Intolerance.

Aka, the lack of willingness to understand one another — I mean, the ability to discuss and work together toward a common goal, even with people we (deeply) disagree with — and the hostility towards whatever dares being/liking/talking/thinking different.

This is a not only a sad dead-end, imho this is also the very end of any society and of any civilization when the only other persons we can tolerate around us are exact copies of ourselves. People behaving, dressing, talking and thinking exactly like we do — or like we want them to.

This frightens me way much than anything else because I see no way to escape it and, even more terrifying to me, I see no place anywhere where one could escape it. Intolerance is growing everywhere, and it's growing fast.

+1 pour Ulysse 31.

Ce qui manque, c'est le pop-corn ;)

Du coup je m’empeche de lire Dune ou Game of thrones parce que je sens que ce sera la même chose.

Y a aucune loi qui oblige à finir un bouquin qu'on a commencé, qu'il soit en un ou en quarante volumes. Ce serait donc dommage de rater une potentiellement bonne lecture pour échapper à une non-existante obligation de le(s) finir ;)

Perso, j'ai jamais apprécié Tolkien (et jamais terminé), même chose avec Proust, BTW: j'essaye de temps en temps mais ça me tombe chaque fois des mains. J'ai adoré Dune (le 1er volume, les autres meh) et pour ce qui est de Game of Thrones, vaut mieux le lire en anglais (edit: mais c'est de toute façon pas ce que je préfère).

Would also require seller to fill many tax and vat forms (one per country they sell products into). And it may very well not be worth the effort.

A peu près tout le monde fait la grimace à l'idée de faire (ou d'accorder du temps de travail pour faire une) sieste —genre "la sieste, c'est pour les bébés" — alors que faire une sieste est une des meilleures façons (que je connaissance) de rester efficace longtemps.

Wow, tu vas très loin et très vite !

Vraiment? Je partage juste mon étonnement et un certain... malaise, tout en précisant que j'approuve le fait d'aider ceux qui en ont besoin. J'aurais du écrire quoi pour ne pas aller 'très loin et très vite !'?

J'imagine sans mal que ce soit mal vu de ne pas être enthousiaste par défaut mais je reste sur mon questionnement: c'est quoi le but (on veut/va faire quoi?) et, si on se débarrasse de ce genre de jargon marketing qui ne veut pas dire grand-chose de concret — "mieux accompagner les étudiant·es de 1ᵉʳ cycle dans leurs parcours, faciliter leur intégration, encourager leurs initiatives et les former aux défis des territoires." (source) — est-ce que ça ne ressemble pas à une tentative de traiter un symptôme plutôt que sa cause... si souci il y a?

Je suis le seul à trouver ça (la sieste, mais aussi tout l'article/projet de l'université) un peu... infantilisant, pour ne pas dire... très beaucoup? Ils sont censés entrer à la fac, pas en maternelle...

OK, il semble très probable que je sois un horrible vieux con (j'assume être le premier, et je suis très probablement l'autre également) et il semblerait aussi que je ne comprenne rien aux difficultés des jeunes d'aujourd'hui (je veux bien le croire) mais je me demande vraiment qu'elle est la finalité d'une telle démarche et ce qu'elle dit de l'efficacité de l'éducation des enfant/ados (ce que ces jeunes étaient il y a peu encore)?

Je veux dire, entrant à la fac ils sont censés avoir le droit de vote, le droit de conduire, de picoler et aussi de jouer au docteur, et on en est à leur expliquer comment faire dodo (et pourquoi c'est important) et comment dire bonjour aux autres étudiants de leur âge, comment remplir un formulaire ou comment faire une démarche administrative?

C'est quoi la suite? Le jour de la rentrée ces jeunes adultes recevront une formation accélérée sur l'art de nouer leur lacets correctement pour ne pas risquer de se casser la figure en marchant dessus en se rendant d'un auditorium à un autre, ainsi qu'un bavoir et un biberon avec un mode d'emploi illustré (pour éviter qu'ils se blessent en essayant de les utiliser seuls)?

OK, je trolle mais ça me laisse sincèrement très perplexe.

Donc, plus sérieusement: si les jeunes ont besoin de ça, c'est très bien de le leur donner, évidemment, mais je doute que 12 millions et deux petits lits fassent une réelle différence. Parce le souci c'est qu'ils ne devraient pas en avoir besoin parce que ce que ça semble vouloir compenser sont deux des choses qu'ils sont censés avoir apprises en grandissant, aussi bien auprès de leur famille qu'à l'école: se débrouiller et se gérer. Si on réalise (un peu tard) que ce n'est pas le cas et qu'ils ont besoin d'aide, c'est pas à la fac qu'il faut intervenir, c'est en amont. Loin en amont.

I thought it was about to close... definitively?

It's all about choice. And choice, aka diversity, is great.

It's like not having to eat a banana if you don't like them and having the ability to grow the fruit you would love the most instead. That's also why I've now (in the last 5 or 6 years) mostly switched from Mac to GNU/Linux. This Mac Mac Studio I'm writing on right now is the last Mac I own and I see very little chance for it to be replaced by a newer Mac when time comes to replace it. I like the freedom of choice and to do what the funk I fancy on my computer. Not just what some designer at Cupertino (or some wannabe designer, at Redmond) decided I should be permitted to do.

Also, where is the standard between incompatible different macOS versions or different versions of Windows? Or between incompatible versions of the same apps running on those systems? I'm not saying it's wrong, nor that it's great, just that we should not neglect all those 'standardization issues' that exist in every single system. Marketing should not be blindly trusted — Imho, marketing should never be trusted, and not even listened to but that's just me deeply allergic to bullshit ;)

I was still a kid when my dad brought home a brand new Apple II. Before that computer appeared in his home office (and in my live, as I used that Apple so much more than he ever did ;)), I learned to type on my granddad's typewriter.

100%.

The same reason I care about a working democracy. You can't have one without the other.

Less people using public libraries (and reading books to learn stuff) around me because 'who needs to read books when there is everything on the Internet and I can Google anything'?

And, at least as saddening and frightening to me, seeing more and more people willing to censor whatever book, author, or idea, they hate or even they just don't agree with (most often, without even reading it). It's even worse when I see librarians supporting that — it doesn't matter how 'good' their motivation is, censorship's only success is in the promotion of stupid ideas (if not of sheer ignorance), hate and fear.

Masking tape and a pen

imagine people can't afford to watch all the movies produced in a year — crazy supposition I know, but let's say a ticket has become so expensive people need to pick the film they will watch — would you rather have them pay to see a movie featuring living actors (and while doing so giving those new actors an opportunity to start their career and become the next stars?) or have them pay to watch a product made out of dead actors (and greed) that will only enrich the studios?

Dying is part of the life cycle. Once you're dead, you've become a legit part of the past. And you're supposed to stay gone, so the younger people have their chance too. Sure, those young will not be a clone of Bogart or Bacall but they could become... themselves. That is, as long as Studios don't focus their attention (and greed) on dead actors (and AI-powered scenarios, while we're at it).

Plus, as a 50+ dude myself, imagining an instant I was an actor, I would not want anyone getting the idea that they can inherit my 'image' once I'm dead and use it however they fancy. Money and stuff, help yourself but let my image — my effing face — let it disappear with the body it belongs too. I'm not a product, I'm someone — even if I was an actor.

Also, it makes me wonder is their face what people really miss from dead actors? Are Bacall and Bogart just their face?

And then, I imagine neither Bogart and Bacall would smoke in their new movie? Smoking is such a bad habit, we certainly would not want to give kids such a poor example, right? So what the remastered version of Bacall and Bogart would do, instead? I know, stare at their phone screen (and rage on X or share images of their last meal on Instagram), so modern viewers can identify with them even more easily. That sure would be a much better example for kids.

Not the OP, but that's a great idea.

Like the OP, my spouse and I have become quite tired of those (overpriced) full-plastic pseudo brands that are worth shit, and we're also not that interested in connected robotic battery-powered vacuums either. I will check around if I can find some good old school wired vacuum, and also ask my local thrift store owner if they have any idea where I could find some around here.

Thx a lot, much appreciated :)

I am going to quote myself here:

Allow me to quote myself too, then:

That’s not the point.

I do not disagree with your remarks (I do not use Telegram), I simply consider it's not the point or that it should not be.

Obviously, laws should be enforced. What those laws are and how they are used to erode some stuff that were considered fundamental rights not so long ago is the sole issue, once again, im(v)ho ;)

Well, except Telegram isn’t a good tool for privacy.

That's not the point. The hunting down on tools and their creators (and on our right to privacy) is the issue here. At least, imho.