MetaPhrastes

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[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Not French here, but it's a common tendency across many western countries. Public education means higher expenditure and some countries are choking with debt so they have to brutally cut funds (education and healthcare are the preferred target, with education being at the first place because consequences are not immediately visible). The problem is not the elites anyway, it's the rest of people letting them do it and justifying it. If their children will become cheap workforce, their parents will be to blame too.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

There are other countries following the same path, enforcing draconian punishment towards environmental activists (labelled by the press as "ecological terrorists").

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

That's strange, I made sure they are applied immediately and that they are persisted after every restart... uhm... looking into it further...

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

You can make it sticky by disabling the edge-to-edge option im settings but that's not what you are asking. And you are right, the change has been introduced recently starting with version 1.5.3.

A proper way to solve this would be to add another option if edge-to-edge display is enabled, to make it not completely transparent but with just some alpha.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Known issues so far:

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[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It was worth it. It must remain for the memory of the posterity.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was very popular in the 80s and 90s, indeed. With the new millennium it became slightly less "trendy" in favour of other "foreign-sounding" names. Trust me, Italians really like loans from foreign languages, even for peoples' given names. This often create a comic contrast with very Italian family names e.g. "Jennifer Fumagalli" or "Thomas Bongiovanni" which sound a little kitsch but it's also adorable.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't like a product? You don't buy it for you or for your kids as long as you materially provide for them. The company which sells it goes bankrupt and that's it. No need for prosecuting / banning by law the ideologies you don't like. As simple as that. Otherwise you are implicitly admitting you are wrong.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was wondering how much time would have passed before anything like this happened. The history of that part of Europe is so blood-soaked that one just has to scratch the surface a little bit to find ethnic cleansing crimes. Profiting of it for political propaganda is terrible, though.

 

Nothing rigorous or scientific, but an interesting test of mutual intelligibility between romance languages, considering Romanian has evolved separately from the other major and minor languages/dialects of southern and eastern Europe. I like that Iulian, the conductor of the experiment, chose mostly non-cognate words to make the game non trivial (except for the "greier"/"grillo" pair) and some of them had slavic origin (e.g. "mândrie" coming from old slavic "mondrŭ") which would have been unintelligible for the average Italian speaker.

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