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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 04:02:09 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I think I mentioned that Half_son's wife left him last year to join a "throuple". She took the kids with her, so he only gets to see them for a few hours on Sundays . I'm not sure when their divorce is final. He's got a newish long-distance girlfriend and is planning to move to where she lives soon.

Today, Son_1 informed me that he filed for divorce from his wife. In this case, she moved into an apartment and he has the kids (two minor kids they share, one minor kid who got kicked out of her home and is staying there, and her oldest son [now 28 years old] whom she had before he met her). The 26 year old stepson lives separately, and is likely only going to maintain contact with his mother.

They had a strange relationship. They'd almost divorced several years ago but made up ... they did things like work separate shifts so they were hardly ever home and awake at the same time and have two separate "family chat" groups with the kids ... one with her included, one without her.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 11:27:28 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://gnusocial.jp/url/4351065 Interesting ... a large majority of spiral galaxies are believed to rotate clockwise.

Our neighbor, Andromeda Galaxy, is believed to rotate counter-clockwise. https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia/-/61118-stellar-motions-in-the-andromeda-galaxy ... meanwhile, the Milky Way Galaxy is believed to rotate clockwise. https://gnusocial.jp/url/4351070

But I suppose another way of looking at it is which direction is galactic north? On Earth, the planet rotates counter-clockwise or west to east if north is "up". So maybe Milky Way's north is sort of "down" from our perspective.
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  JWST Findings May Suggest Our Universe Exists Inside a Black Hole
  
  Observations about the directions in which galaxies turn have a head-spinning implication: our entire Universe might exist inside a black hole.
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  In which direction does the Milky Way rotate?
  
  We don't have a photo of our Milky Way the whole, all the pictures are artists' interpretations showing a bulge, a central bar, and several spiral arms. The milky way is spinning. I would like to k...
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 10:04:37 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Barnard's star, which is the closest single-star system to our sun, is now believed to have four small planets orbiting it.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/barnards-star-exoplanet-in-orbit [www sciencenews org]

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/barnards-star-four-small-planets [www sciencenews org]
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  Barnard’s star has at least one planet orbiting it after all
  
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  After decades of searching, a telltale gravitational wobble points to an exoplanet orbiting the nearby red dwarf every 3.15 days.
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  The nearest single star to Earth has four small planets
  
  from Lisa Grossman
  
  Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 01:19:28 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/hubble-finds-a-potential-triple-kuiper-belt-object [www universetoday com]

Possible triple object observed in the Kuiper Belt.
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  Hubble Finds a Potential Triple Kuiper Belt Object
  
  A distant trio of worlds may shed light on planetary formation in the early solar system. Sometimes, good things come in threes. If astronomers are correct, a system in the distant Kuiper Belt may not be two but three worlds, offering an insight into formation in the early solar system. The study comes out of researchers at Brigham Young University and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 13:41:21 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

RE: the bluish tone seen after cataract surgery

I have also read that it sometimes confers the ability to see some ultaviolet colors. I'm not sure whether that means wearing sunglasses all the time.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 05:23:21 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@fu First of all, I'm glad you're trying to take charge of your health. Best wishes for successfully mitigating the heart issues.

As for Tuesdays, I know that seems to be the day the food places have their special deals, so I expect that's the day people are less likely to eat out without a discount. I have no idea if that's relevant to your situation, though.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 05:19:36 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun From what I read, as a child, he was smaller than most of his peers and got picked on a lot. That would probably be the most fitting punishment.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 10:18:46 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Back in my uni days, I took extra math courses, including statistics, and had to apply them to marketing questions. Maybe I'm retroactively overestimating my skill, because the current #datacamp course (hypothesis testing in R) is pretty consistently above and outside of my understanding level. I know this is decades later, but despite my continued efforts, it doesn't seem to be getting any clearer.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 09:52:46 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

This course is really boring. I didn't think one could make a Python course boring, but they did. (It's part of the IBM / Coursera Backend Developer Program.)

For the record, my first Python course was more than 20 years ago, so their "gentle intro for new people" approach isn't exactly suited for me, despite my not using it much since then.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 23:13:16 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

"Have you ever heard of butt poop?"

I know I worked a lot, but I barely remember this at all with Son_2, and here Grandson_3 has been going on like this for at least a year.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 07:35:12 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun It isn't that the Fediverse is at all complicated or hard to understand; it is that it is different than what they've already been using. They'd rather not invest the effort in understanding it when they can just move to Bluesky and use it as a Twitter clone. (Bluesky has its own complications and it isn't even truly federated, but one can easily ignore all of those things and just pretend they're on Twitter.)

And if one isn't interested in federation and decentralization, why should they bother learning about it if they don't have to? Go to Bluesky or Threads (as long as they don't turn on federation) and have "Twitter without the Nazis" but without all the botheration (examples: #blockwars / #fediblock, instance drama, policy differences between instances) that Mastodon and the Fediverse bring with them.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Mar-2025 05:18:30 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/09/gavin-newsom-trans-athletes-democrats

https://gnusocial.jp/url/4278055

https://gnusocial.jp/url/4278056

Does anyone really trust what Gavin Newsom says? Whether you agree or disagree, you have to feel the "he sees the way the wind is blowing" in his speaking. If the wind shifts again, he'll clarify his statements to mean whatever he thinks will get him elected.

I wouldn't vote for him for any office, not even town dog-catcher, and I wouldn't trust him with anyone's well-being or any sort of asset.
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  California Gov. Gavin Newsom breaks with party on transgender athletes in women's sports, sparking backlash
  
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  California's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, an LGBTQ ally, broke with his party, saying that transgender athletes playing in female sports is "deeply unfair."
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 07:53:29 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#Texas lottery investigations https://apnews.com/article/lottery-texas-investigation-1e303ab10a6b6b4bffc744422c5f425e (apnews com) #TX #Lottery
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  Texas lottery drawings that paid out big jackpots are the focus of widening investigations
  
  from https://apnews.com/author/nadia-lathan
  
  Two of the biggest lottery jackpots in Texas history are under investigation over claims that the winners may have benefitted from more than good luck.
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 02:41:56 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@fu@libranet.de They're different axes of measuring human freedom and autonomy.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 08-Mar-2025 02:40:07 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@fu@libranet.de That's pretty bad. When I first heard it, I assumed they were practicing "glide bomb" techniques. (There's a town in Russia near the Ukraine border where errant glide bombs have landed repeatedly.)

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 10:41:54 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun In that case, get your weight and blood pressure down ASAP, so you can caffeinate without too much cardiac risk.

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https://gnusocial.jp/url/4235305

> They also reminded Trump of the US obligations under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which provided security guarantees for Ukraine in exchange for return of Soviet-era nuclear weapons.

It's terrible that foreigners know more about the US's obligations than our own citizens and political leaders do. If the US is going to avoid its responsibilities, then it should replace the nukes Ukraine gave up.
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  German citizen, 40, identified as Mannheim suspect after two killed as car driven into crowd – as it happened
  
  from https://www.theguardian.com/profile/martin-belam,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jakub-krupa,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nadeembadshah,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-ambrose,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/kateconnolly,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jasper-jolly,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/lisaocarroll,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/archie-bland
  
  Police say no evidence that more suspects were involved in incident which left several people badly injured
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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 12:11:01 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Looked at my tax paperwork. It's amazing how little I made last year. To be fair, I quit my job in April or May and was off work before that, but the last year I made that little was probably sometime around 1980.

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Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw37j1@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 08:54:21 JST Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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@sun Yeah, car ownership is in my future, but it has been nice the past decade or so not worrying about paying for repairs & maintenance for a vehicle I wouldn't have been using anyway.

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https://gnusocial.jp/url/4231208 [nypost com]

This is the first I've heard of this. Are teens really doing this now?
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  Teen who died after injecting himself with butterfly remains spent 7 agonizing days in the hospital
  
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  The Brazilian teen who died after injecting himself with butterfly remains suffered in agonizing pain for a week before his death.

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