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Don't be offended by my poor English. My French is almost worst.

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ooli  ·  6 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 614th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

This french rapper made a song of question:

I found the concept great, and made a love poem with the same gimmick:

  Éos aux doigts de rose :

  Éos, réponds-moi : l’aube efface les tourments ?

Pourquoi tes fins sanglots, chaque matin, se lèvent ?

Est-ce que tu chantes là mes éplorements ?

Quand ton char s’enfuit, qui assure la relève ?

Caches-tu ainsi un visage désiré ?

Ou bien ton souffle ardent, qui inonde le ciel,

N’est-il donc qu’un fragment perdu dans l’empyrée ?

Es-tu la déesse des actes véniels ?

  Pourquoi, m'arraches-tu ma belle Éléonore ?

Puis-je maudire tes lumières embrasées? ?

Entends-tu les éclats de son départ sonore ?

Sa folle passion s’est-elle apprivoisée ?

M’a-t-elle aimée la nuit, détestée à l’aurore ?

Comment peut-on vivre encore sans ses baisers ?

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Which according to GPT translate like this.. far from a pure translation, but i'm not mad:

Eos, rosy-fingered:

  Eos, answer me: does dawn efface all torment?

Why do your muffled sobs each morning rise?

Is it my grief you sing in sad lament?

And who takes up the torch when your chariot flies?

Do you thus veil a face my soul desires?

Or is your breath of flame, that floods the skies,

No more than a lost shard of heaven’s fires?

Are you but goddess of trifling ties?

  Why steal from me my radiant Eleonore?

Must I then loathe your tender, soothing light?

Do you not hear the thunder of her parting roar?

Has her mad passion at last grown tame tonight?

Did she love me in darkness, hate me at dawn once more?

How can one live bereft of her kisses’ delight?

ooli  ·  19 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 613th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately"

If you go away by Terry Jacks

It is inspired by "Ne me quitte pas" (dont left me) by Jacques Brel (one of the top 3 french lyricist , the other two being Georges Brassens, and Leo Ferré) .

This song is one of his most iconic song but mostly considered a bad one (he wrote it in a night after a break up.. and it is overly dramatic ).

Terry Jacks make a so much better version (the lyrics and ton are more subdued)

And better even than the Neil Young version that preceded it (by speeding it)

I wish Jacks kept more of the lyrics from the Neil version, because the song need to last longer.

ooli  ·  52 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Ramans do everything in threes"

How long before Avi find proof it is powered by aliens

EDIT:

Here is a fun paper https://arxiv.org/html/2507.12213v2 (pdf: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12213) that test the idea that this is a malevolent aircraft, according to the "dark forest" solution of Fermi paradox

I posted it on Lemmy, and someone suggested:

https://www.antiwordle.com/

I dont know how relevant it is to your game

I have this unfunded deeply held belief that the whole US system rely on its stellar entertainment industry.

In France even the best shows imported from the US , like Survivor, are horribly bad in their local iteration: Koh Lanta.

(exception for Rupaul Drag Race , where for once, they followed the US script, and is recognized as one of the best show here, now.)

We have the same problem in German TV as far as I watched. Even Rupaul drag race there is bad, since they removed any funny banter from the Judges and lack any trace of humor.

Even the European sport: Football (soccer in the US) , is inherently boring once compared to Basketball. And even if it was good, you have 1 match /week at best during sport season.

  My point is, with a population way less entertained, strikes, and activism are more prevalent. 

And it has nothing to do with how rich people are.

We can argue that on average US citizen are more rich than European henceforth less inclined to have beef with the government.

But even one of the richest nation of the world: Switzerland, has more political sense and activism than the US... and awful TV shows.

The way the US population is domesticated, is not through easy life, cheap consumption, but just because the US has the best entertainment in the world by an order of magnitude. Even the novels are better. The US has cursus to create good writers, and it work. (B.E. Ellis come to mind. I dont know about Palahniuk or John Irving formation but I would not be surprise if they followed some creative writing class. And I can name multiple of US good modern author, and none from other nation beside Murakami. In France our best author are the racist deepshit Houellebecke, and the egomaniac A. Nothomb)

May be someone knowledgeable in Korean, or Japanese entertainment industry (which seems good from the outside) and those nation relationship with their government can confirm or dismiss my idea.

   I read the "Jupiter protocol"

After all, thoses shorts are an easy read, by skimming the boring past, I see myself coming for more.

I try to see the AI pattern. So far: Unecessary Time jump . And boring everyday dialog still in. Weirdn as some dialogs are perfectly fine but the Ai keep some uninteresting one in here.

One point during the story, at the begining, I would have bet a human writer did some editing.