Manual typewriters. You did not precised the age of the technology in question!

Do you knew that there are an average of 1’800 parts in a typewriter? That it can print in two colors, with different margins, different interlinear space, tabulations and that some even have things like word count? It’s a marvelous and yet understandable piece of technology. Someone technically inclined can understand 100% of the working of a typewriter, nobody can understand 100% of a word processor.

Gefragt

Criticising those who criticise liberals for acting morally superior and not taking action to feel morally superior and not have to take action to feel morally superior and not have to take action to feel morally superior and not have to take action.

For the, the main source of proto-fascism is nationalism. The form of governement is secondary.

I am a citizen of two countries: a republic and a monarchy. Both are advanced European liberal democracies.

One has a strong far right, refuse to acknowledge its own regional languages because of the threat they pose to the national unity and has a very strong head of state that can decide a lot of things alone, without being responsible before the Parliament.

The other has almost no far right, a very numerous immigrated population, recognizes three national languages but officially communicates in two other languages spoken by its two biggest immigrated communities, has a weak head of state and a strong Parliament.

Which one is the most “proto-fascist”? The first.

Which one is a monarchy? The second.

I hurt myself with a secateur!

I made a false move when picking it up.

Which version do you use with which OS? As a GNOME user I don’t need it, but I’m pretty sure Thunderbird has a system tray.

Thunderbird is great. But if you don’t like it only because of Mozilla (the interface is customizable so that’s not an argument) there is a fork which does almost everything like Thunderbird, is slightly better on some points, and slightly worse on some others, called Betterbird. It has in my point of view no interesting point, but it’s not Mozilla.

My favourite comment is similar: the Firefox/Windows copypasta.

My book is an older (and cheaper 😅) version of this book: Pierre Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque

It’s a French book but there’s a good etymological dictionary of Greek in English online: https://archive.org/details/etymological-dictionary-of-greek_202306/mode/1up

Exactly. And that’s why I don’t think it’s offensive.

Κάμηλος (kámēlos) existed in Greek before Alexander adventures (we find it in Herodotus, Agatharchus or the Septuagint); an etymology book I have says it probably comes from Babylonian, but doesn’t explain why.

To say that being an asshole makes you lonely doesn’t mean that all lonely men are assholes.

Pe is the true way.

Pas forcément, en tous cas pas sur tous les produits. En fait, une monnaie forte, ça veut dire qu’on a plus de dollars pour autant d’euros, donc on peut importer plus pour la même somme. Maintenant, les entreprises répercutent ça comme elles le veulent, donc probablement pas en baissant les prix mais plutôt en les augmentant moins qu’avec un euro faible.

C’est pas forcément une bonne nouvelle pour notre balance commerciale… mais ça devrait limiter l’inflation.

Après on est pas encore aux 1,12 qu’on avait en 2023.

This is not such a big advantage because of the way words are constructed, by gluing words together. So there are fewer words to learn to have the same vocabulary.

Latino sine flexione was an interesting proposition.