Romaq @Romaq@qoto.org
Grinnin' Ferret
Joined Nov 2022
Taking time to listen to https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4166 because of a question asked.
Organic vs. Conventional Agriculture, Brian Dunning
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Hello everyone,
I hope you’re having a good day! I love Mastodon! I wish I had come here than Twitter!! 
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@freemo Acts like an authoritarian, talks like an authoritarian, enforces at-whim policy like an authoritarian...
Does a blade of grass care if it's eaten by a Marxist Goat or a Fascist Cow?
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@Romaq tons of them in some cases yes... i was just on the phone with someone telling me about how they keep getting banned for asking about it.
@freemo I'm curious if people are getting banned just for asking questions. >:)
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Apparently from what im hearing from people im filling up the conversation on entire local feeds... fun.
@obi No worries. I'm always open to learning more about history. I've made comments about John Adams recently, and together with the image posted I hoped my intent would have been clear.
https://worldhistory.us/american-history/presidential-history/john-adams-obnoxious-and-disliked.php
@obi ANDREW Jackson... ok, and the link gives me something to work with. :) Jackson was definitely a piece of work, but then again that covers a great deal of what has gone on and what is still going on to this day.
@obi I am not clear to what you refer.
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It would be a wonderful discussion on the faith of an angstrom, the faith of a meter stick, the faith of the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant, ℎ, to be 6.626 070 15 × 10-34 when expressed in the unit J s, which is equal to kg m2 s−1, where the metre and the second are defined in terms of the speed of light, 𝒸, and the hyperfine transition frequency of the caesium-133 atom, ∆ν, respectively?
This isn't really a thread suited for that, but I'd be happy to go there on a different thread.
My faith in @freemo is that if I had any evidence he was playing false, I'd drop qoto.org in a heartbeat, possibly giving up on Mastodon all together. I'm not married to this platform. I'm in the position of "I don't have to care at all about this." What could "faith" in @freemo possibly do for me? But I believe the evidence thus far presented, pending further revelation of reliable sources.
That anyone else would accept anything differently is hardly surprising to me. Disappointing, but hardly surprising.
"Two federated feeds" with the complaint already "Mastodon is WAY the hell too complex I'll go back to just doing a private blog thank you very much."
The attached image by @MaeGodHaveMercy explains quite well the problem.
"Flag an account" ... If I go to https://qoto.org/web/accounts/483267 I see a spot to add a "note" to an account. You mean like that?
Edumakayshun is always a problem. People want to "use" not "learn." We're not trying to do Dwarf Fortress style onramping of new folks here.
@obi @freemo Logic always is with tribalism. It's just another religion that replaces facts with faith. I get "atheists" seriously wound up when I point out their religious behavior.
Communication allows the exchange of facts, evidence, logic, reason. For some far too lost in their religion (MAGA, Antifa, or whatever), no amount of communication will help, and you have to cut your loss to what you can afford.
But as much as possible, so many problems could be resolved if only we would just keep talking.
https://youtu.be/wbOTkDn49qI
Keep Talking, The Division Bell, Pink Floyd
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So if the whole argument is that being able to see radicalized propaganda will make people radicalized, and thus is wrong to allow people to see it... does that work both ways.. If you are "radicalized" towards good and taking doing and treating people good to an extreme, then shouldnt the bad radicalized people turn into good radicalized people by that same exposure to good?
The logic doesnt really add up for me, but regardless this is not the reason why we have open federation as many of you know, but it does show a flaw in their logic.
Music I'm enjoying
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I love it when someone finds out I’m an #atheist and cracks some lame joke about how you never have to ask, atheists & vegans will always tell you they’re atheist or #vegan.
But last I checked, atheists & vegans don’t go around knocking on doors, wearing atheist & vegan symbols on a necklace or erecting 200 ft highway-side reminders that we exist. We certainly don’t vote or lobby for policies that would force you to live by our rules. No, lovelies, that’s Christianity.
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Call me old-fashioned but when it comes to COVID-19, I'd still prefer not to f*ck around and find out.
Some folks insist that wearing a mask in crowds and inside public spaces is an overreaction— this despite a preponderance of evidence showing microvascular damage from even mild COVID infections.
I'll keep wearing my mask, thank you very much.
I *think* (but I don't know) that it would quickly download previews over the wire based on current tag, and I *think* (but don't know) that it simply in-line sends the full image AFTER downloading it to your phone from the site FIRST, which is not happy if you worry about data or are out of data coverage.
I'm not even sure if Gify has an app that does what I think it does. But it's worth a look. :)
Grinnin' Ferret
Joined Nov 2022
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