I poked around online and found the dates for this book as 1628-1630 here (though source is of uncertain quality, though here cites the same in French). That puts it pretty much directly after Three Musketeers.

I'm more interested to see if it actually includes much of the Three Musketeers' characters beyond Richelieu. If it does, I'd be even more surprised it had passed into obscurity without even a Wikipedia page.

Had my first day of classes for 3rd term. 29 more class days to go, which seems surprisingly short, but since I only have three days of classes a week, isn't that short. Honestly, based on first impressions, that should be just right for standing and learning from my philosophy professor, 28 days too long for my journalism prof and by far to short for my English/writing prof.

I'm pretty much set to declare an English Lit major and continue to be impressed by the faculty I've interacted with from the department. The department is a major draw for my school, and I'm really starting to see why.

Bit less enthused with the journalism department considering my prof this term is the only one full time. I'm planning a journalism minor, so I guess I'll have to get use to him, and I know his demands are going to make me a better journalist and consumer of media, but really not stuff I wanted to hear coming off a six week break. Excited for the newspaper to start back up though.

Moved into my friend's room at term, and really like it more than my old suite/room. Dunno if I ever mentioned that drama here, but long story short this guy is my third planned roommate. First one didn't get a visa, then the second one got suspended first week of class last term. It's a change actually having a roommate, but also nice to have someone around. Makes leaving the people back home a little easier to have a more solid community to live in here.

Holy shit dude, how many classes are you taking to have $900 in books? Do you have an option to rent? Maybe I've just been taking the right classes, but over the past two terms (6 classes) I've spent like $300, mostly through the bookstore because I value convenience more than I should.

Congrats on quitting man. I replaced weed, booze and nicotine with tea and coffee about a month ago, but that was after some life re-evaluation. I think it helps not to think about quitting something as starting a new hobby to replace it with. Smoking isn't too time consuming, but I'm sure you could find something to replace it with.

After a slow four weeks, my friends are finally getting into town for their breaks. Of course, mine ends two weeks from today, so I have to squeeze in what I can with them, spend as much time as I can with my SO, and appreciate my family over the holidays.

I thought this trimester deal would be fun, being home for so long earlier, but break has pretty much just been a slog. I've really gotta work to enjoy these last two weeks, because they might be the last time I'm home until June. Luckily though, a couple realizations about how I want to live should help with that.

Plus, back on Hubski again. Thank god my laptop was logged in already, who knows where my password is buried. Should maybe reset that. But anyways, hope everyone's doing well and I'm looking forward to getting up to speed over the next few weeks.

Note: Also, did something change with the search? I keep getting the 404 page when I try to search something.

I'll preface by saying that I'm one of those commenters on my reddit account, on this post. I ripped into her. Honestly though, I couldn't have cared less about her hoax. It was just a bother and rude to the communities she disrupted, but not something I felt personally invested in. But she posted to the journalism subreddit claiming to try to teach journalists a lesson in journalistic ethics, and then refused to listen to their advice that the ethical thing to do from a journalistic standpoint (to e-mail the sites and let them know it was a hoax). Further, her insistence on anonymity broke the journalism ethics I'm learning as a student. A lot of those comments could have used better language, but I think their sentiment was justified; in trying to prove her point (unnecessarily), she ended up corrupting the exact system she thought she could somehow fix.

Exactly. I thought it was really strange that OP was trying to hunt out improper journalism, but that sub is filled with articles and posts about the fake news. The real problem is the consumers who don't know which sources are credible. In my mind, by acting like the places that picked it up were credible, OP just proved she was part of the problem.

Que hace un pez?

Nada.

English is my first language, but I went to a Spanish bilingual immersion school from K-8, and then kept studying it in high school, so I'd say I'm pretty fluent in that. The switch from immersion to high school classes set me back and fucked me over a bit, because suddenly I had to question my grammar. When I've traveled abroad or used Spanish elsewhere though, I've found people really don't care if you use the wrong tense occasionally, especially if you're surrounded by asshole Americans who can't even be bothered to try. So in those situations, I've gotten better at switched back to my middle school Spanish. Of course, because I learned it immersion style, with a bunch of immigrants and second-generation Americans, I speak a very Mexican Spanish with a lot of street slang and more modern grammar than many of my high school teachers liked.

Being in an immersion environtment so long, with friends who all also spoke Spanish meant that I got used to being able to switch between the languages at will. I still have to watch myself with my high school friends because not all of them know enough Spanish for me to throw a word or two into the middle of a sentence.

I think in a mix though. Spanish can make some things a lot shorter, and other things a lot longer (for example, no possessive 's, which is a real pain). I also have picked up a few Mandarin words, some Italian and then just a few random other things from friends and other places that get mixed into my thoughts and speech. There's also a lot of teen slang I use, and some of it is pretty specific to my town, and even my high school. It's always kind of weird when I use a phrase with someone who lives elsewhere and they have no idea what I mean. Cool though too.

It doesn't have to be, does it?

Actually, with anything close to the current set-up, I would say yes. Or, maybe I'd have to flip that around a bit to say that the current set-up works best for indoctrination. Which makes sense. The bare basics of how public (and most private schools) work goes back over 100 years, which is a huge problem in and of itself. One of the earliest countries to institute public education was Bismarck's newly formed Germany in the 1860s and 1870s. The express purpose was indoctrination, to help create a single national German identity out of the myriad of small countries absorbed by Prussia in the unification. Other countries, including the US, followed. The system started for indoctrination, and has a very nice by product of creating a more productive nation as well.

We can also look at some specific policies that would need to be completely reversed.

Truancy makes no sense if public education were really for education. Being in a classroom doesn't make you learn. In fact, having kids who don't want to be there in a classroom often ends up hindering the learning of those who do want to be there. What making kids show up does work for is indoctrination, as they then must interact with others and are exposed to the ideas, even if they don't learn it.

Other parts of the system, like required classes, grades, and standardized testing plays into it too. By requiring certain classes, especially in the humanities, schools help to expose students to ways of thought and ideas that are in line with society, and creates a common language for citizens to work with. By tying in grades to future success, the education system makes working within the system absolutely essential. Standardized testing works the same, but at much higher stakes.

For all of that, I don't think the indoctrination is all that bad. It isn't necessarily indoctrination into a specific way of thinking (or at least, in many schools, and ideally, it isn't). The indoctrination is in how to function in society. I have some cousins who are homeschooled, and interacting with them can be frustrating and tiring because they just miss things like social cues, or manners, or standard forms of interaction because they don't interact with a large number of people daily. Seeing kids transition from being homeschooled to attending public school can be interesting as well, because they just don't really get how wider society works. They also tend to be less independent from their parents, which creates other problems in interactions. kleinbl00, I gotta warn you too, private school kids can be almost as bad. Private schools can be very homogenous, and so I've seen a lot of kids struggle with having to interact with people who they don't have as many shared experiences with—kids from different social classes, or races, or even just different parts of the city. So, since you're set on private school for your daughter, make sure she has some other social outlets, like a sports team or church group or Girl Scouts or summer camp or debate team or something. The kids I know who have transitioned best from homeschool or private school to public school, or even just to society at large, have been those who gained part of the social indoctrination they missed out on from other activities.

Did you buy helmets too? Can you find helmets easily there?

I've had both a similar experience and pretty much the exact opposite experience so far. I grew up going to church with my mom, but my dad would stay home. Eventually, once I was old enough to actually stay home alone if my dad had to do something Sunday morning, I could choose if I wanted to go or not. For a long time I kept going, but at the same time, I was starting to question my beliefs. By the time I was 12, I had rejected the beliefs of the church, but I continued to attend because I really enjoyed the social and ritualistic aspects, as my maturation lead to more chaos in my life.

For a while in my early teens, I looked around hard for something else to believe in. I probably changed my professed religion every two weeks. I wasn't looking for the religion that worked the best in regards to contradictions, logic, science, and what not, but rather just trying to find something close to world-view. Of course though, I'd read about some cool belief of some minor religion, think it was cool, then "claim" that belief and religion for a bit, then find another one. It was a very interesting thing to do, learning about all sorts of different religions, but it also was deeply unsatisfying. During period throughout the search, I'd end up returning to Christianity, go to church for a while, then stop again.

I think what finally fully stopped my religious trend was that I just couldn't manage to put in the time I needed to in order to get the ritualistic comfort I sought from religion. And so, without really any regard to beliefs, I became nonreligious.

Recently though, I've felt my life sort of start decaying. I've lost a lot of control over new aspects of my life, and it's been rather scary. I started praying again, more as a way to force myself to acknowledge my mistakes, sins and issues, as long as look for ways to fix them. It worked. I'm praying rather regularly now, and I might start the conversion process to Orthodox Christianity, because of the emphasis on prayer there. I don't know what I believe about God. I'm not sure I want to know what I belive, much less try to find the actual truth there. I don't care if someone will meet me after death—that's in another life, and this one's such a mess I need to just focus on it. Even without the belief though, I can talk to God and ask for His help. Sometimes, through the clarity I gain from the practice, I even get His help. Maybe He's helping me in other ways too.

Looking back, I wish I had better seperated my beliefs and my religion. I tried hard to be a spiritual person, but I'm not. I am, I think, a ritualistic person, and therefore religion appeals to me. I can lead a pretty chaotic life, and so having something to fall back on, even if it's just the Lord's Prayer before bed, that I feel a connection to and which helps give me some order is really welcome.

I agree being 18 doesn't magically make one an adult, but I also think that the world starts to see you as an adult then. So, if by the time you are 18 you don't feel mature enough to take on these responsibilities, you need to get good at faking that maturity. The world is going to start piling stuff onto you, so hopefully you're ready. If not, hopefully you can get ready fast, or get good at faking getting ready, because the saddest shit is that thew world just doesn't give a damn if we're ready or not.

I realized today I sure picked just a great week to get clean. Turning down friends for some fun today was pretty hard, but I know it's the best choice. I've gotten into some pretty heavy shit recently, and I realized last weekend that I had to cut back a lot if I wanted to avoid a much more serious problem. So, I'm getting clean. Like really clean, not even booze or weed. I know I will probably use them again in the future, maybe even regularly, but I think I basically need a total reset to get away from weekly use of harder substances. But today was hard, especially because the nicotine withdrawal hit it's peak today. But, I've got to get a job soon, so I need to get clean anyways, which makes for a good excuse for casual friends I don't want to explain substance abuse habits to.

I have a lot more decisions about quitting than I thought. What all should I quit? For how long? If it's not regular, is it okay? What about Prom? Graduation? What do I do with my friends? Do I even keep the same friends? Is this trivial on a larger scale or should I maybe consider meetings?

All the same, it's pushing me in some new directions. I've started praying again. I got over my reservations about asking a girl who doesn't really party, and now have a great prom date. I can start writing again. That last one is really strange, because one of reasons I started messing around with psychoactives was to have new experiences and view-points I could apply to my writing. But then it ended up stopping me from being creatively productive.

In other news, I should start studying for AP tests. I also need to make a college decision by next weekend. Which is terrifying. My dad and I are trying to figure out costs, and I can barely comprehend the numbers because they are ten times the amount of money I have ever handled in my life. Not just at one time in my life, but all the money through my whole life. Before, I always told curious friends that I really didn't get stressed. But now, I'm pushed to my limits, and there's no way I can't call this stress. Absolutely terrifying, paralyzing, religion-driving stress.

But I'm getting my shit worked out, and it hasn't been as bad of three days as I thought it would be.

About three and a half years ago I moved from near the center of one town to the suburbs of another. I miss the trains. Hearing them running down the track, off to who knows where, but somewhere at least, was always great. Of course, I appreciate not having to wait for them, but they can be nice to have around too.

I'm going through the same thing now with Knox and Syracuse (I actually think I've managed to avoid saying names so far on Hubski, but I'm not sure why I tried that). I know Knox is the better one on paper, and I know I like Syracuse more. So utterly beats me what to do.

When I posted about the issue a little bit back, the ever-wise klienbl00 told me this:

I've made the decision in all sorts of states of mind since then. My dad and I are still working through finances to see if I can afford Syracuse more easily somehow, but I also know most of my decisions have been leaning towards Knox. But changing affordability might change that.

I guess I've talked a lot about my decision, so here's my thoughts on yours:

Don't think about the cons, at least not yet. If the schools have made it this far in your considerations, then their cons can't be that important to you. Just focus on the pros. Are there anyways you can move some of the pros for Case to UF or for UF to Case? For me, I realized I could make career opportunities at Syracuse that already exists at Knox, so that pro changed.

Which actually brings up another point: will Case's advantages help you overcome the debt? Will it easily lead you to a job in the field you want? If so, the debt would become much less important, because you'll be relatively sure of being able to pay it off and deal with it.

Finally, talk with your friends. My friends have helped me a ton with this. Your guidance counselor too, if they have been any help in the past. They know you like us on Hubski never will. They'll have their own opinions and points about these schools too. So rack their brains, sober and "HAMMERED" if possible. See what they tell you vs what they actually think. It may get stressful and it's scary as fuck, but you've got this.

My local news said there was a statue of limitations of sorts that limits claims to only future profits from the song. So, Zeppelin's 45 years of profits are safe, but there next how many aren't. It's a weird system.

I have that wonderful Trader Joe's instant coffee. I don't drink coffee everyday, only if I need the caffeine. If I have a test that morning and I need the caffeine though, I'll probably be drinking some higher quality oolong.

Even worse than using the instant though is that often, I don't even 'use' it. I just dip in my spoon, and shove a heaping teaspoon in my mouth. Lazy man's caffeine pills.

I don't think a lot of people like to drink alone.

Eh, I know a lot of teenagers that do. Those I know who drink at parties tend to drink alone too. I think this might be a result of the circles I run in though, who tend to be higher performing academic students with societal, academic, and familial pressure to preform well. We tend to drink because many of the reasons you mentioned as why we might not, I think. If that makes any sense. Basically, as our parents cut us off from our peers (I think kleinbl00 is 100% right about that), we just get more stressed and end up turning to more dangerous pastimes like drinking alone.

I think a lot of parents and teachers of younger kids instill the idea that peer pressure is going to be a circle of kids chanting "Drink it, drink it, drink it," or a shady, but cool upperclassman offering you free weed or pills. But, as one of my favorite Reddit jokes pointed out, I'd be very happy if as many people offered me free weed as I thought as a 10 year old. Maybe it's just because I'm not a hot girl.

In reality, the peer pressure is more "well, everyone else gets drunk and that seems to help them unwind, so maybe I should too." At the same time, in my circles, there's huge respect for the people that don't "turn up"—the ones who can mother hen everyone at parties, switch out the vodka for water when people get too drunk, drive people home, pick up the trash. If we know they have as much stress as we do, our respect goes even higher.

I think you've got some good points about the smartphones and internet, but I think you also missed the other side to it. Teenagers I know don't use the internet to replace physical socializing, they use it to enhance it. There are about half a dozen different ways to reach me on my phone. So, if there's a party, or any sort of "move" for the night, I know about it, and so do basically all of my friends. The question then is just what lie to tell the parents to get out of the house.

The internet also changes what we know about the drugs we are apparently using less. There are people who are incredibly knowledgeable about the substances they and other use. So, I'd say yes, we do see some of the things alcohol and other drugs can do to you. People I know are incredibly cautious about prescription drugs. Driving drunk will kill your social life, if it doesn't kill you. So, some of the propaganda is working, and I am very glad it is. But at the same time, the internet has also opened while new worlds of drugs to us. The psychedelics in my region are largely brought in through mail orders from the deep web. Kids are learning to make some of their own drugs, or improve the ones they already have (e.g. making hashish or "Green Dragon"). We also share readily. Kids who 20 years ago would probably have never touched drugs are today hooked on Adderall because it helps them preform better at school. They don't even need to buy it black market, just get it from a friend who has a script but doesn't like taking it.

Maybe my experiences and views are more of a result of where I live rather than how old I am. Drugs are cheap and easy to find in this city of aging hippies. I don't doubt the stats in the article, but I also fear that looking at them without regard for specific situations can lead to poor conclusions. I know the rates of drug use and sexual activity at my high school are way higher than the stats for now, and probably higher than the stats for 20 years ago. Thew are also highs schools in my area with serious hard drug problems that need to be addressed, and in this I know my area isn't unique. Sure, maybe less kids are doing drugs, but this isn't occasionally popping molly, this might be being hooked to heroin or coke. So, while I'm happy about many of the stats this article points out, I'm also wary that it can be taken the wrong way as saying everything is getting better, when teenagers still fucked up.

Neither Sanders or Clinton strike me as a candidate who can inspire centrists to vote for them.

I'm a centrist and I'm leaning towards Clinton right now which terrifies me. I never thought I'd end up in a situation where I would favor Clinton, seeing as I don't really trust or like her. But there's no one else around. It's like standing on the pitchers mound and the only other people are Clinton a little past third base, Sanders off near the fence in left field, Cruz same to the right and Trump is basically running all over outside the diamo like a five-year old. Might as well vote Clinton and hope someone else comes along in 2020.

If rest doesn't do it, visit a PT and have them give you some excercises. Often, tendonitis is caused by underlying weakness in stabilizer muscles that can be hard to work without isolation exercises. Working them in isolation will also help your main lifts too, which is always cool.

Yeah, it's a pretty nice day. Friday wasn't too bad, and we've been on break, which has been sweet.

I'm not a national merit scholar. I was a finalist for a full ride at both schools I mentioned above, but didn't get them (obviously). Otherwise my choice would be easy, but now it's like a difference to $10,000 a year for better academics and atmosphere, but worse career opportunities. I'm thinking maybe I'll just go for the more expensive school and make my own career opportunities.

3) GET HAMMERED

If only they gave scholarships for that. I had a bit of a bender this weekend, between getting back from the interviews and getting the results, which gave me a little time to start sorting stuff out before knowing the results. I've got stuff this weekend, but next weekend, I think I'll be following your prescription Dr. Kleinbl00. Thanks for the solid advice as always dude.

I visited it this fall, but not for nearly as long as this week's visit to the other school. It feels a lot like my high school, which isn't a terrible thing, but can also have it's annoyances. Both can be very...alternative places, which isn't necessarily where I fit in best. I'm having trouble finding career placement stats for the specific programs, but overall the schools have similar stats for all graduates.

I love having the choice to use them. As a principle, I don't mute people. I just don't like that style of moderation tool. I hush and filter people like no tomorrow though. I've even filtered people on here I like but whose posts I don't live seeing all the time. I agree with you whole heartedly the the moderation tools are something the Hubski team should get huge props for, among most the other features of this awesome site.

Thanks for the reply. I've actually stopped making notebooks, at least for a while, but I've been meaning to pick up some Rhodias for a while now. All the ones I've seen though seem to just be bound with staples. Are all of them like that, or should I be able to find more durable binding somewhere?

Edit: Wow, you also made me realize how long I've been been here. Didn't think I could have a post over 200 days old.

I used to tell people American politics couldn't be that dismal and appealing since we didn't have anything equivalent to UKIP. I've had to stop saying that since this election cycle started, because now we do.

What I think is interesting about Trump's base is that it's shifting what political axis we talk about. Thinking about the Political Compass and two scales for politicos—one authoritarian-libertarian, the other the classical left-right—we've moved in America from two parties who only differed on the second axis to actually having to have a major discussion about where we want to be on the first one. It should be absolutely terrifying for us as a society, and it seems to already be. We aren't just talking more taxes or not anymore. I think it's a shift a lot of the rest of the developed world has already seen to an extent ( see UKIP or Le Penne and the National Front) and which is the only discussion in the developing world.

So, at least, for all it's insanity, this election will be interesting. It's gonna change American politics, but we could probably use a change.

It's this implant shit that gets me too. I'd love to call myself a transhumanist, but I have no hope or desire for immortality, no urge to put stuff in my body, or a sense of myself as beyond human. But I do want to experience more than my current body can. I mean, why turn down a chance to see in infrared or to feel magnetic fields or to hear colors? But not if it means putting shit that doesn't belong there in my body.

I wish transhumanists would take a key from contacts. Contacts are pretty freaking amazing. But you take them out at the end of the day. I actually made a ring a while back with a magnet in it, and if I wear it right, I can feel magnetic fields too, without the need for an implant. I like that kind of augmentation. For that matter, just being fit is a vital 'augmentation.' When I see transhumanists who don't take good care of their bodies, I'm immediately skeptical. Can't live forever if you did cause your body is a sack of shit. So, I think you're right about the attention. It's just too obvious and too extreme of methods to not be about attention in the end.

rural Dems prefer the Bern.

I don't think thtis would be much of a surprise really. Especially now, after he swept Nebraska and Kansas. His policies definitely cater towards the lower class, but he's had issues connecting with minorities. So, to me, it makes sense that rural voters, being generally of lower income levels than urban voters, would go for Sanders over Clinton.

Personally, here, Redditch, or actual news sources. Lots of my friends actually use things like SnapChat for it. It seems to mostly be a local thing, but a lot of us read the local paper too, for news media. Reddit is a big source, as is Instagram.

You hear FB is losing younger users plenty, but as a young r user, from what I have seen, hemoraging maybe isn't the best word. It's more just being used in ways different than originally intended. For people my age (high schoolers and younger college folk), the focus has shifted, I think, from the "media" part of social media to the "social" part. We use it more for the ease of communicating with large groups of people quickly and in one place more than most of us are actually creating real content for the site. Pretty much everyone still has a FB, but mostly, it's for groups and Messenger chats. So, I can see the buttons as being an attempt to help pull some of these types of users back in a bit by allowing for a just slightly deeper level of interaction than just "likes." But at the same time, I doubt it is the right move to achieve that.