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by seszett 2y ago
> Do you imagine that people who commute by bicycle or train are going to carry around durable versions of every single-use item they currently encounter? Cups, straws, plates, utensils, napkins, takeout containers, grocery bags, produc
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It's a bit more complicated than just "not being used being honest". Being 100% honest and not hiding anything doesn't work either, so it's a constant balancing act between telling them the truth, reassuring them an
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Since she was 100 km away, it didn't make sense she was going to be there in 15 minutes by normal means, so it meant either she was lying or OP was actually going to be teleported. OP apparently chose to believe the latter, since it co
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It doesn't look spooky at all to me, it looks instead like many of the decommissioned small town train stations (often they were tram stations, from an era when the countryside tramway network around here was very expansive before bein
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by seszett 2y ago
I'm not sure this analysis is totally correct though, after all without spoiling to much, an Indian prince features prominently in some of the best known stories of Jules Verne, and another of the famous ones is about a Chinese man. An
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I have a different one, but they do exist and they're among the cheapest to buy: https://www.castorama.fr/micro-ondes-encastrable-cooke-lewis...
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> So do humans, babies and the elderly especially. Only the healthy adult form is taken into account generally, you wouldn't say that dragonflies are mainly swimming animals for example, even if they do spend most of their life un
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by seszett 2y ago
More specifically, this Google popup is blocked by the "EasyList – Other Annoyances" filter list.
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It depends on the context and the age of the stranger. If it's at work (some random sysadmin or dev at a client, say) yes I would, in the street I wouldn't. In Québec it's more common to tutoyer strangers than in Europe, to
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And in French... Tu parles français Tu parles français ? Parles-tu français ? Est-ce-que tu parles français ? I guess it's the best of both worlds. The French like to hear foreigners speak French though, they're just terrible at u
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I don't have evidence but I do have experience on this. I'm not sure why you would be the quickly dismissive of something that would seem obvious to many.
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> Never mind that computers and internet access is ubiquitous enough these days that "using the family computer" for this sort of thing isn't really needed in the first place. I'm just glad you're not in charge
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There is not authority for french, it's a myth. The Académie has no authority whatsoever, it's little more than a club for writers. The Education Ministry has authority for school programs and what is accepted in French language c
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I contacted them by email and was eventually able to create an account. Had to contact them again at another point where their system once again checks for something with a credit card and again rejected me. I can't remember exactly fo
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> Officially, the British Indian Ocean Territories will cease to exist, therefore so would the ISO 2-letter country code. Many territories have TLDs even if they're just a region of another country, like .tf and .re in the Indian
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by seszett 2y ago
This story is about Mozilla removing the Lite/Manifest v3 version from Firefox's extensions, this has nothing to with Chromium. Now why does such a version even exist when the "normal" uBlock Origin is available on Firef
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Here in Antwerp there's a long street (the Markgravelei) lined with cornelian cherries (Cornus mas). I think most people around here don't know that they're edible and anyway that fruit is somewhat of a hassle to pick and p
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by seszett 2y ago
Alright, condenser dryers are the missing link I had forgotten between dryers that vent outside like in the US and the modern heat pump dryers.
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I'm not even sure US-style hot dryers are allowed in the EU? Everyone I know that has one has a low-temperature heat pump dryer.
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> As I'm surprised your socks/underwear don't cost at least €35 per year, eventually they get holes in them. Are you darning? I don't know if there's so much difference between countries in Europe but this year
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Cyclists rarely leave the bike lane for pleasure, it's usually either because a car is parked on the bike lane, pedestrians are walking on it, or because there's litter or a bad surface (bikes are much more sensitive to uneven roa
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The most difficult step I find is just barely mentioned, finding colocation space at reasonable price is difficult these days.
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It's a bit different I think because the roof itself was never "preserved the best we can", it's "just" a sort of fantasy roof built at a time when Violet le Duc rebuilt many monuments using his imagination and
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That cathedral is property of the state and the Catholic church is only allowed to use it for its office, to be clear. Private (owned by the church) churches, synagogues or mosques are not under that statute. But then they have to pay the
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by seszett 2y ago
That's what happens when government is regulated but companies aren't. The kind of process you describe is totally illegal and unheard of in the EU. In France banks also take utilities bills as proof of residence (but they also as
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by seszett 2y ago
> A PDF of a utility bill as "proof of residency" That's not really a EU Vs US thing though, but a "country with mandatory official declaration of residence" vs not. France is the same as the US there, and I wo
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Maybe that's the problem, I thought the (mostly local media) companies that were blocking EU citizens were doing it out of spite or to make a point, because it doesn't make sense (for one, they're not subject to gdpr if they
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> France is probably #2 I don't know what it's like for Americans living abroad but indeed, as a French citizen living abroad I do believe that France spends enough resources to justify taxing me (with guarantees against doub
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> Now, what can the US government actually do to you while you're no longer a citizen depends a lot where you live and whether you care traveling or doing business with the US again In most western country anything involving a (ev
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I wouldn't be so sure, the same expression exists in French: L'exception qui confirme la règle And there's no ambiguity about it, the exception is confirming that the rule is true. That's a stupid expression IMO, but I

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