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

@MelodyCooper @zack @pies

The old "Gun violence is lower in countries where guns are banned" (ignoring guns effect on non-gun violence) is basically the anti-vaxxer tactic of "If you make vaccines illegal we will see less vaccine deaths".. well yea, sure, of course you will, but you will also see non-vaccine related deaths skyrocket...

@MelodyCooper

You just changed what we were talking about.. your talking about "gun violence".. not the murder rate... Of **course** banning guns will make **gun** violence go down. We are talking about **all** violence, including acts of knife or other forms of violence that would have been deterred by a gun.

@zack @pies

@pies @MelodyCooper @zack

Then on that we agree, as I feel the evidence shows it strongly decreases the murder rate when having it present in a society with high murder rates. Though I suspect you think the opposite is true,

@QasimRashid I mean, It was abusive and unfair, which is enough reason for me to give it a hard no... **no one** should be taked out of 94% of their income, regardless if they can survive it.

That said, I can pretty much garuntee the whole "0 of them left" and "0 of them went broke" is pure nonsense, you have a source for that?

@MelodyCooper @zack @pies

I think everyone is in agreement that the violence in the usa is a multitude of factors of which any influence guns have is at best a small fraction. Of course i disagree that addi g guns is like adding a match, mutch the opposite its like untying peoples hands so they can act.

@LouisIngenthron there are tons of different servers already built on the same protocol.

Bonfire seems at first glance to be a modular fediverse server, which in its own right thats kinda nice. But in reality it was designed to be a fediverse engine to enable people to fork it and write their own servers which is pretty nice. It is based on a plugin and modular desig which is also pretty sweet.

@sogga @realcaseyrollins

I pretty much use all the features, steps, health assessment, reminders for appointments, creating maps or points of interest when im out, weather alerts, i cant think of a feature i dont use honestly.

@realcaseyrollins nice. I doubt much will take my garmin off my rist. I have a rolex i never wear simply because its not a smart watch.

@realcaseyrollins

If i werent locked i to needing the features of a smart watch id likely get something like this...

@sergeant @trinsec

Sorry im late to the show then ;)

@sergeant always good to see another Dutch speaking person on our instance (one of our mods @trinsec is Dutch and i have a particular fondness for the dutch).

Welcome!

How is it i never heard of bonfire, which appears to be a activitypub server similar to mastodon....

@peterdrake i can endorse this too.

A waterfall I went to see with my mom and girlfriend here in Thailand. It was quite beautiful despite the tourist rigging all around it.

#thailand #waterfall

@Corfiot

QOTO is a STEM-exclusive instance. Its common for people to be on here and separate from their friends or family on other instances.

@stux @peterdrake @trinsec

@realcaseyrollins @peterdrake @trinsec @stux

Yes but the issue isnt that QOTO accidentally blocked someone.. the issue was someone accidentally blocked us. So even though QOTO doesnt block at all it is still an issue for us.

@realcaseyrollins

In this case it was a foreign instance that blocked us accidentally.

@peterdrake @trinsec @stux