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I write and I read. I wake up at 4AM every day just to be able to write while our apartment, and the busy city around us, is quiet. In the summer, I will often work on our balcony so I can also listen to the few remaining birds still singing when they wake up… before the noise of engine starts submerging everything under its constant roaring.

Contact them to at least let them know about the error regarding the refund. If they are not morons, they should let you keep the money. And if they ask you to send the money back, at the very least you will know you have done the right thing.

Logan’s Run (1976 movie) save they were expected to all die at 30, and not by dropping dead.

What would happen? Nothing good, even though it may look otherwise on the surface. There would be a lot more fascism (aka, violence) and a lot more lies (aka, not be willing to think by oneself or let anyone think by themselves). Obviously, people in power would find workarounds to exempt themselves from that (stupid) fate because, unsurprisingly, most people don’t like to apply to themselves the same rules they want to apply to others, even less so rules that are supposed to kill them or reduce their hold on power. While many other people, that have no power to resist or protest said rule, would be more than happy to suddenly get access to any form of power to avoid said fate… and just like that they would demonstrate how they’re exactly the same type of persons as those in power, btw.

Taking note longhand, be it during a lecture or reading a book or a paper. Reviewing said notes later that day, or at most the following day. Sleep over it. Re-read notes (edit: more than one time)

Writing longhand being key here, as far as I’m concerned. None of the other methods were as efficient.

Edit: as suggested already: remove noise, aka distractions and that should include phone, computer, music, whatever is actually distracting you from studying. Back at uni, I used to study at the library because my room was really too noisy and because I had all my brushes and paint tubes available and would always be tempted to paint instead of studying ;)

There is not much I find inexcusable. Really not much. And it also depends the age of the person. I don’t have the same expectations with kids (they’re in the process of learning to be who they will be as adults, and to behave properly so it’s to be expected they will screw up more or less seriously) and with adults.

I would say, for adults, I’m quite sad when I see people refusing to inform themselves, only relying on hearsay and slogans, instead of reading books (plural). It makes me sad for them but I will not go blame them. They’re adults, they’re supposed to be grown-ups that know what they are doing, and are responsible of their life choices and decisions… like I am of my own, no matter how stupid.

For me, it is always when someone asks me a question which answer could easily have been retrieved through their phone online. You’re meaning to tell me, that what you have in your pocket, is not some form of gateway to information that can answer anything you’re curious about at just about anywhere?

I probably will never ask you anything (age gap, distance and the lack of opportunity to cross paths, so nothing personal here don’t get me wrong ;) but I don’t use my phone for anything personal and/or for anything I still have the choice not to use it. Meaning that I don’t use for social media, games, email, Netflix, music, stuff like that, and that I also don’t use it to search for info online. I only have a phone because I’m expected to have one, that is all. It was not like that when I first purchased one (it was the back then brand new first iPhone and the few models following, I was really excited with them) but a few years later, the day I realized the privacy nightmare smartphones were, I stopped using mine for anything personal. Completely.

So you go and bother me instead,

Sorry to know that trying to have a discussion with you bothers you.

Personally, I much prefer to ask questions to people than use a search engine. Even for asking directions when I lost my way when I’m in some new place I don’t know. Often times, starting a conversation, even just by saying ‘hi’, is an opportunity to get to know one another. Not always, that’s fine too.

admit that I don’t know everything.

Knowing everything is never expected, hopefully.

When I’m asked something I can’t answer I just tell that. ‘Sorry I don’t know’ or ‘I couldn’t tell’, with a smile, and then I will see if I can still help the person in any way. If only by referring them to someone else or suggesting they go ask some place where I think they would be able to help them. Or I will just apologize for not being able to help at all.

I met my first real love, and it was a passionate love story, the first (of two) person I was pretty sure I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, because she had questions about a book.

I was in the book shop of a girl friend of mine (much older than me, at that time) and this young lady was asking her questions about a book I was quite familiar with. My friend directed her to me with a smile, telling her I may be able to answer some of her questions. It was awkward (i’m shy and she was the prettiest girl I could imagine) but she was not shy and she wanted answers. So, we started chatting and we ended up getting a coffee deciding to meet again very soon. And we did. She was an incredibly wonderful and smart person, she changed my life in ways I could not ever tell. But we would have never met had she asked Google (or AI, to be more in tune with our times) instead of asking her questions to that librarian friend of mine. That would have been so sad, wouldn’t you agree?

Edit: typos & clarifications.

You can’t do without whatever it is you need, you can do without whatever it is you want.

I want to read that specific book but I need to be able to read.

At the most fundamentals, we need very little: food, shelter and then to be able to reproduce. But there are other ‘needs’, those would just be the true basic ones.

“who would you prefer to spy on you?”

Good question.

Next to the ones already mentioned there is also !smallweb@lemmy.ml but there is not much activity going on.

Maybe we could start by sharing our own personal websites or something like that? What would you say, guys?