Most of the people doing terrible shit in the name of the bible are the same people that understand nothing about the bible
So much so.
Also too many love to hate on the Bible without ever reading it, only considering that since many assholes are claiming the Bible as theirs, the Bible must be bad.
I've switched to analog a few years ago. But they will come after analog means of communication the moment they finish destroying online privacy. it's already started.
I guess today we would get the ants one by one through a monthly subscription, and we would only be allowed to watch through the glass for a few minutes each month unless we paid extra for the Ultimate Not-Creepy-at-all Voyeur Plan?
I understand your reasoning, but 47 still sounds like a lot but that's just me. Knowing my (old) eyesight do decline regularly, I would not order more than a few at once. But as someone who see little interest in changing for the sake of changing and is deeply allergic to the way glasses are overpriced around here... That's quite smart, I must say.
I've never used Aliexpress (public confession mode on), may I ask if there is a way to also select the width of the frame? My head may now be bald as a baby's bottom, It's also fairly thick and broad and standard frames won't fit ;)
Abonné à plusieurs quotidiens FR (et un US) et quelques magazines.
Je reçois la version papier par courrier et je ne lis pas en ligne, même si j'ai accès à la version digitale avec l'abo print, tout simplement parce qu'avec le papier il n'y a pas de tracking de ce que je lis ou comment je le lis (à part mon choix de journaux, bien entendu) et ça me semble particulièrement important quand il s'agit de s'informer et/ou de politique. Du moins dans une démocratie fonctionelle.
Edit: dans les magazines, il y a d'autres choses que politique et information: j'ai quelques hobbies, aussi ;)
astuce: (je viens d'arrêter à cause de mon déménagepment, mais...) ces 25 dernières années, avec un voisin nous partagions les coûts des abonnements vu que nous avions pas mal d'intérêts commun en terme de lectures. J'en payais quelques uns et les lui filait à après lecture, il en payait d'autres et me les filait.
What will people do the day they realize fascists and their sympathizers are breathing the exact same air they themselves breath? Boycott breathing?
I'm getting tired being shown that kind of FUD shit posts about whatever some CEO has or has not done regarding their personal political views and preferences.
Sure, that's obviously a me issue (and, yeah, quite obviously too, I must be one of those assholes too), but since it seems rather difficult to filter out that kind of content from Lemmy/piefed without actually risking removing most other content at the same time, I will take that as a hint it maybe simpler to remove myself for around here.
I have most of what I need/want outside of the Internet (books, newspapers, people to discuss with, places to go,... even my music and movies are physical media/offline). I would get back a tad more free time, I guess which would probably be great ;)
As much as possible, I'll go anywhere I can walking. Unless there is a real practical reason not to, I now walk multiple miles every single day. I love long walks :)
that's major achievement
But it was always just a few more steps... aka, a real minor objective.
Daily objectives is how I (re)learned to walk... never fixing myself impressive objective, regularly noticing other people smiling at my lack of impressive progress while I focuses on walking a few more steps every day. Still, I went from barely being able to walk to walking miles daily... and I also got back into a somewhat decent shape.
I regularly read books in English and then in their French translation, out of curiosity. It happens less often the other way around (because there is, sadly for the US, a lot less French authors being translated into English) but I'll do it on occasions. I don't focus much on the cover, to be honest.
Why can the title be so different once translated (not all the time)? For the same reasons it a movie title can be so different too, I suppose: market studies and cultural context. The same with the cover design: what sells in the USA probably would not sell that well in a few European countries.
Like mentioned, big yearly goals are worth shit. Instead, you should aim for more realistic things that are actionable and that you can work on... on a daily basis.
Good for you, I'm glad you're enjoying them. As I was saying, I care more about my privacy and the true ownership. I could have added I also appreciate a much nicer page layout with most print books.
You can have tens of thousands of books on a single e-reader
I don't read that many books at the same time but, here again like I said, I realize ebooks help saving space.
I don't visualize it. It's just there, just escaped from my head right onto the paper, and it's written just how one is supposed to be writing it.
To me, it's a question of practice. The more (regularly) you write the more it become a reflex, the more you enrich your vocabulary (read widely, read as often as possible) the more you will 'know' words and how to write them (also true for grammar and full sentences). I never think about crossing the t or put on accent on 'à, é, è, ë, and so on' when I need one... it comes naturally because I internalized the various (French, or whatever other languages I can write) grammatical rules.
BTW, it's ok to forget them on occasions, provided the word/sentence remains legible. My handwriting is pretty shitty but I'm used to reading it so I need not write every single accentuation or diacritic sign in order to be by able to re-read myself. I also devised my own shorthand along the years and most of my notes will be written using that shorthand (meaning a lot of symbols instead of traditional words)... I would never use shorthand, and would take a lot more care with accents and punctuation (and grammar) knowing someone else will be reading what I write.
As for the signature, I just decided on mine when I was maybe 15 or 16 and have kept using it since then, now nearing my 60. So, yeah it just flows out of the pen without me thinking much about it.
Mom, that thing is so boooooooring! It can only make noise with its flappy mouth and... and... it doesn't even speak Glurb! Can we bring it back to the shop and buy me the new Whatever-Game-Alien-Glurb-Kids-Do-Play instead? Moooom Plizzzz I promise I'll clean my room and stop picking my nose with my tentacles!
'Better' depends a lot of what one is looking for. And what one consider more important which might not always be convenience or efficiency. To share just two personal examples:
Even though ebooks are more portable, take less space to collect, are easier to copy and paste quotes from, and are often cheaper, I have chosen to go back to reading print (aka analog) books and newspapers and magazines because to me they offer two things I value a lot more than the rest: a much better privacy-respecting experience (no tracking going on) and the full ownership/property of the books I purchase (No one can remotely edit a print book sitting in my home library, nor delete it for whatever reason. Sure, I know very well one can hack DRM out of most ebooks but I don't want to deal with that for things I already paid for, that i snot how purchase is supposed to work). I also consider analog books a lot more focused tools (without distractions), helping read longer without interruptions. Edit: Plus, I enjoy reading that way a lot more.
I write longhand also for privacy concerns but I do it mostly because it is how I like to write.
I know very well I can type a lot faster faster than I write in cursive, I can edits too and backups. It's just not what I need the most when I write.
As keen as I am to spend my day groveling to some mod, who’s probably as charmingly direct as your good self, to determine which petty rule my entirely vanilla post transgressed, I think I’d rather just get on with my life.
Then, why even bother mentioning it? Not trolling, it's a real question: if it's not worth you asking the concerned person their motivation/reasoning, what interest is there for you in sharing it online with random people like myself?
The ad itself looks almost perfect. It's brilliant in its simplicity.
I also have a spare button. The most... unnoticeable one that would fit most of the shirts I usually wear.
Disclaimer: old dude speaking, I don't wear t-shirts much or only under a shirt ;)
So much so.
Also too many love to hate on the Bible without ever reading it, only considering that since many assholes are claiming the Bible as theirs, the Bible must be bad.
I've switched to analog a few years ago. But they will come after analog means of communication the moment they finish destroying online privacy. it's already started.
There is no allies to the US anymore, only clients that are expected to pay for protection and to obey.
(hi, from France).
I guess today we would get the ants one by one through a monthly subscription, and we would only be allowed to watch through the glass for a few minutes each month unless we paid extra for the Ultimate Not-Creepy-at-all Voyeur Plan?
I understand your reasoning, but 47 still sounds like a lot but that's just me. Knowing my (old) eyesight do decline regularly, I would not order more than a few at once. But as someone who see little interest in changing for the sake of changing and is deeply allergic to the way glasses are overpriced around here... That's quite smart, I must say.
I've never used Aliexpress (public confession mode on), may I ask if there is a way to also select the width of the frame? My head may now be bald as a baby's bottom, It's also fairly thick and broad and standard frames won't fit ;)
Abonné à plusieurs quotidiens FR (et un US) et quelques magazines.
Je reçois la version papier par courrier et je ne lis pas en ligne, même si j'ai accès à la version digitale avec l'abo print, tout simplement parce qu'avec le papier il n'y a pas de tracking de ce que je lis ou comment je le lis (à part mon choix de journaux, bien entendu) et ça me semble particulièrement important quand il s'agit de s'informer et/ou de politique. Du moins dans une démocratie fonctionelle.
Edit: dans les magazines, il y a d'autres choses que politique et information: j'ai quelques hobbies, aussi ;)
astuce: (je viens d'arrêter à cause de mon déménagepment, mais...) ces 25 dernières années, avec un voisin nous partagions les coûts des abonnements vu que nous avions pas mal d'intérêts commun en terme de lectures. J'en payais quelques uns et les lui filait à après lecture, il en payait d'autres et me les filait.
Le plaisir est pour moi, merci de ta lecture.
What will people do the day they realize fascists and their sympathizers are breathing the exact same air they themselves breath? Boycott breathing?
I'm getting tired being shown that kind of FUD shit posts about whatever some CEO has or has not done regarding their personal political views and preferences.
Sure, that's obviously a me issue (and, yeah, quite obviously too, I must be one of those assholes too), but since it seems rather difficult to filter out that kind of content from Lemmy/piefed without actually risking removing most other content at the same time, I will take that as a hint it maybe simpler to remove myself for around here.
I have most of what I need/want outside of the Internet (books, newspapers, people to discuss with, places to go,... even my music and movies are physical media/offline). I would get back a tad more free time, I guess which would probably be great ;)
As much as possible, I'll go anywhere I can walking. Unless there is a real practical reason not to, I now walk multiple miles every single day. I love long walks :)
But it was always just a few more steps... aka, a real minor objective.
Daily objectives is how I (re)learned to walk... never fixing myself impressive objective, regularly noticing other people smiling at my lack of impressive progress while I focuses on walking a few more steps every day. Still, I went from barely being able to walk to walking miles daily... and I also got back into a somewhat decent shape.
I regularly read books in English and then in their French translation, out of curiosity. It happens less often the other way around (because there is, sadly for the US, a lot less French authors being translated into English) but I'll do it on occasions. I don't focus much on the cover, to be honest.
Why can the title be so different once translated (not all the time)? For the same reasons it a movie title can be so different too, I suppose: market studies and cultural context. The same with the cover design: what sells in the USA probably would not sell that well in a few European countries.
Of course.
Like mentioned, big yearly goals are worth shit. Instead, you should aim for more realistic things that are actionable and that you can work on... on a daily basis.
Good for you, I'm glad you're enjoying them. As I was saying, I care more about my privacy and the true ownership. I could have added I also appreciate a much nicer page layout with most print books.
I don't read that many books at the same time but, here again like I said, I realize ebooks help saving space.
I don't visualize it. It's just there, just escaped from my head right onto the paper, and it's written just how one is supposed to be writing it.
To me, it's a question of practice. The more (regularly) you write the more it become a reflex, the more you enrich your vocabulary (read widely, read as often as possible) the more you will 'know' words and how to write them (also true for grammar and full sentences). I never think about crossing the t or put on accent on 'à, é, è, ë, and so on' when I need one... it comes naturally because I internalized the various (French, or whatever other languages I can write) grammatical rules.
BTW, it's ok to forget them on occasions, provided the word/sentence remains legible. My handwriting is pretty shitty but I'm used to reading it so I need not write every single accentuation or diacritic sign in order to be by able to re-read myself. I also devised my own shorthand along the years and most of my notes will be written using that shorthand (meaning a lot of symbols instead of traditional words)... I would never use shorthand, and would take a lot more care with accents and punctuation (and grammar) knowing someone else will be reading what I write.
As for the signature, I just decided on mine when I was maybe 15 or 16 and have kept using it since then, now nearing my 60. So, yeah it just flows out of the pen without me thinking much about it.
Mom, that thing is so boooooooring! It can only make noise with its flappy mouth and... and... it doesn't even speak Glurb! Can we bring it back to the shop and buy me the new Whatever-Game-Alien-Glurb-Kids-Do-Play instead? Moooom Plizzzz I promise I'll clean my room and stop picking my nose with my tentacles!
'Better' depends a lot of what one is looking for. And what one consider more important which might not always be convenience or efficiency. To share just two personal examples:
I know very well I can type a lot faster faster than I write in cursive, I can edits too and backups. It's just not what I need the most when I write.
Then, why even bother mentioning it? Not trolling, it's a real question: if it's not worth you asking the concerned person their motivation/reasoning, what interest is there for you in sharing it online with random people like myself?