@mian
Lets hope so...
It is truly mind boggling that in a single persons lifetime we went from inventing the first plane and flying for the first time, to being on the moon. Could you imagine being the person who lived for those years and seeing that.
Now we are arguing with people who think covid and viruses in general dont exist and the earth is flat. Might be another few thousand years before we start progressing again.
I dont think people in power need to seed the wacky ones. The vast majority of people are plenty stupid on their own to come up with that crap honestly.
@CapitalB
Since i started eating fruit and veggies as the majority of my meal that is no longer an option
@trinsec
Yea i dont have one at my house but now i want one installed
@nosat
No i wasnt born during the boomer generation.
Since you need to verify your email to sign up im not sure i see how this can help.
@stux
@zleap
Not off hand, ill take a look though
@ScienceDaily@newsbots.eu
@nosat
Ohh sounds fun to be a moron.
@twotwenty
The words used here arent too important to me. But i want to point out that while there are many conspiracy theories that have the potential of being true and are reasonable hypothesis the one important quality is that, by virtue of being a hypothesis, is not rooted in evidence and is pure speculation. That alone, even in the more reasonable cases, makes it quite damning when they are asserted as if they are a known fact.
@posrev
approvals dont really make sense to me, Too much work to verify someone and impossible to tell if someone is legit just based on a sentence or two in the signup form. We used to do approvals and in the end a lot of legit users or users who didnt understand english got rejected meanwhile spam accounts still got through with generic signup messages.
captcha isnt perfect either but I found it to be the better compromise.
Some of my absolute favorite Tolkein quotes:
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.” -- The Children of Hurin
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” -- The Fellowship of the Ring
“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” -- The Fellowship of the Ring
“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.” -- Return of the King
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
“But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.” -- The Return of the King
@stux much better odds there, yea
@stux This issue has been up for debate for over a year at least. If you want optional features mastodon isnt a good choice as eugene only adds features **he** wants, You either need to code up your own or use a fork or different software all together
@stux yea open signups is just not manageable. The spam is insane
@stux qoto has hcaptchca for signups, feel free to steal our code.
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
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