Nah, no major party deserves any allegiance. I vote Democrat when the candidate is good enough and not running against someone better, sure, but if they want my vote they have to earn it every time. Same with the Greens (though they tend to only field candidates who are qualified in local races) same with the Republicans (though they tend to not field candidates who are qualified) or any other party.

because “social media” is the corporate buzzword for when people are not primarily consumers but product

By “aerial juggling” I just mean as opposed to contact juggling, at which I’m at least somewhat practiced.

“Instance” on the fediverse means essentially “server”, or more like server/software combo, since a lemmy instance and a funkwhale instance could in theory share the same machine. So I’m hosted on the slrpnk.net instance, and my full username is @[email protected].

To draw a parallel between consciousness, you talk about how we don’t truly exist in reality, we only interact with our perceptions of it that reside within us; the fedi is the same. I don’t interact with your post stored on lemmy.world, I interact with the local copy of it stored on slrpnk.net. And hopefully those interactions are copied back to the original and we experience the same comments and votes as each other… but we might not.

When I juggle to music, I “see” what’s connecting my unconscious to choose these movements and segues. It all ties together.

That’s so cool. It makes we want to learn aerial juggling.

I’m definitely going to read that paper as well, though it’s been a minute since I dealt with state machines.

why you linked an instance-neutral version

If anyone else is on a different instance from (in this case) lemmy.world, they’ll be seeing the instance in read-only mode. The link I provided will serve them the local copy of the post, allowing them to submit comments and votes of the want, and also to save for later reference.

For anyone else intrigued by the “site swapping” DCG, it appears to be from this paper:

The Mathematics of Juggling by Dennis Kuperberg

For anyone else interested in the “Rusterd Space” digression, here’s an instance-neutral link:

“That One Voice in My Head” on [email protected]

Personally, thanks for sharing, Island. It’s always cool to get a glimpse at what lies on the other side of the curtain.

As to the specific phenomena you describe: Synchronicity, yes, but also there’s something about music that roots deep into our humanity and our ability to connect with others. It’s no surprise to me that you notice an experiential feedback effect. If I understand you correctly, and please let me know if not, you’re able to perceive who is listening to the music based on which mental overlay accompanies it. Do I have that right? If so, great observation. I’m always on the lookout for this kind of thing in my own life. We are all of us aggregate creatures and while I like to think that I work well as a team, or as a gestalt maybe, I know that’s not the case for everyone and any mechanism that can help keep things straight in the experiential record seems like it would be invaluable to someone who was, internally, less aligned. Though recent conversations with those who know me best have indicated that the boundaries among my selves are not as seamless as it feels from the inside, so maybe I’ll give this a whirl and see if it helps me any.

I personally think things took a turn after whatever dark forces the Chicago Cubs contracted with to evade their righteous and longstanding curse, but I guess the Harambe thing happened “first”.

No, because I’m broke.

Sounds great! I started it off with a recent favorite.

I’d be proud. I’ve raised a child that was successful, discreet, humble, and frugal. That’s a win in my book.

There are memes I’ve been wanting –but unready!– to post for literal years.

Same reason we accepted living further and further away from amenities. Cars are a self-reinforcing malady.

They won’t exist in the same form. They’re not profitable to run as the are and any likely improvements will come from a narrowing of focus.

But more likely they just get replaced by the next fad.

I’ll second Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi.

RF Kuang’s Babel

Adam Levin’s The Instructions

and my favorite novel, PKD’s Galactic Pot-Healer

• DCCS

• Brogue

• Dwarf Fortress classic version (available from the Bay12 website)

• ADoM (Ancient Domains of Mystery)

Kind of a hard left turn there at the end, that would fall under “involuntary pornography” which is illegal in some places.

But the rest, yeah, we need to have this be legal to have a free press. Civil suits are the remedy for people affected in this way.

Yeah, the criminal justice system sucks for innocent people suspected of crimes.

Hmm, chemistry was never my strongest subject, but IIRC photosynthesis is about producing sugars, and it’s plant respiration that captures carbon. But the energy in coal (which powers most electricity production worldwide) and oil is stored in hydrocarbons.

I think it’s just super nifty and I look forward to finding out what’s possible in the field. Imagine server powered by photosynthesis. That’d be awesome.

If they’re Christian they do. But so are all women. Everyone. It’s a basic tenet of the faith that everyone is sinful but everyone is capable of redemption.

The person could sue for defamy, but they’d have to prove the website was publishing false information.