<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> It has... it has been awhile but I do not recall the arc of that narrative terminating in, &quot;Principles are bad actually.&quot;</p><p>I need to sit down.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@Jenetrix" class="u-url mention">@<span>Jenetrix</span></a></span> oh my gods like ircncl?</p>

What a week, huh?

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@Jenetrix" class="u-url mention">@<span>Jenetrix</span></a></span> was their username &quot;egginspector&quot;</p>

<p>(they brought up humanity by saying &quot;it shows you that any ideal, no matter how good it sounds, is still ultimately meaningless and if you as a human live for principles and ideals, you are living like a machine and have to reconsider whether you really want to live like that&quot;)</p>

<p>discovered by browsing old chat logs that someone tried to convince me to take <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlasgowInterfaceExplorer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GlasgowInterfaceExplorer</span></a> proprietary &quot;to not be like [Miki] Sayaka&quot; and i ended the conversation with them with &quot;I am not human. I do not live according to human values, goals, or principles, and I&#39;m very happy with it&quot; because it seemed like the only appropriate response to the idea of monetizing something that is built to be a common good</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@pigworker" class="u-url mention">@<span>pigworker</span></a></span> yeah the 40 flights of stairs I accidentally climbed after paying for the ticket with the elevator</p>

<p>OH: &quot;some day, can you make a copy of Amaranth for me with FlexNet?&quot;</p>