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- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 6 days ago:
He should try to open a factory with us in France.
- Comment on For French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"? 1 week ago:
That’s the most convincing explanation I have read, thank you!
- Comment on For French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"? 1 week ago:
The point is to better match the current pronunciation
bəl, not change the pronunciation. - Comment on For French origin words like "meter" American English inverted the last letters of "metre" to better match the pronunciation. Why isn't it also the case for other similar situations like "possible"? 1 week ago:
I am French. Let me expend the title to make it easier to understand.
In American English, words of French origin like “meter” (American English) inverted the last letters of “metre” (British English from French “mètre”) to better match the English pronunciation. Why isn’t it also the case for other similar situations like “possible”?
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- Comment on Anon makes a troubling connection 1 week ago:
Is this why the population of Japan is decreasing that badly? 🤔
- Comment on What is the history of modern male gender roles and where did it come from? 3 weeks ago:
Are stupid non researched hypothesis allowed? I had in my mind: maybe those roles come from times when life was more violent, so having a strength advantage due to biology was an obvious way to hold power and impose rules that benefit your group/gender. I feel this somehow connects to emotional behaviors that may be required for war and politics, such as not showing your weaknesses. Then you have centuries of cultural development, such as religions, that created layers of justification for the social order that benefited the people in power, even when the physical strength advantage is not relevant anymore, and that’s what we consider tradition.
Is patriarchy and the emotional difference really specific to Western society, if we compare to Arabic, Indian or Chinese traditional cultures, for example? - Comment on Anon hates Apple 3 weeks ago:
Maybe you have been unlucky with your machine because I haven’t experienced that apart from the slow camera on a messaging app. All I have needed so far is replacing the battery once on my FP2, I’ll probably do that for my 4 too. I agree that the pace of release is a bit too fast given the mission, but I think it’s a commercial compromise they have found to stay afloat.
- Comment on Anon hates Apple 3 weeks ago:
What glitches do you have? I also have this one, and I don’t have noticed much issues. The only thing that I noticed is the camera taking a bit of time to return the image when used inside a messaging app, which may be an issue of the app. I have no doubt every phone has some glitches sometimes.
- Comment on Anon hates Apple 3 weeks ago:
Apart from the price premium, which is still far from Apple’s, and seems rational considering they try to limit impact on the people and the planet, what are those serious compromises? I had the Fairphone 2, and I would agree this one was clunky, and you needed to be somewhat of an activist to stand it. But from the Fairphone 4 that I have, and likely the 5th, I don’t see much compromise, everything has been perfectly smooth for me.
- Comment on Anon hates Apple 3 weeks ago:
Ascend to Fairphone
- Comment on Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"? 4 weeks ago:
Snowden was an IT expert, it certainly helps. His book is a great read.
- Comment on The Two Genders 5 weeks ago:
Tell that to OP, I’m providing the context for his post that I didn’t have.
- Comment on The Two Genders 5 weeks ago:
Give me a source you prefer, I will be happy to swap it. The first results I found was this and Forbes and I was expecting this reaction for Forbes.
- Comment on The Two Genders 5 weeks ago:
For those like me who don’t understand the context: thegamer.com/the-witcher-4-reveal-ciri-woke-compl…
- Comment on The Witcher IV — Cinematic Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2024 5 weeks ago:
I played the second late and then the third. I think it simplified too much some parts of the gameplay to please the mass, but the atmosphere and writing are still really good.
- Comment on This weird AI-generated engagement bait 5 weeks ago:
When you’re deep into sweet sleep and the alarm wakes you up to go to work.
nsfw
- Comment on This weird AI-generated engagement bait 1 month ago:
I think I know why.
- Comment on how do you workout when you don't have much time? 1 month ago:
Try to follow at least the WHO recommendation of 30 min of moderate exercise per day on average. Maybe you can consider this budget and balance it over your week depending on how busy you are.
- Comment on Anon shoots some hoops 1 month ago:
Anon is strong and independent, he doesn’t need to appear clumsy to attract sympathy.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t the Anglosphere include every English speaking countries like South Africa, India and others?
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 1 month ago:
Then I guess it’s the Belgian version.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 1 month 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 1 month ago:
It’s still how we call this group from France.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 1 month ago:
Always seen the compote ones around Paris, what’s your region?
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Yeah, I think so too, Japan does the same with food and luxury shops.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
