🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

I may not like Trump as president, but the one consolation is that Harris lost. The beauty of hating both parties is you always win every year since at least one of them always loses :)

@customdesigned

Obviously I know this is a joke based on its etymology, so lol.

But just to be serious for a moment (a small pet peve of mine). Technically it does **not** mean "set apart". Holy means the following (its definition):

dedicated or consecrated to God or a religious purpose; sacred.

Now if you go back 2000 years ago to long before the word "holy" even existed there was a word in a different language (hebrew and greek) that meant "set apart". That word, along with its definition, over many generations, evolved into the modern word holy with its current definition. But the etymology of a word is **not** what the word **means**, that is an incorrect interpritation of a word's etymology (and a pet peve of mine as I hear that often).

@TheOldGuy

He really really isnt.... but I suppose knowing him personally puts me in a unique position.

@bibliolater The egg timer means you followed them but werent approved yet. This can happen for many reasons such as:

* The user set up their account so they need to approve followers
* you as a user, or the entire instance, is muted but not blocked, thus requiring the user to approve followers
* The user or the instance has either you as a user or our instance blocked.

@JoshuaHolland

We have had nothing but unqualified grifters for 8 years now between Trump and Harris... we all knew that it was a near garuntee we would have one again these next 4 years... Makes it sting a little less I guess.

@JoshuaHolland

We have had nothing but unqualified grifters for 8 years now between Trump and Harris... we all knew that it was a near garuntee we would have one again these next 4 years... Makes it sting a little less I guess.

I can never tell if a moley is holy or sacraligious...

@louis If i had been born 2 year layers they wouldn't have beat me to the algorithm. While the app was free and Mich code released I never released the compression algorithm. To this day 30 years later no one has built a faster p2p system with better compression.

That said lets say someone had beat me Tobit.. then in would have invented a different algorithm. I invent dozens of algorithms every year that are able to outperform the best in the industry. So no reason to think I wouldn't have just choosen something else to invent.

The thing about lucknia, a smart person knows their odds and plays the game so they win. Look at my crypto and stock investments. It is almost pure luck in the sense that it is a statistical system. Yet in have never had a single year I've lost money on the market. Why? Because even luck can be mastered when you know math ;) That said you can't really invest like that without massive diversifications so that Kant accessible to the poor for sure obviously. But in didnt do that till later in life too.

@louis The algorithm and most of my algorithms are probably a bad example of luck. My career has largely been a constant aeries of new algorithms I have invented.

The aspects of luck in my mind are more things like this:

* genetic lottery for intelligence
* birth lottery as I wasn't born to a remote tribe or something
* genetic lottery for not having depression or something else that could have crippled my motivation (drug addiction too)

There is always some element of luck that i could have not overcome otherwise. But my point is just that something that can truly stop you is quite rare.

@louis

The library for the computer. The electronics was from going into trash bins to harvest parts and equipment. I had very little equipment, a soldering iron and some found components. Ibremeber just getting the solar for the solder was very hard, had to cut lawns to even afford that much.

@louis@ingenthron.social

The library for the computer. The electronics was from going into trash bins to harvest parts and equipment. I had very little equipment, a soldering iron and some found components. Ibremeber just getting the solar for the solder was very hard, had to cut lawns to even afford that much.

@louis

I devoted myself to learning advanced math, coding and electronics. My plan was tonlearnbit, build something very impressive put it out there for free and use that to get my first job.

After years from a very young age studying around 14 in reached the point that was possible. I the developed a p2p algorithm with my own compression algorithm that was 100x faster than the best commercial options on the market. Beibgnonly 15 this made for an interesting news story so as a result I was getting a lot of news attention. Due to my abilities and the attention I got as a result of that I had about 20 different companies offering me jobs at that price range.

So very much as the result of hard work id say.

@louis again all those things could make getting out of it harder for sure. There is no doubt some people may need to put in more effort than others. But again all are capable.

At 15 my 100k job was my first job. So prior to reaching that point of success my mom was the only one creating income through welfare mostly, that had to support the whole household as no one else worked.

Yes we had huge medical expenses as my mom was in no way encouraging me, I had to fight her instruction as a parent so she was constantly trying to get me treated by psychologists or doctors to "get me under control". She has parkinsons and the crippling anxiety that goes with it, my grandparents had multiple strokes and heart attacks, we had huge debt, and likely some undiagnosed PTSD on my grandfathers side.

And I do agree people always are the hero of their own story. I won't claim to be an exception here, but i think my story speaks for itself.

@louis

I dropped out of school because they refused goblet me skip ahead to college level courses which in was already doing by middle school.. so for me school was certainly not a privilage

@louis

Maybe a few small ones... my family was physically abusive. Within my own home where mybubcle, grandparents, and mom and me all lived together my uncle was a very abusive heroin addict and my mom was mildly physically abusive and always allowed my uncle to beat me.

My mom loved me though as did even my uncle in his own very broken way. So that is a bit of a privilage I suppose.

The biggest privilage was access to a library. Ibwas studying advanced maths and science by 12 years old and spent a lot of time in the library so by the tine in was 15 i was famous and making 100k (about 200k in forays money). But all of that happened because it was my plan from a young age and I busted my ass to make it happen. Most of the privilages were pretty minor.

Compared to moat Americans id say I was probably one of the least privilaged.

@selea Where else could we go that wouldn't allow fascists? That would eliminate almost all democrats and republicans. Hell having an account here makes you as much a supporter of fascism as anywhere else these days.

@louis

Disagree because if you don't have the money you are more than capable of making it.

Inb4: not everyone has an equally easy tine of getting out of poverty, the system is certainly broken. But with very few exceptions almost everyone is capable.

I grew up on welfare and in rather significant poverty. Now I'm a millionaire. I wasnt ucky or privilaged in any significant way. Ibjuatbblasted through the barriers rather than accepting my victim hood.