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long time resident of a New York apartment building which has
the wonderful amenity of a fitness room in its basement. First
established nearly 20 years ago, this gym had deteriorated over
the years through lack of updates into a slightly dingy and
depressing, albeit functional place. One feature of the health
club that regular users cherished was that each of 12 aerobic
machine stations had its own small TV and VCR/DVD player,
allowing users to record their own media and watch it while
working out. A long overdue refurbishing of the gym at the end
of the summer yielded flat screen TVs with no speakers and no
media inputs. It seems that the remodeling committee decided
that users (their neighbors) could not be trusted to comply with
facility rules requiring headset use. Additionally, some few of
us were spending too much time on any one machine, and perhaps
grunting overly or perspiring too much while doing so.
Initially, Diogenes was outraged at