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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be fair, French Canadians were overrepresented and didn't want to be there so they figured if they were super good at it they could go back home ASAP.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

so the French are cowards, Canadians are teddy bears, but somehow when you combine the two they not only cancel our but hyperamplify the opposite?

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The French will riot for weeks if you raise their retirement age. Americans will just complain online if you take away their human rights.

The French are not the cowards.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

The French shut the entire country down when the government tried to raise the diesel tax by 10 cents, don't fuck with French labor

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

good point 🤔

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hydrogen and Oxygen are extremely flammable. When combined they make water.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oxygen isn't flammable, Oxygen is what reacts with the things that are flammable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I remember my chemistry right, chlorine trifluoride would like to have a chat with you. It's such a powerful oxidizer that when burned with oxygen, the oxygen is actually the fuel rather than the oxidizer.

But then this is the stuff that the Nazis decided was too dangerous to use as rocket propellant, then decided it was too dangerous to use as a chemical weapon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't want to chat with Chlorine Trifluoride, it's nasty.

But yeah, there are some obscure situations where oxygen isn't the oxidizing agent, but the name "oxidizer" gives a clue how rare that is. In most normal situations, oxygen is the oxidizer and the thing it reacts with is the fuel. Partially that's due to Oxygen being a good electron acceptor, but mostly it's because there's a lot of oxygen in the planet, and anywhere you can have humans you pretty much need to have oxygen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's like Civ Gandhi with nuclear weapons. Aggression goes negative and wraps around to the max.

[–] Shapillon 2 points 1 year ago

This is why one should be caution around unsigned numbers.

[–] MolochAlter 1 points 1 year ago

That's actually a myth, btw.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Fun fact, numbers to numbers for personnel, vehicles, equipment, air force and navy, France has more stuff than Britain in every category.

I don't know too much of how good their stuff is other than the Rafale being a fine piece of tech.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Two incredibly dumb generalizations proven wrong in this very thread, but people like you are still perpetuating them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

French are great when not led by a Frenchman.

[–] Buddahriffic 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Technically Corsician