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@xine I wasn't sure if you belonged here but once I saw, "involved in an ongoing neighborhood battle over pickleball courts". I think you've found the perfect place. 😂 Welcome to Qoto. Have a great weekend 🙂

@peterdrake "but I regress" 😂😂😂

@garyackerman Hey I know a vocational high school that's got an issue. It's technology centric and all students have laptops. Most of their students are focused on only 1 subject, and all the other subjects slip. Positioning the students facing away from the teacher, so the teacher can see all screens to make sure they're focused is awkward for the teachers. Got any other ideas? 😂

@ambulocetus Invalid argument, Batman technically isn't a superhero or hero. He's a villain in progress.

@Pat
I think you're forgetting that people generally suck. The media doesn't report covid like it used too because people are tired of it, so it doesn't generate as much ad revenue. The amount of people recovering from covid is way higher than the mortality rate. I would think the healthcare industries stock skyrocketing keeps their lobbyists moderating the issue with the government. It also doesn't help when trusted sources of data like "Johns Hopkins University", classify someone whose parachute fails to open while skydiving but found covid positive during autopsy as a "covid death". Even the people that don't suck start getting confused on who to trust.

With all of that going on and as pessimistic as I can be, I hope you have a great week Pat. You seen like a good person, I hope good things come your way.

@NehaKhazanchi hmm, interesting, when I was in Singapore, and Malaysia there was a lot of Indians selling cheese naan. I thought maybe it's a thing. I eat street food wherever I go, it's always the best. Mexico still holds the crown for the best though. India could probably steal that crown though. I also like vindaloo, masala, butter chicken, and samosas.. mmm.

@digital_carver I think they're trying to make it work like a bump. To push posts to the top of the feed without removing the original toot. This allows the system to avoid using algorithms that can be taken advantage of like other social networks. But controls would be nice.

@tavoglc on a macroscopic perspective, your logic is sound. Gathering momentum to make a difference collectively is my business. Although people might not take action even if you perform the research and give solid data, all you have to do is come up with correlations to other datasets that people care greatly about. Although climate change is a hot topic, the only people actually making a difference are corporations disguising saving money as "going green". The health care industry will fight it with everything they got because they like sick people. Notice all the pharma stocks are at all time highs?

So here's an example of how you might do that if you get your data. There would be provable correlations here, I guarantee it.

"Global warming is decreasing UV filtering which increases the viral mutation rates while organic antiviral species of are dying off, thus accelerating the mortality rate of an ever expanding population of current and future pathogens."

This statement reverses the position of the healthcare industry completely because a sick customer is a good customer, a dead customer is a bad customer. Cool eh?

Unfortunately, on an individual level, I travel a lot for work. Despite always wearing masks, I'm still exposed to people from everywhere, and my stress level is off the charts. But the probiotics idea, I love yogurt, great tip 👍. If you're serious about this, qoto is full of scientists in these fields who could help you gather and cite the data. Then right a paper, send it to journals for peer review, then call AP News and say, "you should read this paper, it's fascinating" and watch the magic happen.

@tavoglc What should we do?

@SolamenteItan 🔌

@RobinLacassin

So no correlation, I'm programming algorithms all day so I look for correlations in everything 🙄🙂. I'm a seismology noob, but learning fast and loving it. Last night I was studying how reflections in shockwaves off of the mantle can combine and increase the force, and also react with different surface types like sand, limestone, clay. It's incredibly fascinating.

Maybe one day after I've learned enough about the mechanics. I can start applying algorithms to extrapolate correlations to the data. That would be pretty cool. Got any good books you can recommend?

@NehaKhazanchi well I've never been to India but I should visit one day so I can try all the food authentically, and check out what's good in tech manufacturing. But mostly for cheese naan 😂

@lucifargundam for dinner? The breakfast of champions?

@NehaKhazanchi I'm thinking Bangalore east train station.. totally random guess.

@RobinLacassin Has there been an increase in seismic activity this year? It seems busy.