Ethalis @ Ethalis @jlai.lu

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From a Le Monde article

Apparently what he said in french was: "[le sujet] a été évoqué parmi les options. [...] Il n’y a pas de consensus aujourd’hui pour envoyer de manière officielle, assumée et endossée des troupes au sol [...] Mais rien ne doit être exclu. Nous ferons tout ce qu’il faut pour que la Russie ne puisse pas gagner cette guerre."

Roughly translated, he said "The topic was discussed among other options. There is no official consensus in favor of officially sending troops on the ground, but no option should be ruled out at this point. We will do everything necessary to ensure Russia doesn't win this war."

It's very reminiscent of the Paris commune, where Parisian pre-marxist socialists were killed almost to the last by the french army after they'd built a short-lived commune. It was basically the end of the Proudhonist idea of socialism (no gods, no masters), which provided space for Marxism to take over in France and particularly in Paris.

No offense intended since I'm fully incapable of pronouncing tons of English words properly (fuck "squirrel" specifically), but as a Frenchman who has lived near Mulhouse for a few years and interacted with a lot of foreign students, what you said probably wasn't close to being the exact same as that guy

Agreed, Big Tech's quest for UX and frictionless Interfaces has lead to a generation of people who vastly overestimate their tech savviness and are basically only great at navigating walled gardens made specifically to be easy to use.

It's not really their fault though: in addition to frontends becoming ever easier to use, backends are also becoming increasingly complex. 20 years ago you could learn a bit of HTML and CSS and throw a decent website together, but nowadays you need to master tons of other skills (graphical design, scripting, etc.) to make even so much as a web page that won't scare people away immediately. It's hard to get interested in this stuff when the barrier of entry is getting higher and higher, while tons of GAFAM-made alternative are already available for "free"

If they were consistent with their beliefs then yeah, but that's a big if

That is the face of a man 1 BJ away from passing out

Who would win in a fight? A half-naked militiaman with a bronze sword or a soldier in full armor with a steel katana?

Don't get me wrong, Greek hoplites were great in formation for their time period, but the individual spartan was basically just a decently fit dude

As a European living in a big city I never quite understood just how huge these things are until I finally saw one stuck in traffic in a tiny Parisian street. These things are massive!

From context, Behind The Scenes I guess

Woodworking, or any activity that involves crafting useful and/or beautiful things with my own two hands. I live in a flat so I lack space to do it, but the idea of using an object or a furniture everyday while knowing I actually made it from scratch is just so appealing to me

A few years back I got really into Python for a few months as a complete newbie. One day, when I felt ready, I told myself I would put all the python skills I picked up and build a small program that would generate random, solvable sudoko puzzles. After a few weeks trying everything and not getting anywhere, I gave up programming.

Moral of the story is I probably that I should have taken it a bit slower I guess

FYI, tracking based on legitimate interest can be rejected, it just isn't by default. If you click on "reject all" both tracking based on consent and tracking based on legitimate interests are rejected (at least if Microsoft wants to be in compliance with EU rules on tracking).

The only trackers that can be used even if you click on "reject all" are those that are used exclusively for technical purposes and some very light analytics

I think you've missed the point of Ken's arc in this movie

Pretty cool game, didn't manage to find the answer in 20 questions though

Also, how does a stick break scissors?

CS:WENT

Honestly the endgame was pretty fun as well on face value if a bit barren, it's the midgame that was super disappointing to me. Overall it's a decent game imo, it just set expectations way too high and couldn't deliver

Oh I like people having fun at work as well, what I don't like is corporate communications trying to weirdly mimic people having fun at work. Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I often find these jokey comms to be souless and artificial and almost never feel like they're genuinely having fun

I wish brands would stop trying to be funny

Pascal's wager was really blown out of proportions as it was never meant to be an actual, rational argument to convince people to believe in God, but rather a response to his contemporary libertines and gamblers. His goal was to use their own logic against them rather than providing an all-encompassing proof that everyone should believe in god