Klye @khird@qoto.org
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Joined Sep 2018
That's roughly how I'd go about it - maybe we need a more precise way to say when two principles are equally engaged?
Ignoring the vertical axis, I'd have put:
Canada, basically capitalist with some socialist policies: near right
USA, basically capitalist with fewer socialist policies: further right
China, basically communist with some capitalist aspects: near left
North Korea, pretty much entirely communist: all the way left.
The neutral point might be somewhere around India.
How do you locate the centre? I understand from the description how to say one belief is to the left of another, but not how you arrive at an absolute position such that we can say almost all countries are left of centre.
Notably, when the test site uses platform details to complete the test on behalf of political candidates/parties, the results mostly wind up right of centre.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020
https://www.politicalcompass.org/canada2019
@snow
It did; I see it here.
I don't think so. The secrets they want to protect are handled by entirely separate networks (e.g. SIPRNET) on which hostile actors aren't even supposed to be present. The US doesn't generally transmit classified data on the public Intenet, even encrypted, as I understand it. American military exposure via an exploit like this would be pretty limited.
But terrorists etc don't have separate networks and have to use encryption. It's their traffic that this patch protects from the NSA.
The cynical side of me wonders if there's something else in the update they are anxious to get on as many machines as possible. Seems to me some benefit to them has to outweigh the cost of all the exploitable traffic they lose out on by going public, right?
@freemo I just tried & was near the centre (Left 0.47, Libertarian 1.26) despite quite a few "strong" answers. I suppose they cancelled out.
Have you tried politiscales? That test rated me strongly essentialist and reformist, weakly capitalist and internationalist, and near-neutral on the other axes.
Even so, I tend to cast my vote for the candidate in whose sound judgement I am most confident rather than the one whose views best align with mine, so this is mostly curiosity interest for me.
@Ajz@mastodon.nl
For my part, early 2018 is when I jumped to Pale Moon. Got too fed up with the extension disaster of FF57, which hit the repo at the end of 2017. So I'm part of that 13% decline.
I think this is similar to the discussion a while back about how to allocate quotas. At some point, the most effective solution is to say, "I am an arbitrary god and QOTO is my creation; if I wish to expel you, I am at liberty to do so." Access to the service isn't guaranteed unless we start paying for it.
Trying to publicly impose on yourself restrictions limiting your options to deal with troublemakers just offers an incentive to game the rules and look for loopholes.
Consumption is relatively smaller with turbofans as compared to piston engines or turbojets, but manufacturers generally use this to increase range rather than reduce fuel tank sizes. Flights no longer have to hop from Ireland to Newfoundland to cross the Atlantic, for example.
You can find images of large airliners being refueled - they absolutely dwarf the tanker trucks, which themselves carry 30 tonnes of fuel each. 100 tonnes looks about right.
You can do the math - a dreamliner has two engines, each burning 2-3 tonnes of fuel an hour when cruising, depending on weight & altitude. The longest scheduled dreamliner flight is something like 15 hours, so it works out to about 75 tonnes of fuel if you take the midpoint of 2500kg/hr/engine. Stated fuel capacity is about 100 tonnes which includes some extra for climb out & reserve. So it looks about right to me.
@snow
I wouldn't go that far. He designed the system to work a certain way, and from his perspective long toots are a form of not playing nicely with others. As a microblogging service he wanted Mastodon to be able to fit many toots onto the screen, so he capped the length. Other instances sending longer toots have forced him to modify the software to cope gracefully (e.g. by collapsing long toots), and he's not happy about having to do so.
@snow
It's politically complicated. The developer of Mastodon opposes instances using limits other than 500, so unmodified Mastodon treats 500 as a law of nature - by design, the API doesn't have a way for the server to tell a client differently.
QOTO is modified to allow more characters, but still lacks an official way to advertise this to Tusky. Some instances have unofficially extended the API to do so, and it sounds like QOTO may soon follow suit. Until then Tusky assumes the limit is 500.
I'm kinda partial to Omid Djalili. You might also know him as the Gladiator character who annoyed Proximo by selling him "queer giraffes" that wouldn't mate.
I prefer "resign" because it can actually be ambiguous in sentences, while "cleave" can be disambiguated by the presence or absence of a direct object. Suppose you see a headline "Star Player Resigns" - it can mean either that he quit (ri-ZINE) or that he signed a contract extension to continue playing (REE-sine).
Well right now #1 isn't an issue - at least not to nearly the same degree - because we can tag our own posts/profiles. People interested in calligraphy find you by searching related tags, but that wouldn't work if you had to wait for someone else to add those tags and you had no followers to do so.
StackOverflow's tags aren't used for moderation the same way as you're proposing. I can't really make it harder to find a question by maliciously tagging it, can I? (It's been a while)
My thoughts:
1. Requiring others to do the tagging will stifle new users. It creates a chicken/egg problem where I need my posts tagged to draw attention and gain followers, but I need people paying attention to get my posts tagged.
2. Trolls will troll. You'll get bullies who visit your profile and tag all your stuff as hate speech out of spite. The current flagging system needs a mod to actually suppress content, but it sounds like your proposal wouldn't.
@TheOges@mastodon.social
5th grade overnight underground railroad trip. Students are grouped in 18-bunk cabins (traditionally, subverting chaperones' attempts to enforce bedtime, sneaking out and banging on other groups' windows, sending Morse code messages by flashlight, etc.). Then in the morning, groups rotate through a series of "encounters" spaced along a trail in the forest, where reenactors offer food/shelter, steal your winter clothes at gunpoint, or try to capture you.
They seal up a loose collar that might let the wind inside your clothes. The rate of heat transfer from your skin into air scales with the temperature gradient, which is reduced by keeping cold air at a distance.
I also wear one while motorcycling in the winter because exposed skin gets very cold at speed (high speed = thin boundary layer = steep temperature gradient). As a bonus, the scarf tucks over my nose and beneath the pads of my glasses to direct my breath away from the visor.
@freemo exactly right
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