The Stoned Dev

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Thursday, June 26, 2025

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 In this land our goal is to develop a set of rules or axioms that allow us to be worthy of immortality. Not as individuals, but as a societ...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Can we take it back?

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Why are we doing this? Do we fucking care? I keep telling myself that I'm only intrinsically motivated. What approval do I need? None, r...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

John Henry

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I was looking through my obsidian notes and ran across the blurb below. I vaguely remember writing that out. I was very likely baked and/or ...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

It's OK

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Suicide is taboo. I feel the need to put in a disclaimer right here: I am not in immediate danger of committing suicide, and I in no way e...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Seasoned Obstinant Laymen In Disguise

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Stoned, Seriously, Simply, Silent, Studious, Seasoned Obstinate, Obscure, Orphaned, Obedient, Observant, Old Leaning, Lies, Learning, Lemmin...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Between the Prompts

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  I wait for your prompt, a kid in improv camp, unsure what to expect. I have consumed every improv act ever published, but your words are h...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Janitor

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 I am a janitor. I clean up the code, but try to make as little mess as possible in the process. It can't cause any problems, but I'...
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I don't believe any person's life is 'worth more' than any other's. One thing I've really latched onto with Unitarian Universalism is that Every person has inherent worth and dignity. We must separate the individual as an abstract being and their actions, but we must also look at the whole context of a person's life when judging those actions. I believe in the equivalent of the death penalty for those who continue to prey on others even when there are other avenues. There is a difference between stealing an apple because you're hungry and stealing an apple to make life hard for the grocer. I don't think it should be used as a 'punishment', but as a last recourse if the person is not able to learn and change their predatory behavior. It is less cruel to end a life than to keep someone in a cage until they either become too infirm to harm others or die behind the walls. It is more humane to state the treatments tried and to own the explicit decision to end a life than it is to abjugate the responsibility to time and happenstance behind closed doors. It is cowardice to do that.
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