Ironically, Pierre du Résistance is one of the most bot-like username I’ve seen

Unless, hear me out, god is a golden retriever and needs to be reminded how much of a good boy He is

You should probably specify which country you’re from

To be fair this piece was written by a contributor unaffiliated to the journal

Thank you for that, my brain was stuck on “Chupacabra”

Very rough translation :

In the center : “How to enjoy the banana? (…and it will provide sweetness and exquisite consolations)”

From top left to top right : “At 18 yo … At 20 yo … At 23 yo”

From bottom left to bottom right : “From 30 to 35 yo … From 40 yo and above”

Too late, I’ve now gotten 20% more obnoxiously french

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

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

I always wonder what people doing this are expecting to happen in the minds of the rest of the audience. Do they really expect people to think “Wow, such an eloquent and well-thought comment, I’m sure glad I spent 10 minutes listening to this random guy instead of the actual expert I was here to listen to!” or are they just so oblivious that they don’t even consider that other people are in the room with actual questions to ask?

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!

Or do compare yourself to others and use that as motivation to get better. I started HEMA a few months ago and still suck at it, but training and sparring with people that are way better than me is what is giving me purpose as I keep thinking “Wow I can’t wait to get as good as them!”

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

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

I hate this so much