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

@houseoftolstoy yes this is true. I have argued for other approaches before to representative democracy. For example people vote for the the characteristics they care about (for example lowering unemployment) and create a sort of democraticly compiled list of priorities. Then any potential representative who has had the biggest positive impact while being in office on the given priorities is automatically elected (with the ability of the people to block any particular representative from gaining power directly with a 2/3rds vote).

I feel this could work but the devil would be in the details as always.

@realcaseyrollins Not me, I want societies to be oppressed as possible, so long as I am not the one being oppressed!

@lucifargundam

@lucifargundam wouldnt be too hard to make actually. copper plate under the bed, 4 motors attached to strong magnets on each corner.. spin the magnets, bed hovers.

@lucifargundam No, I think ill have to cook it naked next time.

@lucifargundam Just do a labcation... show up to the lab in sandals and shorts, turn on the UV disinfecting lamp, lay on a lounge chair and get a tan!

@fcktheworld587

ill buy that :)

Last time I cooked scallops my shirt smelled like seafood all day and the house smelled of seafood for a few days.... I just bought more scallops!

@houseoftolstoy Yea, its a fair goal.. though keep in mind this study likely wasnt paid for with tax dollars.

But yea anything we can do to improve the quality of the studies that are getting money is a good effort. I just dont think the general public are capable at evaluating. So there would need to be some other approach..

Perhaps the solution is the same as it is with expertise in politics... representative voting. That is the general public votes for scientists from fields that they think are important (like an expert in cancer research), and then those scientists collectively vote on where the funding goes.

@houseoftolstoy The issue with some people being morons isnt that some stuff will still get through. The issue is that most of the things that should get through wont. They wont recognize how some study will help cancer patients for example and just think its nonsense and block it.

You cant have useful science if the general public is controlling what science happens and what doesnt because they just arent smart enough to know the first thing about how a study might be valuable.

Anyone who has ever played with a magnet knows that magick is real!

@zpartacoos Ask @Tusky

@zpartacoos In what way doesnt the follow button work? Only time that should happen is if the user blocks you.

@zpartacoos

First I'm hearing of it anyway.

@lucifargundam

@JackMeinoff

I attached the analysis for you...

Here we see the same pattern we see of all coins that are on their way to the graveyard...

First it is listed on the public exchanges, which is when trading publicly begins (red arrow). After 4 days it hits its initial peak, then 12 days later crashes, then rebounds (typical of every new coin). At that point it continually trends downward, never recovering, and aside from the usual stochastic noise is headed right on down to 0.

Not once was it ever able to hit its post-crash value again (horizontal line). Its literally the worst trend line for buy and hold you could have. Only way you can make long term money off of it is to day trade it and play off its volatility as it crashes. consistently crashes.

@houseoftolstoy While that may seem reasonable for a study as obvious as this, the truth is, most people are morons and wouldnt know the first thing about what applications a study may or may not have.

@lucifargundam
Not a sufficient daily dose on its own to be maximally effective. Toothpaste only provides flouride to the teeth momentarily. When ingested it causes low levels of flouride in your saliva 24/7. Also toothpaste doesnt help your bones.