Notices by lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net), page 115
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 08:43:17 EST 
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#sonTwo was pretty downtrodden last night. He's working one full-time and two part-time jobs; working seven days per week, and they still needed to apply for SNAP in order to feed the kids.
I just see it as an example of where pay scales have not kept up with prices. Where it was once possible and common to support a family on one worker's income, that is no longer the case. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 21:24:42 EST
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It was short, but I enjoyed the videochat. #GS4 wanted to show off the toy trash truck that I bought for them last year. He kept holding up the truck and telling me what it was.
“Truck!”
“Do you like the truck?”
“No!” (He still doesn’t say “yes”; not ever.)
#GS3 was telling me about the snow ❄️ and ice 🧊 outside. They went out to play, but he slipped and fell. No injuries, but that was the end of their outing.
#GS5 made it clear that he was hungry. Waaa 😫! (He’s holding steady at about 75% as heavy as GS4.) -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 21:16:15 EST
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https://james.belchamber.com/articles/agility-in-cupcake-engineering/
Someone posted this link as an example of “agile” that doesn’t require computer programming. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 20:27:34 EST
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The #hotel_Wi-Fi is horribly slow tonight. Around 2Mbps download speed.
We're going to try to have a #videochat with #GS3, #GS4, #GS5 tonight, so I'll hotspot off the phone instead. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 19:56:57 EST
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#Nostr seems to be attracting #spammers and #bots now. The web-based clients I have been using don’t have any curation or blocking tools, so it makes them much less useful. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 00:22:31 EST
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https://lemmy.sysctl.io/post/35439
Near 100% efficient electrolysis of seawater? I'm suspicious. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2023 00:08:48 EST
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Okay, it sounds like it was a child custody dispute. One woman walked out and as she headed down the hall, she called out "F.U. Come and get her. You've already ruined my life. Wanna get the police involved? Go ahead."
So now it is over and I'm heading for bed. Another 12 hours expected tomorrow. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 23:57:23 EST
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The families with kids are gone, but now there's a group of adults having a loud name-calling argument. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 20:09:31 EST
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People working in the main building are working remotely tomorrow ... and most are off Sunday unless they're supporting us in the field.
With some changes in field locations this weekend, I may have reached the end of 84 hours / week. I was hoping to keep that up one more week. I'm tired as heck (partly because of the noisy neighbors that recently left the #hotel), but my wallet is empty and I'd like to fill it as much as possible before I leave #AL (currently planned for 2023-02-17 to 2023-02-24). Any longer than that and I need to figure out how to obtain my replacement debit card, as the current one expires this month. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 20:00:53 EST
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> [Topics] included the state’s Open Meetings Act, Freedom of Information Act, ethics in government, budgeting, audits, and being responsive to the electorate.
-- https://tricitytimes-online.com/2023/01/25/going-old-school-to-serve/ [tricitytimes-online com]
Those topics seem like essential knowledge. Most of it is likely to be legal requirements. If you can go to jail for not knowing and following these requirements, going to a class to learn about them seems to be a good thing.
That said, anything that isn't based around legal requirements could probably be done multiple ways (or perhaps not done at all), and reformers would likely do things differently.
https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1863-dcc2-fe39-e63112062815 -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 19:52:15 EST
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I don't know what that last #WindowsUpdate did, but my #Win10 laptop now takes 30 minutes to go from turning on to actually usable.
It never did that before, except the first couple of boots after a big update. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 19:50:36 EST
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@fu Re-reading that, it sounds almost like I'm accusing you of pressuring us. That is not my intent. I'm just relating a story from my past.
No accusations or offense intended. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 19:46:28 EST
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@fu Interesting. In $EMPLOYER, such solicitations are prohibited, but today an employee of another government agency indirectly asked me to support his daughter by buying GS cookies.
I'm reminded of Phil, who was a regular customer of a store where I worked. Phil had four daughters. He knew where all the employees lived, and he would bring each daughter individually to your door to sell you cookies.
Sometimes, he'd come to the store and hit up employees and other customers.
I didn't mind it, except that we were making $50-$100 per week before deductions and he was making much more. The cookies weren't expensive, but taken together, they were still enough to cause a little pain for a week. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 19:39:19 EST
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> In the US a woman shaving her head meant she was borderline insane
I didn't see the movie, but in real life, even though it was rare, I never knew anyone to express such thoughts. I'm culturally US, I guess, but not as media-connected as many seem to be. That said, I never heard or thought such a thing until you wrote it.
Maybe it is something like Mastodon users nagging newbies about "Fediverse etiquette", as though their imported Twitter and Tumblr based etiquette didn't violate pre-existing Fediverse etiquette when they came. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 19:34:33 EST
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https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1563-dd05-9764-22e166418943 @clacke -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 11:29:10 EST
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I don't know whether I mentioned it, but I was driving to another location yesterday during some fairly heavy rainfall. Google told me to turn on this gravel road. As I got down the road, there were "road closed" signs and tracks beside the sign showing that people had gone around the signs. So what did I do? I went around the sign and sunk the truck in the mud. After more than an hour, a local person pulled the truck out of the mud and back onto the road. I moved the sign and drove away.
Fun times! (Not really, but it could have been worse.) -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 09:06:22 EST
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> I thought that watching US media my whole life ...
At least since the days when cable and satellite networks appeared, there has been way too much media to watch and listen to. And from a former radio listener, if you were in Los Angeles, it was always true. Dozens of radio stations playing various formats and various musical styles ... most playing around the clock. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 08:59:23 EST
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I think one thing that affected #sonTwo's choice of a campus was that we went to a "college fair" when he was in 8th or 9th grade and most of the schools weren't very interested in students who would not apply right away. The exception was my former CSU campus ... and he wanted to get out of my footprints.
(Most of his CC classes had instructors I knew.)
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