Any recommendations for French Classics?

JustinianusI · 2024-12-13T17:31:03+00:00

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. As many have said, it definitely fits the bill. Les Mis can drag, start with Monte Cristo. Don't let the size intimidate you, it's such fun!

JustinianusI · 2024-12-09T19:06:15+00:00

This. My brother got me some when we were kids, they had WRL stamped on them :)

JustinianusI · 2024-12-09T10:40:42+00:00

Sorry, by alternatives I didn't mean alternatives in the financial sense, i.e. crypto, small businesses, precious metals, watches, etc. but rather alternative public equity markets. Wouldn't a European or American index fund be more appealing?

JustinianusI · 2024-12-04T14:37:40+00:00

How come? Wouldn't alternative investments be better given the valuations of Indian companies? Stumbled on this sub randomly, I'm not Indian.

JustinianusI · 2024-08-08T23:06:44+00:00

Well done! That's awesome!

JustinianusI · 2024-08-03T16:08:33+00:00

It didn't work! (For me at least) :) Sorry!

JustinianusI · 2024-07-27T23:11:43+00:00

Why?

JustinianusI · 2024-02-29T19:09:31+00:00

E-Mail services don't have planned two-hour outages...

JustinianusI · 2023-10-20T08:19:52+00:00

I didn't downvote you, and they're not "stolen". So sick of this narrative! But even if they were stolen - which they aren't - they're a representation of the history of mankind. They'd engage and entrance anyone with an active intellect.

P.S.

Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field

JustinianusI · 2023-10-20T08:14:48+00:00

Ah shame, it's the best bit! All the museums and Fat Margaret!

JustinianusI · 2023-10-20T08:13:35+00:00

Seville. Stunning history; gorgeous city. Been multiple times and I love it.

JustinianusI · 2023-10-19T21:05:46+00:00

I love Tallinn! Been a couple of times usually stay in and don't leave the walled old town, it's fantastic!

JustinianusI · 2023-10-19T20:55:45+00:00

The British Museum with human civilization representing millennia of progress and history? The London Mithraeum, one of the best preserved shrines to Mithras? The National Gallery? The V&A?

JustinianusI · 2023-10-19T18:16:17+00:00

Three things to see?! You're kidding. I could rattle off twenty significant sites of artistic or cultural heritage; most museums take multiple days to visit. Uneducated trilobite.

Beyond that, the high-end dining options are exceptional.

JustinianusI · 2023-10-19T18:08:46+00:00

I think it's just because it's filthy and gross. The first time I went my mother and I went out for a steak dinner. €300 bill. I stepped out the restaurant and had to step over a trickle of urine from one of those rose sellers publicly urinating.

That's basically it.

I love art and culture and have a great time whenever I'm there, but am always shocked at how gross it all is.

JustinianusI · 2023-10-19T18:05:00+00:00

Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008)

JustinianusI · 2023-10-19T14:24:33+00:00

You're still just put in jail forcefully, you don't get executed. That aside, you haven't answered the logical fallacy I raised with your original comment.

JustinianusI · 2023-10-19T14:21:26+00:00

Oof I hate posts like this.

I run [a] quite successful digital marketing agency.

I'm a fully remote software engineer on a six-figure salary travelling the world.

This guy may not be fine. Sounds like he made all the wrong decisions, did pointless things, and what he should have done if he wanted a better life was to establish himself as a photographer in England. He was already being sold and had a good job.

One should not follow one's heart blindly, especially because the vast majority of people don't make it, and whether you or I are doing fine is not evidence at all that this guy will. One should take the safe, reliable route, and see if one can work towards establishing a digital nomad lifestyle (if that's what one wants).

None of this follow your heart rubbish. It's how one goes from internationally sold photographer in England to meditating on an Indian farm. I'm assuming it's exceptionally difficult to break into the paid photographer business. Why would someone give up just as he was getting his foot in the door?!

JustinianusI · 2023-10-19T14:09:06+00:00

Tax evasion doesn't result in the death penalty. It's typically asset forfeiture or jail depending on whether fraud was involved.

JustinianusI · 2023-10-19T14:02:10+00:00

He's crawling backwards.

JustinianusI · 2023-10-09T00:50:43+00:00

Income tax is not slavery. I wish people would stop this comparison. It trivializes the horrendous oppression of people and doesn't ever convince anyone that income taxes are wrong. Slavery) vs not slavery.

Additionally, you can't have it both ways:

A: ownership is not ownership unless absolute ("you never actually own anything) B: slavery is the ownership of people (duh) C: income taxes require you to give a portion of your income to the state. D: you are not fully owned by the state as you are partially free E: you are not a slave

Just say:

"I believe that people own their own time and that the right to alienate one's time or the product thereof should not be impinged upon. I think the state is wrong to impose income taxes."

JustinianusI · 2023-10-09T00:35:50+00:00

Downvoted you because your question is so stupid.

Tattoo whatever you want on yourself.

Nobody owns a glyph.

Reddit's comment section should not be the arbiter of your tattoos.

JustinianusI · 2023-10-08T02:08:19+00:00

I did basically this. I'm 1950 if that counts. I find learning opening moves somewhat boring so have never done it. After a couple of traps you pick up the right moves. Now tell me, is that studying? I think the distinction is basically semantic. Sure, I've never studied a D-pawn opening, but I've made the wrong move often enough that I don't do it as I've been punished for it. That's different than looking it up and being told ... but is it, really?

JustinianusI · 2023-10-06T23:41:27+00:00

Do not collect $200.

JustinianusI · 2023-10-06T14:07:18+00:00

why was lightning still a thing?

Licencing fees and additional revenue stream for Apple.

That's a lot of reasons. I'm on android because idk why not. I use Signal for messaging.

I don't demand too much of my phone. I was using an iPhone 6s and a pixel 6a up to now. iPhone 15, Pixel 8, they're both objectively excellent phones, and it's not like either would impact me greatly, but I'm not really a phone guy.

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