Romaq @Romaq@qoto.org

Have been blown away by the response here.

The advice: use apps to automate hashtags and posting; shorter threads longer individual posts; vary posting times. #Ukraine #counteroffensive

Also RTs are more important here because in an algorithm-less platform, no one will see us beyond our followers otherwise.

Any more advice?

Will you RT the first toot in this thread?

Data : Would you choose one life over one thousand, sir?

Picard : I refuse to let arithmetic decide questions like that.

-- Star Trek (I think TNG)

@admitsWrongIfProven

CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays
PEOPLE: Ok so no eggs for breakfast
CC: No, eggs are ok
P: But eggs are chicken
CC: Not until they hatch
P: So the thing isn't the thing until it's born?
CC: Correct—um, no, wait.

This is your reminder that potatoes are an objectively superior currency to Bitcoin or any other crypto

A Potato:
- Shows inherent proof of work
- Hacker proof
- Valid in any country
- Works in any century
- Accessible at any tech level
- Delicious and nutritious
- Is also a battery
- Can be turned to rocket fuel (AKA vodka)

@Romaq Everyone is acting a fool.. I have yet to decide who i am voting for... no one makes me want to vote for them yet.

Clears throat, then says it loudly for those praying in the back of the room.

This graph is powerful...err..I mean, pointless 😆

DeSantis militia going as well as expected https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/07/14/florida-state-guard-desantis-national-guard-training/

In one week Ukrainian forces have advanced 1,700 meters in the direction of Melitopol along the southern front. The progress has been made through dense minefields, under constant fire from Russian artillery and planes.

https://kyivindependent.com/military-3/

Here's what The Counteroffensive is reading today:

When pressed on his meeting with Prigozhin and other Wagner commanders shortly after the rebellion, Putin said he offered them several 'employment options':

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66194549

A rupture in a container used for the process of uranium enrichment has killed one person in Russia. "There is no danger of any kind for residents of the city of Novouralsk or the staff of the plant...there is no danger of any kind," said a plant manager.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/one-killed-accident-russian-uranium-plant-ria-2023-07-14/

#Minecraft Forge split info #NeoForged: https://neoforged.net/news/theproject/, by @cpw

#MinecraftForge

Imagine living life peacefully in your home in a European capital city, and then waking up in the middle of the night to an explosion, shattering glass and the horns of car alarms. Then imagine that your neighbor Europeans would hem and haw about helping to drive away the invader, their bombs, rapists and child abductors.
By @timkmak
https://counteroffensive.substack.com/p/how-it-feels-to-barely-survive-a

This seems legit...

Of all the good things my mother taught me growing up there is one that I think is the best she has instilled in me:

Always offer anyone who needs it food and water... in fact, when you can try and actively find people who need a meal and dont just feed them, but sit with them and be a friend to them if they want when you feed them.

Probably the single biggest thing you can do to change the world with very little money.

Why does america have the right to bear arms but not the right to the arms of other animals?

#ShowerThoughts

@GeorgeStyles @minogully We were trying to figure out if you could use finite elements to solve the problem so as to scale better than traditional methods like gaussian approximations.

Now I quietly obsess over reproducing kernels and write software for trains.