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 @user-1622

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

 might not be audacity, but instead just plain ignorance.
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 @user-28

 because "deserving money" to a reasonable person sounds like "deserving access
 to the goods and services that a pittance might afford"

 but to them "deserving money" means "did they earn those luxuries with their own
 luck and effort like me, a person who works very hard and definitely has earned
 everything I have"

 basically, a "blood sweat and tears" tax before you can have nice things like
 roofs and clothes and nourishment

 thing is... life is hard for people who need dollars. Their judgement reflects a
 lack of understanding of what people who lack resources go through.
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 "but what about their legitimate grievances"

 uh hello I'd like a number 5, a number 9, extra pickles, some fresh human blood
 supplied by the guy behind the counter with the pretty green eyes, a number 2,
 make it a combo, some fresh icicle drippings even though it hasn't snowed since
 last year (RIP winter), a side of fries, and a diet coke. Large. Actually make
 it two diet cokes. Yep, both large. Alright see you in a sec.
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 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-1153

 what kind of meta are you referring to? instance stuff?
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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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 there are very few professions that are naturally more suited to a schizophrenic
 than a normal person.

 One of them is beggar, another is prophet, and a third is "massive
 disappointment" but that comes with the territory.

 have you considered that maybe you're just a loser

 yes I have and I decided that all I can do is my best, and if my best loses then
 what else could I have done? Wait for help? Yeah. I do that too.

 It feels like an encirclement, and all you can do is hunker down and wait to be
 relieved. Or fight to the last, it's up to you. I hear they brutalize the skulls
 of their prisoners after executing them, so, I don't know about you but I'm not
 surrendering. Not gonna roll those dice.

 you are in fantasy, again

 sorry. Should stay here, present, in the moment. Like when I sat out on the park
 bench for like 30 minutes straight without moving a muscle last night. Or when I
 sat and contemplated the nature of a bog for two hours last september. Or when I
 woke from a dream that turned out to be life.
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 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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 my favorite foods when I was recovering from surgery in thailand was butter,
 bread, and jam

 why does butter taste different in other countries?

 "oh it's a different company, oh something something mineral compositions of
 soil"

 yeah. fucking. right.
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 when your contracting company sends your resume to an employer, send your own    │
 copy as well. They can choose to deal with your union representative or directly │
 with you, which will take up time during each of your day. however unions are    │
 more easily dealt with because the issues they deal with are the ones that       │
 impact most of their workplace. it's up to the scale of the company and project  │
 so it's really on a case-by-case.                                                │
 I think it'd be cool if someone made some kind of "desktop widget" or "terminal  │
 UI interface that can be in one corner of the screen like asciiquarium or        │
 whatever" of my mastodon text-entry field. Could also take input from other      │
 sources too, like nvim or text-entry-field.                                      │
 you could follow along as I write                                                │
 like... letter by letter as it updates automatically. PUSH/PULL requests for all │
 the GETTING of POSTITS and whatnot.                                              │
 [organizing tip: post-its can be passed along]                                   │
 [so don't put anything permanent on them]                                        │
 [but all papers must go back where they belong]                                  │
 [to ensure work is organized]                                                    │
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 I like being alone. But if I'm alone for too long, I suffocate. I start acting
 like a weird nerd who doesn't know what to do with their hands.

 If I spend too much time with people, I get exhausted and I can't think
 straight. I start using other people's mannerisms instead of my own.

 I'm not an introvert, or an extrovert, I think the dichotomy is stupid and
 people have completely separate needs that deplete and recharge at their own
 rates.
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 a paradox game where you play as a species colonizing the earth

 [I've been hiding, teehee]

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

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

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

 "here's how to explain it to executives - your company is non-functional until
 you incorporate processes and decisions that lead to a sustainable future. this
 is impermissable, the earth was designed to receive a certain amount of heat
 from the sun. plants absorb heat because they give you shade. oil is made out of
 thousands of years old plants. if we burn all the plants, then no oil can be
 produced. we'll be extincted
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 @user-243

 luckily for humanity, we don't necessarily have to all realize it. Our true
 nature shines forth through the law of averages, and we've long ago hit the
 escape velocity required to reach the bright future even if we only did 51% as
 good as those who came before us.

 All therapy is healing the wounds of our ancestors for posterity. Similarly, all
 kindness is mending a rift in the heart of another. And we, as humans, can't
 help but heal.
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 @user-171

 Hi : )
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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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 an fps map where one team has the height advantage (battlements on a castle      │
 perhaps) and the other has to push through their field of fire to get to the     │
 objective                                                                        │
 the trick is that the people on the ground have hitscan weapons, but the people  │
 on the high ground have slower projectiles. Meaning the snipers have no cover,   │
 and the rocket launchers don't need to dodge.                                    │
 I believe this would upend the traditional dynamic and reduce the negative       │
 aspects of both playstyles - traditionally, snipers will getcha from halfway     │
 across the map (but really they are much closer and in cover, you just didn't    │
 see them, n00b) while projectile classes need to dodge (skillfully) and get      │
 close enough that their attacks have a chance of hitting the target.             │
 In the proposed map style, snipers would get no cover but be forced to dodge,    │
 introducing variability to their aiming in a way that may be more fun to some.   │
 In addition, the projectile classes must take care to utilize cover effectively  │
 without falling off the thin battlements.                                        │
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 a strict meta is when the game is too rock-paper-scissors-y.
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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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 @user-638                                                                        │
 In the 2000s when the Bush administration prevented people from working with     │
 stem cell research I remember my father going on rants about the same kind of    │
 thing.                                                                           │
 "They're limiting our access to information and the future of humanity because   │
 of their religion!" that kind of thing                                           │
 I loved listening to him. He was so passionate about that kind of thing. I think │
 he got a little disillusioned sometime between now and then, because now he just │
 tries to do the best he can with what tools he has available to him. And I love  │
 him for it.                                                                      │
 He (mostly) abandoned his grand narratives because as the right got worse, the   │
 "left" sorta stayed the same, and he never forgave them for that. He still       │
 votes, and he'll still rant about that kind of thing, but only the stuff that    │
 affects him personally - like electric cars or cannabis or things like that. A   │
 democrat through and through.                                                    │
 He lives in a different country now, and I wish I could see him. But I cherish   │
 our phone calls and the few holidays when he visits.                             │
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 @user-1268

 so true

 and privilege that does depend on the oppression of others should not exist
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 "No I haven't played that PC game before. Do you want to watch me play it for    │
 the first time? We can have a laugh and eat cheetos as I die to the first boss a │
 hundred times. Maybe next time we'll get tacos and then perhaps we'll find that  │
 we're spending so much time talking about things that we never really got a      │
 chance to engage with the game. Until next week of course, when we'll definitely │
 spend more time playing. Maybe even with friends? I know a guy who's into this   │
 game but I never really played it with him - maybe we could - oh yeah sure       │
 totally we'll talk about that next week."                                        │
 "or maybe we'd unlock the secrets hidden in the narrative, and learn cool        │
 lessons we could share with one another. Like two 12 year olds playing Ocarina   │
 of Time together, working through each boss. "let me try this time" "yeah that   │
 one got me too" "ah so close" "YEAH DUDE you nailed it" "this part is kinda      │
 scary ngl" "wait shit when did we use that health potion"                        │
 old hardware forced us into a different experience compared to z                 │
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 @user-889

 omg bottom left T.T
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 I wish I was capable T.T
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 You only think that because it was contrasted with the Soviet union, which
 didn't exert power in that way.
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 @user-907

 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer?
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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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 the part of me that thinks "woof I gotta stop posting on the fediverse" is not
 the part of me that posts on the fediverse.
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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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 @user-1203

 perhaps they learned from our mistakes, or they were guided by better sense
 during their founding.

 I wonder, with our title of Commander in Chief, do those governments you
 mentioned also invest supreme military direction into their head of state? I
 don't see how it could be any other way, as the military must be tied to the
 will of the people.
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 damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe
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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 wish there was a language that was as simple as C but had [insert complex
 language feature here]"
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 I truly believe weed is good for me. Not medicine - it is nutritious.
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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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 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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 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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 this is the simplest implementation of scalable anarchism I could think of. tell
 me how it's flawed so I can improve it before I need it.
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 I'm not really a "cookies and tea with honeysuckle and purslaine" kind of witch

 I'm more like a... "here eat this gruel and drink lots of water, it'll give you
 energy for the long road to come" kind of witch
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 I'm tired of working as hard as I can and still ending up wrong
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 about to download "Snakes on a Plane" (2006) to see what all the fuss is about
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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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 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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 @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-1692

 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-889

 I'm always here if you need me. Let me know if you'd prefer Telegram or
 something.
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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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 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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 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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 Steps to revolution:Invert power structures with unions Care for people with
 mutual aid Vote for the Democrat so we have a few more years of peace Teach
 people to always be learningConnect to people on a personal or spiritual level
 Make the world a better place, whether that's by sweeping a street corner or
 helping people smile, it doesn't really matter how. What matters is the
 intention.Improve your self and your life. Do pushups, eat better, drink more
 water, spend time writing (writing is thinking), and take time to sit and stare
 at the flowers.Kill the part of yourself that cringes. Everyone's figuring
 things out and its okay to say "haha okay then"Spend time with animals.Make
 mistakes. Apologize for them. Learn from them. Stay mobile in your character.
 Develop new ways of being.
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 @user-883

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

 You're absolutely right. It's easy to think of the internet as this encapsulated
 entity "the world", but really it's "the people whose computers are physically
 connected to your computer using a limited and tangible piece of infrastructure
 comprised of copper wires that are laid between the router/switch that connects
 to your computer... and the internet service provider which directs your
 traffic. Then it probably goes through some cables under the ocean or whatever,
 and eventually after traversing many indeterminate passthrough locations
 eventually arrives at the computing infrastructure that comprises the access
 point that another person (presumably in another country) uses to express their
 thoughts toward you (the person who sent the original message) in the hopes that
 you might one day correspond.

 I mean... That's a lot of points of failure. I sure hope that we can sustain
 such connection, in the face of [redacted, whichever circumstances may come in
 the near future]
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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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 might spend 200$ on a flea collar for my cat tho because she needs it.

 turns out it was only 60$, which is a nice surprise.
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 nobody wants to read a whole bible. that sucks. what if these cool guys read it
 to us. omg he's so hot.

 oh, right. well... make them old and stuffy? not a chance, they're boring.
 (rude)

 I like old people actually, I want to spend as much time with them that I can

 I just... never initiate reactions. I'm too stealthy, it's just how I do.

 you ask me how I'm a witch? I ask why aren't you. magic is cool, I'm so hyped
 for the future when every computer everywhere is working for you.

 crash boom huh what was that? the economy? what do you mean the economy?
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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
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 @user-982

 funny how that works
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 [Image: Screenshot_20240113-003148_Firefox.png]
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 I wonder how many people hate me?

 silence is indicative of allies or foes.
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 catratfoxfolkmix say that five times fast I dare ya
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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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 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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 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  │
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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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 @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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 what if we designed washing machines which cost twice as much but didn't damage
 clothes
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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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 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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 Games where every time you play them it feels different, my beloved
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 @user-570 @user-246

 I'll make a game if you do! I promise mine will be worse than yours so you can
 feel better about your progress!
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 literally just... if you want to connect to me, come hang out on my wavelength.

 or like, invite me to join yours, and I'll do my best to show how I feel about
 the things you share.
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 @user-1218

 emotional labor is labor

 rest when you're tired. eat when you're hungry. drink when you're thirsty, and
 laugh when it bubbles up within you.
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 @user-1265

 protect your wife. if you can, be in a better "place" and wait for the "times"
 to move forward. the both of you are important for the world of tomorrow.

 if the fascists take control, it won't matter that they'll come for her first.
 they must not take control.
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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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 I don't have anyone to vent to but you, fedi
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 wow what a sopping evening

 glad I'm not out in the rain
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 @user-1074

 i know that feeling
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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 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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 gonna mostly stay quiet today, because you know what to do. If you haven't done
 it already, vote

 rest assured though I will be writing, even if I'm not posting.
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 @user-883

 what would you prefer? I exist in this IRC space at your behest, command me o'
 wizest of teachers. *.*
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 @user-883

 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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