I'm French Canadian. A friend of mine lives in Paris. I go to Paris fairly often. When I'm there, I speak exclusively English to anyone I don't know.

If I speak French, my god damn native tongue, they either make sure to tell me my accent is horrendous or they reply in German. In either case, they take this condescending tone... You know the one.

When I speak English, not only do I have the upper hand on the language, but they don't know I can understand them perfectly. Win win for me.

Vous êtes chiants, les Parisiens.

Thank you for taking that bullet for us!

As a kid, my dad used to tell me stuff like that. He believed it too. He worked 2 jobs 6 days a week all his life to die in relative poverty.

People make wealth issues generational. It's not. It's a narrative to divide and conquer.

It's the rich vs the poor. It's always been.

Close but not quite. John Connor's foster mom.

Everybody remembers Ripley, but Aliens was a solid gender equality movie... filmed way back in 1986. Remember Vasquez and Ferro? Totally believable, flawed and likeable badasses. I find today's characters to be way too perfect to be believable. Wonder Woman is a good example. I find her annoying.

I'm starting to think that the gun lobby might be lying to us...

It used to be cheap, fast, filling and clean. It's none of those things anymore.

What's their value proposition nowadays? Nostalgia?

My feed:

There's no science to back the existence of Allah, I'm sure this guy is totally not an hypocrite and acts accordingly.

sigh

Fuck this timeline.

Something about stones and glass houses might apply here... Or is it kettles and pots?

It is also labour intensive and not that easy. This year, I must have put dozens of hours of labour to get 8 tomatoes, 5 cucumbers and some chives. We got too much rain.