SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
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**The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It**
🔗 https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-research-scientists-hype.
@redwhitebluedude Strange splash for the #Salesforce CEO to make heading into Dreamforce this week.
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Do the right thing, even when it's the hard thing.
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@ChuckDeVore: "Since @realDonaldTrump was almost assassinated in Butler, incendiary rhetoric linking Trump to fascism has skyrocketed more than 2,500%. It's as if, with impeachments and lawfare unsuccessful in stopping Trump, Trump's opponents turned to dehumanizing words to rationalize his killing. [graph]"
Looking for a server that's still active and still committed to #qoto stated values. Qoto seems to be neither of the two. Do any exist?
Some of qotos stated values:
Be respectful, and don't harass other Fediverse users. Unpopular opinions are acceptable, hate-speech is not. Respect others users right to disengage...We won’t censor unpopular ideas and statements and welcome people from across the political spectrum...
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**Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know**
The conversation about the US "government shut down" seems to be only about which party most voters will blame the shutdown on. It's pure election politics. The messaging is all about why you should be angry at the other guys and vote for us. If there was army significance to yet another shutdown, seven Democrats would vote and we'd move on.
Didn't President Obama call the Republicans terrorists holding the entire country hostage when the tables were turned and he needed just a few republican votes?
Pure politics, nothing to see here. Rise above their call to be angry and afraid. Fear is the mind killer. Don't live in, act out of, or vote from fear.
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🖥️ 🖋️ **Why You Shouldn't Use Your Laptop to Take Notes in Class**
"_If you want to actually retain what you're learning, you'll need to take notes the old-fashioned way._"
🔗 https://lifehacker.com/dont-use-laptop-to-take-notes-in-class.
Maga yesterday: Our response to hate is love. We forgive...
Today on #qoto : "MAGA is a core of stupid, ignorant people filled with anger and resentment..." https://qoto.org/@DavidDvorkin/115248476092385498
Gotta wonder why people like this would join #qoto which specifically states in its terms that people of all perspectives are welcome, except for celebrating political violence, and all should interact with respect, then post messages like this, calling those who disagree, not humans but maggots, hoping they burn in hell, etc etc.
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@MarkHalperin: "An email I just got from a very smart person, who is now smarter, unfortunately because of the assassination of Charlie Kirk:
'I used to think of Trump Derangement Syndrome as just people losing their minds about him specifically and knee jerk hating everything he said or did or enacted. But I now realize that Trump Derangement Syndrome has made people lose their ability to tell the difference between right and wrong.'”
https://x.com/MarkHalperin/status/1966813067049660841
(H/T @instapundit RT )
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Democrats Condemn Violence They Incited https://buff.ly/AvWNVuk
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@benshapiro: “What’s going to make Charlie—correctly—a free speech martyr is that he was literally in the middle of using words to talk about vital issues when he was shot to death.
He died doing the thing America was supposed to be about.”
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@philthatremains: "they don’t kill you for being fascist. they call you fascist in order to justify killing you"
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@IMAO_: "A big difference with political assassinations over school shootings is that you usually don't have a lot of people saying how great the school shooter was (like happened with Luigi Mangione) or had people saying how much the victims deserved it. [...]
@garyackerman Fascinating. I always hear it as almost the opposite: because everything you do affects everyone else, having clear boundaries around who does what is essential; and if you're going to change into someone else's lane, use your turn signal - let them know, to prevent collisions.
A few excerpts from #qoto terms:
Be respectful, and don't harass other Fediverse users. Unpopular opinions are acceptable, hate-speech is not.
We won’t censor unpopular ideas and statements and welcome people from across the political spectrum, but hate-based speech such as sexist, racist, or homophobic speech will not be tolerated, be kind to each other.
QOTO aims to provide a community where our users do not fear being punished for their personal opinions. We do not allow people to disseminate ideologies that are abusive or violent towards others.
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"I'm sad that someone I smeared as a Nazi has been killed because of those smears" rings pretty damn hollow.
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
Because this is less and less possible here, I'm largely offline and am not sure if I'll be returning. It was fun back when civility was a trend on qoto.
Joined Aug 2018
