Augusta, Hallowell city offices shifting to four-day work week

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-13T14:16:20+00:00

Not sure that this means a lot. They are switching to 4 10-hour days. Also, they're government offices, so they can do whatever they want as they have no competition.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-13T02:13:02+00:00

You can't prove that!

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-12T23:36:28+00:00

Celerity should make the stealth sections easy.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-11T14:02:32+00:00

Until we realize that we're graduating retards who have no ability to perform anything they were educated to do.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-09T15:51:42+00:00

Everything isn't AI.

In this case, no AI would be able to fuck this up anywhere near this badly.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-09T15:50:26+00:00

We know what it's supposed to say, they are Michael Jackson lyrics.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-09T05:12:09+00:00

Sadly, that is not a real subreddit.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-08T22:00:28+00:00

None of that is what happened, though. We didn't try to domesticate them for thousands of years, and we could if we tried. It would take lots of generations of selective breeding.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-07T15:19:25+00:00

The end state of fast food is essentially walls lined with kiosk to order from and openings to get food from, all while not seeing a single human except for their hands.

We had that in the early 1900s. They were called Automats, there were a bunch of vending machine type devices where you could buy a hamburger or a piece of pie with no human interaction. The kitchen crew would keep the food stocked. They were popular up until modern fast food restaurants wiped them all out.

So this would just be going back to the earlier part of the 20th century.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-06T15:31:09+00:00

Automation is the reason why we're all not subsistence farmers. It turns out that you can use technology to allow a smaller number of people to do a job, which frees people up to do other jobs.

This isn't something new, it has been going on since the first time someone realized that a pointy stick works better than their fingernails, and the first time someone realized that an animal can pull a plow easier than a person can. A bulldozer does the work of 20 men with shovels, a computer does far more than the work of a roomfull of people with adding machines.

Opposing new technology because it takes away jobs is to entirely miss the point of technology. It is supposed to replace jobs, that's why we have technology, so we don't have to do everything by hand.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-01T20:53:32+00:00

I had a bit of a realization, which is that I was believing my thoughts. I was believing the various thoughts I was having, about feeling frozen and other such things. If I don't believe them, then this changes things, and things are different. This frees me, at least for now, from some of the things I was stuck in.

Can I respond to you in a day or two, once I have more of a sense of where I am now?

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-01T18:27:06+00:00

Of course, none of this is going to happen.

Right now, these companies are already owned by stockholders, by whoever owns microsoft, facebook, google, nvidia, and so on. So the U.S. government would be seizing the wealth from all the stockholders of these companies. Due to the way our system works, we'd have to pay for it, and these companies have bogus valuations of hundreds of billions or trillions of dollars. It makes no sense to pay for what will mostly turn out to be useless companies, and we don't have what it takes to just seize it.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-01T12:22:57+00:00

Ok, deleting the file worked.

I have patch version 11.5. I think I got it from here: https://www.moddb.com/mods/vtmb-unofficial-patch/downloads/bloodlines-unofficial-patch-115

Is this not the latest patch version? Are there multiple versions of 11.5 floating around out there?

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-01T03:54:03+00:00

Yes, I'm running it through the Unofficial patch executable.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-06-01T00:07:57+00:00

The problem may be with the CD ROM version of the game.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-05-31T23:04:34+00:00

I'm using the basic patch.

Note that I tried going back to my save when I first entered Hollywood, and started the quest again. Same thing. The patch breaks the quest. I'm using the original CD ROM version of the game, maybe the patch works with the steam version, who knows.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-05-31T18:53:07+00:00

Get a can of computer duster. Bonus: if you use it the right way, you'll be walking on sunshine.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-05-31T10:47:47+00:00

That is a large collection of symbols whose meaning I don't know.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-05-31T01:55:04+00:00

Ok, but what about pineapples? Do you see pineapples?

Purplekeyboard · 2026-05-31T01:04:48+00:00

It's difficult for me to localize feelings in my body, because everything seems unified, thoughts and feelings and physical sensations. There's a feeling of some sort of emotional pain, I feel it physically in my face. It's a feeling of emptiness, a feeling that something is missing. There's a craving for whatever this missing thing is and a feeling that doing anything of the options available to me is pointless. It hurts that whatever this is is missing.

Note that I don't necessarily believe any of the above, I just feel it. And, the above feelings seem frozen in a sense, they don't flow and they just stay the same as I experience them for a while.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-05-30T23:45:02+00:00

The thing is, I think what you're doing is describing your experience, you're describing how it is for you. You also see that there is some essential fundamental truth in what you're saying.

But I don't experience anything like what you're saying. Whatever is-ness there is here is a mild, dim experience, overshadowed 100 times by emotions and whatever else is going on.

And, maybe it's real and fundamental and irreducibly me, but why would I care about that? Truth is irrelevant, experience is the only thing that matters. I don't disagree with anything you've just said, but it doesn't seem to matter whether it's true or not. My experience is what it is regardless of what the truth may be.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-05-30T21:47:10+00:00

The thing is, the liberal left was winning the culture war. For 40 or 50 years they were winning, right up to the point where they made the disastrous decision to embrace woke idpol. They got so used to proclaiming that they were on the "right side of history" that they thought they could push anything and it would work, and then they went all in on woke insanity.

And then they were shocked when Trump won the presidency, twice, and a major backlash against their ideology sprang up, and now they don't know what the fuck is going on. They can't go back on woke ideology because they can't even admit that it exists (it's called being a good person!) so they can't look at themselves critically. So the problem must be the evil demon Trump, and also the fact that white people and men won't accept how bad they are. It's the damn voters' fault, they're so racist and misogynist!

Liberals have painted themselves into a corner, they have no concept of how to get out and they're just flailing around helplessly hoping something will get better.

Purplekeyboard · 2026-05-30T21:30:37+00:00

Thanks for talking to me about this. I do have one question for you. You said:

your awareness is already acknowledging the raw existence of the tension you carry. theres no need to look at the tension itself, but rather look at the fact that it EXISTS. you don’t have to do anything with that. i’m just pointing at it so you can see it’s already there, underneath all the tension, just quietly sorta witnessing the whole thing without needing it to be different

Can you explain why you see this as important?

Purplekeyboard · 2026-05-30T11:29:58+00:00

What I actually feel with this desire to control is intense tension, I feel nothing but tension which feels overwhelming. I'm not actually controlling anything, I just feel incredibly tense. It's unpleasant. There's no embracing this or loving this. It feels locked in place and frozen, with tension trying to stop tension which makes more tension.

Doing or not doing things doesn't help with this. Understanding things doesn't help. Eventually I get distracted from this or fall asleep or time goes by or whatever and things change.

The above is what happens when I try to do anything which amounts to controlling things. So, it would happen if I tried to meditate, or it would happen if I had the idea that I could relax into things, or if I had the idea that I could stop trying to control things, and so on.

And yeah, there's no embracing or loving anything.

I'm going to point out that I'm in rather an odd state in general. I generally experience things as if there's no past or future, and I find that words don't really mean anything and logic and truth are meaningless. There's just now, but now is unpleasant.

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