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MarieMarion

@ MarieMarion @literature.cafe

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  • 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.

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    Lemmy is just a censorship platform for the weak

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  • And a space.

  • I broke my hip bone a month ago and have to be robocop for the rest of my life... Can't imagine the pain this person felt.

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  • Was.

  • Donald Trump sued over east wing demolition

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  • Read that as "the most suave president", and you didn't make a whole lot of sense.

  • When I wake up, I like to eat a great bowl of ________!

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  • Pretty low standards

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  • I see what you did. Nice.

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • Butting in to say: your post may be the help I needed to actively consider switching.

  • US Dollar Down 10% Since Trump Took Office — Paul Graham Warns 'You've Become Poorer' Without 11% Net Worth Gain

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  • As a French citizen it drives me nuts. Yes, my take-home pay looks low from a US perspective. But my 6 years at college/university were free, my monthly hospital stay for a chronic illness costs me exactly nothing, having a kid cost me around 100€, the way-too-expensive daycare was 400€ a month, Internet is like 15 a month...

  • Petit plaisir

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  • Moi je me suis fait une journée cuisine. C'était le pied.

    Ce matin j'ai préparé une grande plaque de caramel au beurre salé au poivre de Sichuan (du jardin) avec une petite croûte de chocolat hyper-noir. Ensuite un gratin de chou-fleur (du voisin) avec une bonne béchamel bien parfumée, pour le déjeuner.

    L'après-midi je suis allée chercher ma kombucha chez les voisins (elle fermente là-bas, il fait trop froid chez moi), mais elle n'était pas tout à fait prête. Je suis repartie avec des grains de kéfir. Puis j'ai fait des raviolis maison avec les œufs de la voisine, les épinards du jardin, et le fromage des chèvres d'un autre voisin.

    (Les raviolis étaient ratés : première fois que je faisais des pâtes. Trop épais, trop durs. Je suis preneuse de conseils s'il y en a.)

    Edit Je savais bien que j'oubliais qqch ! J'ai aussi fait 4 kilos de filling pour apple pies étatsuniennes. Premier essai. Comme c'était une recette US, c'était beaucoup trop sucré ; j'ai remplacé la moitié de l'eau par mon vinaigre de kombucha aux mûres, acidulé et parfumé. Le résultat est top. Jaipuka en faire 10 fois autant pour écluser les pommes à mesures qu'elles mûrissent, et on aura de quoi se régaler de pâtisseries jusqu'à la récolte de l'an prochain.

  • What's the deal with breakfast in bed?

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  • So :Yes, I wash up after breakfast anyway.

    No. I resent even having to go pee.

    I love not having to get up, saying toasty in bed (my house gets very cold 6 months a year--around 12C). Also, we tend to make better breakfasts in those cases. With a flower from the garden and everything.

    Additionally, in my 9 year old's case: since she was born, she had at least 80% of her breakfasts in bed. She likes to wake up slow, she reads for a while after waking up, and since she started middle school her days are hectic, so we pamper her that way. It's twenty minutes of comfort before she starts her 10-hour days.

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    Have you ever traveled outside of America? (Not to Canada or Mexico)

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  • Probably Syria. Lived there for some years (had to leave because of the Arab Spring.) Amazing people, fascinating culture, loved the language, the open-mindedness, the thriving art scene in Damascus, the sheer beauty of the architecture, the desert, the mountain, the oasis.Least favorite... Honestly, the US. I lived in DC for a year, moved back to Europe as soon as I could (and I could have gotten a Green Card). People were well-meaning and nice, but so fucking insular. Even the well-read, well-travelled, worldly people I knew honestly thought, at the end of the day, that their country was the best, almost by definition. Or... the one other countries had to measure up to.

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    Have you ever traveled outside of America? (Not to Canada or Mexico)

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  • Italy, Germany, the UK, Mexico, Iceland, Morocco, the US, Belgium, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Senegal, Switzerland, Denmark, Greece, Russia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands.

  • Do you have a strong opinion on the death penalty?

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  • I'd be against it even if we could magically know without a doubt the person's guilty. Even if it had a negative cost. Even for raping a child.Life is sacred, whatever "sacred" means for an atheist like me.(And I was raped as a child, fwiw.)

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  • I'm convinced it's much less straightforward than people here say it is.

    I hate Windows, but I only use my computer for OpenOffice, some liiiiight browsing, and old-school light pirating (light enough TPB fits all my needs), so meh.My new neighbor is an old leftist techie though, and when my 9 year old laptop dies, I may ask him to convert me. Maybe.

  • I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions)

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  • Yuuuuuup. Still wondering, tbh.

  • Totally owned!

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  • Ok but why? How? What kind of context makes the story work? I'm 6,000km away and now I'm invested.

  • Solid ash routed trivet

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  • I'm pretty sure it was a basic design at Ikea 10 or so years ago.

  • Philadelphia neighborhood group approves $25,000 to fight bike lanes

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  • Lived in Paris for 40 years: buses, sure, but sidewalks? buildings? Always thought it must be hell for chair users.