[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

TIL it's the Latin word for jester

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't say it's surprisingly easy. It's possible, but it comes with substantial costs. Paris is throwing a ton of money at some of the solutions you've mentioned and the results are meager at best. Hopefully they'll improve as time goes on.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Give it a few years and a few more heat waves, all the people living in old buildings which are too expensive to insulate will be getting ac. There's no getting around the basic need for fresh air, no matter old habits and environmental costs. I'm sticking to ice packs and cold showers for now, don't know for how much longer though.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

As far as Paris is concerned, we're actually extremely ill-prepared for high heats. Parisians have the highest risk of heat-related death in Europe. Hardware stores are packed with AC units every summer now because people are forced to start using them. Luckily we've had terrible weather so far this summer, fingers crossed it stays that way.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

CNews, qui a été la première chaîne d’info de France le mois dernier pour la première fois

Eeeeeeeeh bah...

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair the supposed point of the snap elections is to make the far right seem impotent by forcing them into a divided government (which is already a terrifying "strategy": just give them the keys to the building and hope for the best?) They're just refusing to play that game. The fact that the president is playing around with the country's future like this is a fucking unconscionable disgrace.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thankfully they only last 10 minutes

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

No, you must always throw the other half away.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You've got the right idea though, PCR is usually necessary before electrophoresis in order to amplify the sample being tested so that it will give a legible result.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think probably all people dismiss what is obvious to them as not needing to be said, and for good reason: why overburden a conversation with obvious truths. Though given that we're all just apes with a superiority complex, we're probably entirely wrong about what's obvious or true 🙈

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I study linguistics and a lot of different languages, and what you said made me think of how the difficulty in learning a second language depends on how different it is to our native tongue, or how accents within our own language are difficult to understand depending on how different and unfamiliar they are to us. Yet people tend to insist that certain languages are 'simply' hard, and insist that unfamiliar grammar or pronunciation 'make no sense', no matter how many millions of people use them naturally since childhood. I think it's very difficult to imagine things which are instinctive to us being anything other than immanent truths about the universe, and anything contradicting those instincts feels wrong. What is familiar feels simple and obvious, difference feels complicated and somehow malicious; it's 'unnatural'. What is natural is ourself, everything else is crazy.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I CAME HERE TO WRITE THIS.

Wait. Didn't?

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