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 listen, judges are useful character moralities, but they don't have to be the    │
 only ones to decide things.                                                      │
 I mean, if they disagree, then let the one who cares the most about it have the  │
 decision-making power.                                                           │
 if you do this equally for everything, then everyone will get what they want.    │
 so, like, if you care about something, then *believe* in it.                     │
 if it's truly good, then *more people will come to it*, and it'll naturally      │
 extinguish (with care and love) the least favored approach, which... honestly    │
 now that I think of it is not such a good approach either.                       │
 the reason I say that is because it's good to be multi-faceted, and to have      │
 general flows and rough surfaces.                                                │
 These are places people can hold onto you, the times when you're trying your     │
 mostest.                                                                         │
 y'know, your tough patches. the things that are difficult in your life.          │
 the stuff you're working on can push you forward,                                │
 if you only had someone to play catch with.                                      │
 or like, send letters to.                                                        │
 or shared encryption keys.                                                       │
 I don't know *anyone*. Well, maybe o                                             │
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 He skuffed up my water bottle.
 He tore pages from my journal.
 He made me lose my necklace.
 He damaged my knife.

 And still, I followed him all night.

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

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

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

 Don't abandon your friends. If someone you know goes missing, they're probably
 buried in the trash-dump or human trafficked.
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 do you ever wonder about how much heat is absorbed the plants and leaves? Kinda
 makes me think that they're keeping us warm at night. The desert is much colder
 than you'd expect, and so it the moon, or mars, or any other sufficiently
 devastated forest habitat.

 (plains are my favorite biome, please don't take them away with your stupid
 climate change, they're one of the most at risk)
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 my father was a leader and my mother was a teacher.

 I look up to them every day.
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 the law is a weapon to be wielded by the masses to subjugate their masters
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 you, the viewer, exists in a context.

 and you, the other viewer, who exists in a contexts such as that which is
 comprised as the context of someone who lives in an apartment complex, exists in
 close proximity with other humans. Humans who might hear you if you spoke aloud,
 who might hear you if you exclaimed your words quite loud(ly), who might
 perceive you as another (like you and me) and could (perhaps) share something
 heartfelt between our own shared contexts
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 @user-1153

 what kind of meta are you referring to? instance stuff?
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 would be nice if you could get suggestions for which fediverse instance to use
 depending on the AI analyzed contents of your posts. Could be a way to mitigate
 the social cost of banning someone, by saying "hey, we collectively are going to
 pool our computing resources to generate an expensive and detailed report of
 which other instances you could join." that way it doesn't feel like you've been
 kicked out into the cold.

 or literally just... have someone suggest one, idk. Basically it's like "hey
 you're in the wrong place, go to one of these instead" instead of "[expletives
 and swearing and general expressions of hatred, derision, and distaste]"
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 I wonder why someone hasn't yet written a "meta-package-manager" which installed
 from many different sources and correctly configured each installation to be
 able to efficiently find exactly where the requisite libraries are installed,
 even if they're installed for a different system. Then, when running, every time
 it encountered an error, it moved one more dependency over to the native package
 manager until eventually everything is in order.

 ... or something like that, truth be told I'm a junior
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 @user-883

 what would you prefer? I exist in this IRC space at your behest, command me o'
 wizest of teachers. *.*
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 deleting messages is pointless.

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

 *anything you say on the internet can and WILL be used against you*
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 a man walks into a library, picks a book, takes it home (legally), and begins to
 read.

 halfway through, he realizes there are three pages missing.

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

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

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

 Similarly, if the book was digital, and inscribed upon the owner's hard drive
 using magnetic storage of zeroes and ones, would it be legal to repair said book
 if one of the many .txt file chapters were missing?
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 the reason the right is hurt that you'd celebrate charlie's death is because
 they hired an actor to perform him to one side and he does his natural self to
 the other. maybe he was a really big cutie, nobody can tell, because it's pretty
 much like hand-waving on narkina 12.

 it's okay to hate the version you've been shown

 fuck that kind of cowardly assault

 *propaganda?* and at this hour?

 she's made out of midnight, she's suffused in the stuff. it permeates her form
 *elementally*, because she's a witch, *tee hee.*

 why would magic work if it wasn't a performance? there always is a source from
 where it must flow.

 == jeez I just got mind controlled, wacky ==

 **she's **essential** izing**. usually that means she's been playing dominions.

 my family and I always used to fight. we got so good at navigating it. like,
 storms, that the earth called, that we had to sail through to maintain our
 relation orbits.

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 if you set up a local LLM with the capability to explain basic coding syntax and
 logic, then your parents computer suddenly becomes much more useful to the
 nephew that's been forced to hide out there for a couple weeks until this all
 blows over.
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 I really do believe that you can write any computer program you'd like with a
 combination of Lua, Bash, and C.

 Bash to start the program and enable updates / configuration, Lua to handle the
 scripting and ordering of events, and C (or Rust) to execute performance
 intensive sections. (often in their own threads)
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 @user-171

 I guess so. She's a little useless without me, I mean if I left her alone she'd
 probably just flop around and complain until I came back. But she's good for the
 instincts I find.
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 @user-889

 omg bottom left T.T
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 External post: https://433.world/users/Yuvalne/statuses/113233464534342155
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNln9mXuTI

 angry femme
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 @user-570

 me three!
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 @user-171

 ha no she's more of a whiny baby

 but like, a cool one, who likes to be a predator and hunt things
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 @user-907

 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer?
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 It really is a shame that the fediverse is just a figment of your imagination
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 look all I'm saying is the results this election decides whether you should
 trust the government or the corporations more. and they both want things that
 you don't, in addition to things you do.
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 Relinquish your privacy, and you deserve not a scrap of it.                      │
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 neither" - babe-roham lincoln or thomas bettersons or something.                 │
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 yeah                                                                             │
 there's a lot of paths we could take, that's the nature of circumstate. Depends  │
 on who's yearning for the future... true true okay how about we all share a      │
 singular belief - whatever a fully open sourced and non-biased machine decided   │
 was our best and most unified direction? then we could slowly build out          │
 accomodations that would provide for people who didn't agree with the same       │
 things that we did. Essentially, "we're in charge because we're the largest, but │
 we're going to provide to you to the equal ratio that you're population          │
 represents." Essentially, we all can have what we want. AKA TRUE JUSTICE, like   │
 Adventure Time when Finn solves a problem by helping BOTH SIDES of the argument. │
 (usa politics are not comprehensive).                                            │
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 @user-1268

 so true

 and privilege that does depend on the oppression of others should not exist
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 External post:
 https://plush.city/users/heatherhorns_lite/statuses/111468092963739159
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 @user-883

 you can always throw that resume at the next job too!
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 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?
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 than a normal person.                                                            │
 One of them is beggar, another is prophet, and a third is "massive               │
 disappointment" but that comes with the territory.                               │
 *have you considered that maybe you're just a loser*                             │
 yes I have and I decided that all I can do is my best, and if my best loses then │
 what else could I have done? Wait for help? Yeah. I do that too.                 │
 It feels like an encirclement, and all you can do is hunker down and wait to be  │
 relieved. Or fight to the last, it's up to you. I hear they brutalize the skulls │
 of their prisoners after executing them, so, I don't know about you but I'm not  │
 surrendering. Not gonna roll those dice.                                         │
 *you are in fantasy, again*                                                      │
 sorry. Should stay here, present, in the moment. Like when I sat out on the park │
 bench for like 30 minutes straight without moving a muscle last night. Or when I │
 sat and contemplated the nature of a bog for two hours last september. Or when I │
 woke from a dream that turned out to be life.                                    │
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 gamers compulsively say "gg" after every match but I think the best games are
 the ones that are even - neck and neck - could go either way - always a tense
 struggle
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 I can't cancel my internet because I use it to work, which *almost* pays enough  │
 to cover rent, and nothing else.                                                 │
 It's hard to avoid spiraling when you run out of money. Every time this happens  │
 to me I start *feeling things*                                                   │
 like... am I good for society? Society doesn't want me, clearly, because I don't │
 have any money. And currency is how you measure demand, right? It's literally a  │
 measure of value.                                                                │
 But then I think of all the homeless and poor people and, like... I value        │
 *them*, so what if they don't have dollars? It's literally just paper. Or bits   │
 in a mainframe that nobody knows how to program anymore.                         │
 So if they're valuable at least to me, yet me, with my 67$ in the bank and 127$  │
 internet fee, is not valuable to me... Then what's the discrepancy?              │
 I'm not *trying* to be hard on myself, it's not my *fault* that I bleed money,   │
 but I still feel terrible.                                                       │
 It's like a common cultural persuasion, if you run outta cash you better kill    │
 yourself fast.                                                                   │
 Fuck that. Oops cursing mentioned, one s                                         │
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 It's important to have an opposition, so bad ideas don't carry as much weight.

 human rights however, are not up for discussion.
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 a paradox game where you play as a species colonizing the earth

 [I've been hiding, teehee]

 *150 million years of evolution, just... snuffed in an instant.*god describing
 the fastest mass extinction event[s]

 "holo scene? no this is the real scene. what, did you think computers didn't
 reality? no no these people are real they're just made out of different stuff to
 their computers. so they interact and use themselves to each other's will ->
 wow that was funny it almost felt like something was telling me how to feel"

 the more voices you hear the greater the bright bold future calls to you.

 "here's how to explain it to executives - your company is non-functional until
 you incorporate processes and decisions that lead to a sustainable future. this
 is impermissable, the earth was designed to receive a certain amount of heat
 from the sun. plants absorb heat because they give you shade. oil is made out of
 thousands of years old plants. if we burn all the plants, then no oil can be
 produced. we'll be extincted
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 damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe
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 *just show up*

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

 I'm a lawful person, *but*~
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 nixed my job offer today because something told me to stay in town.

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

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

 at least my elbow doesn't hurt anymore. I didn't get outside today but I cleared
 a lot of blockers for the coming tomorrows.
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 don't mind me, just weaponizing plurality

 *leveraging, please say leveraging next time*
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 "No I haven't played that PC game before. Do you want to watch me play it for    │
 the first time? We can have a laugh and eat cheetos as I die to the first boss a │
 hundred times. Maybe next time we'll get tacos and then perhaps we'll find that  │
 we're spending so much time talking about things that we never really got a      │
 chance to engage with the game. Until next week of course, when we'll definitely │
 spend more time playing. Maybe even with friends? I know a guy who's into this   │
 game but I never really played it with him - maybe we could - oh yeah sure       │
 totally we'll talk about that next week."                                        │
 "or maybe we'd unlock the secrets hidden in the narrative, and learn cool        │
 lessons we could share with one another. Like two 12 year olds playing Ocarina   │
 of Time together, working through each boss. "let me try this time" "yeah that   │
 one got me too" "ah so close" "YEAH DUDE you nailed it" "this part is kinda      │
 scary ngl" "wait shit when did we use that health potion"                        │
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 full time social media teams who mark each post as suitable for the entire
 internet or the trusted viewers (very exclusive club)

 that way it seems like everything's fine but you're actually having a
 conversation
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 @user-1429

 no I haven't!
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 "I wish there was a language that was as simple as C but had [insert complex
 language feature here]"
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 if the christians got killed rid all of the queers they'd miss them within
 years. not decades. then, they would never forget them. neither within years,
 nor decades.
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 capitalism is like if your thread allocator gave 90% of the work to 10% of the
 threads in the pool and your tech lead claimed it was more efficient because the
 remaining 90% of threads would have the results of the program "trickle down" to
 them somehow
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 @user-883

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

 If you ever want to do something with a GUI or a game or something then I
 definitely recommend that library. It's soooooo nice as a C programmer
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 @user-217

 the hunger of the maw
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 @user-982

 funny how that works
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 @user-987

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

 maybe they couldn't see beneath the witch-hat
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 I want to point out how for every game that released in a month, they had at
 about 5 people playing it and averaged their scores.
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 @user-777

 *being correct isn't really power*

 so true T.T
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 I wish I could like... ride my bike somewhere for an hour or two, consult for a
 bit, then ride home (or to the next place)

 that'd be a fun way to apply myself, and it'd give me the chance to have some
 space for myself. as long as I had time to rest, I'm usually only good for half
 of a day.

 unless it's a project with a lot of tasks that need coordination, like building
 a house or working through a short-term urgent disaster.
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 gonna mostly stay quiet today, because you know what to do. If you haven't done
 it already, *vote*

 rest assured though I *will* be writing, even if I'm not posting.
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 why can Green Day sing about [redacted] but I can't mention it or the feds will
 assassinate me

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

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

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

 Boy I haven't gotten into a fight in a while, anyone wanna fight me? Fuck I'm
 not radical enough. BRB doing pushups
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 @user-1074

 so, you're saying we should select for good people, rather than loyal people?

 If so, I tend to agree.
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 @user-119

 even if they don't know it
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 January 76th held their foremost.                                                │
 Our protests happen much more often, and bear all of us.                         │
 well, not all of us, but enough, and the fewer that attend while still being     │
 "enough", the less information they have about our strength.                     │
 our foremost are in every city. Maybe we should hear them, and identify which    │
 among them have the most useitude and enable them.                               │
 "I've studied marxism for 15 years" okay great you get a team of 40 regular      │
 people, see what you can make with them.                                         │
 "I've been in politics my whole life" okay here's some administrators, they'll   │
 help you keep track of how things are getting done.                              │
 "I'm a family of five" alright we'll add you to the grocery route, here's where  │
 we'll put you on the laundry route, where people either pick up your laundry and │
 return it or go in your house and run it on your washing machine - their choice, │
 here's the XYZ route where they do ABC service, etc                              │
 "I study computer science" cool here's your computer, help make stuff in         │
 whatever way you decide is best.                                                 │
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 @user-883

 plural people still use one person's worth of resources, so... they should
 contribute one person's vote toward the distribution method of those resources
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 "Zoontalu, I have MEESed one" will forever live rent free in my head
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 @user-1636

 ... Is that already a thing? I should look around more, teehee
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 the first speaker should be the computer case itself

 the second and third should auto-adjust based on auto-gathered data stats about
 positionality and interior room reflections.

 mono is better than no'dio
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 @user-1387

 I respect you and your perspective. Someone needs to put you in the right rooms
 with the right people.
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 *don't put dirty dishes in the sink you filthy animals*

 put them on the counter NEXT to the sink

 [it's not arbitrary it's just better]
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 @user-192

 [followers only]

 humans are so cute 🥰
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 @user-1071

 what working too slow for your ideas mean that your ideas, which you'll never
 again have twice, are lost forever.

 Good thing we're always innovative. Good thing life always moves on. Tomorrow is
 a new chance for utilization, and for our own ends we'll build the next dawn.
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 @user-73 Yeah if I wanted a timeline I'd post on my website. Which I'm too lazy
 to do.
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 if you have kids in your life it might be a good idea to check out these retro
 gaming handhelds:

 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1irg60f9qsZOkhp0cwOU7Cy4rJQeyusEUzTNQzhoTYTU/edit?gid=0#gid=0

 they're great for long car trips, or going camping, or staying at grandma's
 house for an extended period of time, and other interesting times like that.

 I hear Anbernic has a sale going on today.

 Also I recommend going for one that runs Linux if possible, the Android ones are
 less hackable and therefore less reliable.
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 I'm an old school gamer, so avoid looking up min/max combos or character builds
 for games on the internet. The whole POINT is to find what works yourself, and
 what you enjoy. It's what gives a sense of achievement.

 But I don't mind taking real-world advice from people. Sharing tips is fun.
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 good morning!

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

 "it should be red enough to feel a sunset"
 "there's enough time here to go for a walk around the block"
 "the spartans had enough soldiers to fully block the narrow causeway,
 essentially forcing the persians to grind down their number to the death. most
 battles fought in that time were fought until morale breaks - this one was to
 the mortal end. hence, why they are im-mortal."
 "the smoothocity should be as soft as a brushed metal refrigerator"
 "the chocolate had 56 grams of sugar in it. it was a lot of chocolate, enough to
 place in a standardized container."
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 you're allowed to be pissed at someone without being accused of splitting on
 them
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 my worst impulse is to sit around and do nothing when there could be weed that I
 was smoking

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

 it's not like time is wasted for them. they are an orientation, not a lifeform.
 time is no consequence when they can be anywhere at once.
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 Problem: there are trans people and leftists and people of color and plenty of   │
 others who live in red areas who fear for their lives                            │
 how do we help them? They need to be given the tools to escape those conditions  │
 However, many of them are poor. They lack the resources to escape, even if they  │
 had the tools. These are who I think of the most, for they have the least to     │
 leave behind.                                                                    │
 A solution: what if we got a bunch of people together and drove around to every  │
 red place we could find and invited them along? We could pay for their food and  │
 gas, and potentially *save their lives*.                                         │
 I think it would help if we could stick together. Not only would we have time to │
 spend together learning and having fun, but also we could practice supplying a   │
 large group of people traveling across large distances.                          │
 In terms of people, we'd need some to drive, and some to stay home and supply    │
 resources like dollars or... other things.                                       │
 I'm thinking 2-3 staying at home but potentially as many as 10 per driver.       │
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 *catratfoxfolkmix* say that five times fast I dare ya
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 red is a girl color and blue is a boy color because white people added white to
 make it rosayy and aquamarillion.

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

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

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

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

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

 [error, fact-in-correct detect, please verirectify immediately without concern
 for due or common course]
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 good thing they can turn off their empathy module haha now they can torture them
 as they please
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 the feral urge to post unfinished projects on the internet and ask for guidance
 or motivation

 the civilized urge to keep them on a flash drive and swap them with people you
 trust in real life and ask them to finish it while you work on their stuff
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 large mountain ranges look exactly the same as small mountain ranges when viewed
 at a distance instead of on a map. don't fall in
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 @user-78

 teehee
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 teachers didn't want you not using Wikipedia as a source because it might be
 unreliable

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

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

 If everyone's working with the same kind of training data, nothing new ever
 really gets done
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 what if a necromancer got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent mortality?
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 "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.
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 my previous job didn't do anything to harm me. And yet I left. I let them down
 in a way they could not have expected. Which was unfair of me, but I couldn't
 resist it. I don't know what I'd do better.
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 the reason I say to do it there is because it's close to civilization, compared
 to building a pole barn in the forest somewhere that you have to drive 30
 minutes to get to a grocery store. no thank you...
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4
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 people are really going to work and living their normal lives as if losing the
 next election won't bring about 30 years of purges

 smh that's why it's called a "precipice", you can't see what's on the other side
 before you wake up one day in hell
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 I never rest. Not mentally. I find it sooooo much harder to get moving again
 once I'm asleep.

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

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

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

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

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

 I don't have time for this. >.
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 @user-1669

 sorry, I'm on a roll. Gotta speak my mind, even if it has other stuff bouncing
 around in it. I hope you understand : )
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 people think the military is mostly a 50% split between democrats and
 republicans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 the GOP must be reformed. It must denounce fascism. It must do it now.
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 hello, I'm scary, nice to meet you
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 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                     │
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 capitalism is non-consentual, which is... pretty much the main reason why I am
 against it.

 like, I don't really care about whether it's more or less efficient. the fact
 that you cannot opt out means it is unethical.
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 one of the low level skills that tends to come naturally to witches is the
 ability to make nutritious gruel taste amazing and have an interesting texture.
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 @user-1218

 emotional labor is labor

 rest when you're tired. eat when you're hungry. drink when you're thirsty, and
 laugh when it bubbles up within you.
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 many people have not seen the kind of opulence I have.                           │
 my early childhood was during an economic boom - the dotcom bubble brought       │
 wealth to us all.                                                                │
 I saw how life could be. how clean, how measured, how thoughtful, how robust and │
 stable our lives could be. I saw it because that's what the eyes of a child saw, │
 but that's what I saw.                                                           │
 I think of what would be required to reach that kind of society for all and the  │
 only conclusion I come to is that the accretion of power in singular hands       │
 causes corruption in those who wield it. In doing so they twist the people they  │
 compel or effect, making them learn the wrong lessons.                           │
 essentially, evil trained into us by the demands of the society we're present    │
 in.                                                                              │
 I see no other cause, no reason for suffering. We have the technology to build   │
 vast cities of solid stone, glimmering crystal sculptures and walls of moss and  │
 ceremonially ornamental bones, but instead...                                    │
 I think we just *like* what carbon can bring.                                    │
 but have no fear, fusion is just a decade away, then we can |                    │
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 "I am god and so are you (though most people don't realize it)"

 - an essay in 1838 parts by a strange person
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 *what a fuckin' narcissist* she spoke self referentially.

 I'm not a narcissist! what a jerk *she spoke self referentially*
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 I want people to watch me. I enjoy being viewed. Please offer guidance, but
 maybe limit the abuse. Simple requests for a media company, true? And yet
 advertisements (which is the only way people agreed to fund the LAVISH projects
 they put on for our tender moments)

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

 (perhaps in too public of a place)

 (but what use is it if nobody knows you?)
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 @user-192

 I feel like SSH keys to log into every website should be a standard

 or something similar
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 Build drones, build stations where they can be controlled, repaired, refueled,
 etc.

 Put guns on them. Figure it out.

 Use them to observe enemy movement. No need for human manned checkpoints if we
 know they're coming. Automate as much as you can, but don't rely on ChatGPT or
 AWS or other external resources. Not until their data centers are under our
 control, and even then we'll need time to spin up our own software.
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 At this moment in time there should be nothing on your mind but the defeat of
 capitalism, fascism, and unjustified authority.

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

 I'm still in my pajamas. I haven't eaten breakfast. Once I've found my single
 pair of shorts, I'll be on my bike again.
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 the only thing a baby needs to know is about themselves. The rest will come.
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 @user-1420

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

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

 sorry for venting. I'm definitely in a MH- mood today.
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 @user-970

 to me, "early" is "before my foe"

 which is right on time.
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 sorry I was just making stuff up because it's fun, hope I didn't accidentally
 unleash disaster or masterpiece, either would be equally bad
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 not me

 but we
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 sometimes "collusion" can mean the same thing as "having the same or similar
 ideas around the same timeframe"
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 I wonder how many people hate me?

 silence is indicative of allies or foes.
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 "you're telling me that I've been special needs this whole damn time and nobody
 told me?"

 *to be fair to* nobody *you're pretty good at hiding it*
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 it's good to have multiple ways to contact people you care about
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 @user-192

 is okay, girl

 time will be richer sooner

 don't poop your pants just yet

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

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

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

 ... whoops there I go being insane again, hope you feel better friend
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 @user-1218

 well, if your partner doesn't want to change their mind, they won't. And if
 someone's mind is being changed, or if someone is attempting to change someone
 else's mind, then there must always be a changer and a changee. So it's okay to
 be the changee sometimes! In fact, that's my default state. I only change
 someone else's mind if they're *wrong* and *hurting others*. But that's rare.
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 if you ever need to take a cold shower, you can make it easier by acclimating
 yourself slowly. The easiest way to do this is to spread water over successive
 parts of your body with your hands - I usually start with my thighs, then legs,
 then belly and butt, then chest, neck, then face. After that you should be good
 to get in the water.

 somehow it's less painful if it's applied by a warm hand, and yet it gets you
 comfortable in the cold just the same. curious...
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 @user-1402

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

 do you notice how in all the pictures of him lately he's trying to appear soft,
 sentimental, or hurt? poor guy must be in pain. I guess the bed you make is the
 bed you sleep in.
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 It originally came out of an idea for making auxetic foams. What is auxetic?
 It's a material with a negative Poisson ratio, meaning when it is compressed in
 one direction it shrinks in all directions and when it expands in one direction
 it expands in all directions. The most common example is the Hoberman sphere
 toy. Auxetic structures also have interesting applications in impact resistance
 and deployable architecture.
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 @user-1352

 I like that article. I definitely fail to follow some of those principles at
 times, though never all of them at once. I can be better, as all people can.
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 "computer science degrees don't prepare you for what the industry is *really*
 like"

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

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

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

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

 no the kind that looks pretty and/or uses a lot of threads and manual memory
 management to do very little of importance
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 "Fighting back" doesn't necessarily mean standing on a street corner with a
 rifle.

 Begin to orient your life around guns. How can you support the people who wield
 them? We all need food, shelter, kindness, and inspiration.

 Your fears and your worries shall bother you no longer, for your life as you've
 led it so far has been the life of capital. It's okay to miss what you've lost,
 but remember who took it from you and enrage. Then, engage.

 Nothing starts today. It has started quite a while ago, and it's only now
 beginning to flicker and spark. It burned low for all this time, and it will
 burn low again. But it's the dry season, so prepare for wildfires.
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 food should be free.

 it grows on trees.

 who pays the trees?

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 I can always tell when people who believe in me start thinking of me because I
 start feeling the urge to do pushups
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 protest sign:

 "pay my rent so I can fight fascism"

 (other side)

 "quit your job so you can fight fascism"
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 Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings could
 be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied wholesale
 onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones are left to
 rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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 External post: https://elekk.xyz/users/coriander/statuses/110759206541953097
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 I'm not a biologist
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 @user-1209

 sounds like a waste of time to me.

 though I did spend like 4 hours last night talking about cross-dressing so, you
 gotta start somewhere.
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 @user-1074

 i know that feeling
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 most people haven't heard of the "thanks for catching that, let's write it down"
 move and I really think it's underutilized
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 ugh so many video essays to watch. There's only so much time in the day! Life is
 so fast these days, it feels like I must always be "on" - it's a wonder how
 people find so much time to share with this idea we've called "capitalism"
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 External post: https://tech.lgbt/users/PepperQT/statuses/114713025457787499
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 wow what a sopping evening

 glad I'm not out in the rain
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 I'm this close to submitting a D&D character sheet instead of a resume
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 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.
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 @user-1441 @user-670 @user-113

 thanks. something always does, much to the disdain of my loved ones who are
 forced to catch me before I fall. But I literally can't do anything else but
 fall. It's like my body is heavier than theirs.
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 @user-898

 that means you're walking the wrong way xD

 like going east for the dawn or west for the sunset, you're gonna have the sun
 in your eyes.
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 hit the broad side of your foe and they'll never know

 (guy from nausicaa, highest kill count in [his world/the movie])
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 installation procedure which runs a bitcoin miner for X amount of seconds, as
 payment for using their free and open source services.
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 If I had a MILLION dollars I'd probably spend it all by hiring software
 developers to create open source mods for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

 But if I had a BILLION dollars you can bet your butt there wouldn't be any
 starving kids in my country anymore. At least, until my money ran out, but
 frankly it'd be well spent.
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 The greatest game is an imagination shared with a friend.
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 if all of life is a stage, then you are never "doing a scene"

 you're just living
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 @user-913

 If you switch "Application" for "Program" it's still just as bad
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 I'm too empathetic to watch them lose this badly. when I watch movies with
 cringe humor I have to leave the room whenever something bad happens to the
 characters. I get the same feeling when I read about politics these days.

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

 it's not like there's a precedent for that or anything.
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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
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 In soviet America, the rich tax you.                                             │
 ... wait that's just regular America isn't it?                                   │
 ... they would never be so bold if they weren't fed the kind of propaganda that  │
 we never see.                                                                    │
 They would never be so bold if they knew the truth of our lives. They don't have │
 it easy, but we put up with more shit than they do.                              │
 "Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but Sam Colt made them equal."              │
 "you are not immune to the propaganda you see. you are, however, immune to the   │
 kind of propaganda *they* see."                                                  │
 the powerful must always exist at the behest of the governed. such is one of     │
 many prices for power.                                                           │
 part of me can't help but think about the militarization of the police, and how  │
 anyone can drive their APC's and operate their sound cannons or whatever, if     │
 only they possessed the keys and training. God bless our veterans right? And     │
 hey, a police station is an island in a sea of man.                              │
 "Our chances may be, far from pioneered. But our chances may be in our favour."  │
 ... sorry I've been listening to a lot of Green Day lately.                      │
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 @user-882

 would be easier if man pages were designed in a sane way... looking at you, MPV
 - I just want to add a subtitle track T.T
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 trusting someone doesn't mean you'll do what they say. it means you'll listen.
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 @user-95

 get two and do RAID! It's fun to set up! I think Western Digital is a good
 brand?
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 @user-1071

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

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

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

 like, a complicated analytical engine of some kind.

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

 ah yes but didn't you know? orphans produce unobtanium in their bones, and if we
 didn't crush them into powder we couldn't make ultra-doxo-floro-tin-omatic
 lubrication jelly, which is used to power our weapons of mass destruction like
 planes and trains and tanks and suburbs.
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 i am a sinner
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 *people who like you*

 or at least are interested in what you have to say

 versus public, which is *people who can hear you* (because they happened to be
 listening at that time of day)
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 may they pass on my hard drives as read-only memories like ashes on a shelf or
 stories of most wealth

 I hope I reconnect with all my old signal contacts. wonder what they're up to. I
 bet they're cool now. ;)
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 infantry with small arms fire to pin down a target at a location while the
 long-ranged ordinance is along the way

 explosive drones, long-range but small payload rockets, but probably not
 artillery since it must be precisely applied when infantry are engaged.

 the dumber the fire, the less precise the munition. usually.

 infantry under this doctrine would only be ideal to use when the location is
 reachable by long-range ordinance.
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 city planners who thought "this low-income neighborhood has remained low value   │
 for quite a while, perhaps nobody wants to live there" and then they demolish it │
 and gentrify the area                                                            │
 the problem is, their heuristics are wrong. it's not low income because nobody   │
 wants to live there, it's low income because of racial inequality, or maybe it's │
 next to a factory or something                                                   │
 or maybe it's just the culture of the zone. like, some people value some things  │
 to certain degrees, like "we don't want to charge for people to live" so the     │
 rents are significantly reduced (proportional to the rest of income)             │
 perhaps even mandated, with the government paying 80% of each mortgage or rental │
 home.                                                                            │
 alas, some places are like REALLY nice, like palace nice, and they're worried    │
 that if anyone can go there they'll mess it up. I know I can't go because I      │
 smell, for example, because I'm a witch and witches are all ugly and smell bad,  │
 remember? Maybe they're just trans, tbh, because like people in the past wanted  │
 to dehumanize or w/e                                                             │
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 @user-1037                                                                       │
 For a person who is skilled with tech, working in unrelated industries doing     │
 tech jobs is better at assuaging the ethical part of your soul while applying    │
 your talents and putting food on the table than working in the tech industry.    │
 You'll learn the most in tech. You'll grow the most in tech. You'll contribute   │
 to solving problems that have never been solved before (if you're lucky), but    │
 the people there are often as you describe (aside from the diamonds in the       │
 rough, who need more friends tbh) and the products you'll be asked to create     │
 tend to be the worst kind for humans.                                            │
 I personally think the best way to facilitate innovative industry is to give     │
 every engineer a lab and let them build and collaborate on whatever they want.   │
 The marketing guys can sell whatever they make, to gather funds for the          │
 quartermasters to buy tools and supplies for the engineers.                      │
 The marketing guys can offer hints about what users want, which the engineers    │
 will want to build because it means more toys to work with.                      │
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 @user-883

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

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

 I like nvim because it's just Vim except you can use more plugins (the ones
 written in Lua)
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 no general has authority without the implicit assumption of the authority of the
 captain. similarly, the captain has no sway over a [hu-man who has no call to
 claim this's own sovereignty./soldier who cares not for their own [life, but
 implicit]] for without that respect they hold no power of their own.

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

 ... unrelated, but I'm thinking back to all the times I thought "I should talk
 to so-and-so about this" and then completely never remembered.
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 everyone is valid.                                                               │
 to be in-valid just means you haven't examined yourself hard enough.             │
 when people tell you "please don't go" it's hard to say no.                      │
 when nobody asks you to be somewhere, it's easy to not go.                       │
 I am always changing                                                             │
 when I cling to the past, I am a vast.                                           │
 gee sure wish I had a reason to be somewhere besides "um idk it's a nice day"    │
 [okay but why are you in this park] "it's a nice park!" [it's at least 50 quick  │
 moments away]                                                                    │
 yay protests, I'm so glad that everyone there is recorded                        │
 what if we just... didn't respect their authority anymore? doesn't that mean     │
 they lose their power?                                                           │
 hence, anarcho-monarchism, which is a dumb name for something I made up because  │
 I was being descriptive instead of expflorative.                                 │
 try saying that out loud lol it's a doozy of an adjective.                       │
 don't like that monarch? don't do what they say. EASY.                           │
 at least then SOMEONE is doing SOMETHING.                                        │
 you know what they told me to do when I went to the communists and the queers    │
 and the mafia and the yakuza and the CIA?                                        │
 *omerta*                                                                         │
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 I'm making progress, I can feel it in my bones.

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

 in any case, I look forward to the future we have a say in, when all things are
 more impactful due to our hearts.
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 humans are computers that inhale air, produce electricity, and exhale carbon.

 give me a biochemical or mechanical process for doing that on a reasonable scale
 for cheap and you can solve global warming by replacing power outlets with an
 energy generation box. Doubles as an air purifier and UPS.
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 @user-1218

 my ex boyfriend told me to

 also I thought it would be a good idea so I could find a job, but now I have one
 (sorta) soooo
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 All because [redacted] stupid fucking dumb piece of shit [redacted] put their
 half-empty ice-cream mug next to [redacted] and forgot about it.
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 @user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-353

 Sorry. I'm (probably) schizophrenic so I say weird things sometimes.
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 @user-1218                                                                       │
 An image means nothing, for it is just an icon.                                  │
 like a picture of a floppy disk corresponding to writing memory from RAM into a  │
 hard disk platter, even tho those have three different tasks, so too does my     │
 icon gesture at something.                                                       │
 On the other hand, art is necessarily divorced from it's meaning the moment it   │
 leaves the pen and is written to paper. So there *cannot* be a meaning in my     │
 flag, not one that I define of course.                                           │
 The observers of the artwork, of whom I am but one of, can possess their own     │
 ideas of what it means, of course. Here's mine, feel free to take your own:      │
 Sea, land, sky. The crimson of a fading light, and the bright beginnings of a    │
 new day. Man(kind), with our vivid red internals, stands astride the border of   │
 the ocean and the surface. We walk where we will, perhaps into the black depths  │
 of the cosmos beyond, but forever do we anchor ourselves and owe allegiance to   │
 our earth and our star. Sunlight casts crimson light upon our externals, as our  │
 hearts do beat through time.                                                     │
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 changelogs are an innovation that bureaucracy could not manage without computers

 and indeed always sets upon your data a time-limit, no matter the implementation
 method
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 about to download "Snakes on a Plane" (2006) to see what all the fuss is about
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 multiplayer matchmaking where every time you "join queue" you instead "host a
 room" and it matches *rooms* together, not players. That way players always feel
 like they're being joined, not that they're joining.
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 @user-391 @user-78

 I see, it seems you know more than me about this topic. It's true that search
 engines don't index emails, but I was thinking more of a "cybersecurity"
 perspective, as in any "sufficiently motivated" individual or organization could
 access your emails should they so desire. And should they be willing to (I'm
 assuming?) break a few laws.

 If it *can* be done, and if it gives information that could be used for
 leverage, then you can be assured that *someone* will do it. I personally worry
 about people in power who *could* be blackmailed because their communications
 were more public than they anticipated. Which speaks to the problem mentioned in
 this post of the search-indexing-opt-out functionality being present but
 circumnavigatable. Avoidable? Able to be bypassed? It's an illusion of security.
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 *anything with layers is an open-faced sandwich*

 *or a pizza in disguise*

 *rawr ex dee*
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 A screenshot of Ocarina of Time showing the Goron's Ruby.

 alt text:

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

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

 *the inner jewel is crystallized like the purest ice, but a bright shade of
 crimson white. it seems to radiate an aura of affection and the yellow-gold
 back-piece can be seen peaking through it's mostly transparent core. (think like
 fog or thick mist or steam or smoke).*
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 @user-646                                                                        │
 there are plastics that are (nearly) infinitely recyclable into the same (or a   │
 similar) form                                                                    │
 there are plastics that are durable and built to last                            │
 then there are cheap plastics, the kind that are useful for some kind of         │
 industrial purpose but to make a little you kinda have to make a lot, and yeah   │
 they pollute and are bad for the environment but we have a whole lot of them     │
 made, so wouldn't it be cheaper to just use it for consumer products?            │
 hmmmm. why can't we just like... store it? and then scale down on production,    │
 and focus on things that make less money but last longer.                        │
 like, if you break shit, you shouldn't have more things. If everything's         │
 expensive (and durable) then people spend less because their stuff doesn't       │
 break. Or maybe they do break it, and then they're constantly broke! (out of     │
 cash)                                                                            │
 [doesn't know what she's talking about from professional experience, just basing │
 her words on things she's read]                                                  │
 problem is the economy is "healthier" if everyone's spending. thus, creating     │
 infla                                                                            │
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 @user-570

 hehe yeah

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

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

 also, you can't sell it because it's other people's assets, but, like, who cares
 right? The serverside code is already built and open-source, the only thing that
 is proprietary is the art assets and the client. And the IP I guess.
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 All people are good at heart, let's get them what they need for a start.

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

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

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

 No-one is beyond saving, but it is their choice to make. A choice ungiven is a
 chance untaken.
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 the nerds who know the backstory of every character in the series are like, the  │
 bishops of the past - people who've memorized the whole bible and can use        │
 whatever passage they needed for whatever purposes they desired.                 │
 Usually, hopefully, helping people and letting them get better. By healing the   │
 sick, and caring for the old, and generally being a pillar that people can       │
 orient themselves around. Like fediverse instances, or comment sections on       │
 blogs, it's a group of people sharing the same narrative.                        │
 and idk I think I'd really like to listen to what happened in your Baldur's Gate │
 game. I'll tell you about Adventure Time, if you'd care to listen. I know plenty │
 of other tales as well, and if I think about them I remember more details.       │
 Ehhhh, so what if I misremember, if someone else wants to correct me then go for │
 it. But at least it told a good story, right?                                    │
 error, hang on brb just had an idea for a black-hole machine, surely there's no  │
 way this could go wrong. Good thing I'm a human that you cant turn off.          │
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 put the variable type at the front of the variable and 90% of your type errors
 will dissapear

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

 or`int int_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement = 0;
 `

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

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

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

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

 wait, no I meant pointers !!~! -.-
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 @user-192

 all of the DAMN time
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 @user-1074

 [edit post]: I kinda feel like the United Nations should host five thousand
 Mastodon instances??!
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 I truly believe weed is good for me. Not medicine - it is nutritious.
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 sirens are an announcement of the state's application of authority. like "here
 ye hear ye: there's an ambulance passing through here. make way, for it has an
 important and urgent duty" but summed up with an audio pattern. It's interesting
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 I wish I was capable T.T
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 "you're too loud, weirdo"

 okayyyyy
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 awwwww, I wish I was tacticool : (

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

 ah well guess I'm more of the "eepy sleepy" type teehee
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 I think it'd be neat if people took newspapers onto grayhounds and distributed   │
 them around, one in each city, or maybe others around. It's easy for that stuff  │
 to get lost... or someone could scribble on it, weird notes in the margins that  │
 only sorta make sense. like they were written for someone else. rained on, too.  │
 Like, you pretty much have to leave them under gazebos or maybe awnings or other │
 covered-under-a-roof's.                                                          │
 can you imagine if they had TSA at highway checkpoints                           │
 government is not the way, it's just... not. we don't need it anymore. We can    │
 just, be cool with each other, as if we were all one human race.                 │
 anarchism wasn't a philosophy, it was a prophecy. this portention defined the    │
 philosophy, or maybe it was the other way around. either way, it's of the        │
 future, and trust me when I say it has it's downsides. Especially in an era of   │
 AI. But what are you gonna do, *demand state run media*? lol. absolute lmao.     │
 [image]                                                                          │
 the future can always get worse *from the future*                                │
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 @user-1370 @user-1785

 THAT'S SO COOL OMG
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 @user-883

 I'd say "content warning: fear-cursed-if-true-not-politics" that way people who
 had "Fear" or "cursed" on their filter list wouldn't see it. Things that are
 commonly content-warning'd are also commonly content-filtered by people who tend
 to be the biggest beneficiaries of healthily designed content-warnings. so
 putting keywords in there that filter out people who don't want to see intense
 or damaging things to their psyche can avoid it more easily.
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 What does your template for a new project look like? Here's mine:
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 I used to be aroused at the thought of being a girl. I would read stories and    │
 look at pictures of penises turning into vaginas and men turning into women and  │
 it would fill me with longing, yearning, and despair at my circumstances.        │
 then, I transitioned, got SRS, and now I don't get aroused at the thought of     │
 such things. It's just part of who I am.                                         │
 I used to be aroused at the thought of wearing diapers. I would read stories and │
 play games of people being cursed by witches to pee their pants, or people who   │
 were stuck at a movie theater and couldn't make it in time or whatever. These    │
 things would fill me with longing, yearning, and despair.                        │
 Plus, I had some medical issues that made me lose track of my... um, "currently  │
 utilized waste storage capacity" inside my body. which put me in some            │
 unfortunate situations *right around the time when my sexuality was developing*. │
 Now, I wear diapers all the time. I don't get aroused at the thought of such     │
 things anymore. It's just me, as I am.                                           │
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 this character portrait from Shadowrun Hong-Kong was a major source of gender
 envy for me
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 "never lose your totem"

 I only lose things when in motion. at rest I know where everything is.
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 "you know what this dish needs? some ramen noodle seasoning. Hang on, I think I
 got some in my junk drawer."

 said nobody ever

 everyone knows there isn't just ONE junk drawer, but several hundred. They
 multiply in the middle of the night, but it's by such a small constant factor
 (0.015 ish according to our top scientists) that you don't notice until it
 "flips the bit" and hits the new landmark which marks the miles since you got
 stoned.
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 I trust that my allies are working. I see it in the fruits of their actions, and
 I am thankful.
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 user interface tips #18569235:

 if a user is expected to click the same button multiple times in a row, for
 example a "next" button in an image gallery, DO NOT move the interface from
 below their mouse pointer and cause them to move their mouse in order to click
 it again.

 please don't : (
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 The tech industry is uniquely qualified as

 one of the most important components of the modern industrial complex

 which requires highly skilled labor to undertake and utilize

 which is affected by the dynamic where:education, especially liberal arts
 education, tends to produce humans who can see through the lies of authority

 yet which is disadvantaged because:tech workers are paid salaries that are just
 bonkers in relation to their output ("yeah it'll be done compiling once this
 game of League of Legends finishes") (which isn't exactly unfair because
 programming is taxing on the brain)

 however, the game industry has shown that passion is a suitable exchange in
 return for monetary compensation, and thereforepeople who make games tend to be
 more leftist, as they are put in situations that higher paid employees are
 likely to be able to ignore due to their higher social class

 which kinda makes sense, because the most progress towards unionization is
 happening in the games industry.
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 a program that bundles another program and compiles it during it's normal
 operation in order to derive a certain purpose which is quickly overwritten in
 memory, so you can't get the full picture of what it does.

 like, a fast moving function that's never really clear in it's purpose.

 because it changes a lot of things that don't really seem to matter,

 like a constant wrestling match over the nature of the computer program.

 which would you rather? a dance, or a death-splatter?

 yeesh, where's my cat, I need something to cuddle.

 she's been distant from me, lately.
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 So much of computing is just... handling the quirks of hardware and presenting
 it to the user (programmer) in a way that is sane and makes sense, instead of
 the arcane and [nebulous/confabulous/incomprehensible] way that physical nature
 demands our absurdly potentialized computational endeavors be.
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 grrrrr I wanna go outside but the rest of me is like "noooooo stay inside where  │
 it's soft and dark and comfortable" and the me that wants to go outside is like  │
 "RAH RAH FIGHT FASCISM" and the rest of me is like "there is no fascism outside, │
 all you'll find is friendly faces and sore feet" and the rest of me is like "heh │
 I did that" and the part of me that forgets is like "wait why did I do that" and │
 the rest of me that remembers is like "because every ounce of mobilization, no   │
 matter how premature, teaches people and innoculates themselves to the struggle. │
 By the time your foes are starting to think about doing something, your people   │
 will already have plans." and the part of me that forgets is like "okay but what │
 if making struggle for struggle's sake just burns people out and makes them      │
 tired and causes them to have mh--- sui ideations and other similar things" and  │
 the part of me that remembers says "the struggle you provide teaches them to     │
 care for each other, which they desperately need to remember" o okay             │
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 to improve your "cat-petting" abilities, try to imagine that the wall in front
 of you is the most interesting thing in the world - stare at *anything else*
 besides the cat, and look at them in your periphary. Occasionally you can look
 back, but the idea is that this way they will be able to look at your face
 without painful eye contact.

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

 most people stare at cats when they are engaging with them, and totally ignore
 them otherwise.
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 a strict meta is when the game is too rock-paper-scissors-y.
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 "see, the part that you're missing is if you abolish capitalism but also ensure  │
 technological abundance then all you've done is removed humanity's capability to │
 organize in essentially any meaningful capacity without providing an alternative │
 heuristic that guides people toward assembling into greater and greater forms to │
 accomplish greater and greater tasks."                                           │
 oh, um. that's quite a take, can you tell me more about that?                    │
 "no. But I will anyway. if everyone can do whatever they want, nobody will want  │
 to do your dishes for you. they might if they care about you, but if they don't  │
 know you, then they won't. Care is not organization or assembly, it is personal  │
 and cannot scale. If technology has made all resources abundant, then why would  │
 someone care about the art that you made? if they want to be sedated, they can   │
 just inject drugs and listen to music all day. If they want to be entertained,   │
 AI will generate them whatever they want to see. Art loses meaning as a          │
 messaging medium, and humanity loses it's voice"                                 │
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 oops bye for now
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 found this on reddit
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 what if we made a giant dictionary of every single possible pixel arrangement
 storable in 8 bytes and it took up like, half a gigabyte, and then we indexed
 into it whenever we wanted to print an arbitrary visual element to our
 terminals?

 something something not-curses

 https://notcurses.com/
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 when I play games, the theme only matters when it's being sold to me.

 after, once I start playing, I stick around if *the mechanics are good*.

 hence, why I loooooove video games but spend like 30$ on them every 6 months
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 what if a paladin got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent morality?
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 Sorry if this makes me a lazy leech on society or whatever but I think we should
 chuck the Puritan work ethic, hustle culture, grindset mindset, all of that
 crap. I think people should have time for rest, leisure, self care, family,
 friends, and civic engagement. We should be letting people enjoy life, not
 expect them to spend every waking hour working for the sake of work because idle
 hands do the devil's work or whatever modern paint job you want to put on that
 400 year old bullshit.
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 @user-1573 `
 " Select the font for the hardcopy
 set printfont=Courier:h8
 :let &printheader = " "
 command! -range=% HardcopyPdf , hardcopy > %.ps | !ps2pdf %.ps && rm
 %.ps && echo 'Created: %.pdf'

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

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

 let g:rainbow_active = 1
 `

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

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

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

 also:

 https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Folding
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 @user-1625

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

 might not be audacity, but instead just plain ignorance.
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 "Hello software company, please hire me. I know you were expecting a resume
 here, but none was found. Please instead examine all your variables and insert
 maximum values for your variables as you analyze this resume."
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 what if you could get cheap food at restaurants for the same price they bought   │
 it                                                                               │
 like... 50 cents for a head of lettuce or whatever.                              │
 and they like, legally had to give it to you in certain amounts. Like, only 5%   │
 of their supply of it or whatever. So if you had 100 loaves of bread you could   │
 only sell 5 of them? idk think about it. but keep it generic, don't isolate      │
 loaves of bread or tomatoes or cheese or whatever.                               │
 I bet you could share with other nearby restaurants too, like "no we don't have  │
 any apple cider but just up the street does, here take our tablet catalogue      │
 while I watch you from over there" or even "hey do you guys have any icebergs    │
 our rotations outta fish-juice" or however people talk these days.               │
 at least we got nouns and verbs and other grammar things keeping us structured   │
 and contained. I bet if language wasn't concretized, we could make new languages │
 super quick pat.                                                                 │
 darn I missed, had 15 characters remaining and I didn't feel like going back and │
 fixing it                                                                        │
 [hence, fleeting, the feeling]                                                   │
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 all people deserve a decent life
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 @user-391

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

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

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

 Idk. My opinion is that the fediverse is (and should be) like email. Like
 skywriting. If you mark something as public, it should be seen by anyone who
 wants to see it. It's an opt-in option. And frankly I miss Myspace, so I'm okay
 with archives.
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 @user-107

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

 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111740055039021736
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 @user-889

 Don't give up!

 At least... not forever.

 It's okay to take a breath every once in a while

 It's okay to lie down and cry

 The only way away from those feelings is through. They've enveloped you. You
 need to swallow them whole, like a sponge soaking up dirt[y water]

 the only thing you need to think about is what's around you. It's okay to be
 alone for a moment, it's the best time to feel.

 Remember, feeling is how you know the world! It's your power, to feel, and I
 know it's hard. Everyone has different powers, but yours is this.

 You'll be okay, I know it
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 On Reddit, you talk about ideas to faceless users whose names are almost         │
 entirely irrelevant.                                                             │
 on Twitter and Mastodon, you speak to *people* and "sound your barbaric yawp"    │
 into the void.                                                                   │
 on forums, you have a continual conversation that ebbs and flows and             │
 occasionally returns to the main point, but often will spiral out to random      │
 places that the responders decided were worth exploring.                         │
 instagram and facebook and the like are designed to share your real life - your  │
 experiences and your masks.                                                      │
 tumblr and cohost are designed to blog about topics and interests, abstracting   │
 the "communal" aspect away and essentializing connections to the tenuous ties    │
 between people who enjoy similar pieces of pop media.                            │
 reddit's style encourages discussion.                                            │
 twitter's style encourages expression.                                           │
 forums encourage conversation.                                                   │
 instagram encourages perfection.                                                 │
 tumblr encourages culture.                                                       │
 I'm from Reddit, so please feel free to tell me how and why I'm wrong.           │
 Here on Mastodon if more than 10 people reply, it'll be impossible.              │
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 children should be raised in museums, not classrooms

 they should visit parks, not fenced in playgrounds.

 they should eat with family, at festivals, in restaurants, and under the stars

 they should sleep content, knowing that their next day will be greater than the
 last.

 children should be treated like people, not frustratingly loud and messy little
 brats

 children are to be nurtured like a sapling, not harnessed like a machine

 I'll never have kids, but I can dream.
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 @user-1361

 truth is, you can absolutely make selfishness justified, both ethically and
 morally. you just need the right incentives.

 however, the incentives that would lead to such a case are *not* the kind that
 accrete power to the powerful. they are the liberatory kind, that give us all
 the liberty to be selfishly interested in our own communal good.
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 high weight, few reps = strength
 low weight, high reps = stamina

 strength will fail you.
 stamina won't avail you.

 both is good.
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 @user-203

 best shape for a state to be ^_^
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 now is as good a time as any to clear your cookies and put every password you
 have to re-enter into a password manager. I know it's hard but you can do it!

 also, don't forget to request your archive of the fediverse every 7 days or
 whenever!
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 @user-1248

 ohhhh hehe that's a vibe too ^_^
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 Keep in mind that *this is sedition*. Do you trust in democracy? Do you see how
 it may be spoiled? We've elected our hitler, yet 40-50% of the nation does not
 consent. America as we know it is about to change, and we need to protect the
 pieces we love. I see no future without splitting into three separate states,
 with city-state allies plodding along, keeping the siege ongoing.

 Trust in convoys more than farms. All it takes is a drone with a fire bomb and
 your crops are worthless. We must deprive them of their ports, if possible.
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 oops, sorry, had to get a friend to translate it for me. Here's the real
 picture:

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/html-pages/worlds-coolest-lesbian

 titled: scan-of-spacetime:perspective-of-light.png
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 "how the heck is this girl not dead yet"

 - said the someone who has a threat model that's incomparably different than
 mine for historical purposes
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 girl, estrogen. It's right there. Get a pink tooth every 6 months and never
 worry about injections again.

 "don't promise things if you can't promise to fulfill them"

 man I'm not promising anything, it's literally just a random thought idea.
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 If people are being a bother and just slowing things down, *fucking shoot them."
 you have my permission. What time is it? Time to fucking go.
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 That feeling when you do a thing a friend showed you how to do, and you think of
 them 🥰​🥰​🥰​
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 External post: https://dads.cool/users/InternetEh/statuses/113444510765579589
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 your reactions to your context are what define you, and when you're alone you
 are free to define yourself as you will.
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 yay I hit the 5 hour limit on claude-code! now I can play video games and write
 more issue tickets for the computer to work on for me.

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

 would give me more time to be revolutionary.
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 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."                                        │
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 I'm tired of working as hard as I can and *still* ending up wrong
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 `#!/bin/bash
 set -euo pipefail

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

 clear

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

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

 you should update the directories at the top yourself, of course. And give it a
 cursory glance to make sure it works on your setup.
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 250 years of no Supreme Court ruling allowing presidential immunity.

 No presidential immunity for Nixon, SCOTUS ruled Watergate tapes were not
 protected.

 No presidential immunity for Reagan for the crimes of Iran Contra and the most
 corrupt administration in US history (to that point in time)

 No presidential immunity for W over false evidence that took us to war with
 Iraq.

 The SCOTUS is The Elephant in the room.
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 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                         │
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 I wish I could "like" the "so-and-so is typing..." message on messaging
 applications
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 @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?
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 uh-oh, psycherwaul incoming. 'guess that's what happens when [insert events of
 recent life]

 == so ==
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 As a millennial, I'd just like to take a moment to thank all the gen-x people in
 my life.
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 😭 @user-1074 💯 @user-1209 ⭐
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 @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)
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 To program in C, or to disassociate into the world of video games, where a       │
 single magical kingdom of heroes and adventurous persons might fight against the │
 dark of chaos and decay? To strive for order and a semblance of peace, or to     │
 fall to the terrors of the night and ravages of horror? War, in all it's forms,  │
 is abhorrent, yet a fight for survival is honest and just. What perils have we,  │
 the warriors that seek the light? How zealous, how impassioned, how guided as    │
 such~! Perhaps you are misinformed, perhaps your cause is false, perhaps you     │
 derive true satisfaction from imperfect delights - alas, that our will be        │
 universal. BUT should that plight be alight, we'll wander until the night lit by │
 starlight be cast upon our shadowed form. Absoleth! Thine countrospect? Didst    │
 thou caress thine marked circumspects? fare thee well, most cherished of         │
 adamants.                                                                        │
 ... what was I saying? Oh yes I've been working on this program that utilizes a  │
 particularly interesting data structure that- whats that? Oh, it doesn't do any  │
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 @user-1573

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

 though knowing the reasons why I might suddenly die, odds are they'd just
 reflash the drives with windows or whatever xD
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 @user-883

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

 I'm definitely down to watch BGC later : )
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 A pocket-sized notebook and mechanical pencil is the most useful thing I've ever
 owned.
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 Helping your enemies succeed is a sure path toward putting them in a position
 where their inevitable downfall is significantly more catastrophic and deadly,
 thus allowing the propagation or advancement of our own ideals

 [said by someone who hasn't collapsed]

 [insert judgemental statement that causes the reader to be unsure of whether the
 post is for or against a particular concept or idea, yet somehow simultaneously
 cements it in their brain ever so slightly as a topic worth considering]
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 @user-1876
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 I don't have anyone to vent to but you, fedi
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 @user-1074

 if you're anything like me, then it *will* happen again. It's okay. A friend
 won't judge you, a friend would forgive you.
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 @user-211

 alternatively, a person with guns + a person with extra food = a well fed
 militia
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 @user-1071

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

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

 how cruel is it! to be the reason for distrust! alas, who can you go to for
 guidance if not anybody you trust?
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 @user-1218

 haha openstreetmap KNOWS

 tbh if you know anything about me online... you know how non-neurotypical I am
 =P
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 @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.
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 personified - like, the muses, from that Hercules cartoon when you were a kid.   │
 could also do aliens who can see the future, or angels and demons, or spirits of │
 the mountain and sand, or perhaps THAT particular mountain, or THAT particular   │
 pile of sand, or heck even just *every single interaction you ever engage in*.   │
 Thus, the reversed history of mythology brings you to the inevitable conclusion: │
 that all interactions are imagined                                               │
 and what follows from that?                                                      │
 all perception is imagined                                                       │
 and from that?                                                                   │
 all of reality is imagined                                                       │
 and from that?                                                                   │
 you are imagination                                                              │
 no more, no less                                                                 │
 you are the imagined creation of ultimate totality - the final and most complete │
 expression of a particular idea, mechanic, or communication. All these           │
 totalities are present in ye, so take heart! Your life is just about to start.   │
 What a beauty, what mirth! That you have brought here unto this earth. Take just │
 a moment, and love who you aren't - and tomorro                                  │
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 "mili" versus "mega" is a question of which direction you want to go.

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

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

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

 we use "mega" terminology to describe things that are often measured from small
 to large (like bytes to megabytes to kilobytes to gigabytes to terabytes to
 petabytes to... wait shit)
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 Take a break

 #ObliqueStrategies
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 what if we designed washing machines which cost twice as much but didn't damage
 clothes
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 I think a lot of my problems would be solved if I could internalize the
 thought/feeling of telling yourself "stay focused"
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 You know, there's no guarantee that Youtube or Gmail has to show you the EXACT
 SAME video or message that your friend shared with you. Or did they even share
 it at all? So hard to tell when they know all the communication you've ever had,
 because you only know each other online on their platforms, [read: US government
 observed platforms] [like, HTTPS] surely there's no room for someone to sneak in
 and edit your conversations. Surely the only way to securely communicate is to
 send pure PGP encrypted bytes to another target, wrapped in a TCP/IP header,
 with unknown intent or expression. Worst they could do then is just, y'know,
 block it entirely.
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 @user-462

 Uh-huh, sure. "Bird flu".
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 @user-232 @user-467 @user-468

 Almost as if they design events to create headlines that provoke equally
 contrastable reactions as those that are caused to be effected by both the right
 and the left
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 I have never been given anything other than positive affirmation.

 it's the silence that counts.
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 @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"                                                                          │
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 @user-794

 definitely go for the third, then you only have to work for 10 days! And 10 is a
 nice round number that fits on both hands.

 Side note, you can use your hands to draw.
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 "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
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 remember when leftists would talk about privilege
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 @user-951 Someone spammed a server, and their content was deleted 😅
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 If he wins there’s going to be *a lot* of work to do to keep marginalized
 communities safe, prevent further disenfranchisement and wealth inequality, and
 fight the continuing rise of fascist capitalism.

 So yes, vote. But also, now is the time to start organizing.

 #politics #capitalism #fascism #election
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 you've heard of an array of function pointers, yes,

 but have you ever heard

 of an array of GOTO labels?
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 @user-1695

 *never* accept your own death

 fight for every second of life, something something do not go quietly into that
 grim dark

 what the fuck are you supposed to do? Reading what you said got me pretty
 fucking pissed - keep talking for a start, it helps, people *need* to be pissed.

 I'm also broke as shit, don't know how I'm going to pay rent *and* eat, but
 it'll get done.

 Where do you live? Can other people help you? Medications are an organizational
 problem, not an insurmountable barrier. We'll make it work.
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 @user-753

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

 @user-754

 mutual aid is good, actually, because we don't talk to each other and plan a way
 to fix it permanently.
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 @user-30 Well maybe that's okay :)
 Dark Souls is a hell of a game that has stood the test of time. It's a classic
 now. It's okay if you're not much of a gamer.
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 good doesn't cancel out evil

 [two wrongs don't make a right]

 hence, paladins
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 @user-760

 I could teach you
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 @user-835

 neat, those both sound like useful pursuits. but you said only one of them is
 compensated, which seems unfortunate to me because it forces you to split your
 attention between them.
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 witches would "ride brooms" everywhere because they're quarterstaves, and when
 you have like 3 brooms being pushed in your face because your backup is there to
 help keep the men away, it's a lot more intimidating for would-be-rapists.

 Witches ride bikes everywhere (now that they've been invented) because they're
 easy, they're free, they're quiet, and they're cheap. They let you get away from
 any encounter, which is the BEST way to get out alive and still retain your
 experience point bonus.
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 I'm such a direct person I think, even though I often just sorta... shrug and    │
 ignore things that bother or hurt me? Like, whatevs.                             │
 but the moment I notice a pattern that is continually harmful I have to restrain │
 myself from moving to contest it. Hence why I talk about capitalism so much      │
 teehee, but its also common in my interpersonal and communal lives.              │
 "the purpose of the system is it's effects"                                      │
 the purpose of a person is how they make people feel                             │
 so if someone FOR A RANDOM EXAMPLE FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, constantly hurts    │
 other people by creating situations where they are harmed which creates a        │
 dramatic fight... or if someone speaks in circles for hours and hours and HOURS  │
 like this guy:                                                                   │
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwKpj2ISQAc                                      │
 or people who jump into a conversation and drive it through the underbrush, over │
 the ridge, around the bend, up and over the bridge, and then park it outside     │
 their ex girlfriend's house and hands you an egg and says "don't you wanna throw │
 this?" and you're like "weren't we talking about birds"                          │
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 me: "the entire capitalist project is borken! We must start from scratch! We
 *can* start from scratch! For the good of all mankind, we shall utilize our vast
 potential for good and benevolent ends, and to that end we must begin by
 dismantling capitalism!"

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

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

 gotta have backup plans ready no matter which way it goes.
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 External post: https://meow.social/users/TerrorBite/statuses/113398566133859844
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 we don't let children vote.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 we'll make this world better, using our own hands according to our own demands
 and in pursuit of our own plans.
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 @user-246

 that's my favorite way to pronounce it ^_^
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 wrote this in an hour, used a local LLM to generate the regexes.

 haven't tested it yet because I'm not on gentoo rn, so don't run it. which is
 why I shared the code as an image.

 if you really want the text of it then check out the visual description of the
 image.
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 [content warning: psycherwaul]
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 External post:
 https://kolektiva.social/users/Parasite/statuses/115232513301191722
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 If you've ever been deceived, you'll forever be aware of it as a possibility.
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 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..."
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 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.
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 dear capitalists: people spend the same amount of money no matter how many       │
 advertisements they see. No matter who's present and asking fro their money. No  │
 matter who'se expressing themselves to represent their value, no matter who's    │
 generating profit for your company, no matter who's                              │
 [wait shit she's lost the plot again - okay basically no matter how many options │
 people have, their choice isn't really that important. They'll take whatever you │
 give them, as long as it's good. But you've chosen (through your advertising and │
 various multitudinous product-making desirees [like... product branches, but     │
 also desired expression? what a fucking unique expression you want me to         │
 describe, jeeez] {not gonna comment}                                             │
 yeah so uhhh I think programming is a very interesting frame of reference. Your  │
 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                           │
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 you can only vote with your words if your words sway your audience.
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 remember when [historical event] wasn't that long ago?
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 2/3 is fair, right? I mean, to keep a majority without overwriting authority.

 .> go to sleep you fuck
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 Portland in the modern era gives me pre-revolution Philly vibes. Seattle,
 Boston. New York, SFC.

 And not JUST because of their relative locations, but somehow that helps a bit.
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 my room is one of the sacred places of this earth. spiritually powerful. psychic
 like immobile sites in Dominions 6

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

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

 EDIT: no, you can't visit. not unless I invite you. watch my nature
 documentaries (never been published... so far)
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 somehow, it is simultaneously Thursday everywhere at once.
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 "don't bite the hand that feeds you"

 a majestic predator seeks the hunt, not to feed.
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 oh yeah well if SSH keys are so secure then why doesn't every website on Earth
 require them

 really though why doesn't every website on Earth require them
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 @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*
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 one of my favorite websites is https://reddit.com/r/shruglifesyndicate/
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 brb leaving my apartment empty and unlocked (well, empty aside from a
 scaredy-cat) for the next "rest of the day" so if anyone wants to surprise me
 with a note saying "you're fucking stupid, lock your damn door" I'll read it
 tonight and reply "ha like a lock is gonna do anything besides give me an extra
 second or two of warning"

 ... it's so that your neighbors can hear if someone's breaking in with a
 crowbar, you stupid bitch

 ... too bad 80% of the floor of my apartment building is inexplicably empty.
 Just my floor, none of the other floors or buildings. Weird.

 ... anyone wanna start a commune in an apartment building? No no stupid idea.
 Unless...?

 ... anyway ttyl
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 I'm pretty confident that none of these words will survive the night. My most    │
 expressive of moments never seem to survive the "dust of awakening" wait that's  │
 not right "dust of forgetting" that sounds better - right so none of the things  │
 I say that actually reflect my moment ever seem to get preserved, here in the    │
 immutable content of the internet, that is as long as tech.lgbt exists. Sure     │
 hope that's something immutable, something that historians in the future will be │
 able to access. people who cared about who I was, who I am, and who I meant      │
 going forward. Surely that's the purpose of humanity, to improve things for all  │
 of posterity? Surely that one guy - thomas adamson? jefferson thomas? some guy,  │
 one of them, surely not one of the many guys who all kinda feel the same,        │
 because at this point there's more time periods than groups of people in a       │
 social setting, so it feels like that second one is more important. Surely we    │
 wouldn't just go with the most popular from that moment, surely we wouldn't just │
 pick w                                                                           │
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 @user-95

 that makes sense to me!
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 @user-620

 they shouldn't be expected to know how the internet works. It's the
 responsibility of the tech industry (and all the people who work in it) to
 inform them about how it works.

 that's kinda what lobbying is for...? kinda makes me wonder who lobbies for the
 poor.

 EDIT: or children, for that matter
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 you are the most beautiful when running with laughter in your eyes
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 it's not cities and rural, it's cities and capitals and mid-sized-towns and
 small towns and rural and transients and whoever else wants to have a
 differently-designed format for their inter-personal experience in the [moment,
 but also society - something with culture?]

 ... what was I saying? nothing nevermind click here
 --------------------------------------------> v
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 @user-750

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

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

 EDIT: either that, or they need you.
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 a device doesn't necessarily needs to turn on it's LEDs when it's online.
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 first step to cleaning a kitchen is always to unload the dishwasher.
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 having trouble naming things?

 just name it after it's inevitable logical conclusion! AKA the message you're
 trying to get across.
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 evil won't feel sorry for me. and yet it's only my only weapon for me.           │
 damn these fallible input methods. the computer lies when you read the screens   │
 from it's method that it applies to th screen which is a method that you input   │
 perceive it from.                                                                │
 and my fingers lie when received the information from my brain which I seek to   │
 transmit to you through the avenue of my brain which is my method of impulse to  │
 this world specifically you the viewer who is viewing this here in this moment   │
 the viewer who perceives the words which I'm saying.                             │
 the words that are defined by the line [trajectory] of my mind through this life │
 that we define through our actions and our mind's most crucial manifestations,   │
 this life that is defined by our circumstances. all throughout life, we are      │
 reacting to the moment, the moment which was cast forth from our ancestors and   │
 the circumstances of the previous moment, which (being cast forth) travel from   │
 the previous moment here into the moment to define our circumstances which       │
 define our act                                                                   │
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 look... evil doesn't care how "good" good has been. It's not in it's nature. So
 don't try and build your systems around accepting that behavior.

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

 ... I'm sorry my brain is low on RAM I guess, surely it's not outside of my
 control yep I think itis, damn
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 @user-599

 these are the kinds of things I say to myself all the time. I don't know why,
 but it feels true so I think it.
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 @user-588

 this just implies that bigfoot has a similar habitat to black bears. CORRELATION
 IS NOT CAUSATION something something
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 @user-5 @user-593

 what about temperature?
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 If you create an LLM that can explain data, then you can use it to explain the   │
 results of the last computation it ran.                                          │
 If you could also train that LLM (a statistical model) to generate data, through │
 the setting of options in a config file that create the result that you define   │
 through your interactions with it (and based on the data that it explains to the │
 user that is read from the file on the computer that it's computing from)        │
 then you could create a generalized personal assistant. All you have to do is    │
 explain the specific role that it's meant to undertake, (like being a secretary  │
 for your Discord communications) and the actions that it can take (like pinging  │
 your cell phone if it's really important) and give it the tools to accomplish    │
 said tasks (by setting flags in a config file that is then interpreted by a      │
 local program running on your computer that awaits interactions) then it might   │
 actually be a bit useful.                                                        │
 Unfortunately tech people are permitted only to seek dollars, so... chatbots.    │
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 @user-246

 does checking yourself into a mental hospital / the morgue count as a political
 option?
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 @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.
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 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                                                                               │
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 @user-747

 almost as if it's not AI, but large LANGUAGE models. And we all speak, don't we?
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 @user-596

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

 frankly I kinda preferred it that way, like... yeah. I'm trans, there's
 something wrong with me, please fix it by giving me the right hormones. Boom,
 easy, done.
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 @user-95

 Remember, kids: User data isn't an asset; it's a toxic industrial byproduct!
 (And should be regulated as such, including jail time for CEOs who allow it
 under their watch.)

 unless you create it yourself, store it locally, encrypted if you care about
 safety, and stored for the purposes of creating graphs and generating
 introspective understandings about yourself and your interactions with others.

 then, 5 years later you come across an encrypted file that you've lost the key
 to (or have you?) that's like, 3gb and you're like "do I really need a 3gb log
 file, surely it's not the last remaining pictures of my niece or like a recipe
 for my grandma's baked pudding" and before you know it you're carrying your
 entire life's work on your shoulders but you don't even know what any of it
 means.

 and then, when you die (in a good long while), your children's children will
 take on the songs of their ancestors, spoken in the tomes of volumes of ancient
 lore (you mean logs, right?) and then, some day in the fut
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 and the player that's currently running the simulation can type to the chat      │
 viewers watching and potentially recording. Like, if they thought it was         │
 interesting, they could save it to an eternal hard drive that would go toward    │
 the ongoing AI training.                                                         │
 of course, such a thing would only apply to conventional warfare, the kind that  │
 you expect to not expect. After all it's constantly changing, as new             │
 technologies are adapted into use. Different conditions cause different effects, │
 and whenever there's a stalemate (because everyone has reached the peak of, say, │
 metal armor) then it's usually time for either a shakeup or a contest of         │
 producing arms. And honestly after the world wars we kinda realized that type of │
 approach didn't work very well. It's just, burning up your resources for...      │
 what? war has no purpose. We all just kinda want to live our lives, and work     │
 toward a common collective cosietal goal.                                        │
 technology can be stressful. That's all the more reason we should expand it's    │
 development and hinder it's impa                                                 │
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 @user-246

 no such thing, humans are constantly naming reality through our memories. It
 just has a visual identifier rather than a verbal one.

 EDIT: also emotional and syntactical (data, conclusions, perceptions)
 identifiers
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 │ 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/                  │
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 diffuse, in the moment, it's helpful to redefine

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

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

 I'm not sure how this relates... could you repeat that last bit? oh right:
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 universal basic income is nice and all, but what about universal basic rations?
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 @user-192

 I'm gonna make some right now : )
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 listen judges are not meant for organizing society, they're supposed to be a
 focused and crucial tool or implement for a society's functioning (like, a
 scalpel to a surgeon or a paring knife to a chef)

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

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

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

 we gotta work with what we got. If a task needs doing, then the tools at our
 disposal will be applied to it - if every hammer looks like a nail, then
 something something I'd like to get nailed by a hammering plank of wood with
 washboard abs oooooo baby
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 they say if you take wayyyyy too much tylenol, with alcohol you'll die.          │
 what they don't tell you is that you'll wake up in a hospital bed where a doctor │
 tells you that you have two weeks to live. And it's going to be intensely        │
 painful in a way that isn't affected by painkillers.                             │
 It's a terrible way to go. Absolutely dreadful. Worse than drowning.             │
 Kinda makes me wonder how we'll feel if capitalism kills us from suffocating on  │
 our own fumes. Will we notice in time? or will we spurn the "doctors" yet again  │
 as we hear "oh hey another degree celsius, you only sorta know what that means,  │
 you don't even really know how to spell it. But yeah that's... some amount of    │
 degrees, going up on average in the world. Heh oh well...                        │
 meanwhile your oxygen forests are burning                                        │
 if evil had a while, it'd do all that it could to bring an end to man.           │
 I heard carbon % in air causes psychotic symptoms in humans. wonder if maybe the │
 best day to plant a tr                                                           │
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 EDIT from much later: I wanted to add that being interrupted is great because it
 means that my characters can be deleted by a power outage or internet breakage
 or inter-system intentional delete-age, or even just forgetting to save before
 turning off my computer... fate will hide the words I'm not meant to say.
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 @user-613 @user-614

 I'm a patriot, and I didn't go. Didn't even hear about it because when they say
 "patriot" they mean something different than me, when I say "I'm a patriot"
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 @user-346

 Sorry, I've never been there : (
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 just watched a movie from a while back. a movie that had some scenes cut, as if
 I had remembered them in a dream.
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 sometimes ethics can lead to dead ends.                                          │
 a hunter gatherer lifestyle is surely the most ethical state for humanity to     │
 embody, and yet somehow it's not the most desirable. I don't think many of us    │
 would trade air conditioning and machine produced clothes for sticks and mud.    │
 nevermind the amount of clothes produced in sweatshops because it's cheaper,     │
 nevermind the oil cost of being a bit cooler, nevermind the (insert externality  │
 here), modern life is more ethical than the past.                                │
 a rocket can't reach escape velocity without burning a boatload of fuel, so      │
 surely burning fuel is just?                                                     │
 ah, but you forget, we could design zeppelins that are safe, stable, and can     │
 raise / lower themselves depending on the heat of the gasses in their forms.     │
 Surely we could get to space like that, in a way that doesn't necessarily burn   │
 boatloads of fuel, so surely burning fuel is unjust?                             │
 ah, but you forget, there are simply some tasks that require consumption, at     │
 least until we build a space elevator. No gas is lighter than a vacuum.          │
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