… A Text I Got Just Suddenly Made Much More Sense. Thank You.

Anyway, on fera jamais mieux que ce graphique du LA Times.

"what are we" moment but it's just about siezen/duzen in a work environment

I see a lot of incomprehension online about our pension reform and the anger it generates in France, and what it often boils down to is "why are they so angry, 64 is plenty young to retire?"

I don't agree, but even if I did I would still oppose the reform. Here are some of the reasons why:

We already need 43 full years of work and tax contributions to be able to retire. Which means college-educated people were never going to retire at 64 anyway, let alone 62. This reform is aimed at people who start working early, mostly in low-paying jobs.

There's very little provision made in this law for hard/dangerous/manual labour.

There's no provision made for women who stop working to raise their children (51% of women already retire without a "complete career," which means they only retire on a partial pension, vs. 25% of men).

At 64, 1/3 of the poorest workers will already be dead. In France, between the richest and the poorest men, there's a 13 years gap in life expectancy.

Beyond life expectancy, at that age a lot of people (especially poorer, non-college educated) have too many health-related issues to be able to work. Not only is it cruel to ask them to work longer, if they can't work at all that's two more years to hold on with no pension

Unemployment in France is still fairly high (7%). Young people already have a hard time finding work, and this is going to make things even harder for them

Macron cut taxes on the rich and lost the country around 16 Billions € in tax revenue. Our estimated pension deficit should peak at 12 Billions worst case scenario.

While I'm on wealth redistribution (no, not soviet style, but I think there should be a cap on wealth concentration. Nobody needs to be a billionaire.): some of the massive profits of last year should go to workers and to the state to be redistributed, including to fund pensions. The state subsidized companies and corporations during the pandemic, Macron even said "no matter the cost" and spent 206 Billions € on businesses. Now he's going after the poorest workers in the country for an hypothetical 12 Billions??

Implicit in all of this is the question of systemic racism. French workers from immigrant families are already more likely to have started their careers early, to have low-paying jobs, are less likely to be college-educated, more at risk for disabilities and chronic illnesses, etc., so this is going to disproportionately affect them

This is not even touching on the fact that he didn't let lawmakers vote on it, meaning he knew he wouldn't get a majority of votes in parliament, or that 70% of the population is against this law. Pushing it through anyway is blatant authoritarianism.

TL;DR: This is only tangentially about retirement age. The reform will make life harder for people with low incomes, or with no higher education, for manual workers, for women—mothers especially, for POC, for people with disabilities or chronic conditions, etc. This is about solidarity.

Hope (sincerely) this helps.

Bienvenue sur mon blog! C’est quasiment quoi est écrit sur le sous-titre. Je suis anglophone qui utilise ce blog premièrement pour pratiquer ma écriture française. Quelquefois je ferai des posts en anglais mais je souhait que j’aille rester concentré sur mon but.

Vous pouvez utiliser n’importe quoi pronoms pour moi en français. In English any pronouns but it are good.

N’hesitez pas à me poser des questions! Elles sont bonnes pour moi pour m’exercer mes compétences du français.

L’image dans la bandeau est de Irène Joliot-Curie, Frédéric Joliot, et Paul Bonét-Maury «au Jujitsu-club de France». Source: Grognet Jean-Marc. Une courte biographie de Paul Bonét-Maury (1900- 1972) ou les vies parallèles d’un pharmacien : chercheur et judoka. In: Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 102e année, N. 388, 2015. pp. 473-482. https://doi.org/10.3406/pharm.2015.23052

Ma icône est une image de L de Death Note avec la bulle «I gained another friend».

Le Merle à l'alambic by T. Pralinus

The French graphic novel Le Merle à l'alambic by T. Pralinus (aka Théo Kotenka and Théodore Koshka) was lovely and fun. Two women open an alchemy shop.

Note that the art is in black and white like a manga. There are about 240 pages + an epistolary short story that takes place shortly after.

My favourite character is the blackbird from the title, which is the name of the shop. There's f/f, as well as some minor m/m.

d’abord, ne t'excuse pas pour ta grammaire, les francophones sont hyper chiants pour la grammaire et franchement tu t'exprimes bien, donc sois fier !

mais j'ai vu que tu voulais t'améliorer, donc je te propose ici une correction du commentaire que tu m'as laissé :

"Ok je comprends ton poste et c’est vraiment pertinent mais maintenant j’ai une autre question parce que sirius et regulus viennent d’une famille très traditionnelle. Pourquoi n'utiliseraient-ils pas le vouvoiement en famille ? Et comment pourrait-on utiliser le vouvoiement pour transmettre un message qui met en valeur la distance entre Sirius et sa famille. Ou est-il absolument interdit de vouvoyer en famille ?"

si tu as le moindre de question sur ma correction, n’hésite pas à m'envoyer un DM, je suis toujours content d'aider un étudiant de la langue française :)

Merci! Vous êtes très sympa et cette correction est très outil pour moi. Aussi vous êtes bienvenue de m’envoyer un DM aussi sur Harry Potter ou le MDZS si vous voudriez

J'ai passé 10 min à débattre avec ma mère à propos de si l'animal sur la couverture du magazine WWF était un léopard ou un guépard, tout ça pour que ce soit un jaguar

La Malène mill on the Tarn river, Gévaudan region of France

French vintage postcard

Ils partageraient une chamber et un côté semble Lolita/kawaii et l’autre c’est

Une autre crossover qui je vraiment désir est un univers parallèle de Dead Boy Detectives et BHNA où Kirishima et Niko sont des jumeaux avec des personnalités similaires et des esthétiques très différentes.

I have to ask, what is his real hair colour?

Currently or naturally?