Nice socks! Where’s a good place to find quality socks of this style?

Sorry, I should have been clearer: his party scored badly in the EU elections, so he lost credibility in France and is calling snap elections in France. I’ll edit my comment above to clarify.

Macron’s party got disastrous results and got trounced by the far right in the European elections.

He had been selling himself as the shield that protected France from the rise of the local far right party. With these results, he has lost his credibility, and therefore his government did as well.

Therefore he’s calling out-of-schedule French parliamentary elections that – I assume – he hopes will reelect his party and allies ahead of the far right. It might work: the far right party polls strong at around 30%, but has few allies, and may not be able to form a coalition government. If Macron himself can, that will strengthen his legitimacy.

Needless to say, this is a risky gamble.

Empirically: they are.

Interesting deep dive and very much worth a read. I’d say it probably underestimates the weight of finance-related pressures coming from the CFO’s office, though.

Too real. They’ll steal your heart alright, but god damn.

Yes it does, yes it’s brilliant!

Presumably the My Little Pony comic. I haven’t read it but I understand it likes putting in references that will amuse adults.

Came to the comments for the same reason. :D Time to circulate https://paddynotpatty.com/ again.

If you are considering picking up Outer Wilds, by god, go in blind. It’s all about finding out.

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Wasn’t it shown that e.g. Russia is targeting our side just as heavily?

I wonder why people are downvoting your comment. It’s literally what happened. See for instance this paper on the history of gender segregation in the Olympics: https://theworld.org/stories/2016-08-17/see-120-years-struggle-gender-equality-olympics.

Quote: “Margaret Murdock from the US won a silver in a tie in the 1976 Riffle Event, one of the events in the shooting categories. The rifle event was split into men’s and women’s events in 1984.”

Source: https://www.instagram.com/kapitantambay/

Obvious Russian agitprop is obvious. 🙄

Empirically: a pandemic. :(

Pern!

Although the person who picked the Culture is absolutely on to something.

Correct, AFAIU.

Basic Ikea office chair plus ergonomic butt cushion. No need to spend a ton of money.

It’s a trade-off that works for many. Not much you and I can do about it, even if it’s frustrating.

Thank you! I know all these things. This still doesn’t help when the DAW support and VST compatibility aren’t there.

If you’re intent on doing music production on Linux, at least do yourself a favor and get a Reaper license, there are few enough pro DAWs that are Linux native. But be aware that many of the big industry VSTs are still not going to work. If you’re fine sticking to e.g. ZynAddSubFX or Pianoteq, though, knock yourself out.

But you can’t reasonably expect musicians to jump those hoops and abandon their fav VSTs when their Windows tooling is there, and works.