A 50-something French dude that's old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. I also like to write and to sketch.
As someone who eats very little meat myself, I must say I've never managed to figure out that need for hating on people who do.
Well, I do understand it for what it is: a lazy and very cheap way to get the illusion of being somewhat better than 'the enemy', since it's a quasi religious war they're raising, whomever that 'enemy' might be as this trend toward hate is certainly not exclusive to vegans. But I cannot understand how it's possible for so many people to not realize what they're doing by playing that cheap game, what type of society they're actively contributing to build. Which is the real sad thing.
But hey, at least it's quite easy to block the most invasive specimens, and to filter out those annoying words they so much like to (ab)use.
Reddit acting even more like a dick. That was a few years ago and, as far as I can see, things over there things have not changed in anyway making me willing to go back. Which is kinda sad, there were quite a few sub I enjoyed a lot, and a few users as well.
Games are meant to be played, not collected.
I'm not a gamer myself (the only game I ever purchased are a few chessboards ;) but as a book reader I know many people do buy books they will never ever read. They just collect dust on their bookshelves. It may be sad they don't get to enjoy the content, but it's their choice and there is nothing wrong with that.
Welcome to online privacy made, with so much love, in the EU.
I see it everywhere. At first I thought these people were just paranoid, afraid that people would interpret a naked clothesline as “my owner doesn’t even use me. Take me!”
You mean, take the... clothesline? Like steal it?
But maybe it’s a trend? I don’t know.
Or maybe you noticed more people doing their laundry? Also, when the weather gets better they may feel more tempted to use it to dry their laundry ;)
https://lichess.org/ is great even on a computer, not just on a phone. I don't play on my phone, but I do like to play from time to time on lichess :)
I leave it in my pocket or in my messenger bag, unused safe when I really need it.
Instead, I will either read a book, look/walk around for something or some scene to sketch, or will spend time talking with people.
And, yes, I consider myself 'most normal people' ;)
Papers in all its forms is fascinating (and amazing) :)
Even more so when one start realizing how many forms it can take and has taken (animal skin 'paper', anyone?). Happy to know people showed up to listen to the talk!
- Not a purchased by me, but the mechanical watch my grandfather gave to me some 40+ years ago. It was his watch, and was already used when he gave it to me, but it still works great today.
- A good stack of quality paper (don't get me started on watercolor paper).
- The humble pencil, B2 or B4. This may sound like a joke but despite its age and it being so low-tech the pencil is still an unrivaled piece of technology that even Apple can only try to mimic with its expensive Apple Pencil.
- My most recent purchase, and a lot more 'high' tech than the pencil: a pocket Sony voice recorder, from the 90s. It uses standard AA batteries (that will last for weeks if not months), it needs no monthly subscription, and no online access, it fully respects my privacy, there is no ads in it, it uses MP3 and can record on either its internal memory or use SD cards, and it... works great with Linux. I love it.
Nearing my 60s and I still wonder too.
We've been together 30 years and counting. One gets used to some snoring. When it's too loud or too annoying (and it's not just me, she too can snore :p) we nudge the other, even when they wake up they almost instantly fall asleep without the snoring.
Walk is my main kind of exercise. Daily walks. But I also wear orthopedic soles. As for real exercises I do some my osteopath taught me... The guy I was sent to by another doctor who I told when I sat in front of him: what I know of your practice makes me very doubtful you can achieve anything serious. I was wrong. So wrong.
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Exactly. It’s fine to build up flawless versions of people in your mind and to try to emulate those imaginary heroes or draw inspiration from their strengths.
Indeed. And even without looking for heroes, or role models. Try to be the best version of yourself does not mean you have to be perfect, nor that other people should be.
We're all filled with flaws. No matter how amazing we've been told we are, or how amazing we think we are, or even how amazing we can indeed be (lucky you).
Doesn't mean you need to accept the unacceptable, just be realistic. Don't you ever fart in bed? Don't you ever pick your nose? Don't you like to eat some crap from time to time? Don't you like to watch/listen to/read and actually do some real stupid shit, from time to time? I do!
Me? I'm the sum of countless flaws plus a few scarce qualities. I know it and so does my spouse, which is also filled with her own flaws btw, the person who I love today at least as much as I have been loving her for the last 30 years or so we've been together... and counting.
That said, many really really awesome people do exist.
Yes! They're all around us. They're just not perfect and they've not been waiting for us to debark in their life.
So, when we're dismissing them because of their perceived flaws/imperfections, or because of something/someone they like we don't like... we're missing out on their qualities and maybe on getting to meet an amazing friend/partner/someone to spend time with.
So I was wondering if anyone here with lower back issues has found a chair that helped them sit?
Yes and no.
Sitting is the/my enemy. So, I use an adjustable standing desk with the best standing mat I could afford.
When I can/wan to sit, I sit, while the rest of the time I have the desk at my usual standing height and use the standing mat instead of the chair. The standing mat is key to help reduce fatigue & stress (feet, legs and back). I may also put it at different heights from time to time, depending how... tired my back is.
At least as important, I try to never sit longer than an hour.I will get up and walk (either going out for a real long walk) or just be standing and walking in my home office. I may even dictate draft notes to a pocket recorder while I'm doing that.
As you can imagine, the chair is not the most important for me in that configuration but I do have one. It is one of those gaming chairs. Just a model for people that are well over my weight (so it's rather firm). It's ugly as hell (and quite large) but it offers all the adjustments I need : height and the ability to lean back as much as I wish (it can almost lay flat). I removed the arm rests that are rather... useless and cumbersome. When I sit, I also use a little cushiony stand thingy, on which I rest my feet at a slight angle. This seem to quite help my back too.
Imho, your doctor should be able to suggest you some better chairs than any random stranger online could... even if it's me ;)
Still, I hope this can help you a little bit: I know too well how our back can be a bitch.
Thanks for the French rec, even if the translation is meh, I try to enjoy different cultures’ “boogymen”, so I’ll give it a go!
The pleasure is mine, I wish more people would read that way :)
I could not tell if the translation is meh as I only read in French.
I mean, there are so many kind of horrors.
The most obvious pick would be Stephen King: his best-sellers are so for a good reason: they're good. Maybe consider Bags of bones, or his classics: Carrie, The Plague, It,... I mean is much longer Dark Tower (not really horror, imho) is something I would love to not have read already... so I would be able to read it for the first time one more time ;)
Haunted house story: like King, I consider the Shirley Jackson 'The Haunting of Hill House' a masterpiece. In French, Jean Ray 'Malpertuis' (sorry I've not read any English translation). I think I prefer Jan Ray but being French myself I may be biased, here, and I still love Jackson's novel.
Another classic in his own kind: Edgard Allan Poe. I mean, come on :)
Edit: as suggested already: +1 for Clive Barker short stories.
Since you've be careful enough to put limits on what you're looking for, I won't mention the real 'horrifying' horror writers I can think of, but be aware horror stories do not end to best-sellers nor to classics.
Among the most... intense, there a few writers that come to mind whose names I will never publicly suggest to anyone, even though they're wonderful craftsmen, like really... but they can also be deeply and utterly disturbing which, in our age filled with angry self-appointed vigilante always on the lookout for someone they don't like to lynch, is something I would never want to happen to them. But they're there, alive and writing masterpieces, some of which will undoubtedly become tomorrow's classics... if there is anyone left to read books, that is.
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Ideals should remain just that: idea(l)s. Be fine with them not being... a reality.
I have been journaling for 50 years or so (started as a little 7 year-old boy and I'm now nearing my 60s). My life is not remarkable, and I don't much tings out of the ordinary. I journal for various reasons:
- As a child, as a way to escape the... painful situation I was in
- Then, very quickly, after I realized the amazing power writing was giving me, to outsmart my mother and his need to control me.
- Then, journaling had already become a habit. I just do it (or don't do it, some times for very long period of time I will not care about journaling and I consider this fine too)
I now journal to put some order in my head and to keep a record of things and stuff around me. As a record, I feel no need to write long paragraphs. Heck, I even record the weather and... my mood, in a single word or two, sorry the pictures of my journals are in French (I write it mostly in French) but you can get the idea. As for putting order in my head, it depends: it will be long or short depending what I'm writing about, I don't care provided it helps me ;)
Btw, the link I shared goes to a journaling community I'm the admin of. Feel free to join and to participate: you're more than welcome. Even though it looks a bit too sleepy for teh time being, like I promised a few months ago, I should be able to start again investing some time in it soonish, The things that are still keeping me busy are just more demanding than expected ;)
Usually I don’t care about “correct” language at all, I’d even argue languages that change are alive and changes are often invisible to those with rigid or discriminatory thinking.
But then, without any... 'discriminatory thinking' (odd choice of words, to non-native English speaker-me at least), how would we realize there is a change happening in any language if no one cared about some kind of rule-based system in said language?
That being said, I do agree with you a living language is one that changes (but it's also one whose users remember its roots and its evolution, making them able to pick the ball, be it to play with it or to transform it as deeply as they fancy as one needs to understand a problem before trying to fix it). But being alive does not have to mean 'anarchy' or there quickly won't be much ability left to communicate (aka the agreement of the both of us on the meaning of the words we use) ... Like there would not be much people alive around us if there was not this things called 'the law': no law is immutable but all existing laws better be respected, and if it is a bad law it needs to be changed... by people who studied it first ;)
To answer your rather surprising question (it's a very... specific chose of words while there are many other and much... wider notions out there the younger generation seems to have lost track of), it probably has to do with the lower level of their education (not their fault, but they are the one paying dear price for it... I almost cried the first time I read this). There can be no 'nuances' where there is no education to it. And without much reading going on, well, there is even less of it. As a matter of fact, there is less of everything... even the ability to realize one may be lacking in something specific.
There is a slight difference between a weapon, and a nuke. One doesn't need a nuke to defend oneself and there is no 'what if', imho.
But if you insist that there was a 'what if', then I would tell you there would be no humanity left. We're already happily killing one another, using almost direct descent of stone age tools (a knife or a hammer), for the pettiest reasons (things like money or a bad look, come to mind) not even for imperative needs, like survival. So, the second the average people gets access to nuke power(even more today, seeing how poorly educated they're and how unable to handle the slightest emotion/contrariety), the entire planet will be blown away, say, because some neighbor dared listening to music too loud (or music one doesn't appreciate) or because their dog peed on their lawn.
"Yeah, but a single nuke won't blow the planet away!" Sure. But we will. One nuke after the other in as little time as it takes for enough of us to say 'they're the bad guy, they deserve to pay the price, where is my big red button?' (hint: we're all the bad guy for someone else, somewhere.)
End of humanity.