🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

So in the beta version of QOTO I've been working on I got a **lot** of new features working and coming soon.. a few examples:

* Captcha registration (less spam!)

* Groups! This includes a group directory tab to be able to browse groups as well as support for rendering and tagging groups properly. I will also be bringing up a second server to support creating groups and allows group moderation

* Markdown formatting for toots!

* Circles, essentially finer grained permission controls where you can create a circle of followers and limit a post so only a specific set of circles can see it.

So far all the above features have been tested and seem to be working, so should be able to do a release very shortly.

#QOTO #Mastoadmin #Fediverse #Mastodon

@nommon Mine is hosted off the QOTO gitlab using middleman, so similar setup as yours.

We host a lot of webpages for ur users, I suspect mostly blogs, out of our free gitlab (it offers an ultimate license for free for all the users so its somewhat popular).

@mewmew

It is also very important to understand the nature of 2nd party wins historically in the USA.

The USA has had seven or so times in its history where a third party has displaced one of the two primary parties, in all but one case the same very telling pattern took place.

1) The old primary party that was displaced went from being a near majority to getting no seats in the course of only a single election years.

2) the primary party went from holding a majority of seats to a negligible number of seats in a very short time as well

3) The old primary party never recovers and eventually disappears entirely as a party after sometime.

Its important to understand how quickly, at least historically, the change of parties in America has been, typically 3rd parties go from having no seats to a majority in only a single election cycle. So it really says nothing about their viability in any one election.

@mur2501 @stux

@mewmew

I used the word "main" not "major", these have subtle but important differences in meaning.

Major, like the word majority, is a word that implies you hold a large portion of the support. I did not and would not use that word.

I used the term main, which implies principality or authority more so than a quantity of support.

Yes I'd call any **main** party one which is on the ballot and has equal right and access to the presidency, particularly considering there are only a few such parties, sot here is a clear divide between main/principle parties and not.

Don't mince words here, you are trying to imply something very different than I am. You are trying to talk about what parties tend to get votes (approach majority, are major).. which is unrelated entirely to what I am saying, which what parties are main (have access to be on the ballot with equal privilege to win).

@mur2501 @stux

@jlio

When did I say I could vote in two countries? I never said that either.

I guess this is kind of on par with the caliber of conversation I expect from an america who supports the democratic party and biden honestly. It usually boils down to personal insults about some made up shit that no one ever said.

Dealing with americans is like dealing with people in a mental hospital who dont even know what reality is. Like literally every message you have contributed so far is about some imagined fiction of something I said that I never said, and you resorting to name calling over it. Its literally the same as when I try to take care of my friend with schizophrenia and he has an episode.

@TonyStark @stux @mur2501

@PixxburghGirl

Well considering I never claimed anyone other than Biden or Trump would or could win seems I'm safe then.. In fact I pointed out very clearly that americans would never vote for a high quality candidate on the ballot, and thus did not feel any of the high-quality candidates (which are pretty much anyone other than Trump or biden) stand a chance of winning, so in that regard we agree.

I wouldnt say their the same though, they are both just as bad, but in different ways.

Ironically Insurance is the very reason I had to leave the USA. When ObamaCare was initiated my insurance costs increases by 4x, and worse yet, most of the time insurance now refuses to cover me at all for most treatments and many doctors refuse to accept any insurance of any kind. For example thanks to ObamaCare it is now virtually impossible to get a Psychiatrist in PA in any reasonable amount of time (some have very long multiple-month waiting lists) while on insurance.

So not only did my insurance costs increase four fold under obama, not only am i forced to pay out of pocket now for much of my care, but Obama even required me to have insurance even if the insurance sucks and wont cover me i still MUST have it and pay for it.

In fact the one thing trump did for insurance while in office (he didnt change it much) was remove the requirement that people have insurance at all. So now if insurance is shit and wont cover you as it did with me at least you can drop it entirely.

So yea I agree Insurance is very important and needs some significant reform, and Biden sure as hell wont be helping there he is literally the guy who broke insurance to begin with. Not that I think Trump will make it right honestly, frankly I expect he would screw it up too if he had his way.

But at least if i judge on the actual results of what bidens contribution was to insurance and what Trumps was so far... Trump while doing very little what he did do was a marked improvement, and biden, biden was on the team that made health insurance in america somehow actually worse!

Also just to be clear, I do agree there are some amazing americans who dont suck. but they are like 0.01% of the population. As an American myself I can attest that virtually all of us do, in fact suck. The exceptions are rare and few between and im willing to accept that perhaps your one of the exceptions.

@TonyStark @stux @mur2501

@vgleasono Its a thing, its similar to a thingamajig, just without the majig dangling off the end.

@jlio

I am? when did I say I was a dual citizen? How about bothering to read what someone says before you call them a liar over something they never said. Never once did I claim to be a dual citizen.

@TonyStark @stux @mur2501

@coldwave Thats sorta true in the sense that we obviously shouldnt be eating a shit ton of high fat food all the time.

But the truth is even ifyou look at whole-milk and look at the vitamin D per calorie it is outperforming in nutritional value to the vast majority of vegetables (in fact there is only one vegetable that is on part with the vitamin d per calorie of whole milk).

@coldwave Well hard is a relative term. for example mushrooms are one of the highest sources of vitamin D we have from plant sources. You would need to eat 36 medium white cap mushrooms to equal the vitamin D in one cup of milk.

So yea, milk certainly fills a nutritional role that is not easily replicated from other vegetable sources. vitamin D is the most striking but even just the potassium in milk is something that isnt terribly common in vegetables in high dose.

@coldwave Depends entirely on the details. If your primary goal is to argue that "cows are abused due to the milk industry and we shouldn't accept that", well I'd agree with you.

The environmental aspect is a little hairier, there are certainly bad environmental practices employed by the dairy industry, but there are also plenty of such practices employed in farming of vegetables. So that is less of an argument around "is it worth it for the environment" and more of an argument around "how do we make dairy more environmentally conscious"

@stux

to some extent that is true.. trump is pretty bad, and it wouldnt be hard to beat him.. But yea, sadly, Biden is one of very few candidates that are clearly worse than trump.

While I wouldnt really praise trump overall, like i said he did a few things very well all the same, so I'm not really sure its fair to say a child could do better (though yea a lot of candidates could)... I mean hell he got our unemployment rate lower than it has ever been since the world wars... something like the best unemployment rate we had ever seen in I think it was 80 years... these are hardly minor or half assed accomplishments. In that category at least he has done better than any other president in living memory.. so the reality of the numbers does not line up with the narrative.

@realcaseyrollins

@TonyStark

Is ee reading comprehension isnt a skill of yours either... At what point did I state or even suggest follower count had anything to do with success at anything, let alone life? I also never said it had anything to do with if i was interesting or not... Try reading what I said again and then respond to what I actually said rather than some random nonsense you disagree with that I never said.

@stux @mur2501

@TonyStark

"Stux listens to you. Nobody else does." ... I've got over 15K followers, you sound like a fool.. Feel free to disagree with me, feel free to call me wrong. But it should be obvious, if nothing else, that people **are** listening to me.

It actually caused me to burst out laughing to hear you say that considering I'm in the top 5 users with the highest following count on this service last I checked.

@stux @mur2501

@TonyStark

What a convincing argument you just made, lol.

I am fairly well educated on US politics. Any specific points I make you want to discuss feel free, but you have literally added nothing to the conversation other than lobbing some random insults and providing no other value of any kind.. so..

@stux @mur2501

@TonyStark

Hate to break it to you but I live in both the Netherlands and the USA. I do, in fact, have voting rights in the USA and I do, and will, be voting.

As for making you want to listen to me, not really a high priority for me.

@stux @mur2501

@mur2501

Yea, thats true, we certainly do tend to be the odd one out on many political issues and processes.

@stux