**I want to apologize to the whole #fediverse community, sincerely, for my recent behaviors over the last 4 months.**
If i have been rude or even short tempered with any of you my apologies you likely did not deserve it. Read on if you'd like to know the story and you can decide if I should be forgiven or not.
I know several months ago I made a similar apology, and this may fall on deaf ears, but I hope some of you will hear me out.
First off my last apology came at the face of an Israeli mob death threat on both me and my family. That added a lot of stress at the time and certainly led to me being a bit rude with some people, not an excuse but I do want to rehash it a bit for context. Many of you have noticed since then I do not go out without an open-carry weapon on my hip, this is why.
That said that is not the source of this apology but it is loose related.
I have been dealing with some health issues that, while not life threatening they have severely limited me in some ways. Specifically a very severe sleep disorder. The sleep disorder, and a brain fog that made it very hard for me to think and function normally. In and of itself these werent the root cause, there were underlying issues. But my attempt to treat the symptoms (since the underlying causes we unknown) actually led to a worsening of symptoms long term despite providing some help in the short term. I will explain.
Most of my life I had ADHD as a diagnosis, but it had never been a hindrance to me, in fact I saw it as something that improved my intellectual abilities overall. However this diagnosis allowed me to receive an adderall prescription to try to address the sleep disorder and brain fog, not to treat the ADHD directly, which I have been on for about the last 4 months. It was a low dose (20mg once a day in the morning to wake up). At first it addressed my symptoms with amazing results, but over time it led to a cure to my sleep issue but the brain fog got much much worse. In addition to that my irritability when interacting with people was worse and I have been quite dis-tempered with some of you, and I am deeply sorry for that if this describes you. It certainly continued to cure the sleep issue however and since normal sleep is needed for me to do my work i felt i needed to continue.
Recently however I decided to take matters into my own hands and stop relying on doctors. Instead I got labs through shady means to test for things doctors were dismissive of and wouldnt in the past let me get authorization to have tested. Namely my testosterone levels, thyroid hormone levels, and various blood sugar indicators. These tests revealed three underlying issues: 1) A severely low T-level (so low the tests couldn't even register trace amounts) 2) An extremely high Thyroid-stimulating hormone, 3x above the maximum normal range 3) metabolic disorder causing blood sugar and insulin irregularities (which likewise led to extreme runaway hunger).
At this point I found a doctor who was finally willing to listen to me, armed with a mountain of ill gotten blood tests and managed to convince her to test me properly for verification and finally treat my underlying diseases.
As of about a week ago I started treatment for my underlying diseases, needing to take injections of about 3 drugs, soon to be 4. Knowing that the root cause could finally be addressed I figured around the same time last week I could quit both the adderall and the sleeping medication entirely. Now that the underlying treatments are starting to work, and the old treatments out of my system I feel the best I've felt in years. I already lost 16 lbs, my brain fog has mostly evaporated, and while my sleep is still recovering it was quite improved last night... So while i have a ways to go to be 100% I am already back to my old self, how I used to be before the brain fog began. and certainly doing better than I was doing even 6 months ago.
I will do my best, going forward to treat you all with the respect and due consideration you deserve. Again my apologies.
So its done! I finally released a fairly easy to install (from scratch) Hugo based Static Site generator with full ActivityPub support.
It has step-by-step instructions on how to set it up for your own blog or static website.
One of the coolest features for me, other than having your static site blog posts show up as posts in the Fediverse is the support for interacting with those posts. Any replies you leave, likes, or boosts will show up in the "comments" section of the website on the page associated with the post. How cool is that!
To help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same. Add #introductions to the post.
#Photography
#Astrophotography
#Netherlands
#utrecht
#QuantumPhysics
#Philosophy
#Science
#Nature
#SCUBA
#Chemistry
#occult
#Biology
#bioalgorithms
#Programming
#ClassicalLiberal
So I got the raw 3d MRI source files from the hospital. Then I got the software needed to view the MRI in 3d. It let me rotate, slice, and even colorize the images. So **I** generated these images from the raw MRI. It shows my kidney, heart, and skeleton from 4 different angles fully colorized. How cool is that!
I also included some of just the heart and kidneys on its own from the same scan.
Police have "Black Ops Sites" where they take prisoners to be tortured.
Here is an article from 2015 reporting on the existence of such sites with thousands of detainees, american citizens:
https://theintercept.com/2015/02/26/exclusive-chicago-black-site-detainee-speaks/
Here is a video from 2023 of a cop threatening to take someone to a black ops site in Florida if they dont behave:
Upcoming Board Farm for testing Apache #NuttX RTOS ... Great job Tomek Cedro!
Source: https://lists.apache.org/thread/32twmd3rjl2hbj9h99bn2b7b6oq3wr3t
If you still have a #Twitter account, consider boosting my posts about the #Fediverse there...
https://twitter.com/RockstarRaccoon/status/1858185244014162136
Here you're promoting conspiracy theories that just don't add up. Somebody is misleading you and you should stop listening to them.
Billionaires bought the Supreme Court? Well that doesn't make sense considering the Supreme Court ruling against billionaires over and over.
Thanks to technology billionaires no longer have to fear angry mobs? Well that's going to be news to the billionaires getting attacked physically and also losing market share to movements coming out of tick tock.
Somebody is feeding you some lies here, and you really should stop listening to those people.
Harris lost in large part because she spent 4 years supporting Palestinian genocide... lets hope the democrats learn their lesson and might try to be decent humans next time we give them a chance...
> Billionaires funded Trump.
You mean billionaires paid a bunch of every day people (through ads) to vote for Trump... that makes the fault the every day people, the middle class and poor people, for voting for trump and allowing themselves to be bought. All a billionaire can do is pay some guy on tv to tell you you should vote for Trump, he cant just make trump win, that is all our doing.
More over, and this is the more important part, Harris was a **bigger** supporter of the genocide than Trump just based on the numbers. Under Harris we went from 3.4 billion support for Israel to 12.5 billion support.. Under Trump support when down from 3.7 billion at his start to 3.4 billion at the end. So even if Musk didnt spend money to have Trump win and Harris won, so what you'd still have been supporting genocide, even more so.
> I’m talking about the US’s transformation into a complete oligarchy.
Its only an oligarchy because the average american voting public allows themselves to be stupid enough to vote for one of two evil parties rather than one of the three other parties that arent evil all because the two evil parties convinced them of a myth of a two party system that doesnt even exist.
Having a population so gullible you can spend $10 and tell them anything and they will beleive it isnt a Oligarchy its an Idiocracy.
> Trump is their hired gun to destroy any rival to the billionaires’ political regime.
We already took away any such barriers a long long time ago when we started supporting Blue or Red no matter how evil they both got.
> Undoing of human rights as we are seeing in Gaza serves them.
We are literally screaming at them to take our right. I cant tell you how many times on the fediverse the left has attacked me for defending free speech rights or gun rights, nor can I tell you how many times the right has screamed at me for defending trans rights or minority rights. Both sides are screaming at the top of their lungs and going out of their way to elect people whose sole purpose is to take away rights... The billionaires are the least of your worries.
It is only a failure if you give up. Otherwise it was just another data point towards success.
Saying you are #neurodivergent / #neurotypical has become the modern day stand in for astrology signs.
@freemo It's a sign of hope for me. We really need to make changes in our country.
That was also a very good piece of art that someone made. It's a shame that it was covered up. Perhaps that picture has a deeper meaning about our society and how some good things are abandoned because of political stance.
@freemo "holy" means "set apart". So unless you have set a particular moley apart for religious purposes - it is an ordinary moley. A moley becomes sacrilegious when a holy (set apart) moley is desecrated, or an ordinary moley is used to mock holy moleys.
You are god-like. You can literally do magick in your head (math) and use it to change the world to whatever great works you desire. The universe can not stand against you, any barrier it put in your way you can blow through like no creature has ever even imagined. You can create things the like of which has never existed in the whole of the universe...
You, a human, are one of the most powerful forces in the whole of existance, start acting like it.
You are always hearing people raving about how amazing women are and the "miracle of giving birth" and shit... I literally just took a shit that is easily twice the size of an average baby and not one person I showed the picture, not one, recognized it for the miracle it was! Sexism is everywhere kings, be safe out there
> I believe the goal posts are moving here.
There are no goal posts here, that would presume an adversarial attempt to prove you wrong or me right, I dont engage in those conversations. This is an exploration of the topic and I expect the "goal posts" on both sides to move in the sense that as we each learn from the conversation that we adjust our position to match what we learn.
> Your original assertion was that atheism is faith-based and therefore a religion.
Happy to explain what happened, there, and you are right.
It will be more clear if we look at the two definitions for atheism:
1. a strong disbelief in the existence of a god or any gods
2. a lack of belief in the existence of a god or any gods
Originally I was using definition 1, which I am not refering to as non-agnostic atheism. I realized you were trying to assert exclusively #2, which I called agnostic atheism. Since I didnt care much to debate definitions and the substance of the discussion is more important I deferred debating which of those definitions were valid at all.
So while I understand that may incorrectly look like moving the goal posts it was in fact simply an attempt to use better clarifying language and avoid any debate on definitions themself.
> You can apply different shades of agnosticism to atheism all you want, it still is not faith-based
You are certainly welcome to make that case, but so far you have not made a counter point to that assertion. Please feel free to make that case if you wish.
> Also, have you ever heard of the concept that one can not prove a negative?
I most certainly have, it is one of the most widespread fallacies/myths you will hear people state. I am a professional research scientist so "proving things" is kinda my whole thing (scientific journals are pretty
Rather than get into all the technicals of why its a myth I will give you a very simple example that proves it by contradiction:
present you with a box, I claim "there is no full size american quarter in this box", this is clearly a negative. You can easily prove the negative to be true by opening the box, looking, and seeing there is no quarter in the box. Negatives absolutely can be proven, and they are proven all the time.
> I can not prove there isn't a teapot orbiting the sun. In fact, no one can.
Your language is misleading here. We can not prove a teapot is orbiting the sun **right now**. The reason for that is because the space is too vast and our equipment not sensative enough to detect it, not because it is an unprovable concept. It is perfectly reasonable to think that once technology reaches a sufficient point it would be trivial to scan the solar system and in fact prove that a teapot is not orbiting the sun. This in no way suggests negatives cant be proven, again, we prove negatives all the time in science.
Interesting fact of the day. Invoking the 5th amendments right to remain silent can and will be used against you in civil court cases. The protection only really exists in criminal cases because in civil cases the jury is generally instructed to assume an invocation of the5th is due to the answer being incriminating.
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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