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Real Marseille soap (savon de Marseille, as we say here in France) is a great 100% natural soap that is not agressive to the skin. But beware if you try to buy some, as there is a vast majority of cheap knock-off edit: that aren't Marseille soap at all.

I don't know how things go in the USA but in my country if anyone was to threaten to kill me, like a real threat not some shit talk, I would call the police and they would deal with that. Even more so if I told them I have a disability of some sort and can't defend myself.

Also, you need to contact a social assistance office, or whatever you may have like that in your town/region/state, because you need to get away from them and be able to sustain yourself. A change that will most certainly take a lot of your energy and focus — one more reason to let the police deal with the death threat.

And in the walking vein, good shoes are essential. If you can’t afford new shoes then good insoles are the next best thing

100%. And I should have mentioned it as, back when I started to walk daily, I almost gave up because of the shit shoes I was using. They were hurting my feet and my back and they were reducing my endurance, like really. Investing in decent shoes (and orthopaedic insoles made for my feet) changed everything. I probably would never have started walking as much as I do without those. Money very well spend, in both case.

J'ai d'abord pensé que c'était un poisson d'avril. J'aurais préféré.

Si c'est la faute aux méchants terroristes ou aux assassins qui trainent à tous les coins de rues, pourquoi donc n'ont-ils pas déjà voté une loi pour interdire l'usage des camions, ou de tout véhicule motorisé?

Bref, on a les législateurs (et trices) qu'on mérite. J'ai un doute sur l'orthographe de 'con mérite'?

I don't care about making money with my hobbies, I do them to help me feel better and have some good time. As a whole we're all already way too focused on making money, at least that's what I think.

• Long walks. Daily. This is the (second) best change I ever made into my life. I would encourage anyone, even more anyone that is like I was (in a very bad physical and mental shape) to give steady walks a go. Start small but don't give up even though It's hard to begin with, and slowly increase the distance you walk and your steadiness. It's so much worth it. I was a potato couch but nowadays I could not not go out for a few miles walk at least once a day (as much as possible I'll go everywhere I can by walking instead of using any mean of transportation). It also helps in the head, immensely as far as I'm concerned.
• Writing &
• Reading. Reading and writing should never go without the other as far as I'm concerned. Read (like you write) widely, don't be afraid to read stuff you don't normally read, or stuff/author you don't like (there is a lot to be learned when confronting your own thought to those of people you don't agree with), or read unpopular stuff.
• Sketching/painting. I'm not an artist, I don't care I just enjoy doing it. I try to do more of that outdoor, while I'm out walking)
• DIY, making stuff with my hands (book binding, woodworking,... those come and go along the years) & also
• Fixing stuff. Reducing the amount of waste we create by making our stuff last a little longer.
• I had to quit model making, but I liked that a lot.
• Music.

Shower & soap (savon de Marseille) with a washcloth thingy that is not too soft. Natural deodorant (pierre d'alun). End of the process.

Unless one should also consider making faces in front of the mirror part of the daily routine, say while one is shaving or brushing one's teeth? Asking for a friend that, quite obviously, is not as adult and as serious as I am.

iPhone SE. I would use a smaller model of iPhone, if there was one. I need a phone I can easily take with me, not some aircraft-carrier sized high-tech device ;)

I think it's already very hard to change our own habits. I would not hope to change other people's own habits.

I would like Lemmy to grow if only for one reason: I don't care being part of any niche (no more than I care being part of not highly popular communities, mind you). I enjoy exchanging ideas and chatting with interesting people much more than I need to feel 'smart' myself because of the tools I'm using and for any chat to happen one first have to meet people. So, the bigger Lemmy, the better for me ;)

I joined Lemmy/I left reddit only because I realised I was not OK with the way reddit changed policy (the way they control our content) and because I was not happy in the way they made their website evolve. That said, I do miss the few subs I was following and participating in on Reddit. I miss them a lot, as they were/are often very interesting and rich.... of their participants.

Can Lemmy become comparable? I don't know, I have some doubts but I also have very little intention to come back to Reddit, at least not until they change a few things.

After I announced I would not be posting on those subs anymore, a few months ago, two people contacted me to tell me that would be some kind of a loss and they were sad to see me go, asking me to reconsider. As far as I know, none have created an account here on Lemmy so we could keep on discussing stuff. Of course, I can't be sure of that but to be 100% honest the opposite would have surprised me a lot more. I had the same lack of reaction a few years ago when I quit Twitter and the likes. That's fine.

Changing habits is hard. Even more so online, I reckon.

Mes vieux (comme mes arrière-vieux) sont probablement plus anciens que les tiens?

• Recycler les vielles envelopes et le dos des paperasses pour en faire des papier brouillon ou bloc-notes.
• Mettre un gilet quand j'ai pas trop chaud, plutôt que de monter le chauffage.
• Utiliser les bons de réduction que nous filent les magasins.
• Tisane, le soir.
• Aller faire nos courses à la même heure où les jeunes les font aussi, et prendre notre temps pour payer à la caisse, comme ça on est sûr de leurs pourrir la vie ;)

Taxes. They have an incredible talent to raise new taxes.

And, more seriously, like already mentioned in another comment: destroying public services. which is a real sad thing to see happening, if you ask me.

continuer tellement les changements ne me plaisaient pas,

Pareil ici, sauf que je l'ai regardé seul (ma moitié n'en avait pas grand-chose à battre, de Fondation... avec ou sans Asimov) et que je l'ai lu pour la première fois y a plus de 20 ans, ou 30 ? Ouch, je me fais vieux ;)

Ils auraient du changer le nom de la série, ça aurait été plus correct par rapport au cycle d'Asimov et ça aurait laissé une chance à cette série, qui n'est pas Fondation, d'exister par elle-même. Enfin, peut-être parce que bon, même en oubliant que c'est Fondation, j'ai eu du mal à trouver à cette série le moindre intérêt et j'ai surtout arrêté de regarder... par lassitude.