Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 20

@design_RG I love it. I try to do most things in the console, the less mouse needed the better. Makes for a pretty slick retro but high-resolution look. My status screen is pretty sexy

Woot! Finally no rain tomorrow. I think I'll need to do a little human safari to the city!

@greylaw89 Never looked into it honestly. No clue.

@greylaw89 no idea i use the json one

@ikaveri What country is this?

An explanation of rhe Total Perspective Vortex, by Douglas Adams:

The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.

Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do.

For instance, in one corner of the Eastern Galactic Arm lies the large forest planet Oglaroon, the entire "intelligent" population of which lives permanently in one fairly small and crowded nut tree. In which tree they are born, live, fall in love, carve tiny speculative articles in the bark on the meaning of life, the futility of death and the importance of birth control, fight a few extremely minor wars, and eventually die strapped to the underside of some of the less accessible outer branches.

In fact the only Oglaroonians who ever leave their tree are those who are hurled out of it for the heinous crime of wondering whether any of the other trees might be capable of supporting life at all, or indeed whether the other trees are anything other than illusions brought on by eating too many Oglanuts.

Exotic though this behaviour may seem, there is no life form in the Galaxy which is not in some way guilty of the same thing, which is why the Total Perspective Vortex is as horrific as it is.

For when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little marker, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says "You are here."

The Total Perspective Vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.

To explain - since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.

The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically in order to annoy his wife.

Trin Tragula - for that was his name - was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic analyses of pieces of fairy cake.

"Have some sense of proportion!" she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.

And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex - just to show her.

And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

@georgia I find one excellent way, especially if you lack motivation, is just not shit for a few days, build up those apps real fast holding that turd in!

@cwebber Had to fastforward through the bulk, but i saw some gameplay, really cool. I'm a console fan so im bias but i dig it.

@cwebber Checking now, I could use a minute of procrastinating.

@cwebber Screenshots?

@design_RG Its up to, this is your baby. I do think more people will use it without the underscore just based on normal hashtag usage which tends to be camel case

@boyd here this answers it: https://linuxconfig.org/get-your-weather-forecast-from-the-linux-cli

@design_RG Could do #QotoJournal or #QOTOJournal too by the way

@cowanon

Thats fine. The guy who inspired this question was blasting anti-STEM conspiracy theory stuff, mostly all flat-earth related directly or indirectly.. 80 posts over the course of a few days.

@retiredguru

@Shamar

No nation implements anything in its pure rarified form, there are no pure socialisms either. In reality most countries are a mix of these principles and many others. Some lean stronger towards capitalism, others lean closer towards socialization or communism (depending on the time period and country).

@design_RG

@cowanon

Yes

@retiredguru

This one is to convince @realcaseyrollins to finish watching Futurama.

@Shamar

No it ceases being capitalism once you have collective rules that prevent free-trade. Just because it is the default doesn't make it ubiquitous.

@design_RG