@jmcrowell Sorry to hear that... politics is such a mess sometimes.
Verified in the handle is intended to be a running joke, its not real in any sense.
That said if you truly want to be "verified" use keyoxide or keybase. Check out my profile for an example of both. The green highlighting and check mark are somewhat akin to verification and the process "proves" your identity against your other online identities.
For anyone curious here is the very first toot I ever made on QOTO:
@peterdrake steaks are on a plate, everything else is on a bun.. my shirt is the plate :)
@Dcsblack thanks!
@Dcsblack im curious how real they look
@Dcsblack pictures?
@Dcsblack does it work?
@freemo I was the HazMat/HazWaste guy for our plant, before it recently shut down. We were moving an R&D centrifugal compressor test stand across the country in pieces. It had 2 20ft cooling towers. They split them in half to get ready for trucking. They hadn't done any maintenance on it, because the entire building was no access, accept to the R&D engineers and myself (safety inspections). So when they split them apart, they found that pigeons had taken them over some time ago. Me and the other hazmat guy (my dad) were asked to clean them, as it's hazardous, and would give us a bonus. Had to be done in 24hrs. We stayed all day and night to get it done. I have never seen so much shit and bird carcasses in my life. I talked to the local HazWaste company, they said we saved them $50k-75k they would have charged, and it would have taken them a week. Attached is the 55gal drum of waste, ended up taking up 2 of them. (also, I didn't plan on expansion, was in a hurry, and the shit popped the seals of the drums, and I had to transfer into 3 55gal drums)
Luckily we never got on fediblock.. but he did manage to give us a very bad reputation with several servers who took his attacks as legitimate.
a rough diagram showing how #Eratosthenes was able to 1) discover the earth was round and 2) calculate its radius... 2000+ years ago
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE