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MarieMarion

@ MarieMarion @literature.cafe

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  • TIL 95% of Americans don't get the minimum recommended amount of fiber

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  • Per person: I cook a head of cabbage, carrots, onions in butter+stock, and one sliced sausage. Several meals worth of tasty vegetables + a small, but sufficient, amount of protein.

    Slice zucchini, sauté in butter til tender, then grate Swiss cheese in cream, mix everything in casserole dish. Bake til golden.

    Halve a spaghetti squash, remove seeds, fill with small goat cheese mixed with plenty of precooked leafy greens. Top with nuts (I like sunflower, but anything goes) for a bit of crunch. Bake til tender.

    But I think I'm missing something here. Just eat vegetables, you'll get plenty of fiber.

  • What is this colour?

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  • In French, caca d'oie - "goose poo".

  • Jack White has spoken

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  • I'm 8000km away, but... isn't he getting worse? Not "his" politics, which have always been heinous. His mental state?

  • Jack White has spoken

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  • I'm so sorry I have to ask: the orange post is satire, right?

  • "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!"

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  • Please do. It's an amazing piece of art.

  • what's the best things to say at a counter protest of a drag show

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  • I for one am all ears. Please?

  • Empowered witches

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  • Thank. You.

  • I think I want to be polyamorous?

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  • Right now my husband of 15 years is 500km away with his girlfriend of 25 years. And I'm pissed because they're having sushi and there's no sushi restaurant around us. I want sushi.That's my latest poly story. I don't mind that he's having a romantic weekend with another woman (well, I'm happy for them), but I'm jealous of their dinner.

  • TÉMOIGNAGE. "En France, on peut faire 240 victimes et vivre sa vie tranquillement" : le calvaire de Sylvie, victime de soumission chimique par un haut fonctionnaire

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  • Pareil, mais à l'envers. Je veux dire que je minimisais, oui, mais c'est mon entourage qui m'a donné de la légitimité.

    Quand le merveilleux flics de la brigade des mineurs qui s'occupait de mon affaire s'est platement excusé des mois écoulés entre le signalement et le début de l'enquête, je lui ai répondu que je comprenais très bien, que dans la salle d'attente j'étais seule (très) adulte parmi 10 mômes/ ados et que je préférais qu'il s'occupe en priorité des victimes actuelles plutôt que d'un truc vieux de 20 ans.Il m'a regardée comme si j'avais deux têtes et a soufflé : "Madame, votre viol n'est pas moins important que les autres."

  • Why books haven't all been translated to every language by now?

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  • Literary translator here. An average-sized book takes 4 months to translate, and I bill around 12k€.90% of books don't sell enough copies for the publisher to recoup the costs. And that's books that have been picked amond hundreds because they're good and/or might sell.

    Additionally, you'd need armies of competent translators. It's a complex skill that takes years to hone. Who would do it?

  • This stupid system that everyone hates has been like this for decades

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  • And if you don't watch Stranger Things, you die.

  • Do you use a dishwasher or wash dishes by hand?

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  • Recently, I was house-sitting for friends, and the dishwasher broke. I had to pause it every few minutes to empty the water by hand. It amounted to 2 shallow oven dishes' worth of water. And not filled to the brim, either: I had to be able to bring them to the sink without spilling.It was a really, really small quantity of water.

  • Megyn Kelly suggests Epstein wasn't an 'actual pedophile' if victims went through puberty

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  • Nah, that was funny.

  • People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead?

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  • I never listen to music. When I'm running errands, I listen to the birds and the wind. I watch the leaves change colors. I chat with people I know by sight. I stop by stores I don't need anything from just to chat with the owners. I meet friends doing their shopping and we decide to go to see a play next weekend. I sit down at a terrasse to have coffee with my kid's former piano teacher. Think the movie Amelie, but in small-town France instead of Paris. I love my life.

  • democracy

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  • Churches? For real? Never occurred to me that was a possibility. Where are you from?

    In my neck of the woods it's city hall and schools. Public, secular buildings.

  • Anyone else is an constant state of fatigue and feeling ill?

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  • It means the age when 50% people are in menopause, and 50% aren't yet. It's often a better metric than the more common average, which is skewed by outliers.Like, in a country with 10 million people, 10 billionaires make the average income out of synch for the 9,999,9990 normal people. The average income in that country could be 100,000, but the mean income is 70,000. Much more representative of what life actually is for the population.

  • Anyone else is an constant state of fatigue and feeling ill?

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  • I'm in France, but I don't think I understand your question :)

  • Anyone else is an constant state of fatigue and feeling ill?

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  • In Western Europe, the MEDIAN age for menaupose is 51, and perimenaupose has a MEDIAN length of 7 years.She's not too young. She's very close to the median.

  • Is All Saints still very observed in your European country ? What do people do?

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  • France. It's a national bank holiday. It also falls during the 2-week-long fall school vacation. Older people tend to visit their loved ones' graves. Florists sell lots of those ugly flowers that are only for the dead (never can remember their name even in French, that's how ugly I find them.)

    The (usually...) long week-end is an opportunity for many people to visit friends or family.There's no special food, unlike Easter lamb or Christmas foie gras.

    In the last 2 decades Halloween became kind of a thing, with spooky shop windows, scary books on display at the public library and stuff, but I only get 0 or 1 group of trick-or-treaters every year. It's mostly an excuse for high-school and college student to party and get drunk.