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alex ,

All of France yep!

alex ,

In my city, we don't have a subway, but we have trains and tramways and buses (and my city's super flat and very bike-friendly). I haven't owned a car in 10 years. My partner sold their car this year because it took them more time to drive around than to take public transportation or their bike.

alex ,
  1. Yes but make it co-op. Bandcamp's business model led to poor HR practices during merges and acquisitions.
  2. I really don't think it would require a millionnaire, actually - it sounds like a project that wouldn't be super complex with a team of 3 or 4 people.
  3. I've seen people do similar things on Itch.io and on their own website so I don't think the barriers are really there!
  4. I love the idea :)
alex ,

They correspond to the larger eras in French economy.

  • Industrial revolution
  • Entre-deux-guerres, a period of strong urbanization and a huge push towards social housing. I suppose they included WW2 cause nothing was built there anyway.
  • 1946 to 1970 is "les trente glorieuses", the time of rebuilding everything, which means everyone had a job and could afford a house or apartment.
  • The oil crash in 1973 ushered in a more modern era, usually more left-wing after May 68 and with the election of Mitterrand in 1982.
  • The 1990 one is around when we elected a right-wing president and the public policies vastly changed.
  • 2005-2006 was starting to get tough because of oil again, I believe. It is also around the beginning of the US subprime crisis, of which the consequences affected us all too.
alex ,

Paris doesn't need new housing, it just needs to keep upgrading its existing apartments :)

Otherwise yes sounds right.

alex OP ,

Thanks I'll check out more of her work!

alex ,

Just started The daughter of Doctor Moreau yesterday.

Before that, Rana Joon and the one and only now was absolutely wonderful and I really recommend it.

alex ,

and has a PhD about it*

Fiction!

I've finally fallen in love with reading again over the last year. Problem is I've only been reading non-fiction. it makes my brain hurt. I'd like to have some stuff I can turn to when attempting to read gender trouble gives me another headache. I don't have any particular preference for genre. I used to read fantasy, historical...

alex ,

I have no recommendations but please know that Gender Trouble is actually a psyop book written only to melt the brain of people who attempt to read it (/s)

I just can't get my head around this monster of a book!

Any other greens feel under attack recently from democrats in the United States?

I'm voting green because if democracy is 'on the ballot' then I figure it's the choice I actually believe in and not just the slightly lesser of two evils. And so recently I feel targeted by democrats and its getting kind of weird and I was wondering if any other greens are experiencing the same thing in the US. I'm very open...

alex ,

Proud of you!

The US two-party system is such an aberration to me.

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I just found out that Humble Bundle has a book bundle for Terry Pratchett's Discworld. A 39 book bundle that is redeemed through Kobo.com.

Edit: Only available in the US.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-pratchetts-discworld-harpercollins-books

@books

alex ,

Isn't that just the metadata?

alex ,

I've checked out 38 books last year, and I'm not the only person who checks out books :) I also got a bunch of them from browsing shelves, not from looking for them specifically. Let's fight for more community spaces − if we have enough, libraries will be able to be actual libraries!

alex ,

As I said, I get a certain number of books (about one third) from perusing stacks. I am generally against « over optimization » in community spaces − I enjoy serendipitous discovery, finding out things exist while I'm there and stumble upon them, and would not spend that time on a computer. I do place holds on all the other books I get :)

alex ,

Poor Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden not even speaking their countries' languages :(

(One of the first things I learned when I joined the Localization industry was to never use a flag to represent a language!)

alex ,

What's the scale?

alex ,

Why was this posted in Brussels if it's about a French library?

alex ,

Being emotionally detached from really stupid leadership decisions is harder than it seems

alex ,

It's not supposed to be. It doesn't jam endless recommendations in your feed once you've gotten at the end of the new, fresh content. I feel like it's a feature, not a bug, to have platforms that don't optimise for time spent on them, because they don't need our attention to show us ads.

alex OP ,

Going through my Reddit archive to repost some of the content I'm happy with, sorry for the Reddit ref :)

alex ,

try to cure your burnout by waking up and starting work at 6am and passing out at 2am every single day for the rest of your life

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