Ah yeah, I thought he was drafted. Thanks!

Thanks for reading more carefully than me!

I can’t find anything on Walter Hallstein and Adolf Heusinger being nazis or committing war crimes. Looks like the former was an academic drafted in the army and the latter a high-ranking officer who began his career before the nazis.

I get that Heusinger can be seen as complicit (he must have known for whom he worked and didn’t quit), but what about Hallstein?

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

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.

My views on spelling changed dramatically over time. I am able to spell very well (in French) so I used it for moral superiority.

Then I learned and realized that the French opaque, obtuse spelling system has been openly and admittedly designed for social elitism and discrimination. It’s less about intellect and more about education, i.e., privileges and social class. Mastery of a dumb, nonsensical spelling system is no intellectual feat, it’s a circus act.

English orthography is also dumb and nonsensical, but I guess this is due to the hybrid nature of the language and the lack of an Academy. But it’s also used by elitists for moral superiority, which I find hilarious.

Oh I am very aware and compassionate towards the dire state of mobility in the US. It’s just that you were dismissive of biking as if it had inherent insurmontable problems, whereas alternatives to cars are viable but have been suppressed politically.

Second point, it is not realistic to bike 3h one way to go to a far away park. But the question would be: does it make sense to go that far for a single day getaway? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have nice spaces in or around cities that people could go for an afternoon, but not expect to have true natural reserves commodified? People should have the right to accessible natural spaces, but the priority of reserves should be the nature, not the people. A massive presence of humans does damage.

Two common strawmen in favor of car dependency.

There are cheap electric bikes out there (at least much cheaper than a car). No need to be an athlete.

Disabled people are among those who suffer the most under car dependency. There should exist public transportation to go to parks for everyone, including disabled people.

Splitting a Helium atom would require energy, not release it. Up until iron, fusion releases energy. For larger atoms, it’s fission that releases energy.

That’s all according to the plan, isn’t it? It’s trying to catch small animals below the snow, I believe.

That’s true for nuclear DNA, but there’s genetic code outside of your nucleus, mitochondrial DNA, that you inherit 100% from your mother.

And that’s only talking DNA, but you’re more than your genetic code. All of the organelles, lipidic membrane, cytoplasm… was generated from the egg material.

We were mostly the egg.

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Francisco_Macías_Nguema

Sooo, why is the gf on a leash?

It’s a fourth-wall breaking game, a game whose characters are aware that they’re in a game. Their personalities, knowledge, and awareness change throughout the game and the consistency is limited to “pathes” that you take. The devs are playing with and making fun of the rules.

No idea. Maybe donations, fees from conventions, ad revenue…?

Damn I’m surprised you say that. I’m a native french speaker I’ve always thought that portuguese is a godsend. So fewer bullshit, so much more rational…

That’s exactly how it works right now with VDI. I’m using one at work.

This meme was taken as example to showcase GPT4 image input: https://i0.wp.com/chatgptplus.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/gpt-4-understands-images.png?w=1200&ssl=1

Honestly impressive!