Don’t forget the crackers!

Well, there’s certainly a double entendre in chosing it as the name of a satellite, but it definitely comes from the name of tgat comic book character. Which itself is a play on asterisque (this symbol: *), which, of course, comes in turn from aster as you said.

His compagnon Obélix has a name which works on two levels: It can be seen as a play on obelisk (he is himself a sculptor of menhirs, which are vaguely similar to obelisks), but “obèle” is also the French word for the dagger symbol (†), which is an alternative to the asterisk.

You probably can unleash your special interest again without denying yourself.

I’m not trans (I think), but I do hyperfixate (probably on the spectrum, a shrink even said so but he wasn’t abilitated to do an official diagnosis), and I feel like one of the good things about hyperfixations is how they’re things outside of yourself, and how you feel about them isn’t too affected by how you feel about yourself or your immediate surrounding. I feel if I became a girl, my interest for my hyperfixations, including past ones would be one of the most consistent things about me, I wouldn’t feel the need to change or deny them even as I’d change everything else.

Sorry if my experience isn’t relevant tho, I may not understand every trans issue.

China tops US 😳

Reminded me of natethesnake.com

Do you mean in terms of population? In all the maps I see, Ansar Allah’s territory seems smaller, tho they do control the most densely populated zone…

I didn’t find the number of people in each zone, but I guess there does seem to be more Yemeni living under Ansar Allah’s rule.

Might be worth mentioning that this is Ansar Allah (aka the Houthi state), they don’t control most of Yemen.

It’s possible that your phone uses AI upscaling, yes. Upscaling an image means increasing the number of pixels, which involves guessing what color these pixels should be, and that’s often done with.AI. Like other generative AIs, it can be wrong and cause aberrations.

Shout! Shout!
Let it all out!
These are the things that you do without

You’re right in theory, but it’s Spez we’re talking about. I tend to consider that the following is a rational reaction to Spez preparing to take any action about anything in any context:

For the history podcasts, I listene to “The History of Rome” and “Revolutions”, both by Mike Duncan, and “The History of Byzantium” by Robien Pierson.

The woman reading fairy tails and books is Abitlate (she also has the youtube channel Abitfrank)

For the group of people chatting format, I have “The Deprogram”, which is a communist podcast about politics, and “Une invention sans avenir”, a podcast about cinema, which is in French.

The daily fiction one is “La chute de Lapinville”, also in French. And while I’m on the topic of French fiction podcats, " Les Donjons de Nahelbeuk" is of course a classic.

Shrek

Types of podcast I listen to:

• History podcasts (the best type)
• That one French daily fiction podcast about a fictional city that’s a mix of realistic and absurd
• A woman reads fairy tales and old novels
• A small group of people (always the same + tye occasional guest) discuss the one thing they’re all fascinated by, with a different thematic each day.

Aye, I got mixed up in the comments, genealogy, the seeds I talk about are in another comment to which I thought the parent comment was replying…

Some plants have seeds with little hooks to be disseminated by animals, that must be this.

As a French guy who’s spent a year in the US in my childhood, I can actually compare! That being said, I’ve also been in several schools in France and I can’t say the food has been uniformly good, there’s a lot of variation within schools of a same country (and that’s only public schools, I haven’t tried private ones). But while I can’t say that french school foods all tasted good (there were some I hated and some I loved), I can at least say they all looked like food and tried to be healthy and varied from one day to the next. It’s usually a small salad, a warm main dish that will usually have a meat, fish or omelette, some starch and some veggies, a dairy (cheese or yoghurt), a piece of bread, and a desert which is often a fruit. The actual taste changes a lot. Schools actually have a chef, but that doesn’t mean they cook everything from scratch, a lot of it can be unfrozen stuff delivered from various companies.

I just call everyone “comrade”.

Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text,

… with two exceptions

iniciary, seconduary, ternuary, foursh, fifsh, siksh, septembre, ocrobre, novembre, december, oncember, docember