Romaq @Romaq@qoto.org
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Joined Nov 2022
English: Online translation seems somewhat disappointing to a native speaker. I believe by having both my original statement and the online translation, I can make it easier even for someone who can read English, to save them time.
I imagine a better world of more understanding between people if we do what we reasonably can to promote dialog across those issues, including language, that divide us. I believe you are in Japan, and I would be eager to know how I can improve this process.
日本語:オンライン翻訳はネイティブスピーカーにはややがっかりするようです。私の元の声明とオンライン翻訳の両方を持つことで、英語を読める人でも時間を節約しやすくなると信じています。 言語を含む、私たちを分断する問題に対する対話を促進するために合理的にできることをすれば、人々の間の理解が深まるより良い世界を想像します。私はあなたが日本にいると信じています、そして私はこのプロセスをどのように改善できるか知りたいです。
English: My qoto.org website page says "tootsuite/mastodon (v3.2.1)." I do not know if @freemo is waiting on stability before upgrading, or if the version I see is even the version the instance is running. But I am happy to see Mastodon is multi-lingual. Good software should be shared around the world regardless of language.
日本語:私の qoto.org ウェブサイトのページに「トゥートスイート/マストドン(v3.2.1)」と書かれています。アップグレードする前に@freemo安定性を待っているのか、それとも私が見るバージョンがインスタンスが実行されているバージョンでさえあるのかはわかりません。しかし、マストドンが多言語であるのを見てうれしいです。優れたソフトウェアは、言語に関係なく世界中で共有されるべきです。
English: Thank you. I have much to learn, but my hope is that I can learn by doing. And if we are both patient, we should be able to communicate well enough. This is one reason I try very hard to focus on proper grammar and spelling. This should help in translating text between languages.
日本語:ありがとうございます。学ぶべきことはたくさんありますが、私の希望は実践することで学ぶことができるということです。そして、私たち二人が辛抱強くあれば、十分にコミュニケーションをとることができるはずです。これが、私が適切な文法とスペルに集中するために一生懸命努力する理由の1つです。これは、言語間でテキストを翻訳するのに役立ちます。
@Pat Perhaps it is. In fact, perhaps the COVID-19 nightmare of US policy is being steered by the Kremlin. Hell... I'm super *SUPER* pissed with the Libertarian Party for talking Putin Party Line over Ukraine.
I'm not clear to what degree it matters or how much. What I *CAN* do is stand there like an angry honey badger, "There's the evidence! There's the truth! It's RIGHT FREAKN' THERE! See it? Damn you, see it?"
And I may be wrong, but I can only be persuaded based on the evidence presented, and I'm willing to accept being wrong. Beyond that, I've no idea what "external influence" really matters.
@Pat That person could want whatever they wish. Unless the person has a firm grasp of social systems and the nature of people, someone like that would have little to no impact upon Mastodon. Besides, Mastodon is irrelevant at that scale: no appreciable commercial interest.
English: Hello! I'm not sure why you would follow me. I do not speak Japanese. But I promise to be patient with translation. I would enjoy learning more of your perspective.
日本語:こんにちは!なぜあなたが私に従うのかわかりません。私は日本語を話せません。しかし、私は翻訳に辛抱強くなることを約束します。私はあなたの視点をもっと学ぶことを楽しみにしています。
@Pat Someone with an axe to grind? Someone who can't stand to be held accountable to the rules, so they'd prefer to burn it all to the ground? Someone who prefers ideology over facts and truth? Someone who prefers tribalism to facts and truth?
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While you're at the dinner table sharing leftovers — and political opinions — make sure you come in prepared with the facts to shut down some common election myths.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/debunking-election-myths-this-thanksgiving/
You still have far more faith in the American Public than what I can scrounge up. I hope you are correct. I fear you are not.
Relative to the COVID-19 discussion, the force for change will most likely be driven by a consensus among corporations hiring the big gun lobbyists where it touches their bottom line. Tribal and political affiliations can resist that force, but it is very difficult to say "no" to people waving around checks.
Supposing Gargron threw in the towel and quit the whole thing, someone will likely step in, and this increases the possibility of a code fork. Corporations are interested in money. "Your love gives me such a thrill. But your love won't pay my bills I WANT MONEY! That's what I want!" If Mastodon doesn't have a monetary interest, corporations won't intervene. If corporations won't intervene, Mastodon will forever suffer squabbles among people of parochial interest. People acting like people. Just like the final answer on the COVID-19 issue. Changing it away from this is a systemic issue, and I'm not clear how to do that with either COVID-19 or Mastodon. Or US politics, for that matter.
I've seen a few things he's promoted. I file it in the category of people like Richard Fenyman.
https://thebaffler.com/outbursts/surely-youre-a-creep-mr-feynman-mcneill
On the basis of the evidence, Fenyman was a horrible disgusting evil sort of man. His accomplishments, however profound they are, and his ability to communicate, however fantastic it was, do not counter or make up for the horrible attitudes and behaviors he engaged in. He sustained a culture that continued with people like Lawrence Krauss being a spectacularly pathetic person as covered her: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/10/lawrence-krauss-sexual-misconduct-me-too-arizona-state/573844/
I watched the Challenger Disaster with my wife, which essentially had Fenyman as the hero. And he was the hero in that incident. But I made sure she knew the other side also.
And that's pretty much what I do with Cleese. I don't have an answer. I don't know of any solution. Humans gotta human. But I as an individual can a) watch myself for hubris and avoid dismissing anyone, even those with whom I disagree, as being somehow less than I am as a person, and b) take a stand to demand that everyone, myself included, to be better.
I wish I had more to offer. Best I can do.
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I can't think of a current US public policy priority more significant than the needless deaths of over a million Americans.
@Dennis1212 It's amazing how you can sue yourself into retconning history and make yourself a founder of a company.
I can't think of a better breeding ground for pathogens than a war zone.
I'm also fairly confident that continual raging fires from bombing and artillery exchanges will have a net positive effect on the increase of atmospheric carbon. Certainly, if some nut bags decide to involve tactical nukes to try and get the attention of their opposition.
I don't mind a discussion of this on another public thread separate from this one, but my point is specifically to COVID-19 reduction programs... it's going to be really tough, and current priorities will certainly have to be taken into consideration.
Pretty much. We supply the tek backing, the money, and the commerce for the glue that holds the world's business together. And we are nothing limited in connection like in the early 1930's.
A dissolution of the US is going to leave skid marks worldwide.
If it comes to that, and I'm highly confident it will, nobody's going to care about COVID-protection measures or climate change reduction.
@freemo https://youtu.be/HLNhPMQnWu4
John Cleese is a treasure!
I'll respond here as it's the relevant thread I think we'd all prefer to keep.
On the facts you cite, I'd recommend you post them on a web page you can make a short-link to (easy for you to remember) so when you quote that, people can look it up even if they should choose to dismiss those facts out-of-hand as inconvenient to their narrative. Make it easy so every time you say it, you can cite it, particularly for anyone new who picks up on the conversation... which, of course, is highly desirable.
On your page, be sure to link to the source .gov, CDC, WHO data. "Well, *I* don't accept those sources..." OK fine... but it's proof you are not just making those numbers up, you have them from SOMEWHERE, and those usually give further reference as to how *THEIR* numbers were obtained.
That's also back to the imperative as to *WHY* every effort must be made not to politicize heath data, because once we go down that road weaponizing health is inevitable.
That said, it did appear as if a government mandate (practically impossible at this point) were being suggested, but I accept now that was not your intention.
"...most likely to become infected are the ones most likely to hold the reins of power. I think we're sunk." "Power attracts the corruptible." That's a given. That's just humans being human. "Sunk" would be one way to describe the impending dissolution of the United States. If it comes to that, COVID-19 and climate crisis issues will be swept aside in favor of, "they have to shut down the food processing plant where I work because we can't ship in or out through a war zone." Masking up and climate change will take a back seat to fleeing to Canada as refugees.
"... odds are we'd come out much better after the dust had settled."
You have WAY far more faith in the political sanity of the United States than anything I would consider realistic.
"We've got a really low bar right now"
Every time... EVERY DAMNED TIME I think I'm being just a bit too dark and cynical, I have things like (but certainly not limited to) the current #FediBlock #MastoAdmin situation to remind me I just need to lower my expectations a bit more.
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Grinnin' Ferret
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