greshjs @greshjs@octodon.social
Mathematician and Programmer. Loves family, science, arts, humanity.
Been here a while, haven't posted much, might more in the future. Used birdsite but wasn't very active.
I'm a husband, a father to a toddler, a German longsword enthusiast, and in my work time a mathematician and programmer working in bioinformatics. I'm from the south but don't much identify as a southerner.
Hi Mastodon, how's your day going?
This place is so much better than birdsite. Here's hoping some of the authors I follow there try it out
What will it take to end the American adoration of guns?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/02/20/normalizing-the-intolerable-2/
@aral @starbreaker Basically we need:
1) To ensure money doesn't overpower democracy
2) For ill-gotten gains to be forfeited completely (not just wrist-slap fines)
3) Social programs and safety nets
4) Intrinsic systematic limiting of high-end wealth accumulation (taxation being an example)
5) For businesses to actually pay the social/environmental costs they incur
6) Mechanisms of decentralization to be cultivated
I'm in shock.
There's a flat tax idea that I actually LIKE
You'd all be surprised how few people in this world actually realise how their quips and responses to others create destructive nightmares for people who already struggle heavily with guilt complexes, depression and lack of feeling like they belong in the first place..
Why are straight Americans having bad sex?
Maybe it's because they get such shitty #sex #education. We're lucky if #SexEd goes beyond "wait until marriage" and discusses tools for reducing the risk of unwanted pregnancy and STI transmission, but even that is inadequate.
There's nothing about courtship. There's nothing about how consent alone isn't enough.
There's nothing about how to communicate desire.
There's nothing about pleasure, loving touch, or orgasms.
American #SexEd is utter shit.
new plan: let's create a Humble-Bundle-alike that's a nonprofit and has built-in aspects that make it unattractive to corporate manipulation
in essence, let's make the Mastodon of Humble Bundle
No more debates. Debates are a lousy way to settle anything.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2018/01/19/the-wisdom-of-rick-and-morty/
poverty doesn’t have to exist
This is hilarious.
"What if we talked about monolingual White children the way we talk about low-income children of color?"
We aren't close to being merciless enough in identifying and punishing wage theft.
