🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@ster @lerk@comm.network Also the UK if anything is a prime example of exactly why we need gun rights. Not only did the homicide and violence rates sky rocket after banning guns (and never managed to drop back below the levels pre-ban) is very telling.

Add to that that now people are being arrested for carrying screwdrivers and butter knives I think its painfully obvious why no one should go down the path of the UK on gun rights.

@lerk@comm.network @ster No it isnt. A person who is murdered does not choose to be murdered, it is against their will.

@lerk@comm.network When did I claim everyone needs to have a gun? Gun freedom is about the right to own a gun, not about making everyone actually own one. The most effective system is where the people who own a gun are the people who actually want to have one and want to use it to protect others.

@ster @lerk@comm.network Why would I want to include suicide, that is a voluntary choice. If someone wants to kill themselves as sad as it might be that is their right.

@neugierdsnase@mastodon.social They do operate under different premise. But if the police are better trained at the very least their error rate should be lower than the average citizen.

Also the most telling and relevant stat is the average number of people killed before being stopped during a rampage. The different way they operate is exactly the point. Police need to get there before they can help, the general population is already on the scene. So the differences are exactly the point in my eyes.

@lerk@comm.network Opposite, because fewer dead people is better.

Yet another reason we need gun rights...

In case anyone is curious the system infrastructure here at qoto.org's collection of #ActivityPub servers is really cool.

We use some modified open-source scripts to combine haproxy, letsencrypt and docker in some really cool ways. Basically haproxy sits on port 80 and 443 acting as the reverse proxy. It constantly listens to the Docker API to detect whenever a new container comes up. If the container exposes port 80 (doesnt need to be port forwarded locally) and the local container has its own environment variable set called VIRTUAL_HOST with the domain name for the container then thats when the magic kicks in. a letencrypt SSL certificate is requested and generated automatically for the domain and a reverse proxy connection is established to it.

In the end this means if i want to bring up a brand new server (or an old one) all i do is bring up a container with the above mentioned settings and all the load-balancing, ssl cert, and reverse proxy stuff happens automatically and the server shows up with a nice ssl cert and port 80 url!

Cuts my amazon costs in half an d saves me a LOT of time in the end!

@DaDenMan This isnt a pie chart, is it a donut chart?

@arteteco I'll be hosting a qoto instance of it once released! Can''t wait.

@stelepami "Project Management Solutions" can mean sooooo many things. You mean stuff like JIRA I suspect?

@LWFlouisa The extreme left is more openly racist. The extreme right isnt as obvious but just as racist.

Both groups are racist towards an opposite set of races though it appears.

Important to point out its only the extreme ends of both parties that are the worst. The more reasonable people arent so bad. Sadly the extremism in each part is the overwhelming majority of people :(

@LWFlouisa Tea Party is effectively a Republican movement and subculture of republicans that oppose large governemnt. Their focus is to significantly reduce government spending and taxes.

As such people tend to compare it to libertarianism since they both seek to reduce the federal government.

It differs in a few ways though

1) The Tea Party is first and foremost Republican. Meaning they share all the usual Republican ideals.

2) The Tea Party seeks to reduce federal government but has no intrest in strengthening local government in exchange. Most libertarian ideals want to move the power from federal to local, not eliminate it.

3) their stance on social issues are completely at odds with eachother. Socially libertarians look more like liberals (they support gay marriage, want weed to be legal, etc), but the Tea party is Republican thus resembles the Republican Party.

@LWFlouisa It mostly has to do with the extreme left's way of thinking which is to lump everyone into one category in an attempt to defame your competition.

You see it with their use of "Nazi", anyone they disagree with or doesnt support EXACTLY their set of race-oriented policies is a Nazi and in their mind somehow indistinguishable from anyone who wants to gas and murder an entire race (melodramatic much, lol).

They do the same with the idea of a tea party/conservative/republican. All the same to them, just some party that isnt theirs so must be evil and therefore like every other evil party.

@LWFlouisa Lefties disparage anything that isnt identical to their own identity. It is the nature of the left to be completely intolerant of everything in the extreme.

@LWFlouisa I'd say thats pretty much standard libertarianism. It was NEVER about eliminating government regulations for anyone. It was always about moving the power to regulate from a national level to a local level. Otherwise it would just be Anarchy.