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@mandlebro

Thats fair.

@angelobottone

@BeAware

Happy to help

@admitsWrongIfProven

@BeAware

I agree, most instances, even large one, that have frivilous defederation policies arent really worth federating with. I always say they do you a favor when the defederate most of the time so you dont have to get dragged into the toxicity that their users are usually amplifying.

@admitsWrongIfProven

@BeAware

depends how you define "most of the bigger servers".. for M.S and for many of the servers run by Stux, and quite a few reasonable big servers this is absolutely the truth... that said there are lots of servers that are quite large that absolutely will block simply based on you federate with (mastodon.art is a prime example of this)

@admitsWrongIfProven

@admitsWrongIfProven

They do, but its easily solved by just making your block list private.

The bigger issue is that it is not uncommon for people to block instances **solely** on the basis of it being a single user instance. I've seen this happen a few times.

@BeAware

@miramarvess

Oh, on that we agree, both parties have offered up pretty shit candidates... Luckily we have quite a few options beyond those two parties, and yea, pretty much every other person ont he ballot outside of those two is a much better choice every year.

@georgetakei

@angelobottone and i am saying how you identify someone is a fubdementally linguistic question. Remove language from the discussion then what are you even discussing? Soubds like your trying to force gender (a linguistic thing) i to meaning sex, which is not gender (though does have meaning beyond language).

@angelobottone they also arent universal. Many languages have no concept of gender at all.

@angelobottone gender identity and gramatical gender arent seperate things. Gramatical gender is the use of terms like "he, she, they" which are ways of describing someones gender identity. If a person dresses and presents as masculine then by definition then masculine grammar is what we use.

@angelobottone Man and woman arent the only choices in other cultures... Most cultures have three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter. Keep in mind gender does not mean the same thing as sex of course.

At least 13 languages around the world have more than 3 genders

Several languages have gender systems that dont relate to sex at all as well, for example animate vs inanimate or common vs neuter type languages.

@SteelFolk Yes, too much carbon is bad of course. Steel is carbon doped but we are usually talking like 1% carbon or less. In fact more than something like 0.5% carbon content is considered high carbon steel if memory serves.

@johnabs @SteelFolk You asked about its true color (reddish) not its apparent color (dark blue).

Searching for the blue tint is going to be hard since most hits are non scientific. Also you have to make sure you are looking for the apparent color and not real color.

You can find a source here: https://www.webmineral.com/data/Hematite.shtml

Under "Reflected color" it describes hematite as "White to gray white, with a bluish tint, with deep blood-red internal reflections."

@SteelFolk steel is usually iron doped with carbon.

@johnabs @SteelFolk

Yea, as I stated true color is also called streak color or powder color. You will find it more often refered to as streak color.

See here for a source: https://geology.ecu.edu/geol1501/mineral/hematite/

@SteelFolk

Ok so I think there is some confusion here... Hemetite is red "true color" and dark-blue to grey "apparent color" (that is, its color in a crystalline form). The true color is also called its powder color or steak color. In other words, when its solid it will look silvery gray to dark-blue... when crushed to a powder it will look red.

Magnetite is a some what different substance. Hematite is pure black ruse, or Iron III oxide, the red rust you are used to seeing on iron is Iron II oxide. Magnetite is a mix of Iron II oxide, Iron III oxide, and Iron in a specific crystalline form

Magnetite is magnetic, other forms of iron rust are not. Hemetite has a metallic like luster where magnetite does not. Magnetite can also form several crystalline forms including cubic forms (which are very rare).

Magnetites streak color and apparent color are the same, black.

@johnabs

@johnabs @SteelFolk

Im less certain of my stance the more we talk.

And to point 1 i see only shades of red and blue, red being henetites streak color and blue being its crystaline color. The reason im skeptical is cecause witb thin film i usually expect the full color spectrum including greens.

@johnabs

I honestly cant find any source that addresses if it is the thin film effect or not.. several reasons I dont think it is.

1) If it were thin film you should see a rainbow of colors develop, rather we see either a reddish color (its powder color) or a shade of purplish blue.. but you wont see other colors, like green, develop

2) hemetite that is thin enough to see through, but still far too thick for thin film, will still have a bluish quality to it

3) The thin film effects I know of are with transparent oxides like aluminum and titanium. Hematite oxides are not transparent.

All that said, hell if i know, maybe it is thin film and there is some explanation I dont know of where it could only create blue interference.

@SteelFolk

@johnabs @SteelFolk yes but the color blue in this case isnt from light interference like it is in the other examples. Hemetite is just a very dark blue color and looks blue when relatively transparent but black when thicker.

@SteelFolk @johnabs

Yup and thats cause the natural type of rust on iron (red rust) is brittle.. black rust created intentionally however is stronger without the cracking and chipping.

@feld

It would be if he actually changed... but it is so obviously him playing people, to the point of absurdity, I highly doubt anyone in their rightmind really beleives he changed. He simply did what he had to do to stay in office as a democrat, nothing more. This is obvious with him almost exclusively hiring poorly qualified token minorities clearly more as a dog and pony show to give the very impression he did. If anyone actually thinks he cares about minority rights rather than just attempts to abuse and use them to advantage, they are poorly mistaken.

@PadreWil @georgetakei