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MarieMarion

@ MarieMarion @literature.cafe

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  • democracy

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  • Churches? For real? Never occurred to me that was a possibility. Where are you from?

    In my neck of the woods it's city hall and schools. Public, secular buildings.

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    Lemmy is just a censorship platform for the weak

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  • And a space.

  • I broke my hip bone a month ago and have to be robocop for the rest of my life... Can't imagine the pain this person felt.

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  • Was.

  • Donald Trump sued over east wing demolition

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  • Read that as "the most suave president", and you didn't make a whole lot of sense.

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • Butting in to say: your post may be the help I needed to actively consider switching.

  • US Dollar Down 10% Since Trump Took Office — Paul Graham Warns 'You've Become Poorer' Without 11% Net Worth Gain

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  • As a French citizen it drives me nuts. Yes, my take-home pay looks low from a US perspective. But my 6 years at college/university were free, my monthly hospital stay for a chronic illness costs me exactly nothing, having a kid cost me around 100€, the way-too-expensive daycare was 400€ a month, Internet is like 15 a month...

  • What's the deal with breakfast in bed?

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  • So :Yes, I wash up after breakfast anyway.

    No. I resent even having to go pee.

    I love not having to get up, saying toasty in bed (my house gets very cold 6 months a year--around 12C). Also, we tend to make better breakfasts in those cases. With a flower from the garden and everything.

    Additionally, in my 9 year old's case: since she was born, she had at least 80% of her breakfasts in bed. She likes to wake up slow, she reads for a while after waking up, and since she started middle school her days are hectic, so we pamper her that way. It's twenty minutes of comfort before she starts her 10-hour days.

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    Have you ever traveled outside of America? (Not to Canada or Mexico)

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  • Probably Syria. Lived there for some years (had to leave because of the Arab Spring.) Amazing people, fascinating culture, loved the language, the open-mindedness, the thriving art scene in Damascus, the sheer beauty of the architecture, the desert, the mountain, the oasis.Least favorite... Honestly, the US. I lived in DC for a year, moved back to Europe as soon as I could (and I could have gotten a Green Card). People were well-meaning and nice, but so fucking insular. Even the well-read, well-travelled, worldly people I knew honestly thought, at the end of the day, that their country was the best, almost by definition. Or... the one other countries had to measure up to.

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    Have you ever traveled outside of America? (Not to Canada or Mexico)

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  • Italy, Germany, the UK, Mexico, Iceland, Morocco, the US, Belgium, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Senegal, Switzerland, Denmark, Greece, Russia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands.

  • Do you have a strong opinion on the death penalty?

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  • I'd be against it even if we could magically know without a doubt the person's guilty. Even if it had a negative cost. Even for raping a child.Life is sacred, whatever "sacred" means for an atheist like me.(And I was raped as a child, fwiw.)

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  • I'm convinced it's much less straightforward than people here say it is.

    I hate Windows, but I only use my computer for OpenOffice, some liiiiight browsing, and old-school light pirating (light enough TPB fits all my needs), so meh.My new neighbor is an old leftist techie though, and when my 9 year old laptop dies, I may ask him to convert me. Maybe.

  • I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions)

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  • Yuuuuuup. Still wondering, tbh.

  • Solid ash routed trivet

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  • I'm pretty sure it was a basic design at Ikea 10 or so years ago.

  • Philadelphia neighborhood group approves $25,000 to fight bike lanes

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  • Lived in Paris for 40 years: buses, sure, but sidewalks? buildings? Always thought it must be hell for chair users.

  • What are you doing to protect yourself?

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  • I put on my seatbelt. I vote very, very left. I drink very little alcohol. I cut off toxic people.

  • I will have my laptop and be available intermittently

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  • Some temps (students) for customer-service jobs, but mostly the work is passed on to colleagues and often... just not done. I used to work for a BtoB ad/communication agency, and August basically didn't count. "So, this will take 4 months. It's early June... Expect it early November."Out-of-office auto replies typically say: "I'll be away until [Three weeks later]. For emergencies, contact Colleague. Otherwise, I'll read your email as soon as I'm back at work and get back to you!"I actually took my vacation weeks in September, because August in the office was almost a vacation by itself. Everybody was gone, you were just holding the fort in case there was a fire or something.

  • What language courses did they have in your country’s schools?

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  • Everybody picked English as first or second foreign language. Most picked Spanish as second language, the best students (or kids from solidly middle-class families) picked German as a first language, to get into the "good" group. Latin was an elective for nerds, Geek for Über-nerds.

  • What language courses did they have in your country’s schools?

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  • My middle school had English, German, Spanish, Latin, Ancient Greek.

  • xkcd #3135: Sea Level

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  • I was reading Circe, by Madeline Miller, and on several pages some ancient Greeks wait for the tide to sail away, or watch the sea rising while waiting for Odysseus, and so on. Like, woman, did nobody notice at your publishing house?