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Ghjancarlu Simeoni

@diankarlu

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Bastia, Corsica Katılım Aralık 2010
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MRJB 🇬🇧🇨🇦
MRJB 🇬🇧🇨🇦@DrMichaelBonner·
Second and FINAL round of proof-editing has begun! Pre-order The Crisis of Liberalism: The Origin and Destiny of Freedom now!
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Antonio
Antonio@antonio_cat_·
"In other words, over the long term, the investments that constitute the foundations of capitalism appreciate, with certainty, at a rate exceeding the rate of inflation. Put differently, they always carry a premium over new money creation, which itself exists to serve and sustain those assets. If this ever ceases to be true, one is no longer living in a capitalist society. [...] But in capitalism, technology isn’t just another sector — it’s the system’s final setup. The fate of capitalism is technological not because of ideology or randomness, but because of its premises. At the last stage, the tech sector embodies the giant shift. Profits no longer come mainly from producing things, but from building networks — from creating the systems that connect people, data, and services. The network effect, where value feeds on connection itself, has become the ultimate lever of capitalism." Read the full article (in the comments):
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Porkchop Express
Porkchop Express@Porkchop_EXP·
You will never guess what this is a reply to
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Cesari.Saintpierre2B
Cesari.Saintpierre2B@saintpierre2b·
@diankarlu C’est tellement mieux de se victimiser. Et puis ça fait croire aux simplets que c’est la faute des autres
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Ghjancarlu Simeoni
Ghjancarlu Simeoni@diankarlu·
2025, la Corse, objet de fantasmes français. Il y a 30 ans, les Corses étaient plutôt les "arabes qui ont eu la flemme de nager jusqu'à Marseille".
Le JDD@leJDD

.@PascalPraud : «La Corse, un monde à part» Cinquante ans après l’assaut contre les autonomistes d’Aléria, l’autonomie de l’île reste un serpent de mer, mais la Corse offre à ses visiteurs un délicieux aperçu des années 1970. 🔗 Chronique : ow.ly/ffuE50WLf08

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Ghjancarlu Simeoni
Ghjancarlu Simeoni@diankarlu·
@Porkchop_EXP Very curious about your sugar-free journey, I ponder your message while helping myself to another spoonful of homemade wild blackberry jelly.
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Porkchop Express@Porkchop_EXP·
In reality, this is not rocket science. It’s just indigestible fiber glued together with gelatin, flavored with bourbon vanilla and sweetened with monk fruit. And it feels and tastes almost like a regular marshmallow. It’s a Godsend for the sugar-free martyrs, yet apparently no one else in the entire western world produces this.
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Porkchop Express@Porkchop_EXP·
After months of SUFFERING without sugar, I am now dipping my all-natural, fiber-packed, no-sugar marshmallows sweetened only with monk fruit into same quality Nutella-like chocolate hazelnut spread, both made in California. Incredible things are happening in California. No wonder they think they can colonize Mars.
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Since I’ve been on a sugar-free diet I can get snacks and junk food alternatives made with *clean natural ingredients* and safe natural sweeteners from American producers only (on iHerb). Even the best “cleanest” European producers use cheaper sweeteners or have a small range of products. America might have lower quality food en masse, but for niche health segments it has far better options than Europe.

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Ghjancarlu Simeoni
Ghjancarlu Simeoni@diankarlu·
@ScottRCarpenter Glad you felt the hospitality. Being a very different civilization beforehand, Corsica is still not completly Frenchified despite 256 years of very active (brutal at times) integration. But today, French people are flooding in for the very reasons you're mentioning (4-5k p.a.)
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Scott Carpenter 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Just came back from Europe. A few take aways. The big cities in mainland France are shitholes. We went to Marseille. It was dirty, it stunk like rotting garbage and we kept getting warnings from our phone that we were in danger based on our location on the GPS. Based on what I saw I don’t think it was lying. Corsica is beautiful. For lack of a better term the Corsicans are very nationalist (even though they’re technically French) and proud of their culture and heritage. And while they have no tolerance for foreigners trying to impose their culture on them they are at the same time friendly and hospitable. The island is clean and the infrastructure is well maintained. The villages, towns and small cities are all quite beautiful. I wouldn’t go back to mainland France but I’d go back to Corsica in a heartbeat. We spent quite a bit of time in Northern England and Wales. Manchester is dirty and needs a facelift. But the small towns and cities are generally well kept, friendly and interesting. We spent most of our time touring those areas and the countryside. The English and Welsh people were by and large friendly, welcoming and hospitable as well. I can’t wait to go back and see more. Almost without exception none of the Europeans could tell whether I was Canadian or American based on my speech/accent and just assumed I was American. Makes sense since I can’t tell the difference between an Aussie and a Kiwi by accent unless both are speaking to me at the same time. They are also, by and large, completely unaware of and unconcerned with North American politics and the current relationship between Canada and the US. They have their own problems and are not concerned with ours. Culturally, we have very little in common with the European people as compared to our southern neighbours (and that goes for the English as well). We don’t sound like them, we don’t live like them and we don’t work like them. Conversely we sound like Americans, look like Americans, dress like them, drive the same vehicles, consume the same entertainment and share an economy that’s almost completely intertwined. We will never have this close of a relationship with the EU. Even though by and large they’re nice decent people the geography and the language and cultural barriers are too wide to create a greater economic alliance. The EU is not going to rescue Canada from its dispute with the US. We would do well to look more closely at what we share in common with our southern neighbours and start mending fences. If we don’t we’re going to end up very alone. And very broke.
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Porkchop Express
Porkchop Express@Porkchop_EXP·
Not to mention the fundamental unseriousness of laws against “insults”, it’s also not normal to have laws against “hate speech” - because inevitably what counts as “hate” will be defined by the government and politicians, to silence opposition and criticism. It is not normal when the law allows a sitting prime minister, in Germany’s case Habeck - to file hundreds of criminal complaints against online insults. Nothing about this is normal or good or should be accepted as a reasonable legal compromise to temper “bad” speech. Freedom of speech per definition exists to protect “bad” speech, “good” speech doesn’t need protection.
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Porkchop Express
Porkchop Express@Porkchop_EXP·
Western Europeans are dangerously blasé about their highly compromised freedom of speech because having lived in mostly prosperous and stable societies they never learned on their skin what losing it means. Germany is a weird exception to this - having lived through Nazism and now having some of the most draconian speech laws - and that’s because in their autism they can only eradicate one excess with another excess.
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Ghjancarlu Simeoni
Ghjancarlu Simeoni@diankarlu·
@Porkchop_EXP All retail borrowers are collateralized. Merchants, small entrepreneurs etc. heavily most of the time (mortgage, personal guarantee...).
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Porkchop Express
Porkchop Express@Porkchop_EXP·
The expectation that a young family should be able live in their own separate housing that they should be able afford with their own income is ABSOLUTELY UNPRECEDENTED from a historic point of view. The idea of a mortgaged home paid over future decades is a very recent phenomenon - a western world post war boom economic luxury, not a historic standard, never has been. Historically, young families have either lived with their parents, or in housing provided by the families - specifically saved for over decades. Debt was never the financial source of housing. Of course once you introduced low-interest debt on the basis of future income expectation into the equation, prices skyrocketed, making buying without debt practically impossible, causing a vicious circle, the effects of which we are witnessing all over the developed world. The discourse treats this as an aberration to an otherwise healthy system, but what is the reference timespan here? Most look back at one, max two post-war western generations that could afford their own mortgaged housing relatively early - that’s it, that’s the historic timeframe. In developing countries, mind you, a pure mortgage is still a novelty of sorts, and interest rates are so high that it makes housing mortgages the less preferred option.
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