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

@torparskytt its probably less weird than it sounds. There is a type of blindness where people cant see but if you ask them to guess at what is there they can almost always guess accurately. Like its not fully conscious. Id imagine it is similar to that.

@torparskytt

From what i can tell it isnt like normal vision. When they close their eyes they can sometimes see sometimes not. I think its half conscious.

@stevesilberman

That is not what i asked. I asked about the federal constitution. You are talki g about state level politics, not what i asked.

@worldsendless A search for accounts doesnt show anything (which it would if he had migrated). If that ever happened no one ever told me. Pretty sure I would know.

Maybe your thinking of Wil Wheaton from a while back. He was considering joining QOTO and I used to chat with him a lot.

@worldsendless You sure? I feel like if that happened I would have known about it.

@worldsendless Also just double checked, the server he is on doesnt block us or silence us. I also last saw one of his posts 40 minutes ago. His laster interaction with me (a message he sent me) was a few days ago

@worldsendless What do you mean lost him? I still see his posts and he responds to me all the time.

@worldsendless Fair, all good. Keep me updated, thanks.

@worldsendless wonderful. Please let them know they are welcome to reach out to me if I can be of any help.

Did they offer any explanations?

@worldsendless Let me know if there is any progress there. I dont think they have ever reported us on anything so very odd.

@QasimRashid

I've seen your posts, you wont be getting my vote anytime soon.

@VoxDei

> I don't think it's correct to say that living standards in 1975 were achieved by compromising workplace safety (and by extension that any loss since then is because more is being spent on safety). Safety standards at the time were what was believed to be acceptable, it's not that people were cutting corners to save money, and even if they had been workplace safety isn't generally as expensive as all that.

No you misunderstand. I dont think people in 1975 said "Lets be especially dangerous and fuck safety because we want to make things cheap"... I think that they just had a mind set where safety was less important for a number of reasons, a large part of it is ignorance.

The point however is that, while unintentional, that lack of process/effort put into safety relative to the level of time , money, and effort we put into safety today, is the reason things were so much cheaper, even if it was accidental.

> Any erosion of median living standards since the 70s is likely to be a result of massively widening inequality between the top and the bottom. For instance in the UK in 1979 the top 10% took home 21% of the total net income, in 2009/10 it was 31%. This rise was largely at the expense of the bottom 30%. (figures from https://www.poverty.ac.uk/editorial/more-unequal-country). The top 10% have a 50% pay rise over that period, the bottom 10% have a 75% cut. Similarly, from https://www.poverty.ac.uk/pse-research/going-backwards-1983-2012, the percentage of people lacking three or more "necessities" in the UK has more than doubled between 1983 and 2012.

This train of logic makes no sense, you suggest the lack of safety wasnt intended to save money, then go on to assume it **didnt** save money... this makes no sense. We know the safety was less, and we know that saved tons of money. Any argument you make about intent is not relevant to that.

Furhtermore your argument just doesnt line up witht he facts, like at all, and I debunked it before. In short when you look at the correlation throughout history between wealth disparity and cost of living it does **not** line up, in face we see an inverse corelation, suggesting the **opposite ** of what you say is true.

We have to be ccareful to use facts and evidence to back up our claims and not just try to back up what we feel makes sense or feels right, no matter what amount of explanation you can produce for it. Thefact is, the numbers do not line up with your assertions, yet they line up with mine quite well.

@kilroy_was_here

The Hogan twins are extraordinary conjoined twins. They have clear seperate consciousness yet at the same time can hear each others thoughts, see through each others eyes, and know what the other person feels physically (like where they are being touched).

It is truely amazing from the perspective of understanding identity, consciousness, and the brain more generally.

@knittingknots2 The first one would have been a crap shoot, you may have gotten super sick, could be more mild. After your first infection though its about as effective as a vaccine, and will ware off at a similar rate.

@georgetakei

As always thanks for sharing, and I appreciate you.

We should share the truth, not propaganda to help convince people of what we want to convince people.

Im all for sharing these polls, but not to the exclusion of polls that contradict this. We should share the truth, for the sake of truth, not propaganda.

@pieist Biden, is that you?

@knittingknots2

Yea getting vaccinated is a smart move if you dont have any medical issues with getting one.

I've been vaxed, had it 7 confirmed times so far, all post-vax.

@knittingknots2 No one liked it when they get a virus, and I hope you were ok

@knittingknots2

Just to be clear this should be expected and not a cause for alarm. COVID tends to naturally spike during winter months.

@kilroy_was_here

Yea most of the advances in safety arent really specific to teaching. But back in 1975 safety was just abysmal for everyone. Teachers were often exposed to asbestos (very common in school buildings) and other hazards, just as everyone was in various settings.

My point is, just keep in mind a 1975 lifestyle and wage is only possible when you cut safety **everywhere**. Once you start wanting a society that is much safer, cleaner, and more inclusive the cost for that is more expensive stuff, like butter.

Also keep in mind butter itself is manufacturing/farming and when you want to do it safely even just the cost to make the butter will be more, naturally.

@VoxDei