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Writing things down, using the pen and paper I always carry with me. Doing so, I don’t try to make literature or to sound smart, I just write things down as they come. Later on I’ll read them back, that’s quick, and decide if they’re worth using or if I strike them out and forget about them.

• It frees the mind (no need to waste brain power to remember stuff)
• It helps brainstorming freely, even by oneself
• It helps remember stuff I would otherwise don’t remember
• It helps mixing ideas I may not even consider mixing together

I would not be able to work as efficiently without the simple but so powerful pen and paper.

Like the others: jam.

No worries, I just wanted to make sure there was not some mistake. Here is my edited reply:

Two things:

1. why can’t a teen not sleep? At his age, the body needs to sleep because its constantly growing and changing. That would be the first thing I would try to understand and fix. And if it is something the kid is not willing to discuss with his parents, which is ok too, maybe with someone else they can trust.
2. if you have discussed with your son and there is no ambiguity between you I would just make sure that you sleep under separated sheets or whatever (he is not a little baby anymore and the body of a teen boy can react in ways neither you or him would be willing to see happen), provided you made it clear this should not become a habit because sleeping with mom may not be the best way to develop good sleeping habits.

Hope this helps.

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…27 year old mother with a 12 year old kid equals 15

Thx a lot… captain obvious. I wished for the op to answer the question themselves.

Edit: at what age did you have you kid?

Sorry for the edit, I just realized your son and your age and it raised some questions… I will put back my answer once this has been clarified ;)

I too am quite surprised so few people seem to have been reading that book. I’m not even American but I’ve read it.

So much of what has been happening recently is explained in it.

A, this is why magic isn’t real

I don’t think the question is about magic vs reality, we’re talking vampires here, right?, but to know how if vampires were a thing, it would be possible (or not) for a vampire cop to enter a house without being invited by the home owner, even with a warrant.

B, the law can say whatever the fuck it wants it still can’t bend reality.

The law doesn’t need to bend any reality, it never does. Law is not about scientific laws, it’s about human behavior. At least modern laws as some older ones may have tried, and maybe some particularly stupid modern ones too, but their ability to bend said reality to their will is still to be demonstrated :p

The law is a contract, with a sanction of some sort when it is broken. Be it to pay a fine, or to be prevented to do certain activities in the future, or be forced to do some other ones, or to go to jail. Up to the death penalty, in some places.

The law is about making the citizens bent to its will, not the reality.

That will is, in theory at least, is the expression of the common will, also known as the agreed upon desire of all the citizens. Citizens don’t define laws of physics (which would deal with ‘reality’) and no matter how hard they may want, the also can’t alter them.

Speed limit is not about enforcing a certain speed over which the laws of physics would suddenly (and magically) crumble. It’s about punishing people not respecting that agreed upon speed limit. That’s also why it’s very possible to have different speed limits in different places. Physics doesn’t change, our expectations do.

We will drive faster on a highway than, say, next to a school despite the car being the same, with the same driver and with the same laws of physics applying, why? The place is different and also how we are expected to behave in such a place which, near a school, should obviously be to slow down so we the drivers (aka old/adults enough to have our driving license and act responsibly) can compensate for kids being… kids, aka not always being attentive to what’s going on around them, or being silly.

A warrant, for example has nothing to do with giving its carrier some magical power to enter a place (say by moving through a closed door or through walls, or by teleporting there) but it has all to do with punishing the owner of the place for not letting the warrant carrier enter their house, even if they don’t want to.

So, all I was saying is that in that ‘fantasy’ world where vampire cops would be a thing, the law may as well be written so it makes it a ‘mandatory welcoming’ for the home owner to let in the vampire-cop, any refusal to comply to said ‘forced invitation to enter’ being sanctioned by a more or less severe punishment… Which, btw, is not far from what a warrant is supposed to be doing in our (this time, real) world ;)

I meant: the warrant would equal an invitation to enter one’s home, an invitation decided by the judge to which, as a law abiding citizen, the place owner would be forced to comply with.

But couldn’t the law be written so that a warrant once seen by the home owner must legally be considered a mandatory invitation, making the cop legally allowed to enter the home?

Being bored is not a bad thing. If by being bored you mean ‘not doing something’ and not being ‘busy’ because then it means one can start thinking by oneself. Something that seems to be severely lacking in our so modern and so constantly busy societies.

If you want to know what are my usual activities, beside welcoming boredom, I would say: read, write, paint, go out for a walk (that’s amazing too, for the body as well as the mind), spend time with my spouse, making stuff with my hands.

But it has kings and queens and knights, armies of pawns and thick towers to defend them during merciless battles. It also has bishops, but I much prefer the French name: les fous aka the crazy ones ;)

It’s a beautifully deep game, and it’s refreshing to be able to pour time into something with staying power that people of every age play all over the world.

So much this :)

Would chess count?

I mean chess is not not popular by any stretch of the mind, a lot of people around the world are playing it every single day and that won’t go away anytime soon, but I’m always surprised to see so much more excitement going on around a new version of This or That video game that people will play for a little while before switching to a newer version than for chess. Despite its apparent simplicity (and lack of visual effects), chess has remained a challenge for the smartest among us, and will keep on being so no matter how much better computers can be playing it.

J’ai fait quitter Bouygues où elle avait internet et le téléphone : la connexion était poussive avec des ralentissements réguliers. Elle payait une fortune notamment parce que Bouygues avait activé une option payante avec la méthode de crevard consistant à l’activer par défaut, demander un opt-out qui devient impossible passé un certain délai. Son abonnement mobile était surdimensionné pour ses besoins.

L’activation d’options payantes sans me demander mon avis est l’autre raison (après les pannes à répétitions et le SAV AFK) qui m’a fait quitter mon ancien opérateur (qui était aussi mon FAI… quand il marchait). Comme je disais, ce n’est jamais que mon expérience personnelle que je partage (je ne suis pas sponsorisé ;).

Le plus cocasse c’est que quelques jours après avoir mis fin à mes contarts chez eux, le SAV s’est soudainement souvenu de mon existence et que j’avais des ennuis à répétition et, dans la foulée, le support client a jugé utile de me faire des offres à répétitions pour que je revienne et pour me faire oublier mes déboires… Et là où ça deviendrait franchement marrant, si c’était pas aussi triste, c’ets que quatre ans (4 années) après avoir tout résilié et les avoir depuis longtemps zappé de ma mémoire, j’ai reçu une mise en demeure de payer pour les nouveaux boitiers que, disaient-ils, ils m’avaien envoyés à l’époque. Appel, confirmation du sipport que si, si j’avais reçu et jamais renvoyé ce machin. Je leur ai demandé de m’envoyer une copie du bon de réception que j’étais sensé avoir signé à la réception (que j’avais jamais signé). Ils ont insisté, lourdement, j’ai demandé à un pote avocat de leur envoyer une gentille bafouille. C’était il y a bien 6 ans de ça, pas la moindre nouvelle depuis.

Des guignols. Mais j’insiste, je ne fais que partager mon expérience personnelle. Rien de plus, rien de moins.

Pour ce qui est de savoir si je dépense une fortune chez l’autre. J’ai indiqué le montant exact de mes factures, chacun pourra décider.

Neither Tuta or Proton will neatly integrate with Apple Mail if you want to send/receive encrypted messages. At least the last I checked it required for Proton a separate client that was not bug free (can’t remember for tuta).

If you don’t care about encryption, you may want to consider the Swiss Infomaniak.

They have a cloud offer which includes cloud storage (1to base), calendar and email, plus the online version of MSOffice, all being hosted on their Swiss servers.

C’est que mon expérience perso, donc à prendre pour ce que ça vaut, mais je suis très satisfait de Bouygues depuis des années que j’ai quitte un certain Fkkechose (dont je trouvais le support client aussi pitoyable que la fiabilité des services). En résumé, avec Bouygues:

• ça marche bien, y a vraiment très peu de soucis. En presque 10 ans je dois compter les pannes sur les doigts d’une main, et une seule à duré plus de quelques heures. Et même quand c’est pas une panne, mais juste une question, j’hésite pas à leur demander (une fois passé l’IA d’accueil qui, elle, est casse-bonbon).
• Ici à Paris du moins, leur support client est excellent et très réactif. Par exemple (pas tout à fait pris au hasard), quand il y a 2 ou 3 semaines de ça le prestataire de mon ex ISP/opérateur mobile (Fkkechose) a décidé un vendredi fin de matinée de couper ma fibre, physiquement couper mon câble je veux dire, pour tenter d’y brancher un de ses nouveaux clients (sans succès)… J’ai apellé Bouygues tandis que l’autre guignol était encore occupé à faire ses cochonneries dans le boitier fibre de l’immeuble et, une heure plus tard, je récupérai le boitier de dépannage 4G pour garder un accès Web jusqu’au lundi matin suivant, à 9h30, quand leur technicien a commencé à réparer les conneries de l’autre. Bilan? Mon voisin qui est passé par Fkkechose n’a toujours pas Internet 3 semaines plus tard, moi j’ai subi une coupure de… une heure, y compris le temps d’aller chercher le boitier de dépannage en boutique et le technicen a tout réparé en moins de 45 minutes, le lundi matin.
• Le prix? 34€ la fibre (comprenant ligne fixe + tv, si ça t’intéresse) et 11/12€ pièce par ligne mobile avec genre 200Go de data chacune (que j’utilise à peu près jamais, et ma moitié à peine plus ;) , + 2€ pour une autre ligne plus basique. Edit: je viens de vérifier: 34.5 pour la fibre, 2€ pour la ligne mobile de base et 11,99 par autre ligne avec 130Go de données (dont ce mois-ci j’ai utilisé… 0mo, mais bon quand j’en ai besoin, je suis content de l’avoir ;)

I may have missed something, here so to make sure:

1. Do you want a wiki specifically, or are you looking for a tool that would allow you to easily create and manage some worldbuilding bible, be it a wiki or not a wiki?
2. Isn’t LibreOffice able to export to MediaWiki (Wikipedia)? I have not checked, and never used it, but I think it’s there somewhere.

the best thing it can do is just make a document look good,

It can also help you write the actual book, worrying about the document ‘look’ aka its formatting is optional (and if done properly, using Styles, it’s almost 100% automated) ;)

Wouldn’t a word processor do trick? you can add links, images, refs, notes,… and have as many pages as you need (edit: and search them, add a table of content, and so on). LIbreOffice is most certainly already installed on your Linux distro and is also available for Mac and Windows.

Thank you. It’s your ‘FFS’ that triggered the whole discussion ;)

The answer should also take into consideration the place of extraction/growth of the raw material (and the cost of getting it and storing it, using whatever tools are required), its shipping to the pencil manufacturing plant, how it should be handled and processed maybe. And a few other things like that but, yeah, I would not be surprised if plastic was not the best choice there was.

I would not have thought about asking AI myself because, well, I’m not much into using them. partly because, I don’t like the world their owners are trying to make a reality, partly because they consume so much energy.

This is an interesting consideration as, once again as a pencil (and a Bic pen, and fountain pen) user myself, I have always wondered what was worse between cutting trees (or reusing hemp, which is a also a plant) to make the casing, or reusing some sort of already wasted material instead of throwing it away.

I mean that very seriously as all techniques do require a lot of energy to get to the result they want to achieve. That energy is to me the real ecological issue: the one that is costing less energy should be favorited.

Personally, I much prefer wooden pencils there is not the hint of the beginning of a doubt about that (and I pay good money to buy quality ones) but I would change and get rid of my ‘preference’ in a heartbeat if there was data showing something else was a better choice energy-wise. Be it recycled plastic, or cannabis, or that really interesting & intriguing concept showcased in the OP.