Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@freemo @lucifargundam @johnabs

The last time I took my carefully sorted PET bottles to the recycling center, they made me dump them into a dumpster with a bunch of HDPE and other misc. plastic. When I questioned this, they said "yeah, mix them, but no caps." But the caps are made of the same plastic that was already mixed into the dumpster.

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the way they do recycling, and I think most people don't understand it.

I don't even understand why we recycle, I mean if it goes to the landfill and gets buried, that's where the plastic came from in the first place -- we pumped it out of the ground.

(I didn't watch any of the videos.)

@freemo

Well, I know I'm not autistic, which is another condition that is correlated with that type of pattern recognition ability.

There's a whole mythical subculture/pseudoscience called numerology, that really gets into that kind of stuff.

@freemo @johnabs @lucifargundam

When they get that good, does it even matter any more. I mean, if you have an interesting and entertaining conversation, does it even matter if it's a human or a robot?

Check out this thread I had some months ago -- I'm not sure if it was a bot or if both of us were pretending to be bots:

https://qoto.org/@Pat/105805735833183933

@freemo

Wow, I just noticed that "2024" looks very much like "2+2=4" and the year of inauguration "2025" looks like "2+2=5".

Goosebumps.

@freemo

Is that trump's 2024 campaign slogan?

@freemo

>All things are true, for sufficiently general definitions of true.

Yes. Or for sufficiently narrow definitions, as in the code example above.

@freemo

I don't think an interrogative sentence can be true or false, unless...

#!/bin/bash
if [[ "Did you know this sentence I am writing right now is true?" ]]; then echo "Yes, it's true.";fi

@freemo @lucifargundam @trinsec

So, "virtually never".

@lucifargundam @freemo @trinsec

You're referring to vacuum state fluctuations.

@freemo @trinsec

I think we lost real-life relatable with the original toot.

@freemo @trinsec

>"Clearly you are not a physics major"

I've *never* taken a physics class in my life.

>"> I'm not sure how a "never" can be partially correct."

In a simi-, sub-quantum, non-causal extent, I suppose it could be.

@freemo

So, what do you think? Catfish or Fatal Attraction?

(sorry, I'm in a cynical cycle right now...)

@lucifargundam @freemo

Eggplant may also refer to:

Eggplant (color), a dark purple or brownish-purple color
Eggplant (software), an automated software testing company, and its products
Eggplant Wizard, a character in the Kid Icarus video games series
Robert Eggplant, an American writer, musician, and activist
Eggplant run, a challenge playthrough of the video game Spelunky centering on an eggplant
(from wikipedia)

Also:

(when used by fictional mid-20th century Italian mafia) is an epithet for a black person.

Eggplant Functional - GUI test automation tool.

And of course, the emoji (penis).

TIL what "sauce" means in internet slang.

Source -- Internet slang, often used when requesting the source or URL of an image or other posted material.

TIL = "today I learned"

#sauce #internet #slang #source #url #link

@lucifargundam @freemo @trinsec

>It doesn't go away- it just gets swept under the rug until it gets kicked up again.

I don't understand. Is this a callback to an another thread?

@johnabs @freemo @lucifargundam

These last two responses look very much like a human, sorry John, but I was trying to determine if you were a bot and couldn't determine it by early the responses.

A bot algo can very easily look for phrases in a post that are specifically querying for a bot, like "are you human", "are you a bot", etc. and present a canned defensive response, which is what your responses looked like to me.

When LucifarGundam responded to your initial post with a one word toot, "Sauce?" (which made no sense to me) and then you responded to that with a post with a bunch a links in it (without even questioning his weird toot), it looked very unusual to me, as if the first toot was intended to open up a subject, and then toot out the links no matter how anybody responded to it, which is very much what the behavior of a bot would be, if it was trying to mimic a human.

This is why I tooted some test toots, which were as atypical as I could think of to try turing out if you were a bot or not. I even put out the "sauce" word again to see how the responses would be to that.

(If you look over your early responses carefully, you'll see that a well-trained bot might be able to toot out responses like those.)

Sorry for the confusion. Kind of a shitty first exchange, isn't it? :)

Hopefully we'll have better...

@trinsec @freemo

That's right! I didn't think about that. I was thinking a hole dug to China (from US).

So I guess, "A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true)...", in this case is partially true, although I'm not sure how a "never" can be partially correct. Anyway, the #TruthBeTold series is just for fun in any case.

#truthbetold

No one has ever dug a hole in the ground.

#Earth #sphere
#topology #definitions #math #volleyball #dig #hole #to #China #teeshirt
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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)
pic Attribution: Hänsel und Gretel

@freemo

But that's speciesism. (You only hate humans.)

@trinsec @freemo

How deep does it go in The Netherlands?