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@Endopro Welcome, you found a good place to call Home. 😃

New here myself, just joined last week. Enjoy and share some things you like with everyone else here.

Cheers! 🍻

@togs Welcome to QOTO, Duncan, and good luck with the job search and future developments.

I think honing your skills and focusing could be a good path ahead. Finding a project you are interested on and collaborating with other people, maybe?

All the best. 😃

The Northern latitudes is where the impact of climate change, temperatures raising is showing most clearly.

The permafrost, frozen soil under very large areas of Siberia, Alaska, Northern Canada is starting to melt, releasing a lot of water in the Spring (with floods being worse), buildings badly affected by softer soil underneath their foundations.

Gas and Oil pipelines with hundreds of kilometers lengths are built on those regions, and can be damaged by shifting soils. Major leaks can result.

The melting permafrost also leads to ancient vegetation in it starting to rot, and releasing vast quantities of CO2 and other gases, as well as noxious rotting smells.

Saw a really good report on the Washington post on this subject :

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climate-change-siberia/

@Karthikdeva I think the Northern latitudes is where the impact of climate change, temperatures raising is showing most clearly.

The permafrost, frozen soil under very large areas of Siberia, Alaska, Northern Canada is starting to melt, releasing a lot of water in the Spring (with floods being worse), buildings badly affected by softer soil underneath their foundations.

Gas and Oil pipelines with hundreds of kilometers lengths are built on those regions, and can be damaged by shifting soils. Major leaks can result.

The melting permafrost also leads to ancient vegetation in it starting to rot, and releasing vast quantities of CO2 and other gases, as well as noxious rotting smells.

Saw a really good report on the Washington post on this subject :

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climate-change-siberia/

@mostlystardust Very nice, impressive introduction. Welcome to Qoto, Abhijith!

@_lunawinters That's sad.

Both of those are mind sharpening exercises. Maybe hand him the cube and say, can you do it?

It's not an easy thing. Stay with the things that you enjoy, even if people dismiss them.

@_lunawinters Sometimes I run over an insect crossing the road on my bike, no time to react since they are small and you only see them when you are too close.

Does feel wrong. Nature built that life, and we casually sniff it. 😔

@Simplyswapy Thanks for the post. Wonderful images. 😃

@inditoot @freemo @arteteco @Surasanji @Karthikdeva @Full_marx @iakshay

Indeed, Qoto.org deserves Kudos and sets an example. Excelent work.

@inditoot @freemo @Karthikdeva @Full_marx @iakshay

That is disgusting, and this kind of thing is why people tend to not want to even be in the same room with someone with different or opposing views. 😞

It's a question of decency, no matter what politics you favour. A decent human being wouldn't be doing that just to spite someone else.

I am left wing and very happy with our conversation here, but I do find places like gab.com really annoying. 😔

@freemo @Karthikdeva @Full_marx @iakshay

I found a copy of BBS The Documentary on Youtube. DVDs are no longer available, for now.

https://youtu.be/nO5vjmDFZaI

We have just been talking, and discovered many of us started up in the old days - when BBSes were the only networking connection most people could have. Internet at the time was for Academics and large Business users, all the software used was command line only (shell, ftp, gopher at best).

BBSes were wonderful experiences. I think many people never lived thru that, but there's a great documentary you can watch and see how it was like, very well done.

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/

DVDs are no longer for sale. But a fellow has it on YouTube for now:

https://youtu.be/nO5vjmDFZaI

@freemo

Yes, I did play some of the games. Sometimes you had to be waiting to be able to connect, as in most cases there was only one phone line. People had fun running a BBS in a spare computer, and we could get software galore, when there was no Internet access to the public, which only came later (about 1995 or so here in my region, Ontario, Canada).

Watching the dialing, the link negotiation between the modems, seeing the ASCII art load, it was so much fun. 😃

@Karthikdeva @Full_marx @iakshay

@freemo You are very welcome. 😃

I have been seeing and feeling many similarities between the fediverse and my first experience with networking, way back in the early 90s.

Back then, all we had were BBSes, phone lines and 2400 bps modems, but there was an international network linking many of them already - FidoNet.

FidoNet had as one of its core principles something similar to your approach here:

- Thou Shall not be Annoying.

immediately followed by the corolary:

- Thou Shall not be Easily Annoyed. 😃

Words of wisdom to live by!

@Karthikdeva @Full_marx @iakshay

@Full_marx @Karthikdeva @iakshay @freemo Yes, I think it was a knee jerk reaction to the image. Too bad they never engaged you to request removal, or give you a chance to explain that the swastika is an ancient symbol in India, with deep and spiritual significance. Was coopted by the Nazis, but had been and is still around with other meanings.

@freemo @Karthikdeva @Full_marx @iakshay Wonderful post and initiative! Thank you!