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Libb

@ Libb @piefed.social

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A 50-something French dude that's old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. I also like to write and to sketch.

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    How could we go about making a jurisdiction where advertising is illegal?

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  • God knows I'm hostile to the marketing shit filled world we live in, but ads are... there would not even be a society without the ability to advertise, aka to share information (be it paid for or not) with other people.

    The issue, my issue, is with marketing.

    Any insight into this besides useful idiots saying advertising is good or necessary would be greatly appreciated!

    A single one? That may be too little to be helpful but here it is: insulting people is probably not the best way to attract them to your cause.

    edit: typos/ missing word

  • [Fil quotidien] Discussions du jour (2026-02-23)

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  • 'tout' est un sujet un peu vaste et intimidant, 'rien' me semble a contrario un peu trop... réducteur. Ou alors est-ce l'inverse?

    Sinon, qui a pris froid hier soir et se retrouve, comme moi ce matin, sous l'aile malveillante de madame Migraine, la gorge en feu et dépendant d'une perfusion (très haut débit) de mouchoirs? Voilà une question autrement passionnante et digne d’un lundi matin ;)

  • What’s your golden rule for the internet?

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  • "Don't waste my time with your hate or anger (and maybe try to stop wasting your own time too?)"

    Disagreeing is to be expected and even welcomed in any discussion. I also don't mind people not sharing my views, and I don't even mind people not 'liking' me (why should I? We're not living together). I do mind ad hominem attacks, insults and bad faith arguments, because those are not a discussion anymore: the idea is not to exchange contradictory arguments anymore but to somehow hurt the other person, or to hurt their reputation in the eyes of other users. The moment I realize what's going on, I will block the person doing that. (edit: I will not try to discuss any further, nor try to explain other participants what I just realized, I will simply say "thx, have a nice day", or something like that, and block them once and for all)

    They are free to keep on throwing insults (and non-sense) around if that's what they want their online presence to be... exactly like I'm free, literally freed from wasting a second more of my own time reading them. That's not worth it.

    Edit: clarifications

  • When shopping, especially in fashion, do you take brand into consideration?

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  • I don't shop fashion, which means I may not the most qualified to answer your question, but I still do shop for stuff so maybe I can still answer ;)

    I only care about a brand when I know it offers quality products (or not). I care much more about the place I will purchase something as I like to know I can rely on a good customer service if anything was to happen.

  • Growth of the Fediverse (20260223)

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  • Great to see new users joining (welcome, guys).

  • The Chemist’s War

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  • Thx a lot!

  • The Chemist’s War

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  • Interesting, to say the least. Would you happen to have any source about that mass poisoning?

  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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  • The sad thing is that it is not just a US thing. Most Western countries I can think of, for the last 40 years or so, have managed to ruin their educative systems, making sure younger generations become less and less capable when not plain dumber.

    Here in France, I would vote for any party pledging to make it its priority to reform back our educative system to, say, its pre-80s state and promising to keep at bay those assholes (and their moronic ideas) who are still ruining it with each of their new reforms.

  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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  • What is your favorite quote, proverb, or piece of wisdom?

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    • I know that I know nothing.
    • Perfection is killing you.
    • A book a day keeps the haters away (ok, I made this one up. Still, quite a good advice and a real fine way to spend one's time)

  • I enjoyed colouring this! (Book: Urban Colouring by Urban Anna)

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  • Books in a book store, and urban sketching? Thx <3

  • Should the EU create its own alternative to B Corporation (certification)?

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  • Isn't there already enough labels?

    And like you said: who will bear the cost of that nth label?

  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • If reading is like a drug. And a drug, consumed in large quantities, produces disease. Then reading, in large quantities, produces disease.

    It’s logically straightforward.

    Not any more than saying 'if cold is hot than too much hot can freeze you to death'. As long as the premise is not true (not a fact) no valid conclusion can be made out of it.

    In your situation, saying "if reading is like a drug" doesn't magically turns reading into an actual drug (the 'if' part is key). It still is an hypothesis that need to be demonstrated/validated.

  • Need a solid daily driver browser that’s good for most things

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  • I'm using Waterfox: privacy respecting and AI-free fork of Firefox.

  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • That I understand (I can read ;)), what I don't understand is how you manage to come to such an odd conclusion. Based on what?

  • This is from the Alexander Romance. Alexander the Great’s mother was legendarily impregnated by a wizard in the form of a dragon.

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  • Reminds me of the beginning scene in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981), when victorious Uther Pendragon takes his rival's appearance (thx to Merlin using some of his 'dragon breath' magic) so he can have sex with his wife, Ygraine, and conceive (soon to be king) Arthur.

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    I ghosted my girlfriend and now she doesn’t wanna talk to me.

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  • Play silly games, win silly...

    Maybe you owe her a sincere apology (and a nice date/diner/something) to make up for being... not the smartest person for a few days ;)

  • Any way to make iOS more private?

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  • Don't put anything personal in it. That's what I sued to do using my iPhone and what I still do now, using an Android.

  • Reading is a kind of trance. A state of modified consciousness as powerful as any drug. And we all know what drugs can do.

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  • A person who reads a lot might become something like a meth-head. Crippled and diseased.

    Would you care to elaborate on that? Seen from the outside it sounds quite... nonsensical but I may very well be too much of a reader myself to still be able to understand too complex notions. Or maybe I'm already dead?