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 ;)

ou mean to say you walk miles ??

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.

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.

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?

Can anywhere here please suggest me where I can find free help to start my own Marketing Agency?

You don’t.

You don’t create an agency from scratch, you create an Agency out of talents. SO you need some talents to begin with. Yours or some hired ones.

You need to show people what you can sell them before they will be willing to put a cent on your name… Even more so in the age of AI where every single person able to click a big fat mouse button and to type a few words in web form now consider themselves the best creative ever/ So, what can you give your customers no AI will give them in a couple clicks?

If you have zero money, you should still be able to find some time to develop your skills and your business… by yourself. Without help and without… much income either, if any. If you can’t, well that is probably what you should work on first as you will need a way to sustain yourself for a certain time.

To find customers, I would start by soliciting every single local businesses around my place, in person I mean. Local businesses? Yep the kind that most will probably not even consider potential customers because they’re so small and so not hyped. The thing is that you (nor would I, btw) probably won’t get an exclusive deal with Nike or Apple or Louis Vuitton tomorrow. By working with them you will 1) build expertise (here the real value is) 2) build a portfolio (look at what I can do) 3) build an address book (aka meet people who may want to hire you or that may want to work with you)

Also, keep in mind failing (over and over again) is at the heart of learning anything difficult. And becoming a pro in any endeavor certainly qualify as ‘difficult’.

Would you read it daily?

I read no book daily. I read a book until it is finished or until I’m done with it. I may read some book multiple times, some even on an almost regular schedule (a few I will read reach year or so) but I see no reason to read the same book over and over again while there are so many more books waiting to be read.

funniest book ever written

Good luck beating some of those I’ve already read ;)

It has funny pictures.

I don’t care much in a book.

Would you send it to all your friends urging them to read it?

Surest way for most of them to never read it. Instead, I would hint at that certain book I really enjoyed, sharing a few snippets or key notions.

For me, the reason is easy: my writing is horrible.

Fear not, mine is as well (and I used to be a paid creative too, now I’m just creative because that’s what I am) ;)

But maybe it could be a self standing post instead of a comment? You’d have more answers.

Maybe, I just always think we’re such a tiny bunch most of us must be reading whatever is happening, even in a comment ;)

Yeah, I suppose they’re easy to find in many of ‘western’ Europe at least. Probably a bit like the Bic brand for ballpoint pens?

Btw, thx a lot as I could not remember the word ‘stationary’… must be too hot around here at 38°c, brain must be cooking ;)

In a world overwhelmed by cellphones, laptops, and other screens, there is a growing space for the old school and analog – from landline phones to Walkmans and typewriters.

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.

You’re not distracted by the machine itself.

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.

But typewriters, they also say, are just noisily enjoyable.

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?

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.