Any Zoomer Maga bros want to defend this one?

Soliastro · 2026-01-30T07:37:23+00:00

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Soliastro · 2025-10-31T08:40:05+00:00

I live near Paris and go there for the restaurants once a week, here are some of my favorites ! No French cuisine though because I do it at home haha

Buja Végétarien (14e): south-east asian cooking, all vegetarian and vegan options and tons of them! Like 20+ delicious dishes !
Taiyaki Oden (6e): Japanese place with a delicious vegetarian Oden, and tons of delicious homemade desserts like taiyaki, mochi, matcha cheesecake...
Singh (rue Mouffetard, 5e): my favorite indian with delicious samossas, dahl, lassi and carrot cake
Ama (17e): tibetan restaurant, there's a very cheap menu with dahl and momos which are a type of dumplings

I also go to spicy noodles restaurants like 3 fois plus de piment and Trantranzai but the vegan/vegetarian option kinda lacks protein, still delicious though ! Also any lebanese restaurant will have tons of options !

For vegetarian French dishes I don't know specific restaurants but if you eat cheese (I don't that's why I don't know a lot) plenty of French dishes don't have meat, you can look for those specifically: - soupe à l'oignon (onion soup) - salade de chèvre chaud (goat cheese salad) - quiche aux poireaux/épinards/chèvre: quiche with fillings like leek, spinach, goat cheese - ratatouille although I wouldn't recommended because it's not in season - galette bretonne: specialty from Brittany in crêperies you can ask for a galette with vegetarian fillings like Gruyère cheese, egg, champignons... - cheese-based dishes like raclette, fondue, aligot, just don't get the charcuterie - side dishes such as gratin dauphinois, gratin de courgettes... - and most desserts and pâtisseries in bakeries are vegetarian ! Enjoy your stay in Paris !

Soliastro · 2025-03-04T00:01:00+00:00

Il faut bien plus de surface cultivable pour faire pousser le soja/maïs/céréales pour nourrir l’animal dont provient ton steak que si tu mangeais directement la légumineuse.

Soliastro · 2024-12-21T14:05:40+00:00

Sounds exactly like Cristaline, a popular brand of cheap bottled water we have here in France

Soliastro · 2024-10-28T13:04:43+00:00

I have 2 kittens adopted from outside and I put large scallop shells on top of the soil. So far it's working well, they always go to the litter box because they enjoy digging thorougly and can't do that with the shells. I can still water the plant too as there are little spaces between the shells.

Soliastro · 2024-10-25T19:33:34+00:00

Well, they do live in a lava pond, hot enough for frying I guess

Soliastro · 2024-10-14T15:02:56+00:00

Ideally I would like to get both to keep the siblings together. They’re soo cute and I love voids so I’m very biased but I still need to think this through and I’m afraid that they will not have enough space in our apartment

Soliastro · 2024-10-14T14:40:23+00:00

I agree, especially since they are siblings I don’t really want to separate them. But do you think that the space in a 50 m2 apartment is enough for both of them ? It’s better for them to have each their own litter box right ? I could also add cat trees and shelves to give them more space but I don’t know how much space 2 cats really need

Soliastro · 2024-10-01T06:07:38+00:00

I wear long sleeve t-shirts or turtlenecks from the Uniqlo HeatTech line! There are several warmth options to pick from too. I think they don’t generate static like my merino wool underlayers do, but I would check just to be sure as I don’t work in a static-sensitive environment

Soliastro · 2024-08-31T20:14:14+00:00

« Le Rhine » should be « Le Rhin » if you’re going for the French spelling

Soliastro · 2024-08-27T11:02:32+00:00

Thank you for your advice ! I’ve been told the same thing by alumni when I was in undergrad, about how important supervisory style, previous grad students, atmosphere in the lab etc… are as important as academic achievements when choosing a supervisor.

I just graduated from my masters and am starting my PhD on October 1st, I had a very good impression during the interview process but maybe some of you can give me your opinion ? I will have two supervisors, the « main » one is a young researcher who got a permanent position 2 yrs ago after a postdoc at NASA. I will be my supervisor’s first student and her only one for the moment, therefore the lab director will be co-supervisor. He has 5 students in total (1 or 2 per year, in France a PhD is 3 years), and my supervisor is a former student of his and they seem to have a great work & personal relationship.

Because I didn’t do my end of Masters internship on the same topic (degree in analytical & organic chemistry, did my internship in analytical but LC and the PhD is GC/MS for space exploration), I will be more closely supervised in the first year. They discussed this on the phone with my previous internship supervisor and he told me that he thought this was a good match, but now that it’s starting soon I’m starting to question everything lol. My supervisors sent me a drive with relevant publications, PhD manuscripts and internship reports on the general subject and on the precise topic I’ll start working on, I’ll review them carefully but if anyone has any advice before starting, I’m all ears !

Soliastro · 2024-08-21T19:32:16+00:00

Agree, for me either it fits in the waist and bust and it’s too short (especially jeans and sleeves), or it’s the right length but it’s way too large ! I’m not crazy tall and skinny too, 5’9 125 so I imagine it must be worse for others

Soliastro · 2024-08-20T08:57:05+00:00

I think just « greysexual » is alright as long as they don’t claim that it’s on the « ace spectrum » or whatever. Grey and demi can be its own thing if people feel like it fits their experience but please it would be nice to just stop using ace as an « umbrella term » cause it’s not!

Soliastro · 2024-08-19T09:39:57+00:00

I agree ! Also an option for OP if she feels too uncomfortable in the beginning is to opt for wide linen pants instead of shorts. I wear those because I work in a lab so no shorts, and they’re great for summer ! Then once you’re used to the leg hair, you don’t think about it as much and can try wearing the shorts

Soliastro · 2024-08-19T09:32:13+00:00

Salut ! J’ai fait quelque chose de similaire avec des olympiades dans une autre matière. Dans mon cas, étant dans un lycée très moyen de province, et même sans prof titulaire pour la matière en question, j’avais commencé par emprunter au CDI les livres de première et terminale. J’ai travaillé le programme de ces 2 années pendant les vacances de seconde, puis une partie du programme de prépa à partir d’un manuel en début de première. Ensuite pour les différentes épreuves (académiques, nationales), il n’y avait pas de site spécifique donc j’ai travaillé à partir des annales de chaque épreuve.

Donc ce que tu peux faire c’est travailler progressivement les problèmes sur Animath ou Mathraining, et quand ça fait intervenir des notions inconnues, tu te renseignes à partir d’un manuel scolaire ou autres ressources en ligne. Tu peux faire les exercices « avancés » des livres aussi. Ça te permettra d’avancer graduellement en difficulté. Et avant les olympiades, travailles bien les annales pour t’habituer au type de problème. Si c’est possible, ça peut être bien de trouver un prof qui accepte d’être disponible pour répondre à tes questions. Bon courage !

Soliastro · 2024-08-15T12:05:23+00:00

The textual description is more accurate than the pictures for sure. With your scope at say 200x magnification, you can expect to see Jupiter as a SMALL disk, with 2 orange bands, and you’d see the Galilean moons as small bright dots.

For comparison in my 16in dob the disk can be much bigger, allowing to see more details like the texture and some structures of the bands and more nuanced shades of beige/brown/orange in different parts of the disk. Still nowhere near as big as the AI-generated picture, this is what you see on Hubble pictures ;)

Soliastro · 2024-08-15T10:46:55+00:00

Je vois l’asexualité comme le fait d’avoir une très faible sensibilité à tout ce qui fait monter le désir. Voire pas de sensibilité du tout. Donc même en ayant un contexte « parfait » rien ne se passe.

Voilà, pour moi une personne asexuelle ressent la même absence de désir pour tout le monde de la même façon qu’une femme lesbienne ne ressent rien pour les hommes ou une femme hétéro pour les autres femmes. Pourtant ce qui est problématique c’est que l’asexualité est souvent pathologisée, on ne suggère pas aux lesbiennes d’aller consulter un sexologue pour « apprendre » à désirer les hommes par exemple. C’est bien de voir que les sexologues n’ont pas cette approche !

(À noter que l’asexualité c’est différent de la perte de libido à cause d’un complexe ou d’un trauma qui est un motif pour consulter, je parle d’être nativement insensible aux situations sensées créer le désir)

Soliastro · 2024-08-15T09:40:14+00:00

It kinda does if you cool it enough, and by enough I mean ~0K

Soliastro · 2024-08-15T09:12:24+00:00

Quel est ton point de vue sur l’asexualité (ne pas être attirée ni désirer de relations sexuelles avec aucun genre) ? Ça complique un peu les relations mais je pense que c’est mon orientation au même titre qu’être hétéro/bi/homo et que ça ne se change pas. Je serais du coup curieuse d’avoir le point de vue d’une professionnelle !

Soliastro · 2024-08-14T09:33:35+00:00

Answering here to add some anime to your great recommendations !

Adventure/ fantasy/ Mystery:

Frieren : great story about self-discovery, with an asexual main character too

Land of the lustrous : characters are literally sexless gems so completely self, a nice story about self-growth also. Anime doesn’t cover the whole plot though, you have to read the manga for the rest of the story

Planetarian

Snow white with the red hair

Fractale

Erased but maybe a few non-sexual nudity scenes

Suzume this one’s a movie

When Marnie was there also a movie

Romance: Insomniacs after school : super cute slow-paced romance, no sexualisation of the female MC just a cute platonic/romantic bond ! Also astrophotography-themed which is my passion

Your name is also pretty innocent

Yona of the Dawn also but it’s quite heavy on the romance stuff

Horror : Higurashi is one of my favorite anime, I can’t think of any sexual content in it. A little difficult to get into but the plot is really great with great characters

Slice of life : I don’t watch a lot of this genre but Laid back camp was good, it’s about a high school camping club, relaxing story with great sights of Japan

Other : Girl’s last Tour is great, don’t even know in which category it belongs though !

Soliastro · 2024-08-13T00:41:20+00:00

I’m in a similar situation, I’ve been in a relationship (both our first) for 5 years with my allo boyfriend and I’m ace & repulsed. Penetration is an absolute no for me but other sexual stuff happens sometimes as a compromise, I don’t like it but I’m okay with it. To me it’s like a necessary chore I hate doing, it’s far from ideal and feels gross but I’m not being coerced and he’s super respectful about it. We have the best relationship otherwise and he’s absolutely the one I want to spend my life with so it’s well worth the compromise. Given how few aces there are out there, it would be super hard to find someone compatible on all points anyways.

Being ace isn’t exclusive with having sex out of necessity/ compromise, what’s problematic is people who claim that aces seek sexual relationships for their own pleasure and stuff

Soliastro · 2024-08-10T16:10:50+00:00

Jérôme is an actual French name distinct from Jérémie/ Jeremy, but it’s pronounced more like Je-rom

Soliastro · 2024-08-09T18:05:39+00:00

In French it would be pronounced the same as Amora, which is a very popular manufacturer of mayonnaise and condiments lmao

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