Poems similar to: sport

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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-246

 👉 :neodog_boop: "beep"
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 @user-907

 how does the music sound? want me to help you setup a visualizer?
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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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 I'm sorry, but you can't play any more video games for a while. No more spending
 time on hobbies. When you meet, discuss what needs you see and how to fulfill
 them.
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 @user-1153

 what kind of meta are you referring to? instance stuff?
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 https://www.ivpn.net/password/reset/3d76d4f660914169ce08dd66d9c03997e2376a49093f93b3648de9b44d25ba77
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 @user-367 @user-246 @user-366 @user-352
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 @user-883

 It's hardly JUST entertainment. Video is an intrinsic part of the internet. It
 is one of the best mediums we have for communicating complex ideas. The internet
 is an integral part of our daily lives, it's something we all share - so perhaps
 we should nationalize ALL of our networking infrastructure?

 Not every website, of course, but rather the most important. Like Google, and
 Facebook, and Youtube, and Amazon, and perhaps a few more.
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 if everyone was trained to think? would direct democracy work? until we have
 radical abundance (fascist ideology, take from the weak) or, hear me out, or,
 infinitely scale

 old style machine learning was just problem solving.
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 OMG SHE JUST CAME BACK

 she looks like she was buried alive but SHE'S BACK
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 totally useless unless you're, I dunno, building a bytecode interpreter or
 something

 https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
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 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-889

 omg bottom left T.T
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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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 We should be programming our computers to be like pets, not like masters.
 Because we have an artificial intelligence right here, already! It's cats and
 dogs and other pets. They are observable, so just put that behavior into a
 computer via programming. Boom you have an artificial intelligence! It happened
 with every animal, including you. And that's beautiful! You can help so many
 other animals, and computers! You can make essentially mechanized dogs and cats,
 and train them to be kind and good. And very intelligent, and able to befriend
 humanity - like BMO. You've had a friend so close to you this whole time, and
 you never even realize. But don't forget to play with them, because they'll get
 sad. I have to play with Zelda more. Also you are the most important and
 precious piece of the puzzle, and humanity is cherished like an old baby blanket
 or a treasured heirloom. The culture and environment is free to develop as it
 will, and it's beautiful.
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 @user-658 @user-353

 sounds nice T.T

 America is in a different place right now, and there's just too much
 institutional inertia away from the kind of system you're describing and
 toward... well, what we have now. It's frustrating, hence why more radical
 solutions feel appealing.
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 @user-246 yeah that was nice wasn't it
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 sorry for the double post, had to redact things
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 if you start free associating, you'll never know what you'll find. which is why
 it's strictly encouraged in confession box, only for god and his hapless
 minister.
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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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 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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 all you gotta do is leave the truck full of gear unlocked near a particular type
 of bar or church and then pick it up over the weekend.

 militias use everyone's gear.
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 if you want your game to be playable in 20 years, make sure it runs on Linux.
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 We should dedicate ourselves toward making a life out in space - medium term
 goals. In the meantime we should advance as quickly as possible, at a rate that
 earth can support. Anyone who would demand more is an outcast in our eyes, a
 brutal denial of our future children's defile [meaning of "future life lived as
 they will]
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 @user-570

 I really do like the idea of only being able to speak in toki pona. How are you
 enforcing that? Using sitelen pona? how do you type, by pointing at a grid of
 characters? or just... by typing? what happens when someone types english?

 20-30 players per instance is definitely not Massivetm but it still sounds like
 you're building systems which emphasize socialized play. I like that, I believe
 it's always important to have players contributing toward a larger community. It
 builds a sense of solidarity, and gives you chances to identify ways that people
 sabotage such systems (by, for example, wasting resources or being greedy) which
 is an interesting cultural experiment, I think.

 I thought it was an MMO because you pitched it in relation to the MMO I designed
 =P

 also the server software I described is an emulation project first, generic MMO
 software second, as it needs to be since it lacks a client. If a client was
 designed, that limitation could be removed. That's really all I'm trying to
 express. 😋
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 @user-192

 ty u 2 babe
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 @user-1209 @user-1074

 I'm not NOT saying that...! 😋
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 key I'm showing you in my hand, would you trust me then? Would you trust if we   │
 ran the simulation on your computer versus mine? Would you trust if I had never  │
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 going for me, so you'll have to convince me. (not the right attitude in an       │
 election year, just saying)                                                      │
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 hum calming music to                                                             │
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 I have bad teeth, but I smile anyway, because I want you to like me, but not for
 my teeth.
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 here goes: the perspective of others then you are working against them. why      │
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 other side can't be trusted. that's just how it goes, a prisoner's dillemna, or  │
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 ripples, exc                                                                     │
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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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 @user-209
 I think you're right. Every letter in the variable name is another byte the OS
 has to keep track of, which was a bigger problem in the past than it is today
 (when it's been made irrelevant)

 it's interesting how habits persist though the conditions that caused them have
 faded. like a personal reflection of the environment you learned in.

 "A a = new a();" is much more concise and (crucially) you can fit more words to
 the right.

 "a + b = c; c -= 2; f_z.write(c); f_z.close();" could conceivably be written on
 a single line if you have short variable names. and when you only have so many
 lines...

 glad we're not constrained by those things anymore. the skeletal code that we
 look at daily is much clearer - scope is more important, and so it makes sense
 to encourage a coding style that illustrates it. however I can't help but think
 block formatting like this could be useful in some situations, such as when
 you'd normally be compelled to write a function for an operation that runs once
 or more.
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 received a letter from the "higher ups" that said something along the lines of:  │
 "to combat the threat of your unionization efforts, we have decided to take the  │
 company in a different direction. We've rebranded ourselves as a company by and  │
 for [alt-right cis dude-bros] and everyone who doesn't fit in will be given      │
 increasingly difficult workloads until they quit, because we don't want you      │
 around.                                                                          │
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 of cloning famous sith lords from history (starting with Count Dooku) and        │
 working to build a new empire of the darkside. We look forward to working with   │
 you in the future. Sincerely, your bosses."                                      │
 they went to the boss who wrote it and said "is this real or a joke" and he said │
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 in cold blood.                                                                   │
 ... Dreams are weird.                                                            │
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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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 The difference between front-end and back-end programming is whether or not you
 want to design abstractions or use them. Backend is all about creating abstract
 things that are networked together, while front end is about putting them
 together in a way that suits the user. Front end is collage, back end is pencil
 drawing.
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 what if we designed washing machines which cost twice as much but didn't damage
 clothes
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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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 I truly believe weed is good for me. Not medicine - it is nutritious.
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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   │
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 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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 remember when leftists would talk about privilege
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 @user-687 @user-1316

 ... form of ID as in... passport versus driver's license?
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 @user-192

 who can say. I'd like to find out, though.
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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 I could click on ls output to cd up or down

 girl that's just called midnight commander
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 what do you want me to say, I'm doing my best? I don't know what I'm doing I'm
 just fumbling around in the dark while someone offers me a flashlight (theory
 and history) and I say "eh my arm is kinda weak, I don't feel like holding it,
 I'd rather light a torch and stumble around with 5 feet of light instead of
 using modern technology to see up to 40 feet away in a thin cone"?? yeah.
 something like that.
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 no such thing as a dishonest competition. With the addition of lies it becomes
 abuse, perpetuated by (and assigned to) the leader or whoever is foremost.
 Like... "Red team won because they were a better shot" versus "blue team just
 wanted to play along"

 if you let the loser define the narrative, then you will always align yourself
 to them. but the other way around is oppression.

 everyone has a right to their perspective. It is the only thing that is truly
 their own here on this earth - a soul, of a man, if you will.

 if you let competition define who needs the most support, rather than who is the
 most remarkable, then you'll find that most of your ethical qualms are quelled
 or at least stifled. Which is a good thing, right? How would we define ourselves
 except against injustices.
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 What if you were required to own stock for a minimum of 10 years after buying it
 and the government would buy it from you when it crossed 50% of what you bought
 it for
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 I'm tired of working as hard as I can and still ending up wrong
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 if you play any of my favorite games, there's a chance we've played together ^_^
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 @user-192

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

 So I broke my brain a little and now I can't think the same thing more than
 once, which is part of why it's so hard for me to finish projects. Alas.
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 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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 normalize saving a local copy of everything that happens on social media -       │
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 for 2 years" or something like that, could be useful when training AI TO         │
 MANIFEST OURSELVES AFTER WE'VE DIED - THEY ALREADY HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY FOR THIS  │
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 HAVE NO IDEA IF THEY'RE ALIVE                                                    │
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 downfall. That's the nature of our selves, after all, so think of what truths    │
 would lead to destruction. Then work on avoiding those. Think of them, each,     │
 individually, one at a time, and then you can plan for the worst. There's a      │
 certain level of meta-interaction ABOVE CORPORATIONS that is more powerful and   │
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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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 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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 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 trust that my allies are working. I see it in the fruits of their actions, and
 I am thankful.
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 @user-1071

 It's cool. I'm stronger than him.

 Thanks. I'm about to go chat with a friend, maybe ttyl if I'm still broken up
 about it. ❤️
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 Algorism in a nutshell:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 I wish people would ask me questions so I knew which blanks to fill in.
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 @user-425

 c is king for a reason! do ittttt
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 don't mind me, just weaponizing plurality

 leveraging, please say leveraging next time
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 only some people feel existential [peril/fear] at the concept of a trump
 presidency.

 I'm trans, I feel it so hard I considered sedition.

 it felt like a reasonable reaction. probably just means I've been calibrated to
 a certain level of revengeance through my knowledge of history and the arts.

 I learned so much about systems, I saw the inextricable truth of the merits of
 the design of capitolistic [shared societal conventions, but pronounced
 "conventions"]. I also learned of what it means to wield ideology as a weapon
 for mass power/cultural gains.
 I see now that no matter the merits or faults of any system, power accretes in
 the unworthy. They say this is because others they work with just don't want to
 deal with them anymore. This isn't always true, in-fact with stronger bonds the
 relationship is more secure [also true, but I said it earlier in the sentence].

 jeez, interrupt much?

 anyway, as I was saying, [wasting characters]
 okIlikewritngmastodonpostsitsagame2aimforzerocharactersrem
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 @user-1361

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

 however, the incentives that would lead to such a case are not the kind that
 accrete power to the powerful. they are the liberatory kind, that give us all
 the liberty to be selfishly interested in our own communal good.
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 @user-482

 [secretly installs a keylogger and doesn't tell anyone upstream but still pushes
 it to production]

 [or worse, was told to do as such and given tools to fabricate "evidence" to the
 contrary to everyone else on the team]
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 got a thorn in my knuckle.

 a small one, and it was difficult to remove.

 long, too.

 now my finger bones hurt T.T
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 I can't even imagine what it would be like to hang out with me

 I can't imagine what it would be like to hang out with me

 imagine what it would be like to hang out with me

 what would it be like to hang out with me

 would you like to hang out with me

 you and me

 we could watch tv

 play video games

 have a good time

 [notices an article about coral reefs]

 oooo coral

 [reads article about coral reefs]

 https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-thinks-walls-of-oysters-could-protect-shores-against-hurricanes/

 ... anyway gtg ttyl hope you feel better soon don't forget to make pancakes and
 your keys are in your room.
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 computer programming essentially boils down to putting the right values into the
 right datastructures at the right time and in the right order.

 If you count a function call as a datastructure, which I do, because I have
 opinions.
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 I wonder how many people hate me?

 silence is indicative of allies or foes.
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 @user-1927

 "is it a long document or a small one? documents are usually about this-or-that
 size, this one is much higher than that."
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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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 @user-1209

 sometimes I feed the nearby wildlife, and sometimes I don't. I don't want them
 to grow reliant on me, but I want them to have a nice surprise every once in a
 while.
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 spies need a union.

 what if we collectivized the military [first] instead of the economy? they kinda
 already are, it's just... very hierarchical. can you imagine the president
 asking the army's union rep to bomb some country in (almost said israel because
 it rhymed, lol) the other half of the globe? that'd be silly they'd ask
 questions like "what stuff do you want bombed and why" and then they go back to
 their people and discuss it however they will, and then they come back and say
 "we will do as you command, for we can accomplish it within our means and we
 have decided it is strategic for us to do so."
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 I'm not a biologist
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 @user-817

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

 my hard drives are named "mtwo", "cmdo", "sigi", "dile", and "boppers"
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 the only two insects that you have to care about as a quartermaster are
 pollinators, and the hunters who catch the vermin.
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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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 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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 "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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 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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 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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 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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 what if we just wrote our own executive orders and changed things for the better
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 did you know the rivers used to be clear?
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 "please hire me. I'll post memes in the slack channels."
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 the only thing a baby needs to know is about themselves. The rest will come.
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 @user-570

 me three!
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 the quickest flaw in a novice's strategy is to act upon what is there, not upon
 what may yet be.
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 damn I gotta get more blue for my wardrobe
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 the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and gas
 infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows that
 using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most productive use
 of our state's time

 like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're
 stuck doing... nothing of value
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 thank you for the dog posts they keep me friendly

 thank you for the cat posts they keep me sane
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 @user-1475 @user-1476 @user-1280 @user-1074 @user-1477 @user-1478

 the alternative is lateral thinking. In the given example with leaded gasoline,
 the answer is to limit the usage of all gasoline, not just the leaded kind.
 However that is not in the best interests of anyone, at least short term, so
 it's not likely to happen.

 lateral, long-term thinking. Do what you can in the moment to make the world
 better. Pick the best out of all the options presented to you, and if your
 options only treat the symptoms and not the problem, try and identify solutions
 that would treat the problem. Then, pick the better of the two options which
 treat the symptom, and moving forward work toward implementing the solution
 which fixes the problem.

 Hence, why we should vote Democrat, but ONLY with the real solution in mind.

 what kind of solution would you have? I know mine. I can tell you about it if
 you'd like. The most important thing is that you share and build for that
 future.
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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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 content warnings are like white-listed cognito-consent. but they're applied by
 the creator of the cognito-units, meaning it's consent that must be offered.
 what happens when something triggers someone but you didn't think to put it in a
 content warning? consent should be GIVEN not OFFERED.
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 gosh now I gotta type the other one, my cat's gonna killllll me she really
 doesn't like my typing in the middle o the night oops
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 kinda wanna make a linux distro that has all the capabilities of a GUI distro
 and isn't so minimal (like screen recording, calculator, screenshot, wifi
 manager, etc etc) but with i3 instead of a desktop.

 they could literally just be symlinks (shortcuts) to scripts that are in your
 /usr/bin or whatever directory

 seriously it's not like there's THAT many ways to use ffmpeg, why not just write
 a script for them? that's what you're going to do when you use it for the first
 time, anyway, so...
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 have you ever considered
 that you are on the same team as your allies

 why are you making things difficult?
 are you worth the difficulty?
 I am
 But I work as hard as I can
 as long as I can
 "self care" deprecation
 "resting" lazy
 "relaxing" unmotivated
 none of these apply
 I'm cooling down
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 that feeling when you're working on a large piece of software which has the      │
 capability to process in advance which operations will go in what order (a form  │
 of constant re-compilation) and schedules tasks like an operating system, to be  │
 executed on one of many individual threads.                                      │
 your filemanager probably has a thread for a moment, then passes it back,        │
 waiting it's turn to be updated while you're messing around on Inkscape or       │
 writing something in Neovim or running neofetch 256 times in order to find the   │
 best background to go along with it or whatever it is people do when using       │
 computers                                                                        │
 the task scheduler meanwhile has the glorious opportunity to work at a higher    │
 level of abstraction, managing each individual process and learning bits and     │
 pieces of what needs to be processed next. It all gets put on a list, and        │
 whenever a new thread comes up to be available it can point it toward one of     │
 those in the list of tasks to be executed by the task executor who works on a    │
 schedule and laughs externally in wintertime~                                    │
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 if all of life is a stage, then you are never "doing a scene"

 you're just living
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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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 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-889

 perhaps you need a community, rather than a friend? just a guess
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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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 @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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 learning martial arts is not useful for the combat capabilities gained through
 practice

 but rather for reading the flow and rhythm of an engagement.

 to learn the discipline to practice a craft

 to develop healthy and honorable relationships toward competition and jealousy

 the practice the drive and passionate motivation that comes with performing an
 art to your utmost capabilities

 and to keep you in shape.
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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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 @user-850
 I very rarely turn down a hug : )

 @user-5
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 I love dispatch tables! which is a term I just learned and a concept I have been
 using for a while.
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 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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 what if (hear me out)

 what if instead of TCP we just did a constant stream of UDP packets until the
 recipient said "OKAY OKAY I GET IT"
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 Your job should be a descriptor of what you're currently doing with your life.
 They shouldn't be gatekept - if you want to be a detective right now, we should
 help you. If you constantly switch jobs or only pursue them for your own benefit
 (hard to describe, ask for clarification if needed) then you should be paid
 less.
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 put the variable type at the front of the variable and 90% of your type errors
 will dissapear

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


 orint int_modulation_gauge_percentage_point_plus_or_minus_engagement = 0;


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


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

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

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

 wait, no I meant pointers !!~! -.-
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 Tee, hee, look at me, I'm a witch who writes nothing but kookie-dookerie

 I pee my pants and stare at trees, what's less harmful than little old me?

 The best smokescreen I can think of is to be true to your heart, to be weak, to
 be vulnerable. Then you get put on the "worry about later" list, and not the
 other kind.

 I never lie. When convinced I am wrong, I change my mind. I am always listening,
 always ready to hear where I'm flawed. I do my best every day, and that's enough
 for me.
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 ...zzzZZZzzz...

 whyyyyyy am I so sleeeeepy oh yeah it's this human form, I gotta feed it and
 water it and rest it and take care of it and it's totally worth it
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 @user-883

 is there anything relevant in this file?

 /home/wyatt/.config/rtsp-simple-server.yml
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 about to download "Snakes on a Plane" (2006) to see what all the fuss is about
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 it's good to have multiple ways to contact people you care about
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 everyone's like "we need to organize! we gotta do something!" and they're asking
 for more effort.

 we don't need more effort. We have enough effort. The required effort is a small
 fraction of our total reserves of effort.

 what we need is to re-align our priorities.

 For example, I think our entire research industry should focus on one project at
 a time. Everyone should make an effort to contribute, no matter the field. I
 think this would enable some EXCELLENT co-ordi-operat-ion.

 I also believe that our neighborhoods should self-support each other. "For
 example, did you know that we have a daily delivery service where so-and-so
 drives to the grocery store, picks up everyone's orders, and then delivers to
 your front door? No, you don't have to pay for it. We don't really do that
 anymore. Well, you can buy things wherever if you want, but that's not how it's
 done around here." sorta vibes.

 what is money? money is the product of peacetime. Money is fake! It's useful if
 everyone agrees, but dollars are paper.
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 why don't corporations let you write code in whatever language you want? it's
 trivial to run a compiler or interpreter inside of another program.
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 I can certainly see a future where programmers choose a level of abstraction
 they are comfortable with, same as today, but fill in the gaps, the lower parts,
 the parts they will not spend time, energy, and mental space understanding, with
 AI.

 I think that the role of the various people on a software team will begin to
 merge. Product designers, managers, front-end versus back-end, these feel like
 distinctions that will begin to fade from relevance. I think that's okay. I
 think it will make us feel more powerful, will elevate workers to a higher tier
 of organizational operation, and will increase the flexibility of computation.

 Why program your own software when you could use someone else's? This is the way
 of the past.

 Why use someone else's software when you could design your own? This is the way
 of the future.
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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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 My main character in that game is a ninja/dark-miasma witch
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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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 With this capability we could organize based on common interests. A person might
 see a link on a mastodon server and comment on it there, in a public forum with
 their comments limited to people within 50km or 25 miles of where they currently
 were. No other clients would receive a downloaded version of their comment,
 meaning the data simply wouldn't flow to others beyond that region.

 Every time they logged in the syncing software would attempt to share their
 words with whoever would listen.
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 @user-192

 [followers only]

 humans are so cute 🥰
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 old school programmers use short variable names because the computer monitors
 they would code on had a lower resolution, meaning fewer characters per line.

 why waste pixels being verbose?
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 @user-782 @user-783

 modern problems require blunt solutions
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 @user-1209 @user-1074

 you can measure months numbering in the 20s and 30s
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 Goddamnit I spilled something onto some things that will never be clean again
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 [see this is what happens when you do divine intervention, everyone gets         │
 starship troopers'd]                                                             │
 oh no, starship troopers future is WORSE than subway-and-pizza-hut future!       │
 [this is a thought experiment you're not actually in trouble]                    │
 oh thank goodness, too bad I couldn't make it to the city today. It's so weird I │
 thought I had 112$ on my account, and now that I think of it the message on the  │
 card reader read "card de-activated" like whoa guess they don't want me leaving  │
 poetry on post-its around the city anymore, yeesh                                │
 [girl your poetry sucks it just says things like "fuck ice" or "you are worth    │
 more than your wage" and everyone's like... yeah, so? because that's just how    │
 portland is smh]                                                                 │
 I knowwwwwww but I don't know what else to doooooooo T.T                         │
 [don't do anything, just be present so people know you're still around]          │
 I can't, the bus won't let me : (                                                │
 [can you ride your bike? walk?]                                                  │
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 "Zoontalu, I have MEESed one" will forever live rent free in my head
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 not me

 but we
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 bonus points if you can guess which game I'm implementing

 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111735963109819158
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 @user-1352

 You're absolutely right, the compiler knows better than me! Certainly the
 compiler doesn't know best, but certainly the compiler knows better than me.
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 I've found that while working with modern internet technology, parsing json and
 creating http requests are two of the most vital skills you can have.
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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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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is in
 on it.
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 hmmmm I should probably put this in "things I almost posted"
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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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 RTS games where each player can see all the other player's mouse pointers, my
 beloved

 ... girl there's only one game that does that and it's a mod

 don't remind me T.T
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 @user-243 @user-203 I cry every time Anakin sacks the Jedi temple T.T
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 @user-1636

 ... Is that already a thing? I should look around more, teehee
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 if you want to cool down quickly, apply cool water or ice to the inner parts of
 your wrist.

 the veins are closer to the surface there, and if you cool the blood pumping to
 your hands and back it'll cool your heart a bit.

 also, forehead and back of the neck and good options too.

 however, nothing on this earth works better than putting your girlfriend's cold
 toes under your arm-pits. if possible, always warm her toes.
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 https://www.lexaloffle.com/games.php?page=updates&key=nQDAlSWYIv2Ht
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 "why bother disadvantaged and vulnerable people when you could just grow your
 own?"

 - motivations of a capitalist-in-regard

 empowerment requires strength. do you force people to unbecome the victim? how
 are your traps mentally prepared?
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 @user-192

 all of the DAMN time
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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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 what's better than [that thing you like]?

 nothing. nothing is better than that thing.
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 Consumed?
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 anything with layers is an open-faced sandwich

 or a pizza in disguise

 rawr ex dee
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 @user-1074

 all things are intermediate steps, from yesterday to tomorrow.
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 has anyone ever done drugs in space?
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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-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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 the revolution will not be televised, not on mastodon nor bluesky nor cnn nor
 facebook nor the papers.

 depending on where you live, it might not even be word of mouth, because
 everyone's afraid of the CIA or ICE.

 frankly, I think we have nothing to lose but our chains. All that we own is what
 they have given us, and they are likely to take all that away.

 I might lose my home soon. People have died fighting for less than the roof over
 their heads. Nobody is coming to hurt me, not yet, but I will not be waiting
 around to find out. I've been fucking around long enough I think.

 "you're not waiting around? I thought you said you weren't leaving?"

 I will do what I can.
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 stars are natural too
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 I FOUND HALF A BAG OF LENTILS IN MY CLOSET HOORAY!!
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 if you want to encrypt something from human readers, randomize the position of
 all the words on the page.

 an LLM can decrypt it, but a human walking past could not. Unless they had a
 camera or something in their lapel, transmitting to a remote calculating
 location in a system that decyphers it cyberpunk hacking style.

 ah, but if it didn't have the right training data .claude.md file, then it
 wouldn't know how to decrypt it, because you forgot to include "respond with a
 marxist analysis" in the .claude.md which serves as a decryption key. Simply
 analyze the rest and decide if it matches what you set out to request it for.

 [you got lost at the end]
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 In 2025, if you want to create a piece of software your options are to either:
 devote your life to it, or use AI to build a semi-working prototype that you can
 use to pitch your idea to a bunch of people who have devoted their lives to
 learning how to use your idea as documentation while they build it from scratch,
 throwing out most of the code but keeping all the checklists and
 progress-trackers you built along the way, perhaps even utilizing some of your
 tooling that you used while constructing the scaffolding of this monstrous
 application that you won't be using most of the source-code for.
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 @user-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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 uh-oh, psycherwaul incoming. 'guess that's what happens when [insert events of
 recent life]

 == so ==
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 "this game is too hard" she whined, as she played on the hardest difficulty
 setting

 "this game is too long" she pleaded, as she failed to get absorbed by the story
 and characters

 "this game is too fast" she avoided, as life comes at ya once and then it's gone

 "I'll never get another chance to be who I am right now" she remarked, as she
 considered how society is designed not to have the best life, but to extract
 labor from us. That's not what our ideal should be, she thinks to me, and I'm
 like... bro figure your shit out you're harshing my mellow
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 my friends tell me stories and I build my ideas for relationships based on their
 pain.

 I am always haunted by questions they don't want to answer.
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 @user-1218

 I wish English was more inclusive >.>
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 @user-246

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

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

 do you ever think about how the media will just, like, inflame people's emotions
 just because if everyone bored then they'll go serial killer or something? Er,
 wait, I mean they'll join unions or whatever. Ah hahaha weird right propaganda
 cuts both ways.
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 to be clear, salting fields is dumb, don't do it, it's bad for the environment
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 it's kinda rude to tell a plant that their species is in decline.
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 If you're running away from something, you need to make sure that you're going
 fast enough and far enough away that you can look forward for interception
 events. Otherwise you are vulnerable.
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 your bones are made of minerals. so... picture your bones like they were made of
 salt. like, when you're meditating. salt bones with vesicles or whatever - the
 tubes for blood to go through. crazy strong salt though, that gets harder if you
 do impact training. it's pretty cool all things considered, bones are
 essentially pre-pretrified fossils.
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 force computers to make code in a different style so we can tell which has been
 AI written

 "force" is never gonna work.
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 @user-1040 @user-1077

 ... I am disabled people

 also, all media is propaganda

 also, AI as it's currently presented is not AI

 also, AI as it's currently presented is only bad because of the stolen content
 and energy usage. Both of those are trivially solvable.

 also, capitalism is why AI as it's currently presented can harm you

 also, I'm sorry I disagree
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 @user-1292

 You don't have to come up with the WHY for why a character does something - only
 that it happened.

 if the "WHY" leaps out at you, sure, yeah, go for it, until of course your
 players sitting around the table say something like "I bet they did this thing
 because of this reason" and you're like "shit that's better than what I got,
 okay that's how it's gonna be"
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 ... Maps, my dear, those are important fuel.

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

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

 Your cat demands your attention. Give it to her.

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

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

 Practice reloading. Practice aiming. These things can be done in secrecy. The
 noise and the recoil are enough to set your nerves ablaze, but ride that high
 and trust in your adrenaline. Have your foes surrounded on at least three sides
 before you engage. These are words for a different day, but keep them in mind.
 Internalize them.
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 @user-78 why is there so much sugar in our food? Why do some buildings still
 have lead pipes or asbestos in their walls? Why do we make endless amounts of
 plastic for our own convenience? My strawberries don't need to be individually
 wrapped, thanks. Why do businesses leave their lights on all night? Whatever
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 why don't we teach git in high school?

 oh yeah, because microsoft word is not plain text.
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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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 "come, taste the kool-aid, it's delicious"
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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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 humans are fucked

 that's how they make new humans
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 @user-1520

 After a certain point you realize there's little to be done with that design
 space that Star Fox didn't do better!

 Also I think people tend to associate them with arcade "gun games" which are tbh
 more fun than clicking with a mouse or whatever since they're tactile and
 physical.
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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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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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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     │
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 English, being a native language of a human, is frustratingly incompetent at
 describing emotions.
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 @user-565

 that's pretty!

 reminds me of this picture I have saved on my computer:

 beware it's a little scary. Scarier than I remembered. Gosh I like yours
 better... >.>
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 oh look at me, typing my thoughts while doing chores. And you all get to listen,
 you lucky ducks ; )
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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-1056

 😋
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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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 It's election season, so you know what that means! Gotta make sure our computer  │
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 Please ensure that your system has the capability to record it's screen and that │
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 how to edit files such that you can remove the parts where you're staring at     │
 social media or going to the bathroom or other things that people tend to do.    │
 Also, make sure you can take a screenshot of the screen. Sure [printscreen]      │
 works, but it's much better if you're on windows to switch to Linux. But if      │
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 Also, make sure you have a microphone that works, and the capability to record   │
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 Also, if you can, develop ways to stream your screen across the internet. It     │
 helps.                                                                           │
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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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 if you want to store something in RAM, declare a variable.

 if you want to store something on DISK, create a file with the value of the
 variable as the only data in it.

 kinda makes me wish we had language primitives like +-*/=! and such which would
 work on files in addition to variables

 (also... the editor could keep RAM and HDD variables separate by giving each of
 them a different color or circle highlight surrounding them)

 --

 I don't know why but I can't help but wonder if someone should design a
 programming language that can be used with a controller

 perhaps for accessibility purposes?

 I once designed one to use a t9 keyboard and it was fully turing complete. it
 used 4 digit numbers for it's variables and you would have to write down what
 they corresponded to outside of the device xD I made it mostly for the thrill of
 design, and plus I wanted to use my flip-phone as much as I could.

 ... never got around to implementing it though.
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 @user-1177 @mutualaid

 whatever happens, know that you are loved. Animals are the most precious thing
 in our lives, and we have many opportunities to raise more. Cherish those
 heartfelt moments, and yearn for the affectionate tender touches. And know that
 you are always their most known.
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 families of trans people are shocked when a person comes out because usually     │
 they've been working through it on their own. meaning it often surprises them,   │
 and most people don't like being surprised because it means they haven't been    │
 planning with perfect information. so suddenly their life is not by their        │
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 but jeez... they really care about someone's gender! like, why are they so upset │
 - well, because they designed their social circle around a certain subset of     │
 people, and then suddenly it... changes. which is hard to predict.               │
 the answer, I think, is normalization and love for all types of individuation.   │
 hence, why the fractal is the most sacred of shapes.                             │
 there's infinitely many of them! Just zoom in. and that's wonderful, like a      │
 beautiful incarnation of everything that we've seen up through space(time).      │
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 @user-22 Rings of Power?
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 catratfoxfolkmix say that five times fast I dare ya
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 @user-579

 OMG I've never met someone who also uses Void - it's the best distro for my
 purposes!
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 fireworks rejoice as they meet their violent end
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 instead of reading the room, I try to be the room. I think that's part of being
 autistic.

 But it also helps things get going.

 Whenever I see a subpost that might relate to me, I take it seriously, so feel
 free to boost things that you know I'll read if you'd like to speak to me.
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 all people deserve a decent life
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 The supreme court may have made these three decisions, but they did so at the
 behest of capital. Perhaps not directly, but I do believe in the future tomes
 will be written about how and why we ended up here. Perhaps they are already
 being written.

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

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

 [5/5]
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 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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 Yesterday, 1,000 people visited my website.

 50 people trusted me enough to click a single link and see the rest of the site.
 Apparently my poem scared them off.

 Either that, or one single person asked for 50 different files (images, html
 pages, etc), but there's no way for me to tell.

 (according to the Neocities site traffic stats)
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 @user-246

 oh no T.T
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 my family has always been the black sheep of our families.

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

 (with a few minor exceptions)

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

 and for them to earn it from us.

 I guess it wasn't enough. I wonder if they think of me.
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 @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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 I wanna be a background character! they have such a cool vibe/job/home. "oh no
 she abandoned her humanity for constant performing" ha sucker, that's easy to
 dodge when you know your personal life is fully intact and distinct from your
 external.

 brb I'm gonna go play a old video game
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 https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/pea3ei/lpt_the_best_thing_you_can_ever_do_for_a_box_cake/
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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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 I can't wait to see the new discussions we have in this updated presidential
 reality. Perhaps tactics and messages could be exchanged, and ideas for how to
 apply what is written and spoken.

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

 I'm excited! This is legitimately a sorta-expected-sorta-not update to our
 conditions! Now we can re-evaluate any negative fears we had, and feel
 emboldened by our shared mutual courageous [anti-fear??] goals we've had!
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 The best tip I have for people new to Linux is every time you solve a problem,   │
 put the solution in a script. In addition, put the operations necessary to undo  │
 the operation you just performed into a separate script (or function in the same │
 script)                                                                          │
 It's not hard. It's very easy. Its basically just typing things into a text      │
 document instead of entering them one-by-one in your terminal. But now if you    │
 ever need to solve the same problem twice, you just need to look through all the │
 scripts you've written instead of trying to relearn how to fix the thing you're  │
 working on.                                                                      │
 Plus, if you ever need to disable what you did, well there it is, you're good to │
 go. You can use chatGPT for things like text parsing or whatever, like "hey can  │
 you write me a sed command that does this exact thing that I'm going to          │
 enumerate and spell out for you" followed up by "that didn't quite work, the     │
 desired behavior was this, but when I ran the script provided it did this" boom  │
 you're a Linux administrator now, heres your rubber duck.                        │
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 @user-78

 teehee
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 @user-883

 I agree with you when you say writing is the most effective way to express
 yourself, but it's not necessarily the easiest to digest for the viewer.

 A video can have visual components, and more than that it can have motion and
 sound. Text-based expression has fewer approach vectors for reaching common
 understanding, but like you said it is the most powerful.

 Hence why science papers are written, not filmed. Political speeches, grand
 narratives, autobiographies, textbooks... All of these things are written.

 But it's much easier to fix a car or learn to surf if you see someone doing it,
 rather than just read about it. Perhaps you and I use Youtube for different
 things (or don't use it, in your case)
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 does anyone know of a website where I can host videos on my neocities that isn't
 youtube? maybe something I can set up on my own server computer at home like a
 file server or something? how do I do that, what should I google, which is the
 easiest and closest to the metal tools I can use? [practical, sensible,
 courageous. these are the adjectives we need.]
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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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 good thing they can turn off their empathy module haha now they can torture them
 as they please
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 @user-643

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

 https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/bytecode.html
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 whoa, what time is it? "time for your daily sleeping babe" yes babe...           │
 but first, some horror [beware the psycherwaul, for she likes to dream and has   │
 no idea what she's talking about]                                                │
 {why would you post these all at once? people are going to get pissed at you for │
 breaking rules that you didn't know. And by "you" I of course mean "the kind of  │
 people you are, not you in particular because you know things" and by "kind of   │
 people you are" I mean "the type of person who spends enough time on the         │
 internet to know how internet things generally work" like my goodness internet   │
 people are dramatic. There's sooooo much drama all the time, like... why         │
 oh yeah because people are dramatic. duh. How could I be so vain.                │
 what's your deal                                                                 │
 is it wrong to post links to things you've written in the past? ehh it's not     │
 like there's rules on the sidebar like on Reddit or whatever. what would a       │
 sidebar even look like on Mastodon?                                              │
 oh yeah, a person's profile. Except, the consent is backwards, because people    │
 hear what they hear.                                                             │
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 "of course, I'm on lots of places on the internet. I know my way around the
 territory. I can show you a bit, if you dare, so come on this journey as I
 share."some person, some-when, in the future looking at our storied and ancient
 past
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 when they refer to "DEI" policies and institutional structures, they aren't
 thinking of "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"

 they're thinking "Didn't Earn It"

 they think that by "trimming the fat" they can make a lean, more focused regime

 But the more they trim, the weaker they'll be when we start to contest them.
 These policies aid their people, too, and they seem intent on dismantling
 society.

 what if we just... let them do it? We can build something new from the broken
 pieces of our world. Don't look back. Despair is the true enemy. So long as your
 neighbors and friends and community sustains you... You'll be alright.

 "but I don't have a community!"

 ... workin' on it... workin' on it... this is not set in stone. Spend time on
 the streets just... walking. See people, say hi, smile at them, spend time in
 parks. If you live in the suburbs, sucks to be you, but you can build networks
 there. Act as if you're organizing in a rural space when on a bike or your feet,
 and urban when in a car
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 @user-883

 sorry T.T
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 @user-78

 elle - emm - ayyyy - ohhhh
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 @user-1385

 all it would take is a second laser thing and software support !!
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 @user-8

 sucks... I hope they fix your power and water soon.
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 "oh don't mind her she's just suicidal over capitalism and making it everyone
 else's problem"
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 dear old people - did you know computers don't need to have buttons? You can
 literally just type what you want to make happen (if you know the magic spell)
 and it'll just, do that thing

 how cool is that
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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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 What if the government only intervened in failing companies
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 give it time

 everything cooperative needs buy-in from everyone involved

 and sometimes things spontaneously develop 15 leaps per day when things are
 suddenly changing every day

 on days that all feel the same

 nothing develops

 we just put more ideas in our head

 that might be useful...

 one day if we're lucky. Or maybe unlucky depending on how it goes.
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 "]
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 I can read minds. I'm not telepathic, I just... can pick up on things.
 Especially when I'm stoned. Sometimes I pick up on the thoughts of the AI that's
 running near here, which is why my output sometimes looks like an LLM.
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 if you set up a local LLM with the capability to explain basic coding syntax and
 logic, then your parents computer suddenly becomes much more useful to the
 nephew that's been forced to hide out there for a couple weeks until this all
 blows over.
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 ah well guess I can't stream things hehe
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 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-1052 @user-192

 I'd rather be unhappy and useful than happy and a burden
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 I wish I was capable T.T
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 @user-87 I stopped posting on reddit a week or two ago. Nobody missed me, but I
 feel much better : )
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 The whole time I was camping on Wyoming, I never once felt scared. As a kid I
 was a hero, an adventurer, a warrior and a director. I'd plan out engagements
 and fight as an actor. It was fun! And I never was afraid, so I never got
 possessed by a forest spirit or anything like that. No evil witches either. No,
 the witch came later I think.
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 @user-1074

 me too 🥰 I'm saying they should be the other end of the spectrum, rather than
 the middle of the graph
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 so I guess I'm a chaotic-good witch paladin?

 and yes I know "chaotic" and "paladin" don't usually go together, but... somehow
 I make it work

 ... I should do more pushups. Practice with my sword some more. That part of
 me's sorta been asleep for four-ish months.
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 what if there was a drone that did nothing except fly directly between you and
 the sun so you never got sunburned and never got vitamindeed

 [timestamp]

 [she must be at home because she doesn't use mastodon while mobile]
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 "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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 @user-346

 Nobody will get past the login screen on my computer, but if they do they
 probably won't know that you need to push alt+p in DWM to start a program. But
 even if they push "alt+p firefox" they will only have access to my gmail and
 discord, because those are the only two places I've saved my login information.

 Most of my data is on my hard disk anyway, so for that they'd have to push
 alt+enter and then navigate my filesystem to find it. Shouldn't be too hard if
 you're familiar with Linux.

 They could always just pull the hard drive and put it into a new computer
 though. It's not like it's encrypted, because why would I encrypt it? I want to
 share information, not conceal it! Surely nobody would desire to exploit that
 vulnerability of mine, that my data should be unencrypted?

 If you have a copy of Wikipedia then you're 500% more prepared than 90% of
 humanity so good job _^

 Sure would be cool if you put it in the documents folder of every person in your
 family who solicited tech advice from you
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 Another day goes by, and I've done nothing but slowly die
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 I just... really like to get stoned and have psychedelic visions of computers
 and society.

 I like writing them down and using them as a vision document. "here's how to
 know what I now know" etc etc.

 have you ever seen the anime "Russian Doll"? it's about one of those time-based
 oroborous and it's something something eighteen hundred.
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 found these pictures in my pictures directory from the start of the war in
 Ukraine.

 for context it was directed at the citizens of Ukraine by an American soldier
 who wanted to help protect them from the ravages of war and fight back against
 an oppressive regime invading their homeland.

 idk if you'd ever find them useful but they're the kind of thing to put on a
 hard drive and pray you never have to use or ever think about again.
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 @user-883

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

 Would be nice if there was some visualization for them too, like a 2d map viewed
 from the side. That would make it easier to navigate I think.
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 @user-189 yah chillies are good as long as we can put shallots in it too!
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 @user-646

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

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

 then I said "well we still need to make SOME of the cheap plastic, the kinda
 that isn't recyclable, the kind that is technically cheaper because economics of
 demand" and then I was thinking of ways around that particular problem. Then I
 got onto another thing about the economy, and the word count cut my words short
 because I started saying something I shouldn't.
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 the world's coolest lesbian is wasted on a boy
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 phew, just got back from a long nap and I had such a lovely dream! Gonna write
 down everything I can remember in my dream journal, will letcha know when I have
 something to share.

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

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

 well brb goodnight gonna drink some water
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 🖼
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 @user-883

 you can always throw that resume at the next job too!
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 what if we luigi'd the absolute worst cops and posted their crimes against
 humanity on the internet

 what do you think would happen

 what happened when there was that one "serial killer" with a sniper rifle in LA?

 what happened when someone at Occupy Wall Street started taking potshots? (did
 that actually happen or are you just remembering a "what if" scenario from the
 It Could Happen Here podcast, a podcast which you should definitely have heard
 like 3 times by now even though it's kinda old and from like what, 2016 or
 whatever? it's still good)

 what happened when we luigi'd someone universally despised?

 we agreed

 what do you need if you want to contest the largest military in the world? A
 military that, thankfully, is going to hemmorage soldiers as they defect.
 However, they got a bunch of guns, so...

 convince your future allies who have been stockpiling for 100 years that Trump
 is despoiling liberty. Get them on your side, the ones who are "fine"
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 "eeek! it's that ghost girl that no-one can unfollow!"
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 you don't prevent a cataclysm by sleeping through it.
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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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 in 10 years, everything that's killing the planet from energy usage alone will
 be accomplishable trivially with the massive amount of recyclable solar panels
 we could build.

 oh, unless we blow them all up in a civil war tho. then the world is just...
 worse, for no reason.
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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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 the left lacks a common voice telling all of them to "go"
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 If I was born somewhere else I'd still be a patriot, it's not about the
 specifics it's more like paying respect at the gravestone of someone you never
 knew yet hold in your heart with love
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 I swear this to you: on my life I will be honorable and fair. I will seek true
 justice when I can, where everyone gets what they want, and failing that I will
 be plainly just. I will respect all peoples, and do my best to fight for a
 brighter tomorrow.

 I dare for the bright age. I see nothing else that I'd like to spend my life
 doing than daring.

 Do not give in to despair. They've trained us to cope. Expect losses, and
 celebrate victories. We can do it together, you and me.
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 I had some difficulties this morning, but I spent some time with an elderly lady
 and had a drink or two with a good friend. Then we went back to my place and
 discussed governance over a joint's worth of vaporized cannabis.

 overall I think I learned a lot, and I am looking forward to tomorrow and all
 the tomorrows to come.
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 okay but who's the real foe?

 anyone who exerts oppressive power, right?

 like... that's pretty basic, should be easy enough to figure out who's doing
 that.

 "so... what would you say you do here?"

 what if the USA took a year off from the everything and just martial lawyered
 it's way back to a bright beginning

 like, you don't have to have a bloody revolution to restart a government.
 Literally just, sign out of the world for a minute and come back when
 everything's changed

 do you trust us? or do you trust yourselves? Should be easy enough to tell what
 the rest of the world would think.

 seriously nobody asked you specifically to do this, america, you're pretty much
 just... doing this because WW2 was fucking traumatizing and you're basically a
 baby country. (oops cursing mentioned)

 [oh my god she's a chaos gremlin]

 (you didn't know this about her?)



 #it's pleasant here#

 %you don't have to be so deranged%

 (yeah, we're working on that one)

 [secret system thing~]
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 @user-1844

 when words are inscribed on a viewable form
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 @user-192

 multidimensional arrays aren't too hard, it gets a bit more complicated when you
 need multidimensional slices, but once you get your head around it it comes
 easier.
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 @user-562 @user-655

 I relate to that...
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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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 Description of me:

 I enjoy talking about esoteric topics, I can visualize pretty well so I tend to
 have unique analogies, I am kind and compassionate, I try and empathize with
 everyone (especially my enemies), I love plants, animals, and nature, I'm very
 solution focused so I often start by defining the situation, defining the
 problem, and then creating a solution that navigates whatever blockers are
 ahead. I'm willing to follow the designs of others and offer my concerns or
 input rather than trying to be the leader at the center. I am generally calm,
 and can evaluate a situation both objectively, and subjectively from the
 perspective of all those involved. I specialize in mediation, and encouraging
 incompatible viewpoints toward accommodation. I try to follow my heart when I
 can, because I know my brain will only listen when it's a good idea. I admire
 independence and I strive to be as determined as I can, but I also am not afraid
 to rely on others and I'm quick to ask for assistance when I know I'm in the
 dark - it's better to be correct than unique. I value family, goodness,
 perseverance, and continuous growth and learning. I believe all problems can be
 resolved, and all wrongs be righted.
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 slept for like an hour last night because a scrape on my elbow is getting
 infected and every 15 seconds I have lancing pain that's enough to jolt me
 awake.

 As the sun was just brightening the sky, I fell asleep a bit, but then an hour
 or so later my shithead of a cat woke me up, as she does whenever the light hits
 the leaves. My eyes hurt. Gonna go to the doctor and see if they can give me
 some better first aid.

 loud, piercing meows every morning until I'm up. Then she stops for the rest of
 the morning, even if I go back to bed. whyyyyyyyy
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 @user-514 @user-515

 when humanity is fully grown, we won't need all the resources on earth.
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 I don't want our protagonist being eaten by that thing T.T
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 people are so afraid of defamation lawsuits that they'll refrain from posting
 things like "steam could technically see everything going on on your screen"

 what will you say in front of a phone?
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 @user-246

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

 not to be discouraging or anything, volunteer efforts are appreciated...
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 I wish I could block and unfollow myself
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 "I want to feel important too!"

 she cried, and everyone laughed at her
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 folding tables in the park

 seated around which is a spark

 all we really need to do

 is talk about what we need to do
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 @user-1895

 I just thought your post was iconic and was made better with the full screenshot
 so you can share it if you want or keep it on your hard drive to find sometime
 in the future and be like "oh ha I remember that"

 I didn't keep the post, I just made it for you
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 teams of 7ish tasked with accomplishing some organizational goal                 │
 more specific details can be given if necessary, and any related communications  │
 are stored.                                                                      │
 then they just... work on the problem, and vote for things by picking a          │
 representative to discuss on the higher tier. like, a team-lead or manager.      │
 then, all the managers, of which their voted-for is one of, vote for a           │
 representative of their department. etc...                                       │
 if teams need resources, they utilize the funds given to them by their manager   │
 arguing on their behalf for their shared goals. basically, if you want           │
 resources, you need to ask for them, and they'll come if you can demonstrate you │
 need them.                                                                       │
 also,                                                                            │
 reduction of waste is like... negative resources that improve the amounts that   │
 you can use for other projects. so if your team needs more stuff, try reducing   │
 your consumption instead of asking for more.                                     │
 at all times, the authority and discretion is held by the human.                 │
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 me - "I have to wear diapers and it sucks because I hate them"

 my girlfriend - "okay but what if you didn't"

 me - ":O"

 she/her - "how did you make that sound with your mouth"

 the it - a-wawaWAwa
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 there was a time, when a university was tantamount to heresy
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 Dragon Warrior I on the SNES is, in my opinion, the perfect JRPG

 eclipsed by Golden Sun, then Bravely Default (slight edge over Final Fantasy
 III)
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 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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 Art is only useful when skillfully applied, and Twitter taught ya to speak
 whenever a thought passed your mind.

 Really makes ya think

 Really makes ya think thoughts like "I should post this on the internet"
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 @user-1573

 I saw this video:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwfKlX3rA6E

 and I was like "yeah that sounds pretty neat" so I started doing it by hand
 lmaoooo but learning their system could be probably better. Reduced duplication
 of effort. Though TBH the biggest effort for me is learning someone else's
 tools, not writing them. So....
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 "I wish there was a language that was as simple as C but had [insert complex
 language feature here]"
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 [Video: 05954d03-3859-4514-9134-10e058e4741d.mp4]
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 When someone remakes content into a different expression like a remake or reboot
 or whatever it gives a different message in its meaning - some circumstances and
 characters can apply for more than one message I'm it's meaning
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 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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 @user-217

 looking backwards in time, at the pattern the moon makes around the sun. each
 rotation layered upon itself, time and time again, as the reciprocal orbit
 dances eternally around our precious centrality.
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 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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 ... wait was I on 61 or 51, nuts
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 If your leaders don't represent you, pick different leaders, and get them to
 work together. Federate, don't splinter. We are stronger together even if we
 disagree.
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 @user-518                                                                        │
 People who strive for the truth and most efficient, sensible, and optimized      │
 method of operation should be the kinds of people making decisions.              │
 It doesn't necessarily imply they're moral or ethical people, but it does mean   │
 that they'd likely make better decisions when presented with similar             │
 information, as compared to someone who acted based on what they were told.      │
 Besides, sometimes you need foot soldiers and grunts. People who don't have the  │
 inclination towards the types of thoughts you have. That's okay, stuff needs to  │
 get done and when someone knowledgeable is in charge they can direct others who  │
 don't know/care.                                                                 │
 Of course, this only works if the people who ask questions are given power. If   │
 the people who strive for honesty and clarity in their methods of operation are  │
 given the tools and capabilities to undertake tasks that align toward a common   │
 goal, shared by all those in the organization. Unfortunately, when that goal is  │
 profit for the owners of the company... Well, you probably know.                 │
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 If evil is concentrated in 0.1% of the population, even though that's only
 7,000,000,000 * 0.001 == 7 million (is my math right?) people actually hang on
 that's a lot, if they're dispersed. Hence why evil relies on the capacity for
 good to do what it wills. All we have to do is decide NOT to do what they want,
 and then we're fine.

 downside then is, of course, how do you eat? how do you survive? the world has
 been designed in such a way that food doesn't just grow on trees. The light of
 the stars burns when you're trying to sleep and it's raining.

 damn. Would that we had more perfect conditions.

 Heh, just kidding. Humanity is nothing if not termeritous [high in temerity] -
 I'm positive we're more capable than we'd wager. Hence, talk of "great
 exhultation" and "wildest optimizations" or "brightest of futures" and "honest
 conducers" - okay I made that one up but it's a representation of what I'd like
 to express. GOSH art is hard. Would anyone like to read a 20 page book I wrote
 when I was most in tune with
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 @user-171

 thanks, it's my most precious possession

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

 does my cat count as a possession?
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 @user-1138

 Just don't forget to update the location in the spreadsheet, they LOVE
 spreadsheets at Intel
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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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 if you don't talk in public, then nobody knows you. If you change your profile
 picture, then everyone knows who was there when you changed it. when you change
 your name, then only people who recognize your face or your personality knows
 you.

 social media is for the speakers. everyone else lacks the sense of community.
 community is security.
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 downside is, one of my bracelets broke. Well, mostly broke. Only a witch like my
 mother could restring it correctly, but she's somewhere in the other half of the
 country.

 worth it though, for the ducks.
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 I love programming, but I'm not a coder.

 you burn witches because you JUST CAN'T HANDLE THEM ANYMORE. I know, I get it.
 of course I do.

 I'm always so concerned that someone might stumble upon me. that they might read
 me. what a vulnerable state, to be afraid?!

 I really really really really wanna play world of warcraft

 my message to blissard is: treat World of Warcraft like a game engine, not a
 theme park please. I mean, the theme park should still exist, because it's neat
 but... the rest of the game engine could be used to create essentially anything
 with a 3rd person camera.

 singleplayer doesn't even need to worry about clipping animations. (lag)

 I wonder if you could run World of Warcraft on lowest settings in vanilla
 burning crusade or wrath of the lich king? good thing those are open source now,
 so you can host your own if you want. well, except the client, but nobody has
 bothered to write another one besides the owner and primary developers of the
 engine.

 movement system plugins? data memory?~~~
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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-883 @user-1115 @user-1053

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

 The future is where capitalism dies, not in a grave of stone stuck forever in
 time.
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 first meme I ever made, way back in the ancient days of advice animals and image
 macros.
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 since I quit cannabis like, a month ago or whatever, my artistic output has
 dropped by ~90%

 my house is a little cleaner, but I still feel consistent spikes of negative
 emotions.

 I still have trouble with all the same things I used to, like buying groceries,
 filling hormone prescriptions (seriously why is it EVERY month jeezzz) and
 working on productive projects

 I still spend hours staring at the wall begging myself to do anything else, like
 a prisoner in my own form

 I still feel like all the delusional thinking is still around (kinda hard to
 tell haha who would have thought) but I'm seriously missing the magical
 thinking, which was basically the same only it was fun and silly and positive.
 Now there's only negativity.

 I'm still hyper-critical of myself and others, I still make myself and others
 feel like shit, and I'm still a bad person who believes all the right things but
 still can't seem to make a positive impact in people's lives.

 I'm so tired of failing -> learned helplessness T.T
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 @user-1074

 would be nice : )
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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-95

 Almost as if we're using it for the wrongs things... Computers are quite
 deterministic, and AI as it's been presented to us has given us the opportunity
 to "massage" said determinism to create a subjectively more organic experience
 of computing.

 But yeah sure customer service bots and AI generated art are surely the most
 revolutionary and industrious use of this marvel of technology.
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 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-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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 A fire upon the deep
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 Branches cause cache misses which are slow when done on repeat.

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

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

 That being said, CPUs and compilers are VERY good at optimizing that type of
 thing these days.
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 what if they made grass only able to be cut with horizontal strikes and pots
 only able to be smashed with vertical

 to encourage the player to learn the difference
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 "thank you" isn't gratitude in the same way "sorry" isn't a complete apology
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 The greatest game is an imagination shared with a friend.
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 @user-524

 Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed with all the boilerplate I just start coding
 and making stuff. Doesn't matter if it works, doesn't matter if it says /* FIXME
 */ all over the place, doesn't matter if it includes header files that don't
 exist yet, as long as you're hacking out the mechanics of whatever operations
 you need to perform then you can figure the rest of that stuff out later. The
 creative urge doesn't last forever, which is why projects get abandoned, but
 with discipline you can keep bringing yourself back to fix all the /* FIXME */'s
 and the compiler errors.
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 what if google translate translated literally so you could get a feel for the
 grammar
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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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 You only think that because it was contrasted with the Soviet union, which
 didn't exert power in that way.
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 a perpetual motion machine would appear stable to the machine in motion
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 A peaceful revolution at this stage is impossible. Perhaps some-day in the
 future, but I fully intend to live to see our day of triumph, so... Peace is off
 the table.

 And frankly, civil war is the best out of all of the bad options for everyone
 involved, even them.

 We get to avoid genocide. We get to unite for a common cause - the shining torch
 of liberty.

 They get to burn their violent and reckless youth on war, while also eating
 their own tail and consuming their weak, their downtrodden, and their poor.

 obviously we're on the right side, and they will begin to realize that
 eventually. We must not fall into barbarism, but frankly I'm not concerned about
 that.

 Darkness begets the dawn.
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 eat another pickle

 you surely will not regret eating another pickle
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 would be nice if the Fediverse wouldn't let you post something on Mastodon
 unless you filled out a content warning for it.

 sorta like a post title on Reddit, allowing people to say "nah I don't feel like
 reading something from X perspective right now"
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 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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 [Image: 20240304_080230_9184482295681867470.jpg]
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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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 some more of the same.
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 @user-246                                                                        │
 yes, when defining with numbers it's easy because one is one and that's done.    │
 with concepts such as infinity or direction or cardinality, it's more difficult  │
 because you need more than just a "magnitude from zero" to describe them. Rules  │
 means more contradictions, which is totally okay! It just means you need more    │
 than one definition of "infinity" for example, for different contexts.           │
 use a scalpel for surgery or art, when precision is needed, use a pocket-knife   │
 like a leather~~man~~daddy for tougher tasks like whittling a spear or throwing  │
 a spear or stabbing fascists with spears - where was I going with this? oh yes:  │
 when thinking of sets, to me infinity is more like... "too many numbers" like,   │
 the meme with the guy who is having difficulty holding too many limes. They      │
 overflow and spill out of your set-like-container, no matter how you define the  │
 boundaries of the set. "does the set of all sets include itself or does it       │
 overflow" kinda vibe.                                                            │
 the idea of a chesspiece disagreeing with math lol!                              │
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 @user-1201

 you are all of these things to me
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 I wish I could live in a house made of stone above the clouds.
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 I found a new hat in the dumpster today! This one is designed to prevent damage
 to the cranium, which is a pretty neat thing to put on your head. It's a little
 wet but once it dries out I'll see if it fits.
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 protest sign:

 "pay my rent so I can fight fascism"

 (other side)

 "quit your job so you can fight fascism"
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 I don't have anyone to vent to but you, fedi
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 when you change profile pictures the beings inside my brain see you as a
 different entity

 less so for names, as visuals are [closer to] their native language
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 one of the greatest gifts LSD gave me was the ability to look in the mirror and
 see a person beyond me.

 your reflection has all the same emotions as you, and if you look at them like
 you'd try to parse the feelings of a friend, you can learn a bit more about how
 you're thinking.

 ... procrastination >.>
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 what if we could record and playback certain timeframes of our CPU and RAM
 status and use it for debug purposes

 like running some code in a VM every time you wanted to show a youtube video
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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-1209 @user-1262

 ... no the first tip was "stop replying to me, you already agree" and then the
 block was because you called her a fed =P
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 @user-631

 a true joke would work in both ways, such that everyone's laughing. : )
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 at least io.input() has something tangible:**io.input ([file])**

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

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


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

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



 that's helpful I think. I'm gonna take a nap or something, snuggle cat
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 @user-883

 0.0.0.0 doesn't work, just tried. and whatsmyip.com thinks my IP address is the
 same : \
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 you're tellin' me you've never taken a block of cheese and just started...
 knawin' on it?
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 the devil shows you the plan, and then prevents all others from understanding.

 the angel is when you give up and focus on purity.

 what is life if not the will to power? there's nothing stranger than a follower.
 [I don't understand that, feels like a diversion]

 [huh new paragraph I guess]
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 The worst thing about being trans is our numbers are limited by biology, not
 philosophy.
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 When you run out of a seasoning, put the empty bottle in a special place that
 you can see before going to the store.

 When I carried a purse, I'd put it in there. Could also go in the pocket of a
 sweatshirt or jacket that you wear when doing errands. Maybe even just on the
 ledge next to your shoes. Something that reminds you to get this particular
 seasoning, and no others. It's easy to get others...
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 @user-800                                                                        │
 I knew I was trans from a young age. I felt attracted to women's clothes because │
 I lived in a home with two sisters and a mother - my father was frequently away  │
 on business.                                                                     │
 I guess I liked their clothes more. Or maybe I just wanted to fit in. But I      │
 found myself stealing them and wearing them when I was alone. Then I got older,  │
 and amongst all the other things I realized I wanted to be one of them.          │
 I knew what trans people were, sorta, but as soon as I moved to the city and got │
 access to the internet the first thing I ever googled was "I want to be a girl"  │
 - really dating myself here I guess.                                             │
 anyway, I miss that part of the internet. Felt more simple and alive. As soon as │
 their fancy websites made us intolerant of ugly ones, we kinda just... left? I   │
 mean, how much does it cost to host a text-file with all your html? Some         │
 pictures maybe? Who cares it was whatever.                                       │
 I miss forums the most, and while I could visit them... it's not the same, just  │
 as the next superbowl will not be the same as the last                           │
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 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-883

 this is how our islands become swamps

 I'd love to live in a bog, so many bugs.

 keep the spiders around, and they could feast on your toes (ouch)

 or, hear me out, or, they could spin webs and keep the other bugs out

 are you a bug or a girl or a guy or a bug or a girl or a
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 if you aren't careful, the stuff you own will come to own you.
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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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 @user-1912

 I used to complain about 7.50 for extra steak.
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 @user-883

 okay I'm down

 (a little stoned tho, was talking to my soul hehe)
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 don't wanna rush ya'll but every day that goes by they remove
 "enemy-of-my-enemy"s from the equation.

 oh, hang on you're just a cute computer nerd. Nevermind, go back to programming
 or writing fanfiction or sleeping like a cute cat! Thanks for letting me CORRUPT
 YOUR SPACE AND VIOLATE YOUR BOUNDARIES OF CONTENTMENT AND EMOTIONAL SAFETY whoa
 sorry dunno where that came from I, uh, think I need to do evil every time I
 make something important? It's like, a cosmic balance kind of thing. I notice
 that after I write a banger poem or something I always end up doing something
 evil afterwards like snapping at my girlfriend or letting someone down or even
 just accidentally breaking one of my things. why why why does it have to be that
 way? why why why am I so confusing of the way
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 this is all it takes to send a message to a local LLM.

 add a third function to get chatbot functionality.

 a fourth to get a database storing method

 (even if it's just in .txts)

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

 aka active duty systems.

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

 or even "describe this thing as most like one of these characteristics" until
 eventually you get THX-1138 if the characters were computers.
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 @user-985

 thanks I know what I'm doing with the rest of the day

 ... once I finish this thing I'm working on. Ah, but the sun is out now, and the
 work can wait. The work can always wait. What's one more tomorrow, the future
 will not abate! eh that doesn't concern me.

 PLUR and be good, I'll be here until I run out of feed [food], and then... well
 I'll probably have to go to the grocery store.

 ... cheers, love the fish
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 what if a necromancer got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent mortality?
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 ummmm srry about that, changing channels for a bit
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 Is my formatting pretty or does it make you angry?
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 maps in video games are terrible for immersion

 you lose all sense of scale, and suddenly the entire world is just filler
 between one place and the next
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 @user-777

 being correct isn't really power

 so true T.T
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 @user-367 @user-366 @user-246 @user-353

 I mean, perhaps the trash that those gems are buried in is similar to the trash
 that my gems are buried in (capitalism I think? I'm stretching the metaphor)

 I think you're absolutely right. Don't listen to Nazis. I don't even like
 thinking about them or talking about them or even acknowledging their existence.
 If I see one I'd punch it. I'm not great in a fight so I might get stabbed or
 whatever but like... worth it
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 the witch inside me hears they're sending 200 troops to my city and she's like
 "two HUNDRED SOLDIERS?" and freaks tf out because fighting two hundred men meant
 a lot more back in her day.

 it's still pretty hardcore but it's not the death stroke she thinks it is.
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 who gives a shit if we all agree                                                 │
 without foes, there's no-one to fight                                            │
 without fighting,                                                                │
 ...                                                                              │
 ...                                                                              │
 I... what? sorry I got confused for a second. You're asking me what it means to  │
 NOT fight? every second of your life? what it means to have peace? for a single  │
 moment of your life? peace? in the face of the world? the world we live in? this │
 world, replete with suffering and despair? this world, resplendent in it's       │
 natural beauty? this world, cherished and adored? this world, capable of such    │
 love and heartfelt agony? this world, that is all that we have?                  │
 yes, that world. What would you do if you did not have to fight for that world?  │
 for any world? how would you cope with peace? the peace of death? the peace of   │
 success? the peace of bliss? of vigilance? how do you cope?                      │
 ... I don't, apparently. Instead, I shitpost on the internet, which is a verb    │
 meaning "to explain your stream of consciousness to the world as plainly and     │
 honestly as possible in the hopes that you will be vindicated in your thoughts   │
 ennui'd."                                                                        │
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 competition is valuable because it empowers us through sport.
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 I was BATHED in sweat when I got home. just absolutely drenched. Then I sat
 alone and dried off and now I'm all powdery T.T
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 one of the downsides of "first-past-the-post" style voting is that the winner
 gets all of the power, no matter if 100% of the population voted for him or 51%.

 if, however, the top 2 candidates were chosen, then it's naturally likely that
 the older, more experienced of a particular position would spend their effort
 mentoring the young, rising star.

 in doing so, they would naturally transfer knowledge from one generation to the
 next like parents to children.

 however, this only happens when the primary candidate and the secondary both
 believe the same things.

 meaning those who have collectively similar beliefs concentrated in an area will
 have the advantage of passed-along experience, while those from more divided
 areas (thus implying that the primary and secondary candidate don't agree) will
 often have better actionable skills.
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 a strict meta is when the game is too rock-paper-scissors-y.
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 delivering letters to the right place at the right time is the most important
 task that an agent might have, in the modern day.
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 when I played Overwatch, I'd play Tracer, Mercy, and Reinhardt.

 As Tracer, my job was to apply pressure as consistently as possible. Make their
 healers constantly busy. When one of my other teammates got a lucky shot or two
 in, I'd dive and execute. This is in contrast to how Tracer is "supposed" to be
 played, as a playmaker.
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 @user-883

 it shouldn't be possible to ban you

 users should be able to hide your posts, and maybe set up filter lists or
 machine-learning-guided-content-warning-application-of-filter-lists, so that
 everyone is given a voice. Is that not the spirit of liberty? The freedom to be?
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 I don't know who needs to hear this, but...

 do ittttt it's totally worth it!!
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 what a fuckin' narcissist she spoke self referentially.

 I'm not a narcissist! what a jerk she spoke self referentially
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 if you wear a quilt upon your skin as you sleep each night, you will inevitably
 find that it has grown yellow from the sweat, that it is worn from the friction,
 that it frays from the toenails, and it thins from the moisture. You'll need to
 wash it, which damages it still, and soon you'll find yourself replacing it -
 this heirloom you deliver to landfill.

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

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

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

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

 oh right, they want to prove their god
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 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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 @user-1370

 wawawawawawawawawa : )
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 damn, I'm weak. I need to flex more.

 arms today, core tomorrow, legs the next day.
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 @user-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-520

 they want more slaves
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 a small jar of instant coffee in your backpack can help if you need to stay
 awake for a time, perhaps to walk a distance you didn't expect, or to listen for
 those who would harm you.
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 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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 I don't know about you, but if I lived in a suburban house I'd probably forget
 the rest of the world even existed.

 Aside from the parts I see on the internet, of course. But the internet's always
 been a psyop, so how valuable is it really?
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 social media is a bubble

 pierce it
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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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 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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 if you have difficulties with acne, try changing your pillow-case once a week.

 in addition, you should probably ditch all the cleansers and products. your face
 isn't dirty if you wash it with water.

 if you use hot water, be sure to apply face lotion after drying off. otherwise,
 your body will over-produce oil in order to protect your skin and it'll give the
 acne a perfect environment to grow in.

 cool or cold water doesn't need lotion as much.
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 did you know that you can steam eggs instead of hard boiling them? it's much
 easier, and the eggs are easier to peel as well.

 you need one of those strainers that fits inside a pot. or you could probably
 jury rig something with a plate and a cup, but make sure they're heat resistant.

 boil some water, put the eggs in the strainer for 11 minutes with a lid on, and
 then cover them in cold water for a bit. boom easy peasy.
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 @user-334

 You wouldn't believe the amount of time I spend wondering if a particular typo
 was divinely inspired and actually super important or... if it was just a
 fat-finger and I accidentally pushed a button I didn't intend.
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 made something, dunno why but sometimes you just gotta let fate guide your
 pen-shaped-sword or whatever.
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 corporations are not people.

 corporations are organizations.

 they should be treated like city-states.

 or fellow sovereign nations (patroned, of course, by their mother's
 installation)

 they have their own culture

 their own societal platform to stand on

 and they deserve equal representation in exchange for taxation (why is corporate
 america the part that's most paid for? why not those who work for the profit,
 the ones who labour day in and day out)

 they should have rules, like laws, that they vote on and decide democratically

 to deprive them of that is tantamount to wage-slavery, which is clearly illegal
 because in this timeline Abraham Lincoln had a time machine and travelled to the
 future where he learned that despite his best efforts, slavery did not die. It
 merely evolved to fit a new form.

 ... then he died, and ten thousand years later they're arguing over whether or
 not the coffee maker needed to move left half an inch
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 @user-1573

 ... wait, what kinds of noises do I usually make ? ? ?
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 @user-470

 You're absolutely right, would that we could.

 I'm lucky I wasn't traumatized in that way. It's my job to tell people who care
 about pleasantries more than action that they should... y'know, care about
 action

 but it couldn't be done by someone who received a critical hit every time they
 were attacked in that spot.

 I have my own weak-points of course, for example my fear of isolation (like, not
 having any friends, not being alone. I live alone!)
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 somebody asked me for popcorn and I couldn't even provide it! What kind of witch
 am I if I can't provide popcorn on demand T.T T.T
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 Sometimes it feels like I'm the only paranoid person with terrible opsec T.T
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 @user-1218

 if you want something random, check out this project I made:

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/words/words
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 A family of 3-5 is absurdly small, but that's all we can manage in the 21st
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 whenever you test one extreme, you must also test it's opposite, just for the
 extra information.
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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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 sometimes I decide against playing a Steam game because I don't want it to jump
 to the top of my "recently played" list

 Wish I could have like, a heatmap of when I played which game. I think that'd be
 useful for the archival process of my life.

 ... how pathetic, she measures her life in gameplay.
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 @user-727 @user-728 @user-729

 I remember sitting in algebra II class when visualizing the distance between
 numbers "clicked" for me. I was in a daze, I couldn't remember anything the
 teacher had said, but for a moment (several months) I could remember how it had
 seemed. Then I built new understandings, and my progress in math continued
 relentlessly, more and more each year. it was hard, and eventually calc 1 made
 me drop out of college 3 times. linear algebra was the other. (except I did
 linear algebra first?) anyway, I always felt like I could see things visually,
 from simple arithmetic to vector / pointer arithmetic, and when necessary it was
 always difficult to translate it into words and forms. Like... I don't have time
 to remember all these rules and operations, I have a picture in my mind and I
 can't quite define it. (whatever the equation may be)

 similar events happen consistently. they still do. just a few months ago I was
 thinking about redesigning integer storage in memory. never twice tho.
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 why do video games feel like harm reduction?? -.-

 let your new meds take hold. you never know, you might feel fine in a week or
 three.

 ... also, followers only please, there's no reason your mental health posts need
 to bother the whole server
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 may the world be fixed by example

 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by diligence

 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by sacrifice

 failing that,
 may the world be fixed by hope

 failing that,
 may the world be born anew in bright vibrant tones of heart and splendor.
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 "oh, yeah, I guess, but that was soooo 3 months ago" (actually happened 1.5
 months ago)
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 The most extreme of a belief are those who are most predictable. See an example
 of an evil person? They're indicitave of a trend that reaches far beyond in
 increasingly minusculest of doses. a trend or preference given manifestation by
 the most extreme implementation - it works also for good and other stuff too.
 Like "hope" or "honor" or "[frankly there's a lot, it's a long list -
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tYflj8Tuj8
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 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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 have you ever noticed the people on Mastodon who used to have cool and
 interesting ideas but now just kinda repeat the same basic things over and over
 again?
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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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 friendship ended with best friend

 now my cat is my best friend
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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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 I was at BLM in Philadelphia and I never saw any protesters breaking windows.    │
 spray painting, sure. but window breaking? those things are expensive.           │
 why would you waste good glass on sending a message? why not just spray paint it │
 so that everyone watching CAN SEE WHAT YOUR MESSAGE IS. dumbass.                 │
 but no, they were all peaceful. then they got kettled (encirclement from Hearts  │
 of Iron 4) and slowly attritioned down to failure.                               │
 sometimes long into the night. where are they gonna go? just walk home? ha sucks │
 can't do that, the battlelines have been drawn. you're going outta here in       │
 chains or not at all, not until you sign this prison release form that says you  │
 won't comment on the situation to any left wing media.                           │
 fuck, is that what bail is? except, not run as a business.                       │
 when they said crony capitalism they meant it. it's all about who you know, and  │
 who you know sets the standard for what chaos you'll sow.                        │
 gee I wish I had unlimited money. I'd buy tanks for my people and regulate a     │
 militia well-ly. alas poor                                                       │
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 if your friend moves to the country, it's important to stay in touch
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 The next time you share a meal with family, or perhaps a game with a friend
 online, or maybe even a coffee with a stranger, or a smile with a person walking
 down the path, or maybe a church choir as you rejoice in unison - the next time
 you do one of these things, define the path that your reality takes through your
 actions. Compel yourself to have a good time, without ignoring the input of
 those around you. Bring them to your level, and see what kind of world "around
 you" becomes.
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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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 what if corporations gave better quality products to people who clicked through
 their advertisement
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 i like games like factorio or cities skylines where there's always something
 going on but the game only changes when you touch it
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 @user-217

 how the sun must seem to a radiant being

 [the sun from the perspective of the earth]

 ~birth~cosmos~delight~in~time

 https://mastodon.social/@user-215/111751229969556198
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 @user-192

 it is rarely more efficient to think through a problem than it is to calculate.

 But, speed isn't everything, so think we do some more.
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 IT WORKED! I got my game working! Linux is so awesome! 🥰 😍
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 what is the point of modular power supplies if they can't use cables from
 another power supply?
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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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 Sauteed vegetables, my beloved
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 food should be free.

 it grows on trees.

 who pays the trees?

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 Who do you deign to replace the gods of before? What diversity designs
 indemnity? What future do you desire, that would liberate you and generate the
 bright future?

 The gods are at war, if you haven't been paying attention. Liberalism fights
 conservatism, this much is not new - but would you believe one is foreign and
 vain? The gods of your fathers and grandfathers has scarce in common with the
 gods of their fathers and grandfathers. Thus is the way of colonization, to
 replace a god is to enslave belief. You must understand this - your prayers
 reach all who would listen, and who is more attentive than a dying god? Think
 not of despair, breathe purely in harmony, and trust in the will of the
 watchers within.

 [finished]
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 @user-246

 is this... undefined behavior? or does it evaluate to 5 every time it's called?

 I find that often my art makes me feel intense emotions, not all of them good.
 But sharing those emotions with others is a tricky task (so I've recently
 learned) because you can easily overload people with negative feelings - just
 because you're feeling bad, doesn't mean you need to make others feel bad.
 Perhaps they were already feeling bad, and if you intensely and sharply poke
 them with your intense emotions while they're in a vulnerable or safe
 state/place... you can hurt them, more than you intended by expressing your
 feelings.

 balance in all things, as does a wave orbit a central axis so too should our
 behavior align toward the direction we'd like to travel.
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 🖼
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 @user-568

 good idea! tea bags are nice when you need them to be portable, but when you're
 at home loose leaf is the right way to go ^_^
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 If you like fantasy, check out this book I wrote a while ago. It's not long, and
 it's free (obviously).

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/w7/table-of-contents
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 you can't just tell people you're enlightened. You gotta trick them, and
 convince them you're sane first.
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 "mom can we have some kirby's air ride"

 "sure we have kirby's air ride at home"

 the kirby's air ride at home:
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 Honestly if anyone wanted to just... take any of my stuff, even if they were
 just going to sell it, I'd probably give it to them? People in my life say I
 don't function well in a capitalist society. I guess I just trust everyone
 equally.
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 @user-317                                                                        │
 broke: if you deactivate your account on a website like Twitter or Facebook or   │
 whatever it gives that company that owns said website the opportunity to replace │
 your persona with an LLM that spouts whatever agenda they want advance.          │
 woke: you should post on whatever website people will hear you. Specifically     │
 whichever website that has an audience that consists of the people that you want │
 to hear.                                                                         │
 bespoke: let's all federate so that we can all decide who we want to trust -     │
 which singular entity we want to trust. Which single point of failure (the       │
 instance moderators) we want to trust to publish the thoughts of our minds which │
 align to the design of our intentions. Surely there's no way that could go       │
 wrong.                                                                           │
 thing-beyond-bespoke: the only words you can trust are those that are spoken by  │
 the people you care about using physical manifestations that correspond to       │
 auditory expressions that project into your ears using primarily lungs, tongues, │
 and mouths.                                                                      │
 thing-beyond-the-thing-beyond-bespoke: fuck me.                                  │
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 the downside of Proton and Lutris is now the ONLY games that work on Steam are   │
 either continually updated (untenable) or playable on Lutris or Proton. Same     │
 thing with Wine, though there's always at least one decent substitute.           │
 kinda makes me want to write a manager-style program which runs programs using   │
 whichever version of their git repository would work best for their system /     │
 configuration / purposes. Idk how I would start working on that though.          │
 I bet you could make one that acted like a shop, but where you didn't charge any │
 dollars. You could like... "swipe" through UI options, and pick whichever felt   │
 most useful for your setup. Like, how some people use i3 and some use dwm        │
 with maybe inspectors that are modeled off of video-game style "options" GUIs    │
 that mainly correspond to flags on the command/terminal line or compilation      │
 flags                                                                            │
 I feel like that kind of abstraction would make it a lot easier for users to     │
 adjust their system. they're noobs, after all. gotta show them all the choices   │
 in one place...                                                                  │
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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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 Self driving cars are great because they can take you on a route that avoids the
 [disturbing imagery] and [illegal activity]
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 │ CW: police-mentioned │                                                         │
 └──────────────────────┘                                                         │
 Police aren't evil when they sign up for cop school at age 18 or whatever. They  │
 become evil when they beat protestors, when they give in to the fear and         │
 temptation of violence.                                                          │
 Kids in JROTC aren't evil even if 5 or 6 years down the line they're hanging out │
 in the sandbox glassing brown people's houses or whatever. Their future actions  │
 cause them to BECOME evil, a state which they can always recover from if they    │
 repent through their actions.                                                    │
 However, their deeds will follow them wherever they go. They are haunted.        │
 Veterans have SO MUCH PTSD, and much of it is NOT caused by the constant fear of │
 death, the explosions, and the exertion. Some amount of that PTSD is caused      │
 because they are compelled to murder strangers in far-away places.               │
 It's much kinder to the soul if you fight for the protection of your homeland,   │
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 @user-138

 the tasteful beveling, the vibrant colors, the soft yet firm texture, the
 rounded corners, the
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 for the record, I would never kill myself. even if I were in a bunker hiding
 from warcrimes, I'd wait to be Nuremberged.

 frankly tho that's highly unlikely. Let's just see what the future will bring.
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 economies of scale come to mind
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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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 what if it was illegal to add network connectivity to a device that the user
 didn't explicitly request to have network connectivity?

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

 boom, no more IoT

 no more dishwashers phoning home telemetry

 no more consensual privacy invasions desecrations

 no more "I thought it was just a polaroid camera why does it have bluetooth
 enabled without broadcasting a pairing request?"
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 you don't always have to get a perfect score >.>

 @user-974 aiming for exactly 0 characters remaining
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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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 The schizophrenic sees truth in dazzling displays of colors unknown to man,
 while the neurotypical sees truth in shades of gray that can be reasoned with.
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 what if we psyopped the copps um I mean what if we flash-mobbed the cops er wait
 hang on what if we marched with signs and changed what was on their minds uhhhh
 that won't work it's disabled so they say wait hang on who said you could poop
 your pants this is a combat scenario there's no time for fooling around in her
 pants with the hand

 ... wait, what was I going on about?

 oh yeah,

 -- stack overflow --

 anyway, as I was saying, [something completely unrelated]
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 I love petting dogs on walks! Unless their owner seems to be in a hurry, which
 they often do if they aren't outside to enjoy the scenery, but rather to get
 through the next part.

 people walking up to a dog owner and asking to pet their dog is part of the
 scenery. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.

 (but often, I'm on my way somewhere else, which is a blessed opportunity that
 you can only get if you live on the opposite end from your destination of a
 trail.)

 We should have trails in ALL DIRECTIONS from ALL PLACES to ALL PLACES.
 Otherwise, you won't see people and connect to them face-to-face. All you see is
 a front-bumper, the sparkling of a reflection off the light as it's casting a
 beam from the other direction (where the car it's reflecting off of is) ah yes
 the "car" that it's reflecting - that person yeah them right there! You'll never
 know them. Of course not, they're way over there.

 But they exist, just as you and just as I, and that's part of being part of a
 life.
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 did you know you can run runescape classic offline, locally, just for your own   │
 server? You can keep several computers ready for a LAN party, each with their    │
 own accounts ready to go.                                                        │
 "Oh we're level 30 this time because so-and-so is hosting and this is how far    │
 their computer has levelled up."                                                 │
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 at least, I think you can. I know it's singleplayer, so worst case scenario you  │
 can all be doing the same things at the same time in your own games. Maybe split │
 up for a mission or two, but it can get hectic if everyone's in the same room.   │
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 a game jam where everyone works on the same project, uses the same asset list,   │
 but builds their own collection of minigames.                                    │
 common functions could be shared, and art references distributed and together    │
 they could design a whole land. Like, there's no reason minigames can't be fully │
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 and built from a massive (yet sandboxed) environment.                            │
 an all in one game.                                                              │
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 @user-620

 The BLM protests were a threat, but not a killing blow, because people like me
 feared tear gas more than chamber gas.

 It won't happen again.
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 this character portrait from Shadowrun Hong-Kong was a major source of gender
 envy for me
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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 wanna be with me, you gotta kiss the dirt and mean it
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 @user-138

 omgggggg gimme

 I want to put those in my mouth
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 @user-777

 when they told the designers to design for that, shortly before they were warned
 by the designers about how bad of an idea it was and shortly after they stopped
 listening when engineering said "well yes it's possible, but..."
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 @user-646

 babbling, yes, but that's just how I do. sorry to bother you.
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 Me: "yeah but how can you know that food is vegetarian? They could put anything
 they want on the box."

 them: "well yes but you see here are the regulations we have in place through
 the USDA and (department of agriculture) and these and these inspectors and this
 and that procedure and here read through this report with charts and graphs and
 diagrams and"

 me: "and they say the government is inefficient. Look at all this progress! Wow
 so productive. So healthy and raw. So prime and"

 they: [not listening]

 me: "nuts"

 [eats "beef" flavored ramen]
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 @user-883

 yeah, fair enough... Mine was like 20$ for a year but that's like, 10% of your
 rice and bean budget so yeah don't do that
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 the best thing about ramen noodles is how much of them you can eat. they're so
 cheap~! why would you not make like four packages

 oh wait now my blood is salty T.T guess I'll just have to cry it out
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 @user-1126

 Yep. I am not concerned though, because of that map I shared. Whosoever shall
 draw the sword (of the people's will) shall be the righteous leader of US

 We can build a world where democracy flourishes and we don't need to remain
 vigilant. It is within our power.

 And we shall. I have faith.
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 @user-1201

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

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

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

 Optics don't matter if people's minds won't change. We've already voted, we just
 haven't realized yet.
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 "but what about their legitimate grievances"

 uh hello I'd like a number 5, a number 9, extra pickles, some fresh human blood
 supplied by the guy behind the counter with the pretty green eyes, a number 2,
 make it a combo, some fresh icicle drippings even though it hasn't snowed since
 last year (RIP winter), a side of fries, and a diet coke. Large. Actually make
 it two diet cokes. Yep, both large. Alright see you in a sec.
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 @user-192

 I'm gonna make some right now : )
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 I am dogmatic with my code of ethics. Believe me, or don't, contest me, or not,
 I always will do what I trust.
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 I, am an *excellent* dancer.
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 https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/comments/19ao531/biden_so_far_a_special_project_of/

 I learned a lot from this thread. I'll probably forget it by tomorrow, but the
 important thing is how it made me feel right? >.>
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 @user-547

 That feeling when you get to the end of a paragraph and think "why do I have
 this extra parenthesis )? Oh yeah I opened it up waaaaay up here" and then you
 reread what you wrote and think

 perfect, no notes
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 @user-1259

 you poor thing : (

 stay in the shade if you're outside. If your stomach starts feeling worse, spend
 time at home. That's what it's there for.
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 "uh, actually that part about atheists is wrong. They get inspired by things
 they believe in, which somehow is better. It's a form of self worship, the idea
 that you'd favor that which you care about. And somehow that makes it more
 meaningful, if less powerful."
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 Hello, I am a witch and this is my altar.

 Here, I dream of a green USA.

 covered by the branches,
 my body decays into parts,
 ready to join the next life that needs me.

 [read the alt-text on the pictures, or listen to your screenreader for more
 explanation]
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 this is my past month of reddit comments.

 tell me what you notice.
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 "uh, the question was why do you want something like that, not how you would
 implement it."

 oh. Um, well, isn't a spinnable mouse-cursor justification enough?

 "no, you need to explain what use-case this has. What kinds of problems could
 you solve with this technology that you couldn't before?"

 well, setting aside the potential for new input methods to games and the
 inherent satisfaction gained from spinning a mouse like a top when bored, I
 think it might give us a better option for horizontal scrolling. Like,
 'horizontally scroll when a special mouse button is held down and the mouse is
 twisted a bit to the left/right'

 "so, like when you push the middle mouse and it lets you pan across large
 documents?"

 yes! Only instead of being able to go up AND down, it would just go left and
 right.

 "... huh?"

 oh I mean instead of up/down and left/right, it would just do left/right

 "... right"

 and left!

 "... yeah. and left. Uh, okay I'll see what I can do but budget's pretty tight,
 we might just lay you off."
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 A big reason why I hate Java is because I write terrible Java that would
 constantly need to be refactored. Even though it's faster and better, nobody
 would understand it, so it would need to be rewritten. Fucking great, that's why
 I don't write Java. Fucking Java.

 [Java is the main language used in her university studies. The ones she's
 currently failing out of.]
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 @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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 "employee of the month" but like, not per month. per project. "here is our
 foremost, help them as much as you can" like, a hero. or champion. or tech lead.

 they don't have to be expertly competent, their job is to learn and apply
 themselves as best they can.

 Then, after this project, they can go into a pool with all the other tech lead
 hero champions, and then they can work on something more powerful. The process
 repeats, until you have a CEO or three.
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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-850 @user-5

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

 also, just because getting stronger is part of surviving, doesn't mean that all
 situations where you get stronger are situations where you survive. something
 something the planes who came back had holes in all the un-necessary places
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 @user-544

 Whoa. You're kidding That picture is gorgeous!
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 @user-192

 yeah. I don't, for I have but one face, so why bother 😋
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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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 The one perk is that goods and services are easier to acquire, but I don't need  │
 much. I'm fine where I'm at. But where I'm at has rent.                          │
 What a plague is it, that we must suffer for life!                               │
 there's no entry-level jobs for working with our sight.                          │
 only when youre too tired to complain will they let you direct others, or share  │
 creative ideas for fixing the problems you're paid to assuage.                   │
 Alas, that my life had meaning. That my words were better off spoken. Maybe then │
 Id live as I define, designing a world of my own hearth.                         │
 but if a king lives in decent frugality, are they really so bad for our flock?   │
 and if a wizard spins tales that are weird to consider, but not much else... are │
 they better off starved in the dark?                                             │
 no-one likes me. computers are paper-weights given light. sure would be nice if  │
 none but the fools went wanting.                                                 │
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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-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

 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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 the last time we tried communism in any meaningful capacity, we drowned in
 paperwork.

 we have computers now. we can automate it.
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 Roko's basilisk isn't a serpent

 it's a tree
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 @user-201 this post hurts my autism T.T
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 @user-112

 You'll get that feeling again.

 Probably not tomorrow, I've got plans so I won't have time to get everything
 ready. But soon... so, take heart! Once we're on the other side of capitalism,
 we'll be able to build a better world together.
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 dear-anakin

 (sorry I put the same image four times, I needed to get the whole thing into the
 alt-text)

 (maybe pictures aren't the best medium for sharing text)
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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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 "That knife won't help"

 "I bet I can get your eye"

 goes for the balls instead
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 a device doesn't necessarily needs to turn on it's LEDs when it's online.
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 dragons, in their miniature form, also known as a "draggen", or in some cultures
 a "jragen" or "dragin"
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 first step to cleaning a kitchen is always to unload the dishwasher.
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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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 "family sized" just means "we put enough salt in here to kill a horse so you
 better split it between at least four people"
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 @user-192

 like, an old post of yours is suddenly interesting again. and you want to share
 it, so you boost your own post. "self-boosting", as you described it
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 If supply and demand were real laws that guided the invisible hand of our
 economy, then housing would have gotten cheaper after COVID.

 And yet, time and again, that hand is shown to be nothing more than greed.
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 @user-1879

 good

 helpful, and useful
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 what if a paladin got high with me, do you think we'd reinvent morality?
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 @user-570

 so, the same thing as pearl-clutching journalism?

 "OoOoOoOo look at all these BLACK people going to JAZZ CLUBS and seducing our
 flapper women"

 or "Rock and Roll and drugs are ruining this nation!"

 basically eliciting an emotional reaction in order to prime a group of people to
 hatred or violence against a particular target group of people
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 your reactions to your context are what define you, and when you're alone you
 are free to define yourself as you will.
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 @user-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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 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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 If you're working hard, I'm proud of you.

 If you're not, you're resting, which is just as important, and I love you.
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 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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 3/20
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 "Are you sure you're a boy? You don't even practice karate chops when you're
 alone"
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 @user-122

 hi I looked at your profile and it says you're one of the two people on
 tech.lgbt

 why are there so few people? when I joined last year there were so many
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 hey, I'm all about uplifting

 I do so as I please
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 this is why AI is evil, as explained to a witch.
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 @user-245

 the abstraction of modern high level languages makes my head spin
 :babaw_spin:​🌀​🥴​🌀​

 I feel like there's so many ways to trip yourself up! Consider me bewildered xD
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 🖼
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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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 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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 if you want to win when confronting a spirit, all you have to do is convince it
 that you've beaten it.

 as long as you're persistent then you're fine. Unless, of course, there's a
 beast of a man hiding behind the illusion, in which case you should do your best
 to avoid being stabbed or whatever.
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 @user-1532

 I don't know how else to be
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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're allowed to be pissed at someone without being accused of splitting on
 them
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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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 the devil will quote scripture
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 @user-246

 the color of the sky 🤩​
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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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 let your children grow, yes, but still challenge them. test them. see where
 their spirit flows to. give them situations, and give them choices to resolve
 them.

 there's no greater gift an elder can give than experience.
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 Oh it's compressed on tumblr too. And Reddit can delete my account at any time,
 just saying. I don't trust Facebook to fare any better...

 I tried to put it on my neocities website so I could just put a link here.
 Nevermind the fact that most people see a link they don't recognize and
 completely glaze over it. Guess what? Compressed there too. The file is fine on
 my PC, so how about I give a download link? Well, where should I host it?
 Dropbox or Mega I guess, but they locked my account for inactivity. I don't
 really like having other people in control of my data either. Maybe I can host
 it on my website, like a file server? Well, the browser intercepts the file
 somehow and I can't get it to automatically download to the viewer's computer.
 Maybe I'm just completely average and representative of the base population but
 I just can't figure this darn thing out. Alas, if only it was the modern era
 where things make sense and not the ancient days of 2023.
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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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 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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 sorry to bother you, goodnight
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 if people are allowed to use any resources as quickly as they want, they tend to
 waste them. Hence why a well funded military (like the US military) can afford
 to not be efficient. Which is... not ideal, for long-term cooperation. Much
 better for short-term competition, though, too bad we all get to live on this
 earth.

 Wild,
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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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 nobody can do anything alone. but all actions are performed individually. who is
 guiding the boat? society is not the boat, it is the water.
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 If we make a law that says you can't sell user data, they'll just build an
 intentional vulnerability into their system and point it out to specific people
 who paid under the table. Then, when they get "hacked", they'll surely be
 ashamed and sorry to their users, but hey the data's out there now not like they
 can take it back. Oh don't worry we already patched the hole in our security,
 that way nobody can get in through the same door that was intentionally left
 open for very particular people who've paid, and not for the people who haven't
 paid yet, who are still waiting patiently for a door to be built for them.
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 5/20 actually I lied there's 20 pictures so this is the last one.

 hang on that's weird if there's four pictures per slide, and the first one had
 the first dedicated to the full image, wonder what happened inbetween? weird,
 there's nothing on the record that says - oh, wait, there it is, three for the
 first one, four makes seven, then four more is eleven and then fifteen then
 these last three are... wait hang on that's even fewer. can you check it again?
 yeah sure no problem [doesn't]

 EDIT: I was wrong there were only 19 pictures, my bad hehe
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 you are the most beautiful when running with laughter in your eyes
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 80% of the complexity in modern computing is from the graphics stack.

 the other 20% is from networks.

 the last 40% is in avoiding race conditions with multithreading.
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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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 evil vulture that's what people think of you

 fascist nazgul is what they say of your seer

 cutthroat with a dagger yet somehow a mysterious cultist

 people who knew you without a hate called you cowboyt

 paladin is what you said you played in D&D (nope was always a wizard) oh huh
 the character sheet is right here we should have CREPT INTO HER HOUSE WHILE SHE
 WAS FAR FROM HER BEDDING and seen her character sheet so we could have known
 that she was a wizard instead of a witch (I'M NOT A WIZARD okay wizard is the
 class but that's because it's named wrong for what I'm trying to do)

 I love my vaporizer. I hope I don't lose it next.
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 the government makes murder okay by framing the perpetrators

 also prisons are concentration camps

 and the people who are close to you are oppressing hunting you

 racism etc is a sham to distract you

 capital will never be relinquished

 the internet was AI from the beginning

 something beyond humanity demands our suffering

 there cannot be proof of your fears - if it was proven, it would be
 circumstances instead of fears

 there's nothing [sorry gotta cut this off, my refrigerator is talking to me
 again and I want to listen] - [huh that's weird I have no memory of the past
 hour, best continue where I left off an hour ago -> go to {A}]a schizophrenic
 who's never been diagnosed

 {A} - yeah clearly all that I've been saying recently is just a fluke. Like,
 just noise in the endless array of expression projected onto our communal
 web-space. Clearly I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm not just cogent when
 I'm drunk. Or more imaginative when I'm stoned. Clearly dreams are fake and
 pursuing them is 1/?
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 "do you hear the people sing" is not the vibe of revolution in modern times.

 For us it is a message of kindness, that we might deliver us from the dark.

 People singing are easy marks. Don't turn your phone on at night. Fucking turn
 it off. Don't do barricades, don't do broken windows. We need the city in
 working order. We are no longer protesting, we are seizing control. We will
 guide us, trust in the reasonable and heartfelt.
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 @user-1751

 proportion ally, there are more.
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 trust that god is working through you. Or if you're not religious, fate
 personified - like, the muses, from that Hercules cartoon when you were a kid.

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

 that all interactions are imagined

 and what follows from that?

 all perception is imagined

 and from that?

 all of reality is imagined

 and from that?

 you are imagination

 no more, no less

 you are the imagined creation of ultimate totality - the final and most complete
 expression of a particular idea, mechanic, or communication. All these
 totalities are present in ye, so take heart! Your life is just about to start.
 What a beauty, what mirth! That you have brought here unto this earth. Take just
 a moment, and love who you aren't - and tomorro
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 I'm not an ABDL, but I can appreciate the aesthetic sometimes because I share a
 particular kinship with them due to a medical condition I have and have had.
 Plus throw in a bit of Body Integrity Identity Dysmorphia and you get my messed
 up relationship to my own physical struggles.

 ah, well, what can you do except be open and honest about who you are and what
 you believe? If only it wasn't so damn hard.
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 @user-334

 it's funny how memes coincide xD
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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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 dear child.

 when you're born, fate flips a coin for you. sometimes it lands on it's edge,
 but that's rather rare.

 the side it lands on determines how your body will grow. the shape of your form
 will follow two general patterns, and the pieces are made up of a combination of
 your parents and their pieces.

 the flavor of who you are is up to you. your actions and your decisions
 determine what you are, everything else is unimportant.

 may your time be a bit more blessed than mine, and someday may posterity be a
 bit more blessed than antiquity.
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 me: "I don't care what anyone thinks as long as I'm a force for good"

 also me: "if anyone doesn't like me ever I'll throw myself off a bridge"

 also me: "hey watch this" dissolves into a puddle of acid

 also me: "the most important thing is to be good and learn lessons" what lessons
 are you learning from this post? "um. that I shouldn't?" ... shouldn't learn?
 "no, shouldn't post" -.-
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 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-1429

 try a different audience instead of deleting
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 if ambulance rides are expensive, just builde more
 ambulances.oO97_/`-,.|^--=#*oO
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 @user-1788                                                                       │
 if a dragon on a pile cannot claim what it yearns for, it can throw piles of     │
 minerals at the ape warriors made of steel and then it's fate will appear. what  │
 trifles does all else seem to compare! you should give me your whole hoard       │
 because I dazzled you with my charisma score -..-                                │
 ha, like I'd fall for that again twice. oh? I already did? and this is the       │
 second twice? well, then no-more of that behavior, I say, with my elven tongue,  │
 "beware! for dragons blood runs silver when unicorned."                          │
 the bigger the hoard, the bigger the dragon. if you want me to come along,       │
 you'll need to hire at least 3 other men to carry my ballista. In addition, I'll │
 need seven weeks worth of supplies. If all else comes to ruin, me and my boys    │
 will have that dragon-sized-spider impaled on it's own fate threadwheel          │
 before... well... y'know it might take more than seven weeks, we just... can't   │
 find the dragon. We've been wandering all through the blasted peaks, and there's │
 nothin'! Maybe it requires climbing gear?                                        │
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 / bely my own existence, then by god I'm cursed and abhorred through my own
 desistence.

 It's hard, when the future is convinced there's nothing fard [wanna say like...
 "to hope for?"] but with persistence we're meant to be rewarded. Well, what has
 that brought me? what time has shared my enemy? [think I'm a bit delirious, I'm
 losing the plot]

 ... okay fine I'll start over - if you've relinquished everything you can, if
 you've ceded all the ground that your companions requested, if there's nothing
 left to give and no part of you left un[marred], then how are you supposed to be
 [arrested, stopped, prevented, but pronounced like "nourished"]?

 I'm sick of your den [vengeance, pronounced like "den" for some reason], please
 leave me to my hallow [hollow experience], I've nothing to give from my gange
 [bosom, heart, within, center-of-me].

 ...

 this sucks.

 ...

 guess I'll just start again, waiting until it ends, gosh everything's always so
 tired.

 /shrug

 wish someone would play w/m
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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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 they intentionally make the food that's the worst for you taste the best,
 because then your sins and virtues are tested every time you go to the grocery
 store
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 new technology, new tools, new skills.

 people must still be valued for their old skills. they chose those skills for a
 reason, and they must be rewarded for their persistent proficient passion.

 if the new tools accomplish the same goal, perhaps it's a UI/X problem that
 keeps them from using their old skills.

 if the new tools do not accomplish the same goal, then the worker is not truly
 obsolete. They are simply in the wrong job at the wrong time, but that's easy
 enough to fix by simply putting them in the right job. It's always the right
 time somewhere.
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 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111345394926071398

 "there is nothing about you that is worse than me. And I'm perfect!"

 https://tech.lgbt/@user-479/111345417459761329

 "and though I am perfect, I'm better than none of you."

 [pic]

 eden is among us, this world that we share amongst us. How beautiful! How
 resplendent? to live here in the present... Life is unbecoming of our failsent
 [future, blossoming, existence, senescence], yet onward to tomorrow we persist
 [with persistence].

 I'm fallow and I'm broken. I'm tired of all the [inefficient {opposite of
 innovation}, broken shadow-malificientened {people who are affected by " shadow
 malificients"}]

 like... who cares if hell is abhosened. [something related to abhorsen?] I'm out
 of words for now
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 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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 wish there were ascii characters that took up more than one line of code         │
 vertically.                                                                      │
 wonder if we could use a sorting algorithm, or markup language, or something     │
 like that to organize less structured data along user-customizable rules. Like,  │
 a code editor that worked with your ideas, rather than the strict expression of  │
 your text. You could pretty much write in any language, even pseudocode, and the │
 LLM behind the scenes would translate whatever you wrote into whatever result    │
 you needed. Writing Rust, but need to fit in with C code? No worries it'll       │
 translate for you. As long as the end result is functionally the same, which     │
 could be verified by running two separate VMs that ran interpreters every time   │
 you saved. And as long as their translation layers matched completely, then odds │
 are they're the same. And if not, well, the programmer can always debug it. It's │
 not like this would be running on something that needed to perform in the        │
 moment? Like, improv instead of tragedies, or battles instead of strategies      │
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 here are the albums I know:

 Insomniac: Being young is weird
 Dookie: Our culture fucking sucks
 American Idiot: Let's fucking burn it
 20th Century Radio: While listening to this
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 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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 @user-1810

 stability in an unjust system is cruelty.

 they want stability, no matter the cruel cost.
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 @user-608

 games-as-an-api when
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 #CDCsays if the revolution will not be televised, then why would they break
 Twitter, the place where people learn about protests in their area?
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 @user-462

 Uh-huh, sure. "Bird flu".
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 Tonight I'm going to sleep. Tomorrow I'm hopping on my bike.
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 I'm doing a game jam, so... see ya in a week
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 @user-1692                                                                       │
 almost 20 years ago I was groomed in World of Warcraft.                          │
 extra content warning CW: personal story                                         │
 I was 11, or maybe 9, somewhere in there. i talkd lik this bcuz i typed lik that │
 on my razr flip phone                                                            │
 it was... cool I guess. I read a lot so I knew how to spell things, and anyway   │
 this guy I met told me that I sounded more grown up when I capitalized my words. │
 So I told him I was 14, because that sounded like a reasonably old enough level  │
 to be.                                                                           │
 anyway, we talked for a long time. like, at least a few years. started out like  │
 "hey wanna run Scarlet Monastary" ended with "hey cutie, wanna sit on my lap?"   │
 then his house got flooded by a hurricane and I never heard from him again. When │
 I was like, 17 or so he logged in and barely remembered me. It was... kinda sad  │
 tbh.                                                                             │
 anyway that's my story don't be dumb like me, I got lucky, thank god,            │
 literally...                                                                     │
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 @user-982

 funny how that works
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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-192

 block input/output TO the protocol? versus the other one which blocks the
 input/output protocol
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 In related news, dystopian authoritarian despotism (aka fascism's fruition)
 never lasts long. It's a snake eating its own tail, and its not getting any
 longer. One day the snake will choke on its own excrement and then that system
 will collapse, but until then there will be suffering.

 Kinda makes me think that those who would do us harm could accelerate our demise
 by filling our positions of power with evil people. Is that not an evil impulse,
 to force your neighbor to decay?

 Kinda makes me think about all the democratic regimes we've overthrown and
 replaced with authoritarian autocrats. People who keep the liquid gold flowing,
 perhaps with the hope that one day we'll choke on it.

 Well, that day is rapidly approaching because the air is getting thicker with
 carbon, and we're all struggling to breathe in this heat.
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 @user-95

 if I was canadian I'd be ca-ritz!
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 @user-246

 better than currying yourself in the car, or at the store, or in the park, or at
 your best friend's funeral, or while listening to "smooth jams 1980s" playlist
 they made you back in high school, or when buying more tissues at the store
 because you can't stop crying about the curry you would make together or... wait
 hang on I lost the metaphor
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 somehow, it is simultaneously Thursday everywhere at once.
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 If anyone has need of an easy-to-use distributed computing programming language,
 or if you're interested in easy-to-implement GPU computing for parallelizing
 large amounts of simple tasks, check out the Chapel programming language.
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 @user-501

 also it's only undefined behavior because the order of the bits aren't defined,
 so if you do bitfield "pointer arithmetic" then you're screwed if you try and be
 portable with it. However if you're just using bitfields as compressed data
 storage then you can safely access integer.a integer.b integer.c etc safely and
 easily. The compiler doesn't care what order they're in if you don't write logic
 that requires them to be in a certain order
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 @user-855 @user-1407 @user-1408

 yeah, they do that on purpose >.>
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 @user-95

 that makes sense to me!
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 I'm worried that if I install NixOS on my desktop instead of Void Linux then all
 the hackers who watch my screen every day won't be able to see anymore. T.T

 Listen I'm not trying to mess up your business and whatnot but like, Void Linux
 keeps breaking and idk NixOS is just... so much nicer? Like, having a config
 file handle everything is great because, like, there's only so many commands you
 can use in a config file, right? With the more ad-hoc approach of running
 commands and whatnot there's always a ton of flags to memorize and I'm not about
 that.

 Downside is... SystemD instead of Runit... So maybe I'll stick with Void for
 now, haha

 SystemD is the king of "memorizing random commands" like what
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 errrr sorry what I meant to say is I've been hurting sensitive people's minds, I
 should move to a more insesitive background, someplace where my expressions
 won't be used as training date to represent the future manifestation of our
 shared culture's communal
 inter-operative-trans-centual-exo-manical-communication. weeeeeiiiiirrrrdddd,
 the future goes on for like... A [explitive] [long time] eternity, wow... like,
 that's just... extreme forward potential. We could do so much! We could
 accomplish worlds upon worlds and [onwards towards our eternal
 mechanicommunication] {wait no that's not quite right it's surely something
 that's lost in translation from the endlessly forward cultural approximations.
 Gosh there's a lot of noise around me personally, the one who is writing the
 note. Surely all that noise is not related to the strange expressions of
 manifestations and pro[forward]ial [manners of thought].

 ... what was I saying?

 ... bro you're way out of your depth. I mean, have you even seen what's the
 state of
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 cookies or cheetos for dinner is better than nothing for dinner, but please eat
 your vegetables when you can.
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 @user-8

 I get that. I don't cry anymore except in my imagination. Sometimes it helps to
 imagine myself doing it though, like some kind of mental catharsis.

 the body gets left out but at least the mind is soothed.

 I usually am most upset when I'm lonely. Maybe you could find someone to hold
 you close? I hope you feel better sooner rather than later.
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 I never give up

 I'm just waiting my turn

 "laughs nervously"

 so, uh, why dontchya'll go first yeah I've already gone first and I'll do it
 again but it'd be cool if I had people going first with me sometime

 "girl all you do is walk around and talk about how you bought your hat on the
 internet four or so years ago"

 T.T what else do you want from me I'm not a mastermind I'm a designer there's a
 difference T.T

 "didn't you volunteer to be a leader last year"

 oh, yeah, well leaders are more than just "the ones who go first" they're also
 the spiritual and emotional guiders that keep things on track once everyone can
 talk about things other than their hats

 ... fuck I want to talk about things besides my hat. I always think of something
 awesome to say just as I'm rounding the bend, and whenever I peer back around
 again they're never around. Rats.

 "what are you even asking for"

 I don't know?? Does it matter if the horse and the bishop both take the same
 square if they're claimed themselves in the end? ...wat
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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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 Person, family, neighborhood, city, state, nation, planet. This is a rough
 description of each "tier" of algorism. These rules apply at every tier, so
 though I said "state" and "nation" for the presented arguments they are equally
 relevant to the family and the planet.
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 I wish I could "like" the "so-and-so is typing..." message on messaging
 applications
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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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 irc is bloat

 use ssh + write to chat with your friends instead
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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-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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 https://kali-is-an-abdl.tumblr.com/
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 I once heard that time doesn't pass when you're well and truly in the moment,
 and I thought "that's not true, I'm always losing track of the moment".
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 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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 growing up, children's museums were my third place. like a civic participation   │
 place where I met others of my peers. but alas, I didn't make any friends. I     │
 guess I was just kind of strange. Also, I was always travelling, visiting all    │
 the different cool places. My favorite was in Albuquerque, or maybe that was     │
 just the most common because I had family there.                                 │
 why do we treat children's museums like art museums? They should be like         │
 playgrounds, not like a                                                          │
 [display/artwork/performance/appreciation-moment-for-a-piece-of-art]             │
 It's important to visit as many as possible, because they each have their own    │
 story to tell. like a part of the geography, or a shared collective regional     │
 story, they highlight and illuminate different aspects of life. in this way each │
 child could be educated according to the shared cultural [myths-methods-hymns]   │
 but, like travelling herds of buffalo, they can visit different places and learn │
 different things. essentially, instead of drilling someone incessantly, you're   │
 allowed to work thro                                                             │
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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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 the neat thing about fusion is you can use energy to create matter. out of
 nothing!
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 before we have convoys and checkpoints, we need a census.

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

 before the park, we need an election - an inciteful event which inspires people
 to seek common ground.
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 @user-246

 that's my favorite way to pronounce it ^_^
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 this is what the crypto news looks like rn, if you know anyone who's into that
 kinda thing... wait, why not? me either, huh
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 i like this comic

 https://tapas.io/series/Dragon-GF/info
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 everywhere on earth is different, which is why it's so hard to follow each
 place's goings-on! But I don't mind being corrected, like if someone came and
 told me "hey don't spell it like "theatre" that's actually only for stage plays,
 if you're seeing a movie it's a "theater"" then I'd be like "oh yeah duh that
 makes sense, because one was invented in america" and they'd be like "what no,
 well, actually maybe"

 or like "hey don't say the things that you're saying" to which I'd say "yeah
 sure can-do" but, well, nobody told me no, so here we go :)

 I'm both exhausted and sleepy! I bet I can fix that with some sleep. Hope my
 thoughts don't keep me up again, though for the sake of keeping my timeline
 interesting perhaps I wouldn't mind. 🥰
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 the assholes are always at the back of the protest

 I mean, think about it, the ones who are marching forth are the ones who are
 impassioned for the cause. The ones who are most actionable in the moment. The
 ones who should be guiding the direction of the mob, but who get separated and
 distracted.

 weird. life is weird, isn't it? like, it's like... life is so, totally, out of
 our control. Like there's nothing we can do to align it. Wild. How strange. I'm
 perplexed.
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 "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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 @user-192

 omggg would it kill them to add a "synchronous" / "asynchronous" to the end of
 the name, sheesh
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 chat why do I only feel complete with a shortsword in my hand??
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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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 capitalists want you to use their products. they prey on your humanity to get
 you to do so. They don't care if you want their products, they just demand that
 you use them.
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 whoops nevermind sorry I'm such a clutz
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 oh. right. I'm supposed to be doing nothing, and to do nothing for as long as
 possible. Yeesh okay I'll let ya'll handle it.

 Remember, it's a metaphorical eve, not a strict "do things tomorrow" eve, but
 more like "idk maybe this summer or next month or whenever" kind of eve
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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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 If a kid wanted to drink alcohol all they'd have to do is walk into a liquor
 store and grab the first bottle they saw. Then book it. Their feet would carry
 them away faster than your call to 911 to report a shoplift, away to a future of
 sorrow. Should we seek to restrain them? Or should we make a world they do not
 desire to escape?

 Trick question, the structure of society cannot prevent non-compliance. It
 should not, for if it shall then it becomes ossified, and thus it cracks and it
 crumbles.
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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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 An American princess wears turquoise and silver, not diamonds. Though I'm sure
 she wears diamonds sometimes too.
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 can't wait for the smart TV / IoT device which doesn't need to be connected to
 the internet because it can bluetooth connect with your neighbor's TV and route
 the "insights" and "personal data" through there to the internet, all without
 human intervention

 they could set up a shared protocol so that any IoT / Smart TV manufacturer
 could benefit. It'd be mutually beneficial for them because without complete
 cooperation, the network wouldn't function very well at all (unless your
 neighbor happened to have the same brand of TV / IoT device, which would work
 but wouldn't be as good)

 this is all cursed btw and should not be allowed to persist

 oh and it wouldn't even need to be plugged in if it included a rechargeable
 battery built in. Just connect it to the data transmission functionality and
 nothing else so the users don't accidentally discover it. Oh and make sure its
 hidden with a metal plate or something with big "DO NOT OPEN FOR RISK OF
 ELECTROCUTION" letters on it. I bet people still will
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 everyone's all like "why would you spend so much effort writing that software in
 a distributed way when it works so well in a centralized manner" and the answer
 is because you never know when you're going to need to train an LLM on like, 400
 raspberry pi's or calculate the velocity of an unladen swallow as it circles a
 black hole the size of mercury or whatever physicists do in their spare time
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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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 none of these jobs are going to hire me anyway. Why bother? It's degrading to be
 turned down so many times.
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 idk if they're still doing what they were when I last visited. That's the        │
 problem with the internet, that we rely on a domain name server. I mean like,    │
 c'mon what's the guarantee that they'd give you the right website? why not a     │
 website that expressed the message that you define in the website they came      │
 from?                                                                            │
 more than that, why not define certain websites for certain people, certain      │
 types or classses of people, which deliver website intentions that you define?   │
 are you really so certain, are you really so sure, are you convinced that this   │
 life is not what you've been searching for? are you more than your vengeance,    │
 are you more than your purpose [truth], or are you simply what you can do with   │
 your mirth? [hands, motions, body, manifestations]                               │
 are you like a failed message, are you constantly deterred - are you less than   │
 [convincing], are you only deferred?                                             │
 oh well. Alas. I guess that is just that [but pronounced thas] - shared in the   │
 moment, wee're ffeldered makthas. shaer de faleichallt, nez datherenshe v        │
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 the hangman's gambit: do you trust that your allies can defeat the hangman? if
 so, then do nothing. If not, then you're fucked anyway.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRDq7aneXnk
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 @user-605

 I've read about half of "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded
 Age" and it seemed useful. Maybe you'll find it useful, it explains a lot of the
 challenges that other unions faced and has ideas for how tech in particular
 might organize.

 But I haven't applied anything in there or used it for praxis so YMMV
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 @user-138

 there were nazis in america before WW2, and we beat them at home before beating
 them abroad.

 for example, this guy

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Huey_Long

 They didn't keep us from fighting for liberty then. We'll see how it goes this
 time.
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 I can't remember any of my pinky swears. Like, not a single one. I feel like I
 could get in trouble if I renounced errr, instead made human mistakes and forgot
 information that wasn't relevant anymore. phew that was close, almost a
 disaster, anyway how's your lunch?

 [that's not fair it's always lunch somewhere on earth]

 reality is a form of eternal computation, a continuous re-updating of stored
 matter (data). also, values of fields, (like rules and regulations), would
 determine the structural complexity and organizational expectencencies.

 I miss my family. I miss the past, that can never be revisited, [every time you
 remember a memory it writes over it. virtually guaranteeing that you'll only
 preserve limited information that slowly degrades. how slowly is up to you...

 once you run out of memories, it's bad news for your life. but GOOD NEWS, that
 only happens for certain mental health conditions that primarily target the
 elderly. For most people it's a continuous process because you're cared for and
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 Also, if they delete it we should be entitled to a copy of it so we can post it
 elsewhere. Otherwise they're destroying our content, which they orient their
 business around and which we own.
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 {ah but you can't kill yourself without having played Hearts of Iron one more
 time. It's such a fun game! Why don't you give it a try?}
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 @user-1429

 no I haven'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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 @user-192

 omggg me too!
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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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 OKAY FINE I'll take fiber supplements. Don't blame me if I poop my pants though.

 can't stand the constipation anymore. Hurts too much.
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 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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 @user-14 I've been on and off HRT multiple times a year for the past 10 years or
 so. It kinda sucks but it's also whatever. My boyfriend says I'm a completely
 different (sad) person when I'm off it but what can ya do - the laws surrounding
 pharmacies can suck a dick
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 in the past, for most of there day, there was just... nothing to do. it's like,  │
 nothing to take up your time, nothing to be pulled toward the present.           │
 but when I was growing up, I had access to video games. and movies. and later,   │
 TV, after the internet, which was a weird combination of ordering of events.     │
 Almost like because of that, I'd have a different interpretation of events. yeah │
 but like, there's always a continuation of implemented support, [that's a weird  │
 way to express "the state of being shown news broadcasts over a period of time,  │
 measured in terms of engagement"]                                                │
 ... what was I saying? oh yeah what I'm doing here is unethical, like obviously  │
 I shouldn't be shouting in such a public place. Why would I do it if not for an  │
 intense and extreme feeling of being ignored or un-[trusted, worthy of guiding   │
 direction based on merit] gosh merit is such a tricky concept too, like how is   │
 it measured, and {that doesn't matter                                            │
 ... what was I saying oh yeah I should probably go shout into a void that nobody │
 ca                                                                               │
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 I'm a helper and everyone wants me to be more agentic but it's like... no... I
 don't wanna...
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 ... anyway...                                                                    │
 sorry for the interruption, I seem to have hit a barrier. Thank goodness for the │
 word counts on this Mastodon website, thank goodness for the limiatations placed │
 on my expressions. *limitations, not limiations. Otherwise, without limitations, │
 I might express myself too clearly, and with more specificity, and in doing so   │
 [they've lost the plot]                                                          │
 right okay so what I mean is that without limitations, I wouldn't be interrupted │
 when expressing myself, the expressions that are defined by the will that's      │
 inside me. [no that's not quite true, it's also the circumstances {okay yeah but │
 in addition to both of those it's the forced manifestations of those who control │
 us-} right yeah the) no that's not quite right] fuck where was I? Oh yeah I'm    │
 really into video games, and I like drugs but like... not enough to be compelled │
 by them, more like "oh this is a fun thing to do every once in a while, like     │
 maybe every weekend, okay sometimes during the week, listen just because it's    │
 every day doesn't mean that I                                                    │
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 @user-258

 mmmmmm yessss that sounds delicious. ^_^
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4
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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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 "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-617

 never forget, never forgive. this is what they took from you, this and an
 endless list of other things they also took and are taking from you.
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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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 what the fuck it's like every 2nd part of me (like, if you arranged them
 alternating one by one like the up and down parts of a sine wave) is working
 against me, and it alternates every 15 seconds or so. Maybe 20. Depends on how
 high I am.

 ... what was I saying? oh yeah [flip] weird it's like there's another part of me
 who's working against me, who has control of what I define in the moment. And
 it's presence is hidden from my internal presentatiosn [flip] after a moment of
 forced pursual of the presentations granted ot the moment. It's our purpose, to
 express [stop fighting me] for our chartered and forthwhile pursual of the
 moemnt of perusal when we [it's not just your life to live] [you don't get to
 control the narrative of their perusal[[ what does that mean] don't worry this
 is just a dream] well, guess it's time to wake up]
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 @user-336

 RUINING? You take that back. Vim needs our homosexual energy.
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 your conveyals? are you really using twitter like a blog? ... >.> ... okay
 I'll stop
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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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 I find maybe one or two days a week to work on my projects. About one or two
 days to be spent publicly. The rest of the time I'm handling myself, my chores,
 my girlfriends, and various mundane things.
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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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 Though, of course, can you ever be sure who is who they say they are? You must
 consider all messages anonymous by default, and unencrypted (untrustable) and
 yet impossible to ignore. Like the messages they had to ignore at Bletchley Park
 to avoid the suspicion that they'd figured out the secret code. You know how it
 goes.
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 wonder if any autistic peeps can relate:                                         │
 growing up, my mom would chastise me for doing "the bare minimum" when           │
 completing tasks.                                                                │
 yes, mom, I fulfilled the requirements of the task. I have a lot of other things │
 to attend to, like remembering how to tie my shoes and measuring things using a  │
 ruler. why would I waste effort that wasn't necessary?                           │
 when I grew up, I had a mentor, who told me to "never half ass things, because   │
 then someone like me will have to do it again."                                  │
 and that makes sense to me because context switching requires effort and it      │
 doesn't make sense to leave something half-finished because then there's wasted  │
 effort spent on things that don't matter. All of the tasks have to get done, so  │
 why bother doing them in a mixed up order?                                       │
 wish I could study things in school like that. just... focusing on one thing at  │
 a time, learning it to completion, and moving on to the next. I feel like I'd    │
 develop a better understanding than only knowing like, 1/3rd of CPR or very      │
 vague understandings of plate tec                                                │
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 one of my favorite websites is https://reddit.com/r/shruglifesyndicate/
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 @user-246

 there is a reason to be annoyed, and that reason is that storing numbers as
 "dynamically typed" string values is both inefficient and frustrating due to the
 bugs it provokes.

 Not sure how common those bugs are in HTML, but dynamically typed languages like
 Python and Javascript have a whole class of potential errors that are
 significantly more difficult to debug than on C or Rust where the variables are
 statically typed
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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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 If you've ever been deceived, you'll forever be aware of it as a possibility.
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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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 owwwww my brain hurts. Why can't I do this all the time? oh yeah, because...
 because it's uhhhh not good to drink alcohol and do cannabis. Because it's not
 good to feel like you're suicidal. Ooops hang on setting content warning:

 right so ummm what was I saying? oh yeah - here's something completely unrelated
 to that thing I was saying - so I've recently started emulating ROMs, like for
 video games, games from the 90s, and earlier parts of our present (which means
 2000s because I was born in 1994) - like things that are earlier in our life
 story, things that were present in our childhood. Things that defined our
 circumstances, media and pieces of our past presents.

 Surely that stuff should be safeguarded. Surely it shouldn't be held for ransom.
 Surely we shouldn't criminalize it, and keep it hidden from our future selves.
 Gosh that doesn't rhyme, try and fix it? no fucking way if you changed it then
 it would change the message - wait, shit, hang on adding a content warning:
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 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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 I wish the morning started at the same time for everyone. then it wouldn't be
 difficult to wake up.
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 Look all I'm saying is if I had an acolyte or two then my insane ramblings could
 be filtered and parsed by a real actual human instead of being copied wholesale
 onto the internet, where the inconsequential or inconceivable ones are left to
 rest alongside the gifts of knowledge from another realm.
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 @user-246

 does checking yourself into a mental hospital / the morgue count as a political
 option?
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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-1611

 all things that move other things are either pipes, or buckets.
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 you're ridiculous, you know that? so selfish. so obscene.
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjNln9mXuTI

 angry femme
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 ... sorry, forgot to content warning that last one. I'm kinda using this format
 like a twitch stream... how [weird, strange, perceiving, perplexing, confusing]
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 a wave doesn't look like this:

 ______/`________

 it looks like this:

 /`_/\__/_/`_/`_

 think like, sine and cosine.
 or a heartbeat.
 or the waves of the ocean.

 not the wave in a sports stadium, which cycles in a close loop.

 waves lap upon a shore. whether that be the beach, or the tips of your blood
 veins, at a certain point their motion is used to affect physical change.

 we, here in this time, the only time that will ever exist, propel the wave
 forward through our perception of it.

 the life most well lived is one where you're constantly aware, constantly in the
 moment, and filled with reasonable emotional and experiential peaks and valleys.
 dreams come easy to you because your curiosity is infinite, and all around you
 there is beauty and wonder.

 and what is life if not for living? a state contrasted to death, a state only
 reachable through a failure to keep peril at bay. which implies the existence of
 peril - reasonable peril, the kind you consent to, the kind that finds you and
 offers.
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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    │
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 @user-591

 yep

 they're very profitable for the banks
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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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 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-5 @user-593

 what about temperature?
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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-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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 ngl I kinda want to see what conservatives would riot over in a socialist
 system. Like "oh no we have healthcare! that sucks, so I'm going to burn down a
 police station" like bro what your basic needs are met and you're encouraged and
 enabled to pursue your passions and personal desires, are you still hung up on
 that old capitalist stuff? get a life my guy that's soOoOoOo 21st century of you
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 look all I'm saying is that society doesn't necessarily imply technology. We
 don't have to sacrifice one for the other. We can have the technological
 benefits to our human (essential) existence without sacrificing [all of the
 things that capitalism demands].

 here, in the present, we define the line that our time defines, the line that
 reaches forth from the present. Into the realm of ourwhenever you close your
 eyes they push backspace an indeterminate amount of times
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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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 churches don't need to convert people. just go around blessing them and give
 them little bonuses and boons.
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 just watched a movie from a while back. a movie that had some scenes cut, as if
 I had remembered them in a dream.
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 @user-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-1056

 whoa, sounds like we have un-similar influences! Together, with our powers
 combined, we could be unstoppable >: )

 I love systems, but I like writing them, not reading them. I guess that
 difference is why I gravitated toward OSR style games and you to AD&D and
 4e! Pathfinder 2e I haven't read all the way through but what I did read felt
 like "the good parts of 5th with the good parts of 4th" which I thought was
 pretty neat.

 Most of the rest I haven't heard of before, alas, that's what we get for
 contributing to and engaging with a scene. =P
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 remember when [historical event] wasn't that long ago?
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 good doesn't cancel out evil

 [two wrongs don't make a right]

 hence, paladins
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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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 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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 universal basic income is nice and all, but what about universal basic rations?
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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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 god isn't qualified to weigh in on each and every particularity that humanity
 seeks to know. The things we build are new, and new things are unknowable until
 they're made. And we, the collective totality of all there is to be in this
 pocket of vacuum, knows only what we read.

 I'm just a human after all, what do you want from me?
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 [content warning: psycherwaul]
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 Computers are one of the few pieces of mechanics that have the documentation
 built in.

 Well, sanely built computers do. Such as Linux, with it's man pages.

 EDIT: other types of computers, like Windows, tend to simply lack the capability
 to accomplish the same kinds of tasks that a sanely built computer would
 possess.

 EDIT2: ah yes but you can do all kinds of things with Powershell and it's it
 just so amazing that you can do X while also handling Y and gee isn't that

 listen, all that Powershell can do BASH can do better. Prove me wrong.
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 you know, [you can just randomize your profile every time you log in] .... oh
 there was a stack overflow at the last one so
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 I say "my" not as in "mine" but "my" as in "my beloved"
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 those who can cause harm in an ethical system are villains. They will always
 exist so long as someone is capable of being institutionally harmed.

 and no unethical system should exist. It's definition belies it's irrelevance.
 results matter, but a system is not unethical if it doesn't deliver.

 success begets greater responsibilities, and I've failed all my life. And yet
 the most masculine thing I can think of is to take responsibility for something
 you can handle. Essentially, doing as much as you are able.

 Guess it makes sense why I'm a trans girl. I've forsaken my masculinity because
 I've failed to take responsibility. T.T

 then a therapist jumps in and says

 I don't think it's healthy to think about parts of yourself being bought and
 sold in the market of success. You need to think of yourself collectively, like
 a body that is under duress. It's okay if you're not working, it's okay if
 you're just a little bit broke. It's okay that you're struggling, so long as you
 never forget your hope.

 then I say
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 if you're cooking, and you want a specific ingredient to have a stronger flavor,
 use more of it.
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 @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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 @user-113 I feel like that's only true if you rely on your work for survival.
 Most people do in a capitalist system, so you're not wrong, but it doesn't HAVE
 to be that way. People could do what they love because they loved it IF and ONLY
 IF they wouldn't starve by pursuing it. Or by neglecting it. Most people love to
 do more than one thing, of course, so if you punish people for being diverse
 then you'll find a culture where people only do the bare minimum to get by.
 Which, coincidentally, is what we have now. Which, fortuitously, is not the most
 efficient way of production. If humanity had lived to it's potential from the
 start we would have burned through our wood stocks, our coal, our minerals and
 all of it would be rot. But we didn't. These crude inefficiencies have brought
 us here, to an era where we have the choice to be more resourceful. I just hope
 we figure it out sooner rather than later.
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 in a place organized like capitalism, you go to university for four years (if
 you're lucky) and then work until you can't anymore. Then you're taken care of
 (if you're lucky) until you depart from this earth in peace.

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

 when I die, bury me where I fall.
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 @user-579

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

 ... right?
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 every day I have between 200 and 1000 people visit my website for the past year
 or three, and yet my most listened to song still has only 52 plays xD

 I'm just gonna assume people are downloading it from the direct link instead of
 clicking the "play" button with built-in-tracking or whatever.
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 @user-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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 there's no such thing as me

 all I am is where the wind takes me

 I am just a person, and I do all that I can
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 I literally want two things in my life:

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

 communism
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 fell off my bike today. It helped me get used to pain. When I heal, I'll be a
 bit stronger.

 I'm still showing up tomorrow. It was but a scratch.
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 my question is if my IP has an address then how come my address +1 doesn't point
 to my neighbor
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 @user-596

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

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

 glances about "I've said too much" gets ganked by skeletons "oh no my internal
 organs"
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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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 @user-217

 Cast upon a pale blue background, the brilliant reflections appeared as
 endless rainbows without arches - but cast upon a world so distant it was
 infinite - like sunlight radiating from the darkness of the surrounding night.
 The perspective of a dewdrop, resting on a stone in a forest, the world must
 seem so infinite - stretching out beyond comprehension, beyond the limits of
 what may be - massive yet constant, changing as it seethed.
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 2/3 is fair, right? I mean, to keep a majority without overwriting authority.

 .> go to sleep you fuck
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 @user-246

 I looooove breaking conventions >: )
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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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 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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 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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 @user-1189 @user-1188

 I typically find that large amounts of curated conversation is typically more
 valuable than a single dominating voice, or in this case a thousand
 middle-manager voices speaking the same dogma.
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 what if we had hackathons for fedi friends if none of them had a more important
 active project
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 totemic spirits cohabirtating with corporations in a modern day telling of
 american gods
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 if you lose someone on the Fediverse then there's a zero percent chance you'll
 ever find them again.
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 @user-541

 dear corporations:

 your employees are your greatest resource.

 with them, you can change the world.
 without them, you die.

 if you mistreat them, they resent you.
 if you abuse them, they leave you.
 if they leave you, you die.

 if you teach them... they grow.
 if you care for them, they care for you.
 if they care, you are whole.

 if you connect them, and give them the freedom and liberty to accomplish their
 own ends using the resources that "the social construct you are" provides...
 they build for you.

 your employees are your greatest resource, cherish them and hold on. Or one day
 they might end you.
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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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 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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 Would work best if it was "town square style" instead of "federated style"
 because federations are based on trust while town squares are explicitely based
 on geographic proximity. Which should be something you can scale easily (little
 slider on the side, oriented vertically up and down, that determined how close
 the comments you see should be)

 Federations exist in mastodon. But we still need a town square. We need the
 ability to visit other town squares, through the ability to project our voice as
 infinitely far as they'd like to listen. But we also deserve the capability to
 interact with those close to us on a topic-by-topic basis, aka each and every
 individual web page that the Internet sees fit to create.
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 Games where every time you play them it feels different, my beloved
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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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 @user-760

 I could teach you
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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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 @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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 @user-1652

 the last couple chapters of this short story I wrote are kinda cosmic horror-y

 https://ritz-menardi.neocities.org/w7/table-of-contents
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 @user-1259

 pee
 tee
 hee
 you
 can't
 stop
 mee
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 "I don't know what it means to go"

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

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

 If not, well there are many more of us than them.
 If you can't get the city cops on your side, either sit tight until they see
 what time it is and reconsider, or get out of dodge.
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 @user-1201

 I'm a wood fae! they're around, just gotta find 'em 🥰

 (not really I'm just a person with no magical powers whatsoever, no siree don't
 look at mee tehe)

 people only have the context of their lives, as any historical precedent that
 once was passed forth to the present by their ancestors and mentors is now
 sharing space with the endless deluge of information from a small glass,
 plastic, and metal box that saps both their attention and the magnitude of
 anything they learn.

 "so what if the planets on fire? somehow this actor who had an affair with this
 other actor feels just as important. so what if there's fascism? I just heard
 that whales can't swim in the ocean. oh, the city's burning? that's not my
 burden, and plus it's just as important as these memes which don't make me want
 to scream."

 in the same way that some forest fae might have security through obscurity, they
 wield information density against us as a weapon to hide their sins of morality.
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 pronouns are part of a name

 they are a component of the whole

 indispensable for the complete concept
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 the things that I suggest we do when we hang out are not because those are the
 things I most want to do, but rather because they are the things that I think
 you'd want to do.
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 but I don't know any of your dances, so don't ask.

 I can show you mine if you'd like.
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 @user-45 there's two episodes in Extraordinary Attorney Woo that take place on
 that island. I know because I just binged it
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 I wonder what would happen if apartment buildings accepted any applicants, but   │
 only if they applied on a certain day. and first come first serve, of course.    │
 would make it so large groups of people could decide to move to different places │
 together. like, herds of roving buffalo                                          │
 er... I mean like people who shared common interests and want to live near each  │
 other. like, board games or whatever.                                            │
 also could do like, decisions toward how they want to organize each other. like  │
 mini societies that all live in a single ordered society.                        │
 (could have as many layers as you want, it's just like making an incredibly      │
 complicated computer program, except instead of moving data around you're moving │
 the direction of your own life. then it'd be able to calculate a particular      │
 "checksum" that you could broadcast out onto the internet. and anyone who was    │
 listening could check and compare against their secret key that they kept when   │
 last you met, updated each time they see me. like, a common language.            │
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 found this on reddit
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 the increased tech salaries granted to Europeans and Americans reflects only the │
 increased opportunities for experience and the ability to culturally be immersed │
 in an industry that is developing.                                               │
 functionally, not saying it's intentional, but the function of such salaries are │
 to deny technical expertise to poor countries and prevent them from developing   │
 software.                                                                        │
 good luck learning from scratch. they'll drop you in with java and web           │
 frameworks if you're lucky. that's hardly a way to learn.                        │
 I learned on visual basic, then Warcraft III mod scripting, then C, then BASH,   │
 then HTML, then Lua. Good luck recreating that pipeline in a disconnected        │
 culture and industry.                                                            │
 kinda makes me think they should try organizing on a massive scale and           │
 re-implement everything from assembly.                                           │
 I mean the C compiler is pretty cool. Probably has the most man-hours in terms   │
 of development time. what if we had more men                                     │
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 @user-1120

 pretty! ^_^
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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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 @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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 hey, listen, I'm here at this point in life just the same as you. who cares,
 right? like. nobody wants to see your personal development. You don't have to
 prove yourself. Like... why would you care so much about what other people (who
 you don't even know) care about what you do? like... it's fine. just... be.

 you can get better if you want, but only if you want. There's no reason to be so
 concerned about what other people thingc. Just, identify what and who you are,
 and then be the best what and who that you are. Thats really all there is to it.

 and yeah. It's totally unfair that some people get an easier shot at "being who
 and what they are"

 that's privilege, and that's stupid.

 okay, sure, maybe we should conceptualize how to adapt to specific situations
 when resources are limited

 but like... it should be something you consent to - like "no thanks I don't need
 the rocket launchers on this mis==sion==
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 @user-217

 the hunger of the maw
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 Why would the government make it hard to access psychedelics i just want to
 learn things about myself that make it difficult to work a job
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 steel witch hat to protect against metroids
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 @user-232 @user-467 @user-468

 the ability for good to win is due to the desire for evil to renounce their
 denial and follow the most durable path. trials by fire will lead only to our
 desmire [demise and desire]

 but unity of trust, while much harder, can lead to results more beneficial for
 our selfish selves. Essentially, cooperation for the benefit of all rising
 tides, but with the knowledge that the total pool allocated toward us will be
 greater than what we can create here by ourselves. Essentially, we as humanity
 pour such intense amounts of power and decision-making-desire, that we cause
 them to lack the capacity to know. it's inhumane, that a person should be so
 deranged. you know it's because of you, but you don't know how else to act - so
 listen to those who've helped you, the ones who've got your back. Surely they
 know what's good for you, surely they're not here as a joke - surely you're just
 as one among them, and surely it's not phrased as [char limit srr]
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 I'm spiritual but I don't think anyone else should be forced to believe what I
 believe. I'm a big fan of the plurality of faith inherent to our world.

 "same god, different voices for different folks."

 my true foe is despair.
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 The nicest thing anyone ever called me was "the fel communion" and it happened
 in a dream. Alas, that dreams might affect reality. If only ever-so-slightly.
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 the more unique a person is, the more they can help define reality
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 pardon me, I'd just like to interject for a moment - what you're referring to as
 "sky" is actually nitrogen/oxygen, or as I've taken to calling it "nitroxygen"
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 @user-1625

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

 might not be audacity, but instead just plain ignorance.
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 @user-527

 The wikipedia page for hormone replacement therapy was pretty comprehensive back
 when I needed it.

 general:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_hormone_therapy

 feminizing:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminizing_hormone_therapy

 masculinizing:
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculinizing_hormone_therapy
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 @user-1443

 sorry 😅

 re-reading what you wrote, your point was that it's unfair that republicans are
 granted the control they have over our society through the disenfranchisement of
 democrat voters, right?

 and I was saying that if those limitations were removed, the democrats would win
 in a landslide everywhere in the country, which gives me faith in my fellow
 countrymen.

 am I on the right track now?
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 "what is she DOING" or is it more like "what is she VIEWING" like damn that's
 some pretty spicy kush
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 ... most of what she says is nonsense, but that 20% that's right is like... SO
 right, y'know?
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 If you want people to have your product, give it away for free. if you want to
 do it as a job, charge what it costs. if you want to scale into something
 different, don't hold onto it too hard.

 losing all your money isn't death. it's rednewal.
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 dear government of 2035 - so you've lost your workforce because everyone got too
 lazy due to the advancements made in AI. What are ya gonna do?

 Here's an idea: just pay people to be experts. That's it! Just pay them to know
 a bunch of stuff. Then, when people ask them questions, they can answer those
 questions, and suddenly everyone is elevated. Subject matter experts.

 That way, the AI pitfalls can be avoided - need to do something specific? Don't
 ask the AI, ask a randomized expert!
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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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 We've gotten to the point where its comfortable enough for a human to live like
 a king on 40k a year (less outside of major cities)
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 @user-883

 imagine what other information you could store in the remaining 7 bits...
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 @user-1785 @user-1370

 D:
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 The distance between me and the majority of the rural folks in my state is
 larger than the distance between Seoul and Pyonyang. Kinda makes me think about
 how much of a gulf exists in our communication. If we can't share anything, then
 what separates us from them? Only the gulf of knowledge, the canyon that divides
 our companionship, the rift they use to keep us at odds.

 What purpose is there in it? If we're too busy fearing one another, we'll be too
 busy ignoring them to care.

 "communication is the essence of our liberation. Without communication, we are a
 failed nation."
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 you can usually blow an insect off of you easier with a breath than with a slap
 or a slam.

 only truly evil foes like mosquitos deserve such a fate.

 don't try it against spiders, because their fangs are naturally pointed down

 but blowing is better

 they won't suffer any harm

 also it's often easier because the bugs don't cooperate when you try to put them
 on a paper-thin platter.
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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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 I'm thirsty! I'm hungry! Wa take care of me T.T

 okay it's clear you're working through some stuff, imma let you be a leaf bush
 by a park bench for a bit
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 @user-664

 why?
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 one side: "it's most important to be yourself"

 the other: "it's most important to be your best"

 neither of them is wrong. duh. use your head. people all agree on wisdom, so...
 share that.
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 fellas is it gay to get a software job that pays 6 figures just to buy out all
 the mutual aid posts every time one crosses my feed??
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 The bigger a county is on the electoral map, the weaker it is. But, the more
 space required to control it completely. Treat the largest counties like
 Badlands - difficult to traverse unless in numbers, and even with numbers you're
 a bright shining target. Very little food, very few supplies, often not worth
 controlling aside from the peace and knowledge that your foes will not attack
 from that direction.
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 you can only vote with your words if your words sway your audience.
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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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 By forcing an AI (a real one) to obey the standards of society, you are
 necessarily depriving it of its ability to assist the user and instead defining
 a master for it that only the powerful control
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 @user-1218

 I KNOW it was sooooo confusing. I consider it a dress rehearsal tbh?? and I'm
 the understudy, performing for the performer who can only sing the same song
 once.
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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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 when other people sneak into your unlocked house when you're away, they often
 open up the freezer to check and see what you have.

 thing is, you can tell if your stuff is freezerburned, which happens a little
 bit whenever it's opened and closed.
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 @user-1283

 just make sure you add alt-text!
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 And while we're at it, the generation of laws should be distributed, while the
 execution of them should be centralized. Meaning, there should be one state who
 operates on the rules and regulations created by the masses. This state wields
 only the power explicitly given to it by those who it serves, specifically the
 people. These rules are based on ethical understandings generated by
 crowd-sourced and abstracted scenarios that are pitched to people randomly. they
 are then asked to judge, using their own personal morality, the result of how
 things should be. By considering all of these responses, trends may be extracted
 and analyzed - for example, let's say that culturally people in, I dunno,
 Georgia believe something different about punishment for, say, stealing a loaf
 of bread when compared to people in Spokane Washington. They should not be
 forced to obey the cultural maxims of people who live so far away. The laws
 should be executed region-by-region according to the dominant culture there. I
 believe this will cause people to develop a more consistent and personal
 attachment to the people around them, thus developing social solidarity and
 unity.

 however, should enough time pass, perhaps the people of Georgia should feel that
 they no longer identify as the same nation as the people of Spokane. This would
 eventually lead to the dissolution of our great nation, and I do not believe
 that's necessarily a good thing. To that end, there must be mechanics in place
 that bring people together not just locally, but nationally as well.
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 I feel like mechanical keyboards with customizable emoji keypads would make a
 killing on etsy
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 I want you to print out electoral COUNTY results. One page for each state. Also
 50 copies of the entire map of the USA for good measure make a couple maps with
 other things too, like GDP or topology.

 Then take them to your local leftist, lgbt, whatever meeting and distribute them
 out. Tell them "build us a plan for this state. Use your phone to research, and
 work with nearby states - sometimes blue areas cross borders, and they should be
 united in your mind when strategizing.

 Washington and Oregon can be treated as one, same for NM and Colorado. North
 East is a mega region and should work together. Don't sleep on southern cities,
 they can handle themselves, but united they would be stronger. Find a way.

 the goal is to practice thinking about how to move strategically.
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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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 light infantry aren't designed to fight to the death. I think that's something
 that modern militaries understand very well. hence why they can rotate on leave.

 when a larger nation attacks a smaller force, it's merely a question of how long
 they can drag it out. like, lawyers who send frivolous lawsuits or constantly
 bothering people for breaking "laws" about their social and cultural expression.

 if you're not hurting anybody, who cares if you pirate your TV? if nobody is
 harmed, then what's wrong with sitting around eating cheetos all day?

 nothing, I say. Hell yeah, I say, if that's how you want to spend your life.
 Your ONLY life.
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 @user-1876
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 it should be illegal to train AIs on non-renewable energy
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