I’m flattered and honored to be the inspiration of your educational endeavors🙏
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Kudos for practicing cursive… I learned it in school but, over time, devolved into a hybrid writing form… I picked up resources to practice a more consistent form of it… and also to try out an older form from the 1800’s lol
Certain forms of brain development are going away now that cursive is gone…Different circuits are active when different writing forms are used… I may even pick up shorthand if I have spare time lol —that one has definitely gone away even though the “Gregg” notepads are still in use. (Gregg shorthand - Wikipedia )
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/whats-lost-as-handwriting-fades.html
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The article is paywalled. I’ll just assume that we’ve lost a lot. 
Makes me think how the computer age has brought a lot of advantages in terms of convinence, but also took away a lot of potential for brain development, such as writing in cursive using mental math; brought social disconnect, privacy concerns, cyber crimes, infobesity…
I am looking at the photos of vintage handwritings now, really an art of its own right.
A way to make yourself feel like a Victorian era poet but without the poetry lol
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I just asked ChatGPT to make a ranking of the 30 worst pains a human can experience
And I have experienced #15 for hours
Gang. Ego boost 
(I actually wanted to die at some point, lol)
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It was talking about the flow of thoughts and how different neural circuits are activated when people engage in writing things down.
There is an old book called “Writing and thinking” which covers some of the ideas about how thought can be refined through language usage. Developing the language centers to work through writing is yet another way to have a more embodied sense of cognition and thinking. I recall reading somewhere that someone was able to get more “in the flow” using a fountain pen and cursive rather than more typical writing tools—mostly because the fountain pen itself changed the pacing of how his thoughts were expressed on paper… there are a lot of neat things that can be explored like that.
Even typing with a typewriter instead of on a computer (with spell checker and the internet) is a distinctly different experience.
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I guess that this hack actually works lol
I appreciate your enthusiasm 
Here goes the dad joke, I can’t help myself…
Does your phone look like this?
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Has anybody done bungee jumping?
How was it?
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Nah, I hate smart phones. It’s on a moderately sized computer screen.
But, when I have to break the formatting to make it visible, you get what you get lol
Why do you hate smartphones?
I like when technology has a well defined main purpose.
I like when a phone is used for communicating on a point-to-point basis rather than being an open connection to the internet. I like when cameras are well-designed standalone devices that can hold their own pictures and not automatically send them everywhere. I like when people paid attention to their environment rather than letting a GPS tell them where to go… I like when people didn’t offload different skills onto technology lol
And when it’s all in one place on a smart phone, just about everything you do with the phone, and every metric about where you go with the phone, and quite possibly anything you say near the phone----all of that is collected information used either by Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, or other tech companies to train their AI and create more systems that will have tighter surveillance on everyone.
On the face it is, smart phones are pretty cool. They can put almost all of humanity’s knowledge and the most influential tech developments of the past 100 years in an appliance that can fit in your pocket.
On the other hand, lots of people become brain dead when they let the phone do so much of their thinking for them. And it also hands a lot more of the world over to big tech companies, who remain more interested in profit and control than actually making the world a better place… So I like the idea of what a smart phone can provide… but I don’t like the reality of what it is.
I also don’t like that the shrinking of technology has undermined a lot of natural, human-scale demarcations between objects and functions… but that’s another big discussion lol
Nope lol.
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You sound scared of it
Why
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I want to do it at least 3 times in a row
Gangstally conquer fear
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I don’t know if scared is the right word…
I’m not an adrenaline junkie and I find a lot of things overstimulating and unpleasant.
Some people think roller coasters are fun, I don’t like them because the speed and abrupt movements tend to give me a headache, make me nauseous, and other visceral pain. It’s not scary, I have confidence in the engineers and the safety measures… but I don’t like abrupt things.
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Gotchu
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I had another nightmare lol
Ended in a happy ending me holding hands with this girl then kissing her hand
Then I woke up
Why 
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