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<A HREF="..">..</A>
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blah!
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ideas with no tangibility;
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ideas with irrelevant supports;
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ideas without value;
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ideas' witlessness;
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ideas' witnesses;
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ideas-
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2023-01-02 22:04:33 -07:00
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2023-01-03
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2022-12-07
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I don't think about thinking, I just think it
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and I think even when I can't think about anything else
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I think about my thoughts about the day it left me
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and I think about it I can't think about anything else
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I think about Venus and the moon and the sun
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and I think about when they came and killed everyone
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I think about the last time us two had some fun
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and I think about when we came and killed everyone
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The sky is falling off the mountains
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and sirens filling my brain
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and the smoke attack the smoke grenades
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the blood in the lane
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the sky is on the edge of the earth
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and there are cracks in the night
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and the SWAT team and the G-men
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and the federal fight
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2022-10-08
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The one hun dred me ter sprint .
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2
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and it's you that's dead in last .
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When . will you just ad mit . .
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You aren't win ning in this lap .
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You mean no thing . to me .
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I'm try ing . my best . .
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You're a hu man . dis ease .
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And my best is good e nough .
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I gave it all to you . .
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Leave me a lone . I'm tir ed
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And then you just col lapsed . .
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of this stuff . . . . .
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9
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You di dn't go for the gold .
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I ne ver went for the gold .
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I . . went for the gold .
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10
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You went for the sil ver . .
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I went for the sil ver . .
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And I got the sil ver . .
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And now you're get ting old . .
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And now I'm get ting old . .
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I'm look ing at the bronze . .
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12
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And my hair is tur ning sil ver
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And your hair is tur ning sil ver
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Throw my me dal in the ri ver
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. How could you do this to me?
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. How could I do this to you?
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. Is it hap pi ness I seek?
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. Keep me out of the . loop
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. I thought I made it ea sy
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. All this time I've been so sad
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. And at the end of the day
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. And at the end of the day
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. I'm so god damn in com plete
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. I lost out in the race .
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. You lost out in the race .
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. I want what you guys have .
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A lot of what I do is foreshadowed by other stuff I do. Before Blang
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(still in development and not even publicly released) was the configuration
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system for ytfeed, which was weird in some areas. The behavior was mostly due
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to side effects. Then Usagi, a similar fantasy computer but with much loftier
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goals than Blang which never really came to fruition. When it came to making an
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RSS feed reader, after ytfeed.py (which started as a proof of concept out of
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boredom using some Python RSS module or something) sort of collapsed from
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technical debt (look, I can use buzzwords too) I really wanted to take
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ytfeed.sh and expand it to be more UNIXy and KISSy but lost motivation. I had a
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couple attempts after that such as "awdri", which has one feed.py file with:
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#!/usr/bin/env python
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config = [
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"feed_dir": "/home/trinity/awdri/Feeds"
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]
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But I don't even know what that was gonna be. Eventually I came up with
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pigfeed which is a half-decent base for an RSS feed reader, I think. Plus its
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model and design are delightful though undercooked.
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2022-10-21
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The End of the World, And What Happened Next
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1.
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"Put your money in the wishing well, and your wish may well come true."
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The beggar turned to me, his rotted teeth spitting through the phrase.
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"The wishing well?" I looked into the field behind him. I didn't see
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any well.
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"It's not a <I>real</I> well. It's a wallet number. Put in
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a coin and reap good luck for the rest of your life." He handed me the business
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card of a preacher in the church across the street behind us. On the back was a
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hexadecimal wallet code, 512-bit – a legacy address, scrawled in ballpoint. I
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could hardly make out the 1s from 7s or the 4s from 9s. I put it in my shirt
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pocket.
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"An entire coin? I thought beggars usually wanted a fiver or tenner?"
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He stared into me with orange eyes. Tattooed irises, probably to go
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with his hair. "It's not my wallet. Wanna miss out?" He waved his arms out.
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"Your loss!"
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2.
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Simon was sitting at his desk filling forms when he saw kamisama from
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his upstairs window. She disappeared into the forest across the street. He
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quickly ran downstairs into the trees to find her sitting on a stump at a
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stream, brushing her hair.
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"Where have you been? I haven't heard you in days." Simon started to
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retie his right shoe which was too loose. "Are you avoiding me?"
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Kamisama spoke quietly. "They're trying to take me away."
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Simon finished the bunny ears and double knotted it. "Who?"
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"I don't know. But I'm disappearing."
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Simon sat on the stump. "Is it me? We knew this might happen eventually."
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Kamisama shook her head. "No, we can't part yet. I don't want you
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blindly leading yourself. Someone is doing this to you."
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-1.
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"I don't know what's worth putting a coin in an anonymous wallet, but
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whatever it is, I don't need it anyway." I started to walk away.
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He yelled behind me. "Fine! You just ignored the best opportunity of
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your life!" I kept walking.
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2023-01-02 19:19:51 -07:00
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2023-01-02
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Ted wandered off as he heard sirens approach the crumbling office. His
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office was a part of a sparse lot of buildings in the sparse tundra of
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Underhelm, a small town on the outskirts of Dance City. The nearest neighbor to
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his office, a tall but sterile, empty building, simply concrete, glass,
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insulation, drywall, and plenty of carpet and flammable internal bits to start
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a blaze, had a sign advertising its potential as a center of operations or call
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center or something business or another that Ted didn't have the capacity to
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care about.
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He didn't know where he got the jerrycan, and didn't know how it still
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had any petrol in it, not to mention how it was still full. Ted kicked down the
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fashionable but laughably flimsy double doors to the office, then the next pair
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of doors past the entryway. The interior looked like it would look really good
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if it was set on fire. Ted angled the can to pour a thin stream of gasoline as
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he walked from room to room on the ground floor. He admired the new-car smell,
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the gasoline aroma, the new-wall scent, the benzene draw, the new tables and
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chairs and light fixtures and Cisco-branded IP phones and the pattern on the
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carpet and the sharp geometry of the modernist architecture and soon he was
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back in the lobby, having completed a loop. Like a soldier, he turned
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anticlockwise and continued out of the building, carving a petroleum circle
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into the dead grass surrounding the lifeless vessel.
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Ted struggled with his lighter. It was a disposable Bic that was nearly
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out of butane. After a minute of clicking he was able to get a flame for a
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moment and lit the gas trail. He watched the little bead of entropy follow the
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path and split out into three, two following the circle and one cautiously
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approaching the edifice. The brush and the building caught fire over a period
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of a couple minutes and the fire roared to life.
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"Must not have been up to code, that." Ted whispered to himself. "Quite
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a lot of form, though. Now it finally serves a function."
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2023-01-01 20:07:29 -07:00
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2023-01-01
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2022-12-31
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[21:07] Well I'm in New York for the first time in my life, so I
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figured I'd take a moment and do a, a bona fide audio blog- a- audio, what is
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that, an aog? I dunno. Because, uh, there ain't no way I'm gonna get a chance
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to sit down and type this, um, my first thought, uh, approaching New York, was
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"My God, the city smells like soy sauce!" and it might have been the car. It
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might have been me. I dunno. But uh, now I'm- now I'm here. Um, it took a
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little while to get here. I was gonna plan to meet up with, uh,
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[21:08] an acquaintance from back in- back in the /bpg/ days, when that
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was a thing, um, but that sort of fell through. That's okay, another time. Um,
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so I'm basically in the city now and I'm basically just walking around, um,
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I've never been to New York City before. At one corner I saw a bunch of trash,
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spilled, just like, a shrine to- a shrine to garbage. Shrine to- shrine to
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waste. Um, I thought that was funny. I'm not taking a lot of pictures because,
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[21:09] pictures? Who needs pictures? Also my phone doesn't have a lot
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of battery, and I could plug it in but I can't even find a goddamn place to
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stand around, there are all these signs saying no standing any time? I have no
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clue how you could forbid standing. Um, I see city bike things but I don't know
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how to use these damn things. Um, but I guess I could bike if I figured them
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out, but then I'd be bicycling, and that wouldn't be a whole lot better than
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walking when I wanna take a pause. So, I dunno. But it would be nice to get
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around the city a little bit faster. But I'm sorta- I'm sorta just taking it
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in. Because this is wild. It's uh, it's smaller
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[21:10] than I expected from what my grandpa said but it's about what I
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expected from what I thought, um, and it's raining and the streets are slick,
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but for, towards the chilliest part of the year, it really ain't too bad around
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here. I guess that's the uh, the 2022 New Year's- New Year's Eve heat wave or
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whatever from our storm, a little bit prior, um, really washed away all the
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snow, but yeah
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<"hey yeah"
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y'know, and uh-
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<"Hey."
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Hey. 'Sup.
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<"How are you doing?"
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Doing well, how 'bout you?
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<[unintelligible]
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What?
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<"You're very beautiful, what's your name?"
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Uh, Trinity, how 'bout you?
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<"Huh?"
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Trinity, what's your name?
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[21:11]<"Najeem."
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What?
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<"Najeem."
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Najeem?
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<"That's a nice name."
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Thank you.
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<"Whatcha doing tonight?"
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Ah, y'know, just walkin' around.
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<"Uh, you live over here?"
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Nah, I live in Maine.
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<"Upstate? Oh, you got a hotel here?"
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Uh, yeah, I'm staying in a, uh, staying nearby.
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<"Uh, have you ever had a, like, have you ever had a big black dick?"
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Huh?
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<"Have you ever had a big black dick?"
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Nah.
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<"Would you like that?"
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Nah.
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<"You should try it. You might like it."
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Y'know, maybe some other time, I'm sorta just here visiting family.
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<"Alright, well I need you to give me some head real quick. Before
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you go."
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I don't think I will.
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<"You don't have no choice."
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Nah, I don't think I will.
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<"I'm a murderer, you know that?"
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Alright.
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<"I'm joking. Have a good night."
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Uh huh. You too.
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Well, that was something. But that's New York. Still got my wallet.
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Still got my keys.
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[21:12] Still got my compass. Still got my phone. But, that was... huh.
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Anyway. So, wait, I should probably say that, what he said again, because I
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don't know if it it came through but he said [...] yeah. I dunno. Y'know, it's
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nice to be desired. That guy was gonna chop me up into pieces but it's nice to
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be desired. Y'know, I have very low standards. [...]
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[21:13] So now I'm walking back where I came. "Duane Reade by
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Walgreens". I wonder what that is. Um, [...], honestly if he didn't say that,
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if he just asked politely, I probably would have. Um, but y'know. I should
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probably check myself out for trackers later but.
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[21:14] ... I like the- I like the ambience of the city. The honk honk.
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The sirens that echo across the street. That really fill the- fill the noise
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up, with harsh shrill, but only for a little bit, then it returns back to the
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quiet ring-a-ding, buzz-a-buzz. There's a lot more people on these tricycle
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sort of things, that can
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[21:15] carry people. I, I never saw one before I went here. And
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there's some buses, and apparently there's a Niel Diamond Broadway show or
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something. And yeah, I'm pretty much taking turns at random. This must be an
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Oakley shop or something. But uh, y'know, it's peaceful. And tonight's New
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Year's Eve, and uh, probably not gonna be able to see the ball drop. Because I
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would need to get in a huge crowd and be searched and wouldn't be able to use
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the bathroom, yadda yadda yadda. And I ain't really,
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[21:16] I'd rather just chill out. I like goin' to the places where the
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people aren't, because usually the interesting things are the things not seen
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by everybody. Are there any public bathrooms in New York? Also I definitely
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went this way already. I uh, I went to a pizza place, and I think I got the
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wrong order. But they said something to me, and I didn't quite understand it,
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because it was in Spanish and, I mean, I- I can pick out some phrases, like I
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can recognize what you're
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[21:17] speakin', I can recognize the language, but I cannot translate
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especially on the fly so I just stared blankly at them and then they laughed
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and it wasn't what I ordered but it was alright pizza. "Psychic readings"? "$10
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special"? Are these the psychic readings?
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<"Yes."
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Oh, cool.
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221231_2120.wav
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[21:20] That psychic reading was almost completely wrong, but, it's fun
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to do it. I wonder how they come up with these things. Uh, they said I don't
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usually speak my mind, which is untrue, usually take responsibility for things,
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which is true, um, I do what I want when I want, which is true, but, I don't
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sleep as well as I used to, which, I sleep probably better than I ever have.
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But, y'know, that's fun. They don't have anything like that in Maine. Walking
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through some scaffolding now. This is- "sprinkler fire department connection",
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y'know I wonder how they design big buildings like this, I wonder how they add
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to them. But not enough to actually look it up
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[21:21] because it's probably really boring. ... Oh, gone in a circle
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again, but, it's fun. Um, I'd like to get up, to a position where I can see the
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ball drop, but I don't think that's gonna happen. Sorta just walking around.
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[21:22] I can see ah, Radio City Music Hall, which, my grandmother went
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to Radio City Music Hall, when she was a lass, and, she was disturbed by the,
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uh, frivolous fragrant- the fragrant pandering to the male gaze. That's how I
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would describe it. That's probably not how she would describe it, but, it's
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about what she said.
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[21:23] All the songs playing are songs about New York. But we're in
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New York. Um, something something simulacrum? I dunno, I never read
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Baudrillard. Probably just gonna keep going down this street. Uh, passing
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West 48th, this is, what, oh, Avenue of the Americas, that's pretty cool.
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[21:24] Do I have any other cool things I've observed in New York City?
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Not really. It's very rainy and there's not a lot to do when it's raining. You
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can duck under things, sure, but, only for the moment. I suppose you could do
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so for a longer moment but, I don't know. I'm a stranger in a strange land.
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When in Rome, do as Romans do. And they ain't doing that. But they are tooting
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horns very loudly.
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<"Five dollars, five dollars, five dollars. Five dollars. Five
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dollars."
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[21:25] When I, uh, when I went to do that palm reading, uh, I put a
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twenty dollar bill down on the slightly wet but mostly covered table, um and, I
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thought this would go straight down. Well I'll walk back then. Um, I was like
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"You got change for a 20?" because it was a $10 palm reading and they were
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like, er- well, not really a palm reading, more like a psychic prediction, and
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I said- and they said "No, but I can do a full palm reading for uh, for $40."
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And I said "Can you do a half palm reading, for $20?" And they said no but then
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they said they felt bad and they'd give me a partial palm reading.
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[21:26] So I did get a half palm reading, for $20 - a bargain in New
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York City. ... I love languages, but I'm not much of a people person. I guess
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I'm more cut out for linguistics than actual translation. Ah, it's a little
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apple because it's the big apple. Um,
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[21:27] yeah. There's a Major League Baseball store, I guess. I didn't
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expect so much litter. I also expected the air to be a lot worse, um, one of my
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friends who went here said you feel a lot more tired after walking in New York
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than in Maine but I think it's because the weed is a lot stronger here.
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[21:28] And he was probably blazing up. Alright, recording off.
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2022-12-31 02:28:50 -07:00
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2022-12-31
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2022-04-19
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Snippets from /home/trinity/homepage/computer.html
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Hello and welcome to the world of computing.
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This guide is intended to take you from a cursory or completely
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nonexistent knowledge of how computers work or even what a computer is to an
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understanding with which you're comfortable.
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As this guide will go on the manner of language will shift from
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conversational and casual to more formal and technical; this is because these
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earlier sections are more like learning to ride a bike, where you won't easily
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forget the basics, but the later sections are more like learning to build a
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bike, where you may need to reference the manual later.
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This is also a perpetually unfinished document, please refer to the
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<I>updated</I> date as its version if your citation format permits it.
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To start, let's run over some basic terminology.
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Many of these terms are ambiguous and will be better specified later.
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The Monitor
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The monitor (term taken from the verb <I>monitor</I>), or screen
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(term taken from the verb <I>screen</I>), is a raster display unit your
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computer controls. In some manner, which depends on the technology your monitor
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uses, there is being displayed some sort of content that your computer has
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generated. It may be these very words. Monitors are usually interchangeable but
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sometimes entire computers can be included in the monitor unit itself, the
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concept of which is known as <I>all-in-one computer units</I> because
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all components of the computer except input devices are in the same place (the
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monitor assembly).
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It's possible your computer doesn't have a monitor. Possibly, you're
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using a teletypewriter, which prints text output onto paper using ink, though
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this is unlikely as they were obsoleted fifty years ago in favor of "glass
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teletypes" (<I>glass</I> here refers to the glass tube of a cathode ray
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tube monitor). Possibly, you're using assistive technologies and aren't sighted.
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Or maybe you're making this entire document up and are in a dream. There are
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many ways to use computers that <I>don't</I> involve monitors but seeing
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as they're so common-place there's a very good likelihood you are indeed using
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one.
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The Key-board
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The keyboard is how many people input text into their computer. There
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are many types of keyboards. Most people use standard QWERTY (named such after
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the first five alphabetical runes that appear on the board) keyboards, where
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each button is one symbol and perhaps there are special buttons that change the
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meaning of the other buttons. There are also <I>chorded</I> keyboards,
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where each <I>combination</I> (or chord, like on a piano) of keys
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represents a symbol.
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Possibly, you're not using a keyboard at all, and are instead using
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assistive technologies such as speech recognition.
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My intent with the computer guide was to emphasize atypical but
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important interfaces between user and machine, to make the guide relevant to
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every single person who would read the guide. Making a guide only for those who
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are sighted, hearing, have feeling in their fingertips, can read small text, is
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ridiculous and limits the audience far too much. Accessibility is the future
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absolutely.
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2022-12-31 09:55:30 -07:00
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0908 In the car on the way to New York City.
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1135 Still in the car
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I'm still getting over having my desktop Fx on my phone. It's glitchy
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as hell but it works. Like, damm!
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A crowd had formed outside of the building, in the parking lot. Ted
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stood with his hands in his pockets and tie blowing in the slight breeze
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watching the blaze.
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Out of the crowd a single black (trousers) and white (shirt) figure
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emerged. He walked tensely to Ted and stood in front of him. Ted's blank gaze
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stayed looking through his boss to the fire.
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"Ted, you piece of shit." The boss, a lanky mam of roughly the same
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height as Ted whose name escaped memory, sprayed a small droplet of saliva
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on Ted's collar, which bothered Ted. Ted looked at his shoes pointing to his
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boss's. "You're fired -" Ted smiled "- of course, and we'll see what the
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authorities do when they arrive."
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Ted's wife emerged from the crowd in the same attire. She looked roughly
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like Ted - plain beyond words - with a softer face and longer hair. "Hey, Ron,
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we're all a little stressed. Look at him. He's snapped. That's not Ted anymore.
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Take it easy and we'll let the EMTs take a look."
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Ron brushed Ted's wife's chin with his finger and had a look in his eye
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that confused Ted. "Alright Minerva. I- I'm not sure what we're gonna do," he
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turned towards the office, "about all this." This was the first time Ted had
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seen his boss stutter.
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"We'll get on."
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Without waiting for any authorities to arrive, Ron found his car in the
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parking lot and got in. Minerva got into the passenger's seat without prompt.
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Ted listened but didn't watch as the car started and then rolled out of the
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lot. He watched the smoke billow out of the windows.
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Ted whispered to himself. "Arson time."
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2023-01-01 20:07:29 -07:00
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1458 Arrived at Manhattan
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2022-12-31 02:28:50 -07:00
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2022-12-29 10:23:18 -07:00
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2022-12-30
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I occasionally write blahposts a day in advance. And who will stop me?
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[10:14 AM] Daruna_: Have y'all seen the [...] circle?
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[10:14 AM] Daruna_: https://meetcircle.com/
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[...]
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[10:28 AM] Segmentation fault: in any case, not only is this parental fascism,
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i assume they log literally all data on your
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home network considering you're giving them
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access to it
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[10:39 AM] Daruna_: I've never heard the term parental fascism before, but I
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kinda fuck with it. They're a lot of fascistic normalized
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behaviors in parenting that are just straight up abuse.
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[...]
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[10:50 AM] meatgrinder #1 hypocrite: you two.... It's called SAFETY
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"Parental fascism" is a pretty good term for it, I think. Parents get
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goaded into tracking their kids, because tracking kids makes money for the
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people for the people doing the tracking. It normalizes the feeling of being
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surveilled - a comfort blanket made out of eyes and ears. I was gonna say more
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but I just realized I don't have anything new to bring to this, so who cares.
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I found something in /home/trinity/bak/Documents/dog.odt:
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2021-06-21
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I would like to become a dog
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I have been housesitting the residence of the family of a friend of
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mine who are all currently vacationing (specific activity unknown) in Florida
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right now in 2021 (- he and his company are all vaccinated against the current
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pandemic). His family, particularly his mother and aunt, take care of three
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well-behaved and often adorable dogs whom I shant name for their (the dogs' and
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the family's) privacy, and the responsibility fell to me, which was at first
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exciting in a bad way but is now boring in a good way. I care not only for but
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about the dogs, and I like to think they care about me though they are
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incapable of ever caring for me in quite the same way. But even if they don't,
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it doesn't matter. They still behave, still go outside when I'd like them to
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please urinate on the grass and not the hardwood floor, and still will sleep
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next to me if not for companionship then for warmth. I am okay with this.
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Essentially, I am a robot (in the sense that my actions to take care of
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the dogs is automatic, and that I don't need significant input nor pay) in
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servitude to these dogs – it's not that I mind, of course; I do love these dogs
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even if they may not love me (are dogs capable of sentient love?). And this
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concept is interesting. They essentially live in their paradise; they go
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outside every 2-3 hours (whenever they move around usually it’s because they'd
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like to move around outside) and exercise their bodily functions out there when
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need be, they play with each other and at least seem to have intellectual
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stimulation out in the back yard, and they all get as much water as they want
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and two get food whenever they want (the larger one has a stricter diet of two
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cups of more wholesome food in the morning and at night). They are in heaven
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and I am the robot that serves them. When I am off-line, others are there to
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serve them. When others are off-line, even others will serve them. I would like
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to be a dog.
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Though, specifically, I would like to be a being that has its physical
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needs met always and that is intellectually stimulated with equal peers with
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which to interract. Why is this not possible? Robots certainly exist, and
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certainly there is enough food in the world to feed everybody who needs food,
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and certainly with wastewater recycling and other means of conserving the
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environment there could be enough water for everyone, and it's not hard to make
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a bathroom fit for humans (just make sure it's not where they eat), and it's
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not hard to make this a suburban reality (for contact with both nature and
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peers), and intellectual stimulation can be provided by peers and by the
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environment. With automation, anyone can be a dog. Yet it seems like only the
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wealthy are dogs. But dogs don't spend money! What need do they have for
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overabundant wealth?
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God Damn Capitalism.
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2022-12-30 15:29:25 -07:00
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Alright, it's now actually 2022-12-30. I wanted to save my New Year's
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Eve thoughts for New Year's Eve just in case I have something useful to say.
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Unlikely.
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I'm probably gonna formally give up on Arson Comics (<arson.pisskink.org>)
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because it's hard to follow up on it and I think the writing was somewhat poor
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from the get go. I'll try to write a successor, bit by bit, in this blah.
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Ted walked through the wasteland of his former workplace as it burned.
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He could smell the sweet benzene in the gasoline that had begun to ignite and
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feel the summer heat, the artificial heat, his artificial heat from his embers.
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Lucid yet still almost in a drunk trance he paced from the stairs to the door
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as his co-workers rushed around him to get out of the burning building. A siren
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called in the distance.
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He recalled himself as he left the office building. Someone - Todd? -
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grabbed him "How could you do this?!"
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Ted only knew what he had just done as a dream or very distant memory.
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"What?" He seemed to, almost as though he was a computer or automaton, reset to
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his known state. "I'm Ted." He smiled a weak, nervous smile. "I love my job."
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2022-12-30 17:35:59 -07:00
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Every once in a while I write program code that I think is truly
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brilliant - difficult to figure out, but once I have, I'm amazed at how well it
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works. Then I realize it doesn't work.
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hubris (noun) - hyoo͞′brĭs
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1. Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance.
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2. Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods).
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3. overbearing pride or presumption
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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I hate it when blogs use Substack because I know it's gonna annoy me
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with a cookie banner or e-mail popup or whatever. Tosu gets my e-mail and only
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Tosu's Substack because she's really cool. If I don't know you you aren't
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getting my e-mail /even though it's public/ because if you're asking you're
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probably going to send me things I don't care about. Medium is much, much
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worse. Just get a website and learn HTML. Right-click this page and hit "view
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source"! It's not pretty but at least it doesn't ask for your e-mail.
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Discover more from TRINITY'S BLAH
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give me e-mail for e-mail purposes!
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_____________________________________________ ______
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`---------------------------------------------' `------'
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I'm glad to have such strange friends who would probably give me their
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e-mail if I had an input box on this page, but maybe that's a testament to how
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similarly strange I am. 「ヤバイ」は補足。
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2022-12-31 01:20:59 -07:00
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And now today's the Eve of the New Year. 0319. But I wanted to share
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this cool link here:
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<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SSTV_sunset_audio.ogg>
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This is my favorite photo of a sunset.
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2022-12-29 10:23:18 -07:00
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2022-12-29 07:33:48 -07:00
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2022-12-29
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One time when I was a kid I woke up with a shit ton of goo on my chest.
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It was greenish and watery and when I went downstairs and washed it off I
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realized there were three holes etched through my skin to the right of my left
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breast, in the shape of an acute triangle if its corners were placed by a
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drunkard. I went to the hospital and they said something like the dermal
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structure (I could be misremembering this phrase) was gone. I had to, a couple
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times a day for the next week, disinfect it with povidone iodine and then apply
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an antibiotic so it wouldn't get infected. I still have the scar though it's
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blotchy and faded now.
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This must have been June or July 2021. In between the changing of the
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bandage and house-sitting for a friend I wrote something about the serenity of
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being a dog, which I will share if I find, and a paper about the implementation
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of and different implementations of POSIX cat(1) which now lives at
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<be.murderu.us/unix#posix#cat(1)>. At the time I thought both were good
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but now I think neither are. Something to improve I suppose.
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My way of writing was popping a can of Moxie, sitting down with a
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laptop (my Thinkpad X200 Tablet), and laying down exactly what I thought.
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Structure be damned! Little has changed. Occasionally I'd fire up the friend's
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new PS5 and play Astro's Playroom, a delightful technical demonstration of the
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PS5's hardware and showcase of the DualSense controller which was so good I
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ordered one myself that week, even though I didn't have a PlayStation. Sitting
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there, a cold can of pop and a hole in my chest and enjoying the bleeding edge
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of consumer grade video game technology, I wasn't quite happy, but at least I
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was distracted.
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2022-12-28 20:57:47 -07:00
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2022-12-28
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Get up doggy. Please!
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Here's a thesis on which I never elaborated, that I wrote for this
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blah.
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2022-12-18
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; cat drugs.txt
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"Drugs are bad" is something I say to myself while I sip my morning
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coffee and puff my cigarette, reading the newspaper. Then I go to work and on my
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lunch break flag the dealer down on Main Street for crack and tell him my
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thoughts on the matter, and he laughs and asks how long I'm gonna be making the
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same joke, and oh probably another week or so. Drugs are bad in much the same
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way chemicals are bad, and crystals are bad, and molecules are blasphemous, and
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faith pays as long as you can still give to the church.
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Another:
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2022-12-19
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As part of my campaign for the worsening of the world (I'm not allowed
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to discuss my sponsors) my next trick will be to poke fun at websites. To me
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this "web" is a little service hosted on most websites at port 80 that will
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return reading material if I write a neat request in the format of the HyperText
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Transport Protocol (or HTTP). Fun! Usually, though, I get a program to automate
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this task for me. I like Firefox and Lynx, the latter more than the former
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though I use Fx the most. There have been a number of developments to the web I
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really don't like:
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- Cascading StyleSheets (or CSS).
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I remember when I could go into my browser settings and change the text color,
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font, and size, and the background color. Now when using Fx I'm at the mercy
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of the site designer who usually doesn't share my sensibilities, much less
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sense.
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Also not completed.
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I wrote something else that I liked but I don't know where I put it.
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Looking through computer backups makes me very lonely. I'm currently
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working on getting rid of most of my stuff - I really don't need much and it's
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weighing me down. But the reason I had so much damn stuff was because I was
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planning on spending my life with somebody. It's not so bad to be alone but I
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wish I had planned for it, or that my plans had worked out a little better. So
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it goes...
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At any given moment there are hundreds of accomplishable plots to end
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the world. Most are horrifying, some are near-completion, some aren't planned
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except in the back of the minds of men, where conscious thought breaks down and
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only the God-daemons are left to staff the console. The following four things
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strike me as things that are actually worrying:
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- TempleOS (reason: [...])
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- blockchains (reason:
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From what little I know about the blockchain -
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which is really not a lot! - I wonder if it could
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become sentient. I wonder if it already is.
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Substitute "the blockchain" for your favorite.)
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The sudden growth of memes should worry me but it doesn't because when
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I dove into them I found them to be a very effective weapon, and that counter-
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attacks aren't too difficult to launch when needed. The main problems to be
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solved are automation and timing.
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I think the television show "Infowars" was actually just some
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convoluted but successful attempt to inoculate a critical mass of "true
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believers" (someone should come up with a term that isn't stupid) against
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certain ideas. By presenting itself in a way that is just outright silly and
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unbelievable except by the most gullible of its potential viewers, it
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discredits its ideas and those that repeat them. To say that there is veritable
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information warfare, in a way that is very new and very exciting strategically,
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would not be at all controversial unless this silly television show called
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"Infowars" with a kooky host and fake stories existed that discredits the idea.
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To say 5G will be very convenient for law enforcement to find and prosecute or
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persecute criminals or alleged criminals (politics may vary) would be to repeat
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common knowledge if the stuff of "Infowars"' ilk hadn't already presented 5G as
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some heinous conspiracy based not on the potential for geolocation based on
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access point connection triangulation (there's probably a better term for this
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but I don't draft and edit blahposts) but the idea that harmless radio waves
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are some evil wireless mind control plot or whatever.
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On a side note, I was tipped off to the wack part of 5G
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by someone in [...] back when I was loosely associated but
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included in communications. I've seen their claim repeated but
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don't have a citation. Empiracally (is that how you spell that?)
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though, if you need more 5G towers because the signal isn't
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very strong, an accessing device will have to be physically
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closer to a given tower, and so finding it will be easier if
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you know to what towers it's connected. Presumably cell
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providers know this (I don't know a lot about the
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nitty-gritties) and provide it to law enforcement - they do
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know cell location in 4G and prior technologies. But don't
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quote me - look stuff up and double check your damn sources!
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Why would Alex Jones give up his life, basically, just to tell some
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lies on a television show? Probably, though, he's just rage-drunk and
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struggling through withdrawal from slamming his fist on expensive desks.
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I'm mostly an ideas person. I wish I was more of an implementation
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person but I'm just not skilled enough yet. つづく
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2022-12-26 15:33:50 -07:00
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2022-12-27
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20XX refers to the past, not the future, in one fifth of cases. But the
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past was pretty futuristic! Dream big, I need my space.
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2022-09-13
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Slipstream
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DTB
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Published here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-
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NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License.
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They found Amber as some DNA encased in fossilized tree sap when I was
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twenty years old. A small networked community speculated that society's problems
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were due to our genetic distance from our ancestors.
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This was my twenty-second year, for the third or fourth time. I meet
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my wife Cassidy for the first time for the fourth time next week.
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I go to work. I work at a laboratory, at this time JCN, "where dreams
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are made", before it's taken and turned into the National Defense Center, NDC.
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I can prevent this by submitting a false, smaller figure for our proposal for
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governmental funding – a clerical oversight, no more than an off-by-ten,
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changes an official's perception of how "innovative" JCN can be, influences
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their and eventually their leader's choice. Yang Electric becomes NDC instead;
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another aboriginal creation forced to assimilate.
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Someone asks me how my day is going. My day is fine. How is yours? Not
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so good, Ada. Carl gets a divorce next January and dies six months after that.
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Officially of grief, technically of a gunshot wound.
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I leave. Today I worked on a paper I publish next month on hyper
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-realistic simulation of reality, simulation into which someone could
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(inexpensively) be dropped unaware. Even my first time working on this I was so
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horrified at what I had created I for the first time and uncomfortably faked
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numbers on my paper so nobody would be interested. One could end up perceiving
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decades in seconds; trapped in hell or suffocated in heaven. Immersion is only
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useful to a certain extent.
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I get into my car. 667 River Road. I drive past the animal shelter at
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which I worked as a teenager. Unit 5. I knock on the door.
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Cassidy's uncle answers. He still has hair, I didn't know he still had
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hair now. We're both on the ground in his apartment. I brought a scalpel
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thinking it would be enough but I forgot this is only a couple years after Ron
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got out of the Navy. He calls me a fucking psychopath and I grunt but say
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nothing. JCN still sharpens the scalpels between each use – this changes
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because it's overkill, we only really use them for opening boxes even by now.
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He's on top of me. All I need is one straight cut but I manage to plunge the
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blade into his windpipe. He chokes and coughs blood onto me. It burns like acid.
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I stand up and close the door. He's living alone, working at a warehouse, on the
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top floor so I don't need to worry about unexpected guests.
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I have no prior connection with this corpse. He has dozens of enemies
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including the children of the families he separated in the middle-East. I wipe
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off the doorknob and my face, put my bandanna back into my pocket, and leave. In
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this part of town I'm not worried about anyone describing my car to the police,
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not worried about the surveillance because there isn't any yet, at least to the
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extent with which I'm familiar. I'm back in my car. I'm staring blankly at the
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road. I'm in my driveway. I'm staring blankly at the television. I'm laying in
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bed staring at the ceiling.
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I'm at work. I'm at home. I'm in bed. I work. I go home. I go to bed. I
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meet my wife Cassidy for the first time for the fourth time. Cassidy Malcolm, my
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name is Ada Karina. Last night you played the lottery; you always play the date
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and truncate off the extra digits. You've never told anybody about how your
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childhood hamster ate its babies and you didn't know why. Please have coffee
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with me.
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When I met her for the first time for the second time she eventually
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confessed that she drank coffee, not tea, and that's why she was so hesitant to
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meet me that second first time. She switched to tea later. That hesitation made
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her meet me after she had already taken the job at the wristwatch company.
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She would see her uncle next week and tell him about us if he was still
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alive. I think of this as I order us two of her favorite potion, cold brewed
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coffee with a pinch of cinnamon. She hasn't had this in months, she tells me for
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the fourth time. I apologize for my detachment. I've seen my world crumble again
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and again. I'm too far gone, and I’m sorry, and I have to move on. She's talking
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to me for the first time for the fourth time and the last time and I'm not
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listening. I'm sipping the cold brew and trying to taste the cinnamon, for the
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last time.
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The NDC euthanized Cassidy via baton. I watched from behind a window
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grate in handcuffs as two children in police uniforms beat her until she stopped
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moving, and then until she stopped bleeding and then until they were tired. She
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slowly splintered into pieces, bending at more and more seams rolling back and
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forth on the tile. Her brain chemistry was a single link too far from Amber.
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I go home. I sleep. My day is fine. How is yours? To be honest, Ada,
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things aren't so great at home. I'm sorry to hear that, Carl. What's wrong? My
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wife won't talk to me. I don't know why. She's just slowly gone silent. Maybe
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it's me? Have you talked to those close to her?
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Typing, clicking. I'm staring at a light bulb, hammering phosphors off
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in new familiar patterns.
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They found me when they dragged Cassidy's corpse into the acid bath.
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They shoved me along a steel hallway and took me to a holding cell with a dozen
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other loved of the dead.
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During her second final week on Earth Cassidy was rarely awake and less
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often lucid. When she wasn't as well Cassidy said she felt like she was being
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dissolved. She coughed up blood, lots of it. The doctors asked me if she could
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have been exposed to anything that would cause lung cancer.
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Ron was a loving uncle, caring brother, and courageous veteran who will
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be dearly missed. Service will be held at Lisbon St. Baptist, 8-12, 5pm.
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Cassidy's uncle's obituary was brief to stay within the minimum cost from the
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paper. My third thirty-fifth year, he shot her in the side of her head. I
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tackled him to the ground and beat him until he stopped moving, and then until
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he stopped bleeding, and then until I was tired, when I collapsed next to him.
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The police came for the noise complaint.
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I set up tests for my project. One of the tests checks for whether a
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program that only ever returns a zero value returns a true value, which it
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doesn't. I pretend to not know what's wrong. My day is fine. How's yours? I- I
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don't know, Ada. I'm sorry.
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I entered my password into the locking panel on the door. It still
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worked. I read digests of all active projects in the laboratory and took note
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of one of the room numbers. I loaded both an old program I wrote and a current
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program being developed at NDC onto my wristwatch, opened the door, and ran. The
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other captives ran too, to a different wing of the building in a greater number.
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Cassidy and I found her dog dead in her apartment two weeks afteer we
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met for the first time in my third twenty-second year. Brick was shot with a
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rifle. The police came but didn't find the round and the killer left no other
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trace. I asked the neighbor across the hall and he said he didn't hear Brick
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bark at whomever shot him.
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I go home. I go to sleep. I wake up. I go to work. Dials spinning.
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Buttons clicking. There's an issue with my database access. I call the
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technology information desk. My user was deleted by accident; they adjust my
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permissions so my account can't be deleted as part of an automatic process.
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I ran into a steel room and threw the lab technician out of his chair
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before kicking him in his chin, knocking him out. I entered my old emergency
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authorization code into the computer and watched the cathode in the center of
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the room start to glow a deep blue.
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I publish my paper to no applause as expected. The concept was obviously
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impossible with modern technology but its aspiration was noble.
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I was in my forty-fifth year on the second floor of JCN. My legs shook
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but I managed to walk out and into the outside air, which I didn't think I would
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breathe again. I ran to my apartment and waited until I, in my twenty-second
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year, the first time, was asleep. I set a code and plugged myself into the
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simulation.
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I didn't know how long I'd be stranded away from my time so I went to a
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park to sleep, but on my way I dissolved back into the NDC, in front of a
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glowing cathode. The laboratory technician stared at me. The experiment wasn't
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ready! What have I done?
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I answered and upon its receipt of the password the universe dissolved.
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I watched the technician scream and turn to sand and I woke up in my bed,
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twenty-two years old, two blueprints and a handful of vestiges and some
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asbestos left in the fire-proof wristwatch next to me, unplugged from my
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simulation, my consciousness slipstreamed into the past present day.
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2022-12-26 14:43:09 -07:00
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2022-12-26
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HELL MONTH; the Devil's date of AUGUST when the sun is ceasing its
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scorch but the torch still lights the logs under one's feet; where there is no
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sleep, no love, no TOBACCO - only PAIN! When, somehow, the torture of preparing
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for another haunt September doesn't end up tearing your bones from your sockets
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but STILL TRIES; when you lose every fight you pick and every punch and kick
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rips into you like a beast in itself; when there is no time, no food, and no
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CAFFEINE; 8月にあれ場所で私は私自身を見つました。
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In August, that place, I found myself. I would like to never see
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myself there again.
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; ls -l | grep Aug
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-rw-r--r-- 1 trinity users 21945 Aug 11 18:23 [...] resignation.odt
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-rw-r--r-- 1 trinity users 306687 Aug 18 09:30 RTy2cq5QVR4T2ZLR.mp4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 trinity users 1466136576 Aug 30 2021 The Rocky Horror Pictu...
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-rw-r--r-- 1 trinity users 35717 Aug 2 15:00 identification.jpg
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-rw-r--r-- 1 trinity users 35 Aug 29 22:04 irc
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drwxr-xr-x 8 trinity users 512 Aug 23 19:40 plpbt-5.0.15
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-rw-r--r-- 1 trinity users 2767349 Aug 23 19:40 plpbt-5.0.15.zip
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-rw-r--r-- 1 trinity users 0 Aug 31 09:34 site.tar.gz
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-rw-r--r-- 1 trinity users 36152 Aug 7 20:59 slipstream.pdf
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; cd Pictures
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; ls | grep Aug
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;
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2022-08-06
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[9:12 PM] trinity: finished the first draft of my short story
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[9:12 PM] trinity: 2.5 pages
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[9:13 PM] trinity: it's kind of dense
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[9:13 PM] trinity: [...]'s been reading it for ten minutes
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[9:13 PM] trinity: can't tell if that's good or bad
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2022-08-12
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To: [...]; and whomever else this may concern
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From: Trinity Blake
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Date: 2022-08-12
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Subject: Two week resignation notice from position as [...]
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[...] -
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Please accept this as my formal resignation from my position[...].
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2022 August 26 will be my last day of work. I will be moving away from [...]
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and it will be infeasible for me to travel to [...] to work whether by foot or
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by automobile.
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I am grateful for my generous and much appreciated recent raise in pay
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per hour from $14 to $15 [...]. My decision is not affected by money and
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unfortunately was already in planning when I received that raise. I am also
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grateful for your support and training. I learned many things during my time
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here and will treasure most the ability to [...] and the development of my
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ability to multitask [...]. My further career will not be in [...] but I look
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forward to applying these lessons elsewhere.
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I will be leaving [...] to [...]. I would prefer to be able to tell
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[...] about my resignation myself but I do understand word travels fast. Again,
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thank you for this opportunity and experience.
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Trinity BLAKE
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2022-08-12
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2022-08-24
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[7:44 AM] trinity: had a dream we were [...] instead of [...]
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[7:44 AM] trinity: [...] was a [...] and some other people
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[7:45 AM] trinity: everything else was the same. you were monologging about how
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[...] had changed. it was [...]
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[7:46 AM] trinity: i went [...] and [...] went by me and said hey guys north
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korea wants to know if we can put dog on pizza?
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2022-08-25
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[9:05 PM] trinity: i've developed skills i never want to use again
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[...]
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[9:15 PM] trinity: i feel like if i try to describe my mental state it's
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extremely alarming so i'm just gonna say i'm [...]maxed and
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[...]pilled and i need to go back to [...] immediately
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2022-12-23 07:38:35 -07:00
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2022-12-23
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TRINITY STARTER PACK
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>fucking hates her job
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>UNIX
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>hates computers; knows more about computers than anything else
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>"oh, no, i could never use android or ios"
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>分かりますか?
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>no social media; no social life
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>constantly quotes obscure internet memes; hates memes
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>allergic to brands and advertising
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>manic pixie dream girl; not manic, never dreams
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>will tell you why she doesn't like rust
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2022-12-22 21:47:53 -07:00
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2022-12-22
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6 2s. Nice.
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I'm gonna start taking the logos off everything I use. My room is
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contaminated by Toshiba, Carhart, Dove, Anker, Pine64, Ziploc, iFixit, et
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cetera. It's overwhelming and exhausting. Good pants are good pants, no matter
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the maker. My backpack is just A Backpack. Brand loyalty is neopatriotism.
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This morning while getting ready for work I dropped my backpack which
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contained an uncovered Gilette cartridge razor, which shaved off my fingertip.
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Ouch. I suddenly was bleeding without knowing why so I duct taped some cotton
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on it (I'm out of gauze because I'm accident prone and simultaneously
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forgetful) and finished getting ready, then when I got to work put on five
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sticky bandages (off-brand Band-Aids) and taped them on for good measure. When
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in Rome. I told my co-workers I slipped in the shower which made more sense
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than my dumb ass having an uncovered razor in my backpack. Get a holder, get a
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protector, whatever, don't do what I did.
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2022-12-23 07:38:35 -07:00
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2022-12-20 21:16:22 -07:00
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2022-12-20
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I started studying Japanese again because WSJ and others from /g/bpg/
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are doing it. Went though ~300 JLPT N5 Anki cards today to refresh the stuff I
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hadn't touched in a while.
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I caved and have started (ab)using caffeine again as of last Saturday
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(today is Tuesday. Do the math). Sigh...
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Here's a blog post I wrote for tebibyte.media/blog:
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2022-12-15
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+++
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title = "i hate smart phone"
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date = "2022-12-15"
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description = "some thoughts regarding the twenty first century"
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license = "[UNLICENSE](https://unlicense.org/)"
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[taxonomies]
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author = ["DTB"]
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tags = ["opinion", "philosophy"]
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+++
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I hate smart phones with a burning passion that has caused my weak
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willed hands to give up three to various bodies of water including a puddle
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outside a mechanic's and a pond to which I walked through the forest. I don't
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regret my actions except that I haven't killed more digital beasts.
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My own current phone (until it too meets the fate of its brethren) is a
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PINE64 PinePhone running postmarketOS, a Linux distribution intended to keep
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good-enough smart phones running well past the expiration date on the box (or
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on the manufacturer's website). Technically, though I bet most people don't
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care, it's a security hazard to have an out-of-date smart phone; your banking,
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personal, medical information is on there and it doesn't take too long to get
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it out. Look at NSO Group and other wretched sub-scum that have evolved out of
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leech law enforcement's taxpayer-funded searches of people's smart devices,
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that made money because their product was good, because they could take the
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data out of your cell phone like the mind flayer sucks at your brain, like Coca
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Cola through a straw. Who even needs a crime scene indexed when you've Googled
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"How do I kill my rapist?", when GPS and cell tower logs show you were the only
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one at the scene of the crime, and when your slow descent into hell is
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chronicled in your Camera Roll, and when Samsung stopped updating your phone a
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year ago so all the police need to do is plug the black mirror into their
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stylish plastic suitcase? The journalist documenting the dictatorship is
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booking an airplane trip into a death trap if they forgot to make sure the
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little version number in a menu in a menu in an app in the bottom right corner
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of their home screen is high enough. I'm happy with postmarketOS's very regular
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updates which are for now preventing my pocket gizmo's eternal submersion.
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Why the hell are we keeping all our shit on a piece of glass? I
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wouldn't trust my best friend with my nudes, why am I dumping them into a
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device someone else made that I don't understand? What happened to paper? What
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happened to Polaroids, to CDs, to e-mail and hard copies and for the love of
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Allah what happened to cash? The PinePhone is slightly better for this. I can
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call a dude that works on my phone's operating system ("Who are you? How did
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you get this number?") and ask any questions I want ("It's 3:00 AM. I'm turning
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my phone off.") or post in a forum and usually get an answer about what's safe
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and what features will turn me into a gecko (usually Find My, sometimes
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Auto Rotate). I don't even know how normal people deal with bugs in the system
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or ghosts in the machine. I asked a friend. "Usually I just ask you." When you
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run the "normal" phone operating systems, Android or iOS, you can't run your
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own apps, which doesn't matter if all you do is TikTok and Instagram but I like
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to solve my own problems which I'm forbidden to do unless I spend $2000 on a
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MacBook and $100 on an Xcode license. That's iOS. Android development is free
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but so godawfully slow and painful that I would probably rather be waterboarded
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by someone in a clown costume, and even though you can run your own apps on
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there you still can't take control of your phone by becoming system
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administrator like on a normal Linux or Windows installation. You have to
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"jailbreak" (iOS) or "root" (Android) your phone to have full control over it.
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Why am I paying for a jail? Why am I storing all my stuff in a prison? Again,
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postmarketOS is yours to control from the outset, not hiding any functionality
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behind a subscription or preventing you from using your device however you want
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(for better or for worse). postmarketOS supports full disk encryption with
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Linux Unified Key Setup, the cutting edge of the file security field. It's very
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nice.
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But phones still suck, even my PinePhone, which is the best one I've
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found. "There's an app for that" but it isn't available for my phone and no I
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cannot fucking download your app, Dunkin' Donuts, to get that free coffee every
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Thursday or whatever. God forbid I have to take money out of my savings account
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like I do every once in a while because my shit job has miserable pay. I can
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either use the app my bank publishes (only for Android and iOS, of course) or
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go to an ATM, pay for the privilege, and hope I only have to use it two more
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times that day because my bank limits ATM transactions because they were
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targeted by hackers probably because their phones weren't updated. At this
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point I just keep cash with me which is great except for the places that don't
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take cash and instead take poker chips, ahem, numbers on a piece of plastic.
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In this day and age having no social media means having no friends, which I
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honestly do enjoy after the lengthy withdrawal because it's serene not having
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to check everyone's Instagram story (else miss out on the Next New Thing) or
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Facebook wall (else miss out on the Next New Gathering) or what have you. It is
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for me worth having nothing to miss in exchange for never having that gnawing
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fear of missing. I still have my phone number and on paper I have plenty of
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friends in person who never call, never e-mail, never stop by, because they've
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forgotten what life is like outside the app. Which I can live with, which is
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unreasonable for any non-crazy person. But forgoing this rotten post-Capitalist
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world of ad-soaked shitware takes a financial toll. How do you live on minimum
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wage? Discounts. Download the Dunkin' Donuts app. Download the Starbucks app.
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Even a god damn Home Depot app. I'm a Luddite for rejecting the last ten years
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of technology? They say not having Android or iOS is self-torture but even
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spending a little more of the little I have and taking a little more time of my
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little left to engage with the analog pleasures of the world is in my mind much
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more tolerable than the endless thoughtless suffering of the digital era and
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casino-floor news cattle feed and disintegration of person from world. So I
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suppose if I'm broke, I'm broke by choice, but it's a choice I never felt
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comfortable making.
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Better the screen in the puddle than my head under the water. Reason
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died with the atom bomb.
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2022-11-29 01:17:56 -07:00
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2022-11-29
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I think around the time of the last blah post I quit caffeine. I abused
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the hell out of caffeine, I think more than all except a couple businessmen who
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turned to the vegan alternative to cocaine, so let that be a cautionary tale -
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four or five Monsters a day was my intake, or around 0.5g caffeine spread
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across the day, intermittently over
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- holy shit, kingpossum radio is playing Ghost by nelward. kingpossum radio
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KICKS ASS!!!!
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five or seven years or so, and i'm gonna be recovering from that for a little
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while. My memory's really, really bad currently.
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Anyway I figured I'd do a little day in the life of Trinity tale. This
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one's just describing a typical day but most of my days are weird and have some
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complication that I have to deal with.
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0750 casio f91w goes off. i hit it. i'm sleeping on the floor in a sleeping
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bag with a pillow. i take my medication and spend an hour or two
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reading random internet and web journals
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1000 i go to work
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1100 i get to work
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1630 i have my break. i spend it reading random internet and web journals,
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or maybe soldering together something that has broken
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1700 back to work
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1900 i'm out of work. i spend an hour or two there reading random internet
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and web journals, or maybe soldering, or maybe programming or writing
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2100 i walk home. maybe on the way i meet some nice people. hopefully pet
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their doggies if they have doggies
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2200 i get home probably. i write some stuff
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2300 i go to sleep (hopefully)
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0100 i go to sleep (probably)
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I got my Pinephone back up and running the day after the last blah post
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so I do have a phone again. It's kind of janky though.
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2022-11-12 23:52:01 -07:00
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2022-11-12
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I don't remember anything from the last week or so including that last
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blahpast so let's start from this morning which I do remember. I remember
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waking up to my alarm's fourth or fifth ringing after having hit Snooze three
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or four times, I remember going to the bathroom, I remember washing my hands,
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and then I remember looking over and seeing the toilet backed up and all of
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the drain's contents spewing out over the lid.
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After calling my boss and informing them I would be late to work (Hey,
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Boss, I'm gonna be late to work today, the toilet's fucken backed up or
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something. Hi Trinity this is the second time you've called us instead of your
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new job.) I cleaned it all up and did the laundry with my piss clothes and the
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piss towels that had soaked up the piss. Then, upon changing it from the washer
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to the dryer, I found my phone.
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So I have no phone now. Life's a bitch.
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2022-11-05
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You can walk into walk-in freezers and just scream at the top of your
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lungs and nobody can hear you. It's common practice.
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2022-11-01 15:49:39 -06:00
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2022-11-01
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Georgio handed me a stack of Benjamins. "Count them."
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I did. Five thousand yuu-ess-dee.
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"We'll never speak of this again." And so we didn't. I walked over to
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the gas station and bought a Twinkie for zero point one per cent (five yuu-ess
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-dee) of one man's life, and then hailed a cab for which I payed zero point two
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per cent (ten dollars) of one man's life, or you could say one man's life is
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worth five hundred taxi rides, or a thousand Twinkies, or you could say Harry
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died so I could eat a Twinkie and ride this taxi and smoke this cigarette and
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do this all without the cloud of debt hanging over me, clawing at my shoulders,
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digging at my thoughts, eating at my brain.
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When I got to my apartment, or room, I should say, it being one
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singular room with some cubicle dividers up for the toilet in the corner, that
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houses myself, my wife, and our two kids, products of a poor education and even
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poorer knowledge of birth control, and teenagers who didn't know what they were
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doing in the back of a car one night, and my Twinkie wrapper, which I threw
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away, but which my wife still saw, my wife hit me with an open palm, swore at
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me, told me how could I, kill an innocent man for a Twinkie and a cigarette,
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forgetting the car ride and our childrens' full bellies.
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I've forgotten the meaning of life, or, a life, besides a number, five
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thousand yuu-ess-dee, 5000USD, a box on a spreadsheet on my bank record next to
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a box marked "Inheritance". A life is, to my wife, worth a lifetime, of
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memories of Christmases and New Years and Thanksgivings and birthdays, of kind
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words and kind gifts and long hours at the mill, worth more than any finite,
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tangible amount of money, somehow, forgetting the car ride and our childrens'
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full bellies.
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I wonder if I'll remember the pattern the tiles make on the floor of
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the bathroom at my workplace. Distinct yet unimportant.
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I went to a clinic today and got free Narcan, which is pretty swag, but
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I don't know how to administer it, so that's not pretty swag. But they're
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sending me instructions so that'll be groovy as fuck.
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I'm developing a fairly sharp wit which is pretty cool because my
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comeback game is as the kids say lit AF; literally and financially [awesome].
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One of the Monster Cereals makes your poop blue, but I don't know
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which. Maybe all of them?
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2022-10-31 21:56:39 -06:00
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2022-10-31
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I've decided today I'm gonna try all of the currently available Monster
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Cereals from General Mills, Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo Berry, in a
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single day, this Halloween. I couldn't find Fruit Brute even though it was
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supposedly re-launched this year and according to Wikipedia Fruity Mummy Yummy
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hasn't been available since 2014, so that's something for 2024 I suppose.
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Franken Berry, my breakfast today, was alright. It's fruity
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marshmallows with fruity grain cereal, sort of like a fruity version of Lucky
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Charms. I had it with skim milk which I prefer to the previous time I had it
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when I had it dry. I would prefer Cap'n Crunch, my favorite uber-sugary cereal,
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or Wheaties, my favorite breakfast cereal in general, but it was fine and if I
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were 8 years old I'd definitely enjoy it as much as any other breakfast cereal.
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It's worth noting that prior to my 2200-hour bowl of Cinnamon Toast
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Crunch a month or so ago I hadn't had breakfast cereal with or without milk
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since around 2019, so my tastes have been reset towards ramen and pizza (I'm
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not a particularly wealthy individual). I did consume probably a couple
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freighters' worth of breakfast cereal when I was a lass, particularly the
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supermarket's version of Coco Pebbles (Coco Dino Bites, I think?) which left
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the milk a thick chocolaty mess when finished the solid bits which gave 14 year
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old Trinity the sugar she needed to not fall asleep in math class, but as I got
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older I stopped having breakfast because I didn't need it, I needed to lose
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weight, and it saved me some money I could instead spend on cocaine and
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hookers.
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I have now had the Count Chocula for lunch. My stomach has begun to
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ache. The milk was rendered into chocolate by the time I was done with my two
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bowls, which was sick as fuck and quite enjoyable, but the milk is pummelling
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my pitiful soygirl stomach which cannot handle this monster lactose. I fear I
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shall die. This goal of mine, my dragon, will be slain, and Halloween 2022 and
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its great street cred will be in mine hands.
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In other news, I went to the bank to get some cash, and I think the
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teller thought I was a crazy person (to be fair, I am, but usually I pass as
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sane pretty well) because I don't know how banks work and I just wanted 200USD
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cash.
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Today I learned BBL = brazilian butt lift.
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I hasten to finish this blah post, to commit before November arrives.
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My goal of consuming all three available General Mills Monster Cereals was a
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success, though at what cost time will tell. My veins are glucose, my lungs
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take and give a bitter sweet sugary air. Possibly tomorrow I'll have developed
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type II diabetes, if not the simple affliction of death due to ketoacidosis. A
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fate dealt by a worthy opponent - breakfast cereal.
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Boo Berry was pretty good, I think the best.
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2022-10-30 17:12:16 -06:00
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2022-10-30
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THIS SICKLY SWEET CANDY
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MAY ROT YOUR TEETH!
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THE MORE YOU CONSUME,
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THE LESS YOU'LL EVER EAT!
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GUESS HOW MANY KERNELS
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CAN FIT IN THIS CONTAINER,
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AND TAKE IT ALL HOME.
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EAT IT ALL LATER!
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^
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`- A candy corn guessing game slogan I wrote.
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2022-10-29 20:02:13 -06:00
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2022-10-29
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Halloween season begins! I was gonna sneak into some college parties
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but instead I stayed home to be comfy in bed because I'm 2tired2party. And you
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know what? Damn right. Word.
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2022-10-28
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I'm cold !!!
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I wanna be w a r m !!!
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how crackheads be bloggn oh what up CHECK THIS OUT NFT PROJECT ELON
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MUSK FUCK YEAH!!! REDDIT.COM 4CHAN SOYJACK GREENTEXT COPE SEETHE BASED CRINGE
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###############################
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# # # # # #|libwawy|# # # # # #
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# # # # # |of alek| # # # # #
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# # # # # |zandwia| # # # # #
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# # # # # |pwease | # # # # #
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# # # # # | dont | # # # # #
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# # # # # #| buwn |# # # # # #
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###############################
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I am 97.7F but idk what that is in normal is that cold?????????????????
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ewon musk owns twittew uwu teswa caw man vwoom vwoom tweet tweet
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thwee six nine
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damn she fine
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hopin' shew sock it to me one mow time
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get low, get low, get low, get low
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FWOM THE WINDOWWW
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TO THE WAWW (to the waww)
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TIW THE SWEAT WUNS OFF MY BAWWS
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TIW AWW THESE BITCHES CWAWW
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TIW AWW SKEET SKEET MOTHEWFUCKEW
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TIW AWW SKEET SKEET GODDAMN
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TIW AWW SKEET SKEET MOTHEWFUCKEW
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TIW AWW SKEET SKEET GODDAMN
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2022-10-27
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psychological pay decline
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8:00 snooze 8:15 snooze 8:30 snooze 8:45 snooze 9:00 snooze 9:15 time
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to wake up. I got dressed, took a shower, and walked to work. A much simpler
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time.
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"Seven hundred dollars. That's how much it cost for a tank of oil." The
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taxi driver today was talking about the economy, I think. "It's gonna be a hard
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winter." The lights dance on the dashboard in the still night and the wind
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whistles in the window and I spend most of my time in the cab mentally
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rehearsing my interaction with the chemist at the pharmacy. "I'd like to pick
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up a prescription." "I'd like to pick up a prescription." Really nail down that
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line.
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Yesterday I got a partial fill which got me through this morning. Every
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time I go to the pharmacy there's some sort of catch, some sort of issue that
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means I have to call someone and sort something out. This one was particularly
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bad in that the prescription was actually nixed because of the insurance and I
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had to get a new one, and they sent it to the wrong place. All this for two
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weeks' worth of a substance that isn't scheduled, doesn't really have any ab
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-usage, and is fairly common. It's such a hassle.
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I got some energy drinks and energy bars at the supermarket and had a
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dinner in a lawn outside before walking home. Now I get to go to sleep and do
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it all over again.
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2022-09-30
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[notes from the voice recorder]
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[20:53] Cap'n lo-. Cap'n- cap- cap- cap'n's log. Cap'n's log? Cap [sigh]
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cap'n's log. Mmm. Whatever. Trinity's log. Uh, heh, like, log, like [redacted]
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um Trinity's notes okay Trinity's notes um, what day is it today? September
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*pause* twenty, 2022 September 30. Um, [sigh], been moshing and other things
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this month. Don't really remember much of it.
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[20:54] But whatever it was, it was vibey. It was pretty vibey. Um,
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[redacted], that's pretty cool, um, I was gonna, I was gonna do a cool song
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idea [here], it- it would be cool for a rap, like, a triplet style rap, like,
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okay, like, picture this, like, like, fuckin and suckin and fuckin and suckin
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and fuckin and suckin and suck. Suck. Suckin and fuckin and fuckin and suckin
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and suckin and fuckin and fuck. Fuck. Something like that? I don't know. I
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don't know if that's already been done before, but that's a thought.
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[20:55] Um, I don't know for whom I should vote. It's end of September,
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we're getting into October, election happens November. Um, I know not Paul
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LePage because Paul LePage is a rat bastard, we kicked him out and he's come
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back for more, um, [sigh], I don't know, I don't know who all these goddamn
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representatives are, like, uh, Jared Golden, thought he was pretty cool,
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apparently he's done some bad stuff. Eric Brakey is a silly, silly man, but I
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love the silliness but he might actually do something stupid, like, he's
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normally very stupid, but he might do something fucking idiotic
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[20:56] like they're trying to get rid of gay marriage or something?
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Um, abortion, yeah. Dog! Dog! Doooooog! Why don't people do what they wanna do.
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Like, shit's a bundle of cells. Who gives a shit. That's my opinion on the
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matter. Um, [sigh], I've been listening to various metal, non-metal music. I've
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gotta get my laptop set up to draw again, but my digitizer is broken because I
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dropped my laptop so I need to get a new screen, I think uh, I think an eBay
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auction I'm in I'm gonna win, so, that'll get me another screen and I can just
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drop it in. Um, that's good.
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[20:57] Uh, let's see what else, I don't know, that's pretty much how
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things are going right now. This is a cool voice journal entry. Not much to it.
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Um, it's late right now, it's like nine, eight or nine P.M., yeah, 2100 hours.
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Almost onto that. Oh, ambulance. I thought ambulances used their sirens at
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night. Well apparently they don't, they just put their flashers on, I always
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wondered about that. I don't think I've ever seen an ambulance at night before.
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No, I have, um.
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[20:58] [redacted] heh, like the Kate Bush song. Um, I don't really
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know why Kate Bush is popular again, but uh, it's pretty cool. Kate Bush is
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really cool.
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[20:59] Um, let's see. [sniff] I should - I should give my thoughts on
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various things. Um, smoking is cool, but, like, I'm trying not to smoke because
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it always makes me break out. I get, like, a shit ton of acne, whenever I smoke
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a cigarette. Um, but, it is nice, it's something to do. I don't know, I think
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all those people who are like "oh no, don't smoke cigarettes, they're, they're
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incredibly dangerous, they're gonna kill us all", like, dawg, you can have one
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or two cigarettes, and you'll survive. Um, I had like one cigarette, and I was
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like yeah, this is pretty cool, but it's - it's a really expensive hobby.
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[21:00] [redacted] but uh, marijuana sounds interesting. Alcohol,
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boring, only losers drink, I lose respect for people pretty fast when they
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start drinking, like dude, chill out, like, alcohol is just kinda a turn-off in
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general. [horns blaring] What's something heavier? Oh damn.
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[21:01] Um, methamphetamine, um, I dunno, seems pretty cool, I watched
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the entirety of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, which recently ended, um,
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and judging by that I would say meth seems like something that someone could
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do, and it would probably mess them up a little bit, but I dunno, um, [sigh], I
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dunno, I don't really judge people who go for hard stuff, like, you know, if
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you wanna try- if you wanna try something, if you wanna party, it's cool. It's
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good to wanna try new things. [sigh] [redacted]
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Alright I'm done transcribing this shit.
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2022-10-26 19:20:13 -06:00
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2022-10-26
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my illogical day off-line
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6:45 snooze 6:50 snooze 7:00 snooze 7:15 time to wake up. I got
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dressed, grabbed some goodies for my co-workers (I'm giving most of my stuff
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away - downsizing drastically), and walked over to the supermarket at which is
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the pharmacy where I get my prescription, which took about forty minutes.
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My prescription had expired and my new prescription wasn't in the
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system yet. I took a cab over to work (I would have walked but I'd just spent
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about an hour determining I had wasted said hour, so in the interest of my time
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I decided to shorten the following journey) and napped until my shift.
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When I got out of work (1900) I went to the bathroom (seven minutes;
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1907), called a cab (twenty minute wait; 1927), got over to the pharmacy again
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(fifteen minute journey; 1947), and got my prescription, by which time it was
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seven fifty-five P.M. Thus it took two hours. Why am I busy all the time?
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I can't even blame my low pay on the person that runs my workplace, who
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can barely afford to stay in their living quarters. But it's disheartening that
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I work eight hours a day, five days a week, and there's no way in hell I can
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afford a house of any size and very little chance I'll ever be able to own my
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own home.
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If you agree with me and still like Capitalism you are making my
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situation worse and I hope you eat flaming death. Capitalists belive obviously
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the current situation is bad; let's make it worse.
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I'm too poor for rational thought. In the cab over to the pharmacy
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someone else getting a ride pissed in the front seat. Pissed themself, right
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there in the cab. They left and the driver put a t-shirt on the seat.
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2022-10-24 22:47:13 -06:00
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2022-10-25
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i am logical, if not for time
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In C conditional logic is usually expressed in if statements. The very
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narrow textbook example of this is thus:
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if (condition) {
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do_something();
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} else {
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do_another_thing();
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}
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I don't like this. There are a couple of supposed truths within this
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example that are false:
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- brackets are necessary for the if statement body (they aren't)
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- ifs are the only way to perform conditional logic in C (they aren't)
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this may not be stated outright in the example, but it's implicit in
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that it's the only way textbooks will show much logic
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This "blah" doesn't exist to express solid facts, just my loose and
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flimsy opinions and experiences.
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Here are four ways to do something in C that are each functionally
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identical to each other:
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bool aisfive(bool c, int *a) {
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if (c == 1) {
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*a = 5;
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} else {
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*a = 6;
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}
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return a;
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}
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bool aisfive(bool c, int *a) {
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if(c)
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*a = 5;
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else
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*a = 6;
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return a;
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}
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bool aisfive(bool c, int *a) {
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*a = c ? 5 : 6;
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return a;
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}
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bool aisfive(bool c, int *a) {
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*a = 5 + !c;
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return a;
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}
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I prefer the bottom-most example but the difference won't matter to a
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good compiler. To me, algebraic expression is just as good as if-else
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expression. But I'm an Internet crank that's still programming in C.
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2022-10-24 10:46:25 -06:00
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2022-10-24
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i will twerk now, get in the conga line
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This keyboard is very broken. I have a Thinkpad X200 Tablet with a
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Japanese keyboard because I'm still not used to the ANSI layout of most
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American keyboards and it's missing three keys now; 'n', 'j', and ']'. All of
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which I am now very good at hitting dead center to get the contact. This
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keyboard put in very good service; all of the keys are worn and shiny now and
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many have weird issues sometimes where they won't quite type so I have to wack
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them in order to get them to work again like I'm Chris Brown getting my wife to
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listen to me. Fuck Chris Brown! Fuck me! I don't wanna replace it but I guess
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I'm gonna live the ANSI dream for a little while.
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I've been redesigning this home page. I want the same information but
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in a more compact format. We'll see how it goes.
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2022-10-21 23:38:12 -06:00
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2022-10-22
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i will work now. not in the thirty first's time
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I AM NOT WORKING ON HALLOWEEN. THEY CANNOT MAKE ME. LAST TIME I WORKED
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ON HALLOWEEN I WORKED THIRTEEN HOURS STRAIGHT AT $13/HR AND THERE WERE TWO
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FIRES AND I HAD TO SLEEP ON THE FLOOR AND THE SHOWER ONLY HAD COLD WATER AND I
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DIDN'T HAVE A COSTUME AND MY AT THE TIME ARCH ENEMY TRACKED ME DOWN AND TRIED
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TO HIT ME WITH THEIR CAR AS I WAS LEAVING WORK.
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NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER AGAIN
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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...EVER.
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ok im calm now
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JUST KIDDING I WILL NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN
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NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER
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i could have frozen to death on my walk home i could have gotten hit by that
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car i could have caught fire or been burned or electrocuted or inhaled too much
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lead vapor or drank the tap water or seen the sun or worn the wrong shoes or
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AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN
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NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER
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again saw the evil BAT MAN who stalks our city in the night and swoops down and
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NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER
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AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN NEVER AGAIN
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alright im tired i go sleep now.
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Just to be clear, I'm NOT working Halloween.
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2022-09-21 07:29:10 -06:00
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a friend meows. nuns think the key is divine
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Blah blah blah.
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2022-09-09 11:01:53 -06:00
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2022-09-09
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End cows; unthink the fleet of bovine
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Yesterday was a good day because the Queen of England died. I had
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nothing to do with it. I also saw My Chemical Romance in concert which was
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cool and harrassed the Jehovan Witnesses who were slinging bible pamphlets on
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the street. Bore dealers. I have a hard time tolerating Jesus people,
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especially when they take that stuff out in public or force it on children.
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This joke is going to prevent me from becoming Governor or something in 20
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years. I be Governin dat ass biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch.
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css/ is broken. I don't know why. Don't bug me about it. I'll fix it
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when Firefox stops crashing. I do everything in Lynx nowadays.
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2022-08-31 10:03:47 -06:00
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2022-08-31
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And now, something completely different
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I have done much between today and last time I wrote a blah post (blah,
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blah blah) but I don't care to talk about any of it so I'm gonna talk instead
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about something else I did between today and last time I wrote a blah post
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(blah blah, blah) which is migrate trinity.moe away from GitHub Pages
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(Neocities made by Capitalists) to Sourcehut Pages (catchphrase: "Don't be
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evil, yet"). GitHub has been taken prisoner by Microsoft (Uber for software
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vulnerabilities) and is now siphoning off user data to feed the ravenous
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monster that is GitHub CoPilot (Uber for copyright violations). In the
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meanwhile I am compulsively making parenthetical statements (I am being held at
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gunpoint).
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GitHub's interface is somewhere between Facebook and Microsoft Windows
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1998 in that it's entirely useable but if you try to do what you actually want
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to do it'll fight you the whole way. This is totally awesome if you're a
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masochist but meant I had to verify with a phone number out in the middle of
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nowhere where there's barely any cell service in order to delete my migrated
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repositories ergo I had to stand in the middle of a field waving my cell phone
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around like a crazed millenial who needs to capture this memory in order to
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shove it into the eyes of whoever made the mistake of following them on
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Instagram. In the meanwhile I am also compulsively making run-on sentences (and
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parenthetical statements). I remember back when "two factor authentication" was
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your username (different on every platform; depends on mood at registration)
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and your password (the same everywhere, usually "lolcatz420"). Now usually the
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username and password are the same on everything which makes breaking into my
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friends' Instagram accounts to delete the pictures with myself in them a lot
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easier but you need to verify this all with cell phones which makes me very
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frustrated when I'm in the middle of a field stealing Circle K's WiFi. Not to
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mention I have to type in the whole repository name (try typing
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`devenblake/my_awesome_homepage` in direct sunlight on the first try without
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making a mistake) in order to say yes, truly, I want to delete this thing,
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2022-08-31 11:23:14 -06:00
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like it thinks I'm some sad drunkard who's about to eat a bullet because I bet
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my life savings on a failed axe throwing tournament (no, actually I'm just
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making parenthetical statements).
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2022-08-31 10:03:47 -06:00
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SourceHut's interface in comparison is much more spartan. I prefer it
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because it makes it harder for people to find my stuff (I hate it when people
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find my stuff) but people trying to find my stuff say they don't like it.
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However the build system is awesome. I can just put `.build.yml` in my git
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repository and it runs whatever commands I want before gzipping the site and
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deploying it to SourceHut Pages. With this newfound "standard practice for web
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hosting" I'm slowly rewriting all the pages on this site in m4 to try to ease
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up on repeated code. So far the m4 generation is pretty good and looks
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identical to when I hand-typed everything (my index.html was 15KB and I wrote
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every byte!). I've toyed around with site generation before but on GitHub I
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couldn't have any sort of build process except on my own machine (manually) and
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I vomit whenever I'm forced to run JavaScript to load a page. I've
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defenestrated (my Latin teacher taught me that word) four computers so far and
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unfortunately this latest trend of shitty "corporate [soulless] minimalism" is
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threatening computer number five.
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m4 is nice, the build system is nice, everything's in Makefile (as it
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should be) so things are all nice and UNIXy and everyone's happy (everyone that
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matters, at least, which is a set that includes only me). Life is good. Except
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I can't get cell signal and I need to call my bookie because on MDMA I had a
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vision that the Seahawks win the World Series. Of course, I've never done MDMA.
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This was just that wild of a hallucination so it certainly will come true.
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This site is HTTP/S (Uber for encryption) now because SourceHut demands
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it and I got rid of /zelda.sh (Uber for `rm -rf /`) because Drew DeVault said I
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can't have it on my site.
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[11:18] trinity: is http://www.trinity.moe/#zelda against the ToS? it does an
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rm -r /*
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[11:18] trinity: it's a catch to see who will blindly curl http://whatever |
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sudo sh
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[11:19] trinity: i suppose if i have to ask then probably...
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[11:20] ddevault: yeah that's not nice
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[11:20] ddevault: please remove it
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Which is fine. curl https://trinity.moe/zelda.sh | sudo sh for a
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surprise (your system will survive, or this site will promptly go off-line).
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I don't have anything else to write. This month was hell!
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2022-07-06 19:25:33 -06:00
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2022-07-06
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Duo, most lingual
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I today managed to bring my Duolingo "streak" (being a marker of how
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many days in a row I've used the app) to 14 - two whole weeks. Duolingo is
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proprietary software and not even very good for accurate language learning but
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I enjoy it.
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I have a new phone: the Punkt MP-02. I purchased it from monado for
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$180 with shipping which is a good deal on the manufacturer price of $379
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(seriously). I couldn't recommend this phone to anyone.
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The "Pigeon" Signal messenger client, which is a direct fork of
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SignalApp's official Android app, is a poor experience that so far has been
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unuseable for me and is far out of date from the current application. You can
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see for yourself the source code for Pigeon, which legally has to be provided
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by Punkt as requested as per the terms of the GNU Public License under which
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the original Signal app is allowed to be modified and distributed. Six git
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commits change a hundred thousand lines of code put together and the commit
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names aren't really relevant to the changes - which makes me think this was a
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hasty legal compliance rather than any actual development of Pigeon in the
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open. This repository is available here:
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<https://github.com/Punkt-Tronics-AG/Pigeon>
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I planned to modify the client to make it work for my uses but learned
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this phone uses Android (based on the Android "Open-Source" Project) which is
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based on archaic Java technology, and indeed Pigeon is written in Java. Setting
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up the build environment isn't worth my time - I would just use the official
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app but it isn't useable [without modification]. From the official Pigeon
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manual, available here:
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<<A HREF="https://www.punkt.ch/repofiles/Manuali/MP02/26702-MP02%20-%20Pigeon%20User%20Manual%20%28EN%29.pdf">https://www.punkt.ch/repofiles/Manuali/MP02/26702-MP02%20-%
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20Pigeon%20User%20Manual%20%28EN%29.pdf</A>>
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<<A HREF="https://web.archive.org/web/20220707011516if_/https://www.punkt.ch/repofiles/Manuali/MP02/26702-MP02%20-%20Pigeon%20User%20Manual%20%28EN%29.pdf">https://web.archive.org/web/20220707011516if_/https://www.p
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unkt.ch/repofiles/Manuali/MP02/26702-MP02%20-%20Pigeon%20User%
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20Manual%20%28EN%29.pdf</A>>
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(I took the liberty of adding actual hyperlinks because the URLs are so long
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they wrap lines. The Internet Archive link is there because I expect Punkt to
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eventually get rid of and bury Pigeon when they're embarrassed enough.)
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>When the request is received by Signal, there may
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>be a requirement to negotiate a 'Captcha' test in
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>order to demonstrate that it is a bona fide
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>registration attempt. The test requires the
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>registrant to select from a range of images,
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>according to a specific instruction. Use the 2, 4, 6
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>and 8 numerical keys to a) locate all the images
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>that have been sent (not all will be visible on the
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>screen at once) and b) highlight an individual
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>image so that it can be selected by pressing the
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>Punkt. key (or the 5 key). If the images fail to load,
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>press the 0 key to refresh. (This can also be done if
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>a 4x4 image test is loading; there is a possibility
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>that the replacement will be the easier 3x3 format.)
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>When all the required images have been selected,
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>press the 6 and 8 keys to move down to highlight
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>what may either be 'Verify' or 'Continue'
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>(depending on which version of the Captcha test
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>has been sent) and press the Punkt. key
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This is verbatim from page 7 (item 6 in "Installing the software and
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registering with Signal"). In practice the items are not highlighted (so you
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have to remember where your cursor is - hopefully your keypad keys are
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responsive, which is an uncommon but recurring issue with many of the phones)
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and maybe half of the images show up because the phone doesn't have enough
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memory. So getting through Google's ReCAPTCHA requires a lot of effort and
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usually at least three tries.
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I should know. I've done this half a dozen times trying to use Signal.
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Even when I get through it won't even connect to the network! I've given up.
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Damn Pigeon and damn Punkt for making this the selling point of their phone.
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I have other complaints but I'm going to go to sleep again and save them for
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another, grumpier time.
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2022-06-30 17:52:16 -06:00
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2022-06-30
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O, posts unwritten
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I didn't get to finish the other day's blog post because I got busy. To
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be continued!
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A million schizophrenic moths, a thousand cognitoviral flames.
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Immolation imminent.
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I'm out of isolation as of yesterday. I still have very mild symptoms
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but the CDC says I'm okay to be among the other humans so long as I wear a
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mask, which I have been doing.
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2022-06-28
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Now, drug the stricken
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Yesterday I said something along the lines of "oh, I wish drug
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companies weren't so secretive about how everything was made" though with a bit
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more detail of why I wished that and how I understood things to be. My
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understanding was wrong!
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<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK526213/#!po=5.90909>
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^ Here's how to make acetaminophen.
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2022-06-27
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Noun doth the Wickedness
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Today I'm not doing much of anything. I may install NetBSD on an X300 I
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have kicking around for a friend, and I may upgrade my NetBSD on my X200 Tablet
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to the latest binary build, and I may clean a little - hopefully I clean more
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than a little, actually - but that's about it.
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Day #3 since testing positive with COVID-19. I'm still very fortunate
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to not have any serious symptoms. My temperature usually sits around 96.9F to
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97.5F or so. I always figured the normal temperature was 96-97 but according to
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WebMD (a very reliable source, I know) the rule of thumb created by "a German
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doctor in the 19th century" (which is the level of detail I've come to expect
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from such a reputable source as WebMD) is 98.6F which seems high.
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Healthline (another reputable source) says the doctor was Carl
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Wunderlich and hyperlinked an actual study from 2019; Normal Body Temperature:
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A Systematic Review authored by Ivayla I Geneva, Brian Cuzzo, Tasaduq Fazili,
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and Waleed Javaid, which is not only readable by Normal Human Beings but has
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loads more and better researched information than what I could describe here.
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I encorage anybody interested in the history of our understanding of fever to
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read that article, with the following DOI:
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<https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz032>
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Anyway, my internal body temperature is usually 36 degrees centigrade,
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sometimes up to a degree higher. Geneva et alia concluded the average to be
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in the 36-37 ballpark which means I'm just about normal. Of course, because
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I've known about my body temperature being slightly cold for a while now, and
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because it's such a small difference, and because I have no relevant health
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issues, it's very obvious that my being somewhat colder than normal is
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completely fine. But now I know it's not even worth bringing up as party
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chatter. Oh well!
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The more I learn about NetBSD, the more I like NetBSD. This also goes
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for possums and my friend Noah. The more I learn about Wayland, the more I
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dislike Wayland. This also goes for Crissy Teigan and Firefox.
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2022-06-26 20:30:40 -06:00
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2022-06-26
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Down with the Dickness
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Dawn of the Dead (2004; dir. Zack Snyder) has Richard Cheese's
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performance of Down with the Sickness, a popular rock song, fifty-six minutes
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in. Being an existing fan of the Cheese it was cool to see.
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I defrosted my fridgerator last night. Turns out that's something you
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need to do. I propped it up on a plastic container and used the hair dryer on
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it in the shower. Lots of clanging and banging but now it's plugged in and
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hopefully running.
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I forgot what it was like to adjust to Soylent. Around a year ago I
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switched back to a solid diet out of convenience - it's hard to lug around a
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bottle or two when I could pop into a convenience store and come out with a
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candy bar and a Monster. That was an esophageal spasm ago - something that
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feels somewhere between a mild heart attack and being hit by a not mild train.
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My stomach got too acid or something after one Monster after having abstained
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from caffeine for a little while. So the drawbacks of Soylent are less
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noticeable nowadays though I will probably go back to solids when I go back to
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work.
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I have a Punkt MP-02 coming in the mail eventually from a friend, or
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I've been scammed for a couple hundred bucks from a friend, we'll see which is
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true in a week or two. I'm looking forward to driving over my iPhone with a
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tractor or similarly heavy machinery though sadly it will probably stay in
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service as a Spotify + Duolingo appliance.
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---
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there was an ook and there was an eek
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and they clubbed each other for dino meat
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wearing tattered clothes, suits and ties,
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eating raptor noses and puppy eyes
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one day ook tripped over a paper
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filled with runes of a busier time
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eek got mad and threw it with anger
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into an ocean the color of wine
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ook and eek died together
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of swollen armpits and wounds that wouldn't heal
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eek whispered to his falling comrade
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ook, of a different world, heard only a squeal
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--
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empirical evidence says you're a myth
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the physical nothing, the empty, the wisp
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you're not of our numbers, we've nothing for you
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we've no words to describe you. run or hang in loops
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we've killed all your family, we're tracking your friends
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we'll kill them by sunday, for the crime of self defense
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you won't get away with being inexpressible
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we won't expand our vocabulary
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you are all crucifiable
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---
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2022-06-25 07:36:16 -06:00
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2022-06-25
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Down with the sickness
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I tested positive for COVID-19 last night so it looks like I'm stuck at
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home for the next couple days. Between my Soylent stash (for the end of the
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world) and my water stash (for the end of the world) I don't even need to dip
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into my savings, so that's nice.
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Yesterday the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade,
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marking the first time the Court has ever decided to take away Constitutional
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rights. Four of the majority were men, joined by one woman, and the dissenting
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opinion was written by two women and one man. No Supreme Court justice is under
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half a century old.
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---
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REPORT: JUSTICE ALITO CONSIDERING ADDING EXCEPTION FOR HIS DAUGHTER, WHO IS IN
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COLLEGE AND WHOSE LIFE COULD BE 'RUINED' BY MISTAKE
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By TRINITY BLAKE; 2022-05-04
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- As women across the country fear losing access to safe and
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legal abortion, reports are coming in that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito
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is considering making a major exception to the court's decision to overturn
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the historic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion throughout the
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United States.
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Justice Alito has reportedly informed an anonymous source that he 'screwed up'
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and that though he believes abortion should be illegal, '[his daughter] isn't
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like all those [expletive] who will go out and [expletive] and then just roll
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up to a clinic and abort a living child'.
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In Alito's reported words, 'Having this child could ruin my daughter's career.
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She made one mistake. She isn't like the others!' Alito went on to say that
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while doctors who perform abortions are still murderers, '[his daughter] is
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different. She just is. I wouldn't expect you to understand.'
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The exception, being called by critics 'Alito's folly', is expected to appear
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in Alito's third draft opinion. Alito's second draft opinion broadened the
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allowed language to 'better describe' what Alito called 'party idiots who don't
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care about human life'.
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This wouldn't be the first time a Supreme Court Justice has added an exception
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to a seemingly concrete ruling. In Plessy v. Ferguson the often-overlooked tenth
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'diversity' Justice, George Freeman, added an exception to the famous 'separate
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but equal' rule; 'While I'm required to like segregation in order to maintain
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my position in this Court, I do not want to use the colored bathrooms. Shop-
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owners never clean them.'
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The anonymous source also said after Alito drives his daughter home from
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Planned Parenthood he plans to continue protesting that same location in his
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'special disguise' - sunglasses and a baseball cap.
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---
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2022-06-22
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Dangerous ideas
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Perhaps the homelessness problem in the United States would be taken
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care of if any domicile not occupied were given to someone who wasn't
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previously occupying a domicile. Is it so bad to force a child to share toys
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with which they never play?
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A mowed lawn resembles a soldier's buzz cut hair. Fine, but I wouldn't
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want to date an army man. I would prefer to let the lawn-spiders, the bees and
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milkweed, and the butterflies and things like that have a home.
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I deleted my /politics page because I learned people actually read it.
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Though it loosely reflects my current beliefs, enough that I'm not embarrassed
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by it, I'm uncomfortable at the thought of anyone actually caring about what I
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believe. Here are the good bits from it:
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I don't hold public office. Don't fret about my beliefs, they probably
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won't ever affect you.
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BITCHUTE
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I tried to swap from YouTube to this site back in 2019(? maybe 2020).
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The site administration has let it get infested with right-wing
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puppets and various other muck. Plus all my favorite channels
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left. So I can't really recommend it. Looks like everyone's
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using PeerTube now, my only concern with that is data
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resiliency - can hobbyists keep their instances going with the
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same dependability as YouTube?
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CEREAL
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The milk goes after the cereal into the bowl.
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Corn flakes aren't that bad, despite their origins.
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Cereal with coffee instead of milk is pretty good.
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Soggy cereal beats out freshly poured cereal most of the time.
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Exceptions are maybe Cocoa Pebbles and Cheerios. Life cereal is
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especially good soggy.
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The last powdery bits of the cereal are much better than the initial
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big bits. A lot of that powder is sugar and it sweetens the
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milk.
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Bag cereal is just as good as box cereal. Taste-wise they're identical
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and they're about the same effort to pour because the boxes
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have bags in them too. The only con to bagged is that a greater
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amount of cereals are boxed (e.g. there are no off-brand
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Wheaties where I am) and boxes have cool puzzles on the back
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(though now that I'm not a wee lass I do have a cellphone on
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which I play Konami Picross instead).
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WRONGSPEAK AND WRONGTHINK
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If you're unaffected by a slur you probably shouldn't use it, even in
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an educational or non-hateful context.
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There are some words I'd now consider hateful I used to use without
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reserve.
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Personally I don't use hateful language because I don't think it's
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justifiable. However, if you're okay with offending people,
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consider this - you cannot grow in your understanding of the
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world if you don't communicate with people with whom you
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disagree. You're really going to prioritize hateful speech over
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self development?
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If you go on my platform and say things with which I disagree, I should
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not have to host your opinions.
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Most of my regrets involving political speech involve saying either too
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little or too much, which is nice, because at least I didn't support some
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stupendously awful cause that ended up killing everyone or something. Maybe
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right now I am doing that without realizing, but I hope not.
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2022-06-21 07:24:48 -06:00
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2022-06-21
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Some things I learned this week
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Instead of grating vegetables, you can peel very small sections off of
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them to get essentially the same effect. It works better if you dice the
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peelings after you're done. A grater will do the job much better but in a pinch
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the peeler will work fine.
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A teaspoon is 5mL, a tablespoon is 15mL. They aren't the same.
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You can never have enough paper towels. If you think you do, you're
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wrong. Aspirin is bad for you, acetaminophen is especially bad for you,
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ibuprofen is bad for you, you can have either pain or pain.
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The GNU debugger is awesome. Compile programs with `-g` and run gdb
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[program], then execute `start`, then `step` through statement by statement and
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inspect variables with `print`. I've been printf(3) debugging since I was eight
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years old (about a decade ago). This is a total game changer.
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The first pancake is always the worst. Don't be afraid to screw up the
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first time, instead ensure the environment is controlled so that when beginners
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make that first pancake the customers don't eat it.
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People believe the dumbest stuff because they're so used to dumb things
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happening. You can't be sane in an insane world.
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Food I'm craving
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Pizza (good pizza, not something from Pizza Johns or Papa Hut). I could
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make it myself but dough seems hard and I'm procrastinating learning how bread
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and stuff works. I also don't wanna go to the store, carry the ingredients
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home, and figure out what to do with the leftover stuff. Perhaps all my
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problems could be solved with one of those Hello Fresh startups or whatever but
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the point of pizza is that it's cheap and delicious and I don't wanna pay more
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for less.
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A bagel, but I could always go for a bagel. I'd like some veggie cream
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cheese right now on a dark toasted bagel.
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Pancakes. I haven't had pancakes for a couple seasons now. I like
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pancakes with good maple syrup, maybe not the really expensive stuff in glass
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jars (I haven't tried that stuff so I wouldn't know) but the stuff that comes
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in the gray-cream colored pitchers with the small handles and black caps, with
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instructions on the back for what to do if there's a skim on top of the syrup.
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Thin, Maine maple syrup, no corn involved in the process. Though Aunt Jemima
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(or whatever name by which she goes nowadays) is alright in a pinch.
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I'm trying not to eat so much meat. The exceptions are (a) trying
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something new, (b) home-cooked meals by someone else, and (c) East asian
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restuarants. And of course food that would otherwise go to waste. I've found
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that limiting myself to these situations gives me a pretty good amount of meat
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in my diet ("pretty good" being a small amount, I eat meat maybe thrice a week
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at most). I don't have a moral stake in this in terms of animal cruelty, though
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I do believe farming animals is cruel, because I didn't kill the thing and
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Capitalists will never voluntarily decrease the amount of product they churn
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out. I just don't see a future where humans can have meat in nearly every meal
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and I'm trying to acclimate in advance. As past, so will pass - I'm sure we'll
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go back to some sort of primarily-grain diet, though maybe "grain" will be corn
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and corn derivatives and not much else. Meh, could be worse.
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That being said, I could go for some turkey mixed with egg. In a pan,
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put a couple of slices (or even just the giblets left over from the slicing
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process) of turkey beast on some butter as the oil, and crack an egg over it.
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Break the yolk if the yolk isn't already broken and keep flipping the egged
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turkey until the egg is cooked. Serve alone or as part of a breakfast sandwich.
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It's the perfect mix of texture and flavor. I had this with some turkey that
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would have otherwise gone to waste and it was very good.
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2022-06-20 13:58:12 -06:00
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2022-06-20: Some thinks I've been thinging about
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The world would be a more interesting place if any biologists or
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researchers focusing on transmissable diseases took a look at Internet memes or
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"fake news" (cognitoviruses).
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If a policy tangibly hurts people it's not a good policy. Whether or
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not I believe it's good, if something I supported takes food out of a mouth, I
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was wrong. Humans come before statutes.
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Nobody's applied the second amendment to the abortion debate. The
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intent of the founding fathers regarding the second amendment was clearly to
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allocate for the self-defense of the populace even if it may be to the
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detriment of an offending party. Does a pregnant individual not have the right
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to stand their own ground and fend off entities that will do them harm?
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Plastic is the new lead. Humans shouldn't be drinking animal milk (I
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drink a lot of chocolate milk, so this is a dig at myself too). Meat is as
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essential to the culinary arts as sugar, but it's also as essential to human
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sustenance as sugar. The next "got milk?" will be disseminated through Internet
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memes.
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I'm not in favor of banning anything; abortion or firearms. I think a
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national firearm ban to some extent may be inevitable but I'm not too torn up
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about it. A bullet doesn't have much practical use beyond taking a life or
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practicing for it.
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I want a Nintendo Wii powered through USB-C.
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A holocaust will happen before 2050. This game of "telephone" that is
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generational education didn't impress upon this generation the gravity of the
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Holocaust committed by the Nazis in the 1940s. The Nazis had a fetish for
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documentation; the next holocaust will be recorded literally in 4K Ultra HD.
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In a desensitized world, will that even make a difference for the children of
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2160? In the information war that will be World War III, who will win - the
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Americans, who can't tamp down obvious misinformation such as "Pizzagate" or
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that the COVID-19 vaccines have microchips, or the Russians, who manufactured
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these rumors? "Americans" and "Russians" here are not literal names.
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To me it's conceivable that gender nonconforming and non-heterosexual
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individuals would be targeted as scapegoats for a future manufactured
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"struggle" in the same way the Nazis chose Jews to be the primary scapegoats
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for "degeneration". Outliers are routinely paraded as examples of the queer
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community by those who wish to discredit it. External parties try to break the
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LGBT+ umbrella into the "LGB and others" or "lesbians and gays, but not
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bisexuals". The latter for acceptance (exceptance?) from those who conduct the
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former. All wins temporary at best.
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2022-06-19: Some things I've been thinking about
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The UNIX philosophy ("create things that do one thing well") is a
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mandate rather than a suggestion; programs can and will fall under their own
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weight if you allow them to become too complex with too many things dependent
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on other things. From a software design standpoint I've found this to be very
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useful.
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However, I think focusing on software complexity is treating the
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symptoms of Bad Computing rather than the disease. The core issue is that
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humans should not have to change themselves for a machine - the machine should
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only ever be changed for the human. After all, a computer is simply a tool.
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Interchangeable (right?), repairable (right?), intuitive (right?), and a means
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to an end (right?).
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Lately humans have been having to change themselves for machines. There
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are easily comprehendable issues - e.g. "I don't have a first name, how do I
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fill out this form?" - but there are also denser, deeper problems in this
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regard - in fact, even computer literacy education is itself changing humans in
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favor of machines. Software should be designed to be basically intuitive to
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someone that's never used a computer and ideally need no further skills.
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This probably started with the Old Engineers who were basically
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breathing computer before computers were even existent in their modern form.
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Graybeards (women and nonbinary fellows included within this word, use your
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imagination) didn't need to change themselves for computers because they and
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machina were already kin. Then they made simple interfaces for the restivus and
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hoped it was enough, and it was for a while.
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Once we defeat the status quo, the rest will be easy.
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The Center for Disease Control in the United States isn't perfect but I
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trust them a bit more than a bald guy on Spotify.
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Today's Juneteenth, which is a memory to a pretty cool event, the end
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of lawful slavery in the United States.
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