No tantrum before she’s had her morning oatmeal frappucino!

Indeed, that was my thought as I replied above. Clearly that was like me saying Ovid had copied La Fontaine with his tales of animals…

Is it? Dammit that’s what I get for posting without checking. My Latin teacher would be… well, she wouldn’t surprised I fucked up. Probably even pleased I remembered her lessons from thirty five years ago.
Ah well, thanks for the correction.

Old skin is super thin and bruises easily, for starters. That’s gonna be a bitch to ink!

The Aeneid came before the Odyssey, so it wasn’t even an original take or anything!

What is this contraption it’s leaning against? Feels like a trap.

Just. Don’t. Roll.

I started going on the Net about 29 years ago and I’m not sure it was already around. But what I do know is that, to my great disappointment, the list has not grown with the years.

I prefer this regular reminder that they are a shower of incompetent wankers.

Every time I see those ridiculous “have another one!” ads, I’m happily reminded that, well, if that’s the best they can do with all the technology and the money they have, there is still hope.

More likely they have hard numbers saying that for most of their products this approach work, and why bother having a button letting people tell the algorithm they have something already? All that would do is expose them to fewer ads. And you never know, maybe one will eventually give in and buy another toilet seat just in case!

Whoops! Totally my mistake, thanks!

Literally me when visiting my mum and there are no visitors slippers*. I’ll just take whatever she has lying about and go downstairs to help her haha! I always thought I was being weird so it’s nice to see this post!

Fun fact, you can ignore everybody else and play Single Player Lemmy, if you really want. Kinda empty, though.

Eh, that agree with you. Like all those stupid POV or “No one” macros. Words have no meaning anymore :/

But I do have all the facts. And I find it amusing that someone wrote what appears to be the thoughts of, indeed, someone clueless about the whole thing.
Which, you would be surprised, happens quite often!
For instance my kids know Odysseus as Ulysse, in French. And so they have no idea that an “odyssée” is named after the king of Ithaca and his maritime adventures. It’s a mild joke about people knowing a word from one source and, seeing it appear somewhere else, assume a different relationship than what actually happened.

Like if someone discovered that Kleenex is a brand and exclaimed “Wow! I can’t believe they can just trademark an everyday word like that!”
Or, “OMG, I can’t believe Microsoft invented words ? Bill Gates is such a genius, OMG! But what did we call them in the past?! 🤯”

Go ahead try it.

✌️Go! Team Venture! ✌️

Funnily I don’t think I’ve heard Waterloo used that often, in French.
Berezina is more commonly heard as a “complete and utter fuck up of epic proportions”. It’s the most memorable defeat in the entire retreat from Russia, which itself was a complete disaster.

Waterloo was more of a swansong, since Napoléon had just come back to power after having abdicated, and he was hoping to prove he still had it. He did not.

The Frasiery. Nice.

I think just looking at the road network gives you fairly nice, clearly delineated areas.
Paris has got this concept of intra-muros (within the walls) and extra-muros and the limit of this area is the ring road around it. And if you look at your favourite map software you can see the 10km wide circle clear as day. Then one other ring further out (about 20km wide), then a third about 40km wide, a bit more patchy, the circle isn’t perfect or complete, but still the area is clear enough.

I believe you can see this growth ring structure too, if you look at London and probably a lot of other historic cities.

I write in Notepad++ then copy paste to WSL.