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

Interesting fact of the day, in certain places in Japan Tattoos are illegal, or more accurately, it is illegal to go to those places if you have any tattoos. These include some public beaches, waterparks, and hot springs.

To me it is a huge personal violation to outlaw where a person can go based solely on what they put on their own body.

#Japan #Tattoo #Tattoos

@LouisIngenthron I use AI to generate most of my logos early on before I get funding
(or even if i know if the idea is worth investing in).

I may need to find a better AI, they tend to be ok and largely just remix existing symbols. But I suspect there is a lot of potential for better AI.

@LouisIngenthron Yea, well I support the war on drugs. I just define drugs as taxes :)

@LouisIngenthron Absolutely.. it does work both ways.. Prior to a decade ago I saw that, at least in the USA, where freedom of speech was a principle almost everyone once supported in priciple.

@LouisIngenthron

> The few friends I have who are capable of this get annoyed when I try it. Too many people feel personally attacked when someone challenges their ideas.

Thats part of the problem that has arisen in the last decade or so. There are two classes of people:

1) Those who are idealistically pure either by their fundemental nature, or due to peer pressure (having nuance usually makes you an enemy of both sides)
2) Those whoa re capable and want to have these conversations but who are far too scared to be labeled as an enemy of both sides... These people often are so scared of conflict they get annoyed by the attempt at all

Sadly its one of those problems that is self reinforcing in society.

@TruthSandwich Normally your pretty good but man you can be a hateful biggot too... The fact that youll label everyone as a pro-terrorist sympathizer simply for wanting peace and cease fire is... well.. a disgusting take.

@Marbleturtle

I have done quite a few SCUBA dives and can say even seeing a whale share takes quite a bit of effort... You can do 10 dives and see one maybe once or twice. Even if you see one good luck catching up. They look like they move slow but they are really booking it. Will take all your energy to keep up for even a short time.

Given that, and the fact that Is uspect they give birth too deep to be seen (we only observe them when they come up to feed) that is not particularly surprising.

@realcaseyrollins

@jeff

On that we agree, we do not want a global government...

People keep trying to fix problems by making every more expansive laws and tgiving the power to enforce it to ever more expansive governing bodies... What people dont realize is that will just keep making matters worse. The real solutions are the hard ones, and they are social, and sadly trying to force social change at gun point is aboutt he most anti-social thing you can do :)

@thor

@jeff

I tend to agree that national government ruling over local is a big part of the problem of many nations, not just the USA.. But its the norm in almost every nation as well for whatever that is worth.

@thor

@jeff

I wouldnt quite go that dramatic. I mean.. countries could, int heory, accept majority rule. I would be scared of genocide, but I dont think its "required" for such a thing to exist.. the bigger concern is that it enables it at all.

For me I generally prefer local governments having power over larger governments.. at least within a framework. So any sort of global government heads in the opposite direction of what I'd like.

@thor

@thor

As far as I know the UN already has no legal authority over the USA, so this wouldnt make sense... we currently cant and dont veto UN rulings since they have no legal bearing on us unless we want it to (and pass our own separate law to enforce it).

As far as I know no country has any internal system that obligates it to the ruling of international court.

That said I would be very much against giving the UN, or any international court, authority locally. Each country can and should choose to adopt their rullings on a case by case basis.

@jeff

@freepeoplesfreepress This stuff is a tough one. I would tend to agree with your decision. That said as a general rule I never make oaths or promises. I word myself carefully to explain my intent but never commit to an unwavering promise.

Interesting fact of the day: The two largest fish known to us are in fact quite different in their maximum observed size.

The whale shark is generally considered the largest and their maximum size in tones is a little over 20 tons.

By comparison the basking shark is the second biggest but its max size only comes in at a little over 5 tones.

That would mean, by weight, the largest fish in the world is at its maximum 4x bigger thant he second biggest.

Interestingly, however, there isnt nearly as much disparity in their maximum length. The Whale Shark maxes out around 18 meters while the Basking Shark is around 14 meters.

#Ocean #Biology #Science #Stem #Shark #Sharks #Fish

@curtis

You made me laugh, and I am not happy about it :)

@LouisIngenthron similar order of magnitude yea.

@ethanschoonover

Dude I got so much sleep debt accrued that the sleep bank is about to foreclose and cancel all my credit!

Interesting fact of the day: Both dogs and wolves start to display object permanence at about the same time in their development (5b object permanence at ~11 weeks).

By comparison humans start to show stage 5b object permanence around 12 to 18 month.

#Psychology #Stem #Science

@freepeoplesfreepress What if you made a promise/oath that you realize later you judged incorrectly..

For example you make an oath of secrecy and then the person tells you that they are a serial killer, before that they were a good friend you would have trusted.... would you break your oath to prevent them from murdering more people?

I miss having deep nuanced quality conversations in real life... Everyone has become to boring with idealistically pure thoughts and everything revolves around them justifying those ideals... I miss when people would think for themselves and offer real insight rather than just a catalog of their biases....

Luckily I do still have friends like this, but they are just such a rare breed. Even the intellectuals are often mind numbingly boring.