Notices by 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)

@realcaseyrollins

Totally agree, that is a huge problem. But its important to note it only works when those bots are imitating people of a group you wish to belong to. So it still depends on the underlying point, there must be a problem with your existing community to want to be part of some other community to begin with. So just bots that are part of the populace doesnt matter unless those bots pretend to be part of the community you feel strongly you want to be accepted into.

@lnxw37b2

@corruptian

Indocrination exists but its just the wrong way to think about it is all. People want to fit in, in an effort to fit in they willa dopt the opinions of the group that are central to that group. That is indotrination. But a better way to view it is not indoctrination, its people who have a social void and a desire to feel part of something good and grand, and larger than them that inspires them. It is that desire that leads to what people call indoctrination. In other words, indoctrinated people are the direct result of the flaws in the community they come from, otherwise those communities would have been what indoctrinated them instead since they would have been happy to fit in with their home community in that case.

@realcaseyrollins

Life expiernce... no one gets told by people they dont like and dont connect with "hey beleive X" and they go "Sure X it is!".. Indoctrination is always about fitting in, and that doesnt happen unless there is a void someone needs filled to begin with that causes them to compromise their personal beliefs in an effort to fit in.

Indoctrination of **any** kind doesnt exist. Its just people filling voids of one kind or another. Most indoctrination is finding friends among people who accept you and nothing more.

@chris Pretty weak counterargument :)

@chris Sure absolutely, if someone says something that leads to someone looking closely and finding legit illegal stuff, yea, that illegal stuff may get you deported, it has nothing to do with the speech in that case.

But that is, of course, not what we are talking about with the current administration explicitly stating they will deport people simply for protesting in pro-palestinian movements. A very clear violation of freedom of speech

@chris Huh, none of these people had any connection with combatants. What are you talking about, every single one of them has expressed support for a **country** one of our allies is at war with, or even if you argue us being at war with. Stated our enemy is right, without having any actual connection with them in no way makes someone an enemy combatant.

A curse on whoever wired up this cable. Red is green, green is red, and +12V is black?!

@chris It protects you from consequences from the government... thats the whole point. If those consequences are you being deported or other legal consequences then it isnt free speech (outside of calls to action of course, but thats another matter),

@leonerd

Thats because they dont stand for what you think!

Here is what the letters mean:

R - Rainforest Green
G - Garnet Red
B - Beryl Blue

@rhys While I think the tarrifs are a dumb idea this does show as counter-evidence to the incorrect claim that tarrifs are paid by americans. While ostensibly that is true, in the end the cost is always paid by the seller one way or another.

@cwebber Wonderful to see you moved away from that more abusive server and that I can follow you again. Hope you have been doing well.

@splitshockvirus

Looks like I would dig it, thanks.

@splitshockvirus

Which game?

@unabomber

Oh im not saying I agree with Reich. There are many factors that make people poor, and it hardly is limited to them just not investing. Though poor financial hygiene is certainly a component.

@unabomber Thats a lot of words for saying "poor people are poor because they dont invest"

My first W3C specification has been posted by the W3C. Super excited, cant wait to get the others in!

https://www.w3.org/submissions/semantic-versioning/

Read more about it here: https://cleverthis.com/news/clever-semantic-versioning-w3c-submission/

#W3C #CleverThis #SemVer #SemanticVersioning #Foss #FLOSS #OSS #CS #Programming #Software

@realcaseyrollins

A place for them to get together and talk about what dogs they shot that day for running up to them asking for kisses?

@fba

When the Earth Held Its Breath

When the earth held its breath,
and the trees stopped speaking in green,
I found your shadow pressed into the silence—
not like absence,
but like the memory of warmth
left in a chair
after someone has risen.

I did not call your name.
It was already there,
inscribed beneath the skin of rain,
folded into the hush of wheat fields
bowing under the weight of their gold.
Even the wind carried you—
not as sound,
but as the echo of longing
before the voice has formed.

There were no angels.
Only the dust rising
from the soles of tired workers
who knew love by its weight,
not its wings.
And still, the sun leaned low,
willing to touch the dirt
just to reach us.

You were the breath I took
before understanding what it meant
to be hollow
and still full.
You were the salt in my wound
that sang.

Oh, what a terrible, beautiful thing—
to be stitched into another’s silence.
To be the ache
someone calls home.
To carry within you
the whole cathedral of their absence,
lit by nothing
but the soft, persistent flame
of remembering.

And still—
I would carry it.
The ache, the salt,
the tender ruins of your voice
crumbling somewhere
between my ribs.

I would carry it
into the next life
and the next,
and the next—
not because I must,
but because
even grief
was more beautiful
with you in it.

-- Jeffrey Freeman

A poem I just wrote as I sit here missing Noi Noi (my fiancee). She is so far away its hard, but I hope to see her soon.

#Poem #Poetry #English #Writing

@freeschool @invidious

I generally do invest in people directly, just as I do in aggregate. The problem is when you help people one on one your reach has a large impact burt over very few people.

I have many times in my life taken homeless people into my home and invested in them to get a start in life. In some cases they have stayed with me for a year or more, and in some cases I have even paid for their university fees.

About 50% of the time it works out and the money and time is well spent. But I can at most do this for about one person every few years. It doesnt scale well. Sadly if I just give people money 99% of them never achieve anything with it, it only ever works with strong guidance and oversight, and even then at only a 50% rate. So overall while I do find this important due to the small number of people I can reach it isnt typically the bulk of the time and effort I put into helping people anymore. Especially because now investing that time into making large amounts of money I can reach and help far more people