Notices by John (john@liberdon.com)

@lain
Miss Key
She's unmarried.

@icedquinn

This thing?

https://www.cybersyn.com/

@lain
Seriously, what is that? That outer, light-colored layer (not the crust but the next thing in)... is that bread? It kind of looks like bologna, TBH.

To this day, I've never tried an unfamiliar dish that was supposed to be a German thing and disliked the result. Maybe this one will be the one? TBF... they've always been bread-, meat-, potato-, and/or egg-based, or it's been a dessert. And obviously a national cuisine is going to be broader than that, so I'm obviously missing much.

@anemone @dcc @bot

Wouldn't it be easier to isolate the other way - decaf coffee?

Also, tea? If I was listing "main caffeine delivery methods" I'm not sure tea would make the top 3 (probably top 5). Actually, let's see:

1. Coffee, no doubt
2. Energy drinks
3. Sodas (esp the citrus ones, but also inc. Dr. Pepper)
4. Caffeine pills
5. tea

Yeah I'm not sure about the relative ordering of 3 through 5. Might depend on how serious you are (I use sodas to soften the crash, not to get me going).

@dcc @emma

Coffee is also not good for your body.

But this is all about quantities. A little bit of a recreational stimulant like nicotine can be fine. Moderate amounts are addictive, significantly increase risk of heart disease, etc.. Large amounts are VERY bad.

A little bit of colloidal silver does nothing. Moderate amounts do nothing. Large amounts are bad.

@Jain @icedquinn

I'm definitely aware of very censorious instances. Some of my alts can't talk to each other, and I maintain at least one because I have folks on both sides of the wall I'd like to be able to talk to (or at least historically did).

I just don't get how that's related to what software the instance happens to be using.

@icedquinn @Jain

Well now there's a confusing conflation. This instance I'm using right now runs masto, but is very, very light on the moderation & blocking stuff.

@Jain @kaia @sun

Who is saying this stuff? What is it supposed to mean?

Internet access at home fully restored. Oh, how I missed thee.

@give @BeAware
The best of the silvery sets, IMO.

Unhinged > Unglued > Unstable > Unfinity

@mk@mastodon.satoshishop.de @mk@noauthority.social

Ah, OK. I was just going off of that video. I did say, "I know virtually nothing about this woman, so you may have more insight." Sounds like you do indeed have more insight.

Yeah, that is a rather dull and silly take. Of course monogamy is about control: primarily self-control. Oh, rich and powerful men cheated? No, really? So that somehow makes monogamy gender biased at all levels of society? Yeah, kinda lame.

@mk@mastodon.satoshishop.de @mk@noauthority.social

Otherwise, my priors would be that both "average ideal" curves should tend toward lines with sub-1 slopes, though the one men have for women should be steeper. But can one even tell that line is truly vertical? There appears to be quite a bit of noise, if it had a slope of 0.2 would you be able to tell the difference?

But yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if a woman conflated "attractive" with "date-able", and another simply lied and claimed not to thirst after men half her age.

@mk@mastodon.satoshishop.de @mk@noauthority.social

I know virtually nothing about this woman, so you may have more insight. But I didn't see anything being particularly feminist (or anti-feminist) and honestly her reaction didn't seem particularly harsh to me.

BTW I think there's more than one way to explain those results. We don''t know that everyone had "physically, sexually" as the presumed adverbs in front of "attractive". We also don't know how much social-desirability bias (which affects women more) plays into the answers.

@mk @lain

Found the video. Still laughing.

I wish they had included men younger than that in the study, because I suspect the trend extends both ways.

@mk @lain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPMsQzB3xB4

@lain

"Healty"

There's no shortage of men willing to donate sperm. If their was they'd be willing to pay 10% of what they pay egg donors.

I looked into it once. I was told my sperm might be acceptable on the low end (so $20 or so) *after* I graduated college, if my blood work didn't show any inheritable diseases. And a lot of what got me that high-ranked was my height (I'm 6'6").

It's genetic engineering.

@lain

The most polite and friendly rejections I've ever gotten were from asking out friends. Granted, they sometimes feel the need to be extra gentle; one person took that to the point that I wasn't 100% what she was getting at for a while, and then I actually felt bad that I put her in this awkward situation. Would've been better to be direct like in your illustration.

@icedquinn

Could be read as:
* did a software thing related to calendars
* did a culinary thing with a tasty fruit
* spent 1:1 time with multiple people socially

@lain
Nations are a dangerous delusion.

@vaartis @lain

Fine. Have a reasonable and factual answer if you must.