Somehow I doubt the trend away from reading for recreation has anything to do with the retail price of books.

The article is paywalled. (But at least this site offers pay-per-article, instead of forcing you to subscribe permanently.)

Older Millenial here. It was definitely GenX that paved the way for the computer world I learned, and it was mostly GenX who wrote the books and taught the lessons (often informal) that brought us what knowledge we have, at least in the beginning. Plus a small selection of exceptional individuals from older generations, including, dare I say it,… the baby boomers.

RIP David Graeber.

I suppose I’m gonna have to be “that guy” again:

40 years ago, Microsoft did not “invent Excel”. They developed yet another spreadsheet application and called it “Excel”, presumably in a moment of coke-fueled hubris. (I mean, seriously, “Excel” as a product name? We don’t think about that much these days, because we have gotten used to that name, but if you didn’t already know about MS Excel, how high on your own supply do you need to be to call a software product that?)

The actual invention of the spreadsheet was done by other people. The earliest example was probably Visicalc for the Apple II, and a more prominent example predating Excel was Lotus 1-2-3.

Sorry to be so nitpicky, but urban legends like “Microsoft invented the spreadsheet”, “Microsoft invented word processors”, “MIcrosoft invented operating systems”, “Apple invented GUIs”, “Apple invented the computer mouse”, “Apple invented portable MP3 players”, “Apple invented smartphones” and the like form the base for some very distorted narratives about how our world works, and I don’t like it.

I have tried Doulingo for Japanese for a short time, after already knowing a bit of beginner’s Japanese. I cannot speak for all languages offered by Doulingo, but if you are trying to learn Japanese, stay away from Doulingo. Its lessons sometimes teach you things that are objectively wrong.

Also, Tokyo has two long "o"s (sometimes transliterated more correctly as Tōkyō), while Kyoto (more precise transliteration; Kyōto) only has one. They are not actually anagrams of each other.

I thought coffee was only discovered much later in present day Ethiopia. Are you sure he wasn’t talking about beer or wine?

“They’re a private company” (with a state-sponsored monopoly on an essential good).

I don’t know how anybody is surprised by this. Who do you think would buy a privatized municipal water supplier, other than people trying to squeeze as much money as possible from a population with no recourse and no say in the matter?

0.8? Can this even be felt more than a lorry going by next door?

Ich finde, die Organisatoren sollten bei so was nicht nur danach gehen, was der Duden streng genommen sagt, was das korrekte Wort ist, sondern vor allem auch danach, was die Zielgruppe glaubt, was das heißt. Natürlich gibt es da jetzt Leute, die zumindest im ersten Augenblick denken “Hey, die haben gesagt, ich soll betrunken/bekifft sein”. Da steht zwar etwas weiter auch was von kein Alkohol konsumieren, aber ihr glaubt ja nicht, wir gut manche Leute darin sind, nur das zu hören/lesen, was sie hören/lesen wollen.

What is taking them so long here? He was convicted years ago.

How far can those jump?

How curiously pertinent in more than one way…

Das ist alles? Ernsthaft? Und deswegen macht die Community hier so einen Aufriss?

Ich nicht, wo ist der versteckt?

Es sieht ein kleines bisschen zu clean und zu perfekt aus. Das kann aber auch das Werk eines Fotostudios sein. Ein ganz normales, x-beliebiges Toast Hawaii ist es jedenfalls nicht. Das hätte nicht die knackigen Farben, wäre allgemein etwas verschmierter, und nach der nötigen Hitze, um den Käse so anzuschmelzen, würden weder der Schinken noch die Ananas immer noch so frisch aussehen. Und das Toast hätte sichtbar einiges an Fett von den darauf liegenden Zutaten aufgenommen.

Wenigstens etwas, auch wenn es mengenmäßig nicht ganz ausreicht.

Why does he look like Leonardo DiCaprio?

Amber Heard deserved all of it.

Meghan Markle did not deserve it as such, just… what did she think would happen?