There’s been a meme going around America lately that we need to take some inspiration from our French cousins. But it sounds like they need to find some more of that fire themselves if this is the state of things (I’m also including the smoking ban the article mentions)
ZephyrXero
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Sounds like it’s time for the French to get French
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Kristi Noem said an immigrant threatened to kill Trump. The story quickly fell apartEnglish14·6 days agoIt probably helps that her lips themselves are literal lies too lol
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Kristi Noem said an immigrant threatened to kill Trump. The story quickly fell apartEnglish10·6 days agoFascism and corporatism go hand in hand
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Kristi Noem said an immigrant threatened to kill Trump. The story quickly fell apartEnglish6·6 days agoWho? Melania?
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Star Trek systems should use IPv6English1·9 days agoThey ended up skipping it and moving on to IPv7
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The end of the world in the hands of the AI is going to be because some ""clever"" rich guy will prompt it to replicate Skynet.English5·10 days agoI’ve always been far more afraid of the humans that will wield advanced AI for nefarious reasons, than the threat of a SkyNet like scenario ever playing out.
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•GOP Budget Would Make It Even Harder to Hold Trump Administration in ContemptEnglish7·13 days agoI’m starting to wonder if this budget bill will be seen through history as Trump’s Enabling Act. Or if it’s just a stepping stone
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Canada in talks with US about joining 'Golden Dome' planEnglish1·15 days agoI’m going off headlines. So maybe the reality has been distorted. But as a non-Canadian looking in this is how it’s been presented to us
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Canada in talks with US about joining 'Golden Dome' planEnglish42·16 days agoCarney just won for his anti-Trump stance. And now dude’s making deals with him just a couple weeks later.
Canadians, are you pissed off?
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Rep. Gerry Connolly, top Democrat on House Oversight Committee, dies at 75English2·16 days agoShe’s said in the past she’s no longer interested in it. I believe there was already a little back peddling a few weeks and she gave the impression she had moved on.
But she could always change her mind I suppose
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English3·16 days agoHow many 13 year old gen-Z do you know though? A fifteen year time band encompasses a lot of people (because these are just marketing tools in reality)
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English2·16 days agoThey gained their stranglehold from 20+ years of systematic takeover. The Tea Party became MAGA. It didn’t happen over night
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English62·16 days agoStatistically when you don’t vote, you are effectively voting Republican. When turn out is high Dems tend to win, and when it’s low the GOP wins.
Not voting is definitely not going to change anything
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.English4·16 days agoI know a number of Gen alpha kids. None of them use those phrases. They are Gen Z terms.
The oldest Gen Alpha kids are 11 and turning 12 this year
When I moved in with my partner her ex had left Amazon devices all over the house. And one of the first things I did was get rid of them all.
My phone and tablet are the only ones I’m willing to take a risk on, and I just have to hope they respects my permission settings. I have to actively press a button before Google Assistant starts listening.
But I have a ton of developer/tech friends that act so unworried about it all, usually Apple users primarily just like the author talks about smh
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.ml•LA Times reports that Palm Springs bomber had an account on Lemmy.worldEnglish910·16 days agoWow. Now there’s a bunch of people who should never have been born. Too bad they’ve gotta make it everyone else’s problem
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•We should name the recent stock market crash the Fool's FalloutEnglish6·21 days agoMy main prediction here is Trump and his crew will continue to ratchet up the authoritarianism. And when he starts invading other countries, the markets will react
ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldto science@lemmy.world•Separated at birth, identical twins raised in Korea and America found to have unusual differences in IQEnglish10·21 days agoThe article says 7 points is standard in twins. So this is over twice what is normally seen
Conde Nast didn’t make Reddit the front page of the Internet, the community did