Des gens qui cherchent une excuse pour ne pas payer leurs impôts.

Des gens libres qui ne veulent pas être contrôlés par les francs-maçons ou les Congolais, rogntudjû !

Finalement je t’ai fait la liste des hurluberlus, désolée.

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C’est trop cool de savoir dessiner. J’adorerais en être capable, mais je n’ai pas la volonté d’y passer le temps nécessaire.

J’ai trouvé le mot mais je n’ai pas compris la blague.

I read it!

I hereby grant you the “Too Long — Still Read It” Trophy of Worthiness: 🏆

I don’t live in the best place for wildlife observation, but I try to enjoy what I have. And it turns out you can see a lot of stuff when you pay attention, even in a big city!

Léguman ! Léguman !

J’hésite à cliquer sur le lien car je pressens qu’il contient des informations que je ne pourrai pas « dévoir ».

Tiens, l’invité est cet historien qui est décédé récemment. Le nom “Pierre Nora” me disait vaguement quelque chose, mais je suis trop ignorante de l’histoire pour savoir sur quoi il avait travaillé.

J’aime beaucoup Concordance des temps (avec la voix posée et relaxante de Jean-Noël Jeanneney), mais je n’ai pas encore écouté cette émission, on verra ce que ça donne.

Il y a dû avoir un incident technique car le lien vers la dernière émission ne contient pas le titre, le résumé et la bibliographie comme c’est le cas d’habitude. Pour info, on peut retrouver tout ça sur cette page

Awesome. I’m not about to see that from my window, ha ha.

I’ve only seen one fox in my life, and it was in the middle of London, weirdly enough. I know there are a few in the Père Lachaise cemetery, but I’ve never seen them from my eyes when I went there.

It’s probably better for them if we humans don’t see them too easily, I guess.

I live in a very urban area in France, in the Paris urban area. My apartment building has a small “gardeny” courtyard, with several trees and a bit of lawn, which my one and only window overlooks. I can see several balconies, but do not have one myself. Here’s a (probably non-exhaustive) list of what I can see from up here:

• two magpies whose nest is visible from my window, right at the top of a tall lime tree. They do their round from balcony to balcony every morning, looking for food or water I guess. They often get very noisy in the morning when…
• a crow tries to get close to their nest. It’s “not from around here”, we don’t get generally have crows in the building’s courtyard, but it’s been coming regularly since spotting the nest. (I’ve convinced myself that it’s always the same crow, but I don’t really know.)
• a blackbird who sings every day from the top of the building facing mine. I’ve seen blackbird nests in the courtyard in the past, but not this year.
• lots of swifts high up in the air — they don’t get close to my home unfortunately because it’s too modern for them to nest, I need to walk a few blocks to see them course each other over my head. I adore swifts and wish I could get a closer look at them.
• pigeons — of course ! Rock pigeons and wood pigeons… mostly wood pigeons. A pair of wood pigeons tried to build their nest on top of a set of shelves on a neighbouring family’s balcony, but the parents made them stop right away by removing the first few twigs and blocking the furniture with boxes. It’s a pity, I would have had a very good view on the nest.
• great tits. Like the magpies, they do their shopping from balcony to balcony from time to time… but not at the same time as the magpies.
• a redstart that I’ve only seen once from my window, singing on the opposite building, at the blackbird’s favorite spot. It’s normally in the next city block, where it can’t be heard from my house. (Unless it was a different redstart?)

A few birds that I can hear from my room, and see when going outside, but have never spotted from my window:

• robin
• garden warbler
• blue tit

Several years ago, there was a couple of jays that came every day in the garden, and toured the balconies like the magpies currently do, but not anymore. I wish they’d come back…

I’m too high up to have many insects visible from my window. If I see an insect from my house, it’s usually because it came in my house, but I won’t be listing those. I see the usual flies, of course, and moths — I’m afraid I couldn’t name them. A line of ants climbing the building’s wall; they actually “invaded” my apartment several times, but not this year. In the past, I’ve had mason bees nest in a hole at the side of my window, which was AWESOME, but it hasn’t happened in a few years. I’ve seen a few flying around this year too, they just haven’t chosen to grace my humble abode with their offspring.

Sometimes a cross orbweaver on the railing (not right now). Most spiders, I encounter inside the building.

Pets: a kitten on the nearest balcony, a large dog on the balcony below, which rarely barks, thankfully. A cat in the neighbouring courtyard, which is separated from mine by a great wall. I don’t know in which apartment the cat resides.

I probably forgot some animals, but I did my best, and let’s be honest, nobody’s reading all that.

I’m very fond of the magpies this spring, they’ve been giving quite a show, but I haven’t spotted any younglings unfortunately. :-(

Edit: I forgot the pipistrelles!

There are several Azerty layouts. Some don’t allow you to type uppercase accented letters easily, some do. I’ve switched to Linux about fifteen years ago and never had an issue typing these characters with the default layout. It used to be more complicated on Windows, I don’t know if that’s still the case. I should give it a try the next time I get the occasion to type on a Windows computer.

I currently use the fr-oss Azerty layout, which is probably not perfect but has many advantages. I love being able to type thin spaces and non breaking spaces easily. The diagram doesn’t explain it, but combining the é/2 key with the Capslock key will give you an É — whereas combining it with the Maj key will give you a 2. That’s the mechanism Gueoris is alluding to here.

I still don’t get why it’s easier to type a semi-colon than a full stop, though. I love semi-colons, but even I don’t use them that much.

Tu as raison, « pas bénéfique » n’implique pas « néfaste », mais par contre ça implique que la balance bénéfique/risque est à peu près nulle, même si le risque est faible. On sait que les ultrasons peuvent provoquer des malformations à haute dose, donc clairement ça peut avoir une influence. Bien sûr, ça ne veut pas forcément dire que les échographies non-thérapeutiques (à des doses bien inférieures donc) vont nuire au fœtus, mais on n’a pas de preuve non plus qu’il est sans danger de les multiplier. Vu que ces pratiques sont sans intérêt aucun pour la santé de l’enfant, il me semble complètement raisonnable de les interdire.

Après je serais aucunement surpris si derrière la facade de “but artistique” c’est un charlant qui fait croire des trucs aux gens, c’est malheuresement trop fréquent aujourd’hui.

Je n’ai pas l’impression que soit le sujet cette fois-ci, mais c’est le premier risque auquel j’ai pensé aussi.