*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@shibaprasad Awesome. I love their policy of keeping things real, selling great product and not milking the customer like the major companies are doing with $1000 'flagship' models.

Very popular in Europe too, where it's hard to find physical stock on the stores as they sell so quickly.

Not for sale in North America, but very popular in Europe, Brazil, China, India and other markets.

High quality, well built, decent price and great support.

New version of MIUI 11, got a notification this morning and it completed unattended and successfully. 😊👍

❤️ Xiao MI!! https://mi.com/uk/index.html

@moonshine@freespeechextremist.com Wait - there's some way of editing a post once it's done?

Haven't found a way yet, moon.

@Jastej @freemo @Surasanji @arteteco @admin You are welcome.

I agree, the site is stable and well run, as well as having clearly stated policies and attentive staff.

Your post is also helpful in opening up the question, and now showing possible solutions.

We have had great conversations this morning already, quite on topic and great for learning new things.

@raining_night The really surprising thing for me was @Surasanji mention this morning, that there ARE different sized infinities.

That was unexpected, and I am not understanding why, or how it's justifiable. Mind blowing. 😃

@raining_night Thank you!

@togs you are welcome, hope you like it.

@I_Will_Wobble
Yes, Brazil is once again in a hard times, crisis situation. A recession since 2014, and it hasn't really improved since. Around 12% unemployment, official number, probably an underestimate.

I was born there, and follow things from a distance. Gave up on the country many years ago, when things were very bad and dispiriting. Like many, I searched a way out, luckily it worked.

I notice something similar on what happened in Bolivia and Brazil, although I don't follow the news for Bolivia closely.

In Brazil's case, there was a left wing government in power, a party that started underground, clandestine and illegal in 1980 or so. By 1989, they had a candidate, legal party status and participated in the first presidential election since 1964 and the Military took over government.

Flash forward to 2003, and the Workers Party elected the president. He was in power for two terms, and things looked good in the country when I visited.

But there was corruption on the background, the party was getting huge amounts of money for its coffers, from public works and specially the national oil company (Billions of dollars in this case, used in hidden election funding in 2014 elections run).

That government BURNED the left with many, many people, leading to a protest vote that brought the current, unprepared, populist president. 😞

The party has not accepted their mistakes, and I consider that a big let down to anyone on the left spectrum.

Mr. Morales, apparently tampering with a national election after 14 years in power, legally elected, is also a huge mistake and betrayal.

@freemo @Surasanji @Jastej @arteteco @admin I recalled having making a post with a screenshot, showing Jastej how to Mute an account, or even block a whole instance/domain from his feed.

Found it - and it's worth looking at. I have used this myself to block a domain I object to.

https://qoto.org/web/statuses/103126578015443222

*Some infinities are bigger than others*
There are two types of infinity, and it doesn’t stop there.

"Few numbers have exercised more fascination, and confusion, than infinity. I can remember asking my father at a young age whether space went on forever. He replied that this must be so because, however far you travelled into space, you could always stretch out your arm into a void beyond.

Same thing with time: will it go on for all eternity, and does it stretch back infinitely far into the past?

Philosophers and scientists have wrestled with these questions throughout the ages, but for most of that time ‘infinity’ as a concept was not well-defined. "

Great article, well explained and not hard to follow.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/mathematics/some-infinities-are-bigger-than-others

You can also see a linked video: https://youtu.be/Uj3_KqkI9Zo

@Karthikdeva @freemo @Surasanji

I just finished reading (and then re-reading, up and down) an excellent article.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/mathematics/some-infinities-are-bigger-than-others

Until about halfway into the article I felt my previous belief on sets being not comparable, not larger or smaller if both are infinite.

"It is tempting to say there are twice as many natural numbers as even numbers. But that’s wrong.

When we say two sets of objects are equal, we put them into correspondence on a one-by-one basis. For example, if I claim I have the same number of fingers as toes, I mean that for every one finger there corresponds one toe, with no toes left over and no fingers left unmatched at the finish.

Now do the same for natural numbers and even numbers: pair 1 with 2, 2 with 4, 3 with 6, and so on. There will be exactly one even number for every natural number. The fact that each series forms an infinite set means the sets of numbers are the same size, even though one set is contained within the other! "

Aha, I thought!! 😃

But... Read on...

"This is best understood by envisaging a continuous line, labelled by equally spaced natural numbers: 1, 2, 3 and so on. There will be an infinite number of points between 1 and 2, for example, with each point corresponding to a decimal number. No matter how small an interval on that line and how much you magnify it, there will still be an infinite number of points corresponding to an infinite number of decimals.

It turns out that the set of all points on a continuous line is a bigger infinity than the natural numbers; mathematicians say there is an uncountably infinite number of points on the line (and in three-dimensional space). You simply can’t match up each point on the line with the natural numbers in a one-to-one correspondence. "

So, the Learn New Thing of the Day is that there ARE sizes of infinities. Owa. 😲

By all means read the article --- it's NOT hard to follow, really well explained and authored by a Uni professor.

Correction, composition by J.S. Bach, arrangement by Mahler.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Great station if you like Classical.

Now Playing here... Gustav Mahler, courtesy of WNED, Classical music station in Buffalo, NY.

Live streams on the internet too.

https://www.wned.org/radio/wned-classical-945/

or https://radiobookmark.com/listener-interactive/webplayer/#/fullscreen/station/Tgh4Vx2HBa7NvK3

@freemo I think it's really good that you are thinking ahead and opening further positions as the site grows.

One suggestion to consider, it would be nice to have someone in the mod team who can read the Indian script languages that are now sometimes originating here, showing in the Local timeline and propagating out.

It would save time and problems if that person could read and see a troublesome post or user before complaints arrive from other instances.

@peeleraja Imagine the correlactions with George Orwell's book if that was chosen. 😼