If there’s a ‘Good Place’, then there’s one rule of ten that ALMOST EVERYONE ignores. Kings, popes, game hunters and every ‘Christian soldier’ pretends it’s complicated. It’s a very simple rule, with 4 words using only 16 letters. A 5-year-old can understand it. There’s no escape clause. Ignore it and you’ll not get there.

I’ll admit to mostly checking into Bluesky for a month in January. The user count is much higher but the quality-post count lower … unless you’re into phographs of cats and mushrooms, product-promoters, and political opinions. Forget any quality posts - a 300-character limit (but unlimited photo sizes) and 60-second audio/video limit encourage superficial sheepiality.

Not a desert, but next to one, and the water prices are higher. Probably 1000 lurkers for every liker, let alone comments … unless you’re an ‘name’ into self-promotion. Some names deliver inside info you’ll not see here.

Lemme delivers as much quality as bsky does. But you have to scroll thru more crap there.

Newton’s classical observations have stood up well.

If anything, it’s quantum that has been poorly treated by generations of explaining-away. The world of the tiny must be predicted with probabilities because there is no way for us to observe it directly. It’s not rolling dice … we -have- to.

While trying out models of what it’s doing boggles our minds, our limitations mean we cannot decide whether it’s really deterministic. Reality isn’t limited that way. (Einstein was right.)

Some astronomers recently took a clever look for whether space is quantized into a ‘froth’. They studied monochrome light from stars 18 billion light years away, at redshift z=2.34. They found evidence of quantization into froth in all that time. https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06016

EDIT: That should have read ‘NO evidence of quantization’ in 18 billion years of travel.

She puts on a good show … does her promos … then lambastes Californians because they didn’t put out the fire with ocean water. Anyone who said ‘Well, duh’ to that belongs in her club … the ‘if I can talk really fast I must be smart’ club.

For me, any office apps. Never worked in an office, never wanted to. None of that stuff. Even if it’s free, if it gets installed with the distro, it’s the first thing that gets tossed.