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

@chris

I agree.

A test for yourself, can you think of at least 10 opinions you have that is antithetical to botht he right and the left parties? Certainly I know many of mine are, but I am fairly unusual in that regard it seems.

@johnlogic My response would be, I'm sorry I cant respond to this, I seem to have a panic attack anytime talks about your company or airplanes, I cant even stay calm long enough to consider your very insultingly low offer of only 30K dollars.

"We are god-like in the reach of our actions, but ape-like in having the vision of the consequences of our actions." -- me :)

@freeschool @invidious

In the past at times i have been harsh about your pushiness on certain requests. But i have recently realized it was most likely you just being passionate about your view of a better world and perhaps getting frustrated about people not getting on board and working with you to bring it to fruition. That is an understandable reaction and in the end your goals are and were worthy of discussion and merit. So just wanted to say that.

That said I suspect if you took that passion and perhaps tweaked how you approach people a bit, you could get much better results. Some of it is just working with peoples short comings and not anything wrong you did yourself. For example long messages will automatically exclude 95% of your audience and cause most of your views, however valid, to go unread. Cant fault you for putting time into expressing yourself fully but regardless of how people **should** respond we live in a world where should isn't is. If you adjusted your message to be more easily digestible along with a few tweaks to how you otherwise interact with people I think it could go a long way at getting you a better response and backing to your goals.

@freeschool @invidious

But if you want two quotes to consider:

First a real one:

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." -- John Stuart Mill

And a common fake quote, everyone knows the phrase it is attributed to Edmund Burke but is really just a common phrase and not a quote:

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,”

@freeschool @invidious

I love a good quote. This one is new to me and i can think of a few quotes that for me are a bit more poetic and resonate more, but also would be farther off the mark in terms of your message. So not sure Id actively suggest any of them.

@girlnamedwar @Em_Quark

Oh its absolutely par for the course on social media, and doubly so for the fediverse. I just tend to evaluate people regardless of the norm. If you do something I see as wrong, it is no less wrong when everyone else does it.

But again, in terms of "wrong" here its a small wrong at best, so hardly worth the extended conversation.

@girlnamedwar @Em_Quark

Honestly I assumed the same, so I dont hold much animositoy to her for that alone. Its just not a good look given the respectful tone, and its particularly a bad look to try to slip in a last-word and then insta-block, like a more respectful approach is to just block. That said like I said im not really holding it against her too much, just not a good look.

@randahl

What, no it absolutely isnt... It is a requirement ONLY on mastodon.social. All other servers running mastodon have no such restriction.

This person is on mstdn.social (Stux's server) and they have no such obligation. It is perfectly acceptable and allowed to use undisclosed AI generated images on that server as far as I know.

If you doubt it just ask @stux as he will either tell you you are harassing a person that is working within the rules (in which case you might want to apologize) or he will tell you the person is indeed in violationa nd handle it. Either way if this person is using AI generated images or not that in and of itself is a vioaltion.

Now what would be more concerning is your accusation that their **posts** are AI generated and fake. But seeing as they have replied here in a way that doesnt seem like AI, that doesnt seem to be the case. Moreover it is problematic to make these statements to such a large follower base due to the tendency to dog-pile on a person who seems to otherwise be a real person, and even if you are legitimately right that they arent you should handle this with your system admin and the admin of the foreign server due to the potential harm you could cause if you are wrong, and the fact that you lack the tools to know if you are correct.

Just my two cents, I dont think you mean harm, but you should be aware of the very real potential for it.

@sibrosan

@girlnamedwar @Em_Quark

Fair, just wanted some info so i could review it and consider your point. the fact that Varenka immediately blocked me for politely asking, and the OP did not says a hell of a lot too.

@Em_Quark @girlnamedwar

Any receipts?

@randahl @Em_Quark

Why not just message them and if they seem fishy you can always ask one of the many questions AI is known to be poor at but a person can do trivially.

@TheOldGuy

You got it mixed up, Biden was the one with severe dementia. Trump is just an ass.

@wjmaggos

Up until the point that it incorrectly assumed wealth disparity is the same as instability they lost me. There is no basis for that, it is more accurate to say that the lower the quality of life of the majority of the population gets the worse a society is (and becomes instable)... these two things are **not** the same though they are assumed to be.

@stux On that we agree. I go to greenland to get away from american Democrats and Republicans and the shit hole they created. No one in their right mind would want to join america.

@JDGeoShack

Noe one is my enemy, but the people are absolutely guilty. The information was always out there, the fact they chose to seek out lies on both sides, and willingly make them up themselves (as I constantly witness) makes them just as guilty of the situation we are in.

@KateConnors @stux

@kcsorenby Yes we have a democracy that is crashing, I totally agree. We had a democracy thhat was crashing under Senile Biden, we also had a democracy that was crashing when we had little-kid-usa-citizen-murdering-with-drones Obama, and just as we had democracy crashing with Patriot Act Bush.... Democracy has been crashing consistently since 911, and the problem everyone thinks its one party or the other when in fact both parties are equally guilty and voting or either party is a disgrace.= since 911 onward.

@KateConnors

Always happy to, wha would make you think I wouldnt?

@stux

@KateConnors

Huh? No I hate what I got, I also hate what I had. I voted for the only choice I'd like along with the other 1% - 2% of the population that arent the problem.

@stux

@stux

Idle? During his presidency there were constant riots, the philadelphia skys were black with fires for weeks while the left was being "too idle"... Unlike you I was living in america half the year during both presidencies...