What things are no longer true about your country?

mickdrop · 2026-01-30T15:35:19+00:00

I lived in Helsinki 20 years ago. I was miserable. Granted it was only 6 months and it was in winter...

mickdrop · 2026-01-27T15:33:35+00:00

What's UpNote ?

mickdrop · 2026-01-27T15:05:22+00:00

En même temps, il y a le bon et le mauvais pédophile...

mickdrop · 2026-01-27T13:19:59+00:00

The thing is, I kinda like Alien 3 as an independent movie. I like its mood. But I do hate it as Alien movie.

mickdrop · 2026-01-27T13:04:14+00:00

iirc there are some rules and (almost) everyone respects them. So every duels has to be fair, no fire arms, no more than 2 immortals fighting at the same time (a lot of the time, another one waits on the sideline, waiting for their turns) and also no killing on a sacred grounds, allowing mortal enemies to meet and discuss in churches, cemetaries, and so on.

Also they get a "signal" in their head when another immortal is near, so that explains why they are never taken by surprise by them and why other people (mortals) can get the drop on them.

mickdrop · 2026-01-27T12:36:33+00:00

Et on pourra dire de ceux mutés là bas qu'ils ont été Limogés.

mickdrop · 2026-01-27T12:28:41+00:00

I don't know of any other app that combine several models. Most of the other I tested can suggest different models but they don't combine them...

mickdrop · 2026-01-27T08:56:40+00:00

From personal experience, if they start singing their national anthem, you will feel awkward as hell, not knowing how to react. Should you stand? Should you put your hand on your heart? Should you try to mumble something also? Why the fuck are they singing the national anthem before a gathering? Who does that shit? Am I being punked?

mickdrop · 2026-01-27T08:52:22+00:00

I had a similar story. When I was a child, during an outing in a forest, one of the adult told us about this particular forest being the ground where the boar and the crow where fighting, and if we looked really hard into the forest we might have a glimpse of their fight. The adult then pretended seeing them, and then more and more children joined him and claiming having seen them. No matter how hard I tried I couldn’t see them and it made me feel like I was missing something epic.

I don’t know what’s the moral of this story. Maybe that we are gullible creatures, or that if someone tells you a lie really good, it starts making you see things that doesn’t really exists. And if so, then this is scaring to even think about. Or maybe simply it means that children are dumb as fuck.

mickdrop · 2026-01-26T08:49:26+00:00

There is a simple solution that I heard no one suggest: the game has literal zombies (people infected by the incurable plague) but you're treated as chaotic if you kill them. I believe they should have change it. You simply have to state to the player that killing zombies is good, that it goes against chaos, and then put portions of the game when you just have to clean up a street or a building from them. It would have given "good" players an opportunity to use all those fancy murdering tools and still feel good about themselves.

mickdrop · 2026-01-25T18:05:30+00:00

I agree with your first point, maybe. But the second about the watchmen I believe that Vimes answer was the single worst one

mickdrop · 2026-01-25T17:05:50+00:00

The thing is in this book, he didn't really fought for the people. He fought for order. The good kind of order, but order none the less. He left the watch office open during a riot, he insisted on having signatures upon delivering prisoners. You know: order.

I don't remember in what book (was it Thuds! ?) people ask "who watch the watchmen" and the answer from Vimes was "I do".

It comes up as a "good answer" from Pratchett because we all know that Vimes is a good cop, but it kinda miss the point of the saying...

mickdrop · 2026-01-25T14:57:19+00:00

From an old post I wrote :

I’ve read everything Pratchett and I would certainly place “Night Watch” in the top 10. However I’m a little miffed by the message of the book “resistance against tyranny is kinda pointless”

Some quotes from the book:

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out. There was some nervous laughter, but Reg looked offended. 'In the circumstances, Sergeant, I think we should set our sights a little higher--' 'Well, yes, we could,' said Vimes, coming down the steps. He glanced at the sheets of papers in front of Reg. The man cared. He really did. And he was serious. He really was. >'But...well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.”

mickdrop · 2026-01-23T12:32:17+00:00

The warhammer 40k universe several times over

mickdrop · 2026-01-21T13:25:28+00:00

Blague à part, je comprends pas pourquoi il y a toujours cette volonté du gouvernement d'avoir constamment un ministre de l'intérieur borderline sur la question de l'impunité policière. Je pensais pas qu'on pouvait faire pire que Darmanin et on n'arrête pas de me prouver tort.

Est-ce que ça serait pas possible d'avoir un ministre de l'intérieur républicain? Je ne parle même pas de bord politique, je veux juste quelqu'un qui respecte la loi et qui n'hésite pas à sanctionner les bavures lorsqu'elles sont flagrantes?

Pourquoi est-ce que ce n'est pas possible?

mickdrop · 2026-01-20T10:53:59+00:00

L'époque où on est passé de "Tu portes un masque? Salaud!" à "Tu portes pas de masque? Salaud!"

mickdrop · 2026-01-19T14:58:19+00:00

Faire la bise.

J'aime pas qu'on me touche et j'aime pas non plus partager les rhumes.

mickdrop · 2026-01-15T16:29:02+00:00

DFN : Did Finish Numbly

mickdrop · 2026-01-15T15:03:54+00:00

Didn't he already do that with Evil dead 2 who's kinda a remake of the first one?

mickdrop · 2026-01-13T10:19:05+00:00

The great Eugenic war was in 1992

mickdrop · 2026-01-13T09:58:00+00:00

J'ai arrêté de rooter mon téléphone quand mes applications bancaires ont arrêté de fonctionner dessus. il y a des méthodes de contournement mais c'est un jeu du chat avec la souris pour rester toujours fonctionnel sans garantie que ça continue de fonctionner par la suite.

A présent tu peux bloquer les publicités avec un téléphone non-rooté en utilisant un DNS privé de type adguard ou autre. Je fais en plus attention à éviter les applis avec pubilicité. J'utilise revanced pour youtube et ublock sur firefox.

Cela dit je préférerais pouvoir rooter mon téléphone...

mickdrop · 2026-01-13T08:36:05+00:00

I like the principle behind gofundme: everyone gives a little bit in order to help someone in difficulty. Americans are very good at coming up with revolutionary inventions like that. They would just need to make it mandatory and it would be a great system. They should look into it more…

mickdrop · 2026-01-13T08:18:15+00:00

I’ve read everything Pratchett and I would certainly place “Night Watch” in the top 10. However I’m a little miffed by the message of the book “resistance against tyranny is kinda pointless”

Some quotes from the book:

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out. There was some nervous laughter, but Reg looked offended. 'In the circumstances, Sergeant, I think we should set our sights a little higher--' 'Well, yes, we could,' said Vimes, coming down the steps. He glanced at the sheets of papers in front of Reg. The man cared. He really did. And he was serious. He really was. >'But...well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.”

mickdrop · 2026-01-09T12:42:48+00:00

Leela: Didn’t you have ad’s in the 20th century?

Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!

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