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durinn

@ emotional_soup_88 @programming.dev

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But still the sunken stars appear In dark and windless Mirrormere; There lies his crown in water deep, Till Durin wakes again from sleep.

  • If you saw a mushroom cloud, what would you say?

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  • "Mm mm! Nothing says 'we're fucked' like... that (points at the cloud)". I grab my Game Boy Advance SP and run to the shelter next doors.

  • If you saw a mushroom cloud, what would you say?

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  • Pop out that ND-filter.

  • How're u doing today?

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  • Okay, so I listened to their first two albums while going in and out of sleep. They're like if System of a Down rewrote the Death Note soundtrack in the style of Linkin Park. XD

  • Are you experiencing any shortages where you live?

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  • Phew, thanks for reminding me! Had forgotten all about them. Remind me again, do they come with RAM?

  • How're u doing today?

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  • That's exactly my plan. God their music is soothing. Gnight!🌺

  • How're u doing today?

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  • I don't have the mental or emotional capacity to answer your post right now, but this artist is awesome. Listening to their first album now. Danke schön, Gandalf der Zwölfte.

  • Are you experiencing any shortages where you live?

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  • Friends and RAM. Found some good RAM on a second hand website though. Made me happy.

    Not outing my geolocation though. 😅

  • Can we see a photo you took recently?

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  • Foreground: I'm learning how to read and write to electronically erasable-programmable read only memory (EEPROM) chips.

    Background: I bought a battery driven LED decoration. I cut off the battery container and attached a DC adapter instead. This was the first time I ever spliced a wire.

    Also, who's "we"?

  • Can we see a photo you took recently?

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  • 鍋や

  • If you created a simulation that resulted in the creation of countless intelligent beings would it be unethical to end the simulation?

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  • It's not that complicated in my case. Ideologically, I want us - humanity - to move toward vegetarianism. First and foremost because of how unethical I find the production of animals, and secondary for the sake of the environment. I'm just too lazy to actually act on this. I had a two year vegetarian streak when I lived in Japan. I ate meat only if and when I ate out, mainly because Japanese restaurants are not quite informed on vegetarianism and seem to believe that the meal is vegetarian as long as it doesn't consist of a chunk of meat - which is sad, because Japan has a long history of veganism in their various Buddhist offshoots, but that's another story. At home, I only cooked vegetarian, although not vegan. It was cheap and easy to find meat replacements, mostly soy based.

  • If all life is just a simulation designed to test a specific theory what is the theory?

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  • If you created a simulation that resulted in the creation of countless intelligent beings would it be unethical to end the simulation?

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  • How do you define intelligence? In any case, I think it's irrelevant. What's relevant is whether the beings are self aware or if they exist having notions and concepts of fear of death. For this reason, I deem it unethical to slaughter - for instance - animals in a setting in which their peers are aware of the moment of death of their peers. Seeing, for instance, a cow agonize about their peer in front of them being shot to death is heart-wrenching. For this reason, my answer to your question is "yes". Yes I eat meat. :3

  • Is the internet getting emptier?

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  • If you watch anime - or used to watch anime...

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  • Yeah, no, I get that. I just have a tendency to linger on the negative, even if there is absolution or repentance at the end. I'm working on it... XD

    All this talk about Tom and Jerry made me remember one of my favorite themes of Western animation from my childhood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMAVtSrkIhI

  • If you watch anime - or used to watch anime...

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  • If you watch anime - or used to watch anime...

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  • Ah. I totally get that in regards to some series. Whenever I feel like that, I grab some good old Shuuzoo Oshimi manga that explore sexuality, identity, the human condition and a lot more in a gruesome but entertaining and psychological way.

  • If you watch anime - or used to watch anime...

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  • WOW! You just dropped "Akira" there like nothing. XD Akira is definitely one of my favorite cyberpunk movies, alongside Metropolis. I really would like to buy one of those Displate posters one day, but I still haven't found a great Akira themed one.

  • If you watch anime - or used to watch anime...

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  • WOW! How blessed a person are you, having Nausicaä to be the FIRST anime you watch! :D I can't quite recall the... wait. WAIT. La la la lala la' la' laa. I do remember the iconic child's song! :D Didn't it give you existential crisis? I made me have such dark and negative feeling toward humanity as a whole - a lot of Ghibli movies did...

    Tom and Jerry LOL I do feel that western animation can be more shallow - being only or mostly about the visuals - while anime, unless it's hentai, more often seems to have a deeper meaning.

  • If you watch anime - or used to watch anime...

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  • I think I know what you mean with the shallow - or if you ask me, unnecessarily thorough - exposition... although, as you say yourself, there are some gems out there that don't simply hand it all to you on a silver platter. Anime definitely had a huge impact on my Japanese studies at the time. While the easy version of NHK (forgot the exact name of the offshoot...) was what gave me most in terms of pronunciation, intonation and accent - by doing shadowing and transcription -, anime gave me recreation AND the language. :)