swayvil

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by swayvil 2y ago
Like, on a bus?
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by swayvil 2y ago
The coolest things are often the most difficult to understand. Difficult to understand is often threatening. Criticism is a popular response to threat and is the form of reply that requires the least understanding.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Trust me. The actual moderation is basically an automatic organic meritocracy. Your 2-second skim notwithstanding. And you clearly have zero experience with generative art.
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All of those require the interpretation and goodwill of an authority that I do not trust (and certainly does not express my own will as well as I can do it myself). Why do you trust this authority?
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by swayvil 2y ago
The most palatable solution (historically speaking) is democracy. Yes I'm being dictated to but at least we're all doing it to ourselves. A modern technologically enhanced refinement of that is the best that I can think of.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Good point. If you want a good accurate model of human psychology, look to world of marketing. There is a similar noise-is-strength in vacuum cleaner sales.
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by swayvil 2y ago
A temptation, in the biblical sense.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Noise is proof that you're working. Which means that the boss/parent/supervisor won't come over and yell at you for not working. So there is that antianxiety effect. Ingrained from an early age. My friend in the trade ex
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by swayvil 2y ago
With the magic of social media everybody can be a snakeoil salesman now. And will. Apparently everybody is just a snakeoil salesman waiting for the opportunity to push their dreams and politics. So now we have a million-strong chorus of sna
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by swayvil 2y ago
It's so easy to tell a story. Any story. Here in internetland. It's getting so I don't trust a single thing any of you people say. It's like tower of babel part 2.
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by swayvil 2y ago
I have written a lot of java. I like it because it's comprehensively organized. I mean it does everything it should and does it a nice orderly way. The whole class system and c-like system, all together, works good. And addresses every
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by swayvil 2y ago
Self organization always impresses me. Check out smoothlife. It's on YouTube somewhere. In the notes the creator discusses abandoning the project because of the soul-consuming effects of working on it all the time. Word to the wise.
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by swayvil 2y ago
If you hate particles, here's a generative thing I did https://www.fleen.org/old_generative_art_projects/powerbox_4...
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by swayvil 2y ago
Imagine you're a mother, with a baby. Full of motherly love. High on bonding hormones and such. Breastfeeding. So nice. Now give that baby a chihuahua's head. Grotesque. And those teeth are sharp. But still, it's your baby. S
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by swayvil 2y ago
By running an ad blocker you are forcing them to create more ads, to make up their losses.
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You pay taxes under pain of imprisonment. Your taxes fund maiming and killing innocent civilians. That's one of those evil games.
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by swayvil 2y ago
You people are failing to grasp my metaphor. Replace it with "the only way to feed my kids is by performing evil deeds, like trafficking in illicit beef". What do you do when you are stuck in a game like that? You aren't exac
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by swayvil 2y ago
I think the ancient yoga wizards of yore called that "Pranayama".
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There's a scifi movie. 5 million years to earth. They do something like that. It's a good movie.
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Advertisement density is pretty maxed out on that site
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by swayvil 2y ago
Well I had a microwave with the rotating platter. And now I have one without. And the one without definitely works better. So that's a strike against your theory.
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by swayvil 2y ago
Some of us determined that school is something to be avoided. To squeak through it with absolutely minimal effort. Never do the assigned reading. Never do the homework. Which leaves mountains of free time (an irreplaceable commodity, you wi
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by swayvil 2y ago
Amazon
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by swayvil 2y ago
Just got a new microwave. Panasonic NE 25 F. One dial. Built like a tank. Stainless steel. Compact yet roomy. And there's no stupid rotating platter. What they do is rotate the microwave antenna instead. But that's inside the guts
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by swayvil 3y ago
Also commercials. How anybody puts up with that is beyond me. Sometimes I go to YouTube or watch tv at a friend's house. Suddenly a smiling salesman is wagging his junk in my face. You people just accept this?
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by swayvil 3y ago
Just yesterday my friend told me about this. His family is planning to resubscribe to "Disney+" so they can watch "The Acolyte". Then unsubscribe afterwards. And that's how they do it. I of course have never subscri
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by swayvil 3y ago
Little known fact : The Sea Lamprey is incapable of smiling.
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by swayvil 3y ago
The autist focuses. Concentrates. Invests his entire attention in a particular sliver of the experiential buffet. That's autism. If it's a useful sliver then there you go.
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by swayvil 3y ago
To be fair, the clergy was the top authority at the time. And for most of us, contradicting that authority is absurd. And yes, we can all break out the well-worn arguments justifying such. Regardless, that's the end product.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I'm always looking for a simple minimal oop language. Thanks.

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