Loic Le Meur

It’s good to see the world as it is.

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@martinvars absolutely agree, typing is obsolete!

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@mpawlo @nntaleb good analysis, Elon can indeed do (almost) whatever he wants...

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@mikebutcher Peace my friend, peace.

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@JeromeColombain @dr_l_alexandre Il ne fait que gueuler tout le temps.

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@salimismail Hahahaha

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@TEDchris 😂

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@mikebutcher btw you two have the same leather jacket look 👀

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@mikebutcher 😂 I bet you whatever you want that the company will be fine and far from the scenario you wrote on that earlier tweet. My meditation practice is fine thanks and I don’t need to go the jungle to meditate.

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Ouspensky’s “In search of the miraculous” is one of the best books I have ever read. Reading it a second time.

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Many birds, one beautifully unified movement.

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@GregPruss Wow

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@tferriss Truth! Would love to catch up btw

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@lessin I hope the sex was as good as $200b for him.

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@jessyseonoob @roiduecommerce Je te souhaite le meilleur ainsi qu'a ton fils, bien sur. Il y a d'autres manieres de se sortir du cancer, j'ai passé dix ans a les etudier dans la foret amazonienne et un peu aussi en Afrique.

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"Les ordres, je ne les accepte plus. Je suis le seul à savoir ce que je dois faire." - Louis de Funes https://t.co/qR90hnA2op

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Hey Chris, I have also been very amused and interested by $Claudia and the one I like best is this one https://t.co/O31UtJzeQw - Claudia is "us" and we have been prompted since we were babies, a very powerful thought I think.

Been working for years on unprompting myself as we discussed at Founders Forum last year, getting there. This video sums it pretty well!

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@jessyseonoob @roiduecommerce je suis concentré sur autre chose mais merci de penser a moi!

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@martinvars yep, americanization

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@martinvars In short, it's an American invention that "having an affair" is okay and common in France, and the actual wording "avoir une affaire" does not exist and is never used in France, I have never heard it.

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Claude > It’s mostly a stereotype built from a few real threads, then amplified by the Anglo-American press.

History and literature. The French monarchy openly institutionalized the royal mistress. Under Louis XIV and Louis XV, the maîtresse-en-titre was an official position with real influence; Madame de Pompadour is the most famous example. Aristocratic marriages were arranged for property and alliance, so romance was often expected to happen elsewhere. Nineteenth-century literature then made adultery a central subject: Madame Bovary, Balzac, Maupassant, Zola. Phrases like le cinq à sept (the late-afternoon hours supposedly reserved for a lover) became part of the cultural shorthand.

Politicians and privacy. The modern image comes largely from presidents. Félix Faure died in 1899 at the Élysée, reportedly in the company of his mistress. Mitterrand kept a second family for decades, and his daughter Mazarine Pingeot was revealed publicly only in 1994. His wife and mistress both attended his funeral in 1996, which struck foreign observers as remarkable. More recently, Hollande was photographed in 2014 riding a scooter to see Julie Gayet. These stories stayed quiet for so long partly because of France’s strong privacy protections (Article 9 of the Civil Code) and a press culture that historically treated politicians’ private lives as off-limits.

The contrast with the US. During the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal, many French commentators said, essentially, “Why does this matter?” That reaction got widely reported in English-language media and cemented the idea that the French don’t care.

What the data shows. The attitude difference is real but often exaggerated. In a 2013 Pew survey, France was the country least likely to call an affair morally unacceptable, though nearly half of French respondents still said it was, compared with over 80% of Americans. Surveys of actual behavior don’t show the French cheating dramatically more than people in other Western countries. Pamela Druckerman’s Lust in Translation made this point: the French are less moralistic in public, not necessarily more unfaithful. Adultery was also a criminal offense in France until 1975.

So the stereotype mostly reflects a French reluctance to make private life a public moral matter, not a social norm that affairs are fine.