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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Only 12 Years Left Until Experts Change Timeline On #GlobalWarming Again
"If we don't take action, then in 12 years we will have to explain why the world hasn't ended and come up with a new number," one UN scientist warned
The scientific consensus is that roughly 10-12 years from now, the world will be flooded with new doomsday predictions. This can all be avoided if we overhaul the economy and become socialists, according to non-political, unbiased sciencey type guys.
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If you are ever considering starting a non-profit on the Mastodon platform, DONT, here is why.
About a month ago I received a little less than a 10K donation to fund the QOTO effort (A space of distributed and federated services for open-source projects and project owners). The mastodon component is intended to be the social media aspect of that to replace the need for facebook or twitter accounts as a home for future software projects.
I reached out to the joinmastodon, the organization behind the Mastodon project, because I wanted to forward some of those donations to the mastodon coding efforts, as well as potentially offer additional donations to fund specific features on the mastodon to-do list, however after more than month of trying to reach the organization through e-mail as well as contacting @Gargron directly there has been nothing but complete silence.
This in turn has myself, as well as the donors, seriously dismayed about the future of the project. Unresponsiveness, particularly in the face of contribution or donations to a project, has myself and others worrying mastodon is a dead or dying software. At the very least it means bug fixes and other contributions never make it since contacting the team is a near impossibility.
I am now in the position of reaching out to the developers of competing ActivityPub software and seeing if we can use the donations to pay them to write a complete fork of mastodon, with my own contributions as well added on top.
What a mess, its such a shame that a project with so much potential is going to die because of rampant mismanagement. The in ability to even respond to basic email.
I hope I'm wrong but after a month of all communication channels being dead its time to reevaluate where to go from here... But it is clear mastodon is NOT a technology I recommend others adopt as part of any new project.
Study Claiming Religious Children Are Less Generous Proven Wrong, Media Largely Ignores Retraction
"When we reanalyzed these data to correct this error, we found that country of origin, rather than religious affiliation, is the primary predictor of several of the outcomes. While our title finding that increased household religiousness predicts less sharing in children remains significant, we feel it necessary to explicitly correct the scientific record, and we are therefore retracting the article. We apologize to the scientific community for any inconvenience caused."
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Transcript Reveals Trump, Ukrainian President Argued For Fifteen Minutes About Who Would Hang Up First https://babylonbee.com/news/transcript-reveals-trump-ukrainian-president-argued-for-fifteen-minutes-about-who-would-hang-up-first …
2019-09-29, 23:00:00
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1178444342773465089
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Michael Knowles Retweeted:
WOW: Biden camp sends a letter demanding that TV networks stop booking @RudyGiuliani.
Is there something you don’t want the American people to know about, @JoeBiden? Maybe about your actions with Ukraine? https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-campaign-demands-tv-news-execs-stop-booking-rudy-giuliani …
Original Tweet: https://www.twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1178464858775285760
5:21 PM - 29 Sep 2019
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Bill Nye To Dress Up As Real Scientist For Halloween https://babylonbee.com/news/bill-nye-dress-real-scientist-halloween …
2019-09-29, 20:00:00
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1178399045766635520
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Michael Knowles Retweeted:
A newborn baby boy was left to die next to a Texas dumpster, but thankfully a woman heard his cries and came to his rescue.
Every state has a Safe Haven Law that allows parents to leave babies at a predesignated location anonymously – no questions asked. https://hubs.ly/H0k-wKj0
Original Tweet: https://www.twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1177697671336857603
2:33 PM - 27 Sep 2019
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53% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Higher for some time than Obama's approval at the same time during his presidency. Not what I would have guessed given the Democrat media stories.
http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_sep24
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Local Progressive Church Hosts Informative Q&Q Session https://babylonbee.com/news/local-progressive-church-hosts-informative-qq-session …
2019-09-22, 19:00:00
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1175847231578136577
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Texas mass shooting survivor lobbies Congress for less gun control
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Michael Knowles Retweeted:
A good way to deal with a society with rising anxiety among adults is to infuse children with existential fear of their environment https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1175163250285006848 …
Original Tweet: https://www.twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1175164599307526145
2:47 PM - 20 Sep 2019
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Did you know?
In 1989, the UN predicted “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels" by 2000.
We’re now two decades past.
Nations aren't missing.
We're living longer, healthier, and wealthier lives.
Don't believe the #climatechange hysteria.
Original Tweet: https://www.twitter.com/prageru/status/1174875576458461184
7:39 PM - 19 Sep 2019
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#Prager
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@masterofthetiger if you're not aware, http://christiandailyreporter.com/ is a great resource for general/national news curated from a Christian perspective, might be useful to your project.
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Hypocrisy: Right-Wingers Who Love It When The Babylon Bee Makes Stuff Up Suddenly Get Mad When The NYT Does It https://babylonbee.com/news/hypocrisy-right-wingers-who-love-it-when-the-babylon-bee-makes-stuff-up-suddenly-get-mad-when-the-nyt-does-it …
2019-09-17, 16:45:00
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1174001315917287424
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Shame, shame, shame on @nbcsnl. A tiny bit of courage and they could have defied the mob and let this young man have the career he earned. Shame on the @nytimes and on every leftist moral midget who thinks this is okay. https://twitter.com/variety/status/1173689020699873282 …
Original Tweet: https://www.twitter.com/andrewklavan/status/1173825760618000384
10:07 PM - 16 Sep 2019
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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
