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@magicinthealps You said it, southern catholic Germany, not the weirdo Prussians that ended up winning the unification race. Norbert Elias’ « the Germans » still reigns suprems to understand this brand of autism.

France and Italy are considered 'romantic' by many Anglos, and for a good reason, with Lake Como, Cannes, Paris, Rome, Venice, Saint-Tropez often making the ideal backdrop for a Hollywood story between lovers. Yet the heart of European romanticism is Germany.

macroniste de la première heure, ce mec a passé 10 ans dans la majorité pour produire quoi?? une armée de fils à papa startupers sous perfusion publique élevés entre HEC, Saclay et Station F capables de vider la BPI et le CIR pour sortir 3 tulipes connectées & des gourdes en bambou connectées en wifi le même revient t’expliquer qu’il incarne l’avenir scientifique & industriel du pays ces gens n’ont honte de rien c’est terrible

@pika_nekopanda Tokugawa Ieyasu.

海外ニキへ質問です。 日本の有名人と言ったら最初に誰を思い浮かべますか？

@thedulab City got quite cleaned for the Olympics and the recent mayor election. Also, people forget easily it's one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and the spring weather really makes it shine.

Some personal observations. Everyone is generally friendly and open to conversation. Clean and well maintained public spaces. Occasional homeless sighting but rare. Zero mental illness on the subway. Didn’t see any pickpocket type stuff and felt completely safe walking at night Talked to a handful of everyday people too. Both transplants and natives, 20’s and 30’s working in retail, cafes, etc. Pleasantly fascinated by how positively they all spoke about their lives. Said they were paying ~$1k for a 1br apartment, up to $1.5k in the more posh and central areas. Despite the relatively lower salaries, common sentiment was “I love it here” and you could tell it was genuine Honestly such a life changing trip. Every stereotype turned out to be untrue. Definitely my new favorite European city by a mile and will surely be back often. Can’t wait to get home to NYC and continue the adventure Final comments. Boulangeries are top 3 greatest inventions of all time. Bastille is the best neighborhood to stay in. No tipping culture will be desperately missed. Hot people exude an entirely different aura here. You can just drink wine with friends outside of a tiny Le Marais bistro with Tame Impala’s End of Summer adorning the scene during a random weekday evening in the permanent underclass and nothing bad will happen

@learning_yohei Dans les grandes villes oui, évidemment à Paris! Cela se perd un peu, mais cela reste aussi un moyen de se distinguer. Seuls les italiens sont supérieurs.

日本からこんにちは🇯🇵👋 フランス人に質問があります🇫🇷🙋‍♀️ 多くの日本人はフランス人はお洒落だと思っています✨ 本当にフランス人はお洒落なのですか？🤭

@Softnessa_ Also, I hate to be that guy but there is quite a misogynistic element to it if everyone is exctatic when it's a blue cake. But there is another cultural aspect that I can't quite get into. Also, yeah, it's capitalistic and vulgar, indeed 100% American.

This French guy said he was invited to a gender reveal party in the US. He did not know what that was. He thought it was a confession of some kind. They cut a cake, and blue frosting came out, so everyone screamed. One woman cried. A man set off a small cannon in the backyard, and there was blue smoke. He said, "In France, you find out the gender at the doctor. You tell your mother. She says "ah bon." That is the party." It lasts four seconds. He stood in that backyard holding a plate of blue cake, covered in smoke, and realized he had never felt less French in his life.

Quel plaisir d'écouter Gaston Monnerville expliquer devant Angela Davis la différence fondamentale entre la France et les Etats-Unis ! Quel dommage que le suivisme américanolâtre de la gauche française l'empêche de voir ce trésor national qu'est l'universalisme républicain !

@regalstreak Bruh, I live in central Paris, you have no idea of what you just did to me. GF might leave me but totally worth it.

i accidentally discovered one of the coolest features on the internet the Wikipedia app has a "nearby" feature that shows wikipedia articles around your location! i opened it and instantly fell into a rabbit hole of random places, local history and weird things around me try it and tell me what shows up near you

@Benramine_ la meuf préfère faire des prêts usuriers plutôt que de faire une coloc ou de sortir du 11ème arrondissement hahahaha

perso je trouve que ce témoignage c’est vraiment une insulte aux étudiants vraiment en précarité

@interbellica I'm not the first one, but "le camp des saints" is really up there in terms of imediate ick and instant nazification, although it has never been more accurate, and it's also very well written. It's almost comical how opposite it is to the female logic.

What's the most hoe-scaring book you own?

@hearthkeeping Americans will do anything to avoid meeting people in real life. TLDR but you are right, and the solution is to create a healthy environment where you will meet like-minded people naturally.

dating is spiritually ugly and contrary to human dignity no matter how much virtue you imbue into the practice. the disgust we feel but rarely name is a burden on our souls if we’re merely open to it in a serious capacity. you repeatedly must evaluate others and be evaluated yourself like livestock. sensitive souls recognize this as a deeply wrong way of seeing people that only exists in dating and job interviews. however, the sane recognize it as unavoidable; it’s unwise to waste time or heartbreak on someone who doesn’t meet our bare minimum requirements for a spouse. measuring someone’s potential value in your life in such a black-and-white way—even though we know it’s necessary and important to exclude the too old, too young, those who don’t share our faith, the bums, the unstable, those with contradictory lifestyles, and so on—conjures images of culling farm animals for their various ailments and inadequacies. we don’t hate the runt rabbit or the cow that doesn’t produce milk, but what must be done must be done. every time we open up to someone we’re romantically involved with, we’re putting our worth on a scale for them to measure. are we hot enough to be worth tolerating our quirks? are we fun enough during the good times to make the bad times worth enduring? is the baggage worth unpacking together, or is it better to roll the dice and hope for a better one next dm slide? our infinite personhood with all of its complexity and depth is distilled into a subjective, simplified pro-con list that can be expressed and conveyed over a short period of time. who you are is what they perceive you to be. no matter how incomplete or inaccurate, that perception takes precedence over reality. when things end, as they do more often than they don’t, anything shared or built together is now supposed to be entirely meaningless. the connection, any understanding, the conversations, the jokes, the pleasant memories, the unique human being before you made in the image of God, all meant to be unceremoniously discarded like takeout you find a hair in. none of those things will ever be replaced or recovered because people aren’t objects we can order a different brand of with slightly different specifications off of amazon. regardless of the flaws that led to things not working out, all of the goodness we found in that person is gone from our lives forever. on top of that, you know that these things are all worthless to the only other person who experienced them, and that you and your wholeness, too, are metaphorically a corpse disposed of in a landfill. this is part of the curse, i think. dating didn’t exist in eden. in the same way we respond to the sufferings of toil and childbirth, we often either turn a blind eye the horribleness of it or reject the goodness of the intended positive outcome. i don’t believe that it’s healthy or otherwise beneficial to either ignore how inherently contrary to truth, beauty, charity, and goodness this is, or to opt out out solely for fear of suffering these humiliations.

@tintinades Ironiquement les profils au parcours les plus fulgurants sont soient très vites très haut comme Napoléon, ou frôlent l'indigence comme Staline ou le H. Le mélange entre détachement total et rien à perdre pousse certainement à faire de grandes choses.

Si vous avez l'impression de stagner dans votre vie, dites-vous qu'à trente ans, Staline était un veuf zonard qui vivait de petits boulots dans le Nord de l'Italie entre deux séjours en taule, et qui n'avait même pas encore trouvé son pseudo

Un des secrets du développement de l'Europe réside ici, dans ce petit coin de Bourgogne. Ca fait longtemps que je voulais parler du rôle fondamental qu'ont joué les moines bourguignons et l'abbaye de Cîteaux dans le décollage économique et technologique de l'Europe : (1/10)⤵️🧵

@peakybastard "random French film" and it's a classic masterpiece with two of the greatest actors of all time, and arguably one of the male icons of the century.

two years ago today i decided to watch a random french film about a pool and the rest is history

@Mizuferr @kae1enftbl_ It's true but French people are comnig hard to rip you apart, you don't attack the French goat like that.

@kae1enftbl_ Zinedine Zidane is the same as being named tralalero tralala

Zinedine Zidane is consensus coolest footballer name oat right

@archer_rs The great Clémenceau famously said : "England is a French colony that went sideways".

Considering what happened in 1066 should England be considered a colonial possession of France ?

Rubio: “If Europe won’t allow us to use our bases, we should close them down and remove our troops.” Europeans:

@Shirinsmit Start small talk with strangers in nice places like parks and coffeeshops.

what's a beginner hobby for someone just getting into being happy

In case anybody missed it, France is actively preparing for a post Pax Americana world. In the last 6 months: ∙ Aircraft carrier “France Libre”: 80,000-ton nuclear carrier, largest warship ever built in Europe announced, €10-12 billion ∙ Nuclear arsenal expansion: first warhead increase in 30+ years, stockpile size now classified, forward-basing on allied territory authorized ∙ European nuclear umbrella: “forward deterrence” doctrine with 8 partners (Germany, UK, Poland, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Denmark) ∙ UK-France nuclear pact: joint strategy consultations, joint submarine patrols, joint R&D since July 2025 ∙ 140 Rafale sold to India: 26 Rafale Marine ($7.5B, April 2025) + 114 Rafale for air force ($39B, cleared January 2026), largest Indian arms deal ever ∙ World’s 2nd largest arms exporter: 9.8% global share (SIPRI, March 2026), up 21%, replacing Russia ∙ Gold repatriation: 129 tonnes sold at the NY Fed, repurchased in Paris, entire 2,437-tonne reserve now in France, €12.8B profit ∙ €36B defense spending increase: budget to reach €64B by 2027, two years ahead of schedule ∙ Strait of Hormuz: leading EU escort mission, 19 of 23 major warships deployed to Mediterranean/Gulf. On April 3, a French-owned CMA CGM vessel became the first Western European ship to transit the strait since Iran closed it ∙ New SSBN “L’Invincible”: next-generation nuclear ballistic missile submarine announced ∙ JEWEL program: sovereign European space-based missile early warning system ∙ ELSA initiative: Franco-British-German long-range conventional strike missile program ∙ SAMP/T NG air defense: next-gen surface-to-air system, Denmark and Ukraine already buyers ∙ 14 EPR2 nuclear reactors planned: largest nuclear construction program in Western Europe ∙ Africa strategy reset: new Africa-France Summit in Nairobi, post-withdrawal from Sahel ∙ 2025 National Strategic Review: new strategic objective on scientific and technological sovereignty (AI, quantum, nuclear propulsion) Ready to lead Europe into a path of independence.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Vive la France, vive l’Europe

@celestialbe1ng My niche is being the Frenchest guy ever and going on museum dates, doing art/history lessons while visiting, and I must admit it works like a charm.

mansplaining is HOT actually. and before you start with the “uh it’s only hot when the guy is hot” nonsense, no, it’s hot when the guy is INTERESTING yesterday I listened to an old crippled colonel/ex-military man explain planes or engines to me for almost an hour after church. he then invited me to tea. had a great time and I think had he been 50 years younger I’d be smitten & swept off my feet ;) men on here will go out of their way to persuade everyone women only care about looks or money, but we actually care about AURA. but aura is hard to acquire so it’s easier to convince yourself you’re not popular with women because you weren’t born Brad Pitt or Jeff Bezos or whatever.