K‮ly‬e @khird@qoto.org

@freemo I think your typical American doesn't come up against a car repair bill and ask himself, "Do I have enough saved to pay this?"

Instead, the question is, "Which credit card should I put this on?"

The twenty a month won't be saved for future car repairs, true - but in the more common case of someone trying to pay off a prior repair, the money can still be used for the same purpose.

@freemo

It's kind of strange how people treat windfalls differently from their usual income. Someone gets his tax return and feels an impulse to blow it on unnecessary toys (there's a whole sale season dedicated to this). But if he just gets a raise he'll increase his contribution to his retirement plan instead.

It might be better for Americans' financial health for the president to cut them twenty bucks every week for a year.

@freemo does this fall afoul of the "NSFW without a content warning" prohibition?

@freemo apart from that, having a rough idea of the relationship between sample size and confidence interval would improve estimation accuracy by a lot. It's amazing how often I see people claim that, in order to achieve an ±N% margin of error, a pollster must survey (100 - N)% of the population.

@freemo You mean that if I interpret the boxed numbers as a certain base, I have to do the same for the 30 so as not to mix bases?

Interpreting everything in base nine:
11 + 11 + 7 = 30

The decimal interpretation would be:
10 + 10 + 7 = 27

@freemo I never used binary, only bases nine and ten (decimal).

11₉ + 11₉ + 11₉
= 10₁₀ + 10₁₀ + 10₁₀
= 30₁₀ = 30

@freemo

Each box can be filled with 11₉ which is equal to 10 in decimal. 10 + 10 + 10 = 30.

@realcaseyrollins

That's basically what Zorin is I believe.

@design_RG

@freemo suggested something similar a while back:

@freemo that sounds more like "independent" than "moderate" to me. Being moderate has to do with avoiding extremes, while being independent has to do with having little loyalty to any particular party.

Then again, it's certainly possible usage in Holland doesn't quite line up with other regions.

@realcaseyrollins

The problem is that the general public can already see your data. SBC members are a subset of that population, so you can't award them less access than they start with. Imagine I text someone a link to your profile, and they open it in a fresh browser window - how do you verify that the unauthenticated visitor is *not* a member of SBC?

This is the same as the original issue they had with QOTO that precipitated all the drama, actually. Our subscribe mechanism reads the RSS feed, which anybody can do, so there isn't a way they can stop us from accessing that data.

@freemo Note also that the mod originally involved has since made threats of suicide, but it is not known if those threats were carried out.

@freemo

I believe the following have occurred, based on skimming the relevant threads:
- sunbeam's hosting provider warned them about doxing
- the instance admin demoted the mod for this and other reasons
- the instance admin expressed an intent to leave the server
- discussions have begun to determine whether sunbeam will continue under new management or pull the plug

I suggest delaying a decision on defederating until the new management, if any, makes its position known.

@snow There used to be via regex filtering but I believe that option was removed.

@freemo @design_RG admin is a step up from mod, right? Has anyone tried getting in touch with the actual admin and getting him to clamp down on his rogue mod?

@freemo

Keep in mind that gab is known to tolerate some forms of doxing and defederating from them will likely be interpreted as a political manoeuvre.

@freemo

For the sake of correctness, I'll note that it's "sunbeam.city" rather than "sunbeamcity.com".

@freemo Are quarantine/defederate synonyms for silence/suspend?

@snow

Some ideas:
- Try posting at different times of day. Not everyone is in the same timezone as you.
- Post about STEM subjects, or go to an instance tailored to what you want to discuss.
- Look at which hashtags are popular to see what topics might be interesting to a wider audience.
- Go back and delete your "if you like X, don't talk to me" posts.
- Participate in other threads to advertise your presence so others know to follow you.

Seconding @design_RG, good luck!