SuperPengato

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North Korea had a famine in the early 90s, linked in part to the end of Soviet support, and have been steadily recovering since.

Probably has to do with the notion of Trump being "anti-establishment" and Epstein being considered part of that "establishment". The idea in certain sphere has long been that there was a conspiracy of evil pedophiles running the deep state and that Trump was their adversary (see Pizzagate).

Some of his closest allies were pretty vocal on the Epstein case before the 2024 election, being convinced the likes of Bill Clinton would be compromised (which he was), but apparently believing Trump was innocent (which, obviously, he wasn't). Trump opposing the release of the file was something many in his camp appeared surprised and disappointed by, as his appearance in them ; tho of course those closest to him will say that was another conspiracy.

You're right in theory, but it's Spez we're talking about. I tend to consider that the following is a rational reaction to Spez preparing to take any action about anything in any context:

No, that's "Crank my hog" Gog Magog is that crocodile cowboy from episodes 2 and 4 of the Amazing Digital Circus.

For the history podcasts, I listene to "The History of Rome" and "Revolutions", both by Mike Duncan, and "The History of Byzantium" by Robien Pierson.

The woman reading fairy tails and books is Abitlate (she also has the youtube channel Abitfrank)

For the group of people chatting format, I have "The Deprogram", which is a communist podcast about politics, and "Une invention sans avenir", a podcast about cinema, which is in French.

The daily fiction one is "La chute de Lapinville", also in French. And while I'm on the topic of French fiction podcats, " Les Donjons de Nahelbeuk" is of course a classic.

Shrek

Types of podcast I listen to:

• History podcasts (the best type)
• That one French daily fiction podcast about a fictional city that's a mix of realistic and absurd
• A woman reads fairy tales and old novels
• A small group of people (always the same + tye occasional guest) discuss the one thing they're all fascinated by, with a different thematic each day.

Aye, I got mixed up in the comments, genealogy, the seeds I talk about are in another comment to which I thought the parent comment was replying...

Some plants have seeds with little hooks to be disseminated by animals, that must be this.

As a French guy who's spent a year in the US in my childhood, I can actually compare! That being said, I've also been in several schools in France and I can't say the food has been uniformly good, there's a lot of variation within schools of a same country (and that's only public schools, I haven't tried private ones). But while I can't say that french school foods all tasted good (there were some I hated and some I loved), I can at least say they all looked like food and tried to be healthy and varied from one day to the next. It's usually a small salad, a warm main dish that will usually have a meat, fish or omelette, some starch and some veggies, a dairy (cheese or yoghurt), a piece of bread, and a desert which is often a fruit. The actual taste changes a lot. Schools actually have a chef, but that doesn't mean they cook everything from scratch, a lot of it can be unfrozen stuff delivered from various companies.

I just call everyone "comrade".