Not Quite a motss.con xvii (via Zoom)

On Saturday, July 1, 2023, the soc.motss.con bunch had another Zoom call.

We had 10 people over the course of the hour or so I was there (though never more than eight camera feeds at a time). I had fun catching up, and it seemed like others did too. Discussion topics (as I wrote them down, but not necessarily in chronological order) included: How we spend time (retired, work, etc.) Health and wellness End of life, memory wards, and nursing homes Traumatic injuries Hospice care and costs ($8,500/mo after MediCare and MediCal) Reevaluation of hospice patients Time, effort, and paperwork for all of that Prescription coverage and Medicare Part D Medical facilities going downhill Long term care insurance Companies revoking insurance coverage Avoiding marriage or divorcing to protect assets Observable real-life simultaneous coincidences, and the frequency illusion arguing against that. Random co-occurrances are much more common than people think, so simultaniety is an illusion, as are purpose and control. As the population goes up the chance of accidental simultaneity goes up, and as communication gets easier and denser than the awareness does as well. How we met... and the newgroup command. Sock versus sosh. Dissertations on how the Internet affected people coming out (late 1990s). Reminding people about this call. People regretting missing this call. Scheduling this call (is 9am PT too early?). Wordle. Who's going to Astoria for the con? Seeing the Red Sox in Seattle with Susan Dennis. Computer hardware (laptops, desktops, tablets, phones, docks, monitors, and peripherals)... and ancient operating systems (Windows 95) Local versus cloud storage Download/upload speeds Solving problems... slowly Limited business hours (on holidays or otherwise)