🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

For some time I've been interested in what the world looks like with a different sensorium, so I was curious to know what the world would look like if we could see the polarization of light. To try it out, I bought these glasses and started wearing them: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017V9VQ8C

They are linearly polarized like polarized sunglasses, but the polarization of one eye is 90° off the other. The result is that unpolarized light passes through unmodified, but linearly polarized light shows up differently in each eye, which gives an interesting "shimmer" effect.

Usually the world doesn't look that interesting with them on, TBH. For most of the day, the only polarized light you see is reflections, so your attention is drawn to cars, plastics and other man-made things.

#science #light

McMurdo station, Observation Hill via https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm?t=1

Coal powered wind turbine

@pants

you seem to be assuming that i'm discussing things in bad faith. maybe things came around wrong because i'm no native speaker?

- i'm sorry that you hate "edgy", but i think it describes certain things very well. that said, as long as _someone_ finds it funny, it's a joke. it may be a bad, tasteless one, but it's a joke.

- shaming people also isn't good. either the topic is important to you, then you have the obligation to try to change the views you don't like _or_ you ignore them. deciding that for someone else isn't the thing to do. secondly, just because the majority thinks i have shitty ideas doesn't mean that the ideas are shitty. it's good if i reflect upon if they are good or shitty, then maybe change my opinion. i won't change my opinion because someone tells me to, it doesn't work that way.

- it might surprise you that i do very well know what the nazis did, we learn rather much about that in school here.
maybe i've expressed myself wrong. i said that hating groups is what nazis do. you shouldn't take offense if i say that hating groups is wrong, look at the history in general.

@freemo @mathlover @swiley

@pants
There's a difference between a restaurant asking a mentally ill person to leave and asking restaurants to remove people you think are mentally ill, especially if you are not a psychiatrist. The latter is closer to what we were talking about. Freemo removing an asshat from Qoto is different from if Freemo asked other server admind to remove said person under threat of block.
@freemo @swiley @bonifartius

@freemo
> Its so rare in fact that its been the main attractive feature QOTO presents to new users in my expiernce.

it was one of the main reasons i've joined here. i have some years ago created an account at another server but never used it really.

when deciding to really invest some time into the fediverse, i looked at their block list, half of the blocks were because of "free speech". unsurprisingly, unsavory posts about right-wing people or the police were no problem on that instance. while any instance is free to block whomever they want to, it's a shame that so many people fall for the doublethink.

i get why people want a "safe haven" where they don't have to deal with ugly real life shit. a closed web forum might be better than a federated microblogging protocol for that though.

@mathlover @swiley

Hail to the shrews! 🤪

ARRL: Video Documents Removal, Preservation of 250 kW Voice of America Transmitter

#ARRL #HamRadio

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Just completed WHO another course, this time on Infection Control

https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-INTRO-EN

If anyone works in the Healhcare Sector or is looking to work in this sector I recommend this FREE course to introduce infection control
#WHO #Health #Infection #Control

To help facilitate discussion(s) on this course. I have made a blog post on

https://personaljournal.ca/studysupportgroup/

Also linked this to a new thread on the qoto discourse forum

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/introduction-to-infection-prevention-and-control-ipc/589

That moment #Amazon says “Arriving today” and you get all excited and then you realize it’s 12:36 AM😂