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EstebanPossum t1_j9wqbrz wrote

The idea that a man who (checks notes) made his wages based on the idea that people with money spent lots of money on fancy food, would be relevant to Socialism is the dumbest thing I’ve heard in several weeks. You spoiled ass children with your Che Guevara tshirts need to look into what actually went down an ANY of the socialist nations before you speak your ignorant ass ideas. I’m fine if you want to suggest that we would be better being farmers than capitalists but the very idea that you can be a Socialist but also be a fancy chef is absolutely ridiculous

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BorisTheMansplainer t1_j9wjj07 wrote

I can't tell if you're serious about drilling out gas jets, but for anyone else reading this, do some research into how precisely these holes are drilled for their intended output. And not just the size - the shape of the orifice greatly influences how much gas flows at a given pressure.

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ConstanceClaire t1_j9wg29f wrote

So, I looked it up and both are fine. Without the 'n' is just the original French term, which language we got restaurant from as well, whereas with the 'n' is reasonably common, more-so in the US than the UK, (which is geographically and culturally close to France).

Going by our grammar it amounts to restaurant and eur, which functions the same as er in many English-based words, but gets used for words that we got from French. The suffix er just means 'do-er' or 'one who does'. So it makes sense that folks would lean towards the more English-ified version of the word. We kept the eur because it's a French word, but it's no different than someone who dances being a dancer or someone who owns being an owner.

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Northstar1989 t1_j9wbvc7 wrote

Fair enough...

He might have been a Socialist though. We don't know. There's a tendency to "sanitize" legends of anything that rubs against the power of elites...

After all, how many people know Albert Einstein was a lifelong Socialist? Here's an essay he wrote in 1949...

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