Danny Boy @dannyboy@qoto.org

Everything happening with Reddit will happen with GitHub.

Cool now you can host mastodon directly at the NSA lol

GitHub - cloudflare/wildebeest: Wildebeest is an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server

https://github.com/cloudflare/wildebeest

Hot take: The absolute scientism of the left (lacking all nuance on scientific issues) is just as harmful as the anti-science rhetorc of the right... science is nuanced, remove the nuance and all you have is dogma.

@hansw@mastodon.social Great I think that will giveus a foundation to work with.

So Now ill provide some data, let me explain a bit how the granger causality test works so we can understand what would be considered valid data.

Generally causality tests are how we determine data shows causality rather than correlation. To do this the dependent variable is observed following some change. Since one event preceeds the other, presuming this happens consistently across many populations, then we can be confident that there is causality between them.

So for example we will look at how the homicide or violent rates of a population are effected in the decade or two immediately following changes in laws with guns. The question we need to answer is if making guns illegal, or restricted, causes homicide and violence (of any type) to go up , down, or maybe has no effect on it at all. We can look at both cases where guns are made illegal/restricted, as well as cases where gun laws are relaxed and see if there is a consistent pattern.

This way we can test to see if guns do in fact prevent violent crimes, or if they cause them, it will also address arguments where other forms of violence, like knife violence may have otherwise been prevented, or perhaps caused by the lack of guns. So it covers all the arguments at once.

Attached are several graphs of this nature. I can provide dozens more of this same nature from many more countries if you'd like. I am limited to only 4 images per post so ill post 4 such graphs here.

listening to the supposedly "evil", "nazi", etc. people here and anywhere else saying deeply humane things while the progressives are eagerly awaiting the reopening of camps to throw dissidents in.

quite the experience.

I will decide if i want to subscribe to the newsletter AFTER I FINISH READING THE DAMN ARTICLE.

If while i'm reading the article you obscure my view, all you are gonna do is for me to close the damn modal and won't subscribe to shit.

The fact that website managers keep doing this shit shows that we are truly on the wrong lane on website design practices.

the fediverse is confusing and weird because a conscious choice was made to have it be decentralized because decentralization was a value of the people who started and joined it. if you don't like that then go somewhere else

Possibly the most annoying UI trend of the last few years is websites changing from

[username] - [ password ] -> Login

to

[username] -> Next -> [ password ] -> Login

I like this kind of Humor.

Nobody owns a hashtag 😂

If you need a hashtag to make you feel safe as a black person, consider not using the internet. I’m a black person and I’m doing just fine, the problem is not the #fediverse, it’s not #Fediblock, and it’s not the skin color of the other users either.

#FediBlock Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to my mom but I'm literally in shock from the results tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is he losing? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want Bernie to be president and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought he was polling well in New York???? This is so fucked.

Richest people in UK ‘use more energy flying’ than poorest do overall

Don't let people tell you population is the problem!

https://www.carbonbrief.org/richest-people-in-uk-use-more-energy-flying-than-poorest-do-overall/

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice

Culture has been destroyed by allowing unintelligent people in the spaces that used to belong to intelligent people, without strict filters, white and blacklists, and tall walls, It is impossible to create a space free of stupidity, in the real or virtual world.

Used to be that all you had to do is tell the truth and people would filter themselves out.

Stick a paper saying BOOK CLUB on the door of a classroom and nobody that didnt belong there would enter, but now It's different.