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he is indeed :)

J'y connais rien en trotinettes (la dernière que j'ai utilisée c'était dans les années 70 et je portais des culottes courtes... et j'avais encore des cheveux) mais la garantie du fabricant dit quoi à propos des crevaisons d'un pneu increvable?

The long agony cry of democracy dying under the relentless assaults of cupidity and egoism with the enthusiastic support of a quickly rising stupidity and illiteracy.

Sorry, that may not have been the kind of answer I was supposed to share. So, to keep myself asomewhat on tracks I may add that this WE I listened to some Beethoven and also some Jacques Brel.

As long as enough people are willing to use and to rely on those apps/services, no matter how good the reason(s), those companies win and they (will) screw all of us.

I told those companies they should go fuck themselves the day I quit using them

Don't be a dick.

Not one change. Many. And important ones.

• Important weight loss but I also started walking a lot. So, they should both be considered responsible.
• Not being constantly hungry.
• A lot more energy, less dizziness, a lot less headache.
• Much better sleep.
• Better sexual abilities, too.
• Without going into too much personal details, I have been suffering from severe health issues for many years but after less than a year eating healthier food only (fresh and handmade), not changing any medication and treatment, all the doctors were so surprised by the change they made me to redo all the usual tests and exams and then added a few extra ones to make sure that was real and there was not something else going on. Years later, they're still impressed by that change (and how stable it has stayed so far).

Simply put, I went from being an old wreck barely able to walk a few steps (fetching the mail at the door forced to rest for the rest of the day) to being an older but working person that is able to do almost anything I fancy. Nowadays, I take long daily walks without breaking a sweat and I enjoy those long walks so much I would feel bad not doing it ;)

So yeah, as far as I'm concerned over-processed food can go fuck themselves: I see those exactly as I see cigarettes and alcohol which are two other things I had to get rid of in my life, btw.

UPF? Ultra Processed Food? If so we don't eat any. We have quit touching those turds a few years ago and never looked back. Food as well as beverage.

Edit: We used to eat a lot of that, me more than my spouse and people just can't imagine the impact quitting that had on our health (more so on my own and on my and my weight). That and starting to walk a lot.

I like that you cut to the chase, and remove the plastic element. I think I might lean into that too, as I am always trying to think of ways to be a more sustainable individual.

Which is a good thing imho. We’re trying our best to do the same.

I don’t take a lot of pictures anymore, because I think phones are creepy fucks.

I think so too. I distrust the smartphone so much that I don’t even have a social app, or email, not even a game installed on that thing. I need to have one for 2FA, banks and stuff like that but I distrust that thing with all my guts ad I use it as little as I can (which is not a lot)

I used to take a lot of pictures but it has been a few years I seldom take any and never of people or stuff I consider personal. For that, I switched to sketching them.

But for practical stuff like I just did in the discussion, I will simply take a snapshot (trying to remove all metadata, though).

It’s nice because I never pull the sucker out in public. It’s bad because I have stopped visually recording my life in many ways.

Nowadays, I pull out a sketchbook and a small set of watercolors :p

I’m a little mama (as in, I am short and tiny) so when I go into nature, I am not looking to carry something around that can leave me vulnerable.

I can 100% understand that, and I say that as a tall and bulky dude myself. Also, no matter what, when I go for a long walk I try to shave as much useless weight as possible.

I’ve got a new pad of paper, I think I should start considering making a new guy to take around. You’ve got me having the itch for it =)!

:)

I really like your design by the by! Looking at that spine “wow-ed” me! It’s ingenious! The way I allowed for less/more depth is by sewing a “travel” piece of cloth between the two boards I had.

Thx. Yep, if it’s anything, it’s practical. Could easily be improved upon but I’m not yet persuaded it’s worth the time... I will see.

I have a poor technique when drawing. I wish I didn’t.

My skecthes look like nothing. Seriously. And I don’t care the slightest. I just enjoy doing them.

It drives my partner crazy, because she uses those old masters style of pencil holding (where you hold it by the end) and never touches the paper outside of setting it.

I’m using both methods depending the paper size, the place I have to move my arm, and also of the subject. Any method is the right one as long as it works for you. Don’t worry too much ;)

But damned if that doesn’t bite me in the ass if I smudge.

That’s also why I prefer sketching with a fountain pen (using waterproof fountain pen ink) over pencil. It dries in an instant and won’t smudge ever. My brand of favorite waterproof fountain pen ink (never use non-fountain pen ink in a fountain pen, you would ruin it) is from DeAtramentis, their Document line of bottled inks (many colors available, I love their brown, it’s what I use most), or the Platinum Carbon Black ink.

I stare at those beautifully thin and gliding pen tips (with that liquidy ink) and I run in terror of them. Just because I have such a messy technique =P! I have trouble controlling them,

That’s one of the reasons why I use them: it forces me to let go of any semblance of control and perfection since I can’t erase anything every single line is definitive and should be accepted ;)

I have never heard of Zettelkasten, no lie!

I know many people have not, hence the link ;)

It’s a great method provided it fits your mindset but in reality Zettelkasten is just a generic name (it’s German and it means something like ‘box of index cards’) that was given by one scholar who formalized (very efficiently) a technique people have been using for centuries. Unknowingly, I had been using a Zettelkasten of my own for years before I discovered it even had a name ;)

Also, it's method not a religion with one right way one must follow. You’re more than encouraged to tweak it and change it however you see fit.

My only suggestion would be to keep it as simple as possible (don’t try to categorize too much stuff in advance and keep the numbering/ID system as basic as you possibly can) and let it evolves organically with practice as needs arise.

I know this is going to sound psychotic, but when I am done with one of my notebooks, I cannibalize it with a knife until it’s little bits and then toss it. Which, probably isn’t the best solution for keeping records.

For decades, I burnt mine. I started journaling as a little boy but my inquisitorial mum would not allow me much privacy and definitely disapproved the stuff I wrote in my journal, punishing me for that. I qui ckly realized it would be safer to make it so she could not read it and also that it would even be safer to not keep them… And I kept burning mine up until a few years, sadly everything priori to that is lost.

but I should probably look into ways to keep the ideas | records separate from the | raw stuff =P!

A Zettelkasten may help. It’s why I keep my journal separated from my index cards save whatever I deem worthy of indexing ;)

I am in flux, I am old stuff and new stuff all the same. There is an artist I once heard who described herself as “I never knew I was old, until I went to the doctors and they told me I was.”

I’m well into my 50s but I don’t see myself as old. Or maybe I do and I just don’t care how old I’m. I keep doing whatever I want to do, that’s what matter to me. And I keep being excited by stuff,like a kid can/should be.

Catch is I see myself slowing down, health issues tackled like they aimed to maim and the hair is no longer a pure beautiful raven black like it used to be =P!

We all do slow down. I can’t have sleepless nights over sleepless nights like I used to when I was in my 20s (not for partying mind you, to write stuff and paint and do stuff). Nowadays, I need my 4 or 5 hour sleep.

As for the hairs… mine were getting gray at the same time I was getting bald early in my 30s. I used to have long hair but one day I shaved my head and never looked back :p

Oh yeah, no okay so umm goofabout talk here on the television thing. My partner NEEDS television in her life, I need television away from my life.

Our compromise is that we watch DVDs. We just refuse to be force fed ads and/or shitty content. We like whatever movie or series to be a great one (in any genre, I mean) or to be something that will challenge or even disturb us, we’re not much into the politically correct turds that are currently en vogue and produced en masse. So, we don’t miss much of Netflix or whatever.

I know it sounds woo-woo but they just change the dynamic of a room.

Not to me. It not only change the dynamic of a room, it also deeply changes the dynamic of most families and of gathering and how we interact. People aren’t much together anymore, they either are watching the tv screen, or their phone/tablet/computer screen, sitting one next to the other in the same room, barely communicating together. I don’t call that being together I call that being stored one next to the other.

Every time I witness that I feel like we’re losing what’s making us human beings. It’s most probably me getting old but I really can’t help thinking younger people are the losers in that change of habits. And they’re losing big time.

I will look into how to join this instance (?yet again, is it called that? Idk?) and report back! Be well!

It’s a community (journaling) that is hosted on an instance (sh.itjustworks). Hope to see you there ;)

• Reading.
• Sketching.
• Scale models, but I had to quit for health reasons.

Make lists and use them to think twice before purchasing anything.

I started making lists of stuff I wanted to buy instead of, well, buying it whenever I thought about it and and it worked great to teach me to differentiate between what I need and what I waaaaant ;)

The certainty of being right.

Why? Because when (any)one is sure to be right it means the other must be wrong and since they're wrong they probably should not even be allowed to say what they have to say.

I'm not one of those monsters, and I live in Paris. I belong to the pain au chocolat camp, even though I would much prefer the humble croissant. The baker down our street makes some incredibly great ones, people are queuing to get some ;)