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There are the town of Lecce and a few beaches that are worth discovering.
In the summer there will definitely be things to do for a week, as there are many local festivals where one can enjoy local food (many festivals (sagre) are centered around a specific kind of food, like one for octopus, one for horse meat, …) and listen and dance to traditional music (pizzica)

Periodically go from Belgium to Salento (Italy) to visit family.
Sun, wind and sea (lu sule, lu mare, lu ientu) look and feel so good in the summer.
The food even more.

The one example I was commenting about is the tyre example. They sold more tyres to women after dropping the sexy girl on the ad. How much of a stretch is it to assume that these women were not the sexy ad’s target audience because women used to be less (socially allowed to get) interested in cars?

Ok I realise that I did not put the previous comment in the friendliest form, sorry about that !

Your point is that the marketing choice of using beautiful women is dictated by the sellers’ preferences rather that the buyers’ one. In the apparent absence of evidence to support either hypothesis, you are willing to favor the former one.

What I haven’t said explicitly yet is that there is one argument that makes me find the latter one more likely in the absence of further evidence : the businesses that make their marketing choices based on customers’ preferences will tend to survive more. kn our capitalist society, it makes sense to me.

You gave one counter-example that is not strong enough to change my opinion as it can also be explained with the firm having poorly evaluated what their target audience was. They do say in the article that more women started buying tyres after the marketing change, which is indeed not the audience targeted with the sexy-girl ad.

It does however a good job at disproving the affirmation “because everyone regardless of gender and age are biologically conditioned to look at them.” to which you were originally replying, and I disagree with that affirmation as well. I just think your conclusion goes too far i the other direction, in the absence of further evidence.

It’s the salesmen who want the stall staffed with models, not the customers.

Could you link the evidence-base of this though?

Do they? The linked blog’s biography is written with masculine pronouns.

What marketing departments dominated by men think works is not the same thing as what actually works

In this case, isn’t it because the market evolved faster than they could keep up with? Probably there was a time where most of their customers were “macho men”, so these adds would work in marketing.

This makes me think about the French “je m’en bats les couilles” (litt. “I beat my balls with it”). Some girls say it too, others say they beat their ovaries instead.

the comment that ‘upset’ me in the context you are asking is the one where the guy calls me butthurt for disagreeing with his opinion

This is not in the context they were asking though, this happened as a response to your rant.
What some of us would want to have is documented examples of what caused you to write this post.

In a comment you complained about nobody having “shared their experience in a meaningful way”, but you haven’t shared anything concrete either.

In the post you said:

I remember we could still have discussions about controversial topics without things getting ugly

Yet to me things do not seem to have gotten ugly when you expressed a very controversial opinion in the “taliban” post. This is were concrete examples would help understanding your point.

Some users did disrepect you about this issue in this post, and I definitely do not support that ! In the end, you are a teen getting bullied (probably by adults) for having an opinion, and this is wrong no matter how bad the opinion is.

there isn’t really much else you can do

One could also do nothing. What are the insults supposed to achieve?

some people kinda deserve to be called names.

Are you arguing in favor of retributive “justice”? Isn’t it exactly OP’s shitty opinion that they get bullied for?

what each post produced was really high quality

I’ve only been participating in discussions on Lemmy groups for 3ish years, but I’m quite sure that never happened. There have always been good and bad posts, good and bad comments, civil and less civil users.

Following the title, I forgot the little ones, so in total we have
- 3 to 4 years of maternal school (2,5 - 6 years old). Traditionnally only the last one was mandatory but this is currently changing so I don’t know whether or not the whole of it is already mandatory for everyone
- 6 years of primary school (6-12 years old)
- 6 years of secondary school (12-18 years old)

From (the French-speaking part of) Belgium, 6 years of primary and 6 years of secondary. Nothing inbetween as that’s already 12 years. Secondary usually happens within the same school although there are two divisions within it:
- programs are designed for three cycles (“degrés”) of two years (D1, D2, D3)
- teacher’s diploma follow a division in two “degrés” of three years : teachers for the inferior one (DI) have a bachelor and teachers for the superior one have a master. In the near future the diploma’s will change but the distiction is mostly going to stay

In this latter sense, “inferior secondary” would be the equivalent to middle school and “superior secondary” the one for high school, although as I have explained it is not as separated as in the US, Italy, France or others. As someone who teach in the superior secondary “degré”, I do usually introduce myself as a high-school teacher when talking to people from other countries.

why would that be a plus?

True, but we are still excluding some people when we use it. By always writing in English one always excludes the same ones.

si l’UE décide un jour de parler une seule langue je suis d’accord avec tous les langues européenes sauf l’anglais.

Si l’UE devait décider d’une seule langue, je pense que ça ne devrait pas être la langue nationale d’un état membre. Une langue construite comme l’Esperanto serait plus appropriée à mon avis, et aurait en tout cas plus de chance d’être acceptée par les différents états/peuples.

@cali_ash @Servais

Why limit yourself to people that speak a certain language when it’s irrelevant to the topic?

Speaking english is also limiting oneself to people that speak a given language.

I usually don’t skip intros

All it lacks is an API that allows it to send commands. This is not a limitation of its intelligence, if it “knows” when to put text in a bash codebox, it will know when to send an API call.

Ask your brain to click a button, it cannot either, all it does is sending and receiving electric signals. Fortunately, it is surrounded by a body that reacts to these signals.

@clay_pidgin

@ngvx

Not a huge ESC fan usually, but I did love the 2021 edition for the proprtion of native language songs, both in total and among the top spots