Not Quite a motss.con xxiv (via Zoom)

On Sunday, Janurary 7, 2024, the soc.motss.con bunch had another Zoom call.

I was there near the start. We eventually had 12 people over the course of the 90 minutes or so I was there. I had fun catching up (and meeting Max's new boyfriend Patrick), and it seemed like others did too. Discussion topics (as I wrote them down, but not necessarily in chronological order) included: Greetings, salutations, and introductions Publications and rights Wikipedia pages and editing things Advocate, Bay Area Reporter, and Gay Community News Zoom issues K-pop (history, recruitment, etc.) Music genres Pornography genres Mormon missionaries Religious wackiness Pets (especially Freddie Mercury) Weather (temperature and precipitation) Hand and power tools (and our dearth of lesbians), and whether it makes sense to buy a cheap tool first or to collect several Old Usenet history (soc.motss, and its predecessor and sibling groups) Google no longer keeping Usenet postings Interesting people from motss history Divisive politics and polarization Communities and geographies Racism (and hidden versus public) and culture Interstates, moving, and taking cultural attitudes with you Snowbirds' new destinations Safety of retiring moving to the southern US (and where might be positive or healthy: GA, NC, SC, vs. FL) Safety of becoming an ex-pat (like Columbia)... and what other languages you may know motss.cons Weather (especially snow) Pictures and videos (what's viewable or restorable) Whether motss.cons will still exist (January CFP) and bids... and whose responsibility it is to run the process Transcontintneal flights, long-distance walking, and exhaustion Looksism Subway timing Age, exercise, and how transportation affects that Plants (and an early-blooming amaryllis) Decorative knives and scrimshaw Ambergris Composting as a public benefit Recycling (especially whether plastic recycling is a scam) Climate change