ᔑᐸᐱᑚᕬᐱᑎ @skanman@qoto.org

How should we refer to ourselves as a species on Qoto?
Additional suggestions welcome in comments.

MongoDB node.js client is deprecating callbacks. Is this good or bad? I don't like it because, ugh, going back through old code.

#mongodb #node #depricated

I've never used gitlab before, not bad ,I wish I could use it for my company, but nope..

Omicron sounds so ominous, yet the affects are supposedly weaker. They should have called it Covid-Lite or something.

**Disclaimer, it began as a stupid thought, and ended a stupid thought.

#showerthoughts #covid

P.S. I could also use some advice about a real cricket.

I like the sound of nature at night, but sometimes you get a death metal cricket that just shreds outside your window. If you've ever gone outside to find, and shoe away this raging cricket with a flashlight, eagerly searching through the grass, you would know it seldom ends in success. Later we are often washed with a feeling of ridiculousness. If the cricket is persistent in 'one upping' the sound of a fully spooled jet engine nightly, would we destroy the whole yard? If we did, and it simply moved to the neighbors yard, would we build a giant wall and disown the neighbor? Probably not. As the cricket problem grows, we would eventually need to work together.

How do you think this applies to Mastadon?

Do you have advice on how to silence the renegade crickets of social media?

#qoto #UFoI #peace

Antagonizing your enemies only motivates them. People will sip poison voluntarily if you hand it to them in a fancy glass and a warm smile.*

*Don't poison people! It's not nice, I wrote this just to make a point.

Just to add, this story is true, and mine. If you did have a teacher like this, I'd love it if you shared some wisdom with me too. 😊

A teacher in 7th grade yelled at me "Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades!!", I responded with "But, if you almost pull the pin on the hand grenade.. " and then he stopped me, and so I started with "Ok, but if you almost play horseshoes.. ", and he cut me off again this time iterating "You're just proving my point!". To which I responded "I've almost proven your point, but because you cut me off, now you've proven 'almost' counts for more than just horseshoes and hand grenades".

He smiled in pride at his defeat. He went to his desk and and gave me a small bag of candy. He told me the candy was supposed to be a reward for the best literary project at the end of the semester, however he was a debate champion in college, and he'd been undefeated 40 years just to be bested by a 7th grader. His name was Mr. McCray. He was always saying things like "Other teachers say knowledge is power, but they're only half right, creativity is the ability to turn knowledge into something useful, something that makes a difference, without creativity, knowledge is idle. Creativity can yield knowledge. Now that's power.".

Mr. McCray was that one teacher I still think about frequently 25 years later. Most people would tell me they've never had a teacher that awesome. Even though he passed away 20 years ago, I know how he would want me to respond, by saying "so become one".

In his honor, I want to leave you with this.
"Wisdom doesn't just come with age, it also comes from the ability to patiently listen to the wise, and value what they say." - Me.. a product of the great Mr. McCray.

As Qoto is heating up, I appreciate the amount of activism here, 95% of the time it's well done. Other places, people get emotionally triggered, and drop a forcible opinion with no reinforcement. That's not activism, it's reactivism. That makes me proud to be a member here.

#activism #activist #qoto

If you're not sure if existentialism is real.. is it existexistentialism?

#stupid #philosophy #question

Right is red, left is blue
Center caught, between the two
Oh my country tis of thee
Fighting hard relentlessly

This land of free, free for fights
Brave men hath die, for these rights
"All men created equally!"
But we're not, so tragically

Born of want or born in wealth
Born with strength or failing health
Then we're taught by those we trust
To fight for that in which we lust

If what we love, the others loathe
In hates expansive, endless trove
Mother father sister brother
Split amongst one another

What we want is what we got
To feel alive all while untaught
To feel so smart, to feel so just
To feel control, to feel the thrust

But feel we may, the feeling numbs
For when we hear those beating drums
What we need will all be lost
Expiring beneath ye permafrost

So this is us, a high society
With our lives irreparably
Not alt Not red not blue not me
Check my card..
Independently.

#politics #poetry #independent

I remember when I learned that earthquakes generated sound, I was fascinated. When I realized earthquakes ARE sound, mind blown.🤯

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, searching the mall, a place to relieve." - Aéropostale

#badquote #bs #creativetho