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lautre@jlai.luto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the most poetic word in your language and why?17·2 days agoIn french: “Dépaysement”.
It’s the feeling a person gets when discovering a foreign country, a new culture. It’s usually used in a very positive manner.
lautre@jlai.luto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPOEnglish1·2 days agoYes, I’m using it as well. It works very well on android and Linux.
lautre@jlai.luto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.13·3 days agoYes, they are “less-lethal” but there are still hundreds of cases where people have been killed or permanently disabled because of these.
lautre@jlai.lutoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•There is no such thing as a vegetableEnglish4·3 days agoExactly, meaning that you get regular potatoes growing in the roots and tomatoes growing on top. You get both !
lautre@jlai.lutoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•There is no such thing as a vegetableEnglish25·4 days agoOn the other hand tomatoes and potatoes are the same family. You can even graft a tomato plant on top of a potato plant.
lautre@jlai.luto Technology@lemmy.world•Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.English5·4 days agoI don’t think so, I will definitely go back and do not wish to move permanently in another instance.
As others have said I think this instance has a strong base of dedicated users, it’s a “specialized” instance that has no equivalent.
lautre@jlai.luto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage?6·4 days agoIt’s the opposite for me. I don’t want the effect of alcohol, I just want a nice drink to complement my meal and is hard to find something that in neither sugary or alcoholic.
lautre@jlai.luto Atheist Memes@lemmy.world•Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it11·5 days agoThe physicist who first theorized the big bang in 1931 : Georges Lemaitre, was a Catholic priest.
The founder of the science of genetics, Gregor Mendel, was a Catholic abbot.
lautre@jlai.luto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is a movie that "looks like" it would suck, but actually is well written and acted and a good time?101·5 days agoMan Bites Dog (C’est arrivé près de chez vous)
A mockumentary made by student filmmakers. The plot is that they are doing a documentary following the life of a serial killer.
The dark humor of this movie is incredibly disturbing but it’s really a movie to watch.
The movie is available on archive.org : https://archive.org/details/man-bites-dog
lautre@jlai.luto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that if you are planning an outdoor event, you can check where the shade and shadows will fall on a given day and time3·5 days agoI used the tool when looking for a house to buy.
I was looking in a mountainous area so the amount of sun a house gets in winter can vary quite a lot. Even a few hundred meters can make a huge difference in some cases.
I really like the duduk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubg7AI81VsQ
The most well known piece is probably the gladiator music.
lautre@jlai.luto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont7·5 days agoAlso, in lot of cases you don’t even need it. When you live in the city center like that you can just walk 2 min to pick up your order.
I went to the casino with friends around 12 years ago. We agreed to get a few coins (around 20€ or so) at the beginning, play them and leave once we run out of coins.
Everyone lost their coins except me, I left with like 27€. It was the only time I went to the casino.
So now I can never go in a casino again ! I have a perfect record, I’ve always won against the casino and I intend to keep it this way my whole life.
The Nazi eugenics program was also strongly inspired by what the US was doing at the time.
It’s just that the Nazi went a bit too far, too obvious (and mainly they lost the war). It was one of the arguments of the defense in the Nuremberg trial that the German eugenics differed little from what was practiced in the US.