Fun fact: Finnish and Estonian are both Finnic languages. Meanwhile, the other Nordic countries mostly speak Scandinavian languages an the other Baltic countries speak Baltic languages, which are part of the broader Balto-Slavic group. So really, from a linguistic perspective at least, Finns and Estonians are more similar to each-other than to any of their neighbors. And also pretty similar to Hungary (Magyar being a Finno-Ugric language).

^found the clitoris!

Wow, you really put great effort into rendering the details on the girl’s jean. You also put a non negligible effort in painting a person in the mirror with the same colthes as the girl but surprisingly little time making sure they had the same haircut or that this made sense with the position and orientation of the mirror. Which could be that there’s a third person in the room who just happens to be dressed like her, but for this to make sense without them being seen in the image the best must be behind them in the mirror and that’s not what we see in the reflection.

You are truly scum for claiming this by your drawing. Effort was put into this color and rendering, but not by you. By artists whose work was scraped and spat out at your prompting by a large model at the cost of large amounts of energy and water in a polluting data center. All this for a seen before joke that would’ve worked just as well with a stock photo or hastily drawn stick figures.

For anyone confused, this is a reference to Crank mah Hog, the biblical city and its king from the Apocalypse to which George Bush Jr was referring when he tried to get the French president Jacques Chirac to join the Second Gulf War.

Among the classics from the 60s, I’d also add Thelonious Monk, Arts Bakey, then the Headhunters, and Sun Ra’s Arkestrs. That’s a period with a lot of diversification (free jazz, bebop, funk jazz, Afrofuturism…). Earth Wind and Fire is also funk jazz.

There also Tito Puente from Puerto Rico, which leads me to transition to the caribbeans. Outside of the US, you have of course Compay Secundo and the Buena Vista Social Club, and also Juan Pable Torres in Cuba. Caribbean Sextet in Haïti. While we’re in the Caribbeans, Ska is also derived from jazz and Rocksteady and Reggae are in turn derived from it, try older Ska bands like the Skatalites, that’s where it’s most obvious.

In Africa there’s Manu Dibango from Cameroon, who blends some trafitional music influence, also Mulatu Atatske from Ethiopia (who’s still alive and kicking), then you have the whole Afrobeat genre starting in Nigeria with Fela Kuti (early Afrobeat is still really close to jazz, though modern Afrobeat, which is closer to hip-hop).

That’s those I know best among the classics (I’m not sctually a huge expert despite my tirade, I may have been exagerating a bit because I got defendive and also as a joke). But if you search almost any country name and add “jazz” after it, you’ll certainly get a result (the only time I failed was when I tried Bhutan, and I still think they likely have jazz somewhere, it’s just hard to find).

My favorites among the recent ones are Shabaka Hutchings from the UK and, Thurgo Théodat from Haïti (not super famous, but really good, I’ve actually heard him play live). Mulattu Atatske has also done stuff recently, and sun Ra’s Arkestra still exists.

Also, since nobody plays jazz alone, once you found a jazz player you like, a good way to find more is to see who they’ve played with. If it’s a band, see the members and what other band they’ve played in!

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What even are words? Pieces of long dead people’s thoughts, which we assemble as grim puppets to replicate our own thoughts in a form that we hope others will comprehend? To hell with this, return to grunts and screams.

They’re also not birds. Or ladies, for that matter.

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Good question. From a quick search, this doesn’t appear to be true, protestants were overrepresented in both the Nazi party and their electorate ; so that’d make it rightfully controversial.

Maybe you have a more reliable source than the ones quoted by wikipedia ? Or maybe the scope of your statement is different than the one dealt with in this article (like fascists as a whole and not just nazis)?

Tbf, it’s not in the bible or anything unlike the other two, it’s more of a medieval european legend with christian parallels…

Jesus has multiple fursonas, including a lamb, a lion and a pelican. But the easter rabbit might be Ēostre’s fursona.

Also, we definitely needed to know whether or not the cake was real.

If 1000 people love jazz, I am one of them. If 100 people love jaee I am one of them. If 1 person loves jazz, it is me. If noone loves jazz, I am dead.

If the world is against jazz, then I am against the world.

It’s possible that your phone uses AI upscaling, yes. Upscaling an image means increasing the number of pixels, which involves guessing what color these pixels should be, and that’s often done with.AI. Like other generative AIs, it can be wrong and cause aberrations.

For the history podcasts, I listene to “The History of Rome” and “Revolutions”, both by Mike Duncan, and “The History of Byzantium” by Robien Pierson.

The woman reading fairy tails and books is Abitlate (she also has the youtube channel Abitfrank)

For the group of people chatting format, I have “The Deprogram”, which is a communist podcast about politics, and “Une invention sans avenir”, a podcast about cinema, which is in French.

The daily fiction one is “La chute de Lapinville”, also in French. And while I’m on the topic of French fiction podcats, " Les Donjons de Nahelbeuk" is of course a classic.

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Types of podcast I listen to:

• History podcasts (the best type)
• That one French daily fiction podcast about a fictional city that’s a mix of realistic and absurd
• A woman reads fairy tales and old novels
• A small group of people (always the same + tye occasional guest) discuss the one thing they’re all fascinated by, with a different thematic each day.

As a French guy who’s spent a year in the US in my childhood, I can actually compare! That being said, I’ve also been in several schools in France and I can’t say the food has been uniformly good, there’s a lot of variation within schools of a same country (and that’s only public schools, I haven’t tried private ones). But while I can’t say that french school foods all tasted good (there were some I hated and some I loved), I can at least say they all looked like food and tried to be healthy and varied from one day to the next. It’s usually a small salad, a warm main dish that will usually have a meat, fish or omelette, some starch and some veggies, a dairy (cheese or yoghurt), a piece of bread, and a desert which is often a fruit. The actual taste changes a lot. Schools actually have a chef, but that doesn’t mean they cook everything from scratch, a lot of it can be unfrozen stuff delivered from various companies.