Notices by lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net), page 31
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 23:33:41 EST 
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Time to start planning my flight to #MO next year. I don't think it can go the way I'd like (all 3 kids and their families meet up at #sonOne's home for at least 24 hours). -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 22:53:04 EST
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NBC News: Henry Kissinger dead at age 100. https://nu.federati.net/url/292594 [www nbcnews com] -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 22:52:20 EST
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Brother-in-law's mom passed. My mom tripped and fell tonight, but she says she's okay. (Refused to go to the doctor for examination.) -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 22:28:11 EST
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Drugs like Ozempic cannot solve America's #obesity crisis alone https://time.com/6332910/ozempic-americas-obesity-crisis/ [time com] -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 12:56:55 EST
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About Title IX and school sports https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1365-66d1-6bbf-55a301651775
I can see some value in unwinding sports participation from schools and colleges / universities. But I also see some pitfalls.
You can see schoolchildren waiting at bus stops shortly after 06:00 and you can see them being dropped off as late as 17:00. If those kids are going to participate in sports, it will have to be on-campus and integrated into their school day.
That said, I think the NCAA and various athletic conferences have corrupted the colleges and universities with all the money that sports brings into their coffers. It is hard to make decisions that work in the best interests of the student-athletes when the institutions stand to make millions of dollars.
If we somehow abolish college athletics, what happens to all the students who were (or will be in the future) attending on sports scholarships? What kind of transition time would be adequate to allow independent minor leagues to spring up? What about facilities? The colleges have many millions or even billions of dollars invested in sports facilities. In many cases, the surrounding communities have little or no facilities. How do we go from facilities at college campuses to off-campus facilities in the locations where the teams form? -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 12:39:31 EST
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I've recently seen some discussion of Millennials. As a Baby Boomer, I can say that tagging two decades worth of people with a label and somehow expecting that label to accurately describe the entire group's views, beliefs, motivations, and actions ... that's a mistake at best.
People are individuals. Maybe more people in certain ages hold one view versus another, but it is unlikely that *all* of them do so.
Yes, the things that happen in the world around people affect them. So for example "9/11" happened while #sonTwo and #Daddy_A were in middle school. 2nd son's school actually pulled the kids into an assembly room and put the news on for a couple of hours. So they watched the 2nd plane strike a tower and they watched the towers collapse repeatedly.
People in #sonOne's age group did not have that. He was already out of school when the "Jonesboro":{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Westside_Middle_School_shooting} and "Columbine":{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre} school massacres happened. Thus, he even missed out on the demand for police departments to provide on-campus school resource officers to local school districts.
That said, I don't think everyone born in any of those years is the same as all (or even most) others that age in any significant aspect. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 12:18:20 EST
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#sonTwo suggested that I may have an issue with testosterone levels.
I had mentioned that a few decades back, I was working full time and taking classes at the local college and taking online classes toward a Master's Degree and teaching a weekly class at church and actively involved in raising him. But these days, despite having a lot less going on, I'm really struggling to put in enough time on these training programs. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 12:02:51 EST
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@fu Just so you know, Baptist Joshua might not see an "introduction pane" on https://libranet.de/profile/fu/profile ... I just visited and saw no special "pane" or widget.
Your profile is interesting. For some reason, I thought you were a computer programmer at an automotive parts maker.
I only had one encounter with BJ, but despite seeming to be extremely right-wing (and seemingly racist), he was respectful. There was another person in the conversation ... sort of a cheerleader of BJ's most extreme and racist positions who was unkind, disrespectful. But BJ was not.
Hopefully, your interactions with BJ can show him that there's more to the world than he seems to know about, and lead him to interact with and attempt to understand people who are different from him (such as the millennials mentioned in this conversation). -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 11:38:07 EST
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@fu I closed it because I could no longer deal with the issues on Libranet.de. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 11:34:26 EST
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@fu There are differences in physical capabilities that motivate some of this. On average, males are more muscular, so in things like sprinting and weightlifting, they do better. Women tend to excel in certain other sports. (And in super long distance running, men are still slightly ahead, but based on body composition, I expect women to pass them within a few years.)
This is also why there's controversy about transgender athletes. In some cases, an athlete who would have been uncompetitive in the men's sport soars to the top when competing in the women's sport.
Now, this isn't every sport. For example, I don't think that there's any significant difference between the sexes in performance for baseball and softball. If there is a difference, it would be pitching speed and hitting distance. That said, I haven't seen top athletes in either sport compete head to head. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 11:22:01 EST
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@clacke Well, the second type is definitely exploitable ... I think almost every employer I've ever had took advantage of that to get extra (unpaid) labor or to get people to do tasks that were more dangerous than they could have been (often due to lack of safety equipment). -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Nov-2023 02:57:59 EST
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The only thing I've come across is "millennials are lazy" ... I'm not sure which birth years count as millennials, but I had never seen someone walk into the workplace already determined not to do any work until around 2000. Prior to that, everyone I'd seen started out with "I'm going to work so hard that you'll promote me to manager within the first six months".
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 18:12:32 EST
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... reporting back *to* HQ ... -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 18:04:39 EST
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Plex, software for self-hosting your own media, now reporting back the HQ, which is spreading the information. https://nu.federati.net/url/292568 [www pcgamer com] -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 17:38:17 EST
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#Matrix bridge to #LiberaChat #IRC network closes for indefinite time. https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/28/shutting-down-bridge-to-libera-chat/ [matrix org]
I don't know what the organizations' issues were, but when I use IRC, I'm typically idle in several rooms and only rarely post anything. That doesn't mean I'm not reading the contents regularly. But it does mean that the bridge would terminate your session and you'd have to go through the whole process of connecting to the desired rooms from scratch.
I found this burdensome and incompatible with the way IRC is used, so I decided some time back that I wasn't going to use Matrix as an IRC bouncer any more. (Which also means that most of my use of Matrix has ended. I'm in several rooms where there were less than 10 posts total so far in 2023, and now I find myself not checking regularly ... and naturally notifications are turned off.) -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 16:34:09 EST
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@clacke Does the package come with photos?
https://nu.federati.net/url/292566 [www dailymail.co.uk] -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 16:02:42 EST
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This must be our latest phishing test e-mail.
"As a reward for your hard work, $AIRLINE is giving $AGENCY employees free airfare until the end of the year."
That one doesn't sound convincing enough to fool anyone, in my opinion. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 13:46:17 EST
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/27/us/national-park-sequoia-planting-lawsuit-climate/index.html [www cnn com] Environmental groups sue US National Park Service over plans to plant giant sequoias in burned areas. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 20:04:10 EST
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https://nu.federati.net/url/292553 [www dailymail co uk]
Daryl Hall v. John Oates lawsuit appears to come down to a dispute about a proposed sale of Oates' share of a business venture.
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