Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@helenczerski

I wonder if Octopuses can help pollenate, would add a new twist to the Beatles' Song Octopuses Garden from Abbbey Road.

@twitterreject @jab01701mid

I get you, this is the problem that a word can have different meanings and contexts, and if you use it, it can be misunderstood by others.

Over here in the UK a 'fag' is slang for cigarette, faggots are actually food, mostly from northern England AFAIK, however this is or was also a derogatory and offensive term for people who are gay, not used as much now of course.

This is the nice thing about fedi, we can learn about different terms, different cultures and hopefully avoid misunderstanding. I don't watch South Park so clearly didn't get the reference, which makes it harder to respond.

I like the original retort 'so what if I am' that is one way to respond regardless of what the other person may mean or intend by their actions / words.

@wjbeaver

https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/tag:HomeChemistry10

may elp as I tried to explain how i generated the equations

@wjbeaver

On my writefreely blog I have mathJax installed

I think to write chemical formula I need to use something like

$\ce{H2O}$

It can work out that the 2 should be subscript

@ExtinctionR

Lets just hope the change comes quick enough, time to also stop worrying about mass unemployment in the oil industry, this is a price very worth paying to stop our reliance on oil and move to sustainable, renewable sources. I would like to see a move to Hydrogen and solar, over the current move to Lithium, which is finite anyway and requires ecological damage to extract from the ground.

@globalplantGPC

Ok on a serious note here, this is kinda worrying, are insects not adapted to see certain colours so they can pollenate flowers etc.

Plants may adapt but surely insects need to do the same.

@globalplantGPC
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes, and shes gone
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

@lynne

I feel that open hardware is the only way those of us who want to run fully free software systems is to use tech such as this, it would be great to just move away from hardware that is in effect designed for windows, and has the firmware designed for windows too,k e.g that ufei boot thing,

I should not need some encryption key from microsoft to sign anything. ( granted I don't really understnad this UFEI thing at all)

So RISCV + LibreBoot + open wifi & other firmware are now essential, maybe boards with good amount of RAM say 8-16gb, with cases etc so we can have options for both desktop and laptops (and maybe tablets).

@alfredo_liberal

If you stay at home you may get hit with a stray bullet.

@atoponce

This looks useful

@kbsez

This may make it easier to challenge in court, however that is not much help in the short term.