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

Interesting fact of the day:

Two baseballs placed one meter apart and stationary relative to each other in space where there is no friction will only take 3 days for the gravity between them to cause them to attract and collide with each other.

Did you know #QOTO has one of the highest user retention rate of any server in the fediverse?

We do not and have never deleted inactive accounts. Despite this ~25% of our registered users are still active after over 2 years of operation. Compare this to most other servers and we see typically a retention of ~10% or less.

To me this is the most important statistic to measure the health and success of a server, ultimately it tells me the people who come to qoto ultimately enjoy it here and want to stay!

#fediverse #mastodon

My favorite past time: commenting on group photos with "Its so nice to see everyone be so accepting, they probably have trouble making friends and get judged all the time for how they look, really sweet of you!" ... then sitting back with the popcorn and watch them try to figure out which one of them I am referring to :)

Its 65 F (18 C) in antarctica at the moment. The hottest temperature every recorded in antarctica. You can literally sit outside with a short sleeve shirt on at the south pole and not be cold right now...

Why is velocity relative but acceleration is not.. why is so hard in physics.. so many things are relative and some are absolute, its easy to figure out which is which.. but WHY. I've been far down the rabbit hole and it never ends..

How should I handle my anal retentiveness?

as suggested by @miguel31416

Is it anal retentive to have a collection of embalmed anuses from various species? I mean technically you're retaining anuses so if that isnt anal retentive what is?

@Gargron qucik question. Has anything changed on joinmastodon in the last week? We saw a rather sudden drop in traffic from the site for some reason. It is significant and i cant figure out why.

How would you like me to handle my political posts?

I am now going to carry around tiny pants with me should I ever come across some chickens to put it on.

@snder

I've been using the chrome google translate extension for a few weeks now to translate foreign language posts in my feed. It has done an amazing job virtually every post seems to translate and the translation seems well enough to communicate and get the original intent.

How is this not a built-in mastodon feature!

#mastoadmin #mastodon #fediverse

Wow Trumps approval rating is suprisingly high, even higher than Obama's was around this time in his first term....

Sadly looks like Trump is going to get reelected. Hoping Pete wins though so I can vote against trump. Only thing that would cause me to not vote democrat is if one of the evil three win (Biden, Warren, Bernie)

#uspol #trump #obama #2020Election #election

I am so happy about the Iowa Caucus results. I wasnt a Pete fan or anything but I knew if one of the evil three (Biden, Bernie, Warren) would have won it would have probably forced me into voting for Trump. But to have Pete win it seems there might actually be a viable option for me to vote for someone half-decent against Trump and get him out of office, so excited about this.

#uspol #iowa #2020Election #election