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    How do we have conversations, when your partner is potentially everyone?

    Makes "offline" seem even more important.

    ... as the resource to still some hunger, some need.

    Why is it beautiful to be alive?

    Is the task at hand, to make sure that the game does not end too soon?

    How to recon with the present, which seems like the only place to do anything ?

    ... we have used them before, and someone else probably has said something else.

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      Not that I am looking for more rule to apply to my diet ...

      gabkdlly • 8 January, 2025 edit

    ... but artificial sweeteners seem to have less going for them now.

    Refined or concentrated sweeteners can probably also accurately be called artificial.

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      Money makes certain exchanges appear cheap,

      gabkdlly • 8 January, 2025

    or maybe more accurately, it makes certain interactions appear like exchanges.

    We sometimes take what we can get.

    We sometimes communicate without a clear picture ahead of time of what it is that we are creating through our interaction.

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      In a sense, software people are poets,

      gabkdlly • 8 January, 2025 edit

    because they juggle words ( and other symbols ) to translate some representation of information, into a different representation, making it hopefully useful, in a different way.

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      One thing that worries me about computers ...

      gabkdlly • 8 January, 2025

    ... they make it seem cheap to talk with the machine, rather than seeking out a human being to talk with.

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      Maybe I should use the "Preview" button more?

      gabkdlly • 31 December, 2024

    I often edit and republish posts multiple times.

    Does anyone even notice this?

    Do your feed readers grab some broken version, and then refrain from updating once I re-publish?

    I guess, a more judicious way of doing things, might be: Draft everything with local Markdown files, and only publish occasionally. This approach seems to me, to break a key feature of what web-logs do: They give you a place to just get a thought out there right away. I am sure this capability comes with its own down sides.

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      Earlier draft of the kings book

      gabkdlly • 31 December, 2024 edit

    Here is an earlier version of the kings book I linked to previously. It is more wordy, and less hands on, than the version that was finally published. It was the 2020 version that I read with Mom, some time during covid. So, for that reason, this earlier version has a special place in my heart.