My short time on a term abroad many years ago in France did not expose me to that. You may well be right. However, the actions they took while doing that To me, it was equivalent to “get the cow”.

The Monty Python crew is a whole bunch of really really smart people so they may have had that Slang in mind and perhaps they did say that.

edit: unrelared comment , since you are French: i fell in love with Mylene Farmer while there, still love her work and am happy to see she is still doing amazing work today.

when i heard Alizee sing i had a hunch and found i was right that Mylene and her husband were on her team. i recognized the style.

Hold on, let me eat a shroom and reread that before I answer. o.0

I’m shocked nobody’s commented on the reference yet.

“Go away you silly k-nig-gtt. Fetchez la Vache!”

“run away! run away!”

For those too young to remember or haven’t been exposed to it, this is from Monty Python and the search for the Holy Grail.

This is a must watch for any political cynic.

Edit:. I’m sorry I didn’t see the duck comment that came an hour before me.

The problem is the robber barons are unaffected by the crashes. In fact, it just becomes another buying opportunity for them with all that free money lying around. They just keep getting richer. It’s the rest of us that suffer.

almost accurate. financial regulations put in place after the Great Depression kept relative stability for 50 years. as deregulation accelerted at the end if the 80s, swings resumed and we are niw in the boom/bust cycles that were so painful from 1870 to 1933.

Also not coincidentally the time of the robber barons

tbh the main culprit is ease of use. Icspent time on mastodon looking for content, and finding it is challenging. plus the very nature of federation adds more complexity and non-tech people do not explore because they enjoy it like many tech-heads.

the centralized, spoonfed approach is just simpler. it takes a somewhat hardcore desire for privacy, security to drive one through the difficulty.

well, actually, that talented tech guy (Jobs). founded the company and was later forced out. he got back in when they came back and groveled as he was developing NeXTStep OS and hardware.

but point understood.

as an American, I approve this move. I’m not happy as we lose something, but our government is not sane and needs to be treated that way. i just hope fences can be mended after the fever breaks.

i am nit denying that there is discrimination, I’m just pointing out that on average the discrmination goes the other way in recent decades. i am (was) a tech worker. I’m now too old to be hired - another discrimination problem.

if you do a bit of reasearch, you wil find some horror stories from men who are or tried to be elementary school teachers. also, nursing is female dominated and I’ve seen a few unpleasant testimonials. don’t have verfied numbers at hand, but thise shoukd show therlther those are edge cases or common.

so three empty ATMs can land me in jail. good to know.

ehile men still outnumber women in participation rate, men are leaving the job market in larger numbers due to layoffs, and probably other reasons.

labor force ttus of women and men, September 2026

it’s a woman’s economy now

as for educational support, this has been a commonly known fact for years now.

more women get aid, though the awards are a bit lower than men.

Gender Differences in Financial Aid Awards

pell grants are more lopsided.

Pell’s $6 Billion Dollar Gender Gap

that is gender agnostic. as s man i can tell you I’ve been excluded from most opportunities because i am not socially skilled.

on the flip, I’ve neen told by appartment owners that i can’t live there because he felt the other renters (women, all) eould be uncomfortable with a man as a neighbor.

i did not go to the equal opportunity organization to complain. besides, as a man i’d be laughed at and dismissed anyway.

Women currently dominate the job market and educational institutions both as students and teachers. women get the vast majority of grants and discounts for college.

it’s really men who are being discriminated against because “patriarchy”. i am an ex-feminist, btw.