I’ve always wanted one of these but really only to remind me of my grandparents house from when I was a kid

As a parent, we made sure to have an analog clock in every room while my kids were growing up, and we made them prove they could read it. Still don’t work. Digital clocks are everywhere else and in many ways more convenient.

Analog clocks are an obsolete decice whose time has passed. I also tried to keep it alive into the next generation but it’s not happening. It’s time to give it up.

Let that be one of our hallmarks as we age: the last generation with analog clocks. I use an analog face on my digital watch, have analog decorative clocks and I’ll accept that my kids believe that old fashioned (they do accept the analog clock face on my old car I gave them though, or maybe don’t know how to change it)

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Let me play devils advocate……

One of my cars has the hvac controls on the screen and it’s usually fine, because it is actually smart. I only need to set the temperature and it remembers that.

For example now that it’s getting cold, I almost never need to touch those controls

• I can preheat through an app (no subscription needed)
• when I start my car, the thermostat is set to 69 (heh heh) where I last left it
• the car goes through a progression: heating steering wheel and seat first, then automatically off when the cabin temperature comes up
• the glaring problem is defroster. Aside from initial heat up I don’t know a good way to switch to that while driving. I don’t know if it’s supposed to be automatic and fails or if there is a shortcut somewhere

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I’d put that number a bit higher because they’re not a deterrent if any aggressor can conceive of taking them all out before you can react. But we’re already much higher than any reasonable logic like that

At like 20, someone can keep track of where they all are and plan a preemptive attack with confidence of destroying them all before you can react. Too small a number could make nuclear war _more _ likely.

The “nuclear triad” was a good concept to prevent any possibility of such an attack succeeding, so some number that can support multiple delivery mechanisms while Making a disarming attack very unlikely

The increase in non-strategic nuclear weapons (regional or battlefield) is an especially scary capability that we intentionally backed away from. Just no.

The concept of needing a massive buildup to counter emerging nuclear powers is just laughable. Do they even look at what they’re writing?

I have to admit that having some number of hypersonic missiles with nuclear warheads may be a good idea

But the missed their opportunity with hypersonic missiles. As those become available worldwide, they increase the chances of an unblockable preemptive attack occurring with no chance for reaction. We don’t need more nuclear weapons (and fewer would be preferable) but they need to be survivable enough to be a valid deterrent

Presumably it has a more direct affect on civilians, who are otherwise able to skip most of the consequences of the war. Russians going without heat over the winter will give a little taste of what they’ve inflicted on Ukraine and hopefully put some pressure on Putin. But it also affects manufacturing, both of war materials and civilian needs.

Certainly kids should be treated as human beings and the rules need to make allowance for the messiness of real life and do “the right thing”.

But you’re really fighting an uphill battle against essentially all of society if you think all sports should be desegregated. And you’re really misreading your stats if you don’t see that on average a specific gender has a distinct advantage in most sports

It’s going to depend on the school and level

Given this example of eighth grade basketball, my kid technically had tryouts but everyone made the team. It was a small school though, and bigger schools may be different. He came in cold, not knowing the game but is a natural athlete. He had fun and learned the game and that one year was enough. I pushed him to play this year because he had been interested, he had a bunch of friends in the team, and he is an athlete. Importantly he’s not really tall enough for basketball, so eighth grade was likely his last chance to play. (It was funny to watch his crew of three soccer players and a hockey player take over the team and try to adjust their skills to a new sport)

Sports tends to get competitive in high school, especially for varsity teams, but there are usually options. For example my kid made the varsity soccer team after competitive tryouts. Part of the competitive nature was encouraging the kids to play competitive club soccer in the off season. To secure his starting spot, my kids spent the off season lifting weights, gaining about 30 lbs of muscle while cutting any remaining fat. Yes it was competitive. But he also joined a town league and a rec league for fun off season because he just loved playing: non-competitive, no tryouts

Is this argumentative or trolling? It has no bearing on real life.

• you can’t require mixed gender teams on the theory that a few outliers will succeed despite gender differences
• yes, you could argue women have an advantage in bendiness sports like gymnastics. You might have noticed gymnastics are segregated and men and women compete in different variations where the other gender is unlikely to succeed
• those physical benefits have not overcome the size and strength differences pretty much anywhere. I think I read maybe ultramarathons but there’s not yet enough women insane enough to try.

Don’t all schools ask for birth certificates? At that age it’s your only id, most kids only legal connection to their parents, your only legal indication of age.

I suppose it could also be weaponized to deprive immigrants of an education.

That being said, I looked it up and my state schools are mandated to equally educate all residents regardless of immigration status and are not allowed to ask about immigration status, nor to cooperate with ICE barring court order

You don’t have to play if that’s your preference (but please try to be physically active for your health). But what gives you the right to tell other people not to?

Any chance this is some malicious compliance?

It could be fear. No one wants a bunch of Karen’s screaming in their face. No one wants to be sued or fired. Maybe this is just someone who thinks they need to protect themselves over the kids they’re responsible for

That’s excellent! Is everyone here too young to laugh?

Even a rule rooted in transphobia could be well written. This one is not.

Normally people use common sense, it’s obviously a clerical error and you can get the paperwork fixed.

This is an example of right wing scare tactics against trans people in sports creating stupid laws that also don’t allow for the messiness of real life. I didn’t pay attention but it’ll be local to either the state or city

Or maybe it’s already fixed by larger schools having multiple teams, such as varsity, Jv, freshmen. Or different leagues, like rec leagues, town leagues. Or gym class sports which are never competitive.

But it’s ridiculous to think it fair if the high level teams are essentially all boys, and the girls are stuck on the crappy team with boys who can’t play. No one will be happy with that