Notices by ceoln (ceoln@qoto.org)

Court decision o' the day, allowing a false-advertising class action to proceed against Cold Stone Creamery because its pistachio ice cream contains no pistachio. The decision is full of bad puns and song lyrics about ice cream including Weird Al's "I Love Rocky Road".

#law #icecream

https://webservices.courthousenews.com/sites/Data/AppellateOpinionUploads/2024-03-5--11-07-57-6c1bc8cf-02f8-4e73-ad03-6fda396fef42.pdf

@fraying

Biden certainly doesn't control Israel or vice versa; but he could be doing a lot less genocide enablement than he is. If only.

@eris
II and III

@lxo

This addresses inter alia the claim that every (finite?) string of numbers appears somewhere in Pi. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

@futurebird

@lxo

This sounds like the claim that Pi is "normal" in a particular base. It's not actually known whether Pi is normal in any particular base, I don't think, but in some sense most real numbers are. It doesn't say that every other number is contained somewhere in pi, just that any finite string of digits is. So no irrational or repeating numbers required, if I have it right.

@futurebird

@realcaseyrollins @Gargron @serenebabe that doesn't sound like @freemo ...

@realcaseyrollins @Gargron @serenebabe @freemo

Criticising a person's actions != leading "a charge to defederate" their server, eh?

@realcaseyrollins @Gargron @serenebabe @freemo

Still, it's not fair or accurate to say that someone led a charge to defederate a server, when all they actually did was criticize an admin of that server. They're different things.Seems potentially important. :)

@SecondJon @freemo

Good heavens! That section of the talk page certainly makes it clear now the kind of thing that's going on. It really is just a Paula Don't Like You List, which is a fine thing for Paula to have, but it distresses me that it's being advertised as some kind of centralized list that people can use.

Even though it says that everyone using it should check every item, people are lazy, and some aren't going to do that.

The point that no mod should be that lazy is well taken, so maybe any such servers are no great loss anyway, but I feel sorry for their users.

@toxomat @shelenn

@shelenn
Seriously? Not your fault, I know, but #qoto does NOT have "no moderation"; this is a complete myth. qoto is as moderated as any server. It's not some kind of "free speech" absolutist nuthouse.

What qoto doesn't have (in most cases) is #defederation, and the reasons for that are nicely spelled out here: https://qoto.org/@freemo/109319817943835261

I'm on qoto, and as far as I can tell the fact that it's been defederated by some other servers has no impact whatever: I see lots and lots of people, and lots and lots of people obviously see me.

I really don't get it.k

@freemo @SecondJon

One of the things I've tentatively concluded in my journey from teenage libertarianism to old-guy leftism, is that being nice to shitty people is in some cases a bad idea. :)

But regardless, as Jon says, preventing all of one's users from seeing qoto, not because of anything actually on the server, but in order to indirectly pressure its mod to behave differently, seems to be a pretty weird set of priorities to me.

@toxomat @shelenn

You have three wishes. What do you wish for?
-- To travel through time.
-- To live forever.
-- To meet the President.

@pre

Do #Post , too; it's getting lots hypes.

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