French President Emmanuel Macron looked to cement his legacy, and take on political opponents, with the inauguration on Monday of a monument to the French language deep in far-right heartland....
“Inclusive” writing involves writing both masculine and feminine forms of words, separated by dots – for example “francais.e.s”.
The proposed law being debated by the Senate later Monday would ban such phrasing in education and all official texts, from work contracts to court documents to instruction manuals.
Macron appeared supportive, saying: “In this language, the neutral form is provided by the masculine. We don’t need to add dots in the middle of words to make it better understood.”
I’m sure this will vary for many people depending on their schools, where/when they were taught, and the like, so I’m interested to see what others’ experiences have been with this....
I remember having to do a research project in middle school. We all got shuffled into the computer lab to start researching a topic to ultimately write an essay or presentation or some such on. The problem for me was that I was kind of blindsided by it.
I all of a sudden had to not only learn how to use a scholarly database to find good information on a topic, but had to pick a topic as a preteen that was interesting and had information available to digest. I don’t remember what I ended up doing.
There were other instances of this in my pre-university education though that went better, with more constrained topics or scope.
Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don’t understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the...
I don’t think video games would be as big or as developed as a medium and hence as an industry without piracy. For every dollar “lost” because someone pirated instead of buying, there’s probably a greater factor of money “gained” from people gaining and maintaining interest in the medium. Maybe even especially for smaller games, the number of people introduced to the idea that indie titles can be really good, who play something they wouldn’t have if it meant foregoing a more reliable large title, and then go on to talk about it online, and maybe buy it themselves is a big factor in growing the audience for those games and the medium itself.
I also don’t believe in intellectual property as it stands today and believe in the end of capitalism and market economies as a necessary feature for human development, so hopefully the idea of piracy will be moot eventually.
I hope to make commercial games and while that would seemingly put me in conflict with pirates, I’m convinced that my attitude won’t change, for the reasons above.
Big fan of Krita as a painting program. You’ve gotta learn some different hotkeys and all that, but it’s better laid out and easier to learn than like, GIMP or Blender ime. Lots of good tutorials, plenty of free brushes, quite customizable. I really like its alpha-locking and groups as an alternative system to clipping masks.
Filing taxes in the US is a cruel and byzantine process. It’s fucked that the government has the resources and really the infrastructure to know what people owe, and will go through with finding out from time to time to determine if people are cheating, but all but requires them to use a private service to figure out what they owe first.
It’s not at all focused on multiplayer. Honestly, it’s probably super difficult to sink into the story if you’re playing with other people because there’s a ton of dialogue and that’s difficult if everyone’s not moving at the same pace. Multiplayer is probably intended for people who really want to invest a lot of time playing with a specific person. Single player is the primary way the game works.
China has grown more new forest cover than any nation on Earth (media.mas.to)
visualcapitalist.com/mapped-30-years-of-deforesta…
Macron opposes gender-inclusive spelling as he inaugurates language museum (www.france24.com)
French President Emmanuel Macron looked to cement his legacy, and take on political opponents, with the inauguration on Monday of a monument to the French language deep in far-right heartland....
Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says (euobserver.com)
Did your basic education (i.e. pre-college/university) cover proper research skills and media literacy?
I’m sure this will vary for many people depending on their schools, where/when they were taught, and the like, so I’m interested to see what others’ experiences have been with this....
Terraria devs condemn Unity, pledge $100k each to rival open-source engines and $1k a month going forward. (www.gamedeveloper.com)
Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?
Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don’t understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the...
Whats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try?
Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I’ve really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.
Starfield has been cracked (i.redd.it)
Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’ (www.theguardian.com)
What is an absurdity that has been normalized by society?
US approves potential $500m sale of military equipment to Taiwan (www.aljazeera.com)
Landlords should have to pay income tax on their rental properties regardless of whether they're rented out or not. (gothamist.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/12162...
What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you? (lemmy.ml)
Ikea (discuss.tchncs.de)
Abortion Snitching Is Already Sending People to Jail (msmagazine.com)
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared For 100,000 Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700,000 (www.forbes.com)