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For my time spent building in , I have learned I wish to build 2^n+1 centered on an even number 0-12 within a chunk. Anything else leads to madness. This is why I really *HATE* Ocean Monuments. :(

Unless you can spread misery equally, options to allow choices *OUT* of misery should not be permitted. Except in cases where some are more equal than others.

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Birdsite conversations:

"Can we agree on what I said? (what was said prior, "Can we also agree that the people with the fewest resources generally have the fewest options when it comes to commuting longer distances to receive better service?")

What is implied, "Poor people are just too damned stupid to come up with solutions to transportation of their child, and too selfish to work as a community for any to manage to get their child to a school of their choice. Obvious conclusion: poor people should have no options to get their child out of a shit public school."

Also finds rebuttal to presumptions of poor people incompetence "boring." Yet, "Don't call me racist! I didn't call you racist for only wanting rich white people to have options!"

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Just a reminder, being a horrible person shoukdnt be tolerated simply because they claim their religion says so.... **YOU** choose one of any number of interpritations of your religion that caused you to be a horrible person. Thats not your religions fault, thats just you finding an excuse to be a shit human. No one needs to tolerate you being a shit human just because your a religious shit human.

That is all...

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Lauren Boebert literally prayed for Joe Biden's death while giving a speech at a Church. In contrast, I want Donald Trump to live a long life--but in a prison cell so he serves as a warning to all who attempt a coup or incite a terrorist attack on US that they will die in prison

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“I know you think you’re being funny, but honestly Dave, it’s just hurtful.”

Stress... Pink eye, out of sick time, wife is in Canada, she and our grandson really badly want time with me on . Our dog is freaked out being home alone. She used to have Frisco & Freddy cats, "da boyz." Then it was just Freddy, and now Freddy is gone, and so is "momma," my wife. I can't explain "momma" will come back, that the voice and picture on the phone is her. So I give her anxiety meds before work.

Went to work, listed as off. I'll have to check with HR for vacation time rather than sick time. It should be OK. Should. "Should" in one hand, "shit" in the other, see what fills faster. I need to tidy the apartment, put things back in order from maintenance work done on the wall last night. The
moron who built the place "on the cheap" didn't insulate the sprinkler pipes so in some places those burst. New owner the last several years has been sinking money for infrastructure improvements, if not corrections for the previous owner / builder. I'm glad our pipes didn't burst, we are OK, and our rent is relatively low because we pay like clockwork, we keep our place up, and we keep an eye on things.

We have it well, better than many. But it's still an unusual amount of adulting for me. There's more I can whine about, but it's just whining. Snot and boogers should be a nose product, not an eyeball product. Time to go back upstairs to reassure my dog I'm not dead yet, even if I can't convince her Momma is coming back. The soul crushing part is being alone. Tilly needs me.

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@Romaq @victorgijsbers @C418 The fascist man is restricting API usage, meaning third party tools that use Twitter in some way (for example, the ones that automatically export all your follows to mastodon) will no longer work unless paid some API quota.

Ah, reminiscing the days as a wizard wondering what /nuke does on a busy server, or missing a specific target to /kill...

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If you wanna use tools to find Twitter people you follow on mastodon, better get that done this weekend. The fascist man over on Twitter is gonna shut that down real soon

And then the obligatory, "Don't call everything you don't like Nazi," says the guy who calls everything he doesn't like "Statist."

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Ive mostly been working on the software for the UFoI and letting some of thr bad shit die down. There will be some announcements soon.

@Dennis1212

Tilly is now a "squeaky dog." It seems she's crying for @mikmaqpeek, who is away in Canada again. We'll see how things go, but she is acting differently than when "mommy" is here, so I suspect she's missing that part of our "pack."

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Oh, what a surprise, I didn't know this: The "End Poem" in #Minecraft was released by its author under #CC0 (Public Domain). The "End Poem" is the text that appears after you defeat the end boss.

theeggandtherock.substack.com/

#cc0 #minecraft #publicdomain #writing

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@realcaseyrollins

Yea you are correct on all of that. I do suspect he was just duped (thus why i call him a tool).. way I see it if you dont have the time to do the research, and you dont even bother to talk to the person accused enough to get the facts, you probably shouldnt be talking.

However if I look at his timeline all I see is an endless stream of him telling people to block this person or that server. If his "accuse first, do research later" mentality is any indication I can only imagine just how much harm he has done to the fediverse spreading lies and misinformation while encouraging people to block each other. How much needless name calling and fracturing has resulted because of this persons negligence? He is exactly the reason we need something like the UFOI, so no wonder he is so opposed to it.. HE is the type of bad actor we are trying to put in check, people who spread lies out of laziness and ignorance.

@ufoi @PKMNLives@masto.ai @stux @casey-magazine @Romaq

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I can’t imagine how tiring trying to be a hall monitor for a network of 5+ million users must be 🤭

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@realcaseyrollins @ufoi @PKMNLives@masto.ai @casey-magazine

Its amazing, every single word you said is wrong. QoTO has been the leader in being a "good actor" for 5 years. We were one of the first servers to have a transparent and defined moderation process. We were also one of the earliest servers to explicitly include features and process to protect at risk groups like lgbtq and minorities. QOTO is the founding member and other members are held to the same standard

I challenge you to find even a sibgle example of a bad actor that has been reported and we refuse to act on, go ahead ill wait.

Also the idea that most of the fediverse has blocked the UFOI is a complete fantasy, in fact quite the opposite is true. UFOI currently has about 5% of the fediverse pledged to join. The vast majority of servers blocking UFOI are single user servers. The percentage of servers based on user count that block us is less than 0.05%, so there are about 100x to 500x more users in the UFOI than those that block us. By comparison QOTO remains one of the most federated servers on the internet.

Dont buy all the propaganda you hear.

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