Balinares

joined 2 years ago
[–] Balinares@pawb.social 1 points 2 hours ago

There are a fair few countries with amazing food, yeah. Italy, to start with, without even leaving Europe, and yeah, I'm a huge fan of India and much of China in that respect too, particularly Sichuan cuisine.

This thread was however about France specifically, and your comment reads like a fairly gauche non-sequitur.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Sorry to disappoint. :) France really has had fashy inclinations for a long time, if we're being honest. A lot more people were plenty happy to have the Germans over in the 40s than pop media created afterward tended to willingly show. For some reason.

The food genuinely is great though.

There's no such thing as a utopia but there are definitely some countries that have their shit more closely together than others. So don't lose hope!

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 17 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

A ticket tracker and a wiki!

Else all the institutional knowledge about your software that your users are adding too vanishes forever into a black box. And that'd be a dang pity

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 31 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Alas, the same forces are at play in France too, they're just meeting a less favorable pre-existing terrain. But the billionaire-owned media have been carpet bombing the country with the message that holding the executive accountable is dictatorship, and Sarkozy is innocent and basically a saint, and this is all a conspiracy by the far-left judiciary, etc

And most people don't know better because knowing better takes exhausting amounts of paying attention, and little by little, the messaging is working.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe Macron should start selecting ministers from the parties that actually won the elections, for a change. If not getting his governments toppled repeatedly is the goal, that'd be a good start.

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 1 points 8 months ago

Chat, I don't feel this guy gets it.

(❤️)

(By which I mean, of course you could, same as you could replace any pronoun with one or several nouns, that being the entire deal with pro-nouns. We could but pronouns save us from having to do that.)

[–] Balinares@pawb.social 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My fav neopronoun by far:

Chat.