🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@mc a doctor wont really be an option for a week when im in israel. Sadly had to go with the antibiotics and self diagnose on this one

@arh

anytime

@josias @selea

@arh

You'd be most welcome here of course. It does seem we fit your criteria, we are relatively pro-free speech, our rules explain our views on that, basically opinions wont ever get you banned. Most of our team is more centrist than right wingers, as the founder I often point out a distaste for right wing politics, im more centrist myself. I am ok with capitalism though so that might be a deal breaker for you. I generally lean towaqrds styles of governments that are capitalistic with strong welfare support programs like free education and the like.

We are extremely strong int he free software department and I am an FOSS developer for many projects myself.

Let me know if you have any questions.

@josias @selea

@Pat its not as bad as it sounds just yet, but no not the best.

So im pretty sure I have either Giardia or Ascariasis and I'm really hoping its giardia... I guess ill find out soon enough when these antibiotics either work or dont...

The only reason I think it could be Ascariasis is because I have a cough and that isnt very common with giardia.

@Sphinx I'm glad to hear it!

@Sphinx thank you, how have you been?

@Sphinx Been here for almost three months, leaving soon for israel

@Sphinx Oh hell no, this is in egypt. This would never fly in the usa

So i went to buy some antibiotics in egypt without a prescription and was surprised to learn i could get almost any medication i wanted without prescription. I can even buy valium here without a script, which i was offered when looking into refilling my sleeping medication. I didnt buy the valium or xanex, just the antibiotics, but hell...

@cee The <1% figure comes from the fact that each election in the usa you usually have 1% and often less who vote for a candidate who is not left/right if such a candidate even exists. The overwhelming majority vote down party lines in america and even if they vote third party most of them are explicitly left leaning parties (libertarian and green party both being strongly left).

The thing about bias in my opinion is that im part of the 1%. I am very vocally anti-left and anti-right and feel the solutions lie somewhere in the middle and include aspects from both sides. So If i have any bias it would be towards agreeing with you and wanting to beleive the middle is far stronger than it is. But the sad fact is, people who dont exist on the left or right in the USA are extremely rare, if they werent we wouldnt still have a two party system divided on left/right terms.

@cee Not realivant to the point there... "where its at" doesnt cause the dichotomy not to exist. The fact remains the overwhelming majority of people, particularly Americans, define themselves on the left or the right and are hostile towards those who dont follow suite.

You are arguing the case that because <1% of the population fall in the middle or have other interesting properties to define them that somehow this makes a false dichotomy despite holding true for 99% of the population.

I think in the end your just trying to impose your own non-binary outlook on the whole world as if it was the norm, which it very much isnt.

@cee You are confusing discrete vs continuous with dichotomy. A dichotomy is a division between two things where you have two opposites. There is no stipulation it must be discrete (all or nothing). Positive vs negative numbers form a dichotomy, the fact that some numbers are bigger than others or that the number 0 exists doesnt change the fact that positive and negative numbers exist, and that the concept of positive vs negative are opposite, and thus a dichotomy.

@cee The meme is about how the left attacks people who agree with some aspects of the right, pushing them to the right. So how are dichotomies other than left vs right relevant to that?

Of course there is infighting on the left and right.. again how is that contrary to the point above, no one claimed there isnt.

@cee You can take all sorts of things into to account when it is relevant. In this co9ntext those arent relevant though as we are discussing left vs right.

@cee all of those groups are very clearly divided into the left right dichotomy. Simply because there can be diversity on the left and right doesnt make the left vs right any less accurate

@cee In the usa the left vs right dichotomy is very evident and virtually everyone will self label into one or the other. I would be inclined to agree with you outside the usa to some extent however

And the left still havent learned their lesson. In fact they seem to be doubling down...

@nokitakaze
This is likely another false positive. Users open up accounts and post a master control ip address as a status which is then retrieved by bots. The site itself doesnt actually contain malicious content and we purged such accounts that gave us the false positive.