Notices by Jan Koekepan (jankoekepan@freehold.earth), page 10

@Verus @augustus

No biggie. In a while you'll be navigating it like a pro.

No solution is perfect, but this is a lot better than nothing. @augustus can help you more with pleroma interfaces than I can.

@Verus @augustus

Yup!

@augustus Speaking of opium dens and black smoke, @Verus had the ineluctable distinction of being blocked on mastodon.social for being politically incorrect.

@Verus You may or may not like @augustus (shitposter is another instance that federates with freehold).

@Verus Now, if you poke around, you should find that on this network of madness, things are a little more open-minded. I recommend opening the federated timeline.

@Verus Behold! It works!

@Verus @Verus
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@rye Don't do that.

Just charge it up, put it in a box, set it to loud ringer volume, and mail it to your congressional representative.

Mark it something like: Trump Hotline.

@aparrish Because in many cases mathematicians are bad at the conceptual and good at applying the rules.

This also explains why many mathematics departments don't actually bother with the conceptual, starting with what it is and what it does for you.

This is also why and how they maintain their pretence of not being an applied science. (Mathematics is an application of formal logic to set theory, in broad terms.)

@rye I'm told that cocaine means that sometimes it's OK, and other times it's way worse.

@bob What I see coming is more of the social investigation aspect. The consequences of the revolution, and the value/validity of punk.

@sullybiker I completely agree.

If I were a CEO of a company that used lots of computers, I'd tell vendors: "I don't want solutions. A solution is a thing where you profit from hiding information. I want tools, so that the smart people I hire can make the solutions that we need."

@delores A classic choice is a matching revolver and carbine in a chambering such as .357 Magnum.

@delores

I can offer some ideas. Do you have any particular use in mind?

There's always the classic Appalachian Assault Rifle...

@themightyglider

Or copyleft. Or similar. There's the creative commons.

@Dolus @roka

Link with details?

@augustus I'm looking for confirmation online and coming up a bit blank. References?

@augustus

I have heard first-hand reports from people who lived there for years, including those who were born there.

Yes. They are actually, literally, directly, comprehensively oppressive. The reflexive response of these people has been not to tell any government anything, ever, and then only to tell it what it wants to hear.

As someone who came from an oppressive environment - I recognise the symptoms, which are more convincing than just the war stories.

@augustus

It's not clear to me that China's situation has legs. There's a lot of tension between the people at large, even in the Han population, and their government. A country that has to be that consistently oppressive just to win cooperation is on very thin ice. People talk about China's long history as a unitary entity, and ignore that it had civil wars and revolutions galore.

@augustus @ajr

In fact, look at the current panic about border procedures. The fact that they were enacted before this administration, and of long standing, cut no ice with the shrill and the professionally outraged. Trump's being painted as having knuckled under, when in actual fact he'd been trying to get Congress to sort things out, and he just introduced a patch to the system. But they're too blind to give him any credit.

Disclaimer: not a Trumpeter.