swan_pr

swan_pr, 8 months ago

Absolutely love the book and read it a few times already. It’s fast paced and engaging. I enjoy the sciency parts as much as the relationship building between the two characters. It has a very straightforward narrative and does not try to be more than it is. It’s nothing deep, but straight up good entertainment. I went in expecting as much so I was not disappointed.

swan_pr, 9 months ago

That’s fucking terrifying!

swan_pr, 9 months ago

Great job!! I’ve been knitting for about 10 years, never ever finished a project with cables. I always frog them. It’s truly my Achilles’ heel :(

swan_pr, 9 months ago

Great question! For me it’s really the needle manipulation. I feel super clumsy and never sure if I made my stitches correctly. I can read charts no problem at all, but I can never get into a comfortable rhythm so I get frustrated and lose motivation to see it through.

swan_pr, 9 months ago

I use www.themoviedb.org quite often, it’s pretty good.

swan_pr, 9 months ago

Tout à fait d’accord. Même si c’était des propriétaires exemplaires, ça n’a pas sa place en politique (en plus les personnes visées dans l’article étaient à la commission de l’habitation, wtf?), pas plus que les actionnaires de compagnie, ceux qui ont des sièges dans des CA d’entreprises, etc. Mais tout le monde s’en sacre faut croire, ça se présente et ça se fait élire sans problème.

swan_pr, 9 months ago

I may have fallen into a rabbit hole of tutorials on this very topic (growing and spinning flax). So. Many. Traps.

swan_pr, 9 months ago

I agree that the landlord is a shitstain, but that tenant is not the best at decision making either. I can understand spending a couple of hundreds if it makes your life better, but she basically handed over a 12k check to that landlord. I can’t see any good reason to do this.

swan_pr, 9 months ago

Renting is basically the only way to have housing in certain parts of the world. In large cities too. Not everyone that rents is bad at decision making or on the verge of homelessness…

In this specific case, she was able to blow 12k in renos on a rental and has a Roche Bobois couch that’s worth at least 10k in the setup she has (she mentions this on her twitter feed). To be fair, she also says she realizes she made a terrible mistake and is taking the criticism in stride, so good for her, lesson learned. All this to say, yes she acted stupidly, regardless of how shitty the landlord seem to be.

I agree with you that the housing system needs to change. That conversation has been going on forever. But the solution is not to have everyone strive to own a house.

swan_pr, 9 months ago

Absolument, et c’est pourquoi ça plaît pas au gouvernement. Un projet qui ne rapporte pas à court terme, tant en argent qu’en faveurs électorales, ça n’a aucune chance.

swan_pr, 8 months ago

I listened to And Then She Vanished by Nick Jones and found it entertaining enough to start the second book in the series right after. It’s not really scifi, I mean, time travel could easily be tagged fantasy as well. I don’t know if I’ll finish the series though. It’s missing something that I can’t quite put my finger on. Somewhat shallow and the secondary characters are paper thin. Fine reading to pass the time (or spend 12 hours on a train…) but nothing I’ll be thinking about once I’m done. I’ve been struggling to get through the first few chapters of Perdido Street Station for a while, I may give it another go this weekend.

swan_pr, 9 months ago

Or big wokeness

swan_pr, 9 months ago

Right? All I was thinking watching it was, I don’t want it to end, I want 12 hours more!

swan_pr, 9 months ago

Oui moi aussi, je suis vraiment curieuse!

swan_pr, 9 months ago

Je ne me rappelle pas avoir remarqué de différence, en fait j’achète la marque en spécial donc des fois c’est la marque du magasin. Alors je n’ai pas de suggestion de remplacement. Mais pour quelque chose d’un peu différent tu peux essayer du labneh, c’est beaucoup moins riche mais le goût est similaire. J’aime beaucoup ça avec des confitures. C’est peut-être un peu dur d’en trouver en Montérégie, mais y a un Adonis à Brossard et ils en ont plusieurs variétés (j’aime le mi-chèvre/mi-vache).

swan_pr, 9 months ago

Plaisir! C’est vraiment bon. J’en parle là et j’ai envie d’en manger. Une autre façon que j’aime bien c’est étendu sur des pitas rôtis au four, saupoudré de zataar.

swan_pr, 9 months ago

You sound like you didn’t read the article. This not about seeing ads or not, it’s about large corporations allowing and making profits off advertising criminal activities.

swan_pr, 9 months ago

I didn’t miss the point, the point is not about seeing ads or not. Expand your thought process a bit.

swan_pr, 9 months ago

You should read the article.