Not French here, but it's a common tendency across many western countries. Public education means higher expenditure and some countries are choking with debt so they have to brutally cut funds (education and healthcare are the preferred target, with education being at the first place because consequences are not immediately visible). The problem is not the elites anyway, it's the rest of people letting them do it and justifying it. If their children will become cheap workforce, their parents will be to blame too.
There are other countries following the same path, enforcing draconian punishment towards environmental activists (labelled by the press as "ecological terrorists").
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Greetings to you, trash pandas and fellow creatures of the night! Finally the first release candidate of the application is out. From now on I'll be working only on bug fixes and enhancements towards the first stable release.
Depending on your feedback and the amount of work required, the stable release can be on mid-November or early December.
Thank you to all those who showed interest in the project and contributed so far with requests, reports, suggestions and encouragement.
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If anyone is willing to help with tests, bug reports, feature requests and general feedback, you're welcome as usual.
For next week's release, I'll be working on the migration to Lemmy 0.19 but if there is room for other forms of improvement, speak up! 🦝
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I've released a new version with the fixes (and some features) of the feedback I have received.
See you next week 🦝🦝🦝
It was worth it. It must remain for the memory of the posterity.
Just to make sure I do not annoy anyone with too many updates but at the same time every feedback contribution is valued and addressed in a timely manner, how often would you prefer new beta versions to be released?
So far I've gone with one every other day but that seems too much, maybe I should slow down a little bit and release just once (or twice) a week. What do you think? Please lemmy know in the comments.
OT: I'll be attending a conference this week so sorry if I can't answer quickly especially in the second half of the week.
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Hello to all trash pandas and fellow creatures of the night! This post is intended to both welcome you to this community and inform you that a new beta version of the app has been released.
If anyone wants to help by trying it out, report bugs, propose changes/features or anything, you're welcome.
Stay hungry (for trash) and be creative!
It was very popular in the 80s and 90s, indeed. With the new millennium it became slightly less "trendy" in favour of other "foreign-sounding" names. Trust me, Italians really like loans from foreign languages, even for peoples' given names. This often create a comic contrast with very Italian family names e.g. "Jennifer Fumagalli" or "Thomas Bongiovanni" which sound a little kitsch but it's also adorable.
You don't like a product? You don't buy it for you or for your kids as long as you materially provide for them. The company which sells it goes bankrupt and that's it. No need for prosecuting / banning by law the ideologies you don't like. As simple as that. Otherwise you are implicitly admitting you are wrong.
let's try a different one
I was wondering how much time would have passed before anything like this happened. The history of that part of Europe is so blood-soaked that one just has to scratch the surface a little bit to find ethnic cleansing crimes. Profiting of it for political propaganda is terrible, though.
The one about the "10-seconds rule" for sexual harassment generated a flood of ironic videos on TikTok and was in general received very badly by younger generations because the girl was "one of them" and they could relate. The other one is received with total indifference. Plus there's another: the son of the president of the Senate has been accused of rape and his father publicly declared that she was on drug/she waited 40 days to "remember" and sue the complaint so she is unreliable. All in a very short amount of time. To me it's a generational clash, unfortunately the younger don't have right to vote (and if they do they don't go voting) and the ones who rule are white/male chauvinists.
As an Italian, I feel truly ashamed. There is another case on the news in these days concerning the reduction of the sentence for a man who killed and torn to pieces his ex girlfriend due to "his being very affectionate but her being too libertine". What has gone wrong with this country?
The decision has been taken by a college of judges of the court (which is even worse than a single person).
As an Italian, that was indeed a good one! 😅😅😅 Sad but true, maybe people think to solve the problem like that here.
Totally agree. It's a tendency in all European countries: national healthcare is seen as public expenditure negatively affecting national balance, and private clinics are on the rise. Let's hope, at least, that taxes will be cut as well, otherwise we'll end up with a system that has the worst of the European model combined with the worst of the American one.
There have been several acquisitions in the meantime, that's true, but remembering the past helps not to be fooled again.
How strange, who would have guessed it... The timing is far from "perfect" though, national elections were last year. Maybe in next year's European elections some change will be visible.
Maybe he feels like some of those ancient Pharaohs who had the architects building their pyramids killed afterwards in order not to reveal anyone the inner secret passages.
Same here in Italy. We are ahead of the rest of Europe this time, due to having voted earlier last year. A word of warning: no matter how radical and extremist their claims are, once they take the seats in parliament they don't change anything. Here they came to the paradox of abrogating some laws of the previous government and reintroduce the very same measure with a different name. Only rhetorics will change (and not entirely for the good, unfortunately).
Am I the only one old enough to remember the 2006 deal between Microsoft and Novell? Now Red Hat is on the hot seat with everyone blaming and hating, I remember when Novell was in similar position in terms of community feeling betrayed.
Something had to be done and something is better than nothing, ignoring all red flags and continuing as if everything were fine (leaving problems to successors) is not an option any more.
Thank you for the clarification... Yes, it's the same in my country too. "Grip" is not the word I would use for the situation here, the Church does not enslave anyone nor it demand tithes on the harvest as in the Middle Ages any more, they too evolved! 😅
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Nothing rigorous or scientific, but an interesting test of mutual intelligibility between romance languages, considering Romanian has evolved separately from the other major and minor languages/dialects of southern and eastern Europe. I like that Iulian, the conductor of the experiment, chose mostly non-cognate words to make the game non trivial (except for the "greier"/"grillo" pair) and some of them had slavic origin (e.g. "mândrie" coming from old slavic "mondrŭ") which would have been unintelligible for the average Italian speaker.