maxy the maxibon

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[maxy the maxibon @mad_maxen]

Une SALLE DE SIESTE? Mais c’est la MEILLEURE INVENTION DE TOUS LES TEMPS! Pourquoi on n’a pas ça nous???

[• hatti @Whohewas0]

me remembering the time i lost my absolute mind over someone i knew for 3 months (we also never dated) just because the person was the first person to make me feel something after not feeling anything for so long

[Marco Craveiro, PhD @MarcoCraveiro]

I know I am far too old for this but it will never stop being funny that the Spanish word for "batteries" means "dicks" in Portuguese

[aether @bluewdrift]

Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.

[Ryanair @Ryanair]

fork found in kitchen

[Civixplorer @Civixplorer]

The Welsh Flag from the perspective of:

[Tselane @JustTselane]

Sometimes “locking in” looks like sitting in the sun and remembering that your life is also meant to be lived, not just optimized, monetized, and turned into proof that you’re worthy.

[🎮 @foreeeeeal]

Is anyone else ever genuinely shocked when you find out you have an impact on someone's life? A coworker can be like "I've missed seeing you" and I'm just like "???? you?? missed me????? My presence has an effect on your daily experience???? i affect things??? What???"

[your babyy ❤️🦋 @Veryweirdgirl_]

This human shit is hard, I should’ve been a mango.

[gefen ☕️ @gefensk]

brutal seeing people settle for what’s clearly a future divorce because we’re in our late 20s

[skyte @ihateskyte]

Get your dopamine from what you create not what you consume

[cнєєкυ⋆｡🪐˚ ⋆ @Okay_Bye___]

"i will help poor people when i grow up"

Me after growing up;

[Bammy @ayobamiamisu]

COVID really had me saying “ohh shit my mask” in 2020 like i’m Batman or something

[maxy the maxibon @mad_maxen]

@pthibaut c’est trop tard mtn, il aurait fallu le faire il y a dix ans. Mtn ils vont se victimiser et crier au déni au déni de la démocratie

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said, “When you walk through a museum, you’re not just looking at art. You’re moving through centuries of people trying to explain love, grief, power, beauty, and belonging.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a museum described so beautifully.

[T @dfwtee_]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here.

[𝐉𝐚𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐫 ✨ @petitmodele_20]

J’étais en train d’apprendre à ma fille à prier . Elle devait répéter

Elle rajoute : "Seigneur protège aussi Pat’Patrouille "

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

Andy Burnham is Britain’s first leader to be drawn from the Co-operative Party.

That will shape how he governs the U.K.

🔗 https://t.co/3D8mnmjUuM

[Aporia @aporia9n]

To be fair the greater divide might be between Europeans and Americans.

Obviously holidays play a massive part. You wouldn’t gamble any of your ~10 days on a road trip through Kyrgyzstan with uncertain roads, bad logistics, a rental car that may die, etc.

A French, Dutch or German couple with five weeks off can lose two days, sleep somewhere terrible and still decide it was the best part of the trip. Americans need the holiday to work, Europeans can afford for it to become a story.

Geography probably matters just as much. An American can get deserts, skiing, tropical beaches, wilderness, road trips, major cities and radically different landscapes without leaving the country, changing currency or dealing with a visa.

Europeans have domestic variety too, but borders are psychologically far more ordinary. Another country can be a normal weekend, you grow up switching languages, road signs and food within a two-hour flight, so international travel becomes an extension of ordinary life rather than some major expedition.

Then when Americans do travel abroad, the status game seems slightly different. It’s often about buying the best possible version of an established destination: Japan with every reservation locked in, Italy with the right hotel, a safari with a premium tour operator.

Europeans seem more willing to buy inefficiency. The missed bus, bad road, questionable guesthouse and three-hour detour aren’t necessarily failures, they’re part of the story. A campervan through Mongolia costs less than St Barts but gives you far more material for the next ten dinners.

Obviously exaggerated, but directionally I think it’s true. Americans have more money than holiday, Europeans have more holiday than money, so one optimises for certainty per day and the other for story per euro.

[Aporia @aporia9n]

Why only French people travel to random countries like Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Oman, Namibia, Rwanda, etc...

Go to any of them and you’ll notice that a disproportionate share of the tourists are French: a 25yo couple travelling after one TikTok convinced them the country was underrated. A family of five in a campervan. Four friends crossing the desert for a challenge nobody asked them to do.

There’s no obvious reason for it. Those countries aren’t closer to France. French people aren’t richer than Americans, Dutch, Germans or Brits. Yes, they have loads of holidays, but not much more than others, and anyway everyone has time for a 7-day road trip.

My theory is that travelling to obscure places carries a particular type of status in France. Being a “voyageur” is culturally superior to being a tourist. The less obvious and convenient the destination, the more the trip says about your curiosity, openness and sense of adventure. Kazakhstan says something about who you are. A week in Greece or Spain just says you wanted a holiday.