MetaPhrastes

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[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Not French here, but it's a common tendency across many western countries. Public education means higher expenditure and some countries are choking with debt so they have to brutally cut funds (education and healthcare are the preferred target, with education being at the first place because consequences are not immediately visible). The problem is not the elites anyway, it's the rest of people letting them do it and justifying it. If their children will become cheap workforce, their parents will be to blame too.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

There are other countries following the same path, enforcing draconian punishment towards environmental activists (labelled by the press as "ecological terrorists").

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

That's strange, I made sure they are applied immediately and that they are persisted after every restart... uhm... looking into it further...

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

You can make it sticky by disabling the edge-to-edge option im settings but that's not what you are asking. And you are right, the change has been introduced recently starting with version 1.5.3.

A proper way to solve this would be to add another option if edge-to-edge display is enabled, to make it not completely transparent but with just some alpha.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

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[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It was worth it. It must remain for the memory of the posterity.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was very popular in the 80s and 90s, indeed. With the new millennium it became slightly less "trendy" in favour of other "foreign-sounding" names. Trust me, Italians really like loans from foreign languages, even for peoples' given names. This often create a comic contrast with very Italian family names e.g. "Jennifer Fumagalli" or "Thomas Bongiovanni" which sound a little kitsch but it's also adorable.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an Italian, that was indeed a good one! 😅😅😅 Sad but true, maybe people think to solve the problem like that here.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Totally agree. It's a tendency in all European countries: national healthcare is seen as public expenditure negatively affecting national balance, and private clinics are on the rise. Let's hope, at least, that taxes will be cut as well, otherwise we'll end up with a system that has the worst of the European model combined with the worst of the American one.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There have been several acquisitions in the meantime, that's true, but remembering the past helps not to be fooled again.

[–] MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe he feels like some of those ancient Pharaohs who had the architects building their pyramids killed afterwards in order not to reveal anyone the inner secret passages.

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