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Cake day: February 24th, 2026

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  • True, but the pressure wave is what is being perceived when hearing, light is what is being perceived when seeing, I never said what was being perceived had to be matter. In the case of touch, some molecules may enter the skin, but that is not the cause of the sensation. Even if you imagine an perfectly hard, smooth and clean surface that sheds no molecule, you should still be able to feel of you touch it.

    However, I thought about it after making this post, but there also is a small amount of kinetic energy entering you when you touch something, and that may be what triggers your nerve… So I guess even in the case of touch, it remains true that you can only perceive something that’s inside of you.








  • As a French guy who’s spent a year in the US in my childhood, I can actually compare! That being said, I’ve also been in several schools in France and I can’t say the food has been uniformly good, there’s a lot of variation within schools of a same country (and that’s only public schools, I haven’t tried private ones). But while I can’t say that french school foods all tasted good (there were some I hated and some I loved), I can at least say they all looked like food and tried to be healthy and varied from one day to the next. It’s usually a small salad, a warm main dish that will usually have a meat, fish or omelette, some starch and some veggies, a dairy (cheese or yoghurt), a piece of bread, and a desert which is often a fruit. The actual taste changes a lot. Schools actually have a chef, but that doesn’t mean they cook everything from scratch, a lot of it can be unfrozen stuff delivered from various companies.