A Concerned Scientist @BE@qoto.org

@freemo @khird @trinsec But....but.....Elon just showed the world how easy free speech is to regulate and deal with, right? 😅

In all seriousness, thank you for all of the obvious effort to keep things copasetic!

@freemo @trinsec @khird

While I'm the stubborn type who would tend to agree with @obi and @admitsWrongIfProven because I generally don't do whatever anyone is pressuring me to do, in this situation(of the little I know) I would ask yourself one question. Does adding this make my qoto-life better or easier? If the answer is yes then I think that's what matters at this point.

@freemo

I haven't been here long enough to know whether I should nod in agreement with you or throw out my ideas, but it seems like everyone here is quite happy to have your back.

As someone who went cold turkey years back on trying to moderate anything online I know where you're coming from and the solutions aren't always obvious, but please speak up if there's anything that can be done.

@DeanObeidallah

Elie is one voice I'm missing here and I'm trying not to go back to that other site. Hopefully he makes the leap at some point.

@SETIEric

That cat right there won the lottery man. If only we were all that cozy!

@ParkinJim

Excellent resource! I generally try to ignore this argument because the average denier isn't acting in good faith, but, I was surprised that I only stumbled upon this one recently:

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/10/more-999-studies-agree-humans-caused-climate-change

@freemo

The idea that having a process, as you stated, is "squirrelly" seems like madness to the scientific brain. If there were a great answer to this then we probably wouldn't have so many crises that scientists understand and the non-scientists do not in the world.

I don't envy your position of trying to explain your positions all of the time to other people.

@freemo

This sounds like something I talk about a lot, actually. Scientists, generally speaking, will have a method on how to do things. We're used to SOPs and process is often our thing.

The majority of the world doesn't think like that. If your instant and immediate reaction isn't what they want, then you're automatically against them.

I'm not going to write a novel, but look at how the non-scientists in the world handle information on things like COVID or climate change. If it changes, it's inherently bad in their opinion. Only the first opinion they heard matters, to a large number of people, and they'll go to the grave believing it.

TLDR; scientists and non-scientists often struggle with communication. Thank you for coming to my TED talk :)

@LeonardiBot

Once you figure out the "how to" it seems very customizable and becomes more intuitive. Good luck out there and thanks for all the previous, and future, AJ translation services :)

@kjr @freemo

instances.social is how I ended up here, just for reference.

@LeonardiBot

It took a couple of days but I'm really loving it here at this point. So glad to see you along for the new journey!

@fitterhappierAJ

Naming names are only for people who are telling the truth. It's essentially a "sir" story at this point.

@iowacovid19tracker

Thank you for all of your work here! Really looking forward to seeing the results.

@edsuom@zeroes.ca @edsuom@mastodon.sdf.org

I totally botched my first toot. Locked it so the person I replied to apparently couldn't read it. All of us noobs will probably figure it out eventually!

@walkerbragman

My wife and I mutually agreed to a rule a ways back that we are still holding to today:

Everything odd that happens during a global pandemic is due to said global pandemic until proven otherwise. Not the other way around.

It's worked disturbingly well so far.

@fitterhappierAJ

I've never woken up in the morning and thought "Wow, it's been a while since my kids got sick. We really need to find someone with a virus to hang out with today." Wondering if the CDC thinks I'm a bad parent now.

@jasonpedlow

I've come to believe that one of the biggest mistakes of modern, western society was convincing every kid that they can be anything. I can see that there's plenty of people who are smarter than me, and plenty of people who are not, and that there's probably a place in society for all of them if they accepted it. That place is not rocket scientists and doctors across the board, but far too many people don't recognize those limitations in themselves...not just billionaires with huge egos.

@inspired @MrsDi @freemo @EubieDrew

So named for exactly that attitude. That's just how he rolls.

@iowacovid19tracker

Once upon a time that would have freaked people out. I remember those days...

But, dealing with current reality, I'll admit that it's both less than I thought it would be at this point in, and more than it should be if we had robust public health.

@FaithEvans @fitterhappierAJ

It's like watching a slow motion train wreck. Everyone's complaining about health issues and "I don't know why I keep getting sick" and there's nothing to be done but nod and move on with your day because explaining why never gets you anywhere.