Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 46

@protestation (Not that material wealth is the be-all-end-all, but it is a choice a lot of people make.) All of us with the resources and leisure time to sit typing our opinions into the Internet should be especially grateful. (2/2)

@protestation Capitalism, or the Free Market system is based on everyone, rich and poor, freely choosing how to use their own property and time. It's not a perfect system, and if there is unfair exploitation or someone assembling a secret police force, then there should be reforms. But the Free Market system is responsible for the greatest explosion of material wealth at all levels of society. (1/2)

Lake Retba in Senegal is a salt lake which is naturally bright pink like strawberry milkshake.

The colour comes from microbes which use a type of photosynthesis which evolved separately to the kind that plants use. The chemical machinery those microbes use is rhodopsin – the same stuff which is found in your retinas, allowing you to see.

#NoFoolin

@Siphonay Here's a start: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jordan-peterson-17972181

"If the good God Himself were not to see my good deeds (which is impossible), I would not be disturbed. I love Him so much that I would want to please Him, without His knowing that it is I who am doing it" (St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus)

Oranges need cold night time temperatures to actually turn orange. When oranges are grown in tropical countries where the weather is always warm, their skin never turns orange, instead staying a leafy green colour even when fully ripe.

#NoFoolin

A Tree of 40 Fruit is, quite literally, a tree which flowers with 40 types of blossom and produces 40 types of fruit. Specifically, heritage varieties of fruit from the Prunus family, which includes cherries, plums, peaches, and almonds.

There are at least 16 of these trees in the world, grown by New York artist Sam Van Aken.

#NoFoolin

Prochoicer review of "Unplanned," in Variety, no less.

The Engineering Archive now has had more preprint submissions in 2019 than were submitted in all of 2017! Not #AprilFools!

Oh my goodness I've just learned a thing about The Matrix that causes it to make a lot more sense: In the original script the humans were used as neural network compute clusters by the Machines and as a crucial component of The Matrix itself.

Which is why humans who were aware of the simulation could control aspects of The Matrix - their minds were part of its foundation.

Unfortunately the test audiences had trouble understanding this concept so the studio changed the human role to "batteries".

Un vétéran décoré du raid de Dieppe s'éteint à 101 ans — L'officier canadien comptant le plus grand nombre d'années de service est mort à l'âge de 101 ans, a annoncé le ministère de la Défense nationale. — https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/national/201903/31/01-5220279-un-veteran-decore-du-raid-de-dieppe-seteint-a-101-ans.php

@inmysocks But isn't "mute" the "silently block" functionality? I always thought that was the difference between mute and block.