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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 06/09/2025

If the US REALLY wanted to be honest with its department name.

JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 07/07/2025

I've got an open ended puzzle for everyone. See if you can interpret it. There is a right answer, but alternate interpretations are valid and welcome.

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 01/04/2025

If you would like to be added to a list to get notifications as these come out, please let me know. Below is a portion of the new chapter.

The connection to the 21st line is culturally bland for the amount of traffic it gets. It is hard to question the existence of the empty roads since they are synonymous with the overgrown city itself, but even the slightest consideration creates wonder and confusion around why they would span with such width. To consider car congestion needing 3 lanes for a single direction is incomprehensible when put in contrast to the current occasional bikes and rare trolley that now use them.

Surrounding the crossroads, makeshift booths occupy the overgrown concrete fields on the corners of the intersection. These are always shifting due to lack of a consistent consumer base. One shop has become a staple of the area; aptly named “21st Suppliers” which collects an assortment of rare supplies that are considered waste from both the Consensus and (to a much higher degree) the CapDems.

The connection time is 2 minutes, so there is no time to browse the shops. We sit down on the dry grass to wait. After a moment, Samuel looks at me and asks “Does it ever get annoying that people always expect you to be someone different?”

“What do you mean?”

“Well, with some of my friends, I feel like I need to play a part. I’m not always interested in their stuff, but I listen anyway because I like it when they do that to me. They don’t always though, and that seems unfair when that happens.” He looks back at me, “For older people it seems more unfair. You seem to be playing a part more often than I would because others tend not to care that you want to be listened to. No one really seems to see you and you just play a part for them. Or… are you playing a part with me too?”

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 26/03/2025

That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about Firefly was too obvious

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 24/03/2025

Here is a passage, that I hope does the story justice. If you think it's interesting, please consider giving the chapters above a read.

<Passage describing the surroundings which continues to...>
"Yashim? Oh! You mean the urban nomad that helps out with education?"
"He didn't seem to be an urban nomad. We're talking about the same person right?"
"Asian, elderly, often lost in thought?"
"Yeah. That is a fitting description."
"Well the urban nomads here have access to most of the resources that everyone else does. So many, like Yashim, choose the lifestyle for a variety of reasons. If I remember right, he does it so he can feel more genuine. He rejected stable living quarters in the past on the grounds that he feels confined in them."
There are a lot of references in that statement that do not make sense. "Universal access to resources"? "Feeling confined by a house"? But one point was more pressing and confusing than the others "What do you mean 'rejected stable living quarters'?" It's basic knowledge that the principle of society is built on the premise that property ownership is a virtue. Being able to exchange goods for necessities is the building blocks of mercantile trade, which is what gives money meaning, and without the concept of money, you can't have debt which is what society uses to justify force and legal morality via law. Without the concept of working to ownership (especially home ownership at the bare minimum), nothing else makes sense. Even children understand the basic need for shelter and regulated temperatures.
"He didn't want one when a room was offered. There are others if he still wants one, but that doesn't seem likely." The entire concept is inconceivable. This community can't function. I'm misunderstanding it. I must be.
"Can I get a room?"
"If you want to stay, absolutely. If you are just staying for a little bit, we can provide some temporary residency. It is going to be nice for the next couple of days so it's up to you if you would rather sleep in the open or not."

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 14/03/2025

Let's just be real here. The Dems have always been this way

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 04/03/2025

It could be. I really try to stay away from petty insults because of the meme below. I don't really think that these trolls care but others will. That said, pettiness is a fun weapon to take advantage of. So I can't critique 😉. Keep up the good work. ❤️

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 02/03/2025

Honest question: how is this picture not a perfect encapsulation of the current MAGA movement? - a twisted appeal to peace - carries forward by the appearance of a strong attacker - while declaring to be in God's grace ??? They are fucking neo-nazis in all but name. Fuck Nazis.

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 20/02/2025

here's my 3rd party defense BTW. I'll wait on yours. undsci.berkeley.edu/understandin...

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 20/02/2025

more people need to realize that the image below applies to everyone.

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 15/02/2025

Does this mean that murdering this asshole is now legal?

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 07/02/2025

I made this a few days ago. It's a pictograph of my philosophical thesis. I've since been informed that it's incomprehensible. Fuck it. I'm posting it anyway. It makes me happy.

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 02/02/2025

I wonder how long it will take the Trump admin to call Mulan a traitorous movie. 🤔

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 04/01/2025

I made a meme. Maybe someone can do it better than I could.

Top picture. A small group of white chess pieces holding back a grossly over stacked black team. "How Trump supports would have you believe politics is"

Bottom picture: a small group of well organized white pieces about to usurp a pawn in the king's spot. The opposing black team is a random assortment of pieces that are disorganized but some are holding the line against the white pawns. This team includes a raspberry and a gold fish as well as some checker pieces. There is a panda sitting to the side of the board not participating. "How politics actually is".

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 25/12/2024

Tell me you're an unintentional bootlicker without saying so.

Person A: Union workers are against workers rights unless you agree to vote for Trump.
JUR: Union interests are workers interests and the monolith they attempt to build stops there.
Person A: ::laughing gif::

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 24/12/2024

Mine are obscure. Gregor Cantor, Antonio Gramsci, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel yeah... all white guys. I feel a bit bad about that. But I would like to think that says more about who was privileged in history than my bias to the demographic. Worth considering though 🤔

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 24/12/2024

This seems incorrect according to the other information I've posted, but it's still far from "all". Maybe don't just read headlines of sensational news.

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 24/12/2024

they seem to be better than the standard voter. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 16/12/2024

If you are a real person, this is not how to engage with another real person.

unprompted DM -> introduction -> small talk -> unexpected reply -> confusion

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 14/12/2024

promotion of my story #QuiaSumCogito - snippet from chapter 5. If you have any interest in reading more, please comment and I'll send a link to the current chapters.

Then – without warning – reality readjusts as if dropping a mask. The light is still the same, but the walls – previously adorned with new paint underneath instructions, plaques, and memorabilia – shift to the unimpressive and standard appearance seen everywhere else on campus. I stop for a moment trying to understand what just happened and take a few steps back. All the aesthetics and charm return for a moment until I walk forward again. Roger is no longer leading but waiting.
"You're still using the overlay?" I nod still confused at what happened. "I always forget about that. In this area we have no wireless," he points to the walls where I notice a small mesh of wires which I thought was just a more grey tinge of paint. "It's a Faraday Cage. Even if the Consensus was able to hack our system, they can't know what happens here."

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 10/12/2024

As a means of promoting my book. I think I'm going to start making daily posts regarding passages that are interesting. Maybe it will inspire people to read it to get the context. 🤞 if you are interested in a link to the full text, please ask. 🙂 #QuiaSumCogito

I make the 3 minute walk to the 400s building. The demographics of the community can be seen fairly quickly by their presentation. The children (those distinguishable from fully realized adults) all head to the kindergartens, where they will learn what they need to function in their future roles. The service workers (those that are part of the supply chain to ensure that we have stability) tend to dress more practically since their close proximity to nature tends to soil and stain, causing more professional attire and aesthetically pleasing investments to be ruined. Most of this group will come from the deal we make with the Consensus, so they tend to be mistrusted since it's often a bit hard to tell without stalking their metadata if they are loyal. Of course there is the Overview Department which specializes in vetting out the militant anarchists, but – thinking specifically of Zenth and Harriett (some friends that work on that effort) – there is always flaws in the human element of the manual approval process due to the need to respect privacy making it far from foolproof. The rest of us laborers ensure that our attire fits our status. We can't afford the fabrics of the oberster bürgers (or obürgs for short) who keep the machines running, devise new methods of progress, and manage the staff; but we ensure their ideas get carried out by keeping the system grinding along once the ideas are implemented.

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 08/12/2024

This is a while later and one of the pervious people starts to talk to him. Beth was the lady with the gun (unsure if that was clear) and Jackline is a mother that was complaining about lack of water but was disregarded by Beth earlier. Obviously this is a small snippet, but I hopefully it's clear

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 08/12/2024

here is one portion: a few things... CapDems are the government, everyone in the Consensus (the anarchist group) hates them and thinks they are fascist (because they are). CoDaS is the AI and Kyle (who is the first person [flawed] narrator) has been coming to doubt.

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 01/12/2024

Life is a paradox: we desire order in an infinitely complex reality. Most choose to value delusional comfort rather than continuous existential conflict so it makes sense that we will disagree on what "works best". Respect each other, even in disagreement, because that's the best we have to offer.

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JustUnderReality @justunderreality.com · 01/12/2024

Voting for a single party with a single leader. Everyone was a serf to the vanguard, they just didn't call it that. Someone else told me I need to "read more" the other day. Let's see if you can pass that test. What does the following mean to you?