Mirabilis @mirabilis@octodon.social
@gannet @DialMforMara @Johannab @Canageek 'Project monogamous' is a fantastic term.
@xax Or rule the world with lettuce!
@susannah I like the idea behind this, but it is a little sad that the fund asks applicants to submit their info on a google form.
@forteller pinboard.in is awesome, but not open source.
@ChristinaO Yes, yes, yes!
@ChristinaO Exactly. I hope Mastodon will be able to maintain this culture.
I read somewhere that having local admins on each instance, might be the key to it all. And maybe it is!
Are there other elements that have contributed? Does niceness beget more niceness?
I don't know, but I'm grateful for what we have here.
@ChristinaO I love that, too. It feels as if this place is full of real people, instead of commercial entities.
Also, it seems that most of the people on #Mastodon are being nice to one another. That means so much to me.
"In that moment, it became my mission. With the help of fake reviews, mystique and nonsense, I was going to do it: turn my shed into London's top-rated restaurant on TripAdvisor."
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor
I have been so tempted to do this. Heh.
@Mainebot "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. " – Julian of Norwich
Recite as needed?
@Zoonie You're very welcome.
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@plesuvius I actually *added* salt to my diet recently, to solve a little problem I was having. End of problem, so yay for salt!
@DialMforMara Huh. What do you think about that suggestion?
"pharmacologist and cardiovascular researcher James DiNicolantonio shakes up a nutritional hornet’s nest with his new book, The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got it All Wrong — and How Eating More Might Save Your Life. DiNicolantonio’s argument is simple: There is no credible evidence that a salt-restricted diet lowers blood pressure in the vast majority of people, nor does it lead to heart disease or stroke. In fact, he argues, salt restriction is harmful and ..."
https://www.salon.com/2017/08/08/pass-the-salt-the-myth-of-the-low-salt-diet_partner/
"For thousands of years, eating the ground up mummified remains of long-dead embalmed human beings was considered good medicine. That’s what they taught at them ancient medical schools. The demand for powdered mummies was so great that sometimes hucksters would simply grind up dead beggars and plague victims and sell them as mummies."
https://idmprogram.com/therapeutic-nutrition-paradigm-21st-century-medicine/
Google “wants to guess the question before you ask it.”
Ask yourself: how well must a company know me to do that? What else can they do if they know me so well?
The Reformation transformed the aristocracy from warriors to bureaucrats
http://sciencenordic.com/reformation-transformed-aristocracy-warriors-bureaucrats
@schlink That's really interesting. Thanks!
@kaye Congratulations! That's huge. I'm impressed.
