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by seszett 3y ago
Nice and very interesting write-up. I'd like to comment on this part, about actually writing on cards: > you can create an account online and associate the card with your account, and then you can add value online. This is convenien
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> If it doesn't react with the beverage... what's the issue supposed to be? BPA doesn't react with the beverage, but it does dissolve in it in small quantities, and although it's not acutely toxic it has biologic
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by seszett 3y ago
She used her position at Coca-Cola to steal other companies information. The headline is a bit sensationalised and the lining formula isn't actually Coca-Cola's "secret formula", it's just a coating company's
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by seszett 3y ago
> France needs to maintain boots on the ground in Africa to protect their uranium mines It seems rather coincidental to me that one of the countries where France has military presence happens to be a minor uranium producer (we're
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by seszett 3y ago
> What is on your passport then? See my other comment on Vietnamese names, actually if you have a Belgian passport and a Vietnamese name, your actual given name (the third part for women with the "Thi" middle name) is not sho
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by seszett 3y ago
> In Vietnam names like Nguyen Thi Anh Mai are common. Which reminds me of this problem: she might have sisters called, say, Nguyen Thi Anh May and Nguyen Thi Anh Minh, and in quite a few countries this will result in them having ident
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by seszett 3y ago
> Most people in the world have filled out forms on U.S. sites. They'll know what to do. I'm just French (where we often use "FAMILY Given" in a formal setting, but "Given Family" is common otherwise) and
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by seszett 3y ago
It is respectful in France too, but only if you use a title. Say the person is DUPONT Maëlle, then: "Bonjour madame Dupont" is respectful "Bonjour Maëlle" is informal "Bonjour Dupont" is rude. "Bonjour Maë
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by seszett 3y ago
But the very article we are discussing shows that it does change things, though?
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by seszett 3y ago
> If the punishment was "comply in 180 days or we'll suspend your business charter" The punishment is generally "comply in 180 days [actually it's usually measured in years] or we'll fine you". And th
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by seszett 3y ago
I've never met anyone who drinks 250 mL glasses of milk, though. I put maybe about 10 mL in my coffee once a day, and need 500 mL or 750 mL when baking crêpes . Sometimes in cereals but that's not very often.
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by seszett 3y ago
> People had other things to worry about during the Revolutionary War Well, the metric system was devised in France mostly during the Revolution, with the size of Earth surveyed while at war with most of Europe in order to get a good b
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by seszett 3y ago
> It doesn't take a week to get through 1L. For us it does, though, it was always a problem for me when I lived in Canada. Here in the EU my UHT milk can stay open in my fridge for several weeks and still be good. I also prefer th
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by seszett 3y ago
That somebody had simply taken the bag from the cardboard box it was sold in, for some reason (maybe space). These are called cubi in France (from cubitainer) and used to be hard plastic containers but have been bags in cardboard boxes fo
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by seszett 3y ago
That's right next to where I live, the city also installs slingers across the street for free if you ask for it. My main problem is once you have plants dogs start pissing on your walls and door. And apparently their owners did it norm
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by seszett 3y ago
I'm happy when people take seeds or fruit from my sidewalk garden, it means they like it.
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by seszett 3y ago
Even in Belgium, one of the highest density countries in the EU, most existing and newly built houses are semi-detached, with about twice as much semi-detached + detached houses as there are terraced houses. In France, terraced homes are ra
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by seszett 3y ago
> it probably has rim brakes, and in some countries you can no longer find replacement pads from a local bike shop, only special order I find it hard to believe, but if you're in one of these countries, you can just order brake pa
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by seszett 3y ago
Well it's sometimes forbidden to have multiple roof sections, I don't know about Hungary but it might be often the case there. And it looks very different, I wouldn't do it at least.
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by seszett 3y ago
Metros have them, and in my experience the rear-facing seats are more comfortable, as metros decelerate much faster than they accelerate (or at least in Lille, I didn't notice it as much in three other metros I took).
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by seszett 3y ago
It provides shadow and protection from rain above the entrance. It's a pretty common design.
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by seszett 3y ago
> There's no way to follow someone to get updates about their work without being subjected to whatever political digressions they chose to share. Well that's a weakness inherent to microblogging, some people like it evidently
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by seszett 3y ago
Well I have to say I never really visited this instance directly, I just visited the main French one (piaille.fr) initially, and eventually signed up on the SDF instance but I just don't visit the "local posts feed", I only r
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by seszett 3y ago
But it's not the case for me, how comes? Surely you must willingly follow people who post this kind of content, or inflammatory tags? Because I think it's the only way this content can reach you.
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by seszett 3y ago
What if you have family or friends "familiar with your domain", but no paying customers?
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by seszett 3y ago
> People often think that lowering meat consumption (something we absolutely have to do) means eating bugs. I have not heard this but I can believe that's what people think, however it seems a bit weird to me, do these people thin
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by seszett 3y ago
They're the same species, so for this game they are the same animal.
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by seszett 3y ago
I see that 50% of people in Belgium have credit cards and I suspect it's because bank cards until very recently used to be almost only usable in Belgium, and not for online purchase (except at some Belgian stores). So you would need a
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by seszett 3y ago
It could work within one country, but I suspect they would use stolen US credit cards to get funds on Paypal, but then transfer that money to a bank account in another country where Paypal is unlikely to be able to get it back. So the owner

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