In Belgium, I pay 4.5 eur as an adult to use any of the numerous swimming pools around me. Also, I never had to show my ID once in my lifetime to enter said pools. My kids are perfectly afloat and learned to swim with their school by going to the pool every week.
Not denying your personal experience, just sharing another point of view from another part of the country.
I still follow my past team definition of a good commit : the commit message should answer in it's first line why this commit was done. Overtime I realized that when I git blame I never care what a commit does because this is always obvious by reading the code of the commit. The reason why, however, is most of the time not obvious at all.
I've been thinking about live coding on twitch but having to think about not revealing any sensitive information would make it a hassle. I will give it a try for some side projects.
Not denying your personal experience, just sharing another point of view from another part of the country.