🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@freemo I like the first

@youronlyone Agreed, as I said the service is problematic.

But the important thing to point out here is it really has nothing to do with trademark. Its a trademark-like system that has been privatized and is unrelated to legal trademarks.

It would be more appropriate to describe it as a way for companies to reserve domain names at a cost without actually needing to buy those domain names. Perhaps broadly enough to be considered a regex. Thinking this has any real relationship to trademarks just leads you down the wrong path when thinking about this IMO.

@freemo

I'm definitely the most pale one in my family lol but yeah

#QOTO is back up after a short downtime. As far as I can tell the fix went smoothly. Hopefully that will address the last of the problems from migration.

In about 10 minutes #QOTO will be going down shortly in an attempt to fix a 16G table that may be at the root of one small lingering problem post migration. Luckily we have good backups and the table can always be recreated from scratch.

So should be back up shortly hopefully with the last needed fix in place and we can start the upgrades soon.

@freemo So, if I blast LED with a strong light, it should generate some/small voltage?

@realcaseyrollins

When the two parties involved remain static that would be true in many cases. 10x the deaths for a day is less than 10 years of 1/10ths the deaths. Sure thats fair.

But thats not the case here. We are talking about a relatively small war over a long period of time vs a world war involving the entire world, which based on past world wars is likely to last years.

To put this to actual numbers. WWII resulted in, on average, 10,000 deaths per day over a 7 year period. Resulting in 53 million deaths total.

By contrast in the ukranian-russian war, in its current phase has been going on for exactly 2 year as of 2 days ago. In the course of those two years there has been a total estimated death toll of half a million. That is 684 people per day.

So a large world war results in ~20x more people killed per day then a much smaller, but potentially longer lasting war. Considering a global war tends to not be short, as ~7 years given past incidents that would mean the russion-ukrain war would have to last 140 years in order to cause more casualties than the world war that would result if the USA got directly involved.

@randahl @trendytoots

@freemo it's only laterally symmetric, but longitudinally it can still provide stability. Suppose the legs are enough ballast to keep it from rolling - the barrel shape just has to provide enough resistance to pitching to counteract the weight of the head and stop the animal from tipping forward.

Also airplane fuselages are just cylindrical because that's the easiest shape to design a pressure vessel in. It would certainly be convenient to have a rectangular cross section from the perspective of volumetric efficiency, but it'd have to be far stiffer and thus heavier. Planes that place a higher premium on aerodynamic efficiency - fighter jets, aerobatic planes, gliders - don't generally bear much as resemblance to a barrel.

@TheOldGuy

Them: ::smoking a cigarette at a bar::

Me: I thought you quit smoking?

Them: Yea, I did, I only smoke when I drink now.

Me: But you are always drinking.

Them: Yea, I'll work on that problem next.

@LouisIngenthron

I think the problem is more fundemental than that. I have noticed for many decades (perhaps before I was born) there are two major classes of people with a pretty hard divide. One group of people dont see "reply guy" as bad, in fact, they want to encourage it, they feel open discussion and debate and expression of opinions are a good thing. These people also dont generally feel conversations and threads are "owned" by their poster, but is rather an invite to a public forum about some utterance. These people tend to be the "reply guy" but also are overjoyed when they see others being the "reply guy" on their own posts. They generally see anti-"reply guy" people as the socially corrupt.

Similarly you have tne anti-"reply guy" people, these people tend to be super censored and generally are offended by other peoples opinions and more importantly feel they have some ownership or domain about the discussion that arises over their utterances and threads. These people have a "you are in my house" attitude int he threads and generally feel they can make any arbitrary social expectations as such. Typically they have extremely strict idea of what is acceptable or not in their comments... any disagreement, negativity, facts they dont deem as facts, etc is an offense. Even just making it about you in some way can be an offense. These sort of people see the reply guys as just plain trolls and are generally very concenred with ettiquette and formalism and closed rather than open forums.