Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
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Joined Mar 2020
@folduptoys Agreed, we can demonstrate that we understand concepts etc by using them.
Teach people the baics, reading, writing and arithmetic, then use theseto encourage further learning.
If you can read and comprehend then you have the potential to learn pretty much everything.
However thanks to the education system the employers insist that people have certain grades so the two are linked perhaps
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Look, I don't know what the alternative looks like, but maybe we should aim to have an educational system that doesn't result in millions of people having recurring nightmares about forgetting to study for an exam for the rest of their entire lives???
Seems like a bad outcome
All I'm saying is that if someone was like "I will teach you what cos, sin and tan are but you will have reoccurring nightmares about exams and classes every week for the rest of your life" I would say "no thanks"
@neil @funkwhale maybe one option.
@cstross Indeed, good air quality makes life better for everyone, not just removes air born bio particles, but surely also removes dust etc which are also not healthy
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I will add that masking/distancing/vaccination is all good, but what we REALLY need is forced PM2.5 air filtration in all public spaces. Schools, hospitals, universities, shops, restaurants, cinemas: on trains, buses, planes, and passenger ships. And ESPECIALLY schools and hospitals. These premises have always been viral disease amplifiers, but filtration stops it spreading at source.
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Yes, Apache OpenOffice is still alive and kicking, and no, it is not intended to be the #opensource office suite for the masses. It still has a very specific use case, and maybe it's not *your* use case, but for those who it is, it's vitally important.
Test builds for AOO 4.2.0-Dev4 can be found here: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.2.0-Dev4/binaries/
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@pbarker Those stuck on extremely old OSs and platforms as well as those that require permissive (non-copyleft) licensing.
There are huge swathes of world population that are still using 32 bit OSs for example.
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@jimjag @pbarker
ok from a very quick check, LibreOffice stopped directly supplying pre-compiled binaries for 32 bit a while back (citing low demand) but the code is thought to still be viable for others to compile.
As an example, Debian seems to still support it across multiple architectures - see https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libreoffice
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Can you imagine trusting a car made by the fool who runs Twitter?
Agreed, we need to end this idea that items have a shelf life of when they are the in thing to have, then just chuck them away when the next big thing comes around.
Saying that, we have old,perfectly useable furniture at home, and still use it, why get rid of a perfectly good table,
We still have pots, pans, dishes etc from years ago, still being used as they are still useable, you eat off a plate does it matter how OLD that plate is, surely it is the food that counts.
if friends want to 'judge' then question if they are actually friends,
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Current price of petrol is 149p or about that, depends where you are in the country.
@ParaHandy How do other countries manage to avoid this issue ? or do most still have state controlled utility companies?
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RT @Britain_People@twitter.com
"#Sewage dumps by water firms could 'wipe us out' says oyster farmer suing the government."
Why should we allow one man's business to be obliterated at the expense of water company shareholder greed?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/sewage-dumps-water-firms-could-28630955
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Britain_People/status/1607764239921418242
@JewishConversations @AyeshaNoor
You have a good point here.
@bullivant @auschwitzmuseum @histodons @museum
Agreed, it is important to remember ALL victims of the holocaust.
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@tutam @eikofried Forever amused that this isn’t a call to action:
“Academics write articles for Elsevier journals for free and hand over copyright; other academics review and edit these papers for free; and Elsevier then sells these papers back to academics.”
Particularly because most academics and their libraries are funded by the taxpayer. Ludicrous. https://albert.rierol.net/tell/20210306_be_paid_for_publishing_scientific_papers.html
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BofA is now on my boycott list ➡️
“A collection of several banks — including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Barclays — have lent Musk more than a quarter of the funding, or $13 billion.”
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Here’s who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter: Who pulls the financial strings at Twitter?
#Twitter #Musk
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-funders/
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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