Beat me to it :V

Wait did you really take the retina thing literally ???

Maybe you’ve been using themes with too much contrast ? I mean, I can’t work on a light theme for any extended period of time, but most dark themes are too stark and eye searing for me, so that may be your case too?

Mine sure aren’t with light mode, even in brightly lit office environment. Different people have different eyes, and needs. What may be an unnecessary gimmick for you may very well be vital to the next person’s livelihood.

I envy them 🥹

So if I’m not mistaken, “from Paris with love” has a bit of a dated flavor to it, right? An expression with a similar sentiment and “flavor” would probably be “bons baisers de Paris” which would have that “I’m using elevated old timey language ironically to be sassy” vibe in that context. Something to that effect. Hope that makes sense.

The article you linked probably does not exactly say what you think it does. It’s just a professor in geography and linguistics reporting on an ukrainian neologism, adapting it to french audiences for phonetical convenience, it does not hint at any integration in the french language, quite the opposite, and that’s coming from a specialist in the field. While the neologism is interesting and very useful, this is definitely a very niche use among french people, as far as I’m aware. That being said, TIL thanks to you. The more you know.

What I should have mentioned earlier, that leaves me scratching my head the most, is that the message makes very little sense. It won’t be legible for anyone who doesn’t speak french (barring a couple of words), so it’s not meant to be read by russian people. What’s more, “de Paris avec amour” is the literal translation of “from Paris with love”, which sounds very natural in english but not in french, at all, and sounds like something that what somebody who doesn’t speak french would get out of google translate or something. The only way I can make it make sense is that this would be entirely manufactured for social media, which tracks with the first impression I had that this image was manipulated and the text added in photoshop or something. This whole thing is very bizarre, hence my incredulous reaction at the premise of it being french at all.

Hope that clarifies things a bit, and explains why I was instantly weirded out.

Don’t get me wrong, the rascists (may as well adopt this nifty neologism now haha o/) can, indeed, go to hell and stay there, and french people massively support Ukraine, but it’s still useful to be mindful of what’s shared on social media, no matter how much it supports our positions or not. Probably now more than ever, with AI generative models becoming an increasingly scary problem.

Where did you hear about that? Because I’m French and that’s news to me lol

It is, yeah. Especially if it’s to change it after 2 short years of use because if you keep it longer than that you look like a bum or whatever. I will never understand that tbh.

Depends. That’s about what I paid for my previous phone second hand and it lasted me 7 years and I loved it to bits. But I was pretty broke and only could afford that. New phone, I decided to buy a brand new fairphone, because i think that the moment I get enough disposable income, I have a moral responsibility to use it in ways that encourage more ethical practices, for all the people who can’t. Doing that is bloody expensive, but if it somehow helps make this dystopian hellscape a little more bearable, I’ll invest.

French variant? What? French for racists is racistes

It doesn’t make sense if you think the heat is here to kill bacteria. However, heat helps detergents do their job, and most likely helps loosen biofilms given their composition.

That answer doesn’t mean shit when it’s actually affecting your well being. I hope you can find a doctor who takes you seriously.

Alun stone changed my life for that reason

Add tampons ans pads to that