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   Furthering (furthering@convo.casa)'s status on Monday, 21-Apr-2025 00:01:59 JST Furthering

   I read in a book about an experiment during which people were given a square of their favorite chocolate and had to rate whether they wanted more after the last piece or if they didn't want any more. The more chocolate they had after a certain point, the less they wanted.

   They were either eating the wrong chocolate (probably! milk chocolate is sugar) or were not real chocolate fans.

   When I am eating my favorite dark chocolates (90% Lindt or 87% Laima, a Latvian chocolate), I have to hold myself back from eating ever more of it. Both of these chocolates are low in sugar, sugar being further on the list of ingredients compared to other chocolates. So it's more chocolate than anything else, though it isn't bitter like some of those chalky high-percentage chocolates that really don't understand the potential of chocolate at all.

   So I guess if I were in that experiment, I would skew the results, and happily.

   I say as I eat some dark chocolate accompanied by a mug of chocolate-and-orange rooibos.

   #Chocolate #Food #Experiment

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   Ramunas K Fishermang (fishermang@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 23:45:20 JST Ramunas K Fishermang

   For an #introduction post on this new, strangely filled place with a feeling of freedom, I would like to simply say that I just want to have a spot to share my pictures online. It is supposed to be fun after all.

   So I like to photograph the Sun wherever I can find it. I like to focus on feeling, rather than perfection.

   I also am into #gaming ,alternative and underground #music , #bouldering . I live in Norway.

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   Jürgen Hubert (juergen_hubert@thefolklore.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 15:16:58 JST Jürgen Hubert

   Some thoughts:

   If we want to grow the #Fediverse - and as I have stated repeatedly, I believe we do need to grow the Fediverse in order to overcome the hellscape that is late-stage Capitalist corporate social media - then there are two main things we need to do:

   1) Make sure that the #Fediverse is a place where people want to stay. I can't really speak for the developers and admins who put in all the hard work to make all this possible, but for us users this means be active here and be excellent to each other. This is the "easy" part.

   2) Do #outreach. Here is where things gets tricky - in order to encourage people to migrate to the Fediverse, we need to reach them while they are. Which means "elsewhere" - and in most cases, this includes the very corporate social media we are trying to escape from.

   Thus, I think there is a case to be made for some courageous souls to maintain a presence on #TikTok , #Facebook, #YouTube et. al. - if only to encourage people to move here. Yet if _all_ they do there is flog the Fediverse, they will be swiftly ignored and flogged. Nobody likes a spammer, after all.

   So the best idea I have come up with was to have a two-tiered approach. For example, someone could produce video content on #Peertube and the like - and then post a _portion_ of that content on YouTube or TikTok (perhaps with a delay of a few weeks) while linking back to their Fediverse account where they can access everything, the same way Patreon allows creators to share some of their material with everyone while keeping some for exclusive subscribers. This way, users might be encouraged to join the Fediverse just so that they can be notified and comment on everything those creators do.

   What are _your_ ideas and thoughts for Fediverse outreach?
   #FediHelp

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   War and Peas 🧿 (warandpeas@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 02:00:08 JST War and Peas 🧿

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   We know constant plugs are annoying but please try taking a different perspective here: Although literally millions of people read our comics weekly, it’s still difficult for us as creators to make a living. We don’t get any money directly from Instagram or any other platform we post on.

   If we wouldn’t have a Patreon page, we’d have to flip burgers and couldn’t make comics at all.

   So if you read this or the plug of any other artist, please be kind. Thank you!

   PS: https://www.patreon.com/warandpeas

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   Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 03:30:52 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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   @glynmoody I remember that years and years ago one of the copyright-extremists wrote that Spain is their entry into Europe. If they can get Spain, they can get all.

   So it’s no wonder to me that they focus there — it looks like it’s just a harmful long term strategy.

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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 12:41:09 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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   @Ponygirl

   > I believe the goal posts are moving here.

   There are no goal posts here, that would presume an adversarial attempt to prove you wrong or me right, I dont engage in those conversations. This is an exploration of the topic and I expect the "goal posts" on both sides to move in the sense that as we each learn from the conversation that we adjust our position to match what we learn.

   > Your original assertion was that atheism is faith-based and therefore a religion.

   Happy to explain what happened, there, and you are right.

   It will be more clear if we look at the two definitions for atheism:

   1. a strong disbelief in the existence of a god or any gods

   2. a lack of belief in the existence of a god or any gods

   Originally I was using definition 1, which I am not refering to as non-agnostic atheism. I realized you were trying to assert exclusively #2, which I called agnostic atheism. Since I didnt care much to debate definitions and the substance of the discussion is more important I deferred debating which of those definitions were valid at all.

   So while I understand that may incorrectly look like moving the goal posts it was in fact simply an attempt to use better clarifying language and avoid any debate on definitions themself.

   > You can apply different shades of agnosticism to atheism all you want, it still is not faith-based

   You are certainly welcome to make that case, but so far you have not made a counter point to that assertion. Please feel free to make that case if you wish.

   > Also, have you ever heard of the concept that one can not prove a negative?

   I most certainly have, it is one of the most widespread fallacies/myths you will hear people state. I am a professional research scientist so "proving things" is kinda my whole thing (scientific journals are pretty

   Rather than get into all the technicals of why its a myth I will give you a very simple example that proves it by contradiction:

   present you with a box, I claim "there is no full size american quarter in this box", this is clearly a negative. You can easily prove the negative to be true by opening the box, looking, and seeing there is no quarter in the box. Negatives absolutely can be proven, and they are proven all the time.

   > I can not prove there isn't a teapot orbiting the sun. In fact, no one can.

   Your language is misleading here. We can not prove a teapot is orbiting the sun **right now**. The reason for that is because the space is too vast and our equipment not sensative enough to detect it, not because it is an unprovable concept. It is perfectly reasonable to think that once technology reaches a sufficient point it would be trivial to scan the solar system and in fact prove that a teapot is not orbiting the sun. This in no way suggests negatives cant be proven, again, we prove negatives all the time in science.

   @ryan