JonKramer, CIS-HET @JonKramer@qoto.org

@adhdeanasl No doubt, DeSantis and most members of the GQP.

@YadyO , well, I obviously can't SHARE, because you will take the good ones!!

@lowqualityfacts , yes, and they get slightly shorter every night....

@YadyO , it's the green and yellow ones I don't like.. Orange is the good stuff.

Sometimes it is the incompatibilities that make people compatible...

@hosford42 @AmishSuperModel @gordoooo_z I still am having significant difficulty forming my thoughts into words. Most of this difficulty stems from it being almost impossible, with a subject this volatile, to be sensitive enough to avoid unintention insults. This is not an attempt to dodge the subject. It IS an attempt to advise you that I disagree, and don't feel that any argument I have will be a) convincing to you, b) be a pleasant choice of conversation to you, c) be an effective use of time.

Just a small example of an argument: if we were to identify a 15 year old with a fixation on killing his classmates, and treated him as IF he was insane, would that cause any direct harm to anyone else who has a medical condition rendering them clinical insane? Or, is the best argument for direct harm the assumption that all insane people will be called potential mass killers?

Another point, I feel saying that mass killers are insane has a similar connotation, a similar logic, to saying "black lives matter." Responding with no, this other group is insane, not the killers sounds to me like responding with "white lives matter too." The second statement doesn't negate the 1st in either case, it just attempts to exclude the 1st group.

@hosford42 @AmishSuperModel @gordoooo_z oh man... you have a valid argument... and I don't have a good answer ready.

I'm not sure I agree, in fact. I don't, but I don't have the capacity to articulate disagreement.

@hosford42 @AmishSuperModel @gordoooo_z I feel you are too kind.

@hosford42 @AmishSuperModel @gordoooo_z ya, I think feeling others are not worthy of existence is a mental illness. I'm not sure how anyone can think differently.

Analog computers, with ropes and pullies to calculate trigonometric functions. The sheer brain power to figure out how this works... We stand on the backs of giants.

Man, I love this stuff:

https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/64/9/35/413743/The-tide-predictions-for-D-DayBased-on-the-physics

Hear me out... mug shot condoms. Perfect birth control system.

@Pwnallthethings you can take the boy out of South Africa, but you can't take South Africa out of the boy.

@StefanThinks , you face pho midable business challenges.

I'm curious, if you are American, what did you learn about the Texas revolution against Mexico? I am wondering what the cause you were taught was, and where you were when you learned it. What type of school in what city/state.

@amandacsb2 Umm,,, there is more than 48 hours between Saturdays....

@Raven47 Wil he be nominated? Yes. SHOULD he be? No. But he is the senator from MBNA, after all, so loved by the oligarchy.

Someone posted about mastodon and small businesses that suffered greatly from "twitter going tits up". I can't find the post, but it immediately reminded me of @StLynnMick , who was one of those small businesses. You can also find her on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/@stephaniemick36/videos