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ooli  ·  1247 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I published my first novel

congratulation!!

The website (www.abacabax.com ) is down it seems. Plus, firefox and Brave advise against going to the website for some certificate scare

ooli  ·  1699 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what's your favorite cover version of a song?

L'été indien by Boney Nem

From the french original

Adapted itself from the real original albratros - Africa

then Lez Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra adapted the french version to indian Summer which make me shiver

Then adapted in german under "September wind"

I dont even like that song

Edit:

My new favorite is Pirate Jenny song from the 3 penny opera by Shilpa Ray, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

Cover of Nina simone

Itself adapted from the original in german with Lotte Lenya

  Also love all Bossa Nova cover Like this one . It's a style on itself, they cover everything from Gun's n'Roses to Adele to Drake, Bob marley, etc
ooli  ·  1717 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: I’m going to Paris in October. What should I do?

adventure : the catacombes , hug her when she is scared of skulls

romance: The green walk , kiss her under some tree when no one is around, and you feel you are the only one in the city

Since it's you: Every Sunday morning between 11h and 14h there is a traditional music group playing accordion and dancing in the bottom of rue de la Contrescarpe ( this street is the place of the oldest bar in paris and pretty nice in itself, and if I'm around, I'll try to meet you)

ooli  ·  1877 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who Is Left on Hubski?

You make me very proud flaga, that someone even notice I sometimes post here . So thanks for that.

ooli  ·  2037 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong

    to get there I have to be light-headed when I stand up all day every day.

What are you saying ? You and 80% of Americans have a special metabolism which make them only functional with 2500+ cal/ day? or BMI is a totally wrong measuring stick for Americans, but it work just fine for Japaneses?

It seems you exercise way way too much

ooli  ·  2948 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tay, Microsoft's AI chatbot, gets a crash course in racism from Twitter

I like the way you think.

The only problem being MS proved time and time again they are really bad at launching stuff.. W8, W10, MS shop... and all their gaming platform. With their head up on the competition, their history of monopoly and their power, they're doing a really bad job with their result since at least a decade.

So even if they fucked up on purpose, it probably wont serve them.

ooli  ·  2978 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How have you lost weight?

0/ NO processed food. It's impossible. Choose one as a guilty pleasure every other day, and stick to one.

1/ Tracking calorie is a chore. Worst, as a former nicotine addict, it fire the same vicious behavior as when you try to limit your smoking: you begin to sanctify any calorie and food like it's a blessing (like I could not think of anything except the next cigaret in my planning). But hey, it seems to work for lots of people, so give it a try. But dont force it if it make you think about food and calories all the time.

2/ Exercising is a chore. Ok. That one I like, because it fire dopamine in your brain. So if it works for you, go for it. But if you dont get your dopamine intake out of it. Stop. Just keep climbing stairs. May be add some slow walking around campus once a day for your heart. But dopamine is pretty neat once you start exercising.

3/ Eat fiber. dark chocolate. Nuts, raspberry.. What not to like!! But try to switch all your usual aliment with their more fiber packed equivalent: Whole wheat instead of white low fiber wheat.

4/ Eat in small plate. Trick your brain into feeling full.

5/ Eat an egg first thing in the morning: cut your appetite for 16 hours.

6/ Drink water first when you feel hungry. Brain have a hard time distinguishing between hunger and thirst. Usually you're just thirsty.

7/ Never , ever diet. Plan on changing the way you eat forever . Not having a hard diet for 6 month loose the 40 pounds, and let the weigh creep on once you stopped dieting.

ooli  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: You probably won’t read this piece about Syria

Here is something I suppose nobody heard outside of France: The killers of the Charlie Hebdo attack gave an interview (by phone with the press) a few hours before being killed.

They stated, that the attack was a retaliation for the thousand of civilian dead in Syria. They stated, that they didn't strike blindly. They indeed could have killed far more people during their escape. They stated that they didn't kill any women while European/US soldiers do kill child and women in Syria.

The interview aired one day, then faded very quickly from the media (I never heard it again since the following day). Free-speech commemoration and mourning of french caricaturist was the hot topic of the moment, and who want to hear justifications from a bunch of assassin.

Like anyone, I really don't care for Syria. Don't even know what is happening there. So I guess the Charlie Hebdo victims really died in vain: the killers could not bring some kind awareness to the Syrian massacre.

ooli  ·  3261 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: When women wanted sex much more than men

Historically, sexual drive (or supposed lust) is used as a mean to belittle and humiliate the one portrayed that way.

It was Women back then, then it was Indian, then Black, Gays, Asian, etc...

If you want to link a race/gender to dumb soulless animal you highlight their (supposed) lust, their sexual prowess, their penis/ass size, their fertility. Old trick... But the article is right: for some reason, even this dont work when applied to white straight men.

ooli  ·  3262 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The hands of Hubski

For some reason I though you were a young black gamer. Turn out you're a white apple boy :]

ooli  ·  3274 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski : What is your morning routine ?

-wake up

-hold a plank for 1 min while in bed

-coffee & 4 fiber rich toast with raspberry marmalade

-run 20 minutes (just enough to sweat, not enough to dread it)

-Shower & brush teeth

-coffee & 1 fruit

-write 30 min (just enough to write ~500 word, not enough to dread it)

-indulge in unfit, unclean, unhealthy, lazy, unproductive activities for the rest of the day... Hey my morning routine make me earn it!

  There was a post on reddit a few day ago about creating good habits:

-Start small (1 pushup , write 100 words, just smile to 1 beautiful stranger, etc ) so you wont fall off of the habit.

-Trigger it with one of your actual habit (after brushing teeth, after your meal, after checking your mail, etc)

-Overly congratulate yourself after you did it (take a victory pose, sing a powerful song, do a happy dance, etc)

  It was a good read, with some explanation for how the brain work for each of those steps.
ooli  ·  3475 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ‘Free’ is the curse of the Internet

It's a flawed argument.

    1/ major internet player (Facebook,Googl) are free

    2/ some are not (netflix) and are still profitable

    Conclusion/ Every thing should be not free.

It make no logical sense. But obviously the dude has an agenda.

Why some may afford to be paid service why other cannot. Facebook, Twiter, googl, reddit, all can only survive if people create content for them (a Facebook post, a twit, a search request and subsequent link selection). The second they charge 1 cent they're dead. Even without charging they risk to be killed anytime (as Myspace taught us) if people start to massively switch to other platform. While if you actually create content (netflix and the like, even newspapers ) you may charge for that.

(*His newspaper rant is irrelevant. Newspaper struggled since the invention of TV and lived on Ads far more than on subscription for years.)

Nice read anyway.

ooli  ·  3626 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Creeping Danger of Conspiracy Theorists

Interrestingly enouth he insult a lot, but does not talk about danger at all.

What's the danger to doubt global warming? You cant do anything anyway. The danger believing 9/11 was an inside job? Danger in believing Tv broadcast mindcontrol rays ? etc..

That's great about Conspiracy theories: it's completely Harmless. (except for the anti vaccination fad)

I like conspiracies. I read them as original and inventive fiction. I like the show "ancient aliens" ans all this kind of non sense. It's great... and harmless.

Interrestingly enouth Rob Ager made some video about conspiracies. He point out that there a lot of conspiracy never dubed that name. When people believed Irak had mass destruction weapon. When people believed witchs really existed and burned them. When MacCarthy believed Charlie Chaplin was a communist spy.

All those stuff are false, without proof, real conspiracies theories. Nobody ever called them for what they are. The difference: People who believed it could ACT about it. And it was nasty.

ooli  ·  3837 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes

tl;dr

1. Getting Places

. To stop toll pass from being tracked, keeps it sealed in the foil bag it came in when he's not driving through a toll

. Uses a camera flash to zap tires with enough energy to destroy the RFID chips

. Camera surveillance in every town, Wore sun glasses

2. Buying things

. When he sees someone has a card on their key chain, he asks if he can take a photo of the bar code to use with his own purchases. They get extra points, and he gets discounts without giving up any of his privacy

. Puts all of purchases on a credit card registered under a fake name. Then uses the credit card in actual name to pay the bill

. The most intense privacy seekers have a strict cash-only policy--which can mean they need to get paid in cash

3. Having Friends

.You upload a photograph to Facebook or put one on Twitter, you are now ratting out anybody in that frame to any police agency in the world that’s looking for them. (...) Some police agencies in the world are evil

4. Just About Everything Else

. RFID tags aren’t just in tires, they’re in your clothing, your tap-to-pay credit cards, and your dry cleaning.

. Zaps T-shirts in the microwave.

. Carry an RFID-blocking wallet to avoid having their RFID-enabled cards read when they're not making a purchase.

. Covering your tablet's front-facing camera with masking tape

ooli  ·  4153 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Where Masturbation and Homosexuality Do Not Exist - Alice Dreger - The Atlantic

I doubt the affirmation that "PD" means "Par Derriere" (From Behind). It's a very frequent insult in french, and I never heard that explanation.

It's pronounced "Pédé" in French, and should probably come from "Pédéraste", which share the same etymological roots with pedophile :

"Pedo" in ancient Greek meaning "boy" or child. So pedophile means "loving young boy" and "pédéraste" has the same meaning and was by extension given to gay male as an insult.

And latter on was shortened to "Pédé" then "PD".

The "From Behind" may be the way those people understood the word in this part of the world.

Nice read either way.

ooli  ·  4161 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dark Matter Mystery May Soon Be Solved.

I'm not alone! Without any physic culture I hate the dark matter/energy idea. Supposing a new type of matter seems the worst complicate explanation one can come with. I'm more incline to believe in the MOND: Modified Newtonian Dynamics ( http://www.astro.umd.edu/~ssm/mond/index.html ) I mean it's more easy to believe gravity change when on very large scale than an invisible new matter explain everything.

ooli  ·  4234 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Chris Brown giant "fuck you" to everyone

Just reading the text describing the video made me want to puke. I was also pretty disappointed by learning that Sean Connery also advocated violence.