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New comment by tocs3 in "Almost half of Gen Z women want to be Trad wives"

tocs3 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:58:01 +0000

It is a shame that the term has come up like it has. It is trying to put people into a very broad category. Any one in a marriage involving a man "winning the bread" and a woman taking care of the domestic work is going to be put in the same category as people with different views on topics like immigration, tariffs, and other political topics.

New comment by tocs3 in "Almost half of Gen Z women want to be Trad wives"

tocs3 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:30:02 +0000

I suppose other categories could be:

- Trophy wife, Rich partner, job.

- Married, Famous, independent (children ambiguous)

- No, Relationship, Travel, creative career, kids.

- Normal job, married, "trad husband"

and I suppose there are others and "Trad" wife would cover "Happily married, kids, ‘no’ job.". I also suppose "Trad" implies a "leave it to Beaver mother " sort of lifestyle, always homemaking watching kids. Not out doing stuff.

How many other categories could be thought up.

New comment by tocs3 in "Iran Is Not Venezuela – and Nobody in the White House Seems to Know That"

tocs3 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:31:27 +0000

I could also see other regions(China, the EU) making deals with Iran and the US stuck with no good out.

New comment by tocs3 in "The Government Told Courts It Could Easily Refund Tariffs. Now It Says It Can't"

tocs3 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:32:07 +0000

You should add in time for training.

New comment by tocs3 in "Donald Trump insists there are no wind farms in China. Here are 20 in pictures"

tocs3 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:02:35 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_China

New comment by tocs3 in "Donald Trump insists there are no wind farms in China. Here are 20 in pictures"

tocs3 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:31:56 +0000

Looks like 5 of the largest on shore wind farms re Chinese. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_farm#Onshore

A little more wikipedia about Chinese wind power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_China

Edit to add the photos make them look pretty attractive.

New comment by tocs3 in "Altman takes jabs at Anthropic, says govt should be more powerful than companies"

tocs3 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:15:40 +0000

No mention of people being more powerful than government.

New comment by tocs3 in "Autonomous Weapons vs a Nineteen-Year-Old at a Checkpoint"

tocs3 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:54:39 +0000

Sort of a "human driver vs computer driver" argument, 19 yo (along with the stress, lack of sleep, adrenaline) with high powered weapons vs AI with high powered weapons.

New comment by tocs3 in "America's Ranks of Immigrant Truckers Find a Roadblock: English Tests"

tocs3 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:03:43 +0000

I do not like the idea of throwing up road blocks solely to make life harder for any group of people.

I actually meant road blocks as a figure of speech. Like "red tape" or artificial impediments of one kind or another.

New comment by tocs3 in "America's Ranks of Immigrant Truckers Find a Roadblock: English Tests"

tocs3 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:48:25 +0000

I do not like the idea of throwing up road blocks solely to make life harder for any group of people. It seams many times laws and regulations are made for purposes other than the ones stated by supporters. So, the following is more of a general observation. I like that the US does not have an official language.

It might be worth noting that someone driving on US roads is going to see mostly English on signs and in the event that they need to speak to someone (road blocks, traffic stops, weigh stations, etc.) it will likely be spoken English. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_English. It might be worth making English something to have to know to be a commercial driver.

New comment by tocs3 in "Rubin Observatory has started paging astronomers 800k times a night"

tocs3 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:16:45 +0000

Any one signed up and getting pages?

Is there a way to search for a particular part of the sky?

New comment by tocs3 in "James Webb Telescope Takes a First Peek Inside Uranus"

tocs3 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:10:54 +0000

I know I am asking a lot but I would like to see orbiter missions around the outer planets. Are there "orbital windows" coming up for something like that?

New comment by tocs3 in "A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students"

tocs3 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:49:50 +0000

I feel like this is, in part, similar to strategies for software companies have always used. Offer free software tools to students (some CAD, GIS, Math, general office suites) and the students learns as much/more about which icons to click on than the underlying subject. All these things are valuable tools. I learned drafting in the days of pencil and paper but cannot imagine a world that without CAD. AI is on a different plane but it is interesting (I think also good) to see such public push back now.

New comment by tocs3 in "Party Line (Telephony)"

tocs3 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:22:36 +0000

My family was on a party line in the late 1970s and I remember picking up the phone as a kid and being surprised that someone was already talking on the phone. My grandparents were on a party line and I remember going to pick up the phone when it rang and being told not to. The phone rang in a pattern of long and short rings to tell who the call was for.

Things have certainly changed since then. Just about every call was long distance as we lived on the wrong side of some line. We only had about 6 television stations to watch. Just a generation or two before there was no electricity in the area. I will not say I miss "the olden days" but I do miss that variety in life.

New comment by tocs3 in "El Paso flights grounded as FAA cites security reasons in 10-day airspace ban"

tocs3 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:15:05 +0000

Live updates: FAA lifts temporary closure of airspace over El Paso https://apnews.com/live/faa-el-paso-texas-air-space-closed-u...

New comment by tocs3 in "Computers Can Be Understood"

tocs3 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:33:30 +0000

trivially true

But not widely accepted / understood / appreciated.

New comment by tocs3 in "Computers Can Be Understood"

tocs3 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:30:26 +0000

https://www.nand2tetris.org/ has been my favorite "computers are not magic" course for a long time. It is a much more hardware oriented program than this post though.

New comment by tocs3 in "Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?"

tocs3 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:10:02 +0000

At least for the past few years it has been part of my annual physical. I had no idea it was part of the blood test until it came out as being low.

New comment by tocs3 in "[dead]"

tocs3 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:28:48 +0000

A very peaceful reaction, I believe, would likely be a better reaction. An aggressive or violent reaction will only bring on more violence and even support for more repression. It is not ideal but in the long run it is really the only answer.

New comment by tocs3 in "[dead]"

tocs3 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:16:32 +0000

I get the sense this is the sort of reaction that the administration is looking for. They probably appreciate the post.