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My take on Question 4 of the PhilPapers Survey – What is the aim of philosophy?
🧐 https://youtu.be/pUBsdWotsT0
#philosophy #survey #video #youtube #short #ontology #epistemology #questions #perspective #responses #answers #stats #cognition #beliefs

12/12/2025
Innocent Conclusions
https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16874
Kickstarter exclusive cover! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jenniebreeden/devils-panties-volume-17
#webcomic,#webtoon,#comicstrip,#indiecomics,#Dust,#kids,#Oregon,#parenthood,#questions

My take on Question 3 of the PhilPapers Survey – Aesthetic Value – Objective or Subjective?
🧐 https://youtu.be/LhWXFlKWp1E
#philosophy #survey #video #youtube #short #ontology #epistemology #questions #perspectice #responses #answers #stats #cognition #beliefs

My take on Question 2 of the PhilPapers Survey – Abstract Objects.
🧐 https://youtu.be/7zoIiLpvVUo
#philosophy #survey #video #youtube #short #ontology #epistemology #questions #perspectice #responses #answers #stats #cognition #beliefs

Does anyone know of any #Boston Area print shops or copy shops that will print on recycled paper and/or recycled cardstock?

(boosts welcome)

#BostonArea #printing #questions #requests

The #christmas #threeForFriday #music #quiz continues and we return to a #ChristmasCarols round - let us know how you get on in the comments.

#musicquiz #trivia #musictrivia #questions #musicquestions #popmaster #musicfans #musicgame #musicchallenge #quiztime #instaquiz #silentnight #inthebleakmidwinter #littletown

¿Qué película es? #horrormovies #peliculas #terror #movies #horrormovie #quiz #preguntas #questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhpEskRt4E

#pelicula #horrormovies #peliculas

Our #Christmas #threeForFriday #music #quiz rounds started last week with charity #ChristmasSongs - how did you get on? If you didn't get all three the answers are here for you and keep an eye out for our next round on Friday.

#musicquiz #trivia #musictrivia #questions #musicquestions #popmaster #musicfans #musicgame #musicchallenge #quiztime #instaquiz @the.trussell_trust @sheltercharity #bandaid #ladbaby #killinginthename #midgeure @ladbabyofficial @midge_ure

Just asking a question here.

If Michigan beat Ohio State and was in the playoffs do we think this evidence would’ve come to light? #Questions https://twitter.com/lukeinhud/status/1999135509407322198

@BarstoolBigCat There was an investigation months ago but it there was not enough evidence to prove / disprove the relationship. That changed yesterday when irrefutable evidence was brought forward resulting in Sherrone’s firing.

Now that Pocket is toast (thanks @mozilla) are there any solid alternatives?

Discovering loads of great articles and links on #mastodon and want a place i can keep them.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket

#tech #questions #programming #notes #mozilla #pocket

How Do You Measure The Success Of Your Blog Posts?

How do you measure the success of a blog post?

Which of your blog posts are the most successful?

As we drift into the last few weeks of the year, I find the world of blogging gradually becomes a quieter place. Like thousands of others, I’ll be taking a seasonal blogging break as we head deeper into December.

However, one of the most popular posts I see appearing every December and early January is the traditional ‘My Top 10 Blog Posts Of The Year’ post. It won’t be long before these annual posts drop into your email inbox and WordPress Reader.

But how do bloggers measure the success of those top 10 posts? What is it that helps make those posts appear in their ‘top 10’ lists?

The more hits, the more successful?

Most bloggers who will publish their ‘Top 10 Blog Posts of 2021’ blog post will base their list on the number of hits each blog post achieved. But that always has me questioning if that is the right way to compile a top 10 list.

A blog post may have thousands of hits, but how many actually read the content? Does not reading a post make it successful? Should the number of hits count towards success when we’ve no idea how many times the post was read?

Does landing on a blog post by mistake make a post more successful when some of those who land there don’t stay and read the content?

Search engines are essential for finding something in particular on the web. However, how often have I clicked a link, then moved on quickly after realising the page I landed on isn’t what I was looking for? I’ll be honest and say that I’ve lost count!

It’s made me question whether that click I made should count towards making the post more successful when I haven’t read the content.

Volume V’s Sales

Let’s have a look at it another way. Take these two identical shops:

Shop ‘A’ gets hundreds of customers a day because of its location or large advertising budget. However, it gets few sales a day.

Shop ‘B” gets a much smaller number of customers because of its location or smaller advertising budget but gets a high sales volume.

Which of the shops is the most successful? A or B?

When should comments count towards success?

If I compiled my ‘Top 10 Posts of 2021’ post based on the number of comments every post got, my top 10 list would look very different from the list I compiled for the number of hits or ‘likes’ a post got.

For example, one of my posts that received the most hits did not get any new comments or ‘likes’ left in the last 12 months. Yet the post that was number 21 on my most hits list got three new comments and six further ‘likes.’ Which one should be considered to have been the most successful in the last 12 months?

Then there are some bloggers (like me) who may not count specific comments. Comments that add value or prove the post was read count. Whereas lazy comments such as ‘Great Post’ or comments that only include a line of emojis may not count.

When measuring success, should we include all comments or only those that add value or prove the post was read?

When is a ‘like’ not a ‘like’?

I’ve never been a fan of the ‘like’ button on blogs since I discovered that some bloggers and readers misuse it. However, I see many bloggers basing the success of posts on the number of clicks on the ‘like’ button.

Should clicking ‘like’ without reading a post count towards making a post successful? How many times have you had the same person press the ‘like’ button on lots of your blog posts within seconds of each other?

How many times has somebody clicked the ‘like’ button within seconds of you publishing a post?

Surely Sandra read my 900-word post if she clicked ‘like’ within ten seconds of me publishing it, didn’t she? Otherwise, why would she have clicked the ‘like’ button?

How do we know if somebody who clicks ‘like’ actually read the post?

Unfortunately, unless somebody clicks ‘like’ a reasonable time after publication, and leaves a genuine comment that proves they’ve read the post, we don’t know.

Misuse of the ‘like’ button seems widespread in the blogging world, with some readers even pressing it to ease the guilt of not having time to read and comment on a post. Some click ‘like’ as a sign of support but may not read the post. Should those ‘likes’ count towards the success of a post?

Some see the ‘like’ button as nothing more than a free promotional tool for their blog, without even reading a post. Leave a ‘like’ and, fingers crossed, it will bring in some new visitors.

The only success we should be discussing for these types of ‘likes’ is that the person clicking the ‘like’ button feels the post and blog are successful. All they’re doing is jumping on the success bandwagon of somebody else’s hard work.

If you’re wondering why I still have the ‘like’ button at the bottom of all my posts, allow me to enlighten you. I discovered (and WordPress told me) that it is connected to the ‘reblog’ button. Remove it, and the ‘reblog’ button also disappears from your blog posts.

That’s something I was not willing to allow.

And removing the ‘like’ button from your blog doesn’t mean it will be removed from posts when they appear on the WordPress Reader. If you’ve removed the ‘like’ button from your blog, are you aware that people can still click on a ‘like’ button when reading your posts on the WP Reader?

How do I measure the success of a blog post?

Simple. If I were motivated or inspired to write and publish a post, then it would be a success. Therefore, you won’t find a ‘Top 10 Blog Posts Of 2021’ post on my blog.

Winding-up

At the end of the day, I guess it’s entirely up to the blogger concerned about how they measure the success of their blog posts. What I do question, though, is whether bloggers should be publishing results that are not necessarily accurate.

Allow me to run a final thought past you

Suppose a blog post gets only a few hundred hits but receives over 50 genuine comments and likes. Does it make it more successful than a post with thousands of hits yet very few comments and likes?

What do you think? How would you measure the success of a blog post?

#blogPosts #bloggingAdvice #bloggingHelp #bloggingQuestions #bloggingTips #howDoYou #questions #questionsAboutBlogging #success

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A lot of my purpose with this account has been about letting go of my past pains, embracing change and sharing some example for moving forward as I personally keep noticing healing & connection with nature. Exploring, what can we learn from that? Feeling an end of this era, a new chapter to create. Im changing my lifestyle to some degree, a place Ive come to know. This feels strange to admit but this little box on wheels has been more of my home than anywhere else Ive lived these past five years. Ive worked many seasonal & remote jobs to create time for a nomadic lifestyle. I took a minimalist approach; recognizing & experimentally embracing you can do more with less. Slowly discovering many cross over philosophies with technology enthusiasts who love to embrace terms like FOSS, Libre, FLO and others alike. Pondering if many in technology fields seem to share similar views & values with ski bums, dirtbags and nomads? Ive met so many incredible people along the way and experiencing how healing it is when we genuinely connect.

The change for me now is of great importance to reflect. To follow through on realizing the healing wouldn't be complete without helping more people ahead. The silence was good, the isolation had peace but the final words of Chris McCandless still strike me deep: "Happiness is only real, when shared." Nothing lasts forever but letting go does feel uncomfortable. Setting my own intention for a mountain mindset based around sharing an appreciation, a love & respect for the land & people. I might have taken a simple approach to experiencing a complex world. And if theres anything Id still like to learn... is it better in life to ask questions than to give answers?

#deepthoughts #questioneverything #idontknow #philosophy #reflecting #questions #life #healing #natureheals #connection #nomadic #lifestyle #learning #change #deepthinking #mountains #oldgrowth

A glacier capped mountain peak known as Koma Kulshan or sometimes Mt Baker. Rocky outcrops under a cloudy divided sky, above cascading glaciers and contrasting textures of snow and rock.

A towering old growth tree with a wide trunk and prominent twisting bark is surrounded by lush greenery in a dense forest setting. The tree's upper section reaches towards the sky, while ferns and other plants grow at its base.

A silver minivan parked beside a large, moss-covered tree in a forested area, surrounded by tall trees and greenery.

The proposal by Labour Minister Bärbel Bas to link the retirement age to years of contributions has drawn sharp criticism from prominent economic advisor Martin... https://news.osna.fm/?p=26453 | #news #effectiveness #expert #german #questions

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The US Secretary of War, at an event at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., left reporters' questions about the possibility of US ground attacks on Venezuela unanswered.#US #Secretary #of #War #Refuses #to #Answer #Questions #About #Attack #on #Venezuela
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How to Fall in Love with Questions by Elizabeth Weingarten

A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty

Journalist and applied behavioral scientist Elizabeth Weingarten charts a new path to embrace the questions of our lives instead of seeking fast, easy answers.

What do you do when faced with a big, important question that keeps you up at night? Many people, understandably, seize answers dispensed by "experts," influencers, gurus, and more.

#books
#nonfiction
#SelfHelp
#questions

But these fast, easy, one-size-fits-all solutions often fail to satisfy, and can even cause more pain.
What if our questions—the ones we ask about relationships, work, meaning, identity, and purpose—are not our tormentors, but our teachers? Inspired by 150-year-old advice from Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke and backed by contemporary science, Elizabeth Weingarten offers a fresh approach for dealing with these seemingly unsolvable questions. In her quest, Weingarten shares her own journey and the stories of many others, whose lives have transformed through a different, and better, relationship with our questions.

Is there a modern, simple Linux commandline sandboxing tool (ideally not requiring root, selinux or any other fancy privileges) to run a program with only stdin/stdout access? For example -- if I want to run some image conversion tooling on untrusted uploads?

I'd assume this is buildable using user namespaces and seccomp bpf, and further assume somebody must have already built it, so before I go reinventing wheels...

#Linux #Questions

Questions Before the Quiet
https://wp.me/p84YjG-9YD
#death #dying #afterlife #change #questions #zsoltzsemba

https://zsoltzsemba.com/questions-before-the-quiet/

Questions Before the Quiet-Part 1

The Questions Before

The single question that changes how you live

What the dying tell us about regret

Forgiveness and your health

One thing you can do tonight

Questions Before the Quiet

If you had one question to ask what waits after the end what would you ask? You get one moment and one question. Use it well

Most people do not ask about fear. They ask about what stays when the lights go off. Money vanishes. Social proof fades. What remains are small acts and the warmth you leave in people.

The single question that changes how you live

What lasts beyond cash or likes or the noise you scroll through each day? What survives is simple. Forgiveness. Love. Connection. The way you show up for others.

These choices build the part of you that continues in memories long after you are gone.

What the dying tell us about regret

Bronnie Ware interviewed people in palliative care and documented the most common regrets she heard near the end of life. People wished they had lived true to themselves. They wished they had worked less. They wished they had expressed their feelings. They wished they had kept their friendships alive. They wished they had allowed themselves more happiness.

These regrets do not come from missing excitement. They come from missing honesty and closeness. They show you what to fix while you have time.

Forgiveness and your health

Studies link forgiveness with better mental health and lower stress. People who practice forgiveness report fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety, along with better sleep and lower blood pressure. Forgiveness is not approval of harm. It clears space inside you so you can think and act without the weight you carry.

One thing you can do tonight

Pick one question. Say it out loud. Let it show you one regret you can repair. Keep it small and doable. Call someone you avoided. Send the message you held back. Admit the truth you postponed. Make one repair you can finish in one hour.

If it feels heavy, you chose the right place to start. What question will you ask before the quiet?

#death #dying #LifeAfterDeath #Questions #seeingTheLight #ZsoltZsemba