🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@Surasanji I agree in principle but in practice how do you employ that aside from the ways we already do. Currently we have specific laws that make certain things illegal (such as large companies coordinating to do price matching with each other).

So what can we do that is new to achieve the goal you just specified?

Like so many problems it is one of those problems that sounds great in principle but is really hard to execute in practice.

@Surasanji Well thats fair, But what is a monopoly, it has to be mroe than just being a large company right?

@iankenway I'm not sure a casual survey outweighs an official national vote. While that **may** be true it is hardly a lie to cite the sentiments on a national vote, though it is a good reason to encourage a revote.

Never mind the fact that they contribute a billion and a half to charity each year (mostly to help feed starving children). Lets just assume their evil because they are a big company, lol.

Bernie needs to get his act together, I sooooo want to vote for him but not when he says stuff like this.

I approve

I really love her reports!

https://youtu.be/b3kv98Ku8xM

@Surasanji That was my thinking. Pigment ink is supposed to be better in theory because it isnt water soluable and is just suspended particles. But until it lasts the test test of time who really know.

@Surasanji Mine too :) It was why I bought it.

@Surasanji Thats just because the parts with different levels of ink deposited darken at different rates. When I use a normal ink the coloring is already pretty uniform.

The main advantages ofiron gall is they dont bleed or feather even on shitty paper, and they are thousand year permanent.

@Surasanji Here is a comparison of the same thing i wrote. One is about 5 seconds after writing it, the other is about a minute.

Old school iron gall was strongly acidic, since it had no pigment in it. So it would be destructive with letters litterally being burned out of the page leaving a perfect letter shaped hole. However despite being so strong many documents survive thousands of years without that problem too.

Modern variants of iron gall arent as acidic as they use a bit of pigment too. So modern forms shouldnt destroy the paper. Check back in 1000 years though.

@Surasanji While your writing there is a notacble change, but it continues to darken over 24 hours more slowly. It is Iron Gall ink so the type of ink they used thousands of years ago.; Its basically acid on paper with a little pigment. I'll get a picture right after I write something to show the transition (first part will be dark second part light.

I got in 3 new inks, what is everyone's favorite? The first two are iron Gall inks and darken over time after writing. The third is a pigment ink and won't change much.

I started practicing copperplate script today. I'm getting good I'm excited.

I love this dude, but lawl.

Back by popular demand...

I learned a 500 year old script, and with my 114 year old waterman's fountain pen. using a 1200 year old Ink recipe, all to bring you this..

@Gargron @ben I can understand that as someone with a public image of my own with similar reactions.

For what it worth I'd never hold your personal choices against you or the software you write. As long as you arent hurting other people directly I'd be happy to see you just being yourself.

I hope one day more people feel the same.

Thanks for the answer.

@Gargron @ben I'm curious why you say you cant do it from main? Just because you dont want to be associated with it or is it a rule on *.social ?

@Gargron They all look good, no preference here.

As always thanks for the hard work.

@fra No no no i can give you plenty of examples from my expiernce. What I said is I cant give you examples of individual that would be relevant to the situation since we dont know eachother, so we have no shared expiernces I can call on.

If you want examples I personally expiernced (and you would just have to trust I was being honest) I can certainly do that. I'm just not sure how helpful it would be.

One example was a video where some women of unknown race was being verbally mean to a black person. The dission I saw go down at the bar was that one person said that he didnt know if the woman was being racist or not since he didnt know what motivated her verbal outburst since the first part of the video was missing. He went on to exclaim that the black person may have done something to provoke it, the context wasnt there.

At that point the liberal in the group got extremely angry and starting yelling about how he was a racist too just for holding that opinion, started making violent threats, ultimately things got pretty ugly.

Thats one of the most recent examples I could think of.