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trainingmontage

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Small city journalist. I'm switching careers after getting a degree in Computer Science.

I live in the deep red wilds of West Texas, where I grew up. I moved back in 2018 from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, so I could afford to go to school.

Half Spaniard, half US American with the most English-sounding name on Earth.

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trainingmontage, to StarTrek
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My intention was to study for Friday's final exam.

Instead I watched until midnight.

Probably the better choice, really.

trainingmontage,
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@jake4480 I've enjoyed them!

I was never into Star Trek as a kid. I thought it was boring. I gave it another shot last summer and liked it a lot more.

It's similar to Dr. Who. They model good behavior while using made-up technology that's so advanced it becomes "space magic." You just sort of have to suspend your disbelief and go with it.

It's also a generally sweet, forward-thinking show.

trainingmontage,
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@jake4480 I just finished Discovery. I guess I'll catch up on Picard next.

I haven't revisited any of the older series. I think I'm enjoying the modern special effects a little too much.

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@jake4480 I really like Discovery! Especially the last season.

There were some points during the first two seasons that I was like "Okay, guys, enough with the camera circling around two characters talking." Also, if I'm being fair, it did start to feel like every season was sort of frying pan -> fire over and over again.

This last season was fantastic. I love the idea of going so far into the future that everything that seemed so permanent about their civilization had washed away.

trainingmontage,
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@jake4480 Also, the first episode of this last season was pure fire. It beat almost every episode of the show hands down..

trainingmontage,
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@jake4480 Right? I think they even call it a "socialist utopia" in one of the newer episodes.

trainingmontage,
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@jake4480 I think, at least for the Trek universe, it's not until Khan commits some big-time genocide.

trainingmontage,
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@jake4480 Yep. Right around the corner. They would definitely not avoid us.

trainingmontage,
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@jake4480 You know? That's something I always thought was missing when people talked about the Fermi Paradox.

Of course there are other intelligent life forms out there. The universe is pretty damned big, though. Even if they looked for 10,000 years, they might not spot us.

ricardoharvin, to instagramreality
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"You never change things by fighting existing . To change something, build a new that makes the existing model ." –

For me, this is truly helpful, giving me a way to think about our current and consider ways to ameliorate public complacence and our ever-quickening descent into an .

I'm sure others have stated much the same, or better, but this came up in a I'm watching and I needed this, now.

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@ricardoharvin @BigAngBlack
This makes me think of a snippet from a book I want to read about propaganda.

The gist of it was that propaganda must work within the myths of the society it's operating in.

My fiancée found it depressing but it makes me think that a counter-propaganda, a propaganda that moves people toward a new framework, could be a powerful tool.

trainingmontage,
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@ricardoharvin @BigAngBlack
What I've seen is that most people on the left operate under the assumption, or hope, that giving people the right information will move them to action. I would love if that were true, and I do think that it helps inform a lot of people, but I don't think it's going to achieve the change we need in the time frame we need it (if ever).

The opponent wins by playing to people's desires, assumptions, ego, etc. They can't be fought with rationality.

trainingmontage, to random
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A) I hate working out.
B) I enjoy the way it makes me feel afterward.

trainingmontage, to mastodon
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Since we're seeing another huge influx of users on , I figure now's a good time to bring up the importance of for search on this platform.

Add hashtags to make your posts easy for other people to find. For example works way better in search here than "fuck Elon Musk."

Also, use for multi-word tags (first letter of each word capitalized, no spaces) so people using screen readers get a better understanding of the text.

trainingmontage, to writing
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Hot damn, this place is real damned active tonight. Time for another .

I'm a computer science student who's also learning web development. I also have a full-time job supervising a small team of digital journalists in West Texas.

I like , , and (especially ).

I don't know that I believe in a specific political ideology, but I do know that I don't like nazis, white supremacists, christian supremacists, or chicken legs.

ivy, to trans

I was wondering, who was the first person you ever knew?

for me, it was one of my closest friends that I met in cadets. she had put it in her profile on discord but I didn't really think much of it early on.

the next two I met were two trans guys in my highschool's GSA. they were the first trans guys I had ever met and really helped me to realize that not everyone wants to be a girl. they helped me try on pronouns in a safe environment and figure out what I wanted to do :bear_love:

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@ivy @Awknddragn
The first trans person I met was an old friend of someone I'd known since high school.

He was smart, incredibly funny, and was also the first pansexual I'd ever met.

He went on to work for the Obama administration on trans rights until that other dipshit took office.

trainingmontage, to random
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A few years back, I decided to explore a personally romanticized part of my heritage by reading about the Spanish Civil War. I was born outside of Madrid, and my mom's a Spaniard. I was looking for some connection to my grandparents, who I never met, and I had a lot of dumb ideas about some natural tendency toward antifascism in Spain (never mind that antifascism requires the presence of fascism in the first place).

Instead, I got a lesson in how these authoritarian takeovers happen. /1

trainingmontage,
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Spain's just like any other country. Authoritarian takeovers happen, and they happen over a period of years. The only thing special about Spain in that period was that there was a large contingent of the population that was absolutely not there to allow Franco to take over.

The thing is, though, the anarchists and socialists who stood against Franco were rabidly opposed by the politicians who just wanted to make sure their spot at the table was safe. /2

trainingmontage,
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This institutional opposition, even in the face of a militarized authoritarian takeover by Franco just about guaranteed the socialists and anarchists would lose (well, that and the leftist infighting plus all those fancy German weapons).

What was interesting is that it's a pattern that played out in Italy and Germany as well. Established political leaders would speak against the fascists but never do anything to stop their rise.

What could they do? They had a system in place, right?

trainingmontage,
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@jake4480
I do see a purpose to being strategic within the system but I don't have a lot of hope that it's going to magically start doing crazy things like benefitting society.

trainingmontage,
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@jake4480 I wish I could see a total system overhaul without violence. I don't advocate for it, but the historical pattern seems clear.

I do wish the people I care about, myself included, weren't in the group that always ends up against the wall.

I'm also not convinced by any of the ideological alternatives people gravitate to. They're all ideas that were cooked up before we were faced with the impending doom of infinite production on a finite planet.

trainingmontage,
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@jake4480 And that's why I'm interested in low-cost, low-power digital networks. It won't be the internet, but it could be a way to get complex information across long distances quickly without the need for a connection to the backbone.

trainingmontage, to random
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In times like these, I think to myself, "What would the French do?"

I'm not even going to share an image of what I think they'd do but you know Paris would be hot as hell right now.

trainingmontage,
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Macron: "We're going to add, like, two hours to the work week."

Paris: *burns

trainingmontage,
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Not for nothing, but we're all on the verge of watching our whole planet turn into a microwave and we can't get it together enough to make our politicians stop giving our own money to oil companies.

We can't even figure out how to ask nicely.

Poll after poll shows how little legislators consider what people actually want. They're all brazenly corrupt. It's euphemistically referred to as "contributions," but we know what it is.

Our leaders get paid to help ensure our future won't exist.

trainingmontage, to random
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Over here fantasizing about creating a continent-spanning network of solar powered New Packet Radio internet relays.

It would be nice to have a lo-fi Information network for when the sharks finish off the internet cables.

trainingmontage,
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@jake4480 @trashrobot

Oh my god, look what the old nerds went and did:

https://www.arednmesh.org/

trainingmontage,
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@jake4480 @trashrobot

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