mushambo @mushambo@qoto.org

I asked a Finnish fellow what phrase they use along the lines of 'when your Spidey-sense tingles'...
He came back with 'there's a dog buried here.' About the most sisu / motti (non translation) I would never have thought of.

@admitsWrongIfProven it's "funny" because it's true. anyone who feels any sense of responsibility...what a job it is.

So I plugged seven TV reality/gameshows into some creative algorithms and asked for 2052 concepts.

Survivor, To Tell the Truth, American Gladiator, Catchphrase, Jokers Wild, Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?

First proposal: "Two contestants...taken out of their own homes...answer basic trivia questions...cameras disguised like spaceships"

😂

Honestly, I never expected to live long enough to find myself in a conversation like this..as DeVito!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcsBvX10h74

@trinsec @freemo figured I was doing as such, lol oh well?

According to this search comparison b/w newbie (how I remember) and "noob" (yutes), the internet's been downhill since 2004.

Sounds about right?

@freemo i have zero clue what I'm doing on public vs. direct 😂 Truly do prefer tells on a MUD

.@freemo @users Most of the questions are...I won't say 'decoy' but largely "unimportant" for the target reviewing audience. These are the key questions to focus on (all global obv):

- CO2 emissions
- Fertility rate
- Poverty, <$10 INT 2011 USD/day
- Cost of sequencing entire human genome

For the years: 2023, 2025, 2032, 2052, 2122

This may be one of those adult situations where those who 'play the game' get awesome participation trophies.

@freemo @users Sadly, I've few ideas on the best way to coordinate such an effort across various platforms... :)

Kinda miss Google Circles in this regard, was perfect for managing different commUNITY participation!

Looking to put together a @users group of forecasters (otherwise total strangers) for Metaculus' new competition.

I've been doing decision/prediction markets since HSX first launched, so approx 20 years? But truly, there is NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY L(

Trust me, "the scientists" are vastly more interested in watching how remotely organized teams of random nerds work together than whether a particular commodity target was met.

Can I at least count on you @freemo ? :)

https://www.metaculus.com/tournament/forecasting-Our-World-in-Data/

Apparently the #pepefappers (is this coined already? if not, "first!") are grouchy at Amazon's casting for LOTR..."elves are supoosed to be fair-skinned" is tragically wrong on many levels, including the fact everyone knows elves are green.

More importantly, in the process of researching further details of why #pepfappers (second!) are wrong, I learned of "Cheddar Man" (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/first-modern-britons-dark-black-skin-cheddar-man-dna-analysis-reveals) .
I'm thinking of adapting Hopper's speech to Walken in True Romance, in case I ever chance into one of them at a party.

@skyblond i suggest iDrive, 256 aes private key, all sorts of enterprise type features at economical pricing

So "only" 5M Americans said they would personally be Very or Completely Willing to kill someone to advance their political objectives in the next few years.

15M said political violence would be justified to restore Chump Bear to the presidency THIS YEAR!!

This why MY friends plan to be abroad by Fall '24. Hope you've got plenty of space @freemo ;)

Full crosstabs begin on slide 26: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.15.22277693v1.full.pdf

I seriously need to emigrate before Fall 2024 ... Any 'hot tips' on American-friendly visa countries?

Texas GOP platform only refers to Biden once by name, otherwise he's referred to as "current occupant of the White House" . smh.

https://texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/6-Permanent-Platform-Committee-FINAL-REPORT-6-16-2022.pdf

Planted trays of these species so far this year...One regret from my first stint growing for bonsai was not taking more photos over the years. I'll be glad to have these looking back.. @freemo

@Sphinx It's ironic that the only thing Senate unanimously agrees on is something I'm personally against!

I've got thousands of tree/shrub/vine seeds in my DIY seed bank, any germination-related substrate, tool, or chemical compound you can imagine, and the knowledge to match.

What I do NOT have on hand however is masking tape. #storyofmylife #qoto

@freemo cave diving was my fav part of Planet Earth! Recently met someone whose entire family is "speleologists", he was SO proud that his grandfather had died in a 'karst' accident

never mucked about with Arduino, but plan to work towards an NFT collection using various species as my RNG. Planting time starts in 3 weeks! https://github.com/robbiebarrat/plant-art @freemo #qoto

@freemo lol all this time I've been playing thinking "Hard mode" was required, didn't know it was an optional setting. obviously need to rtfm a bit closer in my life

@icedquinn that's why I love this community, I literally understand nothing of that 😂