Armand1
@Armand1@lemmy.world
- Comment on No I don't have a receipt 2 days ago:
Just binged the whole thing and it’s pretty funny, though a bit objectifying.
- Comment on I liek tudles 3 days ago:
It’s not certain this is true, but it’s somewhat likely. At least, that’s what I’m getting from the Wikipedia article.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_(tortoise)
She was not kept as a pet by Darwin, but she may have been collected by him on a journey, then kept at a museum(?)
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 3 days ago:
Yeah, that’s why I’d like them to build more social housing.
The lifecycle of social housing projects like these, as I understand them, is meant to be that you continue to build them, and as the old ones reach the end of their lifetime (around 60 years?) you demolish them and move the people into the new ones.
In practice, most places are not continuously building them as they should, so many of them are reaching the end of their lives without a plan for where to move people afterwards. This shows a lack of foresight and long-term planning.
Of course, politics are a fickle thing so the latest government can choose to decide that actually, poor people should be punished for the failures of the system and long-term initiatives fail.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 5 days ago:
Social housing typically doesn’t look as good as high-end apartments, but it doesn’t have to look terrible. Here’s some pretty neat looking social housing in south Paris.
It’s kind of the China Town of Paris.
It’s right next to an accessible tram station, has green spaces and social areas spread around, a couple of malls with great independent restaurants right next door. There are cycle lanes all around the place.
If you’re curious, here it is on Google Maps
I’d live here. I only wish there were more neighbourhoods like this.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Return of the Obra Dinn be like:
- Comment on Greece, Italy and France ignore ICC warrant as Netanyahu flies through airspace for Trump talks 4 weeks ago:
The UK recently hosted the Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who has also committed many war crimes, so they’re doing worse here.
- Comment on TheRealKuni, this is for you. 4 weeks ago:
Cruel and unusual punishment.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 1 month ago:
I have met people in Britain who genuinely seem to hate food. They have a plain cheese sandwich, the worst imaginable bread or eat Huel every day.
That doesn’t necessarily reflect all Britons, but I do think they genuinely care about food less on average than other cultures.
- Comment on fEEt 1 month ago:
The artist clearly did not get cold feet before drawing this.
- Comment on Sans serif fonts are woke because they're easier for dyslexics to read 1 month ago:
Awwww was baby Hegseth triggered by the mean old font? Authoritarians are so sensitive, they get upset at everything.
- Comment on Are they the same person? 1 month ago:
Christian Nationalists are basically white nationalists. White nationalists are US-flavoured Nazis. KKK material.
They should be a fringe group shunned by all society, perhaps given mental help and deprogramming treatment. In this timeline though they are out-and-proud and in positions of power.
- Comment on Alas! 1 month ago:
I have a habit of getting into trouble for criticizing the work of others. I do it constructively, but not always tactfully.
One I pulled a few months back was something along the lines of “don’t do this, as it means other people will have to clean up after you”.
I’m… working on it.
- Comment on oh no 1 month ago:
Rule 34. I’m sure someone’s on it.
- Comment on Oh no! 1 month ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Oh no! 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Getting in on the library craze with the Reading Rainbow guy 2 months ago:
Going to the charity shops the week after Christmas to get all the stuff people didn’t want real cheap 👌
- Comment on Power word: STUN! 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Lemmy Politics 2 months ago:
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- Comment on We need to the energy we had when tradesmen struck on behalf of one another. 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 2 months ago:
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- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 2 months ago:
I found the meme conversation
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 months ago:
Well, there’s stuff like how the book insists that most house elves are happy being slaves, Dobby was the exception. And how it makes fun of Hermione for trying to free them.
If you want a full analysis, Sean did a good one.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 months ago:
Like a lot of the worst stuff in the book, it didn’t make it into the movies I think.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 months ago:
Mate, there’s so many weird or disturbing things in the books that didn’t make it into the movies.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 months ago:
Yeah, calling the only black dude Shacklebolt as well. The more you look the worst it gets.
- Comment on "I hope we have an LGBTQ+ president" 2 months ago:
Funnily enough we have a similar potential situation in the UK, some people have been pushing for our prime minister (president equivalent) to step down and be replaced by Wes Streeting.
Wes Streeting is a gay man who is currently the Secretary for Health and Social Care, and is widely hated by the LGBTQ community for being transphobic, which is especially bad for someone who has control over trans health care, and has been effectively making it worse.
- Comment on The PP Police 2 months ago:
I have been calling them “the genital inspectors” for the past year. That’s ultimately it. They obsess over other people’s junk.
Wouldn’t want those kinds of people near schools.
- Comment on Grocery shopping. "Please have courage." 2 months ago:
I have one.
- Comment on I'm saying that when you're ready you won't need to dodge Bond James Bond's bullets 2 months ago:
I love it.
