Living in France myself and Clairefontaine (and Rhodia, as they belong to the same group which may explain why the paper feel kinda comparable) being French companies, it's quite easy to find them absolutely ... everywhere (be it in a supermarket, an office supply store (fancy or vanilla stationary), even your local 'épicerie' will often sell some pack of looseleaf as well as notebooks in various sizes), at a price affordable enough for kids to use in school.
BTW, it is also my go to paper ;)
There’s like this weird, subtle one upmanship about every little thing and a lot of people are very nitpicky and judgmental
Like on any other social network, no?
The issue I see around here is that there are very few of us (we're not Twitter or Reddit or whatever) so the negativity is always more visible and more noticeable. Then, any user that leave is a real loss because there are already so few of us.
It kind of takes the fun out of being on here, TBH. Or am I the only one experiencing this?
I would not have stayed on Lemmy/piefed had I not learned to filter out what I call its constant 'noise' (by blocking users, blocking keywords and by only showing content I'm subscribed to in my feed), removing all the hatred, all the high moral ground political/moral/judgmental non-sense, and also removing the constant flow of low effort posts, and mere trolls. It's still not perfect but it's so much better like that!
I'm a patient dude, I'll see how Lemmy/Piefed (d)evolves in the long run. I wish it won't crumble under its own political non-sense, it's constant hatred of anything they disagree with, but if it does, so be it. I will know I'll have given it a fair chance, and did my part, to show it was not just that.
Old dude speaking, here:
- if you're inexperienced like you said you were, you probably should not let some random person pay for everything at least when you first start dating them... They may (I insist, conditional form) quickly come to expect something out of all the money they're spending with you. Maybe not but I would not take any chance, if I were in your shoes.
- As an old dude (bis) I think I should mention I'm always willing to purchase books for younger people (boys as well as girls), even kids, provided there is no possibility for my gift being misinterpreted as something I certainly do not wish it to be.
The housing was kinda rigid but the disk itself was real flimsy, says I who have used many floppy disks. Plus, in French we used to say 'disque' or even 'disquette' (a small disk) which did not relate at all to their floppiness, so to speak.
That's more or less what I 'm saying: we need to work on those tools, not on filtering who is allowed to use them.
Adults are not that smarter than kids, imvho, they too could very easily be considered 'victims' of those manipulative tools. And maybe they should, watching how they poorly behave while they're pretending to show kids what it means to be a 'responsible adult'.
I have pretty harsh views on social media so I tend to believe everyone is better off without
you won't find me anywhere but here, so we very well agree on that question. I just try to consider the issue itself more than what I may or may not think about it ;)
I remember composing letters in college, just barely pre-internet. It was a lovely art. Next time I find a book of letter, I’m picking it up.
+1 because I can't do more :)
I’m a regular contact type of person. This whole thing of “we don’t talk for years but then we have a phone call and catch up” is not for me.
- It needs not be years, it's just a way of speaking.
- Like anything new, we learn to be good at it. Remember your first bike ride? Mine hurt. How you learned to write? Was it by writing an amazing poem in an not less amazing cursive or was it by clumsily tracing batons letters (and getting them wrong)? Me too ;) Remember how you learned to walk? Was it by running and winning a marathon or by falling, over and over again on your diapered bottom? That's learning and that's worth it. Bot saying you should do this or that, just that maybe it's worth trying even if it's not that great to start with ;)
That being said, kids 100% should not be on social media. I think this has been proven time and time again at this point, no?
Why? Isn't socializing the base of all society? Aren't social media the privileged way people do socialize nowadays? Why should kids be kept at bay? Is it for their safety? But then...
- Aren't most kind of abuses happening within families and not online? So, should families be forbidden to kids too and should they be raised collectively, by some institution, instead? But then...
- Aren't schools (an institution that already deal with kids a few hours every single day of the week) the second place in importance in which kids can sustain abuses of many form? Should kids be kept out of schools too, then?
Those are too absurd examples (hopefully no one will consider those ideas seriously) of the real absurdity of the entire debate regarding social media. At least, imho.
If kid's safety was the issue with social media we should change those social media and the way we, the adults, the ones showing the example to kids, are using them. But we're not. Instead, we're making it illegal for kids to use those shitty social media... making them even more enticing to use!
It looks so much like the prohibition (and we all know how well it turned, and what was the real motivation) it would be funny if it was not so sad for the kids having to deal with that hopelessly clueless adults around them.
Congrats! And happy journaling :)
(coming from a lifelong journal writer and a typewriter (and pen) user)
If you ever wish to share your journaling experience/questions/emotions/...: !journaling@sh.itjust.works
It has been on hiatus for many months (like too many communities, I'm afraid) but I hope to soon get some time available to publish regular content again and, being the admin over there, I would love to see more people share their experience even more so if that relates to good old analog tech :)
Started 'Till we have Faces', a novel by C.S. Lewis. I quite like this author and reading the first chapter of the book make me think I won't be disappointed this time either.
Lewis is the author of 'Narnia', but he is also (and, imho, foremost) a christian author that has written really deep essays well worth reading even if you're not the religious kind of person (I'm not). A book like 'The Abolition of Man' should be considered a must read to anyone worrying about the type of society we're building today.
It's a (short) collection of 3 (or is it 4?) lectures he did back in 1942 aimed at... British bomber pilots (young people expected to erase entire cities) in which he discusses what it means to educate children and why it should matter how we decide to do it. He also points out how easily education can be used to create... a lesser, smaller, or heartless, kind of humanity, or no humanity. Hence the title of the book. A great book.
being a romantic partner seems to be the only way to be a priority in anyone’s life.
I would say this may not be the 'right' way to consider the question. But it's hard to explain, even more so in English. The aim should not be to be a priority. It should be to be valuable to one another.
I know a few people but I've one friend. One, that's it. We've been friend since we were kids (now nearing our 60s). We don't live in the same country anymore and, naturally since we also both try to reduce our impact on the environment by traveling (a lot) less, we don't see that often. Also, we both have our life(s), friends, and family. And that's fine: we seldom meet, we even seldom chat like we used (spending countless night discussing philosophy and politics (we both are complete opposites on that matter) and spending countless hours writing to one another the moment we could not meet IRL anymore) but we are friends. We both know from experience the moment we need it the other will be at our door, virtually our in person depending the situation. To me that's friendship: we don't spend a lot more time with many other persons, but that doesn't change a thing. I mean, we can and have put such or such discussion on hold, sometimes for a year or more and get back to it the moment the opportunity arise like if we had left it the night before...
It is something we learned back in the 80s and 90s, before we had readily available 'Internet' and before everybody and their mother switched to email and later on to social networks, back when we had to use snail mail to discuss despite distance and wait for our letter to reach them, and wait even more to receive their response. Not just the two of us, many other people used to do that back then. Being patient and being fine with only getting a few minutes here and there and make the most out of those.
like, I don't (expect to) spend all my time with my spouse... 34 years and counting together. A liberty we both consider a key part in respecting one another's. She has friends and activities I can't be bothered with, like I have mine she can't be bothered with. And we both are fine with that. We're a couple but we remain two individuals that will do stuff on their own, including spending time with other people and having fun without their partner.
All of that to say we should be fine not being the constant 'priority' of someone we truly care, and appreciate whatever time we can spend together, no matter how little.
After reading the CSM article (link to the actual article), I was reminded of a simple question I don’t think I've ever asked around here: why do we use a typewriter?
I mean, beside its visual/collectible appeal why do we decide to use a typewriter and not just, say, a pen and paper instead?
They’re both ‘old school’ and ‘analog’ (I would say low-tech, and a great way to ‘resist’ that high-tech society), they’re both screen-less, they’re also both 100% offline (distraction-free, focused, update/upgrade-free), and they’re both privacy-respecting too. The pen is also a lot more portable, easier to travel and can be much cheaper too.
Isn’t that at least as true with the humble pen(cil) ?
I do use typewriters, an Olympia SG1 + a much quieter (and much more portable ;) Canon TypeStar 220, but for most of my writing I use pen and paper—fountain pen and/or pencil—as most of my writing is done longhand.
I’m afraid oftentimes this will only be true for the person using it, not the people around. My spouse made it clear she would like for me to find a much quieter device for when I went to use a typewriter: in our small flat, it was really a noisy device (even to our neighbors). Hence, me getting my hands on the Canon TypeStar.
So, to get back to my original question: I know why I use a typewriter (when I will start working on a second draft, as I already have everything set up into place more or less firmly) but I was wondering about your motivations?
Or could it be because the younger generations never learned writing longhand, cursive, and do indeed need a keyboard?