On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 03:14:43PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> 
> 2147 Breaking News:
> Alfred has used a very cheap teleportation device to go on Mars. He seemed OK 
> and claimed he has not changed, but his wife believes he lost his sense of 
> humour. 
> An inquest revealed that the the substitution level chose by the candidate 
> were indeed not always used, and very often the society used a much higher 
> level.

This makes more sense if the French word "société" is translated as
"company" rather than "society". One the many faux frères - pairs of
similar words with distinctly different meanings in French and
English.

> Many users lost some psychological trait, like sense of humour, or some 
> memories, or even the ability to have REM sleep.

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