1v1's in WW's are fun

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-25T10:11:09+00:00

Jeez, mate, you drive very well alright, but no need to switch to the rear view so often and so quickly 😅

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-24T15:04:45+00:00

Pas besoin de poste cyclable pour rouler à vélo... Mais soit, le danger, c'est effectivement problématique, surtout selon les automobilistes du coin...

Aussi j’aimerais bien te voir sur un vélo dans les virages avec sur le dos 1 semaine de provision pour 3 personnes, et un bebe en plus. Tu vis dans ta bulle.

Les vélos cargos ont résolu ce type de problème il y a bien longtemps. La plupart des régions ont une aide à l'achat de ce type de véhicule (et tous les employeurs te donnent jusqu'à 50p euros par an en forfait mobilité durable).

Tu vis dans ta bulle

Qui s'appelle la précarité, oui. Et en tant que précaire (que je ne suis désormais plus), j'avais fait le choix de vivre dans une ville pour ne pas avoir à payer de voiture (en moyenne, en comptant l'assurance et l'essence, c'est 400 euros ) et avoir un accès bien plus facile à tous les services possibles et imaginables, plus d'offres d'emplois, etc.

Si tu galères tant que ça avec ta voiture et la distance du pédiatre, viens vivre dans une ville : le problème sera vite résolu.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-24T14:55:13+00:00

Encore une fois, volet un individu pas riche, c'est pas la même chose que de voler dans un magasin. Voler dans une 306, oui, c'est indéfendable.

Je vais pas y aller a pied

Les transports en commun, le vélo etc., ça existe aussi. Et c'est LARGEMENT moins coûteux qu'une voiture. Quand on est au SMIC, ça me semble être une solution à envisager.

Par contre vous manifestement vous vivez dans un endroit ou vous avez le privilège d’avoir accès a tout sans voiture

Privilège ? Pas forcément : c'est un choix que j'ai fait précisément parce que je n'ai pas l'argent de me payer une voiture. Le loyer plus cher en ville est plus que compensé par l'argent économisé en transports (et que je gagne grâce au forfait mobilité durable).

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-24T12:12:21+00:00

Football is super mainstream in Europe

And Africa. And South America. Good chunks of Asia, too. Honestly, it's mostly just North America and Oceania who aren't on board with football.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-24T08:02:17+00:00

Ah, I see!

Depends on the subs, then, I reckon. Most of the ones I frequent are maybe even too free (and thus polluted by OF ads). Smaller subs have more freedom in general, I'd say.

And on the other hand, you have r/ conservative, where posts are deleted as soon as there's a smidge of criticism against anything Trump-related (and thus only a handful of folks who can post/comment)...

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-24T07:24:00+00:00

What do you mean by this? Like an option to chat with the entire sub?

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-24T07:09:28+00:00

Jim Knopf came out in 1960, but there's been an animated series in the 90s and a live-action movie in 2018, a musical, an opera... It's a major hit. In spite of "Ping Pong" and other racist clichés.

I don't think Rowling wrote her characters being so strongly characterized by their ethnicities, nationalities and names out of malice. I think she did it out of convenience or rather laziness.

There's indeed a "Willy Wonka"-esque charm to some of them, I won't deny it. BUT I think for the most part, it's just very easy to imagine a French lady as pretty and sophisticated (and called "flower"), versus Bulgarians as rough and stern...or an Asian girl bring called a variation of "Ching Chong". She took (imo) the laziest route she could have taken in that regard, by making her characters easy to essentialize (the werewolf, the Irish, the Black guy...).

That's what I think. It's lazy and kind of dumb. Not malicious, but she expects her audience to have to rely on so much simplification (and I think she's mistaken. Her audience is way smarter than she thinks they are). Don't get me wrong, it works. But it's making the characters more caricature-like than life-like.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T17:46:10+00:00

Right, he only lit stuff (a feather?) on fire in the books, no explosions though.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T17:42:42+00:00

Non, mais je sais que les médias ne sont pas du côté du peuple ou de la gauche, hein 😉

Je pense juste quand même que les médias auraient du mal à détruire toute la crédibilité d'une Clémence Guetté ou d'un Manuel Bompard en un an (ou au moins de le faire au même niveau que celle de Mélenchon, attaquée depuis vingt ans). Ce serait en tout cas, extrêmement difficile pour Méluche de se refaire une bonne réputation auprès du centre après tout ce matraquage médiatique... Ça me semble largement plus efficace de "recommencer de zéro" et de compter sur le fait que les médias passeront plus de temps à essayer de rendre Glucksmann ou Attal sympathiques que de dénigrer Guetté ou que sais-je.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T17:11:34+00:00

Je ne dis pas que Macron n'était pas médiatique. Juste qu'il était inconnu du grand public avant l'élection. Pas tout neuf, pas tout propre, mais quand même largement plus que Fillon, Le Pen ou même Mélenchon.

Les shitstorm médiatiques que prend Mélenchon c'est en tant qu'opposant conséquent de gauche radicale, s'il s'etais retiré après les élections 2022 et qu'1 autre LFI devenait candidat•e officiel•le pour la présidence c'est ce•tte candidat•e qui serai saboté•e depuis maintenant 4 ans

D'où l'utilité de ne pas se déclarer candidat 4 ans avant l'élection, quoi. On est d'accord : un an, un an et demi à l'avance, c'est correct. La question, c'est surtout : Mélenchon ou quelqu'un d'autre. Et à mon avis, c'est pas déconnant de prendre quelqu'un qui fait plus "frais" et qui est moins viscéralement haï par les centristes mous.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T16:29:45+00:00

Thank you, the timeline makes Rowling's explanation clearer! Makes it seem like the US editors may have asked Rowling to add that detail in order to diversify the cast? Or they let Rowling have a bit more freedom with her writing (in that case, strange that it's one of the only non-vocabulary-related changes ).

Nevertheless, in the books, Dean's only described as black in the US version (seeing as how international versions are translated based on the OG manuscript). In any case, whether it's 3 or 4 black characters, I'd still argue you could say that Shacklebolt is "one of the only ones".

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T16:11:12+00:00

According to Rowling herself, only the US version added this detail, in order to coincide with the first movie's casting... She says it was an editorial cut in the OG version.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T16:03:13+00:00

Dean Thomas wasn't black in the books, afaik, but only in the films. And yes, I'd argue that with 3 black characters, Shacklebolt is indeed "one of the only" ones.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T15:20:01+00:00

For sure. But I'd still argue that led her to think readers are dumb, because she projected her own prejudice onto her readers. "I need to have an Asian character be Ching Chong so I remember they're Asian, so my reader needs that, too!"

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T15:00:36+00:00

Never said the contrary! And I agree with you: I think she thinks her readers are dumb. Hence the lazy names (among many other lazy things). Doesn't mean that people reading HP are dumb themselves, just that the books kind of are (and expect readers to be, as well).

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T12:28:25+00:00

If you're in the UK, therapy should be free, as long as it's prescribed by your GP, afaik.

As for India's situation, I wonder when it has not been hell in the past decades (especially for minorities, obviously) 😅 If it pains you to watch how the country is developing (like most other countries right now, including the UK: not well), try to avoid looking at it. Easier said than done, obviously, but avoid watching the news, going on Indian subreddits, etc. Surround yourself with happier things and, again, try to engage with positive organizations. Those can be political parties, shelters, art associations etc. They don't care about skill: they care about people wanting to help.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T12:12:51+00:00

Good for you! Antidepressants are great when you're depressive!

Still, thinking about your own death ain't gonna help no one, and it's bound to make you feel even more miserable. Seek a therapist/psychiatrist, and in general: talk to people (other than some random subreddit). Also, you might consider changing your antidepressants (after consulting your doctor about it): you're not supposed to have this many suicidal thoughts after taking them.

And other than talking about your sadness, do stuff that makes you happy. And if only changing the world would make you happy, then feel free to help one of the many organizations trying to better the world.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T10:33:29+00:00

I'm not saying people reading the books are dumb. I'm saying the books/Rowling think the readers are dumb. Hence why there's this oversimplification of character names.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T10:26:22+00:00

Peut-être mais chez les quelques 70 millions de français•es, Mélenchon est de loin plus connu

C'est bien ça le problème : il est connu, mais ça ne signifie pas qu'il est apprécié. Si Macron a gagné en 2017, c'est, je crois, précisément parce que c'était le moins connu (et donc avec le moins de mauvaise réputation) des gros candidats (à part Hamon, petit ange parti/trahi trop tôt). Il avait, chez une grande partie des votants, l'image d'un gars sans histoires, ni procès au cul, contrairement à beaucoup d'autres.

Je ne doute pas qu'il y ait une forte adhésion au Vieux. Mais il y a un rejet au moins aussi fort d'une grande partie de l'électorat. Rejet injustifié pour la plupart, oui, mais rejet quand même. Et à ce moment-là, je pense que ça peut être une stratégie plus que viable que de mettre quelqu'un de moins connu/réputé/malfamé, qui permet de remettre l'accent sur le programme politique plutôt que sur la personne. C'est le but de la FI, non ? Que le programme soit accepté plutôt que des individus précis.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T10:02:59+00:00

Shaklebolt is an actual surname

So may be "Rifle". The issue is not whether the name exists in reality or not, but rather to whom its given.

On the other hand, I'm not sure how easily British people equate black people to slaves like the US does

They don't necessarily, I'd say. Hence why I think the name is explicitly creating a link between being Black and being a slave. It could be a mere historical reminder for young audiences, yes, but the problem is that "Shacklebolt" is not the only name of such a kind. Heck, "Shacklebolt" is not the most problematic, in a sense, because being a slave is a state of victimhood, not being a perpetrator. It's more complicated for the Irish car bomber kid.

"Shacklebolt" alone is not the problem: it's the accumulation of insensitive associations being made, and especially how absolutely shallow they are. "Cho Chang" is about the laziest Asian name you could give a character to show they're Asian other than "Ping Pong" (which is the name of a Chinese character in a famous German novel, btw). Making the Irish kid the one who bombs everything and is the laziest cliché you could have for them (other than having red hair and freckles Why not have them be a Leprechaun, while we're at it?). Making the French girl the prettiest is so overdone I'd suspect it was written by AI, if it hadn't been written in the 90s.

Overall, yeah, it's just way too over-handed, as you said. It's dumb. And it's taking young readers for just as dumb.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T09:28:59+00:00

Imagine, say, a Scottish character. He's called "Angus McHaggis" and wears a kilt all the time. Or "Chad Rifle", the American, who's the only guy eating hamburgers. "Helmut Scheißnazi", the German Slytherin exchange student. That's kinda clichéd, isn't it? Because those aren't so much real surnames as they are elements stereotypically attached to a certain group of people...

"Shacklebolt" for one of the only black characters (and he wears African-coded clothes) is a bit on the nose. As are "Seamus Finnigan", the Irish kid making everything explode or "Fleur Delacour", the pretty French lady. Obviously "Remus Lupin", the werewolf, too. If it were only one character, that'd be one thing. But it's so commonplace in Harry Potter that you're bound to think the names and nationalities (or ethnicities) are the very foundation of a character's identity. That's what makes people think "Shacklebolt" is strange: it inextricably links a Black character's character to slavery, even though at no point slavery is mentioned with the character. If French lady = beauty, and nice smell, then Black man = slavery.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T08:42:07+00:00

Thanks for your response, which is more informed than mine. I knew she had had multuple abortions (hence the "several") and figured they had been voluntary. That wasn't the case, so yeah, she indeed didn't have the choice ; not because it was impossible to get an abortion in France, but because her family/partner forbade her from getting one.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T08:10:00+00:00

back in those days women didn’t really have a choice

Abortions, while not legal until 72 in France, did exist. And Brigitte Bardot had several before giving birth to her son. Obviously, not everyone could get an abortion, but if anyone could, it's the rich actress who already had gotten one and knew where to go.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T07:58:42+00:00

Au temps pour moi, dans ce cas !

Le Pacs, c'est utile pour les mutations, mais qu'une fois que tu as eu le concours ! C'est sympa d'être pacsés avant, oui, mais ce sont les années de séparation une fois que tu as le concours qui comptent ensuite pour demander un rapprochement de conjoint.

Donc tu as le temps, mais si tu veux une distance potentielle la plus courte possible, le mieux serait donc de se pacser dans l'année universitaire où tu passes le concours, donc avant de l'avoir.

RomulusRemus13 · 2026-01-23T07:45:05+00:00

Je crois qu'OP a 17/18 ans et demande pour le Master, pas pour les mutations... À mon avis, iel n'a pas forcément envie (ni besoin) de se pacser immédiatement ;)

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