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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Sep-2021 16:05:43 EDT 
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
I fully agree on term limits for all elected people but I can see an issue with a one and done, esp as "fast" as the govt moves with anything. I would think a 5 year term and total of two terms. A term would also include if someone is appointed to a seat for whatever reason until the next election.
On the flip side, can you imagine the damage that could be done in 5-6 years vs 4 years? Someone who shall remain nameless would still be in there... -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Sep-2021 20:01:30 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
I would have to guess that on an overall average the number reported is probably close to accurate for the US. While many were not reported as being C-19 related (Texass and Floriduh come to mind) regardless of actual C-19 death, others like Oregon were counting any death that tested positive regardless of actual cause.
Can't find the source but I am pretty sure I read about a person had tested positive a few days before but died in a car accident (as a result of the accident) as being counted as C-19 related.
One thing I have found about statistics is that with a given set of information you can make almost anything plausible if there are enough options/data sets. I also wonder (didn't read it all) if they took into account the very reduced normal flu death since masking was implemented, that alone could cause data issues. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Sep-2021 23:28:36 EDT
GeniusMusing
@simsa04
>Elections are about creating an identification between authorities and the voting public, so that by casting a ballot voters accept the descriptions of reality—of which problems it consists, what to do about them—given by the authorities.
I cannot disagree with you on this, but, we also have a saying in the US.
"If you didn't vote, I don't want to hear your complaining."
I don't know what the answer is to the issues the "common people" have in getting heard by their governments, also having traveled to different countries and talking to people from different countries, most of the complaints about the current government are pretty common around the world, the elected officials only listen to money.
At this point I would rather be in the EU (or most anywhere else) than the UK with what I have heard is going on over there. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Sep-2021 21:25:40 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
Having talked to a couple of food truck owners, they have bureaucratic issues too. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Sep-2021 21:23:23 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
Probably very true, just wait until they start working and then call IT for support with "I can't find my file".
At last $EMPLOYER I had a "missing" file case that I could see but wasn't showing on their computer. That day they found out about .files and why if you are going to save something as a decimal number and it is under the measuring system being used, add a 0 so that .125 is 0.125. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Sep-2021 13:11:38 EDT
GeniusMusing
Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
>Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She’d laid out the assignment clearly, but student after student was calling her over for help. They were all getting the same error message: The program couldn’t find their files.
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>Garland thought it would be an easy fix. She asked each student where they’d saved their project. Could they be on the desktop? Perhaps in the shared drive? But over and over, she was met with confusion. “What are you talking about?” multiple students inquired. Not only did they not know where their files were saved — they didn’t understand the question.
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>Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.
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Looks like the kids are not all right... -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Sep-2021 10:08:53 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
Sounds more like this to me.
Bank of America has a debit card deal with California Employment Development (EDD) for user info. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Sep-2021 16:24:05 EDT
GeniusMusing
@clacke
My local price for 8-pack is ~$16, I usually get the 4-pack for ~$7 but they also last me for 4 months.
I have tossed more of those other coupons away than I can count. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 20:52:28 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
At one point it was the tallest in the world, sadly "The Big Willie" has shrunk to 23rd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 15:58:26 EDT
GeniusMusing
@lnxw48a1
So I'm gonna guess this would be a hard no then.
Willis Tower Glass Platform – Chicago, Illinois Atlas Obscura
>The second-tallest building in the Western Hemisphere (the tallest if you’re not counting antennas) provides an unrivaled view of a cityscape, all from the comfort of four glass platforms suspended 1,353 feet in the air.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/sears-tower-glass-platform
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