Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@josemanuel

I'm pretty sure we're all bots. 😀

For those who have never seen Michael Jackson's Thriller, here's a synopsis...

Michael turns into a cute fury.
His girlfriend is thrilled.
But it's just a movie...

Walking home from the movie early in the morning,
they meet up with a lot of old people who just woke up.
Then they all joyfully sing and dance.
His girlfriend is thrilled.

Later at home the old people stop by to say hello.
His girlfriend is thrilled.
But it turns out she was just having a psychotic episode.
Michael is thrilled.

Trivia: Vincent Price does a rap sequence in the video.

Michael Jackson - Thriller, 1983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOnqjkJTMaA

@aworldinpages

Elevators in some buildings require your key (or other credentials) to reach certain floors, or if your place is an entire floor, it requires your key to open at that specific floor.

@aworldinpages

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/01/business/starbucks-prices.html

@aworldinpages

Especially on someone else's husband.

Neither of those statements that you made here, @libertypatriot, are true.

The (federal) minimum wage has not increased in decades (and is largely irrelevant now).

Year over year, the unemployment rate has decreased, mostly due to workers leaving the workforce (dying from COVID19) which has increased demand for workers, particularly in the service sector.

#birdsite #mastodon #qoto

A quick video tip for those migrating from twitter...

@metagrrrl @nosherwan @peterdrake

#humor

http://oppieclass.weebly.com/introduction-to-board-games.html

@mc

Compared to the general population, perhaps I'm a math guy, but here on qoto, I'm a babe in woods.

(Just trying to make the recent bird site immigrants feel welcome. :smile: )

@spectralsoul

There are a lot of math geeks here. @mc is a math guy, and there are many others -- mostly related to physics or computer science.

I'm not a math guy myself, at all, though.

@dichotomiker

Yeah, we need to be careful now when reading stuff in WAPO.

@spectralsoul

>"...pretty much the only one..."

"only one" what?

(welcome to qoto)

This one is 100% true…

Damocles is a fictional character so he can’t do anything.

More Patsplaining…

- The story of Damocles is a very old story and predates the invention of the airplane by centuries.

- The “Horsehair” hashtag refers to the horsehair that was used to hang the sword over Damocles’ head.

- “Cicero” told this story circa 106-43 BC

- The image of an old airplane evokes the anxiety some people feel while flying, as the plane just “hangs’ in the air.

- The hashtag “232-197” refers to the vote count in the US House of Representatives to impeach Trump following his incitement of the insurrection. After that vote, the impeachment proceeding was left hanging, with Trump’s fate uncertain, until after his term ended.

This one is partly true (I think).

As far as I know, no one has done the mirror test with a naked mole rat, but doubt if an ethics committee would prevent the experiment for that reason. And I think the rat would be more traumatized by being confined and handled than it would be by looking at itself in the mirror (but I'm not sure).

@mrcopilot

A day is a long time to be AWOL for a high-visibility site like that.

@mrcopilot

>"Their app is still functioning. Yeah I was that curious."

If you can get video on the app, then the video is probably going out to the cable systems also, and the issue is likely just a website issue.

(Yeah, I cut the cord, too.)

@mrcopilot

At some points during the day it wouldn't load at all. I was wondering if the cable channel(s) were able to broadcast on the cable systems -- if their video signal was getting out at all.

The qoto UI wouldn't let me mark the actual video as sensitive, so I uploaded a different thumbnail.

This video has not been modified. This is how thin this person actually is.

I wish there was more that society and medicine could do to help people with this affliction.

#anorexia

(fair use 50s clip from an hours-long video, reproduced here for critique and commentary.)