solipsodist.bsky.social
Hierarchy is not the source of rules, but is actually opposed to them.
If you turn the music all the way up does the world outside your headphones still exist? Tiny Mastodon by @liamleroux42.bsky.social
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Probably just check your websites periodically. I'm not invested enough in social media to sign up for another network after this one finally collapses, and I'm not in pubs much since I don't drink like I used to.
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I got the letter, but the credit monitoring signup website doesn't seem to work anyway, so I'm not sure it makes a difference.
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I don't think a court can penalize them by requiring the utility become provincially owned again...
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Exceptional!
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I wish the fence was straight, and we got a little more of the reflection in the backwash of water from the firefighters' hoses in the foreground there, but you grab the shot you can get in a situation like that.
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Ah, that takes me back...
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Man, if I wanted someone to tell me that every week I would have kept going to my shrink.
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What kind are they? I've been trying to find my old Avro Arrows for ages now.
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If nothing else, I think it's been established she can't read the room...
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I've been meaning to ask you about it.
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I have a couple of (very old) US bonds I never got around to cashing before I renounced my citizenship... Oh, well.
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This is about one of those Star Wars shows, right?
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And yet I keep hearing Luther and haven't heard Nokia once... In Canada, on CBC! It used to feel like CBC had a legal requirement to play Drake every day, but I wouldn't even know about this song if I didn't follow you.
If we've just traded you Drake for Kendrick, maybe there really is a deficit...
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It would be the weekend I'm going away... Well, I know what I'm doing Monday. Maybe Sunday night...
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I don't see why they can't play in the endless, formless white void of limbo. Do they really need all those lines on the ground to know where they are?
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As a ninja myself, albeit behind on my dues... What is the UK's problem with us? Was renaming a children's cartoon about mutant turtles not embarrassing enough?
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Western liberalism is at its core the belief that a rigid hierarchy and increasing inequality can deliver a better world for everyone (as opposed to conservatism which wants hierarchy and inequality and fuck you). Basically the people at the top should be nicer, but nobody should MAKE them be nicer.
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How many of these hours are just screaming? I'll have those parts on 1x speed along with the rest, just need to know how often I'm going to be adjusting my volume.
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Who wouldn't?
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Tesla owns them. @niedermeyer.online has been making this point repeatedly lately.
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Calvinistball: We can change the rules whenever we want, but don't you dare point it out.
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What the hell, I thought they'd just leave the gates up for a while...
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A near-invisible infrastructure was created to shield these people from the consequences of failure and it was so successful that they now believe they're infallible, and everything keeping them from falling is actually what's stopping them from being able to fly.
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No, but at one point I spent a while cursing that I didn't have any of the right disorders for the really high-paying drug trials. I mean, a Phase I trial covered rent fine and you probably wouldn't die, but the real money was in testing for efficacy instead of just safety.
Ah, to be young again...
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Or they're trying to defect...
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It's the lack of intent.
I program CNC machines. I have to 'nest' lots of shapes in a finite area, and I can tell a human nest did from an algorithmic one, because the human started with an idea of what they wanted. We 'read' everything from text to images to CNC nestings looking for that intent.
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It's weird, right? I went to a couple of indie shows - literally across the street from me! - and spent the hour until it was time to actually go shaking and trying to anticipate how I might somehow screw up sitting around while other people tried to entertain me.
Loads of fun in the end, though.
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Being a musician sounds like being a journeyman pro-wrestler. Touring and performing are marketing expenses for the t-shirt business you didn't mean to start.
At this rate it will turn into the summer camp I was at the year all the councilors got flu, and the kids started a t-shirt based economy.
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The Muppet Movie.
Kermit.
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Great composition!
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Wow, I haven't thought about that character in so long... I wonder if my parents still have the books somewhere?
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Huh. Somehow, despite reading both multiple times over the years, I never noticed how closely the plot of Neuromancer (1984) resembles Doomsday Morning (1957). I mean, it's all the kind of stuff that's certainly coincidence, but the parallels are funny given the very different eras and styles.
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Not sure how he's not a crank.