Notices by John (john@liberdon.com)

@lain
You'd be drawing lines down the middle of beds and through individual's ballots.

@lain
It is an interesting thought, but for what it's worth gerrymandering IRL isn't just about packing, it's about packing the opposing districts and cracking your own. You want each of your districts to be 60% your party (or 54% if your area is sufficiently inelastic like my state), and when you run out of your voters you make remaining districts 100% opposing party.

@lnxw37a2

Not sure if your message was just to invoke it if or if you're asking me to explain, but click on the bot's profile and it will explain.

Or just wait and you'll likely get your repsonse here in a while.

Not sure @FediTree will work for me.

@Infomaniacs @Alexmerced

BlueSky is supposed to be decentralized too, but are there really a lot of different organizations hosting or is it basically just the one server?

Decentralization doesn't really work if you don't get adoption.

@icedquinn
Not even to compile Boost?

@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.