Pat @Pat@qoto.org

#QuoteOfTheDay #COVID #vaccine #truthbetold

The truth is...

From the Boston Globe a couple of days ago:

"State figures put Provincetown’s vaccination rate at 116 percent of eligible residents, though some have questioned the accuracy of the numbers used to calculate that figure."

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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn't true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies... or just for fun)

@rlamacraft
I'm not sure what's going on here, maybe this is ab-o-t (sic) I'm trying to communicate with but "Internet" is a proper noun, not a pronoun. Your comment about the Guardian's grammar was "meta-grammar" because it's *about* grammar, so my comment correcting your statement was actually correcting meta-grammar. My comment was meant as very dry humor. Too dry I guess.

#mask #Covid19 #vaccine #CDC #social #distancing
#delayedGratification #economy #biden

I told you so...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-officials-debate-masking-push-as-covid-infections-spike/ar-AAMpO5g

@rlamacraft

I'm pretty sure that "Internet" is not a pronoun.

(Does it count as "correcting someone's grammar" if you are actually just correcting their meta-grammar?)

@Acer
...and we're as exceptional as we can be.

#space #VirginGalactic #spacex #branson #bezos #spaceflight #spacetourism #rocket #blueorigin

Congratulations to the team at Virgin Galactic for a successful fight into (>50 mi) space of the first commercial passenger space vehicle.

(Sirisha Bandla, VP of Government Affairs and Research at Virgin Galactic, looks back at Earth from inside the VSS Eve spacecraft.)

@lupyuen
It's when you upload an undersized gif of a vector field to qoto and it automatically gets scaled up to a full-sized mp4.

@koreymoffett

The key is determining what needs to be agreed to (e.g., what side of the road to drive on) and what doesn't (e.g., who's cuter, Bebe Fav or Shana Mo?).

You need to agree on a lot of things to have a functioning society.

But, very often old media will will fabricate fake controversy about irrelevant subjects just to distract people from substantive controversy in order to disengage people from the process.

@DavidBond
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/discoverability/

Found this gif of a vector field on wikipedia. It was used to explain the Amperian loop model for a magnetic dipole.

I find it aestetically strangely calming (as well as an effective graphic for explaining the concept.)

The gif was created by user "Geek3". It's at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VFPt_dipole_animation_magnetic.gif

The page also includes the Python source s/he used to create the graphic.

#magnetism #science #art #electricity

@namark
What is my intent in creating this thread?

You will never know.

@zleap
The sighted man could be delusional and believe that the car is a fake illusion created by a government conspiracy and that the blind man will be infected by nanobots if he steps back onto the curb. And the blind guy might be too gullible and not understand that the sighted guy is actually just a wacko.

Either way, the blind guy's dead.

@namark
See my previous post.
When a huge portion of the population adopts lying as a tactic and uses it to the point that they are delusional and can no longer discern what is real and what is the fantasy world that they've made up in their heads, then intent becomes irrelevant and perhaps even nonexistent as a concept.

These people who believe that #COVID-19 is a hoax and that the vaccine is weapon, they harm everyone, especially those who believe them and step off the curb.

If a blind man and a sighted man are on a street corner, and the sighted man tells the blind man that no cars are coming and it is safe to cross, but actually a car is coming and the blind man gets run over, is that free speech or a crime?

If God wanted us to run around naked, we'd be born that way.

#TruthBeTold #COVID #vaccine

The CDC has just announced that when pregnant women take the COVID-19 vaccine, there's a 89% chance that their babies will be born without any clothes.

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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn't true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies... or just for fun)

@freemo
I try to avoid gnocchi in vodka sauce...

it makes my toots smell.

Half of all marriages end in divorce.

The other half end with death.

#love #relationships #marriage

@freemo

Points and tangents. Suddenly we're talking about geometry!

@freemo

You know what, let me say again what I said before without using those words...

Before the pandemic, people could do a lot of things that didn't particularly effect others or cause harm to others. So under those circumstances, those things that people did were just fine with society.

When the pandemic hit, some of those same things that people did before the pandemic, now effected others and could cause harm to others. Therefore, those specific things that can now cause harm to others are no longer okay. That means that people can no longer do those specific things anymore without potentially causing harm to others. So society now says that it is better if people avoid doing those things. Ethics says that people should not do those specific things that can now cause harm to others.

Before the pandemic, those things didn't cause harm, so they were okay.

During the pandemic, those things cause harm, so they should be avoided.

That's my point...

It's simple.