Notices by 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 4

@realcaseyrollins

Well they say a lot of things that dont understand.

@geekysteven

@realcaseyrollins

Mostly wrong. Inflation isnt caused by a desire for profits and cant cause that in and of itself. Where they show a hint of truth is it **can** cause inflation in the scenario you have a monopoly. I have mentioned before we need strong monopoly enforcement.

In fact I already mentioned the inflation was about to happen right before it happened. Anyone who understands economic models knew this was coming and we knew exactly why, and it isnt the large companies.

We had the entire economy shut down, we were about to have an economic crash. We traded an economic crash for inflation by engaging in Quantitative Easing. Anything other than QE as an excuse for why it is happening is severely disconnected with the reality.

@geekysteven

@realcaseyrollins

Depends, are we talking inflation adjusted profits, or non-inflation adjusted?

@geekysteven

@realcaseyrollins

If they are at record profits after adjusting for inflation then that is an indication of a healthy economy despite inflation.

You have to remember inflation is **not** an indication of an unhealthy economy in the present, though if it is excessively high it will produce an unhealthy economy in the future of course.

You can have inflation and still have a thriving economy, making inflation adjusted profits is largely unrelated to any inflation.

@geekysteven

Well I decided to buy a 1TB sd card i found on amazon for 20$... taking bets on if it is a scam device or not...

@lonelyowl I dont need it for anything, then again I dont need qoto for anything either.

@lonelyowl I dunno, any place with humans is pretty unbearable... Someone needs to start a social media for dogs and people named me :)

Man what is going over on facebook.... The past 2 weeks every comment I leave on random posts (usually groups i dont follow) wind up getting 1K to 5K likes.

I wonder if the algorithm finally figured out i was loosing interest...

Just a reminder, if a light is bright enough it will cause you to explode.. though it takes the light of a nuclear blast to do it :)

For years scientists couldnt figure out why things they painted black near a nuclear blast would blow up before the explosion reached it. It was refereed to as the "rope trick" because it was first observed from dark colored ropes spontaneously exploding in the light of the explosion.

@diresock

Well… five states don’t have a minimum wage: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Two states, Georgia and Wyoming, have a minimum wage below $7.25 per hour.

Seems I was mistaken there. Just double checked, indeed there are two states below federal minimum wage.

The massive increase in wealth of anyone who gets into congress is a more interesting trend that needs investigation.

Indeed that would be more interesting a argument.

@QasimRashid

@QasimRashid

Wow so much misleading data here not sure where to start…

Billionaire tax rate: 8.2%
Worker tax rate: 13%

The billionaire tax rate you site is across the entire family then averaged per person. So a billionaire with 5 new born kids and a wife would show1/7th his real paid tax rate.”

As if that werent bad enough the worker tax rate is the number as it would be calculated for individual works, not diluted across the family. So clearly this is an intentional cheat.

How do I know? Because literally the first hit when i google searched it gave those numbers and when investigating the source I found the intentionally misleading nature of it.

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2023: $7.25

This has two problems.. 1st, you are cmparing an entire persons life worth (including inheretance) and comparing it against someone supposed hourly wage. These arent even remotely comparable or related things.

On top of that you used the federal minimum wage which is not actually used, anywhere. The states all have their own minimum wage, and they are all above that of the federal minimum wage. So the federal minimum wage you list is literally not the minimum wage used anywhere

This is a big reason why these sorts of arguments are dismissed by so many people, they are so over the top dishonest and biased people have stopped paying attention to this sort of nonsense.

@thatguyoverthere

Im not going to play that game.. your tone was apparent and implied:

I had no idea you were an expert on water fowl. How often do you interact with ducks out of curiosity?

you really do seem to be an expert at just about everything. pretty amazing sir.

Seems obvious to me this was meant sarcastically and in a mocking tone. So you assumed going in I had no expiernce raising ducks (the assumption) and even went so far as to mock the fact that I did.

@thatguyoverthere More like projecting... but call it what you will.

@thatguyoverthere

Probaby a good reason not to make assumptions then.

@thatguyoverthere You are the only one imagining a competition here.. **You** are the one who challenged my expertise and demanded what it was.. Prior to that I had no desire to measure who was the greater expert, I still dont.. that was all you and now your crying foul... way to go.

@thatguyoverthere

I never claimed to be an expert on this, in fact I explicitly said I dont like the term. But ok if your amazed by the fact that I raised ducks for 15 years thats cool. I have talked about it before, I was a volunteer for 15 years at "The great vally nature center" where I was responsible for caring for all the animals there and was often the only person responsible for it. That included ducks, chickens, goats, and a few other animals.

And yea the issue isnt if more drakes are "messy".. the discussion is about how much of a stress response the females show, which is ultimately the only way we could begin to measure morality, if the animals care about the stress they put others through.. If the act of rape or even death is a situation the females **want** to be in (due to biology) then it isnt immoral to do it.

The fact that females, despite the apparent abuse, do not show stress indications, and in fact they willfully will remain in such a flock after the incidents shows, or at least strongly hints, at consent. If there was lack of consent then females would leave the flock.

@thatguyoverthere IRonic since I was saying that to mirror your own statement.

> I think it's funny how much people anthropomorphize animals instead of just embracing their own animal aspects.

Suggesting you had some superior understanding of ducks. You even went so far to talk about expertise.

@thatguyoverthere

> I had no idea you were an expert on water fowl. How often do you interact with ducks out of curiosity?

About 15 years raising them, though I dont currently.

> A purely female flock is no problem at all.

No problem to raise them sure. But to claim they are at their happiest is a whoe 'nother ball of wax. I'd argue they arent as we see an increase stressors in all female flocks.

@pwm

Nah, just the only person in the conversation who an see past the normal human box we frame everything in.

@thatguyoverthere

@thatguyoverthere

So no, you saw them beign sexually rough, to the point of putting others at risk, but have no way to know if the female ducks wanted to be in that situation or were happier for the environment.

I'd argue the best way to tell objectively is to look for happiness and stress behaviors. Take a duck in a purely female environment and they will demonstrate more stressed and less happiness than a duck explosed to it. Id argue this is a strong indicator the duck is conscenting to the behavior in some sense (in that, despite everything they want to be in that environment and thus moral for them).