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For English it opened me unending trove of knowledge and online interactions and capability to access more first hand information. Plus all the books, music and movies. Faster and without shitty translations. For Dutch slightly more tolerance from from the other half of the country. Surprisingly very little in terms of music and medias but given my very narrow tastes it’s likely my fault. For Spanish some fun and free drinks which is already a miracle considering my shitty level. For Japanese I’m starting to enjoy og material (anime and manga) and surprisingly basic tv shows. It’s unfortunately very unlikely that I’ll ever reap similar benefits compared to English.

Somewhat I believe I’m less of an asshole from what I learned by interacting with others which would have been much harder if I hadn’t learned other languages.

The difference in addictiveness of sugar compared to alcohol and tobacco is largely discussed isn’t it? I can’t source it but I read something about that. It’s more that our society is culturally more accepting of sugar than it should…

Sure. Plenty of things are addictive as well. Games nowadays, sugar… they don’t get the hammer ban. Where’s everyone’s accountability when it takes the government to decide things for our kids? I for sure will support mine when they onboard social media - in the same way I’m trying to educate them of TV, Games, food, even music… That’s a parent’s job, not a government’s job in my opinion.

Well yes but those aren’t the only dangers are they? And not all social medias are equally problematic ; we’re better here than Facebook or so I like to believe. And life, in general, is filled with bullies.

Difficult debate. Not sure the traditional media are so much better. I personally think that educating teens to handle whatever medias would be preferable to a blanked ban. It’s going to be interesting to see how it will evolve.

Ultimate Online is where I have my fondest memories. On private servers, not on the origins one. Loved the people and the skill system where you could be anything. Also getting wrecked by a dragon 3 mins in game was nice. Also pack llama bombing the britania’s bank. Fun times.

I quitted few years ago already. I bought a pack of those peppermint like pills that contain nicotine to help stopping. They tasted so horribly bad I just had like 2 of them and quit smoking cold. So maybe go get some of those disgusting pills.

So let’s say I check all those boxes; what then?

This smells of Pratchett :)

Dans ma commune on a cette saison énormément d’affichages pour de nouveaux candidats et formations mais aucune programme n’est disponible. On sait juste qui est fâché d’avoir des éoliennes mais aucune idée de leurs propositions sur la sécurité des chemins vers l’école ou quoi que ce soit de tangible. A priori ca aurait été discuté dans des soirées rencontres mais perso ca me dit rien d’aller dans ce genre de truc. Du coup difficile de faire un choix un minimum éduqué.

We tend to forget that all of that is to support people. Tech shouldn’t be an end goal, merely one of the ways to achieve it. And not always the best one at that.

Truely a nice one. The community around it is quite cool as well.