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I was able to start doing my long daily walks every single day of the week again, after way too many weeks (months) being stuck at home with a wounded foot.

Oh, thx a lot for the tip. I was not aware of that at all.

I just rechecked and I can now see those two posts too, without subscribing myself: probably someone else from here had subscribed first ;)

Just had a look, there is no post at all for the moment?

Edit a bit later: there are a few posts already, see @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works answer just below my comment.

(and I subbed ;))

Maybe you should post something(s) right now and not wait until January if you want people to sub or, like you mentioned, to start suggesting ideas.

Imho, the perspective of facing an empty community with zero discussion going on until next January will not encourage participation.

• Walking in the city (one of the + side of living in Paris, there are many nice spots where one can walk).
• Sketching and painting.
• Reading.
• Spend some quality time with my spouse (we probably will be cooking together tomorrow, it’s often a lot of fun ;).
• Watching some vids on YT. I’m not a gamer but I enjoy watching a selected few, am I the only one?

Can’t answer your question on a philosophical level but on an emotional/psychological level I would say that it’s the same computer as long as it feels like the same computer to me, say by using the same desktop environment on the screen, and the same case, keyboard and mouse and if all parts have slowly been upgraded along the years not all at the same time as I would think that would create a kind of interruption in my relation to this PC.

To make a comparison, I bought my first SSD many, many years ago (to give you an idea, it was back when PATA still ruled). This SSD was tiny, it cost me an arm and a leg, and was not even that fast but even though I used it in the exact same computer I used with a classic HDD, the upgraded machine felt so incredibly much more responsive and so snappy that for me it was a new computer, and also a whole new experience.

Since that day, I’ve owned a few other machines, all SSD-based obviously, but never felt such a radical rupture while upgrading or even replacing a machine, no matter the CPU, ram or whatever else was new or better in it.

Beside my daily long walks, I have been sketching, painting, writing and journaling. I have fixed an old headset too (need to desolder a wire). Also I’ve been wasting too much time on YT.

Regarding YT, am I the only one that, even though I don’t play those games myself (I know about them I have even tested a couple of them but I simply don’t play them), I enjoy watching some gamers on YT just because I appreciate their sense of humour and the ambiance?

OK, there aren’t that much gamers I like to watch but I don’t know, isn’t it a bit odd?

I started reading ‘The Country of the Pointed Firs’ by Sarah Orne Jewett. And I love it.

I never heard of that author before, only opening this book because an author whose work I appreciate a lot said his own appreciation for her. So far, I only had time to read the first four chapters but I think I can safely say I was already hooked after the first few paragraphs.

BTW, the book and a few others of hers are freely available on the Project Gutenberg, if you don’t mind reading ebooks: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/202

That’s no red slug. That’s a timid but exhibitionist snail ;)

I refrain from participating in and even from looking at any community that generates anxiety and/or anger, or that encourage or don’t oppose what I consider destructive or hostile behaviors. I consider time too precious to waste mine with the kind of persons who enjoy those things.

It is not related to any specific place, though. It’s mostly a question of the persons participating and of the moderators.

I appreciate your feedback and understand where you’re coming from. However, I believe

You’re more than welcome to believe whatever you want. That does not make it a fact. And certainly not something I’m interested in or I’m willing to consider worth discussing.

Have a nice day.

Hello Science Community, Thank you for taking the time to review this manuscript. While it includes philosophical elements, it also explores scientific ideas that I hope will spark thoughtful discussion and constructive criticism. I look forward to your feedback. Thank you again!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XuhV1MwntVU-Gsb7M69jxhudAwGuh4uEkw1Ri4ZkFt0/edit

You are sharing your personal opinion in that text (and, yep, I read it). That’s not science and it’s not philosophy.

Opinions are fine. I mean, we all have opinions and they can differ widely from person to person. That’s the reason why they’re called personal opinions. But they’re just that, opinions, aka the expression of personal judgments/values and personal preferences.

‘I don’t like bananas’ is a personal preference of mine. ‘I think bannas taste like shit’ is my personal opinion on them. My preference and my opinion say absolutely nothing about bananas and their qualities as a fruit. At best, they state a fact about me. Not about the bananas which, obviously, are perfectly fine fruits whether I like them or not.

Despite the intense dumbing down going on on in our societies, opinions and preferences don’t make a science. And if they can sometimes be considered a starting point to a (or some makeshift) philosophy , they still need a little more work — the important words in the latter definition being ‘system’, ‘analysis’, ‘theory’ and ‘understanding’, not expressing one’s opinions.

it’s not that uncommon, What you call role reversing is quite normal for many persons and is no reversal at all.

Just don’t fall for the trap of thinking people need to be this or that, depending their gender. More often than not, people are a mix. Which make them so much more interesting to meet and learn to know. Imho ;)

My spouse (we’re both 50+ and have been together for 25 years) is assertive and not the romantic kind (if you want to get slapped in the face try offering her flowers) but I am romantic (like, really) and ,yep, I do like flowers (I’m the one buying flowers to decorate our place). It happens I’m also as assertive as she is and we both have or had jobs with lots of responsibilities — ‘had’, because in my case I retired a few years ago from that job and decided to live a much simpler life, whereas my wife still works for a large corporation and still works with a small army of people).

Then, next to that, there is also the more or less extreme version of… let’s call it ‘gender role reversal’ for lack of a better word whereas one should in reality understand a ‘gender cliché reversal’. Where the supposed ‘male figure’ will be a dominant woman and the ‘feminine one’ will be a weak/gentle/soft male. More often than not, it will err on the side of fetishism eroticism and, that should not be a surprise, there is also a lot of erotica/sex business around that kind of role ‘reversal’ for the obvious reason that it sells. Which means that enough people are into it to make it a profitable business… much more people (male and female) than will dare to admit it ;)

So, what do you think? Have you seen relationships like this in the wild? Have you known about these dynamics, or are they unfamiliar to you? I’d like to know your thoughts!

If I could give you an advice iy would be to go meet different kind of people. Imho, it would help you realize men are not just ‘male’ and harsh and women are not just ‘soft’ and romantic.

Those fantasies not only showed me how wonderful a relationship would feel, but also that I myself would want to be very affectionate and adaptive to my partner’s needs, not just my own.

Isn’t it what a (working) relationship is supposed to be for both parties in a couple? Be affectionate and attentive to the other’s needs not just one’s own?

Don’t be afraid of your ‘fantasy’. Imho, don’t be afraid to not call it a fantasy. The moment you try to meet people for who they are and not who you want them to be you will be surprised how… rich (and understanding) some of them can be. Not all of them.