Tak @takloufer@qoto.org

@skells @NunyaBidness hm, I though it was octopus salad, Italian style.

@Thomas I find it really pointless to have a feed full of political content internal to the goings on, on a different continent. Like, foreign affairs or basic election info is useful to all, but my shitty country's got quite enough depressing developments on its own, and I'm well aware nobody'd care to hear about them, so what can I do w yet more from across the Atlantic?

@trinsec @Sphinx @johnabs ok then, I have to disagree: behavior of water is rather relevant in daily life (eg cooking, washing, drying...), and having a separate scale just to express weather & body temp to sufficient precision in numbers divisible by 5 as opposed to just using all the numbers and if really needed a decimal point seems quite redundant.

Not that this daily importance of 0C/100C are imho strong reasons for using C either; I don't fundamentally see why 'but it gives rounder numbers' for some relevant qty is such an appealing property, because the numbers in deg C are as intuitively meaningful to someone who grew up w C as I imagine numbers in deg F are to ppl who grew up w them.

What C does have is universal use on the planet, and from the point of consistency, meshes better w SI, being of the same deg size as K.

@johnabs @trinsec @Sphinx uh, I'm not sure what interaction was intended here. Did you really want a C vs F conversation in a thread about a person dealing w turning COVID positive?

@hankg lovely scaling! Wonder why Intel's hw is comparatively so crap at it, at least w this code.

@dpthorngren are there any possible technical fixes, or should LEO just have a very limited # of satelites of a particular size?

Perhaps orbital space should be capped and auctioned by apparent magnitude or some such visbility-relevant metric, like we do w radio spectrum?

@xorxor @codl I'm finishing the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Liu Cixin (aka 3 body problem and the sequels). To be completely honest not terribly happy w the writing style (maybe its the translation?), and science is a bit flaky but def many interesting (and in context of deterrence, timely) ideas. Read The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks immediately before, and honestly a much more pleasurable read, though perhaps not as provocative.

@peterdrake also depends on the size and mood of your instance; even federated changes depending on what ppl in your instance boost/follow. I think its worthwile exploring multiple instances for different local and federated feeds, while seeking which acc to follow.

@kreyren idk, seems to me they've been polling potential matchups incl ofc this one consistently since 2019, just look at the tables w all the polls and pollsters - its massive, as well as the edit history - its been public all this time. Her 1st rnd showings were somewhat better at points, (though not in the months pre-crisis) perhaps thats what you saw: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2022_French_presidential_election

@kreyren hmm, so this is the poll avg from the wiki. Doesn't look likely to me at any point, and thr closest it got was well into the war

@kreyren she wasn't doing too great in polls I saw prior to the crisis either. If anything, the race tightened just in the final ~month.

@marathon0 but it *wasn't* a tweet about censorship, rather about his 'magnanimous' tolerance of his critics, a posture I found rather laughable. Really it was this dissonance between the high ideal he was supposedly defending and the childish example that prompted me to point it out. Like where does one's mind have to be in the first place to consider that inaction as something to brag about?

Again re trans inclusion in sports, I completely disagree re a separate league, even if significant advantage remains after what can be done to limit it is done, but if that was merely a random example of a discussion you were censored for, consider the point made. I agree that the extent and existence of such an advantage at least is a factual question, and cannot in itself constitute hate speech. I can also think of many twitter handles who don't seem have trouble making such arguments so it cannot be the kind of free speech currently lacking on twitter either. But sure, wouldn't surprise me if a particular mastodon instance wants no such discourse on their system.

@marathon0 well, thank you for the 'warning' but I'm not particularly concerned about disinformation or censorship in my media diet, such as it is.

Re trans issues, I'd agree its a stretch to call that narrow example hate speech, even though I completely disagree there's any problem in including trans athletes on adequate testosterone supression for adequate time in female sports, and I wouldn't see a problem there even if evidence were completely convincing this still left significant and relevant athletic advantage.

But I also have no intention on randomly arguing about trans issues on a post that had literally nothing to do with it.

@marathon0 well, sure, I don't think any media, online or offline both managed to provide a reasonable user experience as well as that kind of free speech protections for their users.

I don't believe most users on twitter wanted *less* moderation. To me, the largest problems in using that platform was trolling, pile-ons, disinformation, inauthentic behavior (spam, organized campaigns..), etc, and I certainly wanted both better filtering options for users and both a stonger and more consistant policy in content warnings and removals. For now, I'm def more impressed w options I'm getting here, but I realise scale might change that.

Idk I'm in the EU where such an expansive/exclusive understanding of the right to free speech doesn't exist in the first place, with various content actually illegal to utter (hopefully narrowly proscribed though I worry re some rulings) , and the regulator is likely to insist w the new DMA directive on procedures for removal of various content deemed illegal in my jurisdiction... so I'll just grab a bag of popcorn and enjoy that showdown.

None of this has much to do with the tweet you quoted, at least I think it doesn't, as I said that seems to be a kind of bare minimum commitment any social network, forum, hell even a personal blog is likely to provide anyhow. Only a rather thin-skinned person would particularly target people just for them being critical of their work or person.

@marathon0 that's my point; its a far more substantial abd extensive right than just "I won't kick you from my social network because you criticise me"