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Really enjoyed this show as the interview felt like it was part of the show and not shoehorned it, plus they did not piss @Leo off 
As aside, are we sure Jacob and Mike Elgan are not the same person?
I’ve been using em-dashes for about 30 years, does that make me an AI?
I didn’t learn anything at college, at least nothing that had anything to do with the subject I was studying. I had taught myself everything on the syllabus before I even got to college. At school, I did learn to the minimum possible to get through - I got a A+ grade, but I didn’t need to really push myself to get that grade, because I knew more than my lecturers before I started, with the exception for the math class.
But I did learn to research for myself and used that to better my knowledge in other areas. A couple of years later, I got into playing AD&D with a group of colleagues after work. We would write our own stories and I buried myself in research for ancient weapons, mythology and the differen religious pantheons.
I have always pushed myself to gain more knowledge, I am a polyglot, but probably nowhere near the same calibre as Richard on WW.
One of the best things about education in Germany, where I now live, is that it is free - well almost. There are the semester fees, but they run to a couple of hundred Euros, but you get a student public transport ticket to travel on the trains, buses and trams around the country. Naturally, you have to pay for your accommodation and study materials, but the actual courses are “free”.
With regard to children playing etc. My granddaughter is very proud, she is 4 and rides her bike to the Kindergarten (pre-school) every day. When you go to a beer garden in Germany, there are always big play areas for the children. Likewise, the Munich Oktoberfest has two sides, the children’s rides and scores of children running around with parents and the drunken partying in the beer tents. I’ve seen both sides, I went with a friend and her children one year and another year, I went with some friends and we had tickets for one of the big beer tents, including “Grillhendl” (half a grilled chicken, served with potato salad). The two take place side-by-side, but the kids don’t really seem to notice the drunks and the drunks don’t usually bother the kids.
In the street we lived in up until last year, the children used to play in the middle of the street, likewise, large swathes of the housing estates around the town are “children’s play zones”, which means cars are guests there and are allowed to drive at walking pace, there are no sidewalks, the whole road is the sidewalk and children sit outside in the street with chalk and draw pictures on the paving stones, play football (soccer), tag etc. When cars come, they have to wait for the kids to get out of the way.
The kids will ride their bikes for kilometers to visit their friends, there is no need for the partents to bring the kids to school (unless it is raining very hard). In fact, many see it as an encroachment of their freedon, if they are driven to school by their parents.
I didn’t listen to this episode yet but I’ve been using em-dashes for 10 years because a girl I had a crush on really loved em-dashes in college and I wanted to impress her—It was an unsuccessful endeavor
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I’ve never traveled outside the states. But I can certainly say I notice children not playing outside like they use to. I do think a lot of it has to do with the stranger danger. I’m of the ERA where our parents tried to terrify us of everything in order to keep us under their control. Don’t talk to strangers, don’t accept anything from strangers, don’t talk to strangers online. If your mom and dad don’t know them, then you probably aren’t safe. I think this has cascaded down to the current generation of children who are to scared to go outside for fear of kidnapping or fear of being harmed as those “Fears” have been passed down.
With my two girls (13 and 10 years old) they only go outside if they have a group of friends outside and they live in an apartment complex with their mom. But if they go to mimi’s or gram’s house they don’t play outside. It’s usually games on their phone or talking/texting with their friends. My youth group kids are the same, they will play outside during youth group or with friends in their local neighborhood, but send them somewhere that’s not in one of those common settings. They are stuck inside won’t even venture outside to see if their are new friends to be made.
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