Poems similar to: sentience

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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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 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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 linux is queer culture
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 beep boop gonna pedal my bike

 might spend 200$ on a flea collar for my cat tho because she needs it.
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 @user-570

 me three!
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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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 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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 you can laminate things with packing tape if you need to. It's more time
 consuming than a laminator but the result is decent enough.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4
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 @user-1385

 all it would take is a second laser thing and software support !!
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 This was the first bash script I ever wrote.

 It's been updated a little, it was a bash alias first, but this is what it looks
 like now.

 Kinda shows what kinds of problems I needed to solve most.
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 @user-883

 wait until they learn what you've been working on while they were getting better
 at... whatever they're more experienced in than you.

 the computer pictures you post are legitimately some of the coolest I've known!
 I don't exactly go looking for that kind of stuff because it's not my thing, but
 I appreciate seeing all the neat stuff you're working on.
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 wow what a sopping evening

 glad I'm not out in the rain
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 "Hi, welcome to my home, this is my cat, his name is Gopher, but I mostly just
 call him Kitty or Dude."

 the cat introducing himself "hi my name is Yoursuchagoodkittyyesyouare but you
 can call me Yesyouare or Suchagood for short."
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 what if google translate translated literally so you could get a feel for the
 grammar
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 what matters is that you are understood, not that your words fully describe.

 can you trust by implisight? then transcription becomes less valuable. so long
 as you agree on the specific conclusions, meaning can be flexible. this allows
 for moments of insight, as you make decisions on the other's character rather
 than their vocation or talents.

 beware, if someone wants to work against you, they can use these implicit
 conversational commonalities, -- stack overflow --

 use cannabis when you want to utilize creativity.

 most artists have too much creativity to benefit from the drug. the recreation
 of their complicated thoughts can never be complete because it doesn't fit in
 the entirety of their mind. -- stack overflow --

 fireworks that you can steer with a 2$ wire controller

 I mean, you could just shoot into the sky.

 the sky doesn't light up during ww3

 there are quite a few car alarms though.

 fear not the boom or honest? social media decides, but rather the tune of the
 automobile -so-
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 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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 conservatives will read about project 2025 and think "that's not me, I'm a red
 blooded american, I hate nazis and communists equally"

 liberals will read about project 2025 and think "gosh I wish there was something
 I could do"
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 @user-982

 funny how that works
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 @user-1218

 ha wild

 well, survival games! shareware games are more of a distribution style and less
 of a genre, like "subscription software" versus "usable software"
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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
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 you're allowed to be pissed at someone without being accused of splitting on
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 In 2025, if you want to create a piece of software your options are to either:
 devote your life to it, or use AI to build a semi-working prototype that you can
 use to pitch your idea to a bunch of people who have devoted their lives to
 learning how to use your idea as documentation while they build it from scratch,
 throwing out most of the code but keeping all the checklists and
 progress-trackers you built along the way, perhaps even utilizing some of your
 tooling that you used while constructing the scaffolding of this monstrous
 application that you won't be using most of the source-code for.
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 don't mind me, just weaponizing plurality

 leveraging, please say leveraging next time
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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-1833

 the trick is to just make it and point people toward it as if it's supposed to
 be there.
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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-246

 The internet both enlightens us to our shared connection but also restricts us
 by the promise of shared connection, but with the caveat of incongruent
 communication (different languages)
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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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 hey does anyone want to hire me to do literally anything?

 I'll work for peanuts, and I'm pretty good at programming in C. I write pretty
 well, and I'm excellent at customer service (though my profile would beg to
 differ.)

 I have experience at large corporations and small ones, and I live in Portland
 OR

 I do game design, and many other things besides, and I'm friendly and kind. I
 promise I won't wear my witch hat to the meeting with investors, unless you
 think they'd be into that?

 I'm great with animals, better than people in fact, and I'm quite good with
 people, as they're just animals at best. I'm not as strange as I seem to be, at
 least not when you're dancing with my mask.

 I've grown quite bored, you see, and what better thing is there to be? than a
 working professional who knows what's best.

 I believe in our shared future, so if you'd like to work on a project just let
 me know - I work hard. A little too hard, because odds are I'll burn out after a
 year or so.

 I'm quite sharp, and I learn quickly.
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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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 deleting messages is pointless.

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

 anything you say on the internet can and WILL be used against you
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 @user-203

 best shape for a state to be ^_^
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 @user-898

 good luck finding a match for me >: )
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 @user-970

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

 which is right on time.
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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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 what is it with me and buying steam games for long-lost friends while drunk?     │
 I swear I'm not depressed about my upcoming new job, I'm just doing all these    │
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 Yeah that sounds good, better post that on the internet where everyone in the    │
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 the first argumentative paper I ever wrote for school was on Julius and Ethel
 Rosenberg
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNln9mXuTI

 angry femme
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 @user-932

 eeeeep if my pickle had a face I would slice it into bits and throw it to the
 ducks. They probably wouldn't like the smell but it's the thought that counts.

 And yes I would hear the screams of the pickle and I would cackle because that's
 JUST WHAT AN OLD-STYLE WITCH DOES EEEEHEHEHEHEHE
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 downside of being gregarious is that everyone you meet in Portland these days is
 a fucking fed -.-
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 What does your template for a new project look like? Here's mine:
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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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 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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 in regards to my food habits, PLEASE do as I say, not as I do. for your own
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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 wish there was a language that was as simple as C but had [insert complex
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 @user-30 What does "just like dark souls" mean to you? When people say that they
 usually mean it's timing/reflex based, kinda hardcore, and based on memorizing
 boss patterns. Which imho isn't all that useful of a description because lots of
 games are like that.
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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-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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 @user-883

 Shows how long I've been without playing SWBF2 with friends 🙃

 I'm sure there's a MUCH better way to do it on Linux. I just haven't looked into
 it yet.
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 Building community without structure is kinda like being a quest-giving
 non-player character in World of Warcraft.

 I don't mean that you stand around waiting for a player to wander nearby before
 shouting at them to do what you want. Not like that.

 Building community without structure is more like meeting someone randomly,
 knowing them for longer than a bus ride or a baseball game, and once you've
 decided that they're cool saying "hey there's someone you might like to meet."

 If they're into it, then talk to the other person, and see if they want to make
 a new friend. Try not to recommend someone who has a lot on their mind.

 If they hit it off, great!
 If not, oh well!

 Worst case scenario the coffee shop only sells two drinks.

 If you're gregarious enough, after a while you might even have enough people for
 a potluck. Just don't forget to keep adding, and eventually it'll start to feel
 more communal.
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 The reason they're pushing so hard for LLMs and AI is because they can afford a
 zillion Nvidia a100s and you can't.
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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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 @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-883

 hehe if I don't understand how it works it's difficult for me to use things. My
 Linux friends get so exasperated with me because I'm like "cool script gimme
 like 2 days to figure it out" and they're like "bro just use these flags" and
 I'm like "no"
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 @user-246
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 "how much you wanna bet the ringwraiths were created on accident by the elves
 when they were attempting to inspire a river with racing horses (like the
 Rauros) and they just covered it up by slowly, over generations, sneaking into
 Man's record-chambers and editing the recallings?? I mean they COULD do that, so
 why would they NOT do that??? It's not like books have checksums!!! Wake up
 sheeple, Sauron never existed! We've been played for absolute fools, they can
 LITERALLY climb up walls and don't leave any footprints! WE LIVE IN A HOUSE OF
 STONE"rambling a "prophet of doom" [read: modern day lunatic] on the streets of
 Minas Tirith that nobody listens to because they don't know what a checksum
 means and neither does he so he can't explain it but still he shares a common
 mutual connection to others who might be present in that moment (which whose
 listeners would correspond to you, dear reader, as compared to me, the
 "reader"/interpreter, the one who's reading the book)

 Except with like, EVERY book. That I'v
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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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 @user-941                                                                        │
 well, your computer only has so many 1s and 0s that it can use at once. Like,    │
 having a trillion hands that can each hold a single grain of rice. Every         │
 character in that txt file would be like, 8 grains of rice, minimum, meaning     │
 you'd need at least 8 "hands" (or spots to put a zero or a one) for each letter! │
 Hmmmm that's a lot of bits and bytes if everyone's writing to the same file.     │
 Maybe if we split the file up into smaller sections, then we could just read     │
 part of it at once. Then we could "scroll" through it to make sure we've read    │
 the whole thing, starting from the top and going to the bottom.                  │
 ah but if everyone's SSHing into the same computer and reading it there, then    │
 that computer will have to present different parts of the file at different      │
 times to different people, as they read from the top to the bottom. Maybe we     │
 could just send them the file, so they can read it at their leisure?             │
 Yeah! And we could use tags to organize it and make it look pretty, like an HTML │
 file except... wait hang on                                                      │
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 "so I was walking down the street the other day and I came across a grocery
 store, right? and anyway long story short so as I was walking through this
 grocery store I saw a bag of marbles - wait no they were nuts, with like...
 cherries and grapes in them. actually it was cranberries, I think, the cherries
 weren't in season. so these dried cranberries tasted really tart and sweet, and
 I thought "huh maybe they're dried cherries after all" and so I asked the
 attendent or whatever and she was like "sir you need to pay for that" and I'm
 like, yeah okay how much and she said it was 10$ so I'm like "dang that's a good
 deal, I'm proud and amazed of our modern infrastructure and all the hard work of
 people who don't get paid enough to make it happen" and she's like "make what
 happen" and I'm like "oh the... the this thing" and I held up the bag of
 cherries and she's like "oh uh, yeah it is nice, I guess I don't really think
 about it much" so anyway I started thinking about what else I could bu
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 the standard keyboard was designed when global variables were more common, hence
 why the CAPS_LOCK key is so prominent.
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 found this silly diagram in my pictures folder for no reason whatsoever, hehe so
 silly amiright

 (guess which square I'm in lmaooooo)
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 @user-1037

 Lua with 0 based indexing would be the perfect language (okay maybe LuaJIT)

 (i try to hurt as few people as I can as little as I can but it's impossible to
 not hurt anyone)
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 why the heck do GAME engines not include a skippable tutorial that lights up UI
 elements and explains how everything works by navigating you through building an
 example project one step at a time

 like, game jam material, nothing fancy
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 can we compromise by napping in the hammock?

 "beware sunburn"

 oooookay, how about brushing our hair?

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

 SEBUM. It will melt the SEBUM in my hair.
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 Relinquish your privacy, and you deserve not a scrap of it.                      │
 "those who would sacrifice a bit of [privacy] for a bit of [convenience] deserve │
 neither" - babe-roham lincoln or thomas bettersons or something.                 │
 ...                                                                              │
 EDIT: okay but so like c'mon it's the 21st century we live in a society          │
 yeah                                                                             │
 there's a lot of paths we could take, that's the nature of circumstate. Depends  │
 on who's yearning for the future... true true okay how about we all share a      │
 singular belief - whatever a fully open sourced and non-biased machine decided   │
 was our best and most unified direction? then we could slowly build out          │
 accomodations that would provide for people who didn't agree with the same       │
 things that we did. Essentially, "we're in charge because we're the largest, but │
 we're going to provide to you to the equal ratio that you're population          │
 represents." Essentially, we all can have what we want. AKA TRUE JUSTICE, like   │
 Adventure Time when Finn solves a problem by helping BOTH SIDES of the argument. │
 (usa politics are not comprehensive).                                            │
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 if trump's too busy legislating trans people, he won't be legislating unions.

 if trump's too busy kidnapping immigrants, he won't be deporting dissidents.

 if trump's too busy quelling rebellion, he won't be able to contest our
 military.

 if our military's too busy contesting abroad, then they won't be able to rebirth
 liberty.

 if liberty struggles to be born, we will continue to get more angry.

 how much longer before the snake eats it's tail? everyone they push out is
 another ally to some foreign army.
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 you can trust me, but please don't rely on me, for all of my power is soft.
 sometimes people just don't want to do what I tell them to, and I wouldn't have
 it any other way.
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 @user-777

 being correct isn't really power

 so true T.T
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 protest sign idea:

 line 1: "look around"
 line 2: "these are your comrades"
 line 3: "get to know them"
 line 4: "gather phone numbers"
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 @user-379 @user-366 @user-380 @user-381 @user-382 @user-367

 I, being a witch, posted something on Nextdoor a few days before Halloween about
 how the phases of the moon at the time were the harbinger of dark and ancient
 evils that crept through the night on that particular day, one day, just once,
 one night per year, because... y'know, Halloween is supposed to be spooky?

 People there hated it. They muted me and blocked me and called me names. So I
 deleted my account because it's obviously not designed for witches like me xD
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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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 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-1074

 true. your idea is more revolutionary, mine is more reformist. each would be
 more fit for different political environments.
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 okay how about this: one side of the political spectrum gets to pick the rules,  │
 and the other picks the people playing the game (carrying out the rules, like    │
 government work and stuff)                                                       │
 then they switch every 2 years or whatever. they can vote to decide which group  │
 of people do what, and if something is owned by one side then the other can't    │
 touch it. Ah, but what if it's in the way? Well, then move it duh"               │
 hey, you know pride? yeah, that event that happens once a year? sure would be    │
 nice if we met people we didn't know there. if we knew everyone else. if we      │
 spent most of it sharing our discussions, and talking about what we're most      │
 proud of. then, okay here's an idea, we could filter and organize and figure out │
 which one of us has the most "votes" in terms of what's the things we agree on   │
 and then we could pick our own CEO                                               │
 yeah I'd totally work for the gay company, they got rainbows and shit that's     │
 awesome.                                                                         │
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 butt stuff,                                                                      │
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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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 Prisons are great because in the ancient and storied past we'd just fucking kill
 people.

 Now, we harbor collections of people roughly organized by volatility that are
 aligned against the current regime. And should that regime deign to become
 unethical, god forbid of course, but should the purpose of the 2nd amendment (or
 is it the fifth? Or the seventh? I get them confused) become relevant, then
 perhaps it might be useful to have collections of people roughly organized by
 volatility who might be individually evaluated to determine if their particular
 type of volatility is anti-thetical to humanity, or to the current regime.
 Because one of those types of people is perhaps useful to the future regime, and
 humanity, while the other should probably stay where they are.

 They say there are good cops and bad cops, and if there are good people and bad
 people, then there must necessarily be good judges and bad juries. In which case
 some of the people who are explicitly not aligned to the will of the current
 regime will be good prisoners or bad prisoners.

 I bet some of them are better or worse shots, as well. But that's not really
 relevant if the current regime holds the keys to their cell. Or is it?
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 If I'm trying to get a game or piece of software working, I'll pretty much       │
 install any package that some random post from 2017 tells me to. Sometimes it    │
 feels like I'm a Linux grandma clicking on things that say "bored of your        │
 marriage? click here for games!" and I say to myself "well my marriage is fine,  │
 but I enjoy horsing around from time to time" and then I get a virus and my      │
 things break and I go to my niece who's just a darling and say "hello niece, I   │
 can't check my emails anymore because I downloaded some spam, can you give me    │
 some tips on how to fix my computer?" and she just rolls her eyes because this   │
 is like, the fifth random package I downloaded just because some random forum    │
 poster that SAYS it's from 2017 but who I don't actually KNOW is from 2017 and   │
 isn't just some automated LLM output that tells you to downloaded automatically  │
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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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 If your surroundings changed overnight, how much of the past would you remember?
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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     │
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 @user-192

 ty u 2 babe
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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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 take time with your preparation, and act swiftly in execution. There are only so
 many days in the final hours, but there's still a few yet more.
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 Checkers, but played with chess pieces, and every time you make it back to your
 edge from theirs you get an extra king. Oh and you can expand as far left and
 right as you'd like. And pawns can move two spaces left or right on any turn.
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