Not sure if I should cry or laugh.
In all seriousness though the idea that the past was better financially is objectively false. If you are willing to live by older safety standards and quality then you can live as affordably as you could in the past. Most of us dont want to live like we did in the 1920s though.
While its very unlikely (but very possible) my dream in life would be to witness a supernova.
Last time one was bright enough to see with the naked eye was about 400 years ago. So my chances are slim.
Interesting side note, a supernova is the fastest moving stellar event we can see with our naked eye that we know of. It starts and ends (usually resulting in a nebula) over the course of just weeks to months. Could you imagine seeing a bright light form in the sky out of nowhere, last for months, and then in the end have a beautiful new nebula in its place... my god that would be so cool!
@freemo No, no "naval" means warships. I wonder how big a stethoscope he needs to check a battleship's pulse...
Donald Trump Will Be the First Former President to Face a Criminal Trial, Judge Rules
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-new-york-trial/
@freemo tell me you like blood without telling me you like blood
@freemo Domestication does make them cuter:
https://theconversation.com/why-so-many-domesticated-mammals-have-floppy-ears-29141
@freemo so the question is, can you sustain this reaction, or why can't you sustain this reaction ?
So apparently Biden is Putin’s choice for president over Trump…
“For us, who’s better, Biden or Trump?” Russian TV correspondent Pavel Zarubin asked President Putin.
“Biden,” Vladimir Putin replied in a flash. “He’s more experienced, he’s predictable, he’s an old-style politician.”
Interesting fact of the day. Water will "catch fire" when used on anything over about 2,200 C.
You can observe this if you take red hot metal and dip it in water, you will see flames produced and even explosions.
The reason is because at those temperatures the water disassociates and hydrogen and oxygen is produced that then reignites turning back into water and producing flame.
In fact particularly hot fires can not be extinguished with water as the water will convert into hydrogen so quickly it will literally just cause an explosion.
@freemo I just love slowly pouring oil into fire, when I see MAGAist, I try to find good deeds of Biden, when person is Bidenaught, I try to find what Trump did good. Maybe not really ethical, but hey, this is Internet
Mostly because politic doesn't make sense for me.. like, for any CEO position any company gonna require couple universities, 100 years of experience, whole hand in other words, yet for President position all need is to be septuagenarian at least, and yell the loudest on TV? no resource management degree, no even economical college, no neither math nor statistics, no such idiocy. I feel like ~30-50 years ago a glitch happened in our simulation, the last chance we have is as humanity plea to Gods, I mean Admins*, they should read logs anyway, to save every sentient being in this universe on disk and restart simulation. I think it was buffer overflow and now total humanity IQ stays constant yet population grows exponentially
* there is a theory that this simulation super-duper-computer actually runs by Mormons
@freemo While there have been users who "walked the line" (something I suspect they'll have a bigger issue with with Threads joining the federation, frankly, welcome to moderation in the real world), you absolutely do moderate.
I've seen servers which "do not moderate" (or not in that particular area). If you did not moderate, I would expect it to look a lot more like that.
"He rubbed me the wrong way." is weak reasoning.
There is also some weirdo who thinks that every person called "Jeff" is the same person. I even suspect he is doing this deliberately. In any case, it's a different website.
#universeodon is now even lying to its own users about #QOTO, and they seem to be getting the hint.
See this post: https://mastodon.acm.org/@LiveByReason@universeodon.com/111931444289540696
My full response to this was the follow:
If you are interested here are direct links so you can see my replies, he is lying about QOTO because we called him out for abusive moderation practices against his own users and now is engaging in a campaign to defame QOTO as a result.
See my reply to you herE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@freemo/111931848544933260
Also here is the original thread, that he hid from you, that promoted him to make retaliatory posts against QOTO (keep in mind i did not make this post from QOTO): https://mastodon.acm.org/@freemo/111908751487276074
Also a post of mine pointing out this was in retaliation: https://mastodon.acm.org/@freemo@qoto.org/111910018732266904
Also as a reference here is one of the many third-party administrators who stepped up to say QOTO absolutely does moderate racist: https://mastodon.acm.org/@Raccoon@techhub.social/111917501785785346
> if they show he clearly knew and allowed the policy to continue (i.e. before the point where he "circled the wagons" that I mentioned in my other post) I'd love to see it.
I have addressed this twice. It does not, but since this sceme was across multiple properties, at the highest level, and coordinated through every level of the company.
It would be absolutely absurd to think everyone across multiple properties and every level knew about this but somehow it was managed to be kept from Trump.
If that is the argument you are making then you need to prove that, not the other way around.
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.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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