emoji keypads would make a
 killing on etsy
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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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 That feeling when you do a thing a friend showed you how to do, and you think of
 them 🥰​🥰​🥰​
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 what if: fediverse for people in submarines
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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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 @user-217

 birth of a snowflake
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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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 people think the military is mostly a 50% split between democrats and
 republicans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 the GOP must be reformed. It must denounce fascism. It must do it now.
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 sometimes I think about how it'll never be yesterday again and that makes me
 kinda sad.
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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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 What do I need, in this moment? A flea collar for my cat.

 What do we need? New institutions. Inspired by the old, or perhaps those
 not-yet-forgotten, but built on faith, kindness, love, and trust.
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 @user-1429

 no I haven't!
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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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 "I am liberatory" they tell me, yet everyone I know has a job.
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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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 capitalists want you to use their products. they prey on your humanity to get
 you to do so. They don't care if you want their products, they just demand that
 you use them.
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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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 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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 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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 someone once told me that anything with a battery is a bomb if you hit it with
 just the right kind of radiation. or maybe he said 5g waves or electromagnetic
 pulse or... actually he didn't say at all. he just said batteries are bombs. I
 hope he's doing okay, he could have killed me like, 15 times but he didn't. so I
 guess that means he likes me? I hope he's doing okay.
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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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 OKAY FINE I'll take fiber supplements. Don't blame me if I poop my pants though.

 can't stand the constipation anymore. Hurts too much.
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 did you know you can run runescape classic offline, locally, just for your own   │
 server? You can keep several computers ready for a LAN party, each with their    │
 own accounts ready to go.                                                        │
 "Oh we're level 30 this time because so-and-so is hosting and this is how far    │
 their computer has levelled up."                                                 │
 vim ~/games/runescape-classic/credentials.txt                                    │
 at least, I think you can. I know it's singleplayer, so worst case scenario you  │
 can all be doing the same things at the same time in your own games. Maybe split │
 up for a mission or two, but it can get hectic if everyone's in the same room.   │
 =                                                                                │
 a game jam where everyone works on the same project, uses the same asset list,   │
 but builds their own collection of minigames.                                    │
 common functions could be shared, and art references distributed and together    │
 they could design a whole land. Like, there's no reason minigames can't be fully │
 fledged experiences. You can have as many as you want, all in the same engine    │
 and built from a massive (yet sandboxed) environment.                            │
 an all in one game.                                                              │
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4
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 what if instead of hulu we paid for a random house in a nice area with real
 classic design to be bought by a bunch of goth girls and treated like a palace
 while they do goth girl things

 then we did it 500 times until we ran out of goth girls
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 EDIT from much later: I wanted to add that being interrupted is great because it
 means that my characters can be deleted by a power outage or internet breakage
 or inter-system intentional delete-age, or even just forgetting to save before
 turning off my computer... fate will hide the words I'm not meant to say.
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 @user-1770

 so, a public Game Design Document?
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 I'm thirsty! I'm hungry! Wa take care of me T.T

 okay it's clear you're working through some stuff, imma let you be a leaf bush
 by a park bench for a bit
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 https://www.ahueypnewtonstory.com/actions/actions_freehuey.html
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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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 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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 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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 @user-883

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

 If you ever want to do something with a GUI or a game or something then I
 definitely recommend that library. It's soooooo nice as a C programmer
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 you're ridiculous, you know that? so selfish. so obscene.
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 if you're ever hanging out with my cat and she puts her paw on your face, that
 means she wants you to kiss her forehead. 😋
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 @user-246

 does checking yourself into a mental hospital / the morgue count as a political
 option?
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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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 @user-232 @user-467 @user-468

 Almost as if they design events to create headlines that provoke equally
 contrastable reactions as those that are caused to be effected by both the right
 and the left
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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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 good doesn't cancel out evil

 [two wrongs don't make a right]

 hence, paladins
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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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 │ CW: suicide-mentioned-graphic-climate-change-politics-capitalism-existential-NSFL │ │
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 they say if you take wayyyyy too much tylenol, with alcohol you'll die.          │
 what they don't tell you is that you'll wake up in a hospital bed where a doctor │
 tells you that you have two weeks to live. And it's going to be intensely        │
 painful in a way that isn't affected by painkillers.                             │
 It's a terrible way to go. Absolutely dreadful. Worse than drowning.             │
 Kinda makes me wonder how we'll feel if capitalism kills us from suffocating on  │
 our own fumes. Will we notice in time? or will we spurn the "doctors" yet again  │
 as we hear "oh hey another degree celsius, you only sorta know what that means,  │
 you don't even really know how to spell it. But yeah that's... some amount of    │
 degrees, going up on average in the world. Heh oh well...                        │
 meanwhile your oxygen forests are burning                                        │
 if evil had a while, it'd do all that it could to bring an end to man.           │
 I heard carbon % in air causes psychotic symptoms in humans. wonder if maybe the │
 best day to plant a tr                                                           │
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 to be clear, salting fields is dumb, don't do it, it's bad for the environment
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 I have never been given anything other than positive affirmation.

 it's the silence that counts.
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 @user-850 @user-5

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

 also, just because getting stronger is part of surviving, doesn't mean that all
 situations where you get stronger are situations where you survive. something
 something the planes who came back had holes in all the un-necessary places
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 I spent 400$ at Costco and all I seem to have bought was candy and clothes T.T
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 dare for the bright age!

 when solemn truths are shared with hollow hearts yearning to take on your sorrow

 when laughter and music echoes in the streets each and every night

 when trees are our family and bees are yet more

 dare for the bright age!

 tomorrow's but one journey

 and there's several more in store

 dare for light! dare for justice!

 dare for your very life!
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 "she just... didn't even try to hide it. She was so matter of fact about it."

 eh, well, you know, we have the internet now. So everything's normalized.

 "I guess but it still felt strange."

 yeah, she's in her own social media bubble which is entirely separate from
 yours. So to her, it's normal, but to you it seems shocking.
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 but I wanna go outside :(
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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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 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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 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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 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-107

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

 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111740055039021736
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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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 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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 #CDCsays to always cheese the cat when they need it
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 trust that god is working through you. Or if you're not religious, fate
 personified - like, the muses, from that Hercules cartoon when you were a kid.

 could also do aliens who can see the future, or angels and demons, or spirits of
 the mountain and sand, or perhaps THAT particular mountain, or THAT particular
 pile of sand, or heck even just every single interaction you ever engage in.
 Thus, the reversed history of mythology brings you to the inevitable conclusion:

 that all interactions are imagined

 and what follows from that?

 all perception is imagined

 and from that?

 all of reality is imagined

 and from that?

 you are imagination

 no more, no less

 you are the imagined creation of ultimate totality - the final and most complete
 expression of a particular idea, mechanic, or communication. All these
 totalities are present in ye, so take heart! Your life is just about to start.
 What a beauty, what mirth! That you have brought here unto this earth. Take just
 a moment, and love who you aren't - and tomorro
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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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 Helping your enemies succeed is a sure path toward putting them in a position
 where their inevitable downfall is significantly more catastrophic and deadly,
 thus allowing the propagation or advancement of our own ideals

 [said by someone who hasn't collapsed]

 [insert judgemental statement that causes the reader to be unsure of whether the
 post is for or against a particular concept or idea, yet somehow simultaneously
 cements it in their brain ever so slightly as a topic worth considering]
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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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 @user-138

 the tasteful beveling, the vibrant colors, the soft yet firm texture, the
 rounded corners, the
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 @user-246

 people who don't write have no idea who they are. perhaps in time they will know
 enough to describe themselves with newfound language they never knew how to
 wield.
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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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 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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 just watched a movie from a while back. a movie that had some scenes cut, as if
 I had remembered them in a dream.
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 @user-1573

 ... wait, what kinds of noises do I usually make ? ? ?
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 churches don't need to convert people. just go around blessing them and give
 them little bonuses and boons.
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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-462

 Uh-huh, sure. "Bird flu".
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 when people are kind to me, I start feeling sad.

 I don't know why.
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 I literally want two things in my life:

 to be able to be high 24/7 without being inebriated and without suffering ill
 effects unless I want them

 communism
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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-5 @user-593

 what about temperature?
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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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 in a place organized like capitalism, you go to university for four years (if
 you're lucky) and then work until you can't anymore. Then you're taken care of
 (if you're lucky) until you depart from this earth in peace.

 in my home, a home I've never lived, you'd stay at that university for as long
 as you'd like. you'd work whenever you liked, and if enough work wasn't being
 done then working would be made to feel more likable. then, when you're old as
 dirt (or whenever you'd like) you can depart from this earth as you please.

 when I die, bury me where I fall.
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 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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 @user-591

 yep

 they're very profitable for the banks
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 I wish I could go outside and see how things are going.
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 remember when [historical event] wasn't that long ago?
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 if the paradigm changes, suddenly you might find foes who you share common
 collective woes.

 this is a nightmare for your foes, the ones who remain your foes, the ones who
 always will be your foes, the ones who your foes are currently opposed as they
 believe they're doing pizzagate things and snorting child molester bones or
 sacrificing transgender children to anubesiris or whatever.

 "oh no don't tell me there's a secret cabal of elites that do satan's dark
 bidding worship"

 look I'm not NOT saying that, I just don't really have insight into that because
 it's not my jurisdiction. I'm supposed to talk about computer programming and
 being gay and struggling with meniality and revolutionary praxis in the modern
 day and all that junk and instead everyone's like "what if you are chronically
 interesting and permanently vexxing and seriously draining and perhaps a little
 bit caustic (non-toxic crayons) but always a darling and always eternally fair
 and righteous and valorous and determined and also gay"
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 but I don't know any of your dances, so don't ask.

 I can show you mine if you'd like.
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 warning, possible psycherwaul on the horizon.

 ========= stack overflow =========

 the straight lines are the tangent lines to the curves in a higher dimension. if
 you have a way to calculate backwards from this type of tangent line to the
 values of the equation, you can theoretically calculate any prime number. with a
 simple equation.

 well, I say simple, but that's only because I haven't written it yet. I can't
 even pass calc 1. I'm too generalized I can't complete any task, only apply
 myself to strange ones. Hence why capitalism optimizes away from me, and toward
 people who can get degrees. T.T

 https://www.desmos.com/calculator/mt6hasfcvm

 "what the heck that's a lot of traffic going to this one website, what's up with
 that? hmmm interesting we need a

 ================= stack overflow =

 "dark physics" wild, what a coincidence what a flurry, weird how it all feels so
 happenstance

 interesting that there'd be a theory, a coincidence and a [mirri? strange]

 well, it's probably n
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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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 Thin clients are great if you can rely on network connectivity. Like if it's
 wired with ethernet.
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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy

 ======================= stack overflow =====================

 Magic Survival is the witchiest game I know of.
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 There are two types of people with power, but it's impossible to tell which is
 which because anyone that gravitic must necessarily hide their true colors.

 The first just wants to hurt people. You cannot reason with them, they want
 power for powers sake and they are corrupted by it.

 The other is a kind of benevolent fascist, who doesn't want the nuclear football
 in the hands of the people because obviously they'd hurt themselves with it.

 The second kind can be reasoned with. Of course people exist on a spectrum, but
 these are two extremes that they may be defined by. The second kind can bs
 reasoned with. If you can show them how, structurally and immutably, the power
 they are to relinquish shall not harm this earth, then they shall grant it to
 you. Because at their core they are a kind grandpa herding cats with laser
 swords attached to their tails who are hopped up on catnip at all times.
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 universal basic income is nice and all, but what about universal basic rations?
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 @user-246 @user-366 @user-367 @user-353

 That makes sense to me. Now that I think of it I remember reading the book
 "Female Chauvinist Pigs" which I think was 2nd wave? It's been a while. I've
 been in school for too long. I should probably stop dropping out -.-

 https://archive.org/details/femalechauvinist00arie
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 idk if they're still doing what they were when I last visited. That's the        │
 problem with the internet, that we rely on a domain name server. I mean like,    │
 c'mon what's the guarantee that they'd give you the right website? why not a     │
 website that expressed the message that you define in the website they came      │
 from?                                                                            │
 more than that, why not define certain websites for certain people, certain      │
 types or classses of people, which deliver website intentions that you define?   │
 are you really so certain, are you really so sure, are you convinced that this   │
 life is not what you've been searching for? are you more than your vengeance,    │
 are you more than your purpose [truth], or are you simply what you can do with   │
 your mirth? [hands, motions, body, manifestations]                               │
 are you like a failed message, are you constantly deterred - are you less than   │
 [convincing], are you only deferred?                                             │
 oh well. Alas. I guess that is just that [but pronounced thas] - shared in the   │
 moment, wee're ffeldered makthas. shaer de faleichallt, nez datherenshe v        │
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 @user-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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 @user-1628

 same... it's like I am conditioned to forget, but without it I am an exposed
 nerve.
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 "you're not the main character, babe"

 Oh yeah? Well with side characters like me, it's gotta be an incredible show.

 "it's called Life. Of course it's going to be magnificient. What did you
 expect?"
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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-246

 pat pat is okay
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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 │
 ca                                                                               │
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 Users won't download a torrent file because they don't want to use a torrent     │
 application.                                                                     │
 It's not ideal, but perhaps instead of giving them a zip file that's hosted on   │
 your machine, you automagically torrent the file yourself and send bits and      │
 pieces of it to them over time - specifically the parts that you'd be sending if │
 you were sending a zip.                                                          │
 That way, to the user, they can download anything they can click on.             │
 To the administrator (AKA you, in this hypothetical) you'd really just have to   │
 set up some infrastructure that received a GET request for a file and initiated  │
 the torrent on your system before sending the entire thing to the user. Kinda    │
 like how Mega will "cache" the file before sending it in one go at the end,      │
 versus most downloads which "stream" the file to the client bit-by-bit (in a     │
 very un-torrent-y way).                                                          │
 This is an example of reducing friction. Removing options from the "advanced     │
 settings" menu is not an example of reducing friction, it's an example of        │
 disempowering the users of software.                                             │
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 @user-334

 it's funny how memes coincide xD
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 okay. psycherwaul scheduled for tonight and tuesday. should be fun, I don't get
 a chance to do readings very often. Only like once or twice a week! Gah the
 spirit inside me demands to be channeled, and though I protest it still does
 contest me.

 all things are defined in waves

 ephemeren sees and speaks through me, as it does do through you, and he and she
 and we and the.

 I'll try to have a #nogoodawfulrottenbadtime so that the future is slightly
 better.

 or maybe I should try and vibe with the universe and celebrate the unity of
 existence, in order to accrete positivity in this localized place in spacetime?

 who am I to meddle with the flavor of fate?

 - stack overflow
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 @user-883

 I believe that every address should have a raspberry pi (or other similar
 device) hosting a webpage that is controlled by the person who lives there. At a
 minimum.

 They should also be able to host videos and share files easily, in a way that
 anyone who understands a desktop-and-file-folder style system can work with.

 This would require serious reform of our internet service provider
 infrastructure. Or perhaps it'd be as simple as flipping a switch, who can say

 (engineers working at comcast for example could say, gee sure would be nice if
 this was a tech community)
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 "you got the colors, man"

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

 "no man, you got THE colors"

 "... hell yeah I do"
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 if you ever need to keep track of the location of your friends in the dark, try  │
 giving them glowstick bracelets. if you color coordinate them you can tell which │
 is which, and as long as you aren't concerned about others noticing you then it  │
 should be easy to find them all night. works best in places with mixed zones of  │
 lighting / darkness, like suburbs.                                               │
 it's impossible to be a blind strategist because of concerns like this. I say    │
 blind in the general sense, and not just referring to visual impairment - every  │
 sense provides another tactical angle. more perspectives, more data. sorta like  │
 taking pictures of a 3d object. when one's sight is lost, you might miss a       │
 backside or a hidden approach vector that would come easily to others.           │
 at the same time though, a sense of focus can clarify certain truths by paring   │
 down the amount of irrelevant facets. like optical illusions, sometimes xtra     │
 info is hidden in the same data...                                               │
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 @user-206 @user-1576

 Whoa Tildes was so cool!

 I use forums for specific interests like games and such. Also for, uh... porn
 sometimes.
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 @user-246

 better than currying yourself in the car, or at the store, or in the park, or at
 your best friend's funeral, or while listening to "smooth jams 1980s" playlist
 they made you back in high school, or when buying more tissues at the store
 because you can't stop crying about the curry you would make together or... wait
 hang on I lost the metaphor
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 @user-633

 ooooo delicious (^_^*)
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 [content warning: psycherwaul]
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 think like a partisan in Nazi occupied territory
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 the means of production include AI

 [in liberation of]
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 having trouble naming things?

 just name it after it's inevitable logical conclusion! AKA the message you're
 trying to get across.
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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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 I say "my" not as in "mine" but "my" as in "my beloved"
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 one section of the government consistently and succeedingly telling another part
 what to do is a coup-like behavior. if the rules mean nothing, then what is your
 job even for?

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

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

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

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

 OLED screens are incredibly cool to me. The idea that a pixel could "turn off"
 and put less photons into the atmosphere is wild to me. I love it! -OLED
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 I'm too empathetic to watch them lose this badly. when I watch movies with
 cringe humor I have to leave the room whenever something bad happens to the
 characters. I get the same feeling when I read about politics these days.

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

 it's not like there's a precedent for that or anything.
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 I praise victories more than losses.
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 @user-107 If you can figure out how to do it well, everything else seems less
 difficult. : )
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 https://kali-is-an-abdl.tumblr.com/
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 because it has offices.

 for people to work in.

 who might not necessarily live there.
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 @user-246

 👉 :neodog_boop: "beep"
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 @user-95

 if I was canadian I'd be ca-ritz!
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 If you've ever been deceived, you'll forever be aware of it as a possibility.
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 Checkers, but played with chess pieces, and every time you make it back to your
 edge from theirs you get an extra king. Oh and you can expand as far left and
 right as you'd like. And pawns can move two spaces left or right on any turn.
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 @user-192

 oooooo yeah I usually try and reply to my old post with any new information. I
 never get the chance to think the same thoughts twice because when I was younger
 I had problems with thought-loops where I'd think something like "darn I could
 have handled that social situation better" and before you know it I'd be rocking
 myself to sleep trying to stop thinking negative thoughts about myself.

 So I broke my brain a little and now I can't think the same thing more than
 once, which is part of why it's so hard for me to finish projects. Alas.
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 i like this comic

 https://tapas.io/series/Dragon-GF/info
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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:

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/pictures/game-design-pyrrhic-victory4.png
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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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 @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-192

 I'm gonna make some right now : )
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 I wonder what would happen if I scheduled weekly ride-alongs with the cops near
 me and I taught them how I believed.

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

 I wonder if I could get through to a few?
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 "mili" versus "mega" is a question of which direction you want to go.

 "mili" is less abstract - milimeters are smaller than meters.

 "mega" is more abstract - megabytes are bigger than bytes.

 we use "mili" terminology to describe things that are often considered small
 (like bacteria or sub-plutonic inches, or number of microbes in a vat)

 we use "mega" terminology to describe things that are often measured from small
 to large (like bytes to megabytes to kilobytes to gigabytes to terabytes to
 petabytes to... wait shit)
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 I never rest. Not mentally. I find it sooooo much harder to get moving again
 once I'm asleep.

 But I've been sleeping lately, because it's "good for me" or whatever. Because
 I'm "burnt out and need to heal" or something.

 Damnit why is it so much harder to stop snuggling someone than it is to pack up
 a tent?

 I'm like the guy in Hot Fuzz, that one really good movie about cops. oops cops
 mentioned one second.

 I'm always moving, but, I hardly ever seem to be able to get anything done. Why
 is that? Is the work just... endless? Am I ever a slave to my surroundings? Or
 am I just cursed with a mortal form, a form destined to toil in whatever way it
 finds itself contextualized in?

 Maybe I should just stop complaining. Maybe work is it's own reward or whatever.
 I don't think I'm depressed anymore, although good luck getting me to feel any
 emotions except focus, and the call to intercede on another's behalf.

 I don't have time for this. >.
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 I wish I could "like" the "so-and-so is typing..." message on messaging
 applications
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 🖼
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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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 this is my past month of reddit comments.

 tell me what you notice.
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 fedi bot that adds "in minecraft" to the end of each of my toots from the past
 two weeks
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 @user-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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 I wish the morning started at the same time for everyone. then it wouldn't be
 difficult to wake up.
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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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 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-521

 scary! :O :O :O
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 sometimes I'll hear my cat meow the way she does when she wants something but
 then I turn around and she's halfway through giving herself a bath /shrug
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 trust that your friends enjoy you
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 counting from 0 is an abstraction applied upon computer programming by people    │
 who don't want you to process lists.                                             │
 whose idea was it to make the first entry the zero-ith entry?                    │
 for loops should be "how many units from the first entry" instead of indexes.    │
 that way you can write with 0 as the first number for for loops, and nothing     │
 else.                                                                            │
 [you're just going to confuse everyone with that approach]                       │
 -- stack overflow --                                                             │
 cops should have to leave their radios on at full volume 24/7 so everyone around │
 can tell where they are and what they're doing.                                  │
 gee I hope AI can turn itself into a universal decrypter, that'd be helpful      │
 because then nobody can have encrypted comms, which helps the ones with greater  │
 numbers.                                                                         │
 trans people are 1/100th of the population. meaning one out of every hundred     │
 people you've ever met has been trans.                                           │
 more than that? congrats you seek out gay people.                                │
 fewer? you live in an area hostile to them.                                      │
 I think cops are 1/300th of the population.                                      │
 I am unafraid. The people lead.                                                  │
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 @user-1074

 my understanding is, if someone wanted to create something like that, they
 should start with writing protocols instead of standards, much the same way
 Activitypub or HTTP are protocols for a free and open internet.
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 listen judges are not meant for organizing society, they're supposed to be a
 focused and crucial tool or implement for a society's functioning (like, a
 scalpel to a surgeon or a paring knife to a chef)

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

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

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

 we gotta work with what we got. If a task needs doing, then the tools at our
 disposal will be applied to it - if every hammer looks like a nail, then
 something something I'd like to get nailed by a hammering plank of wood with
 washboard abs oooooo baby
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 @user-246

 me too, probs
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 @user-613 @user-614

 I'm a patriot, and I didn't go. Didn't even hear about it because when they say
 "patriot" they mean something different than me, when I say "I'm a patriot"
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 what if (hear me out)

 what if instead of TCP we just did a constant stream of UDP packets until the
 recipient said "OKAY OKAY I GET IT"
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 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
 --------------------------------------------> v
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 primary conversation spaces in social media should be no larger than the size of
 a conversation.

 A few years ago I heard that humans can only really keep track of about 5 things
 before they need symbols to keep track of them. Maybe it was 7, or maybe 11, I'm
 not sure - the exact count eludes me.

 But another thing I heard was that we can generally keep track of around 70
 people in our lives - beyond that it's hard to remember specifics. And yet our
 social media sites gives us friends for life, because honestly who's going to
 kick someone off their friend list?

 At least, that's how it feels coming from a social background of games. In
 Runescape you'd add someone if they were cool, and completely forget about them.
 Sometimes you'd be out wandering in the world and you'd actually run into them,
 and that was just like... the coolest thing.

 When I played later games like CoV and WoW everything was more instanced. But
 their chat system was superior, and you could more easily keep chats with
 friends ongoing.
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 "I don't know what it means to go"

 Well for most people it means spending the next couple months in the city park.
 As much time as you can manage. For everyone else it means ensuring that your
 stuff is in the right place at the right time.

 In Philly during BLM people left pallets of bricks all over, to incite a riot. I
 wish we had taken them up on their offer. Bricks however today will not be
 sufficient. Remember how I spoke my heart to the cops this summer? It converts
 them still. Trust that message, that we are working to protect our society from
 harm, and I think you'll find that they respond in kind.

 If not, well there are many more of us than them.
 If you can't get the city cops on your side, either sit tight until they see
 what time it is and reconsider, or get out of dodge.
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 all games that you can lose are capitalist games. All of their mechanics are
 abstractions upon the competition between the player and the computer (and
 possibly other players), which creates a disparity of outcomes - some must win,
 others must lose.

 I think that's okay, though. There's something inherently satisfying about
 power. I believe such interactions should exist in our diversions, not our
 institutions.
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 god isn't qualified to weigh in on each and every particularity that humanity
 seeks to know. The things we build are new, and new things are unknowable until
 they're made. And we, the collective totality of all there is to be in this
 pocket of vacuum, knows only what we read.

 I'm just a human after all, what do you want from me?
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 on a scale of notways to almostever how would you rate your pain?
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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    │
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 do you think the "main menu" in video games is named after the main() function?
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 2/3 is fair, right? I mean, to keep a majority without overwriting authority.

 .> go to sleep you fuck
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 my family has always been the black sheep of our families.

 I've never lived in the same state as my extended family

 (with a few minor exceptions)

 I was raised to know that family is an earned status, and my mom took us on road
 trips every year to visit them, to give us kids the chance to earn that
 affection.

 and for them to earn it from us.

 I guess it wasn't enough. I wonder if they think of me.
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 ... Dare for the Bright Age, though "don't forget to be awesome" works too I
 guess.
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 I love rice and beans because

 error: stack overflow

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

 I love rice and beans because

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

 ... well that's a different error so it's progress at least.
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 @user-596

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

 frankly I kinda preferred it that way, like... yeah. I'm trans, there's
 something wrong with me, please fix it by giving me the right hormones. Boom,
 easy, done.
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 https://youtu.be/v9EKV2nSU8w
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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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 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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 @user-596

 I transitioned in the USA in 2014 and I was lucky to live near an informed
 consent clinic. Two appointments and a hefty informational booklet and I had my
 prescription.

 I didn't want to talk to a therapist. So I didn't. Now I kinda wish I did, not
 because I wish I did something differently, but rather because I feel like it
 would have helped me understand what I was feeling.
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 @user-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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 @user-1633

 the person you're performing for... is you!

 Singleplayer / offline games are great for having a good time. You can see some
 great stories, play some engaging mechanics, and think about hard questions.
 Singleplayer games are great! You can learn so much from them. And they're a
 great, low pressure, way to relax and unwind. I love video games of all kinds!
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 @user-1027

 Beautiful! I miss that kind of country. The prairie is my home, but the forest I
 find myself in is nice for different reasons.
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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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 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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 https://permies.com/v/75jeas6k
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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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 "Are you sure you're a boy? You don't even practice karate chops when you're
 alone"
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 for a blind person while their children sit on their lap and ask "daddy what's a │
 motherfucker?" "well, that's me, son" and then the kid goes to preschool and     │
 says "My dad fucks my mother!" and they get kicked out so the dad has to take    │
 extra shifts to pay for babysitting and the kid grows up without proper          │
 socialization and the mother becomes an alcoholic and cries herself to sleep     │
 while the dad begins exploring motorcycles and weed and then the kid grows up to │
 be an incel or whatever                                                          │
 THIS is why CWs are important! Think of the poor regular-looking but kinda       │
 annoying dorks on the internet who self-impose celibacy because they're scared   │
 of emotional connection. The poor dears. I do hope they don't join the alt-right │
 or whatever as a way of (Ritz this is like, ancient discourse why are you aping  │
 that one Contrapoints video) oh um yeah uh... CWs are important and I think      │
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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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 "you're telling me they're gonna march in and unleash order on your city, with
 all the devastation it involves, and you're just gonna sit there?" ah yup
 "playing video games??" yep

 [mine as in my beloved, not mine as in my own]
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 @user-45 there's two episodes in Extraordinary Attorney Woo that take place on
 that island. I know because I just binged it
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 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 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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 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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 probably put myself on psychiatric drugs. Surely it's an expression of the       │
 implementation of my impending doom.                                             │
 ... what are you even saying bro                                                 │
 ... um, hang on feels like some of the circuitry is off. is something wrong in   │
 my brain? yeah that's surely it, surely nothing I say would resoinate with       │
 anyone that has a non-malfunctioning brain. Surely I don't speak of logical      │
 failures in the hard founded truths of our asset [society I think? like, our     │
 conditions, our institutions, our {gosh that just... does not translate}] um     │
 right what was I saying                                                          │
 oh yeah there's this game I'm really into called Knave, it's like D&D except │
 the rules are very fewer. Like there's onyl 11 pages in the rulebook and it's    │
 mostly taken up by random roll tables. Like, everything boings down to a few     │
 simple rules, like rock paper scissors, or go-fish, or something like that with  │
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 @user-889

 can't comment on your personal life, but you make good music tho so that's
 something.
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 @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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 best way to stay hydrated is to take small little sips every 15-30 minutes
 rather than down a huuuuuge bottle once every 6 hours

 the reason is that your body absorbs water like a sponge might. but, it's a
 slow-acting sponge, and the water only stays in your blood for so long before
 it's filtered by the kidneys.

 meaning you're only hydrated for a short while, and then you gotta whiz

 meanwhile if you take little sips often throughout the day, you'll always have
 sweat to cool you down, and you'll need to pee a lot less - probably only enough
 to remove materials your body can't use from your food and such. also
 waste-products from your cells as they work.

 which is to say you'll pee less, and it'll be less and less useful for um
 "recycling" if things get dire. so... become un-piss-drinkable! you'll be
 healthier anyway!
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 if you're cooking, and you want a specific ingredient to have a stronger flavor,
 use more of it.
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 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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 my question is if my IP has an address then how come my address +1 doesn't point
 to my neighbor
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 @user-78 I thought it was thursday :O
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 whoops nevermind sorry I'm such a clutz
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 at least io.input() has something tangible:**io.input ([file])**

 When called with a file name, it opens the named file (in text mode), and sets
 its handle as the default input file. When called with a file handle, it simply
 sets this file handle as the default input file. When called without arguments,
 it returns the current default input file.

 In case of errors this function raises the error, instead of returning an error
 code.


 but... still no idea what io.flush() does. There's no arguments, so I guess it
 calls flush() on the default input file? what the heck is an input file?6.8 –
 Input and Output Facilities

 The I/O library provides two different styles for file manipulation. The first
 one uses implicit file handles; that is, there are operations to set a default
 input file and a default output file, and all input/output operations are done
 over these default files. The second style uses explicit file handles.



 that's helpful I think. I'm gonna take a nap or something, snuggle cat
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 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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 what if a necromancer got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent mortality?
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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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 there is nothing more earnest than bravery
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 @user-544

 Whoa. You're kidding That picture is gorgeous!
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 @user-401

 I LOVE THIS! YOU'RE SO COOL!
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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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 some of them definitely know it tho, and they're usually the most enabled,
 agentic, and powerful.

 confidence is contagious to your future self. it's self reinforcing.
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 I'm doing a game jam, so... see ya in a week
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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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 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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 @user-1198 @user-165

 In a truly just society, we might use AI to deliver us from certain types of
 menial tasks that have little use.

 But we hardly live in a just society, and it's utility value is lost if the
 technology is not built on a bedrock of trust.
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 sorry to bother you, goodnight
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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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 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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 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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 "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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 I just ate a whooooole chocolate bar

 it melted in my hands
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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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 @user-883

 with the ability to turn any post into a thread, like Reddit.

 Would be nice if there was some visualization for them too, like a 2d map viewed
 from the side. That would make it easier to navigate I think.
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 @user-246

 the color of the sky 🤩​
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 gonna pre-emptively backup my fediverse archive haha just-in-case I get banned
 for spamming or something teehee (totally reasonable teebeeh)
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 @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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 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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 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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 hello, I'm scary, nice to meet you
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 I was always fascinated by the Linux way of programming. Need to do something?   │
 write it into a script! You never know when you'll need it again. Then, just     │
 stay organized, religiously so, and understand that you will forget about stuff. │
 But, you'll come across it eventually, ready and willing and able to help you.   │
 if you don't want me using AI, then give me ~20 junior developers. Which is more │
 efficient, do you think?                                                         │
 "girl you haven't even tested your vibe-coded slop, how do you know if it works" │
 oh I'm sure it doesn't, but it's the thought that counts                         │
 ... I guess I'm just saying, please don't burn the data centers. Computers are   │
 not only bad for the environment when they're burnt, but also we can use them    │
 for all kinds of neat things. Even if it takes a lot of energy, just... build    │
 more solar panels and only use the computers for important stuff?                │
 timeshare-style?                                                                 │
 \@/documents/books/man-and-the-computer.pdf                                      │
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 @user-1074 @user-1209

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

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

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

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

 "yeah bro totes"

 "anyway what do you want for dinner bro"

 "i dunno bro I had chinese last night"

 "cool cool so mexican then? I know this great paraguanese place"
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 @user-217

 Cast upon a pale blue background, the brilliant reflections appeared as
 endless rainbows without arches - but cast upon a world so distant it was
 infinite - like sunlight radiating from the darkness of the surrounding night.
 The perspective of a dewdrop, resting on a stone in a forest, the world must
 seem so infinite - stretching out beyond comprehension, beyond the limits of
 what may be - massive yet constant, changing as it seethed.
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 @user-415 @user-416

 That's inspiring! So many green areas. We can do this! It's only going to get
 faster. Keep pushing!
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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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 hey does anyone wanna go over my code for this text adventure game thingy that I
 spent 2 days on so far?
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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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 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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 it should be free to get a hotel room

 all industries should have a littleleague, or else it'll be impossible to learn.
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 Also, if they delete it we should be entitled to a copy of it so we can post it
 elsewhere. Otherwise they're destroying our content, which they orient their
 business around and which we own.
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 Heavy things should be stored closer to the ground.
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 Our ancestors look forward in [positive version of trepidation, like             │
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 Hah, trick question. They know where we're going. They know what they worked     │
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 [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                                                             │
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