johnold · HackerTrans

hace 3 añosdiscuss

I agree, at first the watch was not really that interesting. Now, I can see it eating Garmin and wahoo for athletes. Why buy a separate device for tracking the bike rides or the runs when you can just use the apple watch. The vision pro will be the same thing. Give it 5 years.

johnold

hace 3 añosdiscuss

Apple already discovered that you can't drug test the software people...

johnold

hace 4 añosdiscuss

Seriously. Outdoors is free.

johnold

hace 4 añosdiscuss

As a high school teacher(14-18 year olds) who actually spends a lot of time trying to interact with students and get to know them, I keep hearing this kind of statement:

There is no room for mistakes.

Students cannot miss a homework assignment, fail an exam, not achieve an A, make any kind of faux pax on social media, etc…

And then you combine this with many adults in their lives telling them, I got into UCLA, why can’t you? Just work harder, or just not caring about their mental health.

They see this never ending cycle of

turn the assignments in and then go to sports practice(where again the competition is at such a high level) and also, get a job, because they want or need money.

Many are going to bed after midnight every night.

Something has to give.

This is really disturbing to me.

How are they doing living up to this? Many are living up to it but the cost is substantial, and the others that have no hope of being this are giving up.

johnold

hace 5 añosdiscuss

Our family has decided to permanently disrupt Roblox at the house.

I find that the games my kids were playing were really just totally mindless. They involved no real skill or thought.

Most of the games consist of finding coins and then getting different skins for their character. Or even worse gaining “money” for time served and then buying things.

What’s up with the devs? These games are terrible and are just a waste land for our children.

The kids were bummed at first, but because there are so many other choices in gaming, they have recovered and not looked back.

Good riddance I say.

johnold

hace 5 añosdiscuss

I would agree with this assessment. As a long time teacher, our district is always talking about how to engage with hispanic males. They, as a group, underperform and no one knows how to engage with them and help them perform as they should.

It is always the same story and nothing seems to change.

johnold

hace 5 añosdiscuss

I know that our teacher's union and the district we work for negotiated for almost a week about air filtration and circulation.

The HVAC is continuously circulating air from the time it is on until after school when it turns off. There is some time before school and maybe 20min after school when it is on.

They have settled on only pulling air from the outside instead of recycling the warm or cool air in the room.

And having some kind of agreement on the merv rating of the filters. It may be merv 7(but I'm not sure.)

johnold

hace 5 añosdiscuss

As I get older and see my father getting cancers cut out of his face(the man never wore sunscreen), I more and more wear sunscreen.

So far my brand, think sport, has avoided all of these chemicals and it works really well. I’m sure there are other options out there that don’t contain the reported chemicals.

johnold

hace 5 añosdiscuss

This reminded me of watching some Kenyan runners at a local race. I had never seen people that good run in person.

I swear they just floated by... Their heads and shoulders just don't look like the move up and down at all. I'll never forget it. A thing of beauty.

johnold

hace 6 añosdiscuss

That’s what I don’t get about this whole peloton thing.

Why aren’t people just getting bikes and then putting them on trainers?

You can get the whole trainer workouts and still have a bike that you can ride outside.

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