My choices now are

Mastodon
Lemmy
Kbin
Actually edit the novel

Very good luck with all of that!

The Finnish song Cha Cha Cha is awesome. It should have won Eurovision!

If you can afford it, I found that the Pimsleur technique taught me how to speak well better than anything else I tried. I’ve forgotten the Spanish I know because I didn’t keep using it, but it got me to a decent adult conversational level in about a month at half an hour a day and I was always speaking ‘adult’ sentences right from the start, both copying then making new ones.

I think from Gen X onwards it just gets more and more common.

Also, people will say “I don’t play computer/video games” and then spend hours on Candy Crush or whatever.

Ooh, that’s my favourite so far. Before that I was pro-Lemming.

One of the subs I can’t let go of closed early and I ended up hunting down a forum instead.

I suspect that’s going to happen more and more.

I’m seeing it out. Once old.reddit is gone then I’ll pretty much have to.