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- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 1 day ago:
Wouldn’t the Anglosphere include every English speaking countries like South Africa, India and others?
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 2 days ago:
Then I guess it’s the Belgian version.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 2 days ago:
Maybe it is interchangeable sometimes, but English people would rather point at the UK, while Anglo-Saxons often abusively refers to UK plus majorly white former British colonies, USA, Canada, Australia and New-Zealand.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 2 days ago:
It’s still how we call this group from France.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 2 days ago:
Always seen the compote ones around Paris, what’s your region?
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 2 days ago:
The typical beignets aux pommes are made with apple compote (apples slowly cooked in a pan with a bit of water until they become liquid).
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 2 days ago:
Yeah, I think so too, Japan does the same with food and luxury shops.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 2 days ago:
The article states hypothesis and guesses, it doesn’t seem to provide a definitive answer.
Its conclusion, machine translated:
In the first two chapters, we talked about the unlikely birth of the deep-fried potato, the result of a marriage between the potato, a popular vegetable par excellence, and cooking in a fat bath, reserved for high society. Where could this marriage have taken place? In a well-to-do kitchen with a fine frying pan? Impossible, as we saw earlier. Potatoes have no place there. In the home of the poor potato-eating bastard? Impossible too. They don’t have enough fat.
Isn’t the answer to this question to be found in the streets of Paris, where in the 18th century, itinerant merchants carried their frying pans filled with dubious grease, into which they plunged meats and vegetables smeared with doughnut batter? Or is it to be found in a rotisserie with more extensive equipment? It’s a tempting hypothesis. As we know, the fried potato has spread through commerce. Wasn’t it born there? Is it not a purely commercial product? The inventor of the French fried potato will probably always remain anonymous, but we can guess his trade: a merchant. We can also guess his origin: Parisian.
Pierre Leclercq
March 2009 - December 2010
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 2 days ago:
For the record, nobody in France call French fries or French toast “French”. We’re definitely happy to attribute the fries to our Belgian friend and nobody thinks something as ubiquitous as toasts could have a single inventor. I think those are Anglo-Saxon cultural elements.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 2 days ago:
Look what the French did when the government came for their pensions.
For the record we did get it down from 65 to 64, but we still got +2 years.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
Are you sure renewables don’t require more extracted resources and more land usage per quantity of energy produced?
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
I feel like people are interpreting your comment with an American view. As a fellow European I agree, NGOs like Greenpeace are also to blame, and I don’t think those are financed by fossil fuel lobbies.
- Comment on Anon falls through the cracks 1 week ago:
slowly divert my work to different people in the company
So you’ve been promoted to a management position.
- Comment on Anon falls through the cracks 1 week ago:
If we ignore the actual stress of a manager suddenly finding out and asking you to report what you have been doing. Probably still possible to bullshit long enough in a big company to rextover your position or find another job.
- Comment on Larian revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in the Vatican 1 week ago:
The two IT nerds that manage the Vatican systems.
- Comment on Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support 1 week ago:
Does it also pull support for old Linux distributions?
- Comment on Culture Wars 1 week ago:
maybiotics
- Comment on Anon meets up with a girl 1 week ago:
Ok, so now you have a clear plan to work on your attractiveness.
- Comment on Anon takes the horsepill 1 week ago:
This article says 8 to 11k. horserookie.com/average-horse-cost-by-state/
- Comment on Trump's eligibility 2 weeks ago:
Come down and read again. The person said social disqualification as opposed to judicial conviction, and I’m saying social disqualification being vague could lead to eadier abuse by the political power.
- Comment on Trump's eligibility 2 weeks ago:
The theory was that any other social disqualifications would be handled at the ballot box.
That theory is now proven to be incorrect, but fixing it takes a constitutional amendment.
That could be a slippery slope too. Imagine a constitutional amendment making someone ineligible because of a “social disqualification” such as sexual orientation.
- Comment on Quantum 2 weeks ago:
Is it some kind of exponentially decreasing probability amplitude curve?
- Comment on Geology 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Elder Gods 5 weeks ago:
Paul Watson will send stinky bombs in your bed.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy is developped by hardcore tankies and I don’t want to use their software
I think the main point about this is that, so far, the development has been completely politically neutral and developers have in no way interfered with any instance having other political opinions.
So they have been more neutral than Reddit developers even if they are public about their tankies ideas.
Furthermore, it’s open source, so it could be forked any time if needed, unlike Reddit. - Comment on UK to consider USB-C as charging standard • The Register 5 weeks ago:
Gosh, the money to join the USB-C standard should go into RHS instead!
- Comment on Why are peole hating on .world? 1 month ago:
It’s a battle of political ideologies.
ml is administered by the creators of Lemmy, they are openly socialist/communist/tankie depending on your own ideology, ml was chosen to represent Marxism-Leninism, and so the people it attracted are generally also adhering to this kind of ideologies.
.world was created for Redditors exile, as such, it is mostly center-left to social democrat.Political extremists tend to extremise everything, typically a tankie will call you a Nazi/fascist if you disagree with them. That’s one of your answer.
Secondly, some ml people are frustrated that Lemmy is not their own little thing anymore for them and their friends, as world is the biggest instance now by far. So they show some kind of instance-xenophobia, not much different from the Great Replacement theory: “we are being culturally replaced through mass migration”.
Not all .ml people are like that of course. In my experience, it is enough to block a few tankies to get back to civilized discussions.
- Comment on Anon takes the welding pill 1 month ago:
I finished Outlast recently, and it made me think about The Groom who mutilates male patients’ sexual attributes to turn them into his ideal wife, but keeps failing and trying again.
- Comment on Anon takes the welding pill 1 month ago:
It reads as the background story of the enemy The Welder in a horror video game that you would find through scattered notes.
