Notices by 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 18

@louis

The library for the computer. The electronics was from going into trash bins to harvest parts and equipment. I had very little equipment, a soldering iron and some found components. Ibremeber just getting the solar for the solder was very hard, had to cut lawns to even afford that much.

@louis

I devoted myself to learning advanced math, coding and electronics. My plan was tonlearnbit, build something very impressive put it out there for free and use that to get my first job.

After years from a very young age studying around 14 in reached the point that was possible. I the developed a p2p algorithm with my own compression algorithm that was 100x faster than the best commercial options on the market. Beibgnonly 15 this made for an interesting news story so as a result I was getting a lot of news attention. Due to my abilities and the attention I got as a result of that I had about 20 different companies offering me jobs at that price range.

So very much as the result of hard work id say.

@louis again all those things could make getting out of it harder for sure. There is no doubt some people may need to put in more effort than others. But again all are capable.

At 15 my 100k job was my first job. So prior to reaching that point of success my mom was the only one creating income through welfare mostly, that had to support the whole household as no one else worked.

Yes we had huge medical expenses as my mom was in no way encouraging me, I had to fight her instruction as a parent so she was constantly trying to get me treated by psychologists or doctors to "get me under control". She has parkinsons and the crippling anxiety that goes with it, my grandparents had multiple strokes and heart attacks, we had huge debt, and likely some undiagnosed PTSD on my grandfathers side.

And I do agree people always are the hero of their own story. I won't claim to be an exception here, but i think my story speaks for itself.

@louis

I dropped out of school because they refused goblet me skip ahead to college level courses which in was already doing by middle school.. so for me school was certainly not a privilage

@selea Where else could we go that wouldn't allow fascists? That would eliminate almost all democrats and republicans. Hell having an account here makes you as much a supporter of fascism as anywhere else these days.

@louis

Disagree because if you don't have the money you are more than capable of making it.

Inb4: not everyone has an equally easy tine of getting out of poverty, the system is certainly broken. But with very few exceptions almost everyone is capable.

I grew up on welfare and in rather significant poverty. Now I'm a millionaire. I wasnt ucky or privilaged in any significant way. Ibjuatbblasted through the barriers rather than accepting my victim hood.

You are god-like. You can literally do magick in your head (math) and use it to change the world to whatever great works you desire. The universe can not stand against you, any barrier it put in your way you can blow through like no creature has ever even imagined. You can create things the like of which has never existed in the whole of the universe...

You, a human, are one of the most powerful forces in the whole of existance, start acting like it.

@robryk

Thank you when I get home ill relay this to the dev team.

@freeschool I am literally heading out the door to a flight. But I do want to give you a thoughtful reply when I'm by my keyboard. Im also forgetful but ill try to Rene era to reply tomorrow. If you are willing please ping be about this tomorrow and ill give a proper response

You are always hearing people raving about how amazing women are and the "miracle of giving birth" and shit... I literally just took a shit that is easily twice the size of an average baby and not one person I showed the picture, not one, recognized it for the miracle it was! Sexism is everywhere kings, be safe out there

@freemo @ryan I believe the goal posts are moving here. Your original assertion was that atheism is faith-based and therefore a religion. My argument is that atheism is neither. You can apply different shades of agnosticism to atheism all you want, it still is not faith-based. Nor is it a religion. Also, have you ever heard of the concept that one can not prove a negative? I can not prove there isn't a teapot orbiting the sun. In fact, no one can.

@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

Interesting fact of the day. Invoking the 5th amendments right to remain silent can and will be used against you in civil court cases. The protection only really exists in criminal cases because in civil cases the jury is generally instructed to assume an invocation of the5th is due to the answer being incriminating.

You are not the king of your brain. You are the creepy guy staning next to the king going "most judicious choice sire"

@elijah

For my curiosity can you tell me which domain name, specifically, you are checking?

@stux

@stux Thanks that gave me everything I need.

@stux Your points are valid, im just trying to confirm them. What was the website, maybe that will help me make sense of it.

Im sure your right, i mean there were enopugh other red flags of course.

@stux UltraGames HK is the Hong Kong branch of Ultragames which is a Konami subsidiary.. Basicaly the guys who built the original NES and SNES and many of its games. Most of them wouldnt be on steam though as they are all retro games from the 90s.

@stux That may be, though if they can just make up a big company name like UltraGames. To give you some context UltraGames are the guys who published all the famous retro SNES games and before. So they are **very** well known.

That said im not disagreeing with you, im just curious. Do you have any links so i can dig a little deeper, im curious now.

@stux I went and looked on Steam, where paradis is pushed, and followed who steam lists as the publisher, which is UltraGames and a very reputable publisher... So im kinda confused, what company website are you talking about?