I feel like we’re skipping steps… This kind of tech is incredible and has huge potential. But it needs vast amount of energy and we’re making the planet uninhabitable by the minute. If we first developed tech to have clean energy, I would be overjoyed. Here I feel mostly dread.

Ah dang. :( Thanks for the heads up, I thought I found something nice…

Smoking is never cool. It’s so hard to quit once you start.

I switched to Deezer!

I could’ve written every single word in your comment! And surprisingly enough, the commute is one of the best part of my day. The only issue is the time I get up and the time I come home.

“Haunted houses are a product of US culture”, right…

PSA: this park is controversial for its biased representation of history (mainly pro-catholic and anti-strangers, erasing any diversity from their stories). There are also questions over treatmant of workers and animals. In French: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puy_du_Fou#Controverses

Is that what they did? It’s a legitimate question, I’m not finding info online.

You’re right that the comic wasn’t targetting specific modifications, just ‘GMO’ as if it was bad in itself.

Well… depends on the GMO. Copyrighted Monsanto “terminator” seeds that sprout sterile crop is a big no-no in my book.

In a lot of cultures, a “fat” child is desirable, but actually unhealthy. A fat baby is simply healthy, regardless of the culture!

Outlaw tax credit to political parties. Outlaw hatespeech and enforce it. Outlaw media monopolies and promote healthy journalists that will challenge the ideas expressed on their station.

Maybe… don’t take the risk? If you wanna know how allergic you are, there are tests for that.

Don’t play with fire, friend. Fake crab isn’t worth dying for.

There’s also a “simple english” Wikipedia: simple.wikipedia.org

Dang, in which country are you talking about Liège in elementary school?

Totally agree. But I’m a bit pessimistic that modern fascism and extreme wealth concentration stops at one man. In my view, it’s more of a systemic issue. If he dies, the system that put him in place still thrives.

I agree. “One of the most important day in modern history” though? That’s a bit exceptionalistic IMO.

Now we have elastics and stretchy fabric. I guess it was more difficult to have a firm and comfortable hold with loose fabric.

Sure! Here’s a nice article by Mireille Elchacar, lexicologist and professor at TELUQ university.

The relevant portion:

Le 8 mai 1673, l’Académie française tranche en faveur de l’orthographe savante « qui distingue les gens de Lettres d’avec les Ignorants et les simples femmes ».

My translation:

The 8 of May, 1673, the French Academy decides in favor of a scholarly orthography “which distinguishes literary people from the ignorants and simple women”.

Yikes! That’s the basis of the “etymologic” or rather pseudo-etymologic orthography of French. The French Academy is still the authority for the French language, a remnant of the Ancient Régime. To my knowledge, they haven’t retracted this statement since and to my judgement they still adhere to it by their actions and decisions today.