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2026-03-29 06:58:56 UTC

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Yeah, if only we could get together and coordinate...

2026-03-29 06:54:18 UTC

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I never died before, so I can't really compare to see which one's better.

2026-03-29 06:50:42 UTC

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You kidding? Not practical? Think of how much money it costs to collect fares! You need fare machines, and your lovely politicians will be investing in the 300,000 bucks electronic plastic smartphone surveillance machines, rather than a 50 dollar ticket punch. You have to pay for people to check tickets, and catch any fare dodgers, and that's a dangerous job since people don't appreciate "You have to pay $500 for having one bad day," so you have to pay extra to goons who can rough your passengers up. You'd be losing passengers who couldn't pay, or didn't like being roughed up by your goons, both of whom are a huge drain on your city's resources as they struggle to have basic needs met, and can't get to work or go shopping. You have to pay for people and computers to record ticket sales, and to do card transfers. You have to build at least one ticket booth.
The vast majority of fare collection schemes barely break even, and even when they make a profit, it's like 1% of the money you need to maintain and operate public transit, so the rest WILL have to come from taxes.
So yeah, you actively DISimprove public transport services, when you waste time collecting fares. The only reason to do it is to remind people that they're worth less than rich people, every time they grimace at yet another fare hike you were forced to do by these trying times. Far as I can tell, at least.

2026-03-29 06:38:30 UTC

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Those are so pretty, and functional! In a very interesting way for hydroelectric dams.

2026-03-29 05:27:41 UTC

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(turns out I was editing the function in COpenGLDriver, when it was using COpenGL3DriverBase instead. Obviously!)

2026-03-28 23:55:01 UTC

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Ah, theguardian.com, engaging in historical revisionism rewriting history to ignore all the extended care for aged parents we've been doing since humanity came into existence, so that they can justify mass extermination of the weak and elderly. Classy.

2026-03-28 23:51:48 UTC

In C++, an abstract base class defines a virtual function = 0. That means some class must inherit from it, and define their version of the virtual function (with the "override" keyword for some reason). If a third class inherits from the second class and also overrides the function, then calling that virtual function will use the code in the third class. Except when it uses the code in the second class, and ignores the code in the third class, no matter what you do.
#C++ #programming #FuckEverything

2026-03-28 23:48:25 UTC

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I couldn't afford a nursing home, myself. Also can't afford to buy farmland, or a tractor. Our situations may be a little different.
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2026-03-28 22:04:09 UTC

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Who else is going to do it? Sometimes we need care, especially in our old age. There's no shame in working to be someone your children admire, so you can get that care. If you had any, I mean.
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2026-03-28 18:22:07 UTC

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I love flies. I also love to kill them when they start buzzing around my head. Natural selection, baby!

2026-03-28 16:35:06 UTC

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So cool!

2026-03-28 16:34:14 UTC

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buffer underflow detected

2026-03-28 15:57:14 UTC

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Nothing is dumber than smart people who think they are too smart to be fooled...
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2026-03-28 05:49:08 UTC

The thing about tyrants and slavers is they crave finality. They beat you and that's that, and nothing can change it, they think. They have you hopelessly in debt for instance, that means they won. The end.
Tyrants, I like to say, will always win. And then they will lose. Because ultimately their claim, their *demand* that their victory be eternal isn't reality. People can *always* fight back, and *will* always fight back. Wars are *never* won, and people are *never* conquered. Tyrants have some amount of time they can cling to power, but after that they're gone. Because everyone hates a tyrant. Everyone.
The only way for them to perpetuate the tyranny then is to convince you of the delusion. You believe you have to repay your debts, pay tribute to your conquerors. The reality is you only have to repay them while the cops are standing there forcing you to. Soon as they are busy elsewhere, it's not just your right, but your moral obligation to abandon your financial obligations. Repaying your debt is a pathetic failure, not a successful achievement. Once you realize that they engineered your beliefs, conditioning you to unconsciously enshrine debt repayment (i.e. slavery) as something noble and not vile, you start to feel like those women wearing burqas. You're no longer doing it because you believe women/people should be slaves; you're only doing it because you don't want to get stoned.
And the debt collectors do not have enough stones for all of us.
#politics #rant #tyranny #debt

2026-03-28 05:31:58 UTC

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"You heard of Vitaly Chernobyl and the Meltdowns?"

2026-03-27 23:42:57 UTC

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Yes! This. Cheese is full of microorganisms. That's why it tastes like cheese. Raw cheese makes zero sense, because all cheese is cultured in some way. The only question is whether you're taking care to discourage toxic bacteria in your culture.
The only pasteurized cheese is American cheese, and nobody likes it. Nobody.
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2026-03-27 19:06:57 UTC

The distinction between Liberal and Conservative stops varying around the world when you frame it as Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery. #politics #HotTake

2026-03-27 15:30:00 UTC

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olla
> Because water seeps through the walls of an unglazed olla by using soil-moisture tension, one can use ollas to irrigate plants.
Neat!

2026-03-27 15:25:29 UTC

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SPACEMAN OH SPACEMAN

2026-03-27 02:34:24 UTC

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So few cisgendered nonhumans...

2026-03-27 01:10:18 UTC

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It's not all that bizarre. The Democratic party was staunchly "conservative" that is to say pro-slavery. Then slavery was abolished and the people who "abolished" it were slavers, so they twisted the anti-slavery movement into a pro-slavery one. Basically wealthy industrialists who made bank off of "abolition" got Republicans to out-conservative the conservatives in the late 1800's, and now Democratics pretend like they're left wing, but they never were a party of the people.
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2026-03-26 21:06:43 UTC

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https://fedicy.us.to/Diffie-Hellman%20Key%20Exchange-Art%20of%20the%20Problem.webm

2026-03-26 20:20:23 UTC

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I mean yes it's a tired stereotype, but I don't see Germany having a 2000 year tradition of rugmaking.

2026-03-26 19:52:21 UTC

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That's not how insurance works. The insurance company charges the patients a regular fee, to pay for whatever the doctor demands. Or dentist (not doctor) in this case. Then the insurance company merges with a hospital purchasing company, and a drug selling company, and a medical equipment selling company, and a student loan company, and an insurance company auditing company, and pressures the doctors to charge more money that way.
I think the goons come with the real estate robbers, or the drug cartels. Maybe both.
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2026-03-26 17:14:21 UTC

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Have you seen what they charge for tooth work?? And they like pentuple the cost, if it's a molar, just because molars are bigger! Insurance companies are rotten it's true, but these are not small sums of money.
Seriously if you want to make bank, be a dentist. All you have to do is not care about human suffering, and you won't even need a medical degree. You need to be about as licensed as a chiropracter, and you don't need to (make your patients) pay for expensive medicine and industrial medical equipment to boot, so they'll shovel money at you to stop the pain! The more drilling you do, the more they'll need to keep coming back! You cannot lose!
(knowingly taps side of nose)
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2026-03-26 17:08:21 UTC

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The opossufrogs are so derpy!

2026-03-26 06:22:44 UTC

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Wish waiting a decade would make CareOregon pay for work on molars. Dentists are such ripoff artists, it's sad...
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2026-03-26 06:11:34 UTC

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Bill Gates is an evil man, hoarding wealth!
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2026-03-26 06:02:22 UTC

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I feel like I get blocked *so much* for saying stupid shit that seems like such a great idea at the time, and if someone's like "Hey that's stupid, and shit," I'm like "Oh shit man you're right."
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2026-03-26 03:48:23 UTC

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Hey fam could you hit me up for a loan

2026-03-26 02:45:50 UTC

Uggh I made a stupid post again that nobody can see because the video is censored and I hope nobody saw it

2026-03-26 02:33:10 UTC

This is what I was watching, so don't read any further if you like stupid glitch-pop videos about space furries and shit. Instead, follow this link, and it'll tell the story way better than I could.
https://e621.net/posts/4613574
And I am absolutely spoiling the story if you read any further. But if you're here for the rant then read on...
seriously go watch the vids and click "Next" to get the next one.
Just heard a story of a fellow who built a system for cleaning up server resources in Space Engineers. Players spawn stranded on a planet, so there's a planet created for every player. If a player dies, they sure aren't going to be signing on again. So he scripted a "black core" which would make a big bright explosion, and replace the planet with a "memorial" that didn't take up so much server resources. I think it was called a "Final Impact" just a frikkin inspired way to honor players who passed away. He also suggested that regular players could (with difficulty) get their hands on a "black core" but could only use it on their own planet, with the hopes that it would help people who were considering suicide could use it as a cry for help. Or help people rage quit the game.
Except he was stuck in a shithole country in the Balkans still oppressed by Russia to this day, and you fuckers rejected every attempt he made to leave saying he couldn't "provide proof of sufficient means of subistence." No one on the server suspected *he* was the one at risk, but one day he used one of his debugging "black cores" to cause a Final Impact, leaving only a note that the pain was too much, he was sorry but he couldn't take it anymore. He was never seen online again.
So fuck you, fuck your passports, fuck you for having a passport and participating in this globalist slavery machine. I get that the police are forcing you, but you're still a slimy shit for presenting it and feeling like you are doing the right thing, or you're "safe" from harm. It's alright to feel ashamed, but defend this border control shit, and you just condemned more innocent people to a meat grinder for your convenience. Every one of your nubile young women deserves to be ravished by a swarthy uncouth immigrant who probably can get it up way better than you can.
#suicide #politics #rant #slavery #colonialism #immigration

2026-03-26 02:05:40 UTC

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The grandson of yadda yadda Molotov you say...? 😈

2026-03-26 02:02:44 UTC

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That being said... they aren't gods. They can't act with impunity. They'll try to keep people in debt, and renting, and paying mortgages, and all that, and try to use that to make the UBI effectively no good at getting you off the streets.
(They've certainly succeeded at making y'all terrorize people living on the streets so we're all desperate to pay a landlord.)
They'll try to do that, but it'll take time, and effort, and people fighting them every step of the way. As long as they are allowed to extract rent, they can chip away at anything we try to do to live better. But if a UBI happened tomorrow, it would be a huge setback for the shits who are bent on making the whole world their slave.
Which is probably the reason the shits are so desperately trying to stop any sort of a UBI from happening. What I say is let's have a UBI tomorrow, and then tomorrow we can go take our land back from the colonizers. And yes, Europeans are also colonized up to their ears. Once nobody's obligated to these pieces of shit, things could get better, and a UBI *might* help with that.
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2026-03-25 23:19:33 UTC

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We need to be discussing debt forgiveness. As the late David Graeber might have observed. If you forgive everyone's debt, the bastards on top come toppling down because we don't have to do what they want anymore.
If you *don't* forgive everyone's debt, and *leave* the bastards on top while implementing a Universal Basic Income, then if your UBI is $2000/month everyone will suddenly mysteriously accidentally (not accidentally) end up in debt, owing something to the tune of $2000/month to their creditors. Sorry we have to raise everyone's rent by $2000/month but we're just forced to by that bad, bad, Universal Basic Income.

2026-03-25 17:26:27 UTC

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I wish I could sit cross-legged. My hip bones just aren't wide enough.

2026-03-25 14:26:09 UTC

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Well Sauron sure did!

2026-03-25 02:37:43 UTC

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replace graft looks weird... what I did was a rebase, and it worked great except I had to meticulously resolve every single merge conflict in the history of B. Which probably broke everything, but eh. I can merge upstream now!
And OBVIOUTLY I have like 3 or 4 clones :p$ git rebase --rebase-merges --onto A7 B1 Bn
basically

2026-03-25 00:29:58 UTC

#git repository A has commits A0, A1, ... An. Repository B has a galaxy brain dev who just copied the source files from commit A7 into a new repository and created B0, B1, ... Bn.
Since B0 and A7 are functionally identical, it should be possible to rebase B1...Bn onto A7, to make a new branch off A7 with the same changes as in B1...Bn, and then I can merge it with An. Except that repositories A and B have unrelated histories, thanks to aforementioned galaxy brained genius.
Is this even possible? Or should I just merge An and Bn with allow-unrelated-histories, and hope that the merge finds A7 to use as a base?
#help #programming #ask #question

2026-03-25 00:04:34 UTC

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"I will never have to merge any upstream changes herr durr hurp durp" - plus22 probably

2026-03-24 23:38:33 UTC

#git command for fixing it when some asshole just copies and pastes the source code for a given commit into a new repository, discarding all history. #programming #FuckEverything

2026-03-24 21:59:50 UTC

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You just mentioned us all again. OH NO I JUST DID IT TOO
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2026-03-24 21:58:31 UTC

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According to Roman law, which the UK still uses, they kinda are.

2026-03-24 21:45:02 UTC

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Gargron's decision to mention everyone in the thread for every reply was A TERRIBLE IDEA

2026-03-24 20:15:49 UTC

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Like [Cory Doctorow said](https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/ ), they pretend tech is good, then demonize all tech that they don't control, as breaking the rules.
"Configurability for Me, But Not For Thee."
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2026-03-24 20:06:48 UTC

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Don't feel obliged to follow popular accounts here. The network will work just fine if you curate a smaller collection of moderately mutual friends. Check the "Local Timeline" of different instances who appeal to you, to find people to follow.
But uh... @npub1yuj…425k

2026-03-24 19:51:07 UTC

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Just because it's the best option doesn't mean it isn't getting worse. Like any failing system, the old system of debt and tribute is dragging everything down with it...
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2026-03-24 19:32:32 UTC

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Cauliflower is alright. I like it steamed with a bit of carroway. Broccoli is absolutely amazing though.

2026-03-24 16:40:12 UTC

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Segregating children by sex is inherently shitty grumble [Camp Fire](https://campfire.org/ ) grumble

2026-03-24 16:29:26 UTC

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It does make them subject to their creditors, in that older empires get trounced by the people they subjugate. But that's far more apparent in all the colonialism, slave plantations in Madagascar and such. The creditors who were dumb enough to invest in USA currency don't have any ground to stand on. Thumbing your nose at them and saying "OK sucker, come on make my 'debt' higher," is the proper response to any demands.
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2026-03-24 15:44:46 UTC

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All these 6 foot tall fences they build these days...

2026-03-24 07:51:10 UTC

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As I understand it, when you check out money from a bank in the USA, they promise to check out that money for you, but don't actually do it. Then you use that promise (called "bank currency") to buy things. The bank can't provide the literal Federal Reserve Notes, but you all got suckered into using your bank cards for everything, because ohh, that cash is just so crude, and probably terrorists use it. So you never notice you don't even get the pretend money the USA created. You get a promise for the bank to pay you, made of promises for the central bank to pay the government.
Why any business accepts credit/debit cards, when they're fully aware that it means they aren't getting paid any money, is beyond me. Why not just give away everything on your shelves!
...
https://solidarityeconomyprinciples.org/what-do-we-mean-by-solidarity-economy/
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2026-03-24 00:54:58 UTC

Just looking out at my mother's little garden between me and the highway, had a vision of that view transported to a place where beyond that little garden was an expansive grassy plain, without the street or the houses across the street, just open space. And that's kind of why I don't feel like life is worth living. #depressed

2026-03-23 17:06:07 UTC

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I programmed in python for a long time, but the python/C interface hid so many bugs. Mysterious segfaults with no way to tell on either side what was wrong. Did a brief stint with Lua but it's much the same thing, and has no good debugger to boot. D was great, until there was a segfault in garbage collection and all context for the segfaulting thing had already been discarded. Tried Go for a bit, but really I was looking for a language that was fast to compile and run, with as little inscrutable (i.e. undebuggable) "magic" as possible. (And yes python gets compiled.) So finally I found the language that was fastest to compile than any other language, and also fast to run, and didn't have a lot of bullshit magic going on.
...yeah, I program in C these days. #C #programming
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2026-03-23 16:57:45 UTC

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lol mises.org is crazy stuff
Not saying printing money is necessarily a bad thing. It is a bad thing if the people printing it are the ones who get to have it though.
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2026-03-23 16:55:11 UTC

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That's why money isn't a unit of measure, how I define money at least. Lumber can be money, but credit cannot be money. If you owe me a million dollars, that doesn't give me a million dollars. This has inconvenienced rich fucks for quite a while since they *do* have to stockpile, and the bigger the pile, the bigger the reward from stealing it.
That's why they switched to currency by fiat, which literally is you owe me a million dollars, means I now have a million dollars to spend. That's how it works in the USA at least. The "Federal Reserve" promises that they'll totally pay the USA a million dollars, and the USA spends that promise, in the form of Federal Reserve Notes. The fact that that million dollar check to the USA can never be cashed is considered a feature not a bug.

2026-03-23 07:35:13 UTC

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Oof, see, Systemd tangles itself up in other programs during compilation... they won't work without recompiling. That's why distros force systemd, because it's either required, or you can't use it at all. You might have better luck with a distribution that takes the second option, instead of trying to alter Debian and recompiling it all. Have you considered Devuan?
https://www.devuan.org/
I haven't tried it, but it's pretty close to Debian just without the systemd requirement baked in.

2026-03-23 07:06:21 UTC

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Oof...
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2026-03-23 06:57:08 UTC

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Or you could just use S6.
https://skarnet.org/software/s6/

2026-03-23 06:55:16 UTC

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Give 'em the ol' razzle dazzle
Razzle dazzle them
Give 'em an act with lots of flash in it
And the reaction will be passionate
Give 'em the 'ol hocus pocus, bead and feather 'em.
How can they see with sequins in their eyes?
What if your hinges all are rusting?
What if, in fact, you're just disgusting?
Razzle dazzle them, and they'll never catch wise!

2026-03-23 02:52:23 UTC

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Hey, some of the people stealing all the money and shoveling it into the offshore bank accounts of rich fucks had to voluntarily resign from office with no charges pressed against them. That's consequences! Technically!
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2026-03-23 02:39:14 UTC

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That's a really cool article! They're assholes who think they are fyne arteests though, who must dictate exactly how the words lay out to their Artyst Vyszion, so they completely strangled the page layout for any screen wider than a postage stamp. (Much like 99% of all the websites out there nowadays. (Including Mastodon. (**Especially** Mastodon. fu gargron fite me)))
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https://fedicy.us.to/awful_margins.png

2026-03-23 02:14:45 UTC

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I'm a matchmaker. #matchmaker Send me your details and I'll forward you the profiles of anyone you match with. That's how.
The question of how to find the *best* matchmaker is... a recommender algorithm, which requires like... multidimensional regression and is beyond my ability to comprehend...
But nominating a matchmaker is as simple as sending someone your matchmaking details.

2026-03-23 02:12:10 UTC

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I think the slight increase in privacy of directly messaging matchmakers would absolutely destroy data miners and manipulators, even if it wasn't encrypted. Important thing is not just anyone gets to know that.
One idea I had for a communication network in fact was deliberate middle-manning. You middle-man between your friend and a new contact you recommended for them, so that new contact's exact identity isn't revealed to your friend right away. And they could use steganography, and multiple random middle-men to get the true identity across the wire. Like if we have three mutuals, who all know my key, I can send it to you through them, and unless they're all coordinating, you'll get it at least once.
So that's kind of like dating via a matchmaker middle-man until enough trust is formed.

2026-03-22 23:44:35 UTC

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> 60 has even better relative ratio of divisors.
Sumeria will rise again!
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2026-03-22 23:32:17 UTC

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Honestly a matchmaking (app?) technique on the Fediverse would probably work better than straight dating. You'd privately message the matchmaker with what you're looking for and some information about yourself, and they'd recommend people to you. They'd be in a good position to do so, since people send them their info, without having to publish that info for everyone to see.
There are problems with it of course.

2026-03-22 20:44:04 UTC

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It's I wanna say apocalyptic, but they stay next to the creeks for the most part. And there are some creeks you can access. (That's where they did the poisoning.) Still it is pretty intimidating. Them and English Ivy are a clear majority of the plants in riparian zones. (In Hillsboro, at least.)

2026-03-22 15:41:47 UTC

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Uh, yes. Nice cushy retirements. The FBI itself is just a terrorist organization, pretty much the same thing as the DHS (i.e. ICE). When they assassinated Kennedy, the subsequent president was all too happy to make the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover a literal dictator-for-life. Even Nixon was scared of them. So that's how they got away with it, blackmail mostly.

2026-03-22 15:30:22 UTC

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People tend to act differently when degrees Fahrenheit are extremely low... and people DO hoard temperature, by heating their houses. Even something totally neutral like "inches" makes a big difference when you're talking about inches of land. I don't know how to solve the hoarding problem...

2026-03-22 04:43:38 UTC

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I too like not getting shot by the police.
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2026-03-22 04:15:15 UTC

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"That would have been a *great* comeback."

2026-03-22 04:11:19 UTC

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Something????

2026-03-21 23:52:41 UTC

Anyone thinking about getting into activism, I absolutely do not want to discourage you but please please please at least read the article on [COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO ) on Wikipedia, before you go marching around on camera protesting that killing babies is bad. There is no limit to the depravity to which they will stoop to keep everyone in tyranny.
An activist must be careful, and prepare for the inevitable slander, subversion and murder they may face at the hands of whoever the current establishment employs. These are absolute psychotic twofaced monsters that you CAN NOT treat as if they were still people. If you ever begin to make a difference, they will lie with a straight face that you are the baby murderer, and the judge will believe it because they're in on it too. So just... be ready for that.
Unless you think you won't be effective, I mean. If your efforts are completely worthless, then go ahead have fun! Nothing wrong with yelling about No Kings, as long as the wannabe kings believe you're too pathetic to succeed.
#activism #politics #tyranny #rant

2026-03-21 23:16:34 UTC

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Yeah, might wanna rescale that video to be smaller. At 2160x3840, a minute and 30 seconds makes a 290 megabyte file. Not easy to download!
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2026-03-21 23:03:12 UTC

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The fuck? Really?
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2026-03-21 22:37:42 UTC

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I can offer the suggestion that you use the Fediverse. Pretty much anyone can message me if they want my Luanti server up, for instance. That way you can develop concrete relationships with people, with electronic records of them so you don't have to deal with it all in your head.
VoxelLibre is fine I suppose. Kind of derivative, and incompatible with a lot of mods. What mods do you have?
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2026-03-21 19:03:55 UTC

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Well I got a kalimba?

2026-03-21 18:37:29 UTC

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> The Lightning Network (LN) operates through bidirectional payment channels between two nodes, forming smart contracts that facilitate off-chain transactions.
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2026-03-21 18:35:14 UTC

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It's funny because all trade unions tend to get taken over by thugs trying to extract power who don't give a fuck about the workers. The problem with police unions is the same as the problem with truck driver unions: they're only for police, and only for truck drivers. So they by definition are here to make things unfair in favor of their elite members. With truckers unions, they're up against the blackest evil corporations on earth, so Teamsters ends up mafia-run, but it still does good since it's making things unfair for pieces of shit who don't deserve to be spit on.
Police unions are up against... us. The people. There's no big corporation they're fighting, no bosses beating them into submission. Their bosses *are* the police union.
So it's like yes, like all exclusive trade unions, police unions are going to murder your grandmother to help out their members, with no remorse, empathy or regret. And in addition to that, police unions are punching down, pitting themselves against the poorest and most vulnerable in society.

2026-03-21 18:19:06 UTC

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but what if theyre really hungry

2026-03-21 18:17:48 UTC

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Doesn't Lightning rely on "smart" contracts, that is to say programs that you enter a legally binding agreement to adhere to whatever the result of the program is, before running it? It sounds like speculation, tbh. "I'll bet 20 lightnings that my bitcoin transaction will go through in 10min. Woah, I just created 20 lightnings! Time to go spend them, even if I'm wrong."
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2026-03-21 18:06:39 UTC

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And never underestimate the power of subversive compliance.

2026-03-21 18:00:34 UTC

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I like S6 as an init system, which Gentoo has really good support for. Been using Gentoo for a long while. I've also used Void Linux which is S6 based, but I don't know that it's an especially popular OS, so might be slow to update. (Really I only chose it because the Internet said Void worked on the Google ChromeBook I got for cheap.)
Haven't had experience with other distros, though I've heard some good things about Artix.
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2026-03-21 17:24:05 UTC

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2026-03-21 17:13:05 UTC

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2026-03-21 17:03:48 UTC

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"I hate you for saving me from having to work! You did nothing to me and don't impact my company at all, which I hate!"
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2026-03-21 16:50:55 UTC

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My blog does not have RSS because uh... it's just the Fediverse. This is the Fediverse. Hi welcome to my blog. You follow it, and then unlike RSS, it uses a push protocol to send you(r instance) updates.

2026-03-21 16:37:50 UTC

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That's kind of why I wanted to make a decentralized currency system... thingy. Because bitcoin *is* slow and impractical. The entire blockchain takes forever to download, forever to process, and a significant amount of disk space. A single transaction takes an hour to add to the blockchain, an hour in which the value of whatever is being bought and sold may have changed! Your pizza will *definitely* be cold if you try to pay for it in bitcoin.
Which is why people started turning to the much more convenient "bitcoin exchanges," where you could own a certificate that represents bitcoin... and then everyone got ripped off and robbed repeatedly.
But money doesn't have to use a blockchain at all. I could (and did) digitally sign the first 100 numbers in the natural number set, along with a statement that any signatures of numbers higher than 100 didn't count. Assuming I then destroyed the private key, you could buy and sell those signed numbers just like any other commodity. So I wanted to make a system where everyone generates their 100 bucks, and whoevers is most reliable is the one everyone else uses.
But of course... you can never assume I destroyed the private key. So then we're back to money printing. But still no one can capture the money printing process that way, since everyone's doing it, and anyone inflating their currency will get dropped for others, so maybe it's a good idea...?
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2026-03-21 16:13:18 UTC

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They will end your river access like, seriously. (Or maybe northern Oregon is their ideal climate idk.) But they're like the perfect anti-creek. 10 feet tall wherever there is water nearby, and yet impossible to eradicate even in the driest, most desolate fields. That's why it's kind of ridiculous to say it's deliberate. The city actually poisoned a ton of blackberries a few years ago, for all the good it did.

2026-03-21 07:55:33 UTC

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We can take them out drinking, maybe hit a few bars. The courts will just have to sit there cooling their heels until we're done detaining the terrorists. We might bring them back.
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2026-03-21 07:06:54 UTC

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Just reply to him with a few accounts of trans women getting a laryngectomy. You're just doing it to support his fetish of forcing people to cut their own throats by denying them the ONLY CHANCE they will EVER have to do something about it hormonally. You don't get a second puberty!
"I want to ban anyone from hormones until they're 18." == "I want to cut open people's throats."

2026-03-21 06:50:11 UTC

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🤞🙌

2026-03-21 06:47:23 UTC

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Always wonderful to see the bees coming out. I paused in my killing of all the stink ant queens flying around to appreciate a little bee last Wednesday ♥

2026-03-21 06:43:41 UTC

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Well if it wasn't full of fake and spam accounts BEFORE he illegally sabatoged the company so he could buy it cheap, it sure is now...

2026-03-21 06:11:53 UTC

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I mean, you wanna get together some time, wander into a random courthouse and kidnap the defendant? They let anyone just walk in and do that now, I guess!

2026-03-21 02:29:55 UTC

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#spoilers

2026-03-21 00:16:07 UTC

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Inflation is typically the primary cause of people not being able to afford enough food to stay alive. Central banking doesn't stop or even slow down inflation though.
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2026-03-21 00:14:12 UTC

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Well, it's true that in precious metal backed currencies, big militaries have been very extremely remarkably interested in capturing precious metal mines.
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2026-03-21 00:09:21 UTC

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https://merveilles.town/tags/unix_surrealism #unix_surrealism

2026-03-20 22:58:03 UTC

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Um, yes. Roll your own tobacco. It's not hard.