customdesigned @customdesigned@qoto.org
- Matrix
- @stuart:gathman.org
- Homepage
- https://gathman.org
Joined Aug 2020
@freemo One of the tithes in the law of Moses was a contribution for food distributed to the poor and administered by the Levites. It also doesn't say anything about qualifying the recipients. And indeed, most people would rather have more say in what they were eating - but if the only other option is starvation...
How do these institutions handle famine? First come first serve? Serving size limits? We had (government caused) famine in America just 100 years ago - but everyone has forgotten what it is like.
customdesigned
boosted
🇳🇱
So I am starting a #FLOSS HAM community.. Think apache for Ham radio. The idea is to address the state of open source software and standards in HAM radio.
Anyone, particularly open-source devs have any interest in talking to me about this, even if its just to make sure their ideas are considered as I launch... but people who want to help more directly are welcome too.
@mzan @freemo @VoxDei @ihavenopeopleskills
> Guns are effectively banned in certain local govts in the US. (Although recent SCOTUS decisions have been reducing the extent of local restrictions.) It would be instructive to see where those US homicides occur (and being careful to exclude justified homicide, i.e. self defense). As a cherry picked example, Chicago is known for both gun control and homicides. An actual survey would be more instructive.
@TruthSandwich
Cuba ✅ (forgot that one)
NK ✅
China ❌ Totalitarian yes, but very capitalist
Laos - I'm ignorant on this one, I'll take your word for it.
Vietnam (N?) - I'll take your word, seems likely given NK. S. Vietnam is not Communist.
US - not for long, as govt nationalizes more and more industries. Even worse are govt controlled industries like Big media, health care, Big agriculture, etc, etc as that moves us toward classic fascism.
@TruthSandwich Where do we have Maxism-Leninism now? Does N. Korea count? Or is the US closer?
@Nazareno India's probe landed successfully!
@freemo How are AcitivityPub messages authenticated? What prevents me for forging messages allegedly from @freemo? I understand that privacy is not an intended feature of the fediverse. But lack of authentication was a drawback of the fully decentralized Usenet protocol. Messages were constantly being forged as a joke. Eventually, gpg signing was added as an afterthought.
I don't see any provision for signing messages on qoto.org or other ActivityPub sites.
customdesigned
boosted
Check out the #FlockToFedora panel I'm participating in tomorrow about collaboration & cooperating in the EL ecosystem. It's at 8:30AM EST and can be lived streamed from https://flock2023.sched.com/event/1Or6Q/panel-upstream-collaboration-cooperation-in-the-enterprise-linux-ecosystem
@olives @freemo No trouble opening the profile page. Maybe there is some kind of IP country blocking going on? Are you in the same country as qoto.org server?
I know I've blocked the IPv4s from China - but only because of the constant password guessing from that quarter (and I can't read Chinese). The US Deep State is probably more dangerous, but no way to block them.
@freemo I am trying to follow https://social.quodverum.com/@darulharb
And your server can't find it, and there is an error trying to use the redirect "Follow" dialog Mastodon provides. I'm still a newbie on ActivityPub protocol, so I'm not sure what is going on. Has one or both servers "blocked" the other? Shouldn't that at least result in a clear "we've blocked these evil people" message?
@freemo @admitsWrongIfProven @Romaq
Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans!
How long will this go on?’
Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken?
Then you will become their prey.
Habakkuk 2:6-7
customdesigned
boosted
@PtrebliG @lowqualityfacts Well I'm glad someone is finally brave enough to tell us that jokes effectively equal disinformation, because someone might have actually believed that a chicken crossed a road for some far fetched reason, and we don't want this kind of thing destroying democracy.
@bibliolater
wildfires: Checks Canada National Forestry database - nope, still trending downward from early 1990s.
temps: still nowhere near 1930s (before significant man added CO2) and trending downward since 1980s.
artic ice: still growing since 1980s (when the climate alarmists were doing the cooling scare)
I AM concerned about:
1. billionaire club proposal to dim the Sun (by dumpling particles in the upper atmosphere) - this resulted in mass starvation historically when volcanoes did it.
2. climate alarmist goal of 300 ppm CO2 - this resulted in mass starvation historically. 400 ppm seems much more optimal. (greenhouses target 1200 ppm, but that is not as nice for animal life).
@bibliolater You don't have to be a scientist to fact check the historical claims of the climate alarmists. Your first question should be, is there actually anything unusual to be alarmed about?
customdesigned
boosted
THINGS ONE LEARNS FROM LIVING IN ARKANSAS:
1) A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
2) There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in Arkansas .
3) There are 10,000 types of spiders, and all 10,000 of them live in Arkansas .
4) If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
5) Onced" and "Twiced" are words.
6) It is not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.
7) A nit naughty so I edited.
8) People actually grow and eat okra.
9) "Fixinto" is one word.
10) There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there is supper...
11) Iced tea is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar.
12) Backwards and forwards means, "I know everythin' 'bout you.
13) The word "jeet" is actually a phrase meaning, "Did you eat?"
14) You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you're done or it's too dark to see...
15) You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH 'em.
16) You measure distance in minutes.
17) You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.
18) All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal.
19) You know what a "Dawg" is.
20) You carry jumper cables in your car - for your own car.
21) You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Tony Chachere's, Tabasco , and ketchup.
22) The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and Arkansas football...
23) You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
24) You find 100 degrees "a bit warm."
25) You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
26) Going to Walmart is a favorite past time known as "Goin' Walmartin" or "off to Wally World."
27) You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good gumbo weather.
28) Fried catfish is the other white meat.
29) We don't need no dang Driver's Ed. . . if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.
30) You understand these jokes and forward them to your Arkansas friends and those who just wish they were from Arkansas !!!!!
@Nazareno (Church of Jonah)
- Matrix
- @stuart:gathman.org
- Homepage
- https://gathman.org
Joined Aug 2020
