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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:59AM (#29105200)

> Yeah and if you stopped doing that and instead used a car to buy your groceries or ordered them delivered to your doorstep, you would have more free time and more energy. People want free time and energy.

From my personal experience, I've found that doing physical exercise (paradoxically enough) seems to give me more energy. On those days where I've sat still all day I'm much more likely to feel like doing nothing after work, whereas when I've done my usual cycle commute I'm usually a lot more mentally alert. YMMV of course, but given the choice I'll personally rather do more than less physical exercise, even if it's small activities here and there like lugging some groceries.

Re:Retro collectors are uncovering hoards of old data on Saturday October 30, 2021 @12:10AM (#29045908)

> in the textbook's opinion the correct English vocabulary should have been "blue movie", "blue picture", "blue magazine", and "blue book"

That instantly brought to mind Soft Cell's song "Seedy Films". It has the line "Blue films flicker / Hands of a stranger / Getting to know you / And I'm getting to like you". It would be amusing if that is a reference that got immortalized in your textbook.

Good song btw ;)