Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@nullifidian @freemo

>"...
- you only have to cook once
- fewer pots to clean..."

You mean:

- you'll never have to cook again
- you won't have to clean the pots
-- because you're dead from a
massive coronary occlusion.

Good morning! 🙂

@garyackerman

>"I believe one reason conspiracy theories are so rampant is the fun folks get in creating stories."

The Greeks started it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology

#TruthBeTold

@lupyuen

I think keeping our fellow hominids in a cage is anti-social behavior.

#silentSunday #deer #Nara #Japan

(image: wikimedia commons, CC-BY-SA-2.0, Steffan Flor)

@freemo

I understand that your poll was just an experiment. But I think a better approach is to identify what aspects of the content may be objectionable, and then propose rules based on that.

Then you could have a poll as to whether or not people think the new proposed rule should be implemented.

If your purpose is to stimulate convo about what the rules should be, fine. But a poll about banning a specific instance seems like it's just another one of those cancel-culture campaigns (even though your poll was just an experiment).

@freemo I don't know anything about pae.st, and I just scanned a couple of hours of the federated feed and didn't see a single toot from that instance. I don't have any user from that instance blocked or banned, and I don't have the instance blocked. I don't remember seeing any toots from that instance.

I voted "No", because I don't have any information about it.

Also, this in not how due process works. We don't deny access or rights based on a vote. That's a fundamental precept of liberal democracy.

The way it's supposed to work is: First people vote on the rules that they want (usually with a supermajority required to made a rule that restricts rights). If a bad actor breaks the rules, then you act.

And the way that you determine if a bad actor has broken a rule is that you have due process -- 1) an accusation is made; 2) if an initial investigation determines that there is likely a violation, then you launch a proceeding to determine for sure whether a violation took place.

And, at a minimum, the proceeding allows the accused to respond and defend themselves.

All this bullshit of punishing people and cancelling people and shunning people and all the other witch hunts has got to stop. It tyranny, by those who have the biggest microphone. It's not anything that resembles democracy.

I'm not defending pae.st because I know nothing about that instance. I'm defending fairness and democratic process.

@stux

I just stumbled across an old book today talking about how nuclear fusion will soon bring cheap energy to the world.

The book was 60 years old!

@bonifartius

I don't know the history of the interaction there so, ok.

@bonifartius

I don't understand.

@lupyuen

straitstimes.com - "studios had proposed to be allowed to scan the faces of background performers – or extras – for the payment of one day’s work, and be able to own and use their likeness for the rest of eternity ... with no consent and no compensation"

If that's the new rule, then we should be able to "scan" movies and sell them for all eternity.

@bonifartius

Neither of those (ticket scalping or housing) represent a free market, at least not in the US.

Governments protect producers of music, plays, and other live content with copyright, which creates artificial scarcity (no one else can create a performance of the work without the permission of the creators/producers.

Governments also limit the amount of housing that can be built in order to keep housing more scare and keep prices high.

In a truly free market, anyone could create performances of popular works or build houses anywhere and there would be less scarcity.

I created this with DALL-E. It took several attempts. I finally just went with something that was close to what I wanted and edited that image a bit.

I kept asking for a "bear stuck in a tar pit with a panda on top of it" and I think it may have thought that I meant to superimpose a panda over the image of a bear.

Notice how the ears of the bear look kind of like a panda's ears. The original image also had those black patches under the bear's eyes like a panda has, which I edited out.

It also had some randomly placed bear paws off to the side, which I removed.

Also, the panda has about a dozen claws on each foot which is weird, but I just left those in there.

@mzan

Don't put those words under my name. I did not say those words, you did.

We're done.
@freemo

@braindouche

Maybe it has to do with the news about Intel...

https://qoto.org/@lupyuen/110703915547712425

@mzan

Women have a right to pursue a career in sports if they wish.

I don't understand your second quote, it doesn't make grammatical sense to me.

@freemo

@tedherman

Yeah, all those active shooters... I can't even go shopping without bumping into a dozen or so.

#sarcasm #distortedReality #oldMedia

@kemal

Seems to be working for me. You can use the drop-down thingy and click "report" to report any technical issues and they will be fixed right away.

@freemo

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Also, I think there were a couple of silent-era films that featured men in drag, but I don't remember the names.

@mzan

>"...books, with a transgender agenda? I don't agree."

What is a "transgender agenda". Do you mean books about the 24th Amendment, or the Preamble to the Constitution, or the introduction to the Declaration of Independence?

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Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Found in Time (2012)

If you like big Hollywood blockbuster McMovies you’ll probably want to skip this one. I guarantee that you have never seen anything like this before. I don’t even know if this is science fiction or not.

The less you know going into it, the better it will be.

Written, produced and directed by Arthur Vincie.

You’ll either love it or you’ll hate it.

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#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #sfftw #film #movie #charm #timeTravel #time #vendor #helmet

@weezmgk @freepeoplesfreepress

Early long-range radar systems used to use VHF before the band got too cluttered for that purpose.

So @freemo , you may have inadvertently designed a crude radar system. 🙂