Marcia Baïla

Song by Les Rita Mitsouko ‧ 1984

Oslo

It was massive, because before the hippies came, western societies were bourgeois; narrowminded, conservative. OK, I grew up in Amsterdam and that town was back then very progressive. My parents became, during the 60s more open: people talked more freely about topics like atheism, civil rights, even green politics, they became independent from church, love and sex could be discussed more openly, the upbringing of children (=me!) became more open and less strict (eg teachers weren’t allowed to hit pupils), respect for the police dwindled , male socialist politicians suddenly wore jeans and had long hair, my father had hair down to his shoulders and my mother hotpants, my smoked pot during the breaks in school.

Just you wait. Growth will happen in shocks. Basically people probably haven’t heard about Lemmy yet.

Hippy culture peaked in 1967–1969 (some say it ended with the 69 murder of Sharon Tate), so any true hippy would be >75 now, not sure how many 75yo are here on Lemmy, I only experienced the aftermath in the 70s, there weren’t many hippies left by then, and although hippy-dom had a large impact on 70s culture (and my upbringing), practicing hippies were, by then, a bit laughed at, stuck in time and “oldfashioned”.

Next Die Hard installment?

I’m a pretty good cook!

We dress up as Trump’s cabinet and run into walls as hard as we can.

I’m stuck in the definition of what is right and wrong?

Posteo. For me, a big part de-googling, was also ensuring that the amount of emails that I get is reduced.

I started to dislike meta and musk more and more.

I didn’t know it existed! I have begun to hate YouTube, the suggestions for other videos are crap and it is overflowing with too many, too stupid ads. Peertube, here I come!

For many years, I have been thinking about migrating to some other spot, the south of France, Italy, UK, Spain , but then I discovered that it is much better to be a tourist in exotic places. I’ve met quite a few people who have moved to those places, and oh my god can they complain about their new host country. On top of that, many of them keep the option open to go home, for instance for healthcare reasons, or when they get older, but that is not emigrating; then you live in two countries, and in that case, I would feel very lost and “in between”. If you move to another country , you will need to integrate; get involved in administrative problems and political issues, -and you must learn the local language really well, speaking just a few words doesn’t mean that you have truly arrived. So, the novelty and exotic experience wears off quite quickly. So I’m staying put, I just make sure my EV is charged, the railway station is close by, I have cash in the bank,and my passport is up-to-date.

i’ve seen many reasons for emigration, but this one tops them all.

Atheist here. These religious sects are like chilli in the soup, I’m intrigued by them no end, can read about them for hours. Sometimes they even start doing weird, unethical or illegal stuff, wow human’s phantasy is truly bigger than the universe. In France we have mostly Jehovas, they just stand around like ghouls, saying nothing. But since they had some scandals (involving children) they have increased their presence. In Belgium and London I’ve met Orthodox Jews, that’s heavy soup too, almost too spicy. I always pity the children, because escape from a sect is hard.

Two Journeys by Clemens P. Suter. Definitely.

Edit: saw too late they shouldn’t be from USA or uk, anyways I listen to: Destroy Boys, amyl and the sniffers, dead pony, pixies, lambrini girls, mannequin pussy, warmduscher, viagra boys…

Actually, I am employed at the US standards office in Washington DC, AND this was indeed discussed! But we figured out (based on the last census results) that only few fellow citizens understand the concept of “liters” - in fact only scientists seem to be able to handle this unit, and they are being fired right, left and center (government strategy). I would still vote for Trump though, in an upcoming election.

I just received a notice from our mayor , you can get free envelopes at the post office, that are addressed to Pennsylvania Avenue, wash DC. You can put the meat in there, you don’t need a stamp.

Untrue.