arteteco @arteteco@qoto.org

@johnlitt what did you search for? Theory of evolution, and checked the first 20 results, as I did?

@johnlitt what were your results?

@johnlitt Are you saying this because you found different results?

@johnlitt Hi, still same results: 4 against evolution in English, 9 in Italian.

@freemo We do what we can. Like a STEM Instance!
Btw, if you good communicators and shows about it, please link, I'm starting to get interested in volunteering for this kind stuff and is very difficult to make evolution interesting (since I don't know how to find eye candy stuff to show kids!)

@Ytrezar @freemo

The "science is too complicated" is dangerous, but the worst is "science is boring", and "science is done by scientists".

We have a common public acceptance of stuff that would have blown the mind of people 500 years ago, like germs, cells theory, DNA. Against evolutionary theory is the active force of religions, I'd say, more than just the passive "yeah no, too complicated". That's why I think that we need more active force in the explanation of this ideas.

my two cents though.

@freemo There is that, too. I still think that more communicators, especially in high school and with kids, can do a great deal of difference. In Italy the school system is not really good, frankly.

Once they are grown up, at least that 15% of people who are not sure should be able to easily access good quality information and make up their mind.

Jeovah's witnesses here knock at doors and stop you in the streets, while the highest level of communication of many researchers I know is having a laugh about how we share a common ancestors with bananas when drunk, while trying to write the phylogenetic tree on the dusty windshield of a car =D

@freemo Yeah, it sucks. We need more skilled communicators I guess.

Considering the statistics it makes sense though, less than half of the population in the US thinks we evolved from other animals.

In Italy should be a bit above 60%, so ok, it's well reflected

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9786-why-doesnt-america-believe-in-evolution/

@freemo

Yee, we are rocking it man!

Out of curiosity, I searched on youtube "theory of evolution". Out of the first 20 results, 4 were about trying to prove that evolution is a myth, and it never happened.

Then I tried in Italian, "Teoria dell'evoluzione". 9 results of the first 20 were about "debunking" the theory of evolution.

I'm not sure this is related to my personal feed, but I found it interesting. It's almost half of the results in Italian!

#evolution #Darwin

@galacticstone tryptophan day? I'd love for that to be a thing

@johnlitt I used nextcloud talk a few times with no issues when we had a community server... working fine.

@design_RG @johnlitt @freemo @Surasanji I was trying to check out report #480... utterly impossible. We can't mod on this kind of content.

I see 3 main topic interlacing here though:
Modding foreign alphabets and how to focus more on the STEM aspect.
Both, I feel, should be discussed in the forum, I easily lose the thread using mastodon =D

@dayvancowboy What kind of music do you like?

@dayvancowboy Hey there cowboy!

@design_RG gorgeous picture!

@Jastej

QOTO is an instance of a social network. No, it's not just to ask questions to others, I'm sorry if we gave the wrong idea.

We highly value freedom of speech, as an essential part of science, human interactions and personal development. We understand that some content may be perceived as disturbing, that is why we enforce the mandatory CW in such cases. Otherwise, anything is in general fine.

With that said, we do not have any case of such content in this instance afaik, if you do have anything could you point it out to me, please?

@freemo @Surasanji @admin

@freemo @Jastej @Surasanji @admin

Also, I have nothing against vulgar, pornographic or otherwise offensive material as long as it is properly CW'ed, as by our ToS

Dear fediverse,
could you recommend me a #FOSS program for pagination? I'm on debian and never had to do such work before.
Thanks!