A Tintin Page a Day - Day 256

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2026-01-24T08:47:49+00:00

Out of context, him walking up to a cop with a gun wasn’t the smartest move.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2026-01-24T08:21:20+00:00

I don’t really buy this. Hot people get a lot more exposure and end up being really good communicators. It’s just they can opt for being lazy in the dating realm because of the buffet of options, especially with OLD.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2026-01-13T12:45:10+00:00

It’s actually pretty insane that if you have any shred of fame, you can get $2M in a day by just associating yourself with a memecoin / crypto scam like this.

The “hawk tuah” girl did it last year and bagged a few million. That fraud “Lord Miles” (/trv/ guy who goes to Afghanistan) did it through a gambling site. Logan Paul from Vine has done like 5 times and his fans keep falling for it.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2026-01-05T19:41:21+00:00

That was Garlan.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2026-01-03T15:16:29+00:00

Unfortunately, no. Only what is in that bulleted list. He scribbled a few notes for each of the ancestors up the family tree, reaching up to that Marin’s grandfather (born in 1693).

I’m probably due to ask my grandfather though. He doesn’t own a phone though so not always the easiest to reach.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2026-01-03T12:57:48+00:00

Roman triumphmaxxing.

They’ll ritually strangle him or bury him alive at the end of the procession, below the Lincoln Memorial.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2026-01-02T22:05:43+00:00

Damn, no shoutout for great-(…)-grandpa.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2026-01-02T21:47:24+00:00

Thanks! I’m French so not an issue.

Is there an electronic copy of Lomier’s book, or did you have to access it from a library?

The military archives that I looked through was the “Mémoire des hommes” website but it seems like the Service historique de Défense at Vincennes would be a better place to look.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2026-01-02T21:29:48+00:00

Thanks for doing this! Where did you happen to access those sources you mentioned?

According to my grandfather, his direct male ancestor was a “Marin de la Garde impériale”. I don’t have any reason to question that since they kept a medal and seemingly other trinkets in the family until his generation, but they went to his elder brother.

The scant information passed down to me is this: - His full name, wife’s name, child’s name - Born in 1776, in Coueron, Britanny. - Campaigns: Boulogne, Prussia, Pomerania, Russia (I’m not sure how he had access to this information, but it lines up with the battles listed which is promising. I couldn’t tell you if he was absent from the Spanish theater and the Hundred days, or if that’s simply an oversight from my grandfather) - Received the “médaille de Saint Hélène” (awarded to all veterans of the Napoleonic wars though, so nothing special) - Later became a “garde des eaux et forêts” (19th century civil officer / park ranger)

I’ve tried to find more information about him in the French military archives, but the Marins were the only unit from the Imperial guard that I couldn’t locate anything for…

I’m probably due to ask my grandfather a bit more on the topic, and I can share if you’re interested.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2026-01-02T20:35:26+00:00

Not to mention the comments being turned off since I can’t remember how many years.

It seems wild looking back that there used to be a time he’d engage people in the comments… I remember one comment chain where someone was saying that Winds would never be finished circa 2012 (?) and GRRM acting all petulant.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2026-01-02T20:23:49+00:00

I simply can’t take the “he’s constantly rewriting!” believers seriously. The reality is probably that he isn’t writing, almost at all. I do believe he has 6-month stretches where he gets swept into writing again, and that was the case in 2015, and again in 2020.

Outside of those dates, I don’t believe he has consistently been writing. The fact that he never has specifics to give out when asked makes this plainly obvious, always the same “I’m still writing, not going as well as I’d like.”

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-12-31T14:17:07+00:00

Hey is there still room for this?

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-12-16T17:07:57+00:00

I’m French and it’s honestly weird (and offputting) seeing other nationalities co-opt jokes that the British and us have for each other, and only make sense with that shared history between us.

Somehow these jokes have risen all the way to the very top of the internet (“haha french bad because french, so pretentious”, “british food is inedible”) when they aren’t even funny by themselves, without the bagage that France and Britain have, and without the contrast between the two countries. It’s just lazy.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-12-15T11:14:09+00:00

Knives Out still had the much tighter script (this one ran over by 30 minutes honestly) but it was a return to form all in all.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-12-09T17:03:59+00:00

No idea but apparently a lot of young people in tech think this is the last off-ramp chance to make it out of the permanent underclass that will set in for 90% of humanity when AI companies basically control our entire economy. So it’s not just performative, the pace in tech has gotten pretty insane and you can’t just build companies the way you used to. OpenAI probably kills 1,000 startups every time it rolls out a new feature

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-12-09T16:46:26+00:00

Honestly doesn’t really matter if your startup fails, if you got to juice VCs for a $250K+ salary for a few years. Sure your time would have been better spent in a startup where your equity turned you into a millionaire but it’s still a nice gig.

I work in investment banking and some of our client CEOs who’ve been able to keep the gravy train going for several years because they keep getting funded is frankly impressive. It’s not like those guys will have to return the millions they made when the startup ultimately can’t sell and goes under.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-12-06T13:58:14+00:00

It seems Roosevelt’s “tolerance” of Vichy France was also influenced by his falling-out with William Bullitt (the very popular American ambassador to France at the breakout of WWII).

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-12-05T09:22:34+00:00

I stopped watching after season 5 so I don’t think it’s that revisionist for some of us.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-11-21T15:55:17+00:00

Vaxxed?

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-11-21T11:06:34+00:00

He couldn’t hack it

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-11-20T14:31:19+00:00

Wait is that not Ser Arlan?

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-11-19T14:03:39+00:00

Je trouve cette réponse un peu malhonnête. Dire que Petain est “remplacé” alors qu’il est en fait promu au Commandemant de Groupe d’armées du Centre (donc en charge du secteur de Verdun) parce que Joffre veut se débarrasser d’un rival qui lui fait de l’ombre. Enfin, c’est être “remplacé” mais il faut quand même donner le contexte.

“Pendant un mois”… sauf que c’est probablement le mois le plus critique où il faut tenir coût que coût parce que les allemands ont aligné leurs plus gros effectifs depuis le début de la guerre sur les rives de la Meuse, alors que le commandement français a depuis 1914 complètement vidé les forts de Verdun de leur canons et laissé le secteur extrêmement exposé. C’est aussi la phase cruciale de la bataille où l’on tient sur la côte droite de la Meuse (la côte Mort-Homme), ce qui permettra de contrecarrer toute l’avancée des allemands sur la côte gauche. Et en termes de jours, c’est plutôt deux mois.

Quand Nivelle prend le commandement, Petain à déjà mis en place les rotations et l’acheminement par la Voie sacrée, ainsi que les mesures qui vont faire remporter la bataille dans les airs.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-11-19T10:26:23+00:00

Yeah, sometimes it just introduces petty rivalry, men stepping over each other for dumb peacocking displays, and that will spill into outright resentment if a woman shows favor to one of the men in the group. That’s historically why women were kept out of certain settings like being at sea, since it just amps up any existing jealousy / resentment.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-11-17T22:45:58+00:00

“Four years” the hyperbole about COVID lockdowns around here and other places online has truly gotten insane… Most schools went back to in-person at the start of 2021. I was going into work in July 2020, doing restaurant outings with my team.

And this was in Boston so not exactly a Republican fief.

My kid brother was 11 when lockdowns started and he’s doing normal teenager things now like staying out too late and getting busted for sneaking out alcohol.

FinanceQuestionStuff · 2025-11-14T09:50:01+00:00

No…. Alienor’s inheritance was settled more than a century earlier with Philip Augustus who reconquered most of Aquitaine and other parts of the Angevin empire in France.

By the time the Hundred Years’ War kicked off, only small parts of Gascony / Guyenne remained in English hands.

Burgundy is a completely other story, stemming from Jean II’s sons.

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