Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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How US Policy Devastated Small Dairy Farms and Boosted Corporate Monopolies
"Corporate consolidation is at the heart of our food system's dysfunction," said one policy analyst.
Is there not some treatments using things like hypnosis to help people overcome their fear of say snakes or spiders, or other therapeutic techniques that can do something similar.
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Okay, so after watching #TheLastOfUS on #HBO, I wondered if #SciFi #zombies (basically a virus, bacteria, etcetera, cause craziness & not a living dead scenario) could occur in humans.
According to #science, the answer is yes. At the 10:15 mark of this video mentions a parasitic protozoan that replaces mammels fear of #cats with a love for cats (or at least their scent.
https://youtu.be/jM5jf-8ekVA
I guess this explains why #Caterday is so popular online (regardless of the social platform used).
Although it usually infects mice 🐁, this parasite can affect humans as well, as it wants us to be eaten by cats (even big cats like lions). From #ScienceFiction to science fact. Crazy if you ask me!
@Tilopa@convo.casa @theappletree
Some thoughts
1. Lack of teaching in schools
2, Lack of teaching of critical thinking and questioning skills
3. Social media, has become a news source
4. Things go viral without proper fact checking, people share first, think second
5. People are lazy, easier to just read a social media post and take it as fact, share false, mis information without much consequence for self or others.
Plus much more.
Interesting to read on here that education standards in the west have dropped (well that goes without saying), also read countries such as india and China apparently have banned TikTok, as they know social media distracts kids from the work in schools. It seems that (granted this is from the daily mail, so I won't take it too seriously) that kids get more education from TikTok than from school, if this is the case what are they actually learning in schools, certainly NOT the 5 items above.
We are so scared to teach X in case it upsets someone or a small group, learning about the holocaust, requires us to look at horrific ideas and facts. When I was at college in the 90s we were told to expect abstract thought processes, people need to read, learn stuff that is new or challenges thinking or that is complex. We learn to accept facts backed with evidence, but challenge facts (like in science) with research and new evidence that comes from that, but keep challenging.
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Ah thanks for clearing that up.
Will be interesting to see what the figures are next year, after a year of no books to read in schools.
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“17% of Florida's children live below the federal poverty line. Nearly 2 out 10.
1 out of 6 Florida children are food insecure, meaning they don’t know where they will get their next meal.
And @RonDeSantisFL responds by banning children's books.
GOP madness.
… In contrast, child poverty has declined in California by 5 points… And California hasn't banned books.”
James Connor
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Columbia space shuttle disaster: Remembering seven astronauts lost on Feb. 1, 2003 - ABC13 Houston https://abc13.com/columbia-astronauts-killed-disaster-explosion-feb-1-2003/1731287/ I remember that morning vividly. Was on my way to a girls STEM event at University of Houston - Clear Lake when the news broke. We decided to keep the news from the participants until after the event. Very sad and somber day!
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Happy G.I Joe day Mastodon
@Tilopa@convo.casa @theappletree
There is a scene in the 3rd Indiana Jones film where the are at a rally burning books in Berlin.
For the sake of the world indict Trump and his cronies.
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It's now TWO YEARS and 26 days since Donald Trump's Jan 6 terrorist attack. In any other first world country he'd already be charged with crimes. Instead Trump is now running for President where he's actively spewing more lies to delegitimize our democracy. INDICT TRUMP!
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Isn't it amazing how many #NFT's and #cryptocurrency "assets" are lost or stolen around the end of the #Tax year 🫤🤷♂️
I'm going to invent a more secure form of asset based on a unique physical "token" which can be therefore physically secured.
Online versions are for illustrative purposes only and have no real value to be misplaced, lost or stolen.
The absolute value can of course vary based on many economic factors.
I might see if I can ask the world's most valued and famous artists to contribute their amazing designs to these physical tokens. Might as well make them look interesting or even though provoking! 🥴🤷♂️
#Banksy is from my home town so I'm sure he'll be up for this revolutionary form of #NNFT (Non-Non Fungible Token).
If your out there please get in touch Mr B and let's gets this plan in motion! 😁
So much for the environment !!
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“We must fight against the neocolonial scramble for African fossil fuels” –
@Greenpeaceafric
Many countries are in the midst or on the cusp of massive expansions of oil & gas extraction and international finance continues to flow to fossil fuel companies.
@greenpeace
#activism #climate #climatechange #Science #earth #ClimateEmergency #Ukraine
#climatejustice #stopfossilfuels #Nature #energy #ClimateCrisis #industry #fossilfuels #Africa #news #humanitarian #oil #gas
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Anyone know anyone on the NodeJS team that might have time to merge this pull request?
https://github.com/nodejs/unofficial-builds/pull/59
#nodeJS #postmarketOS #alpineLinux #arm #musl #JavaScript #SmallWeb #SmallTech #mobile #education #foss #openSource
I have never understood what white space means.
@hasmis I am not sure what is going on in France, so can't really comment, I was just commenting on the UK.
The French used to be far more vocal on issues anyway, but IIRC they are raising the retirement age
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TikTok helps our youth stay in a permanent vegetative state, addicted at watching influencers' quick stunts.
In his excellent blog, Gurwinder shares analysis of the mortal dangers TikTok and similar apps pose to us and our societies.
"And this is why TikTok could prove such a devastating geopolitical weapon. Slowly but steadily it could turn the West’s youth—its future—into perpetually distracted dopamine junkies ill-equipped to maintain the civilization built by their ancestors."
The literacy levels of children have dropped rapidly, and the school performance with it. This has led to falling IQ levels of our youth.
"We seem to be halfway there already: not only has there been gray matter shrinkage in smartphone-addicted individuals, but, since 1970 the Western average IQ has been steadily falling. Though the decline likely has several causes, it began with the first generation to grow up with widespread TVs in homes, and common sense suggests it’s at least partly the result of technology making the attainment of satisfaction increasingly effortless, so that we spend ever more of our time in a passive, vegetative state. If you don’t use it, you lose it."
China has regulated TikTok, and India has banned it outright. What should we do in your opinion?
https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/tiktok-may-be-a-chinese-bio-weapon
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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