🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Impostor syndrome, #neilgaiman
(illustrated by Chris Riddell, fm Art Matters).

@freemo @Litzz11 @jamesmarshall @marq @georgetakei Fair enough. I was missing that context.

On the subject of gun control: I'd really love to see a candidate who was for addressing social and economic inequality and emphasized the role of addressing that in addressing problems such as violence (gun and non-gun), crime, poverty, and radicalization risks. They'd probably go really far and do a lot of good in the process.

Instead we get this really shallow posturing over really terrible and ineffective gun control laws by elected officials who don't know what they are talking about, and don't seem to care that they don't know. We get similar posturing over other superficial solutions to deeper problems on other issues. It's infuriating

@freemo Actually I think we set the age way too high for many things. Farm kids often dreive cars ar 12 or earlier. Someone in my family recently bought a an all terrain vehicle that drives like a amall car (and can reach speeds of 70 mph!) from a farmer and his 10 year old was driving it around with no problem, granted this was not on a road with traffic but in some ways it was more challenging because it wasn't a wide open road. However, that said, there's a big difference between giving kids responsibilities they aren't yet ready for (or haven't been trained to handle) and telling older people that they should not be allowed to do ceratin things just because they have reached a certain age. You may not understand it now, but you will when you go to the doctor and s/he starts talking to the person who brought you in about your condition instead of addressing you directly (pro tip, never see that doctor again!).

@Pat

> My objection is primarily about people feeling that it’s ok to make derogatory comments about old people, when they would never make the same type of comments about someone’s race or religion.

And my point is you and most people would make the exact same sort of comments about kids. Applying your logic of replacing the term with other groups and seeing if it is ok "Children should not be allowed on the internet", checks out as a perfectly acceptable term to use based on age, if we can say that about kids we can say it about old people. for the record I am actually with you that we shouldnt judge or take away rights from old people, but ONLY if that coincides with doing the same for children, which I also support.

> Regarding rights for young people, people acquire specific rights as they get older. Newborns have the right to life and to live without being harmed, for example. Some of those are determined by the parents and others are defined by law. In the US, this process of acquiring recognition of rights and privileges continues until a person reaches the age 35, when all of their rights and privileges are fully recognized.

Yes, society operates by being ageist against kids.. we deny them rights because of some claim of mental capacity (even if the individual does have the mental capacity) and say its ok.

So if we are to be fair the logic shoudl apply both ways, We shoudl slowly give a person rights up until they are 35, give them the right to drive at 16, right to smoke at 18, right to drink at 21, right to rent a car at 35.... then we do the same as they get older, at 65 we take away their right to drink, at 70 we take away their right to smoke, at 75 we take away their right to drive, at 80 they loose all rights to sign and their next of keen has compelte custodian rights,.

Afterall if we give a child rights as their mental capacity develops we shoudl therefore remove those rights as a persons mental capacity declines in old age, fair is fair.

(again I dont actually support this, I am point out that most old people accept and even enforce ageism on children so they should be treated the same in kind)

@2ck

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Fremofake calling his mom: "Help, I'm being chased by a giant octopus. Send money!" Mom: "Get outta here!" ...

@freemo @gpowerf That would surely expose you to a whole lot more of it, but as i said it's perspective, the way we interact is also different with things. As @gpowerf said there are many variables to take into account.

I think one thing QOTO has going for it, in favor of making things less hostile is that we have more than 1k words to express our opinions, so we are in a much better and more complex environment which allows for a better expression of our beliefs.

@freemo it took me a long time to choose a server! I eventually gravitated to qoto because I liked the description of it, it sounded like a place that respected free speech and was populated by people who largely wanted to do good and discuss their academic work.

Seems like I made a good choice!

@gpowerf QOTO is very much the exception IMO. We have a fairly exceptional history of civility and inclusion you just wont find on other servers or networks.

@freemo maybe my perspective is skewed because I've only ever existed in qoto.

So the US congress vs TikTok, they are expressing concerns about data finding its way back to the Chinese government, while at the same time when Facebook hands over information about a young lady who had an abortion to the local authorities this is perfectly acceptable to the users of these platforms.