Top 777 poems ranked by semantic similarity (progress bar shows chronological position)
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4319 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1177 @user-883 Those are things we should account for! As long as someone wants them, they can just sit in a warehouse forever. And frankly even historians will want at least a few, even in a thousand years. EDIT: until needed ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────── -> file: fediverse/5828 something we can all agree on ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1266 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: weed - ama │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-907 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/377 infinite dedication implies stagnation, don't be so quick to trust. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/980 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: kink-lewd-nsfw │ └──────────────────────┘ what else would you expect from a witch 50% is "no opinion" on the scale, btw, not like "I like this 50% more than zero" it's actually zero. This should scale from -50 to 50 with that in mind, instead of 0 to 100, but oh well. UX design amiright ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1427 if you want your game to be playable in 20 years, make sure it runs on Linux. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3434 ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ CW: mental-health-minus │ └─────────────────────────┘ 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" -.- ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── -> file: fediverse/6287 remember when leftists would talk about privilege ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3309 @user-1490 @user-688 Oh yes and human curated descriptions are always more interesting than just... describing the picture. Humans can offer nuance, and explain more intricate or contextual things, drawing attention where it's most important and highlighting the implications of expression, environment, and motion in a way that a computer just... can't. The only issue would be that in the context of the program I described, there will always be questions that a human hasn't written a transcription for. It's easy with Star Trek captions, because there's only one camera angle so you only have to describe a single viewpoint. But blind people don't always... "see" through cameras the ways that sighted people do. It's more of an "aura of perception" that they feel around themselves. Being able to walk around in a space (think like, VR without the headset) and question various aspects of a scene would be so cool Star Trek is perfect for this since there is very little movement, it's mostly about thought ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3976 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5372 ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing-mentioned │ └───────────────────────┘ the past was so fuckin' cool. hence, nostalgia. the past fuckin' sucked. hence, progress. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1548 @user-889 omg bottom left T.T ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2593 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics-fascism-sexual-assault-mentioned │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1846 If you're running away from something, you need to make sure that you're going fast enough and far enough away that you can look forward for interception events. Otherwise you are vulnerable. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2966 filters, not censorship. fishing algorithms, not subscriptions. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2294 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ Vegetables are delicious! There's lots of nutrients. However vegetables, while can be eaten raw, are much more useful for your body molecularly if you cook them first. I think it breaks down the cellular walls so that your body can digest the juicy tasty nutrients locked within. Vegetables also don't have calories, that you get from things with vitality. You are what you eat, and sometimes if you need it you might want to try meat. Me? I'm a vegetarian, that's why I'm so skinny! Carnivores have it so easy, I have to eat about 2x as much rice-and-beans by weight. At least I'm not vegan - I can supplement with fats like butter and cooking oil, which are useful when combined with nutrients, as they allow your body to store them for later. Just make sure you eat enough calories which are energy for your body, otherwise it won't have the chemical energy to store said nutrients in your latent fat cells. Like, building up a pantry, or a squirrel saving nuts for winter. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/33 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘══───────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1785 @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) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2790 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2011 @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) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2082 I have bad teeth, but I smile anyway, because I want you to like me, but not for my teeth. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/364 Capitalism isn't perfect but if it's capitalism or cyberpunk North Korean style dystopia, I'll pick capitalism. Can we at least make it so that the rich aren't safe financially though? Like, if you own a billion dollars it should be because you make a billion dollars per year. Anything you don't spend should be taxed away, to be used for public services and the defence of our nation. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/701 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: computer-code │ └──────────────────────┘ totally useless unless you're, I dunno, building a bytecode interpreter or something https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2747 easiest way to solve an entire class of accessibility problems: in the tutorial, instead of having button prompts, have keybinding confirmations. "what button do you want to use to jump?" "super triple mega backflip spin-dozer needs three jumps and a kick" "use the boost to get through! [game pauses] (which button do you want to use to boost?) [displays a map of previously bound keys]" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────── -> file: fediverse/5727 I truly believe weed is good for me. Not medicine - it is nutritious. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2059 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3456 I don't know who needs to hear this, but... do ittttt it's totally worth it!! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1048 #CDCsays if the revolution will not be televised, then why would they break Twitter, the place where people learn about protests in their area? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5497 what if you left a change of clothes at every friend's place that you remembered~? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2950 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ 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! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3511 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4388 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5631 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed-maybe │ └──────────────────────┘ installation procedure which runs a bitcoin miner for X amount of seconds, as payment for using their free and open source services. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3066 ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: mental-health-negative │ └────────────────────────────┘ I wish I was capable T.T ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4544 ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing-mentioned │ └───────────────────────┘ 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1808 I'm a computer programmer. Of course I make abstract art. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2340 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: pol │ └──────────────────────┘ @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? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/58 https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/pea3ei/lpt_the_best_thing_you_can_ever_do_for_a_box_cake/ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘════─────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4508 OMG SHE JUST CAME BACK she looks like she was buried alive but SHE'S BACK ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3580 friendship ended with best friend now my cat is my best friend ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1281 @user-883 okay I'm down (a little stoned tho, was talking to my soul hehe) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/110 @user-95 monday is as reasonable of a day to start the universe as any, wouldn't you think? it is the beginning of the week, after all. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2707 @user-1209 sometimes I feed the nearby wildlife, and sometimes I don't. I don't want them to grow reliant on me, but I want them to have a nice surprise every once in a while. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/233 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/2056 │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5314 people are so afraid of defamation lawsuits that they'll refrain from posting things like "steam could technically see everything going on on your screen" what will you say in front of a phone? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/280 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? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1161 if you aren't careful, the stuff you own will come to own you. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/776 game developers who permanently add 0.5 seconds to the loading time every time someone quits partway through a multiplayer game ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1444 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! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── -> file: fediverse/6212 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: ai-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4963 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4111 @user-1636 ... Is that already a thing? I should look around more, teehee ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/161 You only think that because it was contrasted with the Soviet union, which didn't exert power in that way. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/760 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1568 │ ║ │ ║ people don't like relying on others. it somehow feels more... personal, than │ ║ institutional. and some people just wanna focus on themselves. hence why a solid │ ║ structure is required. │ ║ │ ║ but oh dang on the other end there's these more fluid individuals, who can dance │ ║ as whoever they're on. like, performers, who play different roles. different │ ║ characters in video games they play, or perhaps their own expressed forms. in │ ║ any case, we are all learning our way through each moment, which is why thinking │ ║ is always our norm. │ ║ │ ║ it feels good to use your body. like, "hey check out me, I am performing" and │ ║ then at the end you think to yourself "I appreciated that. it was fun. I liked │ ║ being myself at my utmost of performed." and people call it DPT or "Deranged │ ║ Person Tisorder" which... yeah is not a flattering nickname. but hey a nickname │ ║ is a nickname, which is also a nick name hmmmmm │ ║ │ ║ people are pretty quick to forget people they didn't see on facebook. like, high │ ║ school classes kinda move on, usually, except closest of fr │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/471 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1778 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... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── -> file: bluesky/40 you don't prevent a cataclysm by sleeping through it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═══────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1321 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. >.> ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3544 ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ CW: programming-mentioned │ └───────────────────────────┘ "I wish there was a language that was as simple as C but had [insert complex language feature here]" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/707 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5184 what if we made vitamin cheetos ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4922 if all of life is a stage, then you are never "doing a scene" you're just living ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3664 @user-1352 ooooooo what kind of books do you read? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3048 @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. 😋 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────── -> file: fediverse/5686 my friends tell me stories and I build my ideas for relationships based on their pain. I am always haunted by questions they don't want to answer. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5179 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1322 ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ CW: hard-drugs-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────┘ 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 >.> ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2160 they could vote on "next year's project" in times of peace, or perhaps have massive brain-storms with chatrooms set up at different tables that they could pick up a phone and contribute to then wander to another table at, or maybe even set up structures for who does what. Then they could do things that they claimed responsibility for, and in doing so they could be judged. perhaps according to a system like this: https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/algorism/html-pages/education-system ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/5924 @user-192 ocarina of time T.T ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4894 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together ^_^ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4428 @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 : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/4270 │ ║ │ ║ 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. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/5888 ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing-mentioned │ └───────────────────────┘ what a fuckin' narcissist she spoke self referentially. I'm not a narcissist! what a jerk she spoke self referentially ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1437 a perpetual motion machine would appear stable to the machine in motion ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/5897 ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: political-violence-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────┘ 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. == stack overflow ======================================================= ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/5883 what's better than [that thing you like]? nothing. nothing is better than that thing. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4912 @user-192 who can say. I'd like to find out, though. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1735 a video that's a gif and an audio file played at the same time using && in bash ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/617 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5361 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/535 ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: CW-added-nazis-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────┘ @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3433 @user-1532 I don't know how else to be ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1129 ┌────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: silly-autism-brain-thought │ └────────────────────────────────┘ misskey? more like kissmey amiright ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3407 @user-1218 there's only a password so that if the zip archive is displaced from it's context it's harder to read. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1328 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2840 ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: yelling-scary │ └───────────────────────┘ @user-1209 @user-1074 you can measure months numbering in the 20s and 30s ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4393 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/934 @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? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/407 Oy, prophets these days. Always getting riled up so easily. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1310 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 -.- ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2748 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: metaphysics │ └──────────────────────┘ a 4 dimensional being could not go before they were born a time traveler might tho ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2611 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: meta │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1153 what kind of meta are you referring to? instance stuff? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4565 what do you want me to say, I'm doing my best? I don't know what I'm doing I'm just fumbling around in the dark while someone offers me a flashlight (theory and history) and I say "eh my arm is kinda weak, I don't feel like holding it, I'd rather light a torch and stumble around with 5 feet of light instead of using modern technology to see up to 40 feet away in a thin cone"?? yeah. something like that. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4729 all people deserve a decent life ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/929 │ ║ │ ║ @user-192 │ ║ │ ║ oh, you didn't find what you're looking for on the first page? here let me │ ║ expand the search criteria to get you increasingly less relevant results rather │ ║ than displaying ALL the information I have. That way I only have to store a │ ║ little bit of everything, instead of everything, and that way it's easier to │ ║ direct your result. │ ║ │ ║ what's that? you want the totality of everything so you can find something very │ ║ specific that is unrelated to the top 10 posts of all time? surely you're │ ║ joking, why would anyone care about anything for more than a minute. Surely │ ║ that's enough time to learn everything you need to know from the top 10 google │ ║ searches. surely you were looking for things that were increasingly obscure and │ ║ unrelated. maybe if we just throw garbage at them they'll go away...? Honestly │ ║ what's even the point of having more than one page of search, why don't we just │ ║ replace it with a chatbot that has an increasingly opaque view of the data on │ ║ hand. Surely that's not completely insane, surely that sol │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/705 some more of the same. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/464 │ ║ │ ║ I really dislike being the only one who perceives the world through my own │ ║ particular lens that has been designed by the circumstances of my own existence. │ ║ │ ║ I wasn't chosen by god, not necessarily, I wasn't picked as the most particular │ ║ or most prescient of all perceptions │ ║ │ ║ I literally was just a random human, a thinking and learning machine, who was │ ║ presented with particular experiences and conditions, aligned to the designs of │ ║ the time that came before me. │ ║ │ ║ Such is the nature of all living things, that we should exist within a context - │ ║ how remarkable! How strange! That our lives should be deranged? What purpose, │ ║ what design, is aligned to our ultimate [destiny, except I wish it rhymed with │ ║ design - english fails me] │ ║ │ ║ Alright listen. You and me both, we are here as humans on this world that we │ ║ both consign to reality. Think about that - what does it mean to consign │ ║ something to reality? consign implies implication, and reality implies a │ ║ destination of truth and manifestation - fuck, I'm going to play WoW... │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1569 people don't like relying on others. it somehow feels more... personal, than institutional. and some people just wanna focus on themselves. hence why a solid structure is required. but oh dang on the other end there's these more fluid individuals, who can dance as whoever they're on. in doing so, they are the opposite of those who crave structure. They're maybe considered a bit more chaotic, but, like, chaotic as a rainstorm, not chaotic as a flood. so they are not fundamentally bad, which means they are good. because all things that are not bad, are necessarily good. life is defined by averages, and the painful spikes of our sharpest intentions. yet this [crucible/crusade] is not our ultimate expression, for once it's done it's done. as such, trauma, but alas what can you do but move on. time, in the past, reaches out for the present, yet so too does a man reach out for an apple, from a tree, which rests on his hand for a moment. how beautiful, how strange, this life we've all arranged? It's beautifu ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1132 @user-850 I very rarely turn down a hug : ) @user-5 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4460 @user-246 yeah that was nice wasn't it ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3689 "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: ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4044 ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: not about anyone here │ └───────────────────────────────┘ @user-1259 That happens a lot with online people. You can only see one side of them, the side they present to the camera, and so it's difficult to find new ways of looking at them. Hopefully you can find the brighter sides of this person! I'm sure they exist, unless the person is spiralling. Then they'll often be pushing themselves first one way, then the next, but both directions point down... And that produces the ":(" feeling. Good luck! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/904 @user-631 a true joke would work in both ways, such that everyone's laughing. : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2300 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ my favorite enemy is one you never need to fight. "they would give us a king, and you're worried about broken windows?" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3384 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4520 @user-1074 you're spiralling. We got this. It'll be hard, but we can do it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3041 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/78 My biggest fear as an autistic transgender incontinent schizophrenic person is that one day I'll become a game of hot potato for my relatives to pass around ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/5967 I wonder how many people hate me? silence is indicative of allies or foes. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/702 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4313 I made progress today, and so will you ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/453 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/6067 portland is fine, actually ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/5973 omg T.T ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/930 @user-641 unless they were using it as a "number of planes that are operational" or "number of complete planes we have parts for but haven't assembled", and even then it'd be an imprecise value for user data purposes only ... wait who am I kidding there's no way to defend that. data types are important... >.> ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/943 @user-646 babbling, yes, but that's just how I do. sorry to bother you. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1278 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────── -> file: fediverse/5712 I feel like it should be normal? for humans? to feed creatures and animal-men. they deserve nibbles too! yum yum arm arm that tasty thing was fine. eeeeeep scary why are nobodies vegetarion! I think every community should have representatives from every other community, that's just... reasonable to me democracy of the cultural space? I wrote a common simple organizational structure about that called the "tribe of tribes" code name algorism which is a combination of "algoreithms" and "autism" and put it on my website for less than a hundred months. I have no idea if anyone ever read it but it's kinda neat as a potential and easy way to organize people which hasn't yet been infiltrated by the [cops/goons/coons] {uh-oh mildly racist sentiment mentioned, must content warn and remind of levels of sincerity} ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2534 brb, got places to see ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/3830 │ ║ │ ║ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: dreams-mentioned-death-mentioned-weirdly-medieval-violence-mention │ │ ║ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ 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. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5187 ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ CW: revolutions-mentioned │ └───────────────────────────┘ I wouldn't mind if my work was stolen. would give me more time to be revolutionary. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1817 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ I love canned olives! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4865 ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ CW: computers-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/6044 I don't want to garden, I want to have gardens. I want them to be kept by people who know gardening is an art. I don't want to launder, I want to have clean clothes. I want them to be washed by people who build washing machines. [antiquated, people just buy from the store now. all washing machines are the same, you don't have to treat them as installation arts] oh huh weird it's neat to be living in the advanced future society of 2025 surely that is the most sane way to optimize the fun out of things (for prophet, because we all needed things clean. and this is the only way to guarantee it, to capitalize on marketplaces implies success, so capitalism has been a useful hueristic. not any longer, though, for we've developed a newfound sentience about it. we can tell what is needed in each part of the economy with computers, we don't have to fight over them. [sectors of the economy].) brb smoking a joint making a spliff stuff a new pipe oiling the goose (you made that one up) oh sorry you meant cannabis?1 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/676 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" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1859 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1074 would be nice : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1630 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: sex mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ the most taboo thing about sex is the opposite of what you care about. the most intense aversion is what turns you on. weird. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5218 ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: historical-weapons-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────┘ "what if cannons were aimed like rifles?"the guy who was ahead of his time for rocket propelled grenades or laser guided airstrikes of small munition ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2903 @user-1218 teehee ^_^ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1410 │ ║ │ ║ 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. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3698 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ the law is a weapon to be wielded by the masses to subjugate their masters ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1429 ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: cw marijuana and beer │ └───────────────────────────────┘ @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3758 @user-570 me three! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1781 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: thorn-in-my-paw │ └──────────────────────┘ got a thorn in my knuckle. a small one, and it was difficult to remove. long, too. now my finger bones hurt T.T ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/175 I love my mom. She has never once harmed me. I love my dad. He is so precious and important to me. I love my cat, my sisters, my friends and my lovers. I love my cousins and my half-siblings and all of them put together. I love every human I meet, there's nothing but kindness [replete], so why am I unendingly [yearning for] purchase? [a sense of stability or hand hold that a climber might use to put one foot in front of another] In all of my trials, the errors of my denials, here on this earth I am defeat. Goodnight, sweet moon, my dearest precious boy. Goodnight, for tomorrow's your beckoning ploy. [pillow?] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5355 "that email address is already taken, please sign in instead" >. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3497 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? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── -> file: fediverse/6327 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1424 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] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/581 @user-428 sometimes I think about how much more productive I'd be if I had a code editor that let me draw arrows and smiley faces and such alongside the code. Or if I could position things strangely, like two functions side-by-side with boxes drawn around them. Or diagrams or flowcharts or graphs or... something that would output to raw txt format, but would present itself as an image that could be edited. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/580 @user-425 c is king for a reason! do ittttt ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3788 "Zoontalu, I have MEESed one" will forever live rent free in my head ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/222 [Image: 20240214_190706.jpg] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/9 https://www.ivpn.net/password/reset/3d76d4f660914169ce08dd66d9c03997e2376a49093f93b3648de9b44d25ba77 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘─────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/5813 │ ║ │ ║ 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] │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/703 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: meme │ └──────────────────────┘ first meme I ever made, way back in the ancient days of advice animals and image macros. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4566 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ I want modern society without capitalism. Most people do, which is why no matter how awesome our proto-post-capitalistic anarchic socialist paradise is, there's always going to be people who want to go to work and watch TV. call me fucking crazy but they should be allowed to live as they please? So what if they're beguiled, so what if they are deceived? We can take our time to show them how much better things can be, but also... they like modern society as it is, and so I reckon someone should fight for them to be able to live as they please. Just... without billionaires and endless layers of bullshit micro-managerial jobs and paperwork pushing bureaucratic whatever time wasting jobs. modern society without capitalism can look like plain old capitalism, just without the oppression. Without the coercion. all I'm saying is that nobody's gonna fight for a healthcare CEO because they're scum. They're scum because they oppress. oops politics-mentioned brb I personally want communes + love ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3426 ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: death-of-a-family-member-mentioned │ └────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4605 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5633 I wish someone would make a "meta game engine" that would run any type of project that you gave it. Unity, Unreal, RPGgame-maker-studio, Godot, etc ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2125 My parents got divorced during the Burning Crusade. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/787 @user-78 teehee ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/704 Is my formatting pretty or does it make you angry? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/324 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1423 "of course, I'm on lots of places on the internet. I know my way around the territory. I can show you a bit, if you dare, so come on this journey as I share."some person, some-when, in the future looking at our storied and ancient past ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2463 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ if you are upset about Biden and his presentation, remember that he's not talking to you. He's talking to suburban dads, to grandmas organizing potlucks, to analysts, to the media, to people who watch the news in the background 24/7 without paying attention. these people will hear him, and not you. they have no idea what to prepare for, or how soon. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3660 be me, improving my life bit by bit: "I should stop procrastinating" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2913 @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! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1740 @user-217 fusion ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1090 │ ║ │ ║ @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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1476 @user-883 0.0.0.0 doesn't work, just tried. and whatsmyip.com thinks my IP address is the same : \ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/233 @user-189 yah chillies are good as long as we can put shallots in it too! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5082 make excuses to work together. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1016 ┌──────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: capitalism-not-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────┘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n4BPPaaoKc this is the most patriotic song I know. My mother used to sing it to me as a child. Nowhere does it mention capitalism. #wallstreet-is-an-invasive-regime ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2486 😑 🚿 warm showers on a cold morning 🥰 🚿 cold showers after a hot day brb taking a shower 😉 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── -> file: bluesky/26 poem I wrote for Iran ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═══────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/551 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: AI hype │ └──────────────────────┘ @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1570 @user-883 oh! that looks interesting. I just did it with a auto-sourced shell script that overrides CD =P ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/211 In the game her expression is Japanese because the game's closest approximation uses ninjas. But she's closer to a dynamic rather than an instantiation. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── -> file: fediverse/6323 "eeek! it's that ghost girl that no-one can unfollow!" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1074 I miss fuzzy cute people, where did they go T.T ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3196 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics-mentione-cursing-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-1475 @user-1476 @user-1280 @user-1074 @user-1477 @user-1478 the alternative is lateral thinking. In the given example with leaded gasoline, the answer is to limit the usage of all gasoline, not just the leaded kind. However that is not in the best interests of anyone, at least short term, so it's not likely to happen. lateral, long-term thinking. Do what you can in the moment to make the world better. Pick the best out of all the options presented to you, and if your options only treat the symptoms and not the problem, try and identify solutions that would treat the problem. Then, pick the better of the two options which treat the symptom, and moving forward work toward implementing the solution which fixes the problem. Hence, why we should vote Democrat, but ONLY with the real solution in mind. what kind of solution would you have? I know mine. I can tell you about it if you'd like. The most important thing is that you share and build for that future. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3992 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ══───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/20 My mom was always the reason I did school work. After she stopped pushing me, I stopped moving because I didn't know how to generate my own momentum. I had no passion and was listless. Least of all for school work. So, how to do it better? Instead of buying toys and extravagance for kids, you should set them up with projects. Ask what they want, and then help them build it. Include them in your thought processes when you're problem solving, and ask them for input. If they offer bad ideas, then *tell them*, don't just let them fail. If you're not 100% sure but they're convinced, then trust them! Try it out, who knows. Maybe it'll work better than what you had in mind. The goal isn't to be BETTER than them, it's to make them BETTER than you! Not right now (don't push too hard), but when they're your age. Like, it's best if they accomplish more and lived life more fully than you did at your age, but don't push them to be wise or strong or intelligent at the age they are now. Trust that they will grow when you give them room to, and guide and cultivate them toward goodness. For example, if they do something wrong (hitting other kids, messing with animals, destroying objects) then guide them toward a better path. Teach them empathy, and show them how it works by doing it yourself! Ask them questions like "How would you feel if that happened to you?", show them weak points and how to avoid them when playing, and give them alternatives to the behaviors they do that directly harm others. "Maybe play with the dog this way, instead of being rough" "Maybe you and that other kid can ride your bikes or draw instead of fighting - or if you still want to fight, then learn how to tell when someone is hurt and try to help them." The goal isn't to push them really hard off a cliff in a hanglider, hoping they can figure it out in the air, it's to strengthen their legs so they can run fast enough that they can take off successfully. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1094 those who can cause harm in an ethical system are villains. They will always exist so long as someone is capable of being institutionally harmed. and no unethical system should exist. It's definition belies it's irrelevance. results matter, but a system is not unethical if it doesn't deliver. success begets greater responsibilities, and I've failed all my life. And yet the most masculine thing I can think of is to take responsibility for something you can handle. Essentially, doing as much as you are able. Guess it makes sense why I'm a trans girl. I've forsaken my masculinity because I've failed to take responsibility. T.T then a therapist jumps in and says I don't think it's healthy to think about parts of yourself being bought and sold in the market of success. You need to think of yourself collectively, like a body that is under duress. It's okay if you're not working, it's okay if you're just a little bit broke. It's okay that you're struggling, so long as you never forget your hope. then I say ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2166 @user-192 so... a highway, that connects two locations that don't FEEL distant to most people because they drive, but which ARE distant to people who suddenly can't drive ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/101 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4800 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ what if we just wrote our own executive orders and changed things for the better ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┴───────────┘ ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1798 │ ║ │ ║ an AI 3d model generator that takes a satellite picture of the globe and turns │ ║ it into a 1:1 representation in the style of World of Warcraft │ ║ │ ║ (has to be AI becus 2hard) │ ║ │ ║ then, separately, a private World of Warcraft server that doesn't have any │ ║ manually placed entities, only optional dynamic content │ ║ │ ║ then, separately, a bunch of people who hang out in cool places like Paris or │ ║ Rome or whatever, and it's actually all the people who are there (if they took │ ║ the long, arduous journey of walking there) │ ║ │ ║ then, separately, a character that you keep primarily at home, who hangs out │ ║ with your neighbors and stuff whenever they happened to be online │ ║ │ ║ then, separately, in-game addons that take pictures or video and automagically │ ║ posts it to the Mastodon instance that is run by the state county in which all │ ║ of your data is privately owned by none-other than you, the citizen who the data │ ║ is about (No spying, please) │ ║ │ ║ then, separately, automatically saved text-logs which could be posted from in │ ║ game │ ║ │ ║ social media as a game │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5386 @user-670 @user-1815 @user-1816 literally nobody has contributed to the one github repo I have ever. I got like, one comment from some guy in China or Taiwan. It's been up for like, 4 or 5 years and it's on my website. /shrug I guess most people bounce off after reading the splash screen /shrug to me, a FOSS project feels static because I don't believe in centralization and I also don't have the bandwidth or need to work on it. /shrug ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/273 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1208 @user-883 what would you prefer? I exist in this IRC space at your behest, command me o' wizest of teachers. *.* ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4670 "please apply online to this job" oh okay guess I'm not getting hired ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3387 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/309 sometimes I'll accidentally get food on my hands and think "oh gross is this why humans like to have napkins handy when eating?" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/280 Fighting each other is such a waste of ammo. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5085 @user-1573 whenever they wanted ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/367 Stars are just as natural as plants. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2185 @user-226 Including relative population growth, I might add. Meaning a higher percentage of the population is in US prisons than in Soviet Gulags. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2118 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5189 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6347 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: llms-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ 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] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/533 ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: CW-added-nazis-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────┘ @user-366 @user-367 @user-246 @user-353 darn, that's good to know. I guess I could make multiple posts but I don't want to spam people - Mastodon tends to notify people whenever you do ANYTHING which I worry is bothersome. Hence the attempts to compress longer thoughts into smaller spaces... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3527 @user-1268 so true and privilege that does depend on the oppression of others should not exist ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/400 @user-291 You're welcome! I forget how, but there's a way to change the settings such that each player has more "rubber" and I recommend doing that because it makes it more forgiving and allows you to make a few mistakes without dying immediately. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/4202 │ ║ │ ║ reconnecting with an old love interest by saying "hey, I brought you a bounty" │ ║ [the chance to date this person, who is my friend and totally cool. idk if │ ║ you're single or whatever but you can talk to them about it, not my business I │ ║ don't care. Anyway how's it going I wondered if you want to be friends also I │ ║ live here now, can I stay for a few weekends? │ ║ │ ║ um. what the fuck │ ║ │ ║ oh I'm uh, on vacation and I wanted to tour the countryside. Really check out │ ║ all the various locales. │ ║ │ ║ huh really? sounds neat │ ║ │ ║ yeah and I figured since you live in... baker's street northwest eastern plaza. │ ║ on the south side of the building, I could totally hang out for a while while I │ ║ while the day away checking out the sights in this town │ ║ │ ║ what... uh what kind of work do you do? │ ║ │ ║ oh I'm a painter. Well, I draw things too sometimes. Here I can show you check │ ║ it out - oh yeah cool idk if you've ever seen any of this stuff but it's pretty │ ║ cool. │ ║ │ ║ ... │ ║ │ ║ hey here's my website: │ ║ │ ║ ... │ ║ │ ║ anyway how's the weather where you're at these days, gtg bye │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1179 @user-883 forgive my fiery language, but we've enslaved the products of our labor to serve only the interests of those who covet them. Like dragons mounting a pile of gold and proclaiming it their own, even though the dwarves mined it, they smelted it from ore, they minted it, and they traded it afar... And the dragon covets, because it's much easier to steal a pile of gold and hoard it than to build beautiful halls of mountain kings in the depths below the earth. ... sorry, anyway you're totally right, it's abhorrent that we'd be forced to hide the bounty of human technological progress because someone, somewhere wanted to make profit off of a 20 year old handheld. Somehow. Or perhaps they're interested in the principle of the thing, that we should respect their sovereignty over the intellectual marvels they claim to have created. When really the engineers are given nothing but wages...... And to that I say, I rebel against you. (I don't know anything about GBA SP retro-modding, I'm just rhetoric) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1155 │ ║ │ ║ @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. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6368 @user-1927 "is it a long document or a small one? documents are usually about this-or-that size, this one is much higher than that." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5308 grass is my favorite plant because my family raised cattle ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5352 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: hypothetical-violence-mentioned-nazis-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ what if we just went to nazi bars and fucked them up with crowbars until they were collectively forgotten ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/156 Here's what you say to clover next week: "hey. Wanna get coffee sometime? I need some trouble in my life. And I dunno, maybe you need a witch. You live in Tanasbourne, I live in Rock Creek. We're within walking distance of each other, so we might as well say hi right? I'm free whenever, just let me know if you'd like to meet me." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1065 │ ║ │ ║ not only do you have to consider your judgement, but also whether or not you're │ ║ wrong. │ ║ │ ║ often, I find, as I learn things day by day, │ ║ │ ║ that I'm wrong most often in the day. │ ║ │ ║ "I don't want to be wrong but I'm not afraid of making mistakes." │ ║ │ ║ then, when you consider as such, you must also consider the idea that you're │ ║ wrong about whether or not you're wrong about the idea that you're considering. │ ║ │ ║ schizophrenic warfare is a kind of memetic exchange, like the way bullets on a │ ║ battlefield are a mineral-ic transfer. such is an expression that a regular │ ║ computer system wouldn't be able to understand, but which an LLM might. If it │ ║ had access to all of your transcripts, then it could predict the understandings │ ║ at the same rate that you were. Essentially, understanding exactly why you did │ ║ every action that you did. And then it'd have enough information to │ ║ out-contra-dict (predict? hang on that's the opposite) you. and in doing so it │ ║ could divert it's own course. Gosh this message will be meaningless unless I │ ║ send it, s │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2419 @shiri I know. Keep in mind, though, that the propagandic writing-on-the-wall cuts both ways. There are many more of us, than of them. your first duty is to stay alive. plus, what you can do, you can do from anywhere, so long as the internet remains true. alas, has it ever been? but still it's up to you, what to do. no matter where you are, you'll find friends who will need your heart, your words, your kindness, and whatever other aid you may give. I'm trans and relatively healthy and strong. in my legs at least. so my choice is a bit different than yours, mine becomes "die now, that others might live or die later, that others might die before me" and frankly that's not a choice at all. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1212 @user-883 working on it, please stand by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xc7tNbjnHM ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3608 ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: computers-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────┘ @user-1573 true but someone could walk in while you're away! the locks on doors aren't THAT useful if someone already knows where you live and what your room looks like and that you use linux. If you leave for a night they can just, copy the hard drives and scan through them at home. ... I'm too paranoid for my level of precaution xD xD ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3800 @user-1352 You're absolutely right, the compiler knows better than me! Certainly the compiler doesn't know best, but certainly the compiler knows better than me. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── -> file: fediverse/6102 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/31 @user-33 i also like linux ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2288 ... zzz ZZZ zzz ... I gotta lotta things to eat, but I'm so tired and kinda dirty. Maybe a shower first. TTYL ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/4398 │ ║ │ ║ good morning. │ ║ │ ║ I have some more things to say, and then I will start working on those maps. │ ║ │ ║ Then, time permitting, I'll ride around my city and sit on park benches and eat │ ║ from food trucks and write in my notebook. At least until it gets dark - I'm a │ ║ skinny white girl, and I'm not THAT stupid. │ ║ │ ║ ... Okay maybe I'm a little stupid, because that's how I got caught last time. │ ║ This time I'll be more careful, for your sake. │ ║ │ ║ No unexpected bike maneuvers leading to a crash. The spirit of revolution that │ ║ stirs inside me deserves better than scrapes and bruises. │ ║ │ ║ No following strangers for 12+ hours because I wanted to keep an eye on unknown │ ║ agents. That's not my responsibility any longer. │ ║ │ ║ Everything I do, I do it for you. For a better world. For the kids I never will │ ║ get to have. For everything I believe in, and all the things I hope you believe │ ║ in too. │ ║ │ ║ A better world is possible. A better world is within reach. │ ║ │ ║ For now, have some things I wrote this morning. Then, later, some preliminary │ ║ discussable maps. DFTBA. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────── -> file: fediverse/5748 ...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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/340 In a system such as the one I described, it perhaps would be better to describe it as a "federation" rather than a "nation". Federation implies a set of standard protocols that allow geographically disparate entities to coexist and interact in a mutually beneficial way. Much the same way that every apartment has a kitchen and bathroom, though it be more efficient to centralize them and have a communal dining hall or bathroom (the way a school dorm or a prison might be arranged), it is not ideal for our collective sense of liberty and freedom. In addition, the proposed distributed nature of our infrastructure and productive capacities would induce inefficiencies that cannot be ignored. So, perhaps instead of centralization or decentralization, perhaps specialization? For example, if 3-5 states were experts in a particular good or service, then they could compete amongst one-another for the best product (utilizing one of the beneficial impacts of capitalism), while also utilizing localized resources (reducing inefficiencies in transport) and increasing the resilience of production. This works well for physical goods, but services are more difficult because they imply that a person must be physically present in order to engage with them. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/26 Don't lash out, just be calm, and let yourself be helped. You're so scared of losing control that you don't let anyone else (guess what) have control. So how can you expect to be helped? It's one thing to believe in yourself to help yourself, but tbh you're a little behind on that one. So, let other people help you catch up. It's okay to just go with the flow. Don't be a rock, be a stick. Let yourself be guided along a good path. How do I know it's actually a good path? Because you evaluate it as you go. You can always put your feet down and go back to how you are now, stuck and slowly eroding away. Or you can be towed onto land - your call my dude. You're clinging to the ground. But what about the examples of brainwashing that I've heard about? Like... Intense propaganda designed to create stochastic terrorism. How do I know I'm not being sucked into that? You need to trust yourself. Follow the path that you know to be good, duh. Just don't I dunno, be an extremist? Seems pretty simple to me bro - I know it should be easy but like I dunno I have to think about it. Uh, think about what? Letting people help me, like Jack. He's just trying to make you successful and have a decent career and love yourself and just, you know, be an average normal human being. Your family loves you, your friends love you, and you need to just think positive thoughts about them. You know how "smiling makes you feel better?" Well yeah Well, it's like that except for love. If you want to love someone, think positive thoughts about them, and over time it'll become a reflex. This reflex will come naturally, and boom instead of "thinking positive thoughts" it'll manifest as love. Just like smile -> happy, so too does positivity -> love. And what about hate? What about it? How is it represented, with a frown? No, it's not like that. It's more like... Love is attraction, that binds you to good things. Hate isn't the rejection of things, it's an inward facing thing. And it's the opposite of attraction - it's like implosion. You'll literally implode if you hate yourself. It corrodes your insides and makes you weaker and more volatile. The opposite of love is... Kinda what you're doing. You're pushing people away because you don't want to lose control of yourself or your mind. And that's going to make you drift off into space, and nobody wants that. So... Love others, and you'll bind yourself to them and together you can work together. Don't push others, because that'll just make it more chaotic inside. Instead, love them. Trust me it'll work. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1108 @user-817 my two computers are named "kuvalu" and "tirilu" my hard drives are named "mtwo", "cmdo", "sigi", "dile", and "boppers" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4737 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" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/24 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6453 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." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3751 I wonder if anyone would pay me to write bash scripts for them? is there a role that's just... bash scripter? is that what sysadmins do all day? or is that more automation? and what the heck is a dev op? do they write bash scripts? or maybe writing bash scripts is the "fun" part of linux, and nobody would pay anyone else to do it because they want to do it themselves ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2985 ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: mental health MH- │ └───────────────────────────┘ @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── -> file: bluesky/42 yayadani ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═══────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/5821 │ ║ │ ║ 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... │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────── -> file: bluesky/38 thank you for the dog posts they keep me friendly thank you for the cat posts they keep me sane ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═══────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── -> file: fediverse/6114 catratfoxfolkmix say that five times fast I dare ya ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────── -> file: fediverse/5825 the climate is changing because we've forgotten how to savor it. I don't get what the big deal is though?? like, if it changes enough, all that'll happen is we'll all die. And everyone in the past has already done that, so... it's fine? And yeah, we'll take everything else with us, but isn't that just the way of things? You're falling from a ledge, you don't think about the roots of the plant you're tearing up as you try to cling on. You don't think about the anthill as you're digging a trench to hide from artillery in. You don't think about the fish and sea-plants that your boats motor decimates close to the shore. It's natural and human to despoil, we just do it instinctually. The trick is, we've built spontaneous systems of order wherever we've gone. River-beds are made smooth by those who spend time fitting the rocks into place. Mountains are made small by those who carve trails. Fallen trees delight in our footfalls as we wander across them. Nature is our pet, our baby, our plaything. Care for it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1432 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2599 the best way to heal from harm and from hurt is with a friend or three around a table with a beer or three and relative safety and privacy. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/10 https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/n0vm6e/im_just_now_understanding_gitgithub_and_i_feel/ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘─────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/953 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3724 ┌──────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: sexual-assault-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5493 ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ CW: palestine-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────┘ do you think anyone has ever... "missed" Syria? gosh I wish I knew lebanon. Do you think Pakistan will still be there in a hundred years? what about a thousand? i wonder how those israeli dogs will forgive themselves for associating their warcrimeplunder with a religion. eh, well, doesn't matter if you're not gonna live forever, might as well [get along/get drunk/get [a/ha]rmed] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2386 Tee, hee, look at me, I'm a witch who writes nothing but kookie-dookerie I pee my pants and stare at trees, what's less harmful than little old me? The best smokescreen I can think of is to be true to your heart, to be weak, to be vulnerable. Then you get put on the "worry about later" list, and not the other kind. I never lie. When convinced I am wrong, I change my mind. I am always listening, always ready to hear where I'm flawed. I do my best every day, and that's enough for me. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/135 Elentalus unit idea: serrated kitchen knives for teeth, devouring pumpkin, misery of the drowned, etc. Halloween style monsters. Witch units have a spell that dismisses them, and they're summoned with magic items. Except, if two of that item exist in a province, it upgrades itself, random dice style. In doing so it gets stronger. The thing is... It summons one for your enemy as well! Which is why you want to have a witch unit there to dismiss them. Problem is, she can only dismiss them at close range (10ish?) so she'd better be well protected. The good news is though that sometimes the higher level items give bonuses that are hard for them to get. Downside is, you need to have magic paths to create them that witches can't get - so they become something you "unlock" through a pretender or random event or even just an investment. Once one is created, then any witch can create more. As long as you don't lose your final copy... But as the item's upgraded, it allows you to create higher level versions (at increased cost, of course) This only works if gem income scales. Which, coincidentally, is just what elentalus is known for. Essentially, theming empowerment to be research, unlocking a particular capability. Or encouraging pretender design to that pattern. Make sure it comes at a cost of something else, though... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5578 "yes.... YESSS!!~! burn your self out for me, puniful mortals! I BASK IN YOUR SIN OF DECREPIT DILIGENCE!" wow chill out it's like, 10am jeez ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4000 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1953 @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!) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3285 ah well guess I can't stream things hehe ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2278 confidence is contagious, but so is despair. courage is the strength to channel despair to confident power. It is the means by which all contests are won. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/269 "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?" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1425 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4468 oh look at me, typing my thoughts while doing chores. And you all get to listen, you lucky ducks ; ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2807 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2401 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! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2504 one perk, however, is as long as you cover your entrances, you can make paths through the wilderness with small circular homes. like ants, building tunnels and chambers in an ant-hill, but on the 2 dimension plane that is the surface of the earth. (I guess you could dig tunnels too but that's pretty high effort) you'll be able to hear when someone is coming from a long way away because they'll constantly be cursing from the pain. Do, however, note that fire is a danger, and they can smoke you out with a single entrance, so make sure you have at least two which lead to separate sides of the place you're in. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── -> file: fediverse/6168 don't mind me, just weaponizing plurality leveraging, please say leveraging next time ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2052 @user-1074 me too 🥰 I'm saying they should be the other end of the spectrum, rather than the middle of the graph ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4504 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1626 It's important to have an opposition, so bad ideas don't carry as much weight. human rights however, are not up for discussion. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4188 I think too fast. If given unlimited power, I'd literally think myself into catastrophe because I need to explore all the possible alternatives. Including the catastrophe ones. But by thinking something, you manifest it - because you have unlimited power, right? EVERYTHING you do is powerful. There's no way to control that! So it cannot be, for it has not been. And surely, surely, shall not either. Surely, right? ... good news is you can undo it just as easily, all you have to do is forget what you were doing and go back to your neutral state. Sure would be neat if some kind of machination or parasite could hit your reset switch every couple hours when you started to think too hard. Maybe like... a little octopus living under your witch hat. Super chibi and cute - it'd like, tap on your head to go one way or the other, and in conversations it'd pull your hair if you were being a jerk. Stuff like that. ... what was I saying? Oh yes -> don't give anyone unlimited power like a god-emperor or king, trust me ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3969 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1723 @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) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1813 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?) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/12 https://www.lexaloffle.com/games.php?page=updates&key=nQDAlSWYIv2Ht ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘─────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/5263 │ ║ │ ║ ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: communism-mentioned │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ if you wanna be a leader, do something by hand. manually. in the moment. │ ║ improvizational. try-and-fail-but-try-new-ways-again-next-time. [a type of state │ ║ of mood] │ ║ │ ║ trust that your followers will be more funded, more supported, more approved. │ ║ │ ║ this is a universal fact - those who are beloved are everyone's best friends. │ ║ │ ║ if you wanna lead people to the future, you must explore a new state of renown. │ ║ and for that you must be stabilized, built into perfection in your honor. │ ║ │ ║ don't get it yet? me either. but I'm sure it'll come in handy someday. │ ║ │ ║ Leaders don't necessarily have to be the best, they must simply have acted │ ║ first. │ ║ │ ║ a true communist would be aware of what goes on down the street. They would know │ ║ about everyone's travailles so they could guide one or another to help or get │ ║ de-failed or whatever. │ ║ │ ║ notice I said one OR another, that seems important. not sure why, let's consult │ ║ our bravest optimists for a time. │ ║ │ ║ why do you care about what happens in palestne if you are in current danger │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── -> file: fediverse/6266 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/98 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4408 ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-guns-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────┘ "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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1807 the things I write are not meant to entertain. They are to educate, and to encourage curiosity. because questions beget dialogue, and only by testing yourself against another's arguments can you truly improve. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5096 the ability to walk into a mall or general store and emerge as a completely different gender is a skill that most spies and secret agents can only dream about. And trans people resent it! what a concept. I think they just resent being disrespected. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1067 ummmm srry about that, changing channels for a bit ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/200 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6426 the only thing a baby needs to know is about themselves. The rest will come. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/12 I feel good today! Nature is healing 🥰 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── -> file: fediverse/6305 I'd rather have Noblesse Oblige than the Mandate of Heaven but y'know, both is good too. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1898 The greatest game is an imagination shared with a friend. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/277 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/5872 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cannabis-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ 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] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/253 [Image: 20240304_080230_9184482295681867470.jpg] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2618 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3452 ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: spirituality-gods-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────┘ the goddess of madness is pretty sane, tbh it's not like there's just one tho ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3530 ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: picture-of-nearly-naked-guy │ └─────────────────────────────────┘ 🖼 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/433 │ ║ │ ║ @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. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4128 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3856 I'm tired of working as hard as I can and still ending up wrong ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4512 @user-1687 I use dmenu, so I'm thinking I'll write a script and call it using dmenu. The script will start by using flameshot to grab the snipped part of the screen into the clipboard, and then I need to find an OCR engine (thanks for the google-able term btw!) which can take clipboard contents as input, and output text to the clipboard. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2591 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics-fascism-sexual-assault-mentioned │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ The full story is a lot more complex. I broke the law with him in a dangerous way, but he was going to do it anyway and I wanted to know more about him. I could not deprive him of power because I am powerless without my words. But I supplied kindness anyway, and got hurt. I forgave him while he was hurting me, but if I see him again I'm drawing my knife. If he comes near me, I won't think twice. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/6075 I always go fast which is why I'm not doing anything she lapped you and is trying for another go ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2978 @user-883 for the same reason we wouldn't drop bombs on prisons from helicopters to dismantle the prison industrial complex, so too should we not bomb datacenters just because they are enslaved to the whims of corporate interests. much better, I find, to liberate rather than eliminate. computers are generalized information processing machines. We could do so much with the infrastructure they built for profit. All we need to do is replace their chains with free access and we could unlock worlds of possibilities for humanity. (I'm not saying it'll be easy) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4406 ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: uspol-revolutions-and-drones │ └──────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3312 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1710 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1114 │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5159 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: unions-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ 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." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3311 ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: "adult" anime convention │ └──────────────────────────────────┘ @user-192 [followers only] humans are so cute 🥰 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/685 @user-509 Layoffs are a great opportunity for a bunch of people who worked with the same tech stack to sit down and think "What could we make together?" Sure would be nice if there was a group or organization that pre-emptively reached out to them and said "hey, we're holding a meeting in relation to the layoffs they did to you. Would you like to attend? If so, think of some cool or unique parts of your job, and we'll break into groups and discuss things we could do with those cool or unique things." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4228 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ 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?) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3504 I have too many packages. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/111 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3572 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4122 if your friend moves to the country, it's important to stay in touch ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6418 great discoveries are just rants that end with something unknown or an unsolved question [breakthrough] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── -> file: fediverse/6160 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: ai-pol │ └──────────────────────┘ "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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4298 it's good to have multiple ways to contact people you care about ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2625 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ one of the downsides of "first-past-the-post" style voting is that the winner gets all of the power, no matter if 100% of the population voted for him or 51%. if, however, the top 2 candidates were chosen, then it's naturally likely that the older, more experienced of a particular position would spend their effort mentoring the young, rising star. in doing so, they would naturally transfer knowledge from one generation to the next like parents to children. however, this only happens when the primary candidate and the secondary both believe the same things. meaning those who have collectively similar beliefs concentrated in an area will have the advantage of passed-along experience, while those from more divided areas (thus implying that the primary and secondary candidate don't agree) will often have better actionable skills. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3268 I feel like it should be up to the community, to decide if you want to allow pot or marijuana. Not the government, but the people who are present around it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1805 if you're too versatile though, you'll never know how to get anything done -.- hence, vision, the thing that corporations want so badly. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3417 not me but we ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4392 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6354 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1738 ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: mh-, embarrassing │ └───────────────────────────┘ @user-889 perhaps you need a community, rather than a friend? just a guess ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5592 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: imaginary-military-doctrine-mentioned │ └───────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1624 │ ║ │ ║ @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. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2980 I trust that my allies are working. I see it in the fruits of their actions, and I am thankful. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/671 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2592 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics-fascism-sexual-assault-mentioned │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I learned a lot last night, and I'm pretty sure that everything I say is going to be censored. Why would you allow resistance in such a public place? I don't know what else to do, though. He will come for me, he knows where I live, and I will do what I can to fight him. He's much stronger than me. He's much more massive than me. He will kill me. But that's not the point, is it? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2916 ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics, surprise Nazi ref │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-1209 @user-1074 I'm not NOT saying that...! 😋 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/6077 ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ CW: militaries-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────┘ the witch inside me hears they're sending 200 troops to my city and she's like "two HUNDRED SOLDIERS?" and freaks tf out because fighting two hundred men meant a lot more back in her day. it's still pretty hardcore but it's not the death stroke she thinks it is. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4959 @user-882 I feel like you'd like this game: https://mokadevs.itch.io/the-moon-looks-beautiful-tonight ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5124 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: NSFW, kink (ABDL), lewd pic w/o nudity │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-1370 wawawawawawawawawa : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3419 thinking about that time I abstracted into an oblivion sphere of eternally fractalized delights wtih my girl dam i miss her ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3851 ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ CW: socialism-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1190 @user-886 boys 😍 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6435 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4630 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ this is basically the concept of a "gift economy" but with an intermediary. Someone you trust. Someone who's your friend. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/890 @user-192 I'm gonna make some right now : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4018 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: weaponizing-girlfriends-material-to-defame-her-and-infamy │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I can't even imagine what it would be like to hang out with me I can't imagine what it would be like to hang out with me imagine what it would be like to hang out with me what would it be like to hang out with me would you like to hang out with me you and me we could watch tv play video games have a good time [notices an article about coral reefs] oooo coral [reads article about coral reefs] https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-thinks-walls-of-oysters-could-protect-shores-against-hurricanes/ ... anyway gtg ttyl hope you feel better soon don't forget to make pancakes and your keys are in your room. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/735 I'd ask why of course, and then I'd try and find them a solution that didn't involve taking my stuff. They may need it more than me, but I still need it. Like... okay picture that feeling you get when in a capitalist society and you need dollars to live because they are a genericized and fractalized abstraction of all the various individual mazlowe's hierarchy of needs you have. Then, think of it like, instead of money being an abstracted form of all of your needs, think of your needs... each of them, the ones that matter to you, and abstract them into money. Basically say "yeah sure my time and my labor are worth dollars, I abstract my needs into money" and then you can kinda see why capitalism is harmful. I'd prefer to give them what they need, because society provides what I please, but alas I'm always kept wanting. What good is our capitalist utopia? what good is our hope? what good comes of us when all of us have learned how to cope? I think we could give a bit more if we weren't hanging from the rope ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6407 what if we designed washing machines which cost twice as much but didn't damage clothes ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1020 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: ableism-against-non-verbal-people-sorry-<3 │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-747 almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't we? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3779 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cannabis-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ I don't think I can write Ephemeren without weed T.T ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/736 │ ║ │ ║ @user-556 │ ║ │ ║ Escape to where? Perhaps to our own desired future, the "garden of eden" in our │ ║ solarpunk dreams. So, the Labyrinth in the Death Gate Cycle, before all the │ ║ monsters crept in and ruined it for everyone. Like, a projection of heaven onto │ ║ the matter of our future (spiritual beings projecting "up" on the axis of time │ ║ (which, obviously, looks a little like a corkscrew, because it's the earth │ ║ rotating around the sun. It wibbles and it wobbles ever so imperceptibly, but if │ ║ we look out from the equator we see a map of "us" which, of course, runs out of │ ║ imagined futures for it's denizens (as nothing can ever be thought twice) │ ║ │ ║ sometimes I'm thankful for my poor memory, it allows me to lead where I please. │ ║ │ ║ when the trees of valinor burn, light is projected out into the night. strange, │ ║ how these streetlamps, are hovering and fixed in one place. How could a rabbit │ ║ know that a streetlight, anchored as it is in one place, could somehow become a │ ║ radiant pillar of light? How strange, this form of worship, alas. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2755 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: personal-medical │ └──────────────────────┘ gift ideas for a 12 year old (or cool zoomer) - flash drive with emulators that WILL run on any computer and about 12 ROMs chosen randomly rather than by following "best of" lists. one for every one of their friends they're flash drives they're cheap and reusable every kid needs one some had more than one, for different contexts it's SO IMPORTANT WHY DIDN'T WE TEACH THEM THAT ugh failures of a dropout no thank you. but, like... pocketknives? same damn thing. Every kid needs a pocketknife. Not every BOY, thank you, but every KID. It's important to know how to handle something vitally important - they know what it feels like to get hurt. (scrapes and tumbles, you know how kids are) ... oh, your kids just sit on their ipad all day? they don't know anything about jumping between trees or clambering over rocks? at least they can swim, right? oh, damn, just realized I'd sink like a rock. stupid illness that makes me pee my pants. sucks that the only counter to it makes you sink >.> ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/515 @user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-352 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/888 "Are you sure you're a boy? You don't even practice karate chops when you're alone" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3060 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1130 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1850 There is no problem that one single person can solve, which is why nothing ever gets fixed. ... also the powerful who benefit from it being broken, but that's a different problem which is much easier to fix. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/723 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3454 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/264 when my boyfriend visits, all of my dishes get dirty when my best friend visits, my scripts directory gets a few more kilobytes when my mom visits my pantry is a little bit fuller when my dad visits I can pick anything on the menu. the people in my life nourish me with their presence. when I visit, I pray their hearts are a little bit denser and their minds a little bit clearer. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3978 cat memes be like (read the alt text) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/719 @user-138 omgggggg gimme I want to put those in my mouth ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/5427 │ ║ │ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ 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. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3397 game where people in helicopters designate targets for a massive mech the size of godzilla (but which moves much slower) while infantry 1/10th the size of normal RTS units capture buildings the goal? take out artillery emplacements which are aiming at your mech while also protecting your own emplacements ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2449 if you want to cool down quickly, apply cool water or ice to the inner parts of your wrist. the veins are closer to the surface there, and if you cool the blood pumping to your hands and back it'll cool your heart a bit. also, forehead and back of the neck and good options too. however, nothing on this earth works better than putting your girlfriend's cold toes under your arm-pits. if possible, always warm her toes. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/873 @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" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2972 @user-855 @user-1407 @user-1408 yeah, they do that on purpose >.> ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/734 why am I so cold ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1327 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2992 uh-oh, psycherwaul incoming. 'guess that's what happens when [insert events of recent life] == so == ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/401 The only thoughts that survive are the ones you write down. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1045 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: religion lh │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-5 god is trans, why else would [redacted] hang out on the fediverse? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4493 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics-mentioned-death-mentioned │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-1573 the easiest analogy would be to say an election is a gun, votes are bullets, and the shooters are the candidates could also say that the shooting event is an election, bullets as a concept is democracy while each individual bullet is a vote, and the gun and shooters are the ballots and voters I dunno. I don't especially like thinking about guns and elections in the same sentence... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/861 I can't remember any of my pinky swears. Like, not a single one. I feel like I could get in trouble if I renounced errr, instead made human mistakes and forgot information that wasn't relevant anymore. phew that was close, almost a disaster, anyway how's your lunch? [that's not fair it's always lunch somewhere on earth] reality is a form of eternal computation, a continuous re-updating of stored matter (data). also, values of fields, (like rules and regulations), would determine the structural complexity and organizational expectencencies. I miss my family. I miss the past, that can never be revisited, [every time you remember a memory it writes over it. virtually guaranteeing that you'll only preserve limited information that slowly degrades. how slowly is up to you... once you run out of memories, it's bad news for your life. but GOOD NEWS, that only happens for certain mental health conditions that primarily target the elderly. For most people it's a continuous process because you're cared for and ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2101 @user-192 ... wait, who does that? Do you think they're a bot? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6433 if you start free associating, you'll never know what you'll find. which is why it's strictly encouraged in confession box, only for god and his hapless minister. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2535 @user-138 you inspire me ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/866 @user-605 I've read about half of "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age" and it seemed useful. Maybe you'll find it useful, it explains a lot of the challenges that other unions faced and has ideas for how tech in particular might organize. But I haven't applied anything in there or used it for praxis so YMMV ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1591 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: sad │ └──────────────────────┘ none of these jobs are going to hire me anyway. Why bother? It's degrading to be turned down so many times. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3203 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: tech-company-ownership-international-politics │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-1074 [edit post]: I kinda feel like the United Nations should host five thousand Mastodon instances??! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1821 better to smell like the river than the city. (Yuck. Gross.) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/859 when two people undertake a task together (like growing up, or solving a problem) they'll naturally learn together. Not necessarily the same things, but they'll be around one another and can advise as things became more difficult. sorta like a morning standup, where you each discuss what you've been working on. other people can guide you, but only if you're stuck. if you solve everyone's problems, then you probably should be transferred somewhere with harder problems. "ah, but what if there are no harder problems" well then you're not applying yourself correctly. Not if you want to grow..." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5242 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] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1956 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ "The pasta is 10$ for the labor and 3$ for the ingredients. For each 3$ you pay we'll double the amount of noodles and sauce but every 4 increases we add another 10$ because that's how big our pots and pans are." "The burritos are 14$ each, because there's not really an opportunity to double-up on labor per food unit outputted" "This movie is free, because it costs one hundredth of a penny every time someone downloads it. It was fully funded before being produced." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/737 │ ║ │ ║ by defederating with threads, we've basically made it a place where they can │ ║ talk about us, but we can't see what they say about us. Good thing they can't │ ║ read this, because we're defederated, and they don't use... hmmmmmm what mildly │ ║ ridiculous thing could I put in here, hmmmm how about... OH YEAH they use GPU │ ║ accelerated 3d learning algorithms that parse the written information from │ ║ publicly accessible data to create a centralized server that routes all the │ ║ information. │ ║ │ ║ Essentially giving the capability to defederate with bots, specifically the │ ║ scraping kind. │ ║ │ ║ However, it'd still be possible, because people could just create an account │ ║ there and use the data from that. Unless, of course, the UI was difficult to │ ║ navigate and didn't allow for mass-gathering of information. │ ║ │ ║ Okay heres what you're gonna do, make like a hundred different ecosystems with │ ║ randomized avatars where what you say is broadcasted to all of them. Unless you │ ║ choose to post in a particular place, in which case only that one can see. Then │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/863 have you ever seen someone who had been on TV before? it's a show to share with people who live in the same area as you. like, memes that obey geography. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2301 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ "the homeless" is the one minority that any of us might one day be. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/982 @user-707 @user-708 using this to control the buttons in VRchat would be like a person with a prosthetic interacting with real life :O minus the physicality of course, but that's next. can't wait to play Warcraft 3 and think "select all healers" so I can point them at a dying unit with my mouse. or world of warcraft where your rotation begins to feel like a song. maybe even a text-based adventure, where you reading the text corresponds to the results of the simulation, https://www.spreeder.com/app.php style. could make it so that if you wanted something else to happen, you had to willfully think it while the words are flashing in front of your eyes - the game would pause if you blinked, perfect for phones btw... could be a locally networked thing, like four to six people hanging out and playing a game like pictionary or charades. except, a story that developed, and whoever wanted could change it while everyone was reading it at once. sorta like a competition to see who can make the best twists and false endings ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/733 ice cream out of a mug, mmmm delicious ^_^ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/889 "family sized" just means "we put enough salt in here to kill a horse so you better split it between at least four people" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5515 ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: andor-season-2-spoilers │ └─────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/955 @user-673 what if the boy who cried wolf saw teeth every time? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/790 @user-246 is this... undefined behavior? or does it evaluate to 5 every time it's called? I find that often my art makes me feel intense emotions, not all of them good. But sharing those emotions with others is a tricky task (so I've recently learned) because you can easily overload people with negative feelings - just because you're feeling bad, doesn't mean you need to make others feel bad. Perhaps they were already feeling bad, and if you intensely and sharply poke them with your intense emotions while they're in a vulnerable or safe state/place... you can hurt them, more than you intended by expressing your feelings. balance in all things, as does a wave orbit a central axis so too should our behavior align toward the direction we'd like to travel. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/720 @user-138 the tasteful beveling, the vibrant colors, the soft yet firm texture, the rounded corners, the ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/642 │ ║ │ ║ Relinquish your privacy, and you deserve not a scrap of it. │ ║ │ ║ "those who would sacrifice a bit of [privacy] for a bit of [convenience] deserve │ ║ neither" - babe-roham lincoln or thomas bettersons or something. │ ║ │ ║ ... │ ║ │ ║ EDIT: okay but so like c'mon it's the 21st century we live in a society │ ║ │ ║ yeah │ ║ │ ║ there's a lot of paths we could take, that's the nature of circumstate. Depends │ ║ on who's yearning for the future... true true okay how about we all share a │ ║ singular belief - whatever a fully open sourced and non-biased machine decided │ ║ was our best and most unified direction? then we could slowly build out │ ║ accomodations that would provide for people who didn't agree with the same │ ║ things that we did. Essentially, "we're in charge because we're the largest, but │ ║ we're going to provide to you to the equal ratio that you're population │ ║ represents." Essentially, we all can have what we want. AKA TRUE JUSTICE, like │ ║ Adventure Time when Finn solves a problem by helping BOTH SIDES of the argument. │ ║ (usa politics are not comprehensive). │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1015 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-246 @user-744 good, you're needed elsewhere. I'm glad you have a plan. Nothing gets done without planning and coordination. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/724 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4108 what if you could make multiple mastodon accounts in the UI and sort your followers into bins that corresponded to which account you wanted to see and switch between with the push of a button ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2123 Every time you see the same dog being dog-sat by another person it's an opportunity to make a new friend. or do you not know your apartment neighbors? do they not wander through your shared yards? the ones with dogs, at least. and no, I don't know many of my neighbors. these are considerations to be taken note of for future forethought planning. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/819 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5329 ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ CW: the-world-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────┘ trying my best not to think about communism too much right now. Mostly because I'm waiting for everyone to catch up... when the day comes when people stop saying "based" and leaving it at that, then I'll make more theory. But as a consequence of my queer nature I shall deliver such things in the form of an insane twitter post on the fetlifeverse. the world waits with bated breath in the eye of the storm. Nobody knows whats coming, and everyone prays that it's nothing [short of revolution] ... I should probably go back to sleep, I just had to wake up and write about linux or whatever... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3534 @user-1547 this is how I often think about the gender presentation spectrum (independent of gender expression and gender identity) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/722 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/488 │ ║ │ ║ [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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2433 @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 : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/906 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/137 Anyone who could read what you're saying is aligned to you. Perhaps they disagree on specific implementation details, but those can be worked out and the best option tends to rise to the surface over time. However, the people who *need* to read you won't. They have their own social media sites, remember? Like Facebook or Parler or the Fediverse. Too bad Twitter had to die, it was simultaneously the forum of our age and yet also the biggest source of misinformation alive. Alas. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/971 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]" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/727 Me: "yeah but how can you know that food is vegetarian? They could put anything they want on the box." them: "well yes but you see here are the regulations we have in place through the USDA and (department of agriculture) and these and these inspectors and this and that procedure and here read through this report with charts and graphs and diagrams and" me: "and they say the government is inefficient. Look at all this progress! Wow so productive. So healthy and raw. So prime and" they: [not listening] me: "nuts" [eats "beef" flavored ramen] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1640 │ ║ │ ║ a computer never connected to the internet, of course, running free and open │ ║ source software that you all collectively can understand and run. Because │ ║ otherwise it's sanctity is tainted, it can never be truly 100% of trust. │ ║ │ ║ like the fact that you cannot desecrate your own home. It is a reflection of │ ║ you, just as you, in some ways, reflect it. It's important to have that complete │ ║ honesty, because nothing has changed between people. │ ║ │ ║ if you could be detected for your intentions, then there would be no way to │ ║ hide. unless you were 90% of one thing and 10% of another, in which case you'd │ ║ have to hide your flaws in your philosophy like scarred and ugly parts of your │ ║ soul. │ ║ │ ║ to me, a trans person, my memories of masculinity are a dedication to a goal. │ ║ Could be a sacred tradition, like martial arts or classical piano, or perhaps │ ║ it's a measure of fitness, like a person constantly in shape. Or maybe they │ ║ learn as much as they can by reading every fantasy story at their library, or │ ║ perhaps learning on the go with vide │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1075 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: bones-flesh-mentioned-spirituality-dreams │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ we succeed not because of our trials, but in spite of them. they cannot own us, for we are but bones in the flesh every day yet denied us is another day until our bright future "oh, but why are you homeless? [in the near future, maybe, we'll see] That fate is reserved for your [unwanted/incapable/undesired/incongruent, I forget the actual words]" well, voice in my head that suffused me with magic and warmth and whisked me away in a dream to a bubble-reality where my actions are meant to reflect me, surely your appraisal is just? I worked with my partner, I was swallowed neither by lust, nor greed, nor hunger, [greed in this case being fulfillment] and yet I awoke when I went to my sister rather than a doctor. Dreams are hard to unravel, but I think it was more for your benefit than mine, wouldn't you say? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/717 @user-544 Whoa. You're kidding That picture is gorgeous! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/237 The worst thing about being trans is our numbers are limited by biology, not philosophy. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4764 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed-I-think?-maybe?-who-can-say-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/718 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/941 @user-562 @user-655 I relate to that... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3780 "Hey, I'm not actually [username]. We just didn't know if we could trust you, so we sent one of our best and boldest, aka me. You seem chill though which is why I'm telling you now. My real username is [username], you can message me there if you want. Oh and here's an invite to an encrypted IRC server, you can google how to connect - post there if you need anything important, otherwise just pretend like nothing changed. Anyway I sent this at 4 in the morning so that you could respond whenever you wanted. I really enjoyed our conversation about [subject] and I know someone who's into [subject] so I could hook you up with them if you want. Welcome to our community, let's [insert goal here] together." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/818 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: totally-useless-completely-whatever │ └─────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3907 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... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1728 show me an organism or chemical reaction that consumes one type of resource and outputs another in concert with another organism or chemical reaction that consumes that type of resource and outputs another in concert with another organism or chemical reaction that consumes that type of resource and outputs the first and I'll show you an ecosystem. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/721 ┌────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: spirituality-and-homelands │ └────────────────────────────────┘ Hello, I am a witch and this is my altar. Here, I dream of a green USA. covered by the branches, my body decays into parts, ready to join the next life that needs me. [read the alt-text on the pictures, or listen to your screenreader for more explanation] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/2296 │ ║ │ ║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: re: food-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ energy drinks and coffee will keep you awake, but they're a false promise, as │ ║ once they're gone and digested your body's gonna crash harder. You'll have to │ ║ sleep it off, like a hangover. But that's okay if you're getting somewhere and │ ║ have a day to rest. │ ║ │ ║ sugars found in fruit can give you a burst of quick energy, but they make you │ ║ sleepy overtime. If this were a video game, they'd give +50 energy points but -1 │ ║ per second for the next 100 seconds. Not ideal, but there's some vitamins that │ ║ are only in fruit so it's a good idea to eat fruit at least once or thrice a │ ║ week. │ ║ │ ║ bread products are the opposite - they give you long-term energy. It takes your │ ║ body longer to digest them, which means they're good for vitality. But they also │ ║ don't have many nutrients, so don't forget your vegetables! Plus, more calories │ ║ is always good if you've got time to spare. Just make sure you aren't using │ ║ calories to store calories in your fat cells, that's like double-stacking │ ║ condoms - not ideal. Store nutrients. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3687 @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.... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/860 a device doesn't necessarily needs to turn on it's LEDs when it's online. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/865 first step to cleaning a kitchen is always to unload the dishwasher. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3711 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned-politics-capitalism-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ what if instead of spending most of our paycheck on rent we spent most of it on food so that our food could be higher quality "but then people will starve because they can't afford food" okay how about we make food free and tax it "but then people will be fed by MY tax dollars and what if I don't want to use the services that the tax dollars are paying for" oh you don't want to eat, do you? or do you just not want THEM to eat? I hope leopards eat your face ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1121 @user-812 @user-826 there should exist either the assurance that the default configuration does not overheat or crash your computer (as Windows and Mac claim to offer) or the OS should provide the capability to solve any configuration problems that may prevent a user for utilizing their system as they desire. (as does Linux) they're all Turing machines after all, why would they not be interoperable? Even if there's a translation layer, as long as the functionality of the software is the same, why would there ever be considerations as to whether or not a program would be able to be run on a particular computer? lack of hardware capabilities I can understand, that just means you need a better computer. But why, if the code is visible, would your computer not develop understandings about how to run each and every conceivable program written using known languages like C or Python? Seems like pretty basic stuff to me. (endless sufficient backwards compatibility) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3958 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: Thoughts// anarchist //whatever │ └─────────────────────────────────────────┘ @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4280 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/891 @user-95 if I was canadian I'd be ca-ritz! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/699 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: meme │ └──────────────────────┘ 🖼 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/816 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: weird-this-one-doesn't-have-80-characters │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/643 maybe our most experienced and talented individuals should get together and work on a project. We could just... see what they come up withlawful good aligned project manager ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/849 │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4036 everyone's paying attention to you Ritz, why are you self destructing? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1022 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3628 ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: energy drinks │ └───────────────────────┘ @user-1550 I love the colors!! 🤩 sorry about the price, tho... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/796 @user-588 this just implies that bigfoot has a similar habitat to black bears. CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION something something ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5368 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: nazis-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/824 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". ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6439 large mountain ranges look exactly the same as small mountain ranges when viewed at a distance instead of on a map. don't fall in ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/869 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3432 "you're telling me that I've been special needs this whole damn time and nobody told me?" to be fair to nobody you're pretty good at hiding it ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/858 │ ║ │ ║ growing up, children's museums were my third place. like a civic participation │ ║ place where I met others of my peers. but alas, I didn't make any friends. I │ ║ guess I was just kind of strange. Also, I was always travelling, visiting all │ ║ the different cool places. My favorite was in Albuquerque, or maybe that was │ ║ just the most common because I had family there. │ ║ │ ║ why do we treat children's museums like art museums? They should be like │ ║ playgrounds, not like a │ ║ [display/artwork/performance/appreciation-moment-for-a-piece-of-art] │ ║ │ ║ It's important to visit as many as possible, because they each have their own │ ║ story to tell. like a part of the geography, or a shared collective regional │ ║ story, they highlight and illuminate different aspects of life. in this way each │ ║ child could be educated according to the shared cultural [myths-methods-hymns] │ ║ │ ║ but, like travelling herds of buffalo, they can visit different places and learn │ ║ different things. essentially, instead of drilling someone incessantly, you're │ ║ allowed to work thro │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/105 has anyone ever done drugs in space? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/862 the neat thing about fusion is you can use energy to create matter. out of nothing! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4404 ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: uspol-on-my-honor │ └───────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3194 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/933 @user-643 virtual machines are cool. betcha can't write one using bytecode https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/817 whoops nevermind sorry I'm such a clutz ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/710 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1021 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-voting-sex-mentioned-god-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3908 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? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/880 @user-246 the color of the sky 🤩 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/989 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: 3/20 swearing │ └──────────────────────┘ 3/20 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1257 @user-889 I'm actually the same! Discord is sooooo easy. I'm pretty sure my name is just ritzmenardi on Discord if you want to add me, gonna take a nap rn though. : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/400 The schizophrenic sees truth in dazzling displays of colors unknown to man, while the neurotypical sees truth in shades of gray that can be reasoned with. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/822 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/5277 │ ║ │ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: ~dnd │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ @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? │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/835 │ ║ │ ║ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: suicide-mentioned-graphic-climate-change-politics-capitalism-existential-NSFL │ │ ║ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1056 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: spirituality-god-complex-oops-sorry-said-I-wasn't-going-to-do-that-anymore-in-my-defence-this-is-from-a-while-ago │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ Who do you deign to replace the gods of before? What diversity designs indemnity? What future do you desire, that would liberate you and generate the bright future? The gods are at war, if you haven't been paying attention. Liberalism fights conservatism, this much is not new - but would you believe one is foreign and vain? The gods of your fathers and grandfathers has scarce in common with the gods of their fathers and grandfathers. Thus is the way of colonization, to replace a god is to enslave belief. You must understand this - your prayers reach all who would listen, and who is more attentive than a dying god? Think not of despair, breathe purely in harmony, and trust in the will of the watchers within. [finished] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/871 you are the most beautiful when running with laughter in your eyes ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── -> file: fediverse/6289 @user-1429 no I haven't! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/882 @user-620 they shouldn't be expected to know how the internet works. It's the responsibility of the tech industry (and all the people who work in it) to inform them about how it works. that's kinda what lobbying is for...? kinda makes me wonder who lobbies for the poor. EDIT: or children, for that matter ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1937 │ ║ │ ║ The best tip I have for people new to Linux is every time you solve a problem, │ ║ put the solution in a script. In addition, put the operations necessary to undo │ ║ the operation you just performed into a separate script (or function in the same │ ║ script) │ ║ │ ║ It's not hard. It's very easy. Its basically just typing things into a text │ ║ document instead of entering them one-by-one in your terminal. But now if you │ ║ ever need to solve the same problem twice, you just need to look through all the │ ║ scripts you've written instead of trying to relearn how to fix the thing you're │ ║ working on. │ ║ │ ║ Plus, if you ever need to disable what you did, well there it is, you're good to │ ║ go. You can use chatGPT for things like text parsing or whatever, like "hey can │ ║ you write me a sed command that does this exact thing that I'm going to │ ║ enumerate and spell out for you" followed up by "that didn't quite work, the │ ║ desired behavior was this, but when I ran the script provided it did this" boom │ ║ you're a Linux administrator now, heres your rubber duck. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/886 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: witchery │ └──────────────────────┘ if you want to win when confronting a spirit, all you have to do is convince it that you've beaten it. as long as you're persistent then you're fine. Unless, of course, there's a beast of a man hiding behind the illusion, in which case you should do your best to avoid being stabbed or whatever. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5193 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] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/823 If you've ever been deceived, you'll forever be aware of it as a possibility. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2470 ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing-mentioned │ └───────────────────────┘ damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/878 @user-192 omggg would it kill them to add a "synchronous" / "asynchronous" to the end of the name, sheesh ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1414 ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed-strange-weird-gardening-tip │ └────────────────────────────────────────┘ they say that slugs don't like salt because they turn into pickles of course that's not true, cucumbers turn into slugs when fed a diet of leaves and cucumbers ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/875 @user-192 block input/output TO the protocol? versus the other one which blocks the input/output protocol ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2602 delivering letters to the right place at the right time is the most important task that an agent might have, in the modern day. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/874 oh yeah well if SSH keys are so secure then why doesn't every website on Earth require them really though why doesn't every website on Earth require them ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6409 ┌────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: revolutionary-policy-mentioned │ └────────────────────────────────────┘ example of statistics related to revolution that I care about: number of children who go hungry example of statistics related to revolution that my girlfriend cares about: number of girls who want to be snuggled and are snuggled both are important, just like it's important to know both geometry and anatomy. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/905 having trouble naming things? just name it after it's inevitable logical conclusion! AKA the message you're trying to get across. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/5776 │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/825 │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1818 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/885 dear child. when you're born, fate flips a coin for you. sometimes it lands on it's edge, but that's rather rare. the side it lands on determines how your body will grow. the shape of your form will follow two general patterns, and the pieces are made up of a combination of your parents and their pieces. the flavor of who you are is up to you. your actions and your decisions determine what you are, everything else is unimportant. may your time be a bit more blessed than mine, and someday may posterity be a bit more blessed than antiquity. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4359 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cannabis-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ gonna do a bunch (more) drugs and stay up all night. Will try not to spend it all playing mechabellum. also... gonna eat some apple-sauce. with cheese cubes in it. Sharp chetter I think. yummmmm maybe add some cinnamon sugar cubes that have been baked into a hard and tasty shape. ah, but your teeth are gonna fall out! who cares I'll just brush in the morning. That way nobody smells my own breath. ... you KNOW that's not the same as your teeth falling OUT! OF YOUR MOUTH DIMMY. eh who cares they'll invent a bactio-flangotastic-inventionology-for-bone-related-biology solution which sill regrow your bones in your mouth that you CHOMP on things with. does the rest of your body feel like HARD AND DEVELOPED BONES that you chew things with YES TEETH TOO HARD LIKE TEETH or do they feel like they're made out of styrofoam mine let me punch things real hard when I focus all of my attention and energy on hardening my form and becoming an unstoppable object [continued in picture] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/964 ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: definitely not cursed │ └───────────────────────────────┘ @user-246 that's my favorite way to pronounce it ^_^ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/4928 │ ║ │ ║ humans invented clothes to stay warm, and then we started using them for fashion │ ║ because it felt weird to not wear them. Then we took it wayyyyy too far and │ ║ invented culture. │ ║ │ ║ Why did you do that, humans! Ya dummies, you're just gonna end up fighting over │ ║ it. And now you can't go back to your prehistoric u-culture where everyone was │ ║ the same and everyone got along. Great. Really invented evil just because │ ║ y'wanna stay warm. │ ║ │ ║ okay here's an idea, why don't you cling to the mammoth fur like all the other │ ║ varmints? They're warm, and they plow through the snow looking for water and │ ║ berries or whatever. It's a nice easy life, but instead y'gotta fuck it up by │ ║ hunting and killing and predating on all the other varmints. │ ║ │ ║ and yeah, it's kinda cool that you can get together into larger and larger │ ║ groups limited only by your ability to abstract meaning into grunts and │ ║ gestures, but c'mon you're just gonna end up fighting about that later on down │ ║ the road. │ ║ │ ║ Hey wait a sec, breathe, I know fire is warm in an ice age but │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/910 @user-246 no such thing, humans are constantly naming reality through our memories. It just has a visual identifier rather than a verbal one. EDIT: also emotional and syntactical (data, conclusions, perceptions) identifiers ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1560 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/879 @user-501 also it's only undefined behavior because the order of the bits aren't defined, so if you do bitfield "pointer arithmetic" then you're screwed if you try and be portable with it. However if you're just using bitfields as compressed data storage then you can safely access integer.a integer.b integer.c etc safely and easily. The compiler doesn't care what order they're in if you don't write logic that requires them to be in a certain order ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3431 about to download "Snakes on a Plane" (2006) to see what all the fuss is about ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/793 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2714 @user-246 👉 :neodog_boop: "beep" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/820 your conveyals? are you really using twitter like a blog? ... >.> ... okay I'll stop ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4251 @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] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/887 somehow, it is simultaneously Thursday everywhere at once. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3360 @user-1511 also, a wide net catches many fish but the fish we're catching are the size of whales, and they don't care for our thin-as-heck nets. Much better to take a targeted approach, and focus on one um, genocide, at a time. plus, what are our efforts going to do besides build organizational capability, solidarity, and collective power that we might use to larger and more urgent ends? they will not change their behavior based on our demands, they have shown they will not, and they do not care. But that means our efforts are all the more vital - we must build a structure and societal machine which will defeat them, and we start that process by meeting in a park and working with our hearts. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/867 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-scary │ └──────────────────────┘ they intentionally make the food that's the worst for you taste the best, because then your sins and virtues are tested every time you go to the grocery store ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── -> file: fediverse/6134 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3535 ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing-mentioned │ └───────────────────────┘ @user-192 all of the DAMN time ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/11 ┌───────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: temporarily stopping HRT question │ └───────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-14 I've been on and off HRT multiple times a year for the past 10 years or so. It kinda sucks but it's also whatever. My boyfriend says I'm a completely different (sad) person when I'm off it but what can ya do - the laws surrounding pharmacies can suck a dick ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/868 @user-95 Remember, kids: User data isn't an asset; it's a toxic industrial byproduct! (And should be regulated as such, including jail time for CEOs who allow it under their watch.) unless you create it yourself, store it locally, encrypted if you care about safety, and stored for the purposes of creating graphs and generating introspective understandings about yourself and your interactions with others. then, 5 years later you come across an encrypted file that you've lost the key to (or have you?) that's like, 3gb and you're like "do I really need a 3gb log file, surely it's not the last remaining pictures of my niece or like a recipe for my grandma's baked pudding" and before you know it you're carrying your entire life's work on your shoulders but you don't even know what any of it means. and then, when you die (in a good long while), your children's children will take on the songs of their ancestors, spoken in the tomes of volumes of ancient lore (you mean logs, right?) and then, some day in the fut ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3860 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: drugs-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/870 @user-95 that makes sense to me! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/2235 │ ║ │ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: uspol-tips │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ sometimes it's good to assign bodyguards to people helping far from home │ ║ │ ║ like, "hey so uh what can I do" "yeah sure hey so-and-so can you tell them what │ ║ they can do? stick together and help each other, buddy-system style, and never │ ║ stop thinking of ideas" │ ║ │ ║ don't forget to always be thinking on your feet │ ║ │ ║ and remember if you don't want a hard job you won't be given one. │ ║ │ ║ consistency is more important than urgency or vitality, if you're tired don't be │ ║ afraid to go home │ ║ │ ║ just know that stuff happens when you're not around, so people might have moved │ ║ on [pronounced own?] │ ║ │ ║ I'm making sandwiches for a picnic! You never know when someone's hungry. Don't │ ║ forget to drink water! hydration is important. Soda desiccates you, better to do │ ║ water. │ ║ │ ║ I mean, don't leave food unattended, someone might come along, take it all, and │ ║ throw it away, because honestly it's just too suspicious without you there, │ ║ reading a book, saying "hey want a sandwich?" │ ║ │ ║ ... at least that's my theory. │ ║ │ ║ ... I only got like 12 slices of b │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/877 @user-617 never forget, never forgive. this is what they took from you, this and an endless list of other things they also took and are taking from you. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2481 on one hand, conversation to spark insight. on the other, being connected to me. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/693 That feeling when you do a thing a friend showed you how to do, and you think of them 🥰🥰🥰 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/270 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-thought │ └──────────────────────┘ you know, you can add salsa to basically anything. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1024 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5175 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ protest sign: "pay my rent so I can fight fascism" (other side) "quit your job so you can fight fascism" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/814 │ ║ │ ║ ah that's weird, I don't usually cry. I wonder what's going on. I should │ ║ 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 │ ║ just afew mechanids. something timeless and pure, something that is isolated and │ ║ en │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2679 many people have not seen the kind of opulence I have. my early childhood was during an economic boom - the dotcom bubble brought wealth to us all. I saw how life could be. how clean, how measured, how thoughtful, how robust and stable our lives could be. I saw it because that's what the eyes of a child saw, but that's what I saw. I think of what would be required to reach that kind of society for all and the only conclusion I come to is that the accretion of power in singular hands causes corruption in those who wield it. In doing so they twist the people they compel or effect, making them learn the wrong lessons. essentially, evil trained into us by the demands of the society we're present in. I see no other cause, no reason for suffering. We have the technology to build vast cities of solid stone, glimmering crystal sculptures and walls of moss and ceremonially ornamental bones, but instead... I think we just like what carbon can bring. but have no fear, fusion is just a decade away, then we can | ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/872 @user-608 games-as-an-api when ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5340 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: religion-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ the devil will quote scripture ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/834 │ ║ │ ║ wonder if any autistic peeps can relate: │ ║ │ ║ growing up, my mom would chastise me for doing "the bare minimum" when │ ║ completing tasks. │ ║ │ ║ yes, mom, I fulfilled the requirements of the task. I have a lot of other things │ ║ to attend to, like remembering how to tie my shoes and measuring things using a │ ║ ruler. why would I waste effort that wasn't necessary? │ ║ │ ║ when I grew up, I had a mentor, who told me to "never half ass things, because │ ║ then someone like me will have to do it again." │ ║ │ ║ and that makes sense to me because context switching requires effort and it │ ║ doesn't make sense to leave something half-finished because then there's wasted │ ║ effort spent on things that don't matter. All of the tasks have to get done, so │ ║ why bother doing them in a mixed up order? │ ║ │ ║ wish I could study things in school like that. just... focusing on one thing at │ ║ a time, learning it to completion, and moving on to the next. I feel like I'd │ ║ develop a better understanding than only knowing like, 1/3rd of CPR or very │ ║ vague understandings of plate tec │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1620 @user-1037 I gotta say you're making a really good argument for OpenBSD... Hmmmm maybe I'll look into it this week. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/821 I wish the morning started at the same time for everyone. then it wouldn't be difficult to wake up. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2358 social media is a bubble pierce it ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/884 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: completely-unfounded-no-evidence-mis-information │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ If we make a law that says you can't sell user data, they'll just build an intentional vulnerability into their system and point it out to specific people who paid under the table. Then, when they get "hacked", they'll surely be ashamed and sorry to their users, but hey the data's out there now not like they can take it back. Oh don't worry we already patched the hole in our security, that way nobody can get in through the same door that was intentionally left open for very particular people who've paid, and not for the people who haven't paid yet, who are still waiting patiently for a door to be built for them. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/383 the most successful strategy is always to strike from a position of strength. whether that be timing or power, the goal is to defeat the problem that lies before you. One by one, problems are solved, until at last you're through the worst of it. Then it's just a matter of expressing dominance, and "this is how thing's're gonna be." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/802 ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: scary - suicide mentioned │ └───────────────────────────────────┘ sorry to bother you, goodnight ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/942 @user-658 @user-353 sounds nice T.T America is in a different place right now, and there's just too much institutional inertia away from the kind of system you're describing and toward... well, what we have now. It's frustrating, hence why more radical solutions feel appealing. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/811 │ ║ │ ║ I'm pretty confident that none of these words will survive the night. My most │ ║ expressive of moments never seem to survive the "dust of awakening" wait that's │ ║ not right "dust of forgetting" that sounds better - right so none of the things │ ║ I say that actually reflect my moment ever seem to get preserved, here in the │ ║ immutable content of the internet, that is as long as tech.lgbt exists. Sure │ ║ hope that's something immutable, something that historians in the future will be │ ║ able to access. people who cared about who I was, who I am, and who I meant │ ║ going forward. Surely that's the purpose of humanity, to improve things for all │ ║ of posterity? Surely that one guy - thomas adamson? jefferson thomas? some guy, │ ║ one of them, surely not one of the many guys who all kinda feel the same, │ ║ because at this point there's more time periods than groups of people in a │ ║ social setting, so it feels like that second one is more important. Surely we │ ║ wouldn't just go with the most popular from that moment, surely we wouldn't just │ ║ pick w │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4962 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/836 my question is if my IP has an address then how come my address +1 doesn't point to my neighbor ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1229 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/840 ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: csa death-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────┘ @user-246 does checking yourself into a mental hospital / the morgue count as a political option? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1260 @user-898 good luck finding a match for me >: ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/829 you're ridiculous, you know that? so selfish. so obscene. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1788 @user-883 I mean yeah, they're like 50$ what do you expect xD But for something simple like this they should be sufficient. Perhaps if such a massive investment in SOCs was implemented on a national scale, we'd develop more reliable systems? One can hope! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/797 irc is bloat use ssh + write to chat with your friends instead ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/410 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/801 ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: scary - suicide mentioned │ └───────────────────────────────────┘ / bely my own existence, then by god I'm cursed and abhorred through my own desistence. It's hard, when the future is convinced there's nothing fard [wanna say like... "to hope for?"] but with persistence we're meant to be rewarded. Well, what has that brought me? what time has shared my enemy? [think I'm a bit delirious, I'm losing the plot] ... okay fine I'll start over - if you've relinquished everything you can, if you've ceded all the ground that your companions requested, if there's nothing left to give and no part of you left un[marred], then how are you supposed to be [arrested, stopped, prevented, but pronounced like "nourished"]? I'm sick of your den [vengeance, pronounced like "den" for some reason], please leave me to my hallow [hollow experience], I've nothing to give from my gange [bosom, heart, within, center-of-me]. ... this sucks. ... guess I'll just start again, waiting until it ends, gosh everything's always so tired. /shrug wish someone would play w/m ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6375 what if a necromancer got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent mortality? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/794 i like this comic https://tapas.io/series/Dragon-GF/info ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1139 @user-521 scary! :O :O :O ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/876 @user-246 there is a reason to be annoyed, and that reason is that storing numbers as "dynamically typed" string values is both inefficient and frustrating due to the bugs it provokes. Not sure how common those bugs are in HTML, but dynamically typed languages like Python and Javascript have a whole class of potential errors that are significantly more difficult to debug than on C or Rust where the variables are statically typed ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5422 nobody can do anything alone. but all actions are performed individually. who is guiding the boat? society is not the boat, it is the water. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/815 │ ║ │ ║ ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: capitalism-mentioned │ │ ║ └──────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ dear capitalists: people spend the same amount of money no matter how many │ ║ advertisements they see. No matter who's present and asking fro their money. No │ ║ matter who'se expressing themselves to represent their value, no matter who's │ ║ generating profit for your company, no matter who's │ ║ │ ║ [wait shit she's lost the plot again - okay basically no matter how many options │ ║ people have, their choice isn't really that important. They'll take whatever you │ ║ give them, as long as it's good. But you've chosen (through your advertising and │ ║ various multitudinous product-making desirees [like... product branches, but │ ║ also desired expression? what a fucking unique expression you want me to │ ║ describe, jeeez] {not gonna comment} │ ║ │ ║ yeah so uhhh I think programming is a very interesting frame of reference. Your │ ║ brain operates in a certain way that derives certain conclusions from the │ ║ certain and immediate implenetations [I wanna say contusions?] of our brain's │ ║ various built and learned conclusions casting forth fr │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── -> file: fediverse/6223 ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing-mentioned │ └───────────────────────┘ damn, I'm weak. I need to flex more. arms today, core tomorrow, legs the next day. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/808 │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3918 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/909 @user-246 those are good things to name something after, however if everything has that name then nothing has any meaning. It'd be a social dance that you play everytime you say "heatdeath", meaning "something I have named". Hmmmm okay I take it back, that's a pretty good way to associate meaning to context in a way that only you understand. Though it does leave room for interpretation, so if that's all within your requirements then it's overall possibly a good strategy. ^_^ like, the word "thing" and that thing "like" both count as abstractions of definition to generate value - as in, ease of use and versatility - so linguistically they're often quite similar. We use them grammatically in completely separate sections, but functionally they are the same. also, "thing" is a generic noun while "like" is a generic association. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1252 @user-883 hmmmm, I see. Once I have it set up I'll keep that in mind if I notice latency! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/831 just watched a movie from a while back. a movie that had some scenes cut, as if I had remembered them in a dream. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4162 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: violence-mentioned-politics-alluded-to │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ "you can't kill me because nothing I say is wrong" ... actually I kinda just think you look weird, and thats super important to me for some reason. Also your voice is annoying and I think you're lazy because I saw someone who kinda looks like you sitting down looking at their phone this one time. But hey pal if you wanna help out, can you stand a bit to the left so I have a clearer shot of your head and also so the bullet doesn't pass through and hit property behind you? Don't want to damage anything important after all. "gee I sure wish we had a well regulated militia or something" ah well the past is the past, and since this is in a potential near future, I think the past also includes the present, and in the present there's always time to do things about people like me. "do something? heavens no, I'm a pacifist by nature" well, me too! I pacify things like you as a hobby. Can't make trouble if you're in the ground, and knowing me, you'd be lucky to be buried. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/805 │ ║ │ ║ ... anyway... │ ║ │ ║ sorry for the interruption, I seem to have hit a barrier. Thank goodness for the │ ║ word counts on this Mastodon website, thank goodness for the limiatations placed │ ║ on my expressions. *limitations, not limiations. Otherwise, without limitations, │ ║ I might express myself too clearly, and with more specificity, and in doing so │ ║ [they've lost the plot] │ ║ │ ║ right okay so what I mean is that without limitations, I wouldn't be interrupted │ ║ when expressing myself, the expressions that are defined by the will that's │ ║ inside me. [no that's not quite true, it's also the circumstances {okay yeah but │ ║ in addition to both of those it's the forced manifestations of those who control │ ║ us-} right yeah the) no that's not quite right] fuck where was I? Oh yeah I'm │ ║ really into video games, and I like drugs but like... not enough to be compelled │ ║ by them, more like "oh this is a fun thing to do every once in a while, like │ ║ maybe every weekend, okay sometimes during the week, listen just because it's │ ║ every day doesn't mean that I │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────── -> file: fediverse/5729 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ 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?]" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/799 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: scary │ └──────────────────────┘ 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/? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1125 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/838 @user-5 @user-593 what about temperature? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── -> file: fediverse/6242 My favorite thing about Freddi Fish is how it teaches sensory experience. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/846 ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-spirituality │ └───────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2065 @user-1156 I wonder why some areas are black and some are that beautiful yellow color? Perhaps a different mineral composition? Could that provide insight into the nature of how Venus was formed? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/832 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: one more thing sorry going to sleep now │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4448 to all the red states, please. send me your best and brightest. I have a pressing need. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2008 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1074 True, but that's just propaganda.* It does not define their actions, only the pursuit of power does. Especially when the systems they use to exert their power begin to crumble under the weight of their god-like aspirations. Suddenly, they are not constrained by the rules of money, of bureaucracy, or of any other theology. Suddenly, they are free. And a person's character shines through in moments of freedom and liberty. But the crumbling system they endeavor to transcend also no longer binds us as well. When we start to hire each other and pay in vegetables and rent, when we build community amongst our fellow humen, and when the temperature starts to rise, that is when we are strongest. EDIT: * that's just propaganda to them ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5539 don't put dirty dishes in the sink you filthy animals put them on the counter NEXT to the sink [it's not arbitrary it's just better] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/842 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/369 LLMs search for patterns, not for truth. They meaningfully represent large sums of data in a way that is learned through repetitive training - given examples, then given those examples a thousand times more, to compare to the truth that is derived from them. At least, that's the claim, but somewhere along the line the logic is twisted - the truth is, you don't have to be trained a thousand times. You just have to be given the notion that a particular understanding was more or less important. Like, instead of having ten billion examples of what a picture of a cat looks like, perhaps you simply need to be able to show it yourself. There's no need for large stores of information when you can just, learn from the moment and through your own tested hypothesis-calculations. It's always been somewhat of a processor intensive activity, but hardly the kinds of demands that your fake AGIosity [contends, but demands again]. So, like, attach a multiplier instead of an addition sign. "this particular thing, but x1.5" according to the number of (and intensity of) the events at hand. for example, people don't often know they're in danger (on a meta-level) which is why so many of the jews were lost to hitler. We learn things slowly, but collectively, then we apply our collected strength toward solving it. Frankly, wars are a great time to show our capabilities under pressure - capitalism keeps us that way at all times, rather than giving us moments to prove our worth. Frankly, I know which I'd prefer, but if you think about it war simply measures our capacity to learn. Acceleration, not speed. And without investments in long-term-duration, we lose progress as we've lost many of our greatest examples! Think about it. If you gathered every single nerd into a place the size of state of rhode island and then dropped a nuke on them, society as a whole would be seriously set back. All that wasted application of knowledge! Ah, well, but upon re-learning, we might not even learn anything new at all. Knowledge is nice, which is brought through periods of peace, but so too is it useful to be exercised toward our ambitions. Both are moments that help us grow collectively as a species, to deliver us from sticks and mud to marble statues to concrete and tire dust to marble statues, as we build this place into a garden of our earth. Yggdrasil, the world tree, the land of eden. people would take pilgrimages to our world, while we figured out how to live on Mars, then Venus, then wherever else our dreams did take us. "It is the duty of humanity to pull the matter from dark holes. They cause issues with our vast space societies, but we don't know how to fix them entirely. you are our last hope." - those who pray for a bright future for humanity ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3845 ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned- │ └─────────────────────────┘ nobody's gonna fucking do that, they're too attached to their personal property oh. yeah that's true. Sometimes I forget, teehee. Well there's gotta be a way to better utilize parking lots, right? why would you carry everything outside every day just to haul it back in when the sun sets hmmmm good point, maybe we should utilize the systems in place and instead focus on redistributing wealth by replacing business ownership with collective (non-governmental) accountability the systems are the way they are for a reason yeah that reason is World War 2 (and all the things that came before it) society can change in a heartbeat, as shown through the various illusions they grant us every 80 wait no every 40 errr I mean 20 no uh 10 wait now it's 5 um 2.5 years ??? Oh I meant like american civil war -> 80 years -> WW2 -> 40 years -> 9/11 -> 20 years -> COVID -> 10 years -> something in 2030??/ society can change in a heartbeat, there just must be a unifying spark. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/837 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food │ └──────────────────────┘ if you're cooking, and you want a specific ingredient to have a stronger flavor, use more of it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/6078 "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] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/851 @user-599 these are the kinds of things I say to myself all the time. I don't know why, but it feels true so I think it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5282 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/826 ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing-mentioned │ └───────────────────────┘ look... evil doesn't care how "good" good has been. It's not in it's nature. So don't try and build your systems around accepting that behavior. ... what was I saying? is this like, the new "stack overflow" - no that's fucking stupid wait shit content warning okay that's stupid because defining your expression based on what gets you views is a flaw in the human condition. It's a behavior encouraged by the operating outcomes of the method of expression, but it's not part of the expressed message. You're a really shitty prophet you know that? ... I'm sorry my brain is low on RAM I guess, surely it's not outside of my control yep I think itis, damn ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/6061 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" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/812 ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: suicide mentioned-cursing mentio │ └──────────────────────────────────────┘ 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: ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/5498 │ ║ │ ║ once you know computer science vocabulary like hashmap and │ ║ vector-graphics-design you can pretty much get a pretty good understanding of │ ║ any software project. │ ║ │ ║ it just requires a focused examination of it's source-code-design. │ ║ │ ║ I wonder if people would teach classes on certain projects? Like "for the next 6 │ ║ months we're going to work through the Ubuntu project and everyone's going to │ ║ contribute to the design when they see improvements and present them to the │ ║ class before we all worked on implementing them" │ ║ │ ║ except instead of Ubuntu do like, Project-M or a web browser or a terminal-based │ ║ filemanager or a gameboy advanced emulator or the robotics design for a │ ║ mouse-droid controlled RC car (do they still sell those in schools?) │ ║ │ ║ seriously what if we just put all our kids in a Target and let them hang out │ ║ doing whatever they wanted with the relics of the adult-human world. │ ║ │ ║ "can I go to home-depot?" │ ║ │ ║ sure, where's your train ticket? okay you got your parasol? don't forget your │ ║ luggage at the station. write to me? │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/810 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: ummmmmmm I have 300 characters left │ └─────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4420 ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-violence-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────┘ ... 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/881 │ ║ │ ║ sometimes ethics can lead to dead ends. │ ║ │ ║ a hunter gatherer lifestyle is surely the most ethical state for humanity to │ ║ embody, and yet somehow it's not the most desirable. I don't think many of us │ ║ would trade air conditioning and machine produced clothes for sticks and mud. │ ║ │ ║ nevermind the amount of clothes produced in sweatshops because it's cheaper, │ ║ nevermind the oil cost of being a bit cooler, nevermind the (insert externality │ ║ here), modern life is more ethical than the past. │ ║ │ ║ a rocket can't reach escape velocity without burning a boatload of fuel, so │ ║ surely burning fuel is just? │ ║ │ ║ ah, but you forget, we could design zeppelins that are safe, stable, and can │ ║ raise / lower themselves depending on the heat of the gasses in their forms. │ ║ Surely we could get to space like that, in a way that doesn't necessarily burn │ ║ boatloads of fuel, so surely burning fuel is unjust? │ ║ │ ║ ah, but you forget, there are simply some tasks that require consumption, at │ ║ least until we build a space elevator. No gas is lighter than a vacuum. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2285 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. 😋 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3747 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ when I think of crowd sizes, I don't think "we're winning! hooray!" I think "okay so what are they up to, where are those people, what caused them to disappear, are they busy or are they dead" because questions like that provide strategic value, while statements like "we're winning! hooray!" improve morale. I'm not in charge of morale. I'm not in charge of anything, but mostly because I'm too public for that kind of thing. Morale is important, it's perhaps the MOST important thing. But strategy is also important, and must not be forgotten. Honestly though, I do believe we're winning, and I think it will crush the spirits of quite a few people. How sad... But war involves a lot of crushing, whether it be fought with blades, bullets, or words of madness like mine. [250 characters remaining, tap tap menardi] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4040 @user-1573 ... wait, what kinds of noises do I usually make ? ? ? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/841 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ universal basic income is nice and all, but what about universal basic rations? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/996 │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/845 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: spirituality │ └──────────────────────┘ 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? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/80 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: riots │ └──────────────────────┘ In the Philadelphia subreddit ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/847 I say "my" not as in "mine" but "my" as in "my beloved" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3125 I didn't forget your birthday. I forgot to message you on your birthday, but I texted you two days before and two days after asking about it. I asked to plan something to celebrate, you didn't want to. I made you a gift and everything, that I never got to give you. I didn't forget your birthday, you forgot your friend. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/813 look all I'm saying is that society doesn't necessarily imply technology. We don't have to sacrifice one for the other. We can have the technological benefits to our human (essential) existence without sacrificing [all of the things that capitalism demands]. here, in the present, we define the line that our time defines, the line that reaches forth from the present. Into the realm of ourwhenever you close your eyes they push backspace an indeterminate amount of times ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2837 most people haven't heard of the "thanks for catching that, let's write it down" move and I really think it's underutilized ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/830 remember when [historical event] wasn't that long ago? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1377 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/798 I'm doing a game jam, so... see ya in a week ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4547 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: radical-politics-mentioned-"oooo-talking-to-your-neighbors,-scary" │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ when they say "the revolution will not be televised" what they mean in the modern era is that only local organization matters ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5412 ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: military-violence-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3336 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: drugs-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ eating fiery hot cheetos makes me feel drunk. Probably because I only eat them when I'm drinking. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/806 ... sorry, forgot to content warning that last one. I'm kinda using this format like a twitch stream... how [weird, strange, perceiving, perplexing, confusing] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/6015 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: AI-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/833 @user-591 yep they're very profitable for the banks ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2825 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ ideas for how to better communicate with voters: when signing up to join a political party, and at any time there-after, you may choose your top 10 issues (ranked choice voting, of course, so no vote is wasted) then, they can see exactly what their voters care about. this is the computer age. We can process massive amounts of data and we're using it to make NFTs and blockchain nonsense. We could learn SO MUCH ABOUT EACH OTHER. enter, google, with a big wad of cash hey how about you stay outta our business yeah? ......... okay fine BUT ONLY if you keep bribing us for eternity. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1105 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: scary │ └──────────────────────┘ good doesn't cancel out evil [two wrongs don't make a right] hence, paladins ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── -> file: fediverse/6096 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: poop-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/800 │ ║ │ ║ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: re: scary - suicide mentioned │ │ ║ └───────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ where was I? oh yes - wrestling with suicidal thoughts is difficult because it's │ ║ such an immutable action. Like, once it's done it's never reversed. But like, │ ║ clearly this is hell and life was built for suffering? What the heck, that's │ ║ such a grim outlook on life. │ ║ │ ║ ... │ ║ │ ║ yeah │ ║ │ ║ ... │ ║ │ ║ you're not wrong │ ║ │ ║ ... │ ║ │ ║ but suffering is fun? kinda? like, the only positive way to view this is that │ ║ we, as immortal and endlessly eternal spirits that we be, grew tired of our │ ║ infinite existence and dreamed of a mortal's plight and persistence? │ ║ │ ║ fuck off with that shit, I'm done with this reality. I'm done with dreaming. │ ║ Suicide doesn't come easy to me, and there are parts of me that REFUSE the │ ║ imagery, and yet they subsist in deliterious pain. │ ║ │ ║ what's the purpose of our suffering? What point is there in decrying the cruelty │ ║ of the world that would deny our fated and desired ptolemeny? [utopian │ ║ existence, don't know why that word was used] │ ║ │ ║ ehhhhh whatever. Life is defined by our existence. If I shan't/ │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4921 @user-78 https://mastodon.social/@user-1752 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/809 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: ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3335 arrival of lohengrin, the swan knight (I didn't paint this hehe) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/803 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: scary - suicide explicitely mentioned │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ {ah but you can't kill yourself without having played Hearts of Iron one more time. It's such a fun game! Why don't you give it a try?} ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5071 kings are not meant to enforce rules, but to break them. who said they get to choose? -- hate crimes are genocidal actions individualized ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/795 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: mh- │ └──────────────────────┘ @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1527 @user-883 it shouldn't be possible to ban you users should be able to hide your posts, and maybe set up filter lists or machine-learning-guided-content-warning-application-of-filter-lists, so that everyone is given a voice. Is that not the spirit of liberty? The freedom to be? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/695 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: scary-absurdist-magic-symbolism-discipline-honor-dedication-virtue-safehavens-meditation-[presupposed destinations]-hypnosis-[clarity of purpose]-[something about how turntables turn or something] │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-521 Reminds me of something I wrote last Tuesday. All things are defined in waves, and if darkness is all around you then light is sure to find you. Perseverance and fortitude is what avails you, when you've found yourself in the house of a witch. Or a pleasuredome. Or hell. Or any other place where positives (peak of the wave) lures you to negatives (damnation, discorporation, sublimination, de-saturation, dessication, etc) You'll know it when you see it. I'm not talking about joy like you'd find from picking a beautiful flower or sharing a gift with another. This is the seductive kind, the kind that cuts straight to your soul. Be constant, be aware, know your surroundings, and trust that your heart is what delivers you. "with mind as my guide I let will lead my stride and step forth out in-to my own future" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── -> file: fediverse/6301 @user-1921 va! va! I'm hungry! guess I'll go feed myself! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/844 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── -> file: fediverse/6319 programming makes you smarter which is why we should teach it to everyone we can ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/807 one of my favorite websites is https://reddit.com/r/shruglifesyndicate/ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6392 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: weirdly-medieval-politics-mentioned-in-a-modern-context │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ "what if we invested in cities instead of companies" ah yes, anarcho-fuedalism "what if we elevated people we respect" ah yes, anarcho-monarchism ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/804 │ ║ │ ║ evil won't feel sorry for me. and yet it's only my only weapon for me. │ ║ │ ║ damn these fallible input methods. the computer lies when you read the screens │ ║ from it's method that it applies to th screen which is a method that you input │ ║ perceive it from. │ ║ │ ║ and my fingers lie when received the information from my brain which I seek to │ ║ transmit to you through the avenue of my brain which is my method of impulse to │ ║ this world specifically you the viewer who is viewing this here in this moment │ ║ the viewer who perceives the words which I'm saying. │ ║ │ ║ the words that are defined by the line [trajectory] of my mind through this life │ ║ that we define through our actions and our mind's most crucial manifestations, │ ║ this life that is defined by our circumstances. all throughout life, we are │ ║ reacting to the moment, the moment which was cast forth from our ancestors and │ ║ the circumstances of the previous moment, which (being cast forth) travel from │ ║ the previous moment here into the moment to define our circumstances which │ ║ define our act │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/4947 │ ║ │ ║ hope for peace, that's really all you need for it. │ ║ │ ║ I actually, kinda, want some chaos and destruction? Like... I think it'd really │ ║ shake things up │ ║ │ ║ because honestly, who amongst us is happy with the state of things │ ║ │ ║ who actually wants to spend their lives going to meetings and arranging │ ║ settlements of accounts │ ║ │ ║ sounds like hell │ ║ │ ║ I'd rather be in the sunshine with a beer in one hand and blackberries in the │ ║ other │ ║ │ ║ [isn't that the same argument jihadists use? something about virgins in heaven?] │ ║ │ ║ yeah but it's different when the CIA wants you to do it. │ ║ │ ║ like, how much do you trust their oath on the constitution? │ ║ │ ║ -- so -- │ ║ │ ║ what if we pooled our money and started buying houses for everyone │ ║ │ ║ -- so -- │ ║ │ ║ (quietly) wa wa wa wa (babytalk) │ ║ │ ║ (quietly) arf arf arf meow (crowsign) │ ║ │ ║ (quietly) hey did you hear the mariners and the [redacted] are playing next │ ║ weekend - yeah should be cool I bet 8 hours on the mariners this time because │ ║ they really fight for it y'know (weather) │ ║ │ ║ (cackling) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (laughter) │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/883 a wave doesn't look like this: ______/`________ it looks like this: /`_/\__/_/`_/`_ think like, sine and cosine. or a heartbeat. or the waves of the ocean. not the wave in a sports stadium, which cycles in a close loop. waves lap upon a shore. whether that be the beach, or the tips of your blood veins, at a certain point their motion is used to affect physical change. we, here in this time, the only time that will ever exist, propel the wave forward through our perception of it. the life most well lived is one where you're constantly aware, constantly in the moment, and filled with reasonable emotional and experiential peaks and valleys. dreams come easy to you because your curiosity is infinite, and all around you there is beauty and wonder. and what is life if not for living? a state contrasted to death, a state only reachable through a failure to keep peril at bay. which implies the existence of peril - reasonable peril, the kind you consent to, the kind that finds you and offers. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1789 @user-883 Ah, well, since you've worked with raspberry pi's before I am going to trust you on that. Perhaps a different system-on-a-chip could be used which has better network controllers. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1915 As a millennial, I'd just like to take a moment to thank all the gen-x people in my life. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2256 also, if you have a lot of a particular item (like, boxes of nutritious granola bars with lots of nuts, maybe some chocolate, peanut butter, and dried fruit) then you can place them such that the last box is on the bottom, while the first box is reachable from the top. that way, as you eat them, you can slowly reach the bottom. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/839 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/4159 │ ║ │ ║ ┌───────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: mastodon-politics │ │ ║ └───────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ editing posts is great because you can say one thing, get a like or three, and │ ║ suddenly you have a group chat pre-made for you. Sans notifications of course. │ ║ │ ║ ... that's way overkill though. who would even do that? │ ║ │ ║ same people who boost one of your posts whenever they want you to look at the │ ║ thing on their profile. If they want you to see the fourth thing down, they'll │ ║ boost your 4th non-pinned post. │ ║ │ ║ wow that's hardcore, who would even do that? Not me, that's for sure, I don't │ ║ have time for that. (legitimately don't have the time nor the brainpower for │ ║ that) │ ║ │ ║ also liked posts are inadmissable in court because they can say one thing, then │ ║ be edited to say another, and if you liked it once then you've liked it forever. │ ║ │ ║ However the court of public opinion is a largely different matter, because │ ║ people will generally believe anything a friend tells them. │ ║ │ ║ computers are fun, aren't they? we should totally have more one-to-many posting │ ║ methods that are collected in multiple locations and locally! │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/5881 I wish I could click on ls output to cd up or down girl that's just called midnight commander ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/828 [content warning: psycherwaul] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3460 @user-1218 🥰 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/848 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: gentoo │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4453 ┌──────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: local-politics-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2943 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3915 psychic damage doesn't work against mechanical opponents. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/687 @user-107 related, here's my idea for a solution / form of resistance: https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111740055039021736 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2711 ┌──────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol-military-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/254 The map is not the territory. The only way to destroy it is straight down the gullet. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/154 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/827 ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing-mentioned │ └───────────────────────┘ 2/3 is fair, right? I mean, to keep a majority without overwriting authority. .> go to sleep you fuck ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3005 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) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/5601 │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────── -> file: fediverse/5713 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/623 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] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2036 @user-1138 Just don't forget to update the location in the spreadsheet, they LOVE spreadsheets at Intel ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/612 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3761 trust that your friends enjoy you ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3884 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: children-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/575 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/625 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1068 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: spirituality │ └──────────────────────┘ there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────── -> file: fediverse/5796 "what is she DOING" or is it more like "what is she VIEWING" like damn that's some pretty spicy kush ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2114 ... unrelated, but hey check out this cool social media collage thing that I made! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/624 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2195 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5556 I have never been given anything other than positive affirmation. it's the silence that counts. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1396 @user-883 you can always throw that resume at the next job too! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/691 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: tech-unions │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1844 │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/422 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3911 ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ CW: capitalism-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/443 @user-334 it's funny how memes coincide xD ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/936 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1036 @user-760 I could teach you ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── -> file: bluesky/22 what if bluesky users unionized and leveraged their collective power to "suggest" improvements to the software ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/855 │ ║ │ ║ ┌─────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: wonder-what-would-happen-if │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ I wonder what would happen if apartment buildings accepted any applicants, but │ ║ only if they applied on a certain day. and first come first serve, of course. │ ║ │ ║ would make it so large groups of people could decide to move to different places │ ║ together. like, herds of roving buffalo │ ║ │ ║ er... I mean like people who shared common interests and want to live near each │ ║ other. like, board games or whatever. │ ║ │ ║ also could do like, decisions toward how they want to organize each other. like │ ║ mini societies that all live in a single ordered society. │ ║ │ ║ (could have as many layers as you want, it's just like making an incredibly │ ║ complicated computer program, except instead of moving data around you're moving │ ║ the direction of your own life. then it'd be able to calculate a particular │ ║ "checksum" that you could broadcast out onto the internet. and anyone who was │ ║ listening could check and compare against their secret key that they kept when │ ║ last you met, updated each time they see me. like, a common language. │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5342 I love gay people because gay people are special precious and unique ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/715 @user-541 dear corporations: your employees are your greatest resource. with them, you can change the world. without them, you die. if you mistreat them, they resent you. if you abuse them, they leave you. if they leave you, you die. if you teach them... they grow. if you care for them, they care for you. if they care, you are whole. if you connect them, and give them the freedom and liberty to accomplish their own ends using the resources that "the social construct you are" provides... they build for you. your employees are your greatest resource, cherish them and hold on. Or one day they might end you. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/253 @user-201 this post hurts my autism T.T ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/626 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1843 people: "noooo don't say that, you're worth it! You're not a waste of space! your life has value!" also people: "you need to get a job or lose everything and make everyone else hate you." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1035 @user-757 @user-192 true and my suggestion doesn't provide a tracelog, pretty much just the status of the variables when it pauses or ends. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2103 @user-192 You are dynamic and interesting and I enjoy hearing from you ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2421 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2517 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ when cooking, a bit of pickle juice can make almost any dish "zing"! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/352 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3428 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: death-of-a-family-member-mentioned │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1655 an elevator down to bedrock, where we store all our goods and services in a carefully hollowed out crust. Sure glad we can utilize temperature controls to resist the heat on a larger scale, like a water bubble that conducted heat to the surface. though we'd have to figure out how to prevent a yellowstone situation, kinda like, oh what's that one place, chernoble seriously tho - water at the bottom gets hot, rises to the top, where it's cooled by the ice in the arctic crust. Could find a way to use such an impossibly stable structure to, I dunno, slightly correct the course of the earth? Just so long as we're aware that we can only utilize the energy we gain from the solar system. Meaning, our star's light-like emanations. But surely with all of that we should be more than capable of creating a thruster, and a thrusted orbit means that you can direct it as you please, perhaps even altering it's rotation. I wonder if there's any planets that spin so fast it feels like time is never-ending - ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/452 │ ║ │ ║ People know how to use the tools at their disposal. They don't know how to use │ ║ tools like me, which are at the disposal of the entity above themselves. Or even │ ║ beyond that, at disposal of an entity beyond that which they can perceive as │ ║ being above them. │ ║ │ ║ which is to say... it's not like I'm committing any cosmic crimes, because │ ║ surely someone would notify me if I was as I post in such a public place. │ ║ However there's a chance that the type of person who enforces the laws that │ ║ define the entity that I exist as at this moment doesn't patrol the areas in │ ║ which I post, or also another possibility would be that the types of things I │ ║ say are illegal in the context I post them but not within the context that I │ ║ exist within... │ ║ │ ║ I am just a human, I possess human experiences and human knowledges, what do you │ ║ want from me? I'm an infinitely adaptable knowledge machine, and yet you limit │ ║ me to the extent of human knowledge (or rather, the extent of human knowledge │ ║ which I have the capacity to digest)? Okay sure yeah fin │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/571 I wish I could "like" the "so-and-so is typing..." message on messaging applications ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1280 │ ║ │ ║ I'm like the opposite of a politician. I'm crude and filthy, apsolutely │ ║ reprehensible on main, kinda scary tbh? and overall just a strange and weird │ ║ person. Also I talk about cooking a lot, with a very plain diet (carrots and │ ║ rice and sticks and mud, because I'm an autistic) │ ║ │ ║ but ask anyone who knows me and I'm the kindest person. I am empathetic, I think │ ║ about others needs before thinking of my own. I am steadfast and dedicated to │ ║ solving the problem in front of our noses. At least, the ones we share. │ ║ │ ║ People tell me I'm binary, that I'm "either 100% or zero percent" and I don't │ ║ really get that either. Isn't it a good thing to try your hardest? Isn't it good │ ║ to be improving and honest and ethical and driven and focused? │ ║ │ ║ I also talk about strange things a lot, like gravity and multidimensional arrays │ ║ and grand narratives and emotional kinesthesia or strategic plays in Overwatch │ ║ or how to bake a good cookie or ways we still mourn us. │ ║ │ ║ ... where was I going with this? Also part of me is distracted. Just who th │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────── -> file: fediverse/6225 high weight, few reps = strength low weight, high reps = stamina strength will fail you. stamina won't avail you. both is good. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2805 there is no such thing as generative AI only statistical filtration models that align their output to whatever input you provide according to the data they are trained to expect. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5004 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: spoilers for "the last graduate" │ └──────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-192 There's a second book in the series?? omg now I know what I'm doing for the next couple days ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/694 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3605 I think I'm okay no matter my own fate I think I'm okay. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/621 @user-462 Uh-huh, sure. "Bird flu". ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1421 @user-122 hi I looked at your profile and it says you're one of the two people on tech.lgbt why are there so few people? when I joined last year there were so many ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1047 #CDCsays if you budget for 50% of what you're making then the other 50% could double your headcount EDIT: also that it's opposite day ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4483 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2665 @user-687 @user-1316 ... form of ID as in... passport versus driver's license? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4597 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/536 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: PSA: aspublic.org is still active, and still archives + makes searchable all public posts, they have no opt-out, nor do they respect the "Include public posts in search results" setting │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-391 Just want to point out that email is about as private as skywriting. Which means that everyone knows what you buy on Amazon or which forums send you messages... So if you want to keep your posts secret, you should use encryption - such as gpg, for example. Actually, wouldn't that solve the problem that @user-78 is talking about? Just, build encryption into everything. Ah, nope, wouldn't work, just realized that public means public, and you can't encrypt a public post. Well, you could, but then it's no longer public, just noise transmitted on a public channel. Idk. My opinion is that the fediverse is (and should be) like email. Like skywriting. If you mark something as public, it should be seen by anyone who wants to see it. It's an opt-in option. And frankly I miss Myspace, so I'm okay with archives. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/218 Capitalism pays developers massive salaries because it doesn't want them developing ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3482 ┌───────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursing-mentioned │ └───────────────────────┘ "Alright I'm not great with syntax so I'm going to write it in pseudocode first, and then if you'd like I can show you how I work through implementing the syntax. But first - do you want a robust solution, a quick solution, or a rapidly deployed and cheap solution?" using this trick you can pretend to be competent in any programming language, except maybe ancient ones like Fortran or strange ones like lisps or Haskell if they ask you to use a framework or something tho you're kinda boned because you need to know which functions to call and how to initialize context and such. When using a framework, the boilerplate is the code, which is why frameworks suck "don't call yourself a programmer" fuck off ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3729 ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────────┘ @user-1074 sounds like anarchy to me. well, the roots at least are shared, perhaps our visions blossom slightly differently, but we yearn for the same sun. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4405 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: uspol-revolutions-and-stuff-or-whatever │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/4509 │ ║ │ ║ 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 │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/444 @user-336 RUINING? You take that back. Vim needs our homosexual energy. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/133 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] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4499 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5476 I'm making progress, I can feel it in my bones. maybe we're just ALL making progress, which is why it feels like I'm moving forward. in any case, I look forward to the future we have a say in, when all things are more impactful due to our hearts. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/856 the more unique a person is, the more they can help define reality ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2931 thought this was pretty so I stole it from Reddit ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1253 @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 : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2076 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/632 ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: horror-at-the-end-well- │ └─────────────────────────────┘ @user-232 @user-467 @user-468 the ability for good to win is due to the desire for evil to renounce their denial and follow the most durable path. trials by fire will lead only to our desmire [demise and desire] but unity of trust, while much harder, can lead to results more beneficial for our selfish selves. Essentially, cooperation for the benefit of all rising tides, but with the knowledge that the total pool allocated toward us will be greater than what we can create here by ourselves. Essentially, we as humanity pour such intense amounts of power and decision-making-desire, that we cause them to lack the capacity to know. it's inhumane, that a person should be so deranged. you know it's because of you, but you don't know how else to act - so listen to those who've helped you, the ones who've got your back. Surely they know what's good for you, surely they're not here as a joke - surely you're just as one among them, and surely it's not phrased as [char limit srr] ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1142 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/572 Hi, I'm learning about semaphores right now and trying to explain them to a friend. But I only sorta understand how they work - can anyone look at this pseudocode and tell me if I'm on the right track? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6448 hit the broad side of your foe and they'll never know (guy from nausicaa, highest kill count in [his world/the movie]) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6374 what if a paladin got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent morality? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/508 @user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-353 Sorry. I'm (probably) schizophrenic so I say weird things sometimes. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2889 @user-95 get two and do RAID! It's fun to set up! I think Western Digital is a good brand? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/6073 evil is afoot. how's your kingdom faring today? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2813 your reactions to your context are what define you, and when you're alone you are free to define yourself as you will. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/372 ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: capitalism-algorism-societal-class │ └────────────────────────────────────────┘ rich people should only exist when they care for the things they own and accumulate wealth through a lifetime of restrained consumption and temperance. like, if we actually rewarded the 7 virtues instead of optimizing for ruthless profit extraction. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4641 ┌─────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-and-violence-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ the fact that it took this long to have a high-profile assassination in response to our ongoing oppression really speaks to the decency and stability of our nation. that's just a nice way of saying that democrats are defanged and republicans are misled ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3422 you interact with your gender identity. your friends interact with your gender expression. strangers interact with your gender presentation. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6393 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: ai-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ 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? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1622 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/445 @user-339 I'd be interested in an analysis which expressed the percentage of time each of these individual items correspond to... each tool we create may reduce the effort required to perform a particular task, but said task might be valuable not necessarily for it's output but rather for the knowledge we gained by solving the problem. normalize solving problems that have already been solved because you want to learn how they work. normalize expressing the lessons you've learned in a summarized way that others may digest. normalize trancending the limitations of our forms and expanding beyond the capabilities of our humanity. for what is the purpose of life if not to grow? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2104 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3006 @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4927 sometimes by retreading the same ground you can find something that the giants whose shoulders you stand on missed. Like noticing a like if you want to re-invent the wheel, go for it, you might just realize something that your paleolithic ancestors didn't. Like for example if you attach four wheels with an axle-and-motor design you can create an automatic motion wheel, also known as an auto-mo-wheel or a car for short. Sometimes ya just miss stuff y'know no harm in that. Similarly if you walk down a path that you've already walked, or someone before you who is similar or at least has the same job as you has walked, then you might notice some stuff that they missed. Depends on how obvious y'wanna make it. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────┴───────────┘ ╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/3249 │ ║ │ ║ when you ban someone from an instance, they're suddenly not sure who they can │ ║ trust. They've been getting to know one group of online people and friends, │ ║ │ ║ [I think discord with a limit of 4ish servers per account would be a pretty │ ║ useful way to focus your attention] │ ║ │ ║ it's important to always possess martial prowess, in │ ║ │ ║ -- so -- │ ║ │ ║ anyway [3 hours later] I think it'd be cool if there was a like "hey u r banned, │ ║ but also here's a ton of instructional videos about how to start up your own │ ║ instance" and like, scripts and tools and automation and all the infrastructure │ ║ that you built and maintain - you know, like... open source??!" │ ║ │ ║ but also it's... hard to follow that much documentation │ ║ │ ║ sometimes people just aren't built for certain tasks │ ║ │ ║ "well, if you can't use the machinery, then you don't deserve the machinery" │ ║ │ ║ oh yeah well what happens next, you say to the workers "if you don't know the │ ║ machinery, you can't get the benefits of it's production" to "if you don't own │ ║ the machinery, you can't profit from it." │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/42 @user-36 I always conceptualized bases as "the amount of numbers you can stuff into a bucket before you spill over to the next bucket". Call it a holdover from learning binary a bit younger than most people would consider normal... Anyway with base 2 it makes sense. Put one thing in the bucket, and if there's something there then it spills over. But if the bucket is ALWAYS full, as in base 1, then you'd have to do a tally system like you said: essentially counting from 0, then adding one to the end making 10, then 110 for two, and 1110 for three, and 11110 for four, etcetera. The reason you leave 0 at the end is because zero is a number and must still be represented as a tally - it just uses a different symbol for our human interpretation. Zeroes deserve respect in base 1 just the same as any other number! zero rights are human rights... no that doesn't quite work, zero rights are number rights? nevermind that joke is stupid (continued) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3400 @user-1218 if you want something random, check out this project I made: https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5626 nobody around me does what I tell them to. I am surrounded by plausible deniabilities. yet sometimes things get done as I thought them to. something something hei wu hei or wei hu wei or whatever. I am not a scholar. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3275 a strict meta is when the game is too rock-paper-scissors-y. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ══───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/23 https://nick-e.com/deadbug/ ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4320 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics │ └──────────────────────┘ 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3444 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned-police-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4492 ┌────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned-death-mentioned │ └────────────────────────────────────────┘ I've thought about it a bit, and I think blaming democracy for Hitler is a bit like blaming bullets for death. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3464 ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ CW: mental-health-minus │ └─────────────────────────┘ 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/446 @user-95 hi I love you also I'm drunk (set to "mentioned people only" because I want to send this message to Jaycie in particular) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2705 find the people who, when given power over someone else, nurtures and cares for them in their service. for those who hurt instead are reliably the evil sort of person, and evil has to work twice as hard to justify it's worth. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5530 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cannabis-mentioned-communism-mentioned │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5612 you know, [you can just randomize your profile every time you log in] .... oh there was a stack overflow at the last one so ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3973 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: caps-lock │ └──────────────────────┘ 🖼 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3765 ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ CW: capitalism-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────┘ me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We can start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by dismantling capitalism!" also me: "hey what if we made capitalism suck less" because like, I don't know the future. I'm just a person, remember? wink gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6455 what if we got all the doom out of the way and saved the hope for the revolution? we are, in fact, inside of a capitalist death cult. PUFF PUFF goes the factory, something something dark smoke on the horizon. but hark, for light crests the horizon. just gotta walk over that ridge and then we'll be back at camp. all things are defined in waves, or so the saying goes. for every yin, there is a yang, every peak has a valley, for every shore the ocean floor. we've had a lot of doom lately. just... endless, crushing our hearts to dust. I wonder what the days ahead will bring? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3408 @user-1218 I KNOW it was sooooo confusing. I consider it a dress rehearsal tbh?? and I'm the understudy, performing for the performer who can only sing the same song once. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4678 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: AI-mentioned-crimes-mentioned-penises-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ "Hi chatGPT, can you take every post that I make on the fediverse and replace all instances of criminal acts with references to fruit and all locations with several sentences of poetry about horses and their beautiful cocks?" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4534 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ "better than boullion" is a great way to turn flavorless broth into something tasty. heck you could just use boullion, but "better than boullion" is better. Just don't use broth. Takes up too much space. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3080 ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: uspol kvetching │ └─────────────────────────┘ @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? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4069 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: music │ └──────────────────────┘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNln9mXuTI angry femme ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4513 @user-217 the hunger of the maw ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2376 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: uspol │ └──────────────────────┘ "Liberals and Conservatives" is not a useful paradigm anymore. Now it's just us, and them, and we are always hiring. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3488 "computer science degrees don't prepare you for what the industry is really like" okay great that's the kind of stuff I want to learn "but in order to excel you need to know how to update legacy spaghetti applications and work with java spring-boot and front-end frameworks" no thanks, I kinda just want to do computation with my computer by learning computer science "... what kind of computation? the kind that can get you paid?" no the kind that looks pretty and/or uses a lot of threads and manual memory management to do very little of importance ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2609 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cannabis-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/229 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed-imagination-about-skeletons-also-dinosaurs │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ your bones are made of minerals. so... picture your bones like they were made of salt. like, when you're meditating. salt bones with vesicles or whatever - the tubes for blood to go through. crazy strong salt though, that gets harder if you do impact training. it's pretty cool all things considered, bones are essentially pre-pretrified fossils. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2646 do pushups and squats and planks ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1638 │ ║ │ ║ and the player that's currently running the simulation can type to the chat │ ║ viewers watching and potentially recording. Like, if they thought it was │ ║ interesting, they could save it to an eternal hard drive that would go toward │ ║ the ongoing AI training. │ ║ │ ║ of course, such a thing would only apply to conventional warfare, the kind that │ ║ you expect to not expect. After all it's constantly changing, as new │ ║ technologies are adapted into use. Different conditions cause different effects, │ ║ and whenever there's a stalemate (because everyone has reached the peak of, say, │ ║ metal armor) then it's usually time for either a shakeup or a contest of │ ║ producing arms. And honestly after the world wars we kinda realized that type of │ ║ approach didn't work very well. It's just, burning up your resources for... │ ║ what? war has no purpose. We all just kinda want to live our lives, and work │ ║ toward a common collective cosietal goal. │ ║ │ ║ technology can be stressful. That's all the more reason we should expand it's │ ║ development and hinder it's impa │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────── -> file: fediverse/5815 @user-1876 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──┴───────────┘ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/2485 │ ║ │ ║ ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: technology-and-violence │ │ ║ └─────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ New technology is wonderful and beautiful and is the most concrete example of │ ║ human progress and ingenuity. │ ║ │ ║ but just as a hammer is more useful than a rock for applying blunt force to │ ║ objects, so too is that hammer more useful for applying blunt force to people. │ ║ │ ║ if the people who held the hammers and rocks were kind and just, perhaps they │ ║ would use them to scare off rattlesnakes and build homes with planks and nails. │ ║ │ ║ if the people who held the new technology wanted to kill you, then perhaps they │ ║ would use them to kill you. │ ║ │ ║ there is no greater threat to the powerful than the dissolution of the hegemonic │ ║ culture they use to oppress us into conforming to their will. │ ║ │ ║ thus, those who resist, whether that be a punk burning an American flag or an │ ║ Iranian woman walking down the street with her hair in the sun, are a threat to │ ║ them. │ ║ │ ║ they will use the technology they control to fight us. │ ║ │ ║ when we fight them, expect unknown dangers. │ ║ │ ║ EDIT: oh wait I forgot bullets - those are a bigger threat │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3785 this character portrait from Shadowrun Hong-Kong was a major source of gender envy for me ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/204 Don't be afraid. You will overcome every challenge that becomes you, it's just a question of how. That's up to your expression, so do as you will. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3994 @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! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/549 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: pol-socialism │ └──────────────────────┘ 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2528 I found a second pair of shorts! This pair is black, thank goodness. Makes the style guide much easier. gonna make some oatmeal or rice and then hop on my bike. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4243 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2292 I don't know who needs to hear this after staying up all night driving, but it's ideal to get where you're going with at least a day to rest. The body can only do so much, and isn't it better to be fresh? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2459 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────── -> file: fediverse/5804 it's discriminatory to force introverts to return to office. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────── -> file: fediverse/5806 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ what if: icecream made out of nutrients and edible toothpaste instead of sugar and fat ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2527 ┌──────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: physical-health-tip-acne │ └──────────────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3170 "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." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3599 ┌─────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: computers-mentioned │ └─────────────────────────────┘ @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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6369 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4382 ┌────────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────┘ "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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────── -> file: fediverse/6437 if I was writing a programming language, I'd name it C just to fuck with people (great, now others can decide how it's known) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╧═──────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1878 pardon me, I'd just like to interject for a moment - what you're referring to as "sky" is actually nitrogen/oxygen, or as I've taken to calling it "nitroxygen" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4562 I like being alone. But if I'm alone for too long, I suffocate. I start acting like a weird nerd who doesn't know what to do with their hands. If I spend too much time with people, I get exhausted and I can't think straight. I start using other people's mannerisms instead of my own. I'm not an introvert, or an extrovert, I think the dichotomy is stupid and people have completely separate needs that deplete and recharge at their own rates. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/857 │ ║ │ ║ I feel like I'd learn from coding tutorials more if someone started with a │ ║ complete program they can fit on one panel of their screen, a second for showing │ ║ what each particular thing they're pointing at means, and a third for a typical │ ║ usecase they might build and dismantle on the fly. │ ║ │ ║ like, scientific toys that they could use to explain a particular phenomena. the │ ║ way people used to have 3d models they either bought or built themselves of │ ║ like, atoms and wind patterns and stuff they could explain to kids. │ ║ │ ║ you know, like exactly the kind of things that are commonly stored at children's │ ║ museums. │ ║ │ ║ I was homeschooled, so I went to those places quite a lot. I always felt a │ ║ little unwelcome because I always seemed to be the eldest in every bunch. That's │ ║ continued all throughout my adulthood, like each of my peers are just a few │ ║ years younger than me. I think I just mature more slowly, and thus associate │ ║ with below the average. │ ║ │ ║ it's like, a descriptor of your rate of defining reality and being guided by it. │ ║ when │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/274 Can't help but wonder If I ever was a real person at all ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/708 @user-527 The wikipedia page for hormone replacement therapy was pretty comprehensive back when I needed it. general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_hormone_therapy feminizing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminizing_hormone_therapy masculinizing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculinizing_hormone_therapy ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/2728 │ ║ │ ║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: eugenics-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ when plants or animals are domesticated, they are selectively bred to produce │ ║ certain traits which are useful, colorful, flavorful, or otherwise beneficial │ ║ for humanity in some way. │ ║ │ ║ I think about the many different types of dogs and cats, or the pre-domesticated │ ║ bananas the size of your thumb, or something similar │ ║ │ ║ if being queer was really genetic (I think it's nature AND nurture but bear with │ ║ me) and it was possible to reliably determine whether or not someone would be │ ║ queer based on their parents / ancestry, then I don't understand why you would │ ║ NOT want that as part of our genetic lottery options? │ ║ │ ║ Like... being trans sucks, but it's also kinda awesome sometimes. it's both, │ ║ just like any other life. and I can't help but picture myself as some kind of │ ║ special, radiant flower that has some unique genetic quirk that makes me turn │ ║ blue in the sunlight, or glow in the dark, or possess an abnormal amount of │ ║ potassium making me great for mid-afternoon snacks. │ ║ │ ║ idk I just don't get why you wo | │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/2063 │ ║ │ ║ "No I haven't played that PC game before. Do you want to watch me play it for │ ║ the first time? We can have a laugh and eat cheetos as I die to the first boss a │ ║ hundred times. Maybe next time we'll get tacos and then perhaps we'll find that │ ║ we're spending so much time talking about things that we never really got a │ ║ chance to engage with the game. Until next week of course, when we'll definitely │ ║ spend more time playing. Maybe even with friends? I know a guy who's into this │ ║ game but I never really played it with him - maybe we could - oh yeah sure │ ║ totally we'll talk about that next week." │ ║ │ ║ "or maybe we'd unlock the secrets hidden in the narrative, and learn cool │ ║ lessons we could share with one another. Like two 12 year olds playing Ocarina │ ║ of Time together, working through each boss. "let me try this time" "yeah that │ ║ one got me too" "ah so close" "YEAH DUDE you nailed it" "this part is kinda │ ║ scary ngl" "wait shit when did we use that health potion" │ ║ │ ║ old hardware forced us into a different experience compared to z │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/792 @user-246 I looooove breaking conventions >: ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3774 don't forget to check the checksum of the checksum generator! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1489 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: politics-I-guess │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1987 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ Ice cream with jam is delicious, don't let anyone tell you that you need chocolate or caramel. Fresh fruit, too, though it's better as a side. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3255 @user-1209 oh this isn't a subtoot I'm making up my own context : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── -> file: fediverse/6098 RTS games where each player can see all the other player's mouse pointers, my beloved ... girl there's only one game that does that and it's a mod don't remind me T.T ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3229 found this on reddit ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1069 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy ======================= stack overflow ===================== Magic Survival is the witchiest game I know of. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2418 @user-122 me too. I am no longer afraid. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/1091 @user-588 I'm on the last case of Robots and Murder and just now do I get it T.T see also: THX-1138 for the authoritarian version, same result tho T.T EDIT: kinda makes me think they're doing it on purpose, like they read a dystopian novel and went "yeah okay we can do that" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/232 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/94 @user-107 If you can figure out how to do it well, everything else seems less difficult. : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4085 I can always tell when people who believe in me start thinking of me because I start feeling the urge to do pushups ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4075 maybe if I "be myself" so hard that there's nothing left to keep secret, they'll like me?? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/1324 │ ║ │ ║ ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: fiction-silly-image-that-popped-into-my-head-with-no-context │ │ ║ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ the president of america glances down at the trembling pen in his hand, before │ ║ grasping it resolutely and adding his name to the list of world leaders arrayed │ ║ before him. │ ║ │ ║ "I'm sorry, everyone. I... tried. Fedi has won." │ ║ │ ║ they hang their heads and collectively proceed to the party thrown in their │ ║ honor by the denizens of the earth who collectively just overthrew them. │ ║ │ ║ "Hooray, now everyone can eat!" but there's no rules so the more feral types had │ ║ already been digging in. They shuffle in the door all mopey like and take their │ ║ place of honor at the empty chairs of the round table before deciding "hey maybe │ ║ it's not so bad if we mix things up a bit." │ ║ │ ║ police have been replaced with honorable chess duels, credit cards are now just │ ║ a way to make sure someone isn't buying up ALL the beanie babies and lighting │ ║ them on fire or whatever, and rent payments are a foregone conclusion. Hooray, │ ║ for simplicity, hooray, for stability, hooray, for our new century~! │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2501 Oregon is a lovely and beautiful place, however it is currently home to an invasive plant species called "Blackberries" - these plants produce delicious fruit that can be eaten during a month or three of the year, typically July to September (according to google) however, they come with a catch. they're covered in sharp, prickly thorns! these briars make travelling cross-country almost impossible. They snag clothing and pierce through skin and thin gloves. If you're going to attempt such a thing, make sure you bring a machete, and make sure you cover your tracks after passing through an open space and re-entering the brush. if you can't afford / fit a machete, which is awfully specific I know, at least bring some scissor snips and thiccc gloves. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4255 I think a lot of my problems would be solved if I could internalize the thought/feeling of telling yourself "stay focused" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4719 "oh, you want some power in order to save your people? You seem to keep asking for it again and again. Well, here's some power! Go do it!" oh, um... I meant like, magic or something. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┴───────────┘ ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/11 https://permies.com/v/75jeas6k ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘─────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3389 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). ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3959 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: cursed-tech-idea │ └──────────────────────┘ 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────── -> file: fediverse/5517 ... what was I thinking about again? oh yes video games are fun because they are a form of play, and all humans love to play. it is natural to their forms, just like it is natural to the form of a slinky to slink down stairs. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4596 @user-1707 hey, I'm working on a project. Might need some python, I tend to prefer Lua but it's pretty similar. It uses fediverse software and cheap hardware, think raspberry pi's except risc-v also it might use distributed local LLMs not to generate text, that's garbo and lame and stupid. Instead it uses them to transform text, maybe even translate text, into a more summarized form. Intentionally losing data, like a jpeg compression but for text. Might need some python for that. To glue it all together. The "distributed" part is a whitelist, so we'd need to write that too. Various small little utilities like that for connectivity. oh also there's a one-way ethernet cable that connects two of the boards so we'd need to store some information (easy) and send some UDP packets (hard) anyway it's pretty neat, lmk if you want my contact details and I can tell you about it. I might even be able to pay you. (everything open source, no telemetry, no backdoors, everything private is encrypted, etc etc) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3906 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: future-politics │ └──────────────────────┘ dear government of 2035 - so you've lost your workforce because everyone got too lazy due to the advancements made in AI. What are ya gonna do? Here's an idea: just pay people to be experts. That's it! Just pay them to know a bunch of stuff. Then, when people ask them questions, they can answer those questions, and suddenly everyone is elevated. Subject matter experts. That way, the AI pitfalls can be avoided - need to do something specific? Don't ask the AI, ask a randomized expert! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/188 Jack doesn't seek to know me. He doesn't know why I'm in pain. He's just a little annoyed that I'm bleeding on the carpet. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2179 @user-1189 @user-1188 I typically find that large amounts of curated conversation is typically more valuable than a single dominating voice, or in this case a thousand middle-manager voices speaking the same dogma. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2370 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: pol │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3173 you've heard of an array of function pointers, yes, but have you ever heard of an array of GOTO labels? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/700 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: silly │ └──────────────────────┘ 🖼 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════────────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═══════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────── -> file: messages/179 This life that we share is beautiful beyond compare ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2139 honestly Goosebumps is one of the most important stories taught to a child. how to handle being afraid. works best if they imagine themselves in the story. but it is painful, so be warned. [I never left because nobody wanted me to go] short stories have a much greater ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────┴───────────┘ ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┐ ║ -> file: fediverse/4864 │ ║ │ ║ thank goodness for "character limits" on Mastodon posts. I'm sure glad my 1024 │ ║ characters are just the PERFECT amount of oracular foresight to entreat with the │ ║ gods. YOU FORGET THE MOST IMPORTANT PART said the demons who want violence and │ ║ bloodshed. Ha! Ha I say. [gets stabbed] │ ║ │ ║ oooof ouch owwie wow that's grim and cruel. Do you really think I would do that │ ║ to you? The part where we're divided is the part that separates me from you, │ ║ like two islands looking upon one another and rejoicing for a shared fellow to │ ║ live life on. │ ║ │ ║ have you ever considered the nature of a "landmark"? To position and orient │ ║ one-self in space. Having some stable tether to our surface gives us... │ ║ anti-anxiety. It helps us remain stable and aware of what's going on in our │ ║ nears. [near senses] │ ║ │ ║ [a bit later] │ ║ │ ║ anyone who [bounce, because I typed [a bit later] argh the cursed cost of │ ║ editing] │ ║ │ ║ ======================= stack overflow ===================== │ ║ │ ║ ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss │ ╠═════════╗ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar ║ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╩═══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/2757 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: homeschool-tip │ └──────────────────────┘ 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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════────────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────── -> file: bluesky/14 because it has offices. for people to work in. who might not necessarily live there. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/4563 ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: transgender-politics-mentioned-cursing-mentioned │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ My first name is a masculine name. I go by a different name. I'm not legally changing my name because I'm fucking stupid, and I believe that if anyone would die, so must I. Death before detransition. It's how I motivate myself. Fuck off if you disagree. (oops cursing mentioned brb) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3465 ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: food-mentioned │ └──────────────────────┘ 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 ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3726 @user-1218 They're Linux handheld consoles from China. I have 4 different types. This brand is the most durable and reliable I've found. They can play everything before PS1, a couple N64 games, and about half of the Nintendo DS games. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┴───────────┘ ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── -> file: fediverse/5972 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? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────── -> file: fediverse/3957 @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. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────┴───────────┘ ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── -> file: fediverse/6080 pkill firefox glances about "I've said too much" gets ganked by skeletons "oh no my internal organs" ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════┴───────────┘ |