Thelsim

I’m making my way through the Lyonesse trilogy by Jack Vance. I’ve read the Dutch version many years ago and it’s a real treat to read it again English.
It’s basically one gigantic fairy tale and I’m loving all of it…

The thing I hated most with social media is that no one really wanted to email anymore.
I used to have several pen pals around the world. We would exchange long mails every couple of days telling each other about our lives. But the moment social media popped up, the one-on-one conversations started to shift to posts with something everybody got to comment on. And on top of that, they didn’t seem very personal anymore. Not like the friends I used to know.
Didn’t take long for those friendships to fizzle out. I’m still quite sad about it.

Can they invent a few more of these kinds of Tik Tok trends?
The kind where they’re tricked into doing something healthy and harmless? I imagine an army of troll nutritionists thinking up new challenges :)

edited because Thelsim doesn’t proofread

Thank you for the thorough explanation. The whole residuals issue sounds very complicated, and it’s probably on purpose if it’s up to the streaming services to manage this themselves.

Those are some great accomplishments!
Are there any points on which they had to concede or compromise?

Oh my… Lynx really brings me back. I used to slack off at work by having an ssh connection to my home computer and browsing through Lynx (or was it Links?)
Never really got into Linux beyond basic use, but I was always proud at myself for managing to get this working :)

Not exactly soup, but congee (rice porridge) is great for filling your belly and it’s very easy to make.
I guess you could make it watery enough to pour it out of a thermos if necessary.