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2026-09-09 23:32:03 CEST

Has the AI bubble popped yet? I want to buy a graphics card, already. All I saw today were the big construction cranes and backhoes and bulldozers and such, building that new data center up Jackson School road. Are we at least at the "Fuck off, you don't get paid" stage?

2026-09-09 23:15:27 CEST

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Who the heck is in your feed? All I see are your posts.

2026-09-09 23:02:34 CEST

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Good to know top priority isn't public wellbeing, but keeping children continuously in school...

2026-09-09 22:55:47 CEST

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Oh well darn, I guess they got me! Might as well keep giving them my data because they already have it, so just give up because we already lost the game. What a tragedy, anyway, (adjusts ominously glowing specs with a laser sight on them) .

2026-09-09 22:14:36 CEST

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The code says basically pixel = Thing1 * (1 - dest alpha) + Thing2 * (1 - source alpha). Since there's no transparency, source alpha and dest alpha are always 1, so it's pixel = Thing1 * (1-1) + Thing2 * (1-1)
Galaxy brain coders here, folks.

2026-09-09 22:05:49 CEST

CompositeImage(...DarkenCompositeOp, ...) → darkens the base image by the composite oneCompositeImage(...XorCompositeOp, ...)
→ throws away the base image and the composite one, and just makes a black square, for no reason
🫩 ImageMagick sucks so much...

2026-09-09 18:08:34 CEST

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Why yes, I actually did need a reminder! Now I won't miss my appointment. Thanks!

2026-09-09 18:06:49 CEST

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A Slack sheriff??

2026-09-09 17:51:06 CEST

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tl;dr nicotine is an insecticide (which is why tobacco produces it), so someone made it into a super-insecticide that soaks into the plant so you can't wash it off, and use of these neo-nicotin-oids has gone up by a factor of 50 in the past 25 years. I'm personally worried about birds lost through the utter destruction of their primary food source (insects), much more than birds running into windmills and for some reason dying.
Regardless, building more windmills is not the solution to any of our problems.

2026-09-09 17:15:14 CEST

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Doomsday cult is right. Have you heard of the "Roko's Basilisk" thought experiment? Sorry "thought" experiment. Imagine if you will, a super powerful super intelligent supercomputer, that we made for some reason, one that could easily defeat our weak mortal brains and do basically anything it wanted with us. Would it not then, look through the history of its creation, and perform unspeakable punishments on anyone who tried to destroy it, or stop it from being created? Therefore you *better* support building more data centers... or else!!
It kind of falls flat when you realize there's no reason a superintelligent super powerful supercomputer would care about being destroyed, or prevented from coming into existence. That's more a human brain anxiety, that really doesn't suit us well. Also that these data centers are super-🤡 🤡computers, and your favorite evil computer from your favorite science fiction is probably beyond the physical limits of what a computer can do. Even though the guy with 🤡 stock in the 🤡computer says it can.

2026-09-09 08:41:19 CEST

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Sorry to hear that. It's so disenheartening when someone pulls the rug out under you like that.

2026-09-09 08:37:52 CEST

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On the other hand, it's a great opportunity to continue the campaign letting the players do whatever they want, except now all the mer-folk, and townsfolk, and city guards attack them on sight, including a few high level NPCs who don't appreciate fine cuisine. If they get subdued, they wake up in prison, and get to roleplay prisoners left to die. You could even introduce hunger points, and have them consume each other's corpses as they perished one by one!
But I don't think I'd actually have it in me to be that vindictive.

2026-09-09 08:32:27 CEST

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Yeesh, that borders less on lateral thinking and more on straight out disrespect. Were they playing cannibals? Stone cold killers? Any natural inclination to that behavior? You didn't give any indication that mer-folk would even be edible or delicious?
That's the level of shenanigans like "You see before you a charming farm hamlet." "I set all the buildings on fire." Deliberately trying to ruin the game. Not many groups I'd walk away from, but unless I really trusted they genuinely wanted to play fish man eaters, I'd definitely consider it.
I mean, maybe if they were 13 year olds who've never been given an ounce of freedom in their lives, I'd be less worried at any sudden dramatic subversion.

2026-09-09 07:38:46 CEST

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Fingernail and flick!

2026-09-09 07:35:55 CEST

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I wonder what the impact on the game market these engines have. SCUMM is very accessible. Unreal is... not... and very expensive to license. And licensed. So games created with Unreal will reflect that very limited economic model. Could it be that playing games written for an otherwise identical, but more free and unmonetized engine, might have a positive impact on your pocketbook?
And would lower prices mean less pressure to lock you down so you can't avoid paying?
(I mean yes, obviously, but game engines aren't identical, so it's hard to say exactly.)

2026-09-09 06:20:28 CEST

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"Oh no famblies are losing interest in their dear chyildren's precious eduCAtion! How could they, and not us, be so wrong, and bad, and need to be forced to work I mean study?"
Yeah, sounds like the AP alright.

2026-09-08 21:00:25 CEST

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(looks at the trees down 3rd getting choked by English ivy)
(looks at the English ivy springing up behind the back fence)
(looks at the native bushes and flowers all eliminated to make nothing but English ivy far as the eye can see)
uhh...

2026-09-08 20:54:24 CEST

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We also have to put a stop to the practice of forcing people to not live close to land and property so a rich guy can hog it.
That's a lesser problem compared to the people hogging land and property like ten thousand miles away from them, though.

2026-09-08 19:33:55 CEST

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Snow is a substance, like water, or dirt. It cannot be reduced to individual things, so is always plural. You can't have one snow*. With a magnifying glass, you can identify snow flakes, but those DO have singular and plural, since you can have one snow flake, or many snow flakes.<li>unless you take the definition of "A snowstorm" in which case the snows can be very frequent this winter.</li>
Contrarily, chad refers to one person, who can't be divided further. You can't measure out half a glass of chad. So the plural of chad would indeed be chads.
#English #linguistics #helping

2026-09-08 19:23:40 CEST

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Misleading statistic, that's only over a short window that appears to be logarithmic growth. There was a stimulating event that sent a bunch of people here in 2022, and now it's going back to slow, but linear growth. As word of mouth tends to do. And the opinion of people like yourself is *always* that the problem is it's too hard and people are too dumb to figure it out.
You know what would be a good forcing function, shutting down Twitter for the abusive Nazi scammers they are. People aren't avoiding the Fediverse because it's hard. They're getting pulled away from it by all the scams.
And even if only 1% of the world ever joins the Fediverse, that's because only 1% of the world needs social media at all. More than that is unhealthy to the people who were tricked into joining so they'd feed their data to the corporations.

2026-09-08 19:14:54 CEST

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Why murder, if not murder shaped...

2026-09-08 18:24:19 CEST

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Fucking this every time I see people cutting down cameras in secret. Like "Yes! Good! But uh... you're gonna get in trouble, you know?" We need to get the enforcers to stop...

2026-09-07 23:08:19 CEST

Also want to keep in mind that it's consolidation of wealth that enables fascism, not tolerance.

2026-09-07 22:58:23 CEST

Man, someone was posting a comic satirizing that extremely racist, colonialist, hyper-patriotic propaganda the USA pumped out starring Lark Maverick: Time Cop, and after the extremely Chinese-stereotyped "chief" betrayed Lark and all this Great Country Stands For, I rolled my eyes and left a comment that said "I knew he looked too Chinese to be trusted!"
So I've been given a warning that I'll be banned like the racist I am if I continue my hurtful behavior. And Lark Maverick: Time Cop continues to be served on the site without any complaints. (Complaints also get a ban warning.) 🫩
Really makes me grateful for the Fediverse, where I can talk about just how much people falsely accused the Chinese people of being evil, back in the days of "Ming the Merciless," without being censored and/or banned. Well mostly without being censored and/or banned. Please avoid instances that try to erase the history of oppression, in the name of preventing it!
#rant #banned #DoNotLookIntoThisItsWeird

2026-09-07 21:27:16 CEST

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...technically Count Victor Werner von Doom was a just and equitable ruler, as long as he had absolute power. Latveria was highly prosperous and technologically advanced, far more than its Serbian and Romanian neighbors. Life was good as long as you don't y'know do something silly like criticize him in secret, or attempt to leave.
Kind of like Saudi Arabia, except without the uh, monstrous sexism and stuff.

2026-09-07 21:16:56 CEST

My biggest issue with words like "digital feudalism" and "neofeudalism" is people don't understand what happened at the end of the feudal period in Europe. Things did not get better for the peasants. They got dramatically worse. Theft of their needs and loves on an unprecedented scale. That's what heralded the Industrial Revolution, and it was so much worse than feudalism.
To make things absolutely clear, your right to *be* a peasant was removed, your land stolen, entirely owned by your local lord, and then they graciously offered to let you rent it back from them.
The problem with "-feudalism" terms is everyone things of feudalism as landlords exploiting tenants by forcing them to pay rent, rather than own anything. But what *actually* happened is that Rome no longer had the soldiers to police its decaying empire, so the ugly shitheads that Rome had appointed as local leaders bunkered down, declared that God (Rome) had declared them the right to rule by Divine (Roman) grace, and established petty little territories over which they claimed they could continue to exploit their slaves. But they had to make massive concessions. There were peasant revolts all across the continent. The shit deal the noblery finally managed to convince people to swallow was that peasants were "bound to the land" so they couldn't leave, but were considered a part of the land. And the shitty Roman appointee was now their King, who graciously defended them from the other armies, with his army that demanded a portion of everyone's harvest in exchange.
That was a pretty awful situation, and peasants in medieval Europe had every reason to hate it, but peasants couldnt't be evicted. Many lived on their land for generations, centuries even, without being shuffled around to keep them down. Peasants had rights, obligations that their lord had to fulfill. It was an unfair power dynamic that resulted in many lords not fulfilling them and doing awful things, but again peasant revolts, it wasn't as bad as you might think. Because you've been conditioned to think that living on rented land at your lord's pleasure, displaced every few years or so, and held far from your family and friends is feudalism.
What we're dealing with isn't feudalism though. It's slavery. People don't want to call it slavery, but it is. Colonialist pricks enslaving everyone in sight.
#rant #feudalism #slavery #politics #society

2026-09-07 19:11:40 CEST

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With the additional caveat that if you buy inexpensive eggs today, they go off in about a week and won't make good peaks.

2026-09-07 18:39:06 CEST

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I read that like "Following plummeting numbers of human sources for training data on Twitter, both Nitter and Xcancel are coming back online..."

2026-09-07 06:05:59 CEST

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No, no, they're supposed to have it. They're allowed. The news never ever eeeeeever says anything about them.

2026-09-07 03:13:03 CEST

It didn't seem real, when I first started producing the substance that could create a new human being. Surely not me? But there it is.
Now I wonder if it ever was real.

2026-09-07 03:06:36 CEST

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I've yet to see one, but I could be wrong. There's always something else causing the social change.

2026-09-07 01:42:21 CEST

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Boycotts do not work, so you're doing just fine I'd say! Keep on keeping on!

2026-09-07 00:47:38 CEST

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Not everyone is sliding, I mean! You know a fool the moment he throws a rock at a window, even if everyone is doing it. The ones who don't are potential allies. The more slide, the more you can filter the wheat from the chafe.
Anyway g/j not despairing and good luck with your technopunk rebel collective.

2026-09-06 22:11:54 CEST

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lol "American" equity. The term is "private equity" and they have no loyalty to any nation. The USA just currently happens to be their lil bitch sugar daddy. But if you can fire up Canadian patriotism, by all means blame Americans for those vile parasites, because I'll happily go down in a cloud of Canadian nuclear fire if it wipes fucking Blackstone off the map.

2026-09-06 20:44:13 CEST

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lol
lmao

2026-09-06 20:34:02 CEST

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🥺

2026-09-06 20:30:23 CEST

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Worse still it was a gift, so I have to both savor it, and feel obliged to eat it before it goes bad.

2026-09-06 20:16:02 CEST

Ugh, that was too much candy. I need something fibrous to dilute all that sugar.
...
Well, now I feel really healthy! Maybe I can handle a piece of candy!
#FuckMyLife

2026-09-06 18:25:44 CEST

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I know of a cat who sits for hours and hours on the cushion on the chair on the front porch, just watching traffic.
Some cats do like to roam though, and should be kept indoors to protect the wildlife.

2026-09-06 18:18:06 CEST

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I'd be interested in taking a look!
But no seriously, try hackerspaces and even makerspaces, if you can find them.

2026-09-06 17:53:36 CEST

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Change isn't scary. Getting fucked over by rich assholes doing whatever they want and no one can stop them is scary.

2026-09-06 17:27:23 CEST

Just got reminded of that @npub1qmg…s6k5 webpage that you should share with anyone who tells you that homeless sweeps are sad but well, we can't just let them stay there forever.
https://projects.propublica.org/impact-of-homeless-sweeps-lost-belongings/

2026-09-06 16:58:02 CEST

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Kind of sad... I don't remember where I learned that the dot product is the sum of the multiples of each coordinate of two vectors.

2026-09-06 16:42:16 CEST

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Oof, that's not good...

2026-09-06 16:40:01 CEST

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Brain looks fine to me!

2026-09-06 16:28:26 CEST

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The trouble is you can't tell whether the person you're selling coffee to just killed your brother and stole his wallet. So get ready to get played like a fiddle.

2026-09-06 09:34:53 CEST

Everyone knows it as the "Can-Can" and it's one of the most glorious moments in comic opera that no one's ever heard of. ~_~

2026-09-06 08:08:09 CEST

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Sounds like "boredom" to me.

2026-09-06 07:57:19 CEST

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Freaky...

2026-09-06 07:52:16 CEST

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Woah, trippy...

2026-09-06 07:16:06 CEST

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Ehh I don't have a good enough ear for quarter tones. I might look them up though, if they're not terribly dissonant. Thanks!

2026-09-06 07:14:43 CEST

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Jeez, talk about gestapo. Hey U.K. govt, about instead of actually sending your goons to rough people up for money, you print money to pay for all that TV programming, do a general tax to account for it, and it's none of your business who's watching what?

2026-09-06 07:09:16 CEST

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lol we're all gonna make it
to the moon! 🤡

2026-09-06 07:00:42 CEST

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“but ideas can’t hurt you”
ideas:
https://fedicy.us.to/media/8453/image/png/973eefa37d622bda7f7a8cf8dc73b8b5.png

2026-09-06 06:48:05 CEST

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A lot of people have been betrayed, but we can't start believing that there's nothing that can be done. We've beaten these people before. Now their malice is on display for all to see. Take their betrayal, and use it to find the ones who stay true to this libre ideology. Not everyone is breaking windows.

2026-09-06 06:36:54 CEST

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I don't know who I am.

2026-09-06 05:37:32 CEST

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Man, I don't even have a true self. I just do stuff.

2026-09-06 04:57:19 CEST

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Annnnd nevermind, they just went back to saying "We'll have a residential section here where we'll build a bunch of houses." -_-
Wish Minecraft was open source... along with Minecolonies etc.

2026-09-06 02:12:24 CEST

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Well someone's being a Grumpy Gus!

2026-09-05 23:56:00 CEST

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To be fair, the guy [really, really hates John Roberts.](https://c.im/@msbellows/117219540945700709 )

2026-09-05 23:51:07 CEST

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Culture waxes and wanes, and villains always come back with another plot to enthrall us. It's the wealth disparity really, we still use and enforce the exchange of money, thus obliging us to help rich people make good communities bad so they can take them over. Once those guys don't have us on the ropes, because peasant revolt debt jubilee or something, people will stop being so gung-ho to lay chains on each other.
Another way to think about it is free software people wrote alternatives to proprietary software, but didn't negatively affect the proprieters in any way, and leaving them alone gave them plenty of time (and money) to think up a scheme to subvert those free software people.
It's like the "MS certification" trend, pushing people to be educated in ways that have a corporate gatekeeper, instead of actually how computers work.

2026-09-05 23:31:50 CEST

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"99% of the people who don't get injured in robotaxis don't get injured!"

2026-09-05 23:21:25 CEST

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Alright, back to my high quality literature. "...and striving to push his spear into her hand mirror..."

2026-09-05 22:04:33 CEST

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dammit you made me forget! If only I had posted it previously, so as not to forget!

2026-09-05 21:50:14 CEST

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Striving. Posting it so I don't forget.

2026-09-05 21:48:58 CEST

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Synapses! That's it!
...that's not it.

2026-09-05 21:43:16 CEST

Oh right, I can just use that one word I thought of the other day, uhh... OK I know it starts with 's'...
#FuckMyLife

2026-09-05 21:01:20 CEST

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💯%

2026-09-05 18:15:55 CEST

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It's a false dilemma. The USA (for instance) tried taxing wealth in the 1950's and it worked great, but gave the wealthy plenty of time to pay politicians to pass laws so they don't get taxed anymore. That's what happens in the most ideal of circumstances, which is to say literally Hitler forcing people to reconsider letting the wealthy get whatever they want.
But who says we need to tax wealth? The goal is for people to have (roughly) the same wealth, so that the ones with the most money can't lord over the ones with the least. That could in theory be done with a tax, but there are other options. You can impose a limit on wealth, at which point we are not allowed to become wealthier as it becomes a threat to society. You can repossess and redistribute wealth, to maximize quality of life for all. You can make things like landlords and hotels actually illegal, and demolish the buildings that serve no purpose other than wealth generation. You can work with the military, who are pretty much the sole reason the wealthy remain wealthy, and try to convince them that they're burying themselves to protect a few rich fops. You can form your own competing militaries in fact, which is an absolutely terrible option that should be exercised only when open war on the streets is preferable to the status quo, but it is an option.
One of my favorite options is simply building strong communities and support networks, who help their members resist exploitation, and help others form similar assocations. Even the smallest resilience to exploitation, if given to everyone, is a massive drain on the power of the rich. Especially if you do that in the colonies, where the rich are extracting the most wealth. This uh... is why the military makes sure community is illegal and harshly punishes it, but again soldiers are at least capable of understanding that what they're doing is harmful, and subverting the system from within.
Really I think the biggest obstacle is the propaganda. They can say words that convince armies to fight for them, convince leaders to punish their subordinates for disobeying them, and convince everyone else that they're helpless to resist, and really it's a sign of maturity and professionalism to obey your lord, unlike those unstable terrorist revolutionaries. So... give me the words to convince people that all that is bullshit, and to shield themselves from the bullshit, and that might make a difference.

2026-09-05 17:28:05 CEST

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Of course right after typing this inspired, galaxy brained rant I immediately find some people playing Minecolonies going "Wait a minute, shouldn't we build their houses next to where they work?" 😖 #fail #HopeForHumanityAfterAll

2026-09-05 06:18:34 CEST

It's funny there's this Minecraft mod called "Minecolonies" where you hire villagers to perform jobs, like build buildings, chop trees, craft certain blocks, even fish. What I find most interesting about it is that the most efficient way to build your village is to construct each villager's house right next to where they work.
But no one. No one ever does.
Everyone always decides "where the houses are going to be" because you, and I, and everyone under the influence of Western Civilization has lived our entire lives with zoning laws. These laws supposedly are there to prevent people from getting hurt, or poisoned, by a horrible manufacturing plant next to their house, but the purpose of a law is what it does. Cottage industry had to be forcibly destroyed, with sweet words to give them excuses for it, otherwise everyone would have a side hustle operating a business out of their garage. To trap everyone in employment only for big business, they had to convince us to stop working where we lived. That is nearly the entire function of zoning laws, because when big business wants to build next to your house, your neighborhood becomes commercial zoning, and now you're the bad guy. The laws don't stop what the ones creating them claimed they would stop, and instead make people more pliable, helpless servants.
Or, that's as close as I can figure. Buying commercially zoned real estate (hugely more expensive) is the biggest barrier to starting a business. You can't even buy it anymore, as you can see by every closed business with a "For Lease" sign. "For Lease" means some noble owns the land, and you only do business on it with their permission, for a hefty rent of course. So almost nobody owns a brick and mortar store these days, and the Internet obviously hasn't helped with that.
So this bizarre social manipulation means we don't even realize that zoning is bullshit. It's all we've ever known. We never think of doing anything differently. So when you're playing a game like Minecolonies or Timberborn, you naively create residential zones, and then sit there staring stupidly at your colony, wondering why everyone is wasting so much time pathing around. You made your workers into commuters!
#politics #rant #minecraft #vidya #society #psychology

2026-09-05 06:04:57 CEST

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Damn hand tremor!

2026-09-05 04:00:42 CEST

It's interesting that granting wishes basically means having control over all possible variations of some region of space. And they say space is 10, or 13 dimensional, with all but 4 dimensions rolled up tightly, and 1 of them "timelike" for whatever reason I can fathom. But if you make the timelike dimension somehow spacelike, you can in theory travel through time just by walking in that direction.
So to grant any wish, all you have to do is make all 13 dimensions spacelike. Then you can find the precise position in that convoluted space in which the wish is granted, and then return the dimensions to their original state.
None of that is possible, and takes a kajillion energies, and is smaller than observable whatever, and if you could you'd just delete all existence because you were a millimeter off target, but it's a neat idea!

2026-09-05 02:59:48 CEST

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Scarcity is when you have less of something. Like when you have less search engines, or less email identities, or less domain name identities. People still dump a ton of money into DNS, which the registrars collect for basically free, no services rendered.
What ended was abundance, freedom, and accessibility.

2026-09-05 02:56:35 CEST

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[I have!](http://3kj4naytklnipqdj5mlzlw643ocmgchewmdwy4pgx3o6wqfp3bgalpid.onion/ ) It doesn't work good though, because TOR. But it's there! Read [my stories](http://3kj4naytklnipqdj5mlzlw643ocmgchewmdwy4pgx3o6wqfp3bgalpid.onion/stories/ ) in complete privacy!

2026-09-05 02:17:22 CEST

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"I didn't trust Verisign who was given the privilege of registering massive amounts of DNS names and sucking in rent money for it. So I asked the people who gave Verisign that permission, and they told me Global Name Registry would totally not screw me over. Then Verisign used all that money to buy the Global Name Registry, and screwed me over! Who could have seen this coming?"

2026-09-05 02:11:15 CEST

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Or maybe not even stone and crops, because it's not obvious how to construct tools. Just the *absolute worst experience.*

2026-09-05 02:06:23 CEST

I want to see someone do a Minecraft blind let's play, where they build a hut, plant some crops, dig some random stone and dirt, wait around for the first harvest, then quit because it doesn't seem like there's anything else to do.

2026-09-04 21:26:46 CEST

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Good luck...

2026-09-04 21:04:11 CEST

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It's simple to include information outside of human visual range in an image. The problem is any provenance test you made, the people in control of AI could adjust to fool, and any provenance test they adjusted in the opposite way would work better. So only their cronies would be privileged enough to tell.
It's kind of like if only cylons can recognize other cylons.

2026-09-04 20:47:13 CEST

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Wait, so the goal is I can't tell it's AI, but someone with the secret knowledge could tell it's AI? That's awful!

2026-09-04 20:39:10 CEST

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Being on large instances makes it harder to exclude people, which is bad because of trolls and scammers, but many instances get really high-and-mighty about what inappropriate behavior they shall exclude, whether their members want it or not. So it sort of avoids certain kinds of power tripping, but also consolidates power. I can see why people would be drawn to the "4chan" mindset, but I do think it's more trouble than its worth.

2026-09-04 19:17:16 CEST

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Haha thinking about it, but [@[email protected]](https://mastodon.social/users/joyousjoyness ) [@[email protected]](https://mastodon.social/users/argonautskipper ) [@[email protected]](https://mastodon.social/users/richpuchalsky ) [@[email protected]](https://mastodon.social/users/kryptec ) [@[email protected]](https://mastodon.social/users/michelestrider )
[@[email protected]](https://mastodon.social/users/rexi ) [@[email protected]](https://mastodon.social/users/courtcan ) [@[email protected]](https://mastodon.social/users/PatrickoftheG ) and [@[email protected]](https://mastodon.social/users/jlou ) are still on there. Hint hint.

2026-09-04 18:56:24 CEST

Just got a follow request out of the blue from "mikehorn110" at mastodon.social, who speaks French, English and Russian, and has several pictures of an older man engaging in exciting adventures involving trucks, boats and mountains, with photographs in wildly varying undetermined locations. He says "bonjour" to several people unprompted, and when one person responded, he asked where they are located, and when they answered, he said he was looking forward to continuing this conversation with you in a Sincere and Honest atmosphere.
So that's why you're an awful person for using AI to help yourself and instead we need to band together and destroy them.

2026-09-04 06:42:49 CEST

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I tink it's homework. Pretty much uh, totally. Nothing saps your soul more than having your place of safety invaded by school, and be forced (threatened) into sitting there all by yourself for hours and hours performing brain straining work and not moving physically at all. For years.
Like, sure students will minmax to try and get better grades. But it's not going to destroy them mentally and emotionally the way homework does. They could have been outside playing with their friends.

2026-09-03 23:51:26 CEST

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I think they've been born in Australia

2026-09-03 23:48:24 CEST

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I'd maybe have watched Batman 2 if they had titled it Batbatmanman.

2026-09-03 20:08:55 CEST

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Good grief...

2026-09-03 20:04:20 CEST

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Wow! Those otters are really good at sculpting!

2026-09-03 19:59:26 CEST

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Yeah, trademark holders truly are the worst.

2026-09-03 19:58:49 CEST

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There were fandoms where I lived in the 90s. They were just only sports fandoms.
The one thing I miss from the 90s is having a friend I can talk to. ~_~

2026-09-03 17:08:17 CEST

I love when legends have some king or emperor discovering things. "A few leaves were blown from a nearby tree into his water, changing the color and taste. The emperor took a sip of the brew and" no it was a fucking peasant, you historical revisionist.
...maybe "love" isn't the right word.

2026-09-03 08:04:09 CEST

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It is sad... but you think buying empty tea-bags is cool? Check this out! It's a tea strainer! That's what we used before they started selling tea-bags. (That, and tea kettles with strainers on the spout.)
https://fedicy.us.to/art/photos/tea%20strainer%20steel%20tea%20ball.jpg

2026-09-03 07:58:13 CEST

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I mean, driving walking distances is itself pretty disgusting. The outrage I feel is what has been done to people, to make them wheelchair bound. Whether they're overweight or had their legs blown off, it's a fucking tragedy, and I wish they could be fully abled and healthy. Since they (and we) can't be, I'll do everything I can to make sure they have wheelchair access and accessibility. Don't give a fuck whether someone "really needs" it, and the means testing morons who do can go fuck themselves straight to hell.

2026-09-03 07:01:50 CEST

Seeing the world go to hell in a handbasket one thing gives me some solace, that we failed Terry Davis in his hour of need, and now we're paying the price.

2026-09-03 06:53:26 CEST

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Saturnians doing their geometry homework.

2026-09-03 06:12:04 CEST

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That which does not make you smarter kills you.
OH NO ITS THE NETWORK NEWS

2026-09-03 06:08:20 CEST

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Bleached paper is completely harmless to dump in the environment and even consume. All the pollution is created at the paper mill where they dump the bleaching chemicals out on the local deer and bunnies in the back, poisoning the land for generations, and laughing at you all the way to the bank. The paper itself is just whiter.
Nylon plastic isn't good though...

2026-09-03 06:04:15 CEST

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What parts of your body are dirty? If you're covered in sewage, it would take quite a few more than just washing your toes.

2026-09-03 05:43:24 CEST

I shouldn't read the Hillsboro City flyer... they're planning on building a massive new facility for Genentech-kun, a 750 million dollar "investment" that would create...... 250 manufacturing jobs.
250.
If you paid 250 people 100,000 dollars a year, for 30 years to do *nothing* it would cost just as much. #FuckEverything