[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Terrot 500 RGSTA ?

Peugeot 175 D4 ?

From this forum (en français bien sûr). It speak about motorbike since 1950, so that would make sense with Indochine and I think I can recognise some of the models from archive photos. It says that before 1950, French army used a bunch of brands like BMW, Harley, Triumph, Gnome et Rhone and others from 1930 and WWII, but from 1950 and onwards they tried to harmonise the material and the list is on the forum.

Otherwise, your best bet would be searching for CEFEO material (corps expéditionnaire français en Extrême-Orient) as it was the more involved in the war.

There is a book about material used in this war but I don’t know if they wrote anything about motorbikes.

The forum from the first link seems to be a good source of information tho.

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 18 points 2 months ago

I did it all the week. I did it since decades.

Now I understand that alcohol is making me depressed with suicidal thoughts (+ all the other bad things it does).

So I’m trying to !stopdrinking@lemmy.world, failed this month but ready to start my 30 days challenge again.

Alcohol really does not help with depression or problems, it’s actually the exact opposite as all drugs do.

Let’s make a pact, when we feel down and want to drink, don’t and just go for a walk outside. We can do it.

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 20 points 2 months ago

We can, I just did it from Switzerland.

First you have to chose your nationality, then another form appear with your address where you can chose "other" for your residence country.

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 21 points 2 months ago

Ouch right. I never noticed during the episode. Poor dude.

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Tbh French far right and some Christian are crying here as well. Basically saying the whole ceremony was a disgrace, woke bla-bla-bla, they even criticized the kids at the beginning for being "from immigration".

The funny thing is that organizers decided to annoy the fuck out of them when the announcement of Aya Nakamura (the woman singing with the national guard during the ceremony) was received with racism from far right and twitter.

That day they said to themselves "ok, we’re going full inclusive and fuck then all".

That’s a job well done, bonus point for making maga cult cry as well from the other side of the Atlantic.

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He’s a left French politician, several times candidate for presidency but never won.

He is seen as Fidel Castro boot licker by boomers (he is not), extreme left by right and extreme right (he is not).

He is a great talker but also a bit of an angry man which makes him unlikable to others.

Now is party is named "La France insoumise" (LFI) and they usually have very good political agendas, like at the last presidential it was something along the lines:

  • create the 6th republic based on true direct democracy
  • constitution is written by the French population for the French population
  • give back power to the population
  • once done, quit unless asked to stay president.

But because of his image among boomers and the right propaganda against him, he never won and his party suffer from his image.

The best thing would be to have his and LFI ideas without him. They need to find another leader for their image as Mélanchon is a liability for the left to access power.

We happened to have AI pictures of him as a dominatrix today in our French server https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/12001973

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here is a positive one from the same period to cheer you up.

"Austrian boy receive a new pair of shoes during WWII"

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 19 points 6 months ago

I see no beach but there is a photo of a toilet on the Gmap page and that is probably one of the best useless picture I've seen of a Gmap business page. Clearly a strong contender with peoples posting selfies taken elsewhere.

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 18 points 8 months ago

Damn I had to really read the community name while reading this title on my All page.

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

L'équipe ? The sport journal read by football circle jerkers ?

You probably meant Charly Hebdo.

And France is a though subject, it is historically a welcoming country for northern Africa and Muslim population (former protectorat or colonies, same language) but France partly failed mixing its population with the boom of huge ugly suburbs in the 60/70s. They ended up being poor class zone, that became foreigners zones, that became forgotten by politics leading to their population growing poorer and angry (with a right to be). Some of those were targeted by extremism advocate as they make a good place to cultivate anger and recruit new peoples.

So France is often a target because it is historically close to Muslim populations of Africa and often the final destination when migrating to Europe because it has good social security and no language barrier, unlike Italy, Greece or UK where you have to learn a new language. France is also still very present in Africa (language, industry, politics even money bills for some) so maybe if you ask a poor lost angry boy to name one Euro country, he will probably say France.

Then of course Charly drawing Muhammad or the gov forbidding religious clothes in schools was just another easy justification to attack the country.

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You also forgot the fourth option: Both.

I always wear a real watch because I collect them and they are the only jewellery I have and they complete your clothing style. They can gain value and I can give them to my kids one day (when I'll learn how to make them). Also because as a Swiss I don't really have a choice.

But I also wear an apple watch on the opposite arm, for sport reasons at first, then I got used to all the bullshit it have...

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This book This Naked Mind helped me a lot to quit alcohol.

But it was my own decision, not coming from someone else.

Sadly, the stop drinking community on Lemmy is non existent or dead so you have to check the original r/stopdrinking on Reddit. Even if we left that place, this sub is just awesome, packed with useful resources and is something really hard to find elsewhere, you won't even have to post, just start by reading the sidebar and wiki.

Good luck, my problem with alcohol cost me my 13 years marriage but I got out of it mostly thanks to that subreddit, so anything is possible.

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