commandelicious @commandelicious@qoto.org

Felix Manyindo... Ugandan... Sports enthusiast #introduction

Hi #QOTO!

I am a paleontologist/geologist. My research interests are in paleontology. I mostly focus on using quantitative methods, my Master's thesis used morphometrics and multivariate statistics to quantify species within a single bivalve genus. I now work for a university as a geology lab manager. I mostly teach and coordinate the introductory undergraduate course labs.

I'm also just an all around science nerd, so I'm excited to meet other scientists and discover new things. I love to be always learning. Along with this comes an appreciation for most #scifi and fantasy things out there.

#introduction #introductions

Damn, we just passed 900 users a little bit ago (918 to be exact). QOTO is blowing up with new users! Its like 200 a day right now for the past few days; I can barely keep up.

🎉 🙏 🎉

Thank you everyone for your interest. The inclusivity, and mutual support has been amazing to see. Not to mention I learned so much from everyone already. Can't wait to see what the next week brings.

hope everybody is having a good day, or whatever the relative version of that is for you

The Killer Mountain - Nanga Parbat (8,126 m), Himalaya, Pakistan.

think before ya 💩post!!! 👍🤬

@Demo318 We live in interesting times for technology.

I was born in the early 80s, so I had a very 'analogue' childhood, but my teen years were starting the digital age. I was just starting high school when my family and my friends' families got a 'family computer'.

My children will grow up more connected to distant peoples and cultures and the unique emergent culture of the internet.

And the technology isn't stopping- the march of progress goes ever forward.

Are we losing something of ourselves in the technological revolution?

Maybe. Definitely maybe.

This idea that we're losing something of ourselves with the increase in technology isn't new, though. I can imagine there being strife between the first peoples to go from a hunter-gatherer society to one more agrarian.

But, I'd still classify the current change of things into an evolution of the human animal, and the society therein. We're looking at the first truly global societies- where people from almost anywhere can connect to almost anyone in a completely different place in real time.

That, to me, is mind blowing. Just completely batshit insane. Wow.

Still, that question remains- Are we losing ourselves?

Maybe.

the cleveland zoo got a new baby rhino, and it's both adorable and ridiculous

@commandelicious You got to get it to 7007 now, in honor of Mastodon!