Libb

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[–] Libb@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago

Pilot is great, and not just with pens. I love their fountain pens a lot too be it their cheap lines and their much more expensive ones—my all time favorite fountain pen is their larger Falcon (the metal bodied one) with its flex nib. I also quite like my Mitsubishi uni-ball Eye Fine and Micro rollerballs (both waterproof ink, btw) but none of those are made in Europe ;)

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

+1 to that, they have great products. Rosemary & Co.

In France, one may want to check Raphael. I would say theire offer is a bit too complex to my taste but they have some real great brushes ;)

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 14 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Jlai.lu is a very small French instance, in order to coral our limited number of users towards more active communities the admins had made the decision a while ago to put into a deep sleep state any inactive community. They very recently created this dedicated thread where one can request the reopening of any 'sleeping' community: [Meta] Demande pour les réouvertures de commu + modération

A side-note and a suggestion for anyone considering requesting moderation role of an abandoned community on any instance:

Based on my personal experience requesting the !journaling@sh.itjust.works, I would suggest anyone to create an account on the concerned instance to administer that community. I can say that the admins at sh.itjust.works made no issue giving me full access to the community after I explained what I wanted to do with it, but even as a the new moderator with full access I had constant bugs and issues trying to do my job from my main account from my own instance (I'm French, so I was administrating that community from my jlai.lu account). All those issues, 100% of them, vanished the moment I created a new user account on the same instance I was trying to manage and gave that account full moderation role. I've also read other similar accounts of people facing bugs when they tried to moderate a community from a different instance.

A warning that may be worth adding in the OP?

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago

To be honest I thought they were two completely independent branches

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Depending on where you draw the line, Lamy might no longer count as a European brand, since they were recently bought out by Mitsubishi Pencils.

Good point. The company is still in Germany, though.

That aside, you’ve still got Pelikan,

I should have mentioned them (I quite like some of their high-end fountain pens)

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 3 points 5 months ago

You're welcome.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago

Thx, updated ;)

[–] Libb@jlai.lu -4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Learn history.

Repeating crap you've heard here or there has little to do with learning history, or learning anything for that matter but I've little hope this will change any time soon.

Thanks nonetheless for that wise suggestion, we should all agree upon studying history (a lot more interesting than simply learning it, mind you).

The slippery slope argument is such bullshit. The reason the Nazis got to power is because of the slippery slope argument. The reason Mussolini got into power is because of the slippery slope argument. Fascism should not be acceptable. End of story.

Also, thx for such an articulated comment that excellently demonstrates as much practice as desire to discuss our diverging view points. Unless, could it be I only have a (apparently terribly wrong) personal opinion on a question upon which you speak the truth? In which case, what was that you were saying? Oh, yeah: 'end of story'.

Edit: small corrections

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago

Put the tea in a tea infuser thingy. Boil water in a kettle. Pour water in teapot. Let infuse required number of minutes depending the tea. Remove tea holder from tea pot. Enjoy nice tea ;)

[–] Libb@jlai.lu -1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I'm not a believer in any form of censorship. That's not how you fight against shit ideas or products.

Also, what would be next? Ban people not voting for the right candidate and then, those wearing socks the wrong color? According to who? That's a dangerously slippery slope...

I’m sorry if this is not a good community for this question. If not please point me to one.

'Buy from EU' as I see it is not 'force people to buy from EU' it's more about 'encourage people by showing them EU alternatives as honestly as possible' (they're not perfect, nor are they always as feature-rich as the US alternatives) ;)

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 3 points 5 months ago

In Germany public broadcasting channels have a teaching mandate. And Arte is the only channel that takes it seriously.

Not taking that teaching job seriously? That would never happen in France /s

It's such a pity... but it may also be considered a truthful mirror of what our societies really value the most, I suppose. Which would not be much flattering.

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