MetaPhrastes

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[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 4 points 9 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 9 months ago

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

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world to c/raccoonforlemmy@lemmy.world
 

Greetings to you, trash pandas and fellow creatures of the night! Finally the first release candidate of the application is out. From now on I'll be working only on bug fixes and enhancements towards the first stable release.

Depending on your feedback and the amount of work required, the stable release can be on mid-November or early December.

Thank you to all those who showed interest in the project and contributed so far with requests, reports, suggestions and encouragement.

 

If anyone is willing to help with tests, bug reports, feature requests and general feedback, you're welcome as usual.

For next week's release, I'll be working on the migration to Lemmy 0.19 but if there is room for other forms of improvement, speak up! 🦝

 

I've released a new version with the fixes (and some features) of the feedback I have received.

See you next week 🦝🦝🦝

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

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

 

Just to make sure I do not annoy anyone with too many updates but at the same time every feedback contribution is valued and addressed in a timely manner, how often would you prefer new beta versions to be released?

So far I've gone with one every other day but that seems too much, maybe I should slow down a little bit and release just once (or twice) a week. What do you think? Please lemmy know in the comments.

OT: I'll be attending a conference this week so sorry if I can't answer quickly especially in the second half of the week.

 

Hello to all trash pandas and fellow creatures of the night! This post is intended to both welcome you to this community and inform you that a new beta version of the app has been released.

If anyone wants to help by trying it out, report bugs, propose changes/features or anything, you're welcome.

Stay hungry (for trash) and be creative!

creative

[–] 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.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

The one about the "10-seconds rule" for sexual harassment generated a flood of ironic videos on TikTok and was in general received very badly by younger generations because the girl was "one of them" and they could relate. The other one is received with total indifference. Plus there's another: the son of the president of the Senate has been accused of rape and his father publicly declared that she was on drug/she waited 40 days to "remember" and sue the complaint so she is unreliable. All in a very short amount of time. To me it's a generational clash, unfortunately the younger don't have right to vote (and if they do they don't go voting) and the ones who rule are white/male chauvinists.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (11 children)

As an Italian, I feel truly ashamed. There is another case on the news in these days concerning the reduction of the sentence for a man who killed and torn to pieces his ex girlfriend due to "his being very affectionate but her being too libertine". What has gone wrong with this country?

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The decision has been taken by a college of judges of the court (which is even worse than a single person).

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

As an Italian, that was indeed a good one! 😅😅😅 Sad but true, maybe people think to solve the problem like that here.

 

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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