I’m talking about frequent vandalism of the car that amounts to extra costs to the owner of the car.

My European made T-shirts last about 3 years, thick, solid color, 100% coton (and it’s 100% french sourced, processed and made if you chose the linen ones but you can wash very hot linen yet can’t spin linen at high speed or it shorten) . But they cost a fortune (65€ a pop) and it’s a pain each time I get to buy some (I’m just a bus driver, not a tech mogul) but in the end, I think the cost levels out with cheaper shirts trashed regularly. ( If anyone’s curious: https://www.le-tshirt-propre.fr/ )

I saw that AWS also is pledging something similar.

Let all those responsible for IT in your company know that the CLOUD act, in the US, gives the government a prerogative access no matter where on earth the data is stored as long as the corporation is registered in the US, so European subsidiaries of US corporations do fall under the CLOUD act.

Don’t be surprised if you encounter recurrent tire changes and paint jobs…

Any profit is sent back to the US. Whereas if I get my food in my local burger joint, all the money stays in my country. They are also nice burgers. I understand what you are saying but right now, and maybe the next few years, we do have to remind the US, you aren’t an empire on your own. This for their brands AND their Tech services industry.

You know, games can be great tabletop too, strategic, tactical, RPG, it’s all there + you get to meet people you wouldn’t have met IRL because, like online gaming, it unites people from different walks of life. Great friendships are regularly made around gaming boards and those friends don’t need software to talk too. Yes I know, some games require figurine armies but you can always find someone who’ll be happy to lend you an army for a game and there are whole second hand armies sold.

I understand it makes things easy. I’m not a fan of that though. I know if you send mail from your new address to someone using gmail, google will get that address. But the robots have to then create a new advertising profile corresponding to that address and that profile is empty . If you tell google send it all to this new address, then google can already stuff the profile of your new address with the info from your gmail account. (And no: robots are stupid because there are hundreds of new emails created every second, they don’t understand that name.surname@gmail.com = name.surname@anyothermail.com)

You have to change one after the other the emails in each important account you have (friends, family, employer, governmental agencies, ethical brands) and keep the ones you suspect of being sellers of your ID have the now secondary gmail one.

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There’s the popular but expensive ecoflow stream,

At the other extremity this solarchoc one seems too cheap to be serious and uses zendure hardware. I’ll have to look on review sites…

( https://www.solarchoc.com/plug-and-play/209734-kit-solaire-2000w-4-panneaux-solaires-jolywood-500w-1-micro-onduleur-batterie-zendure-autoconsommation-plugplay-wallis.html )

And many many others between those 2 extremities…

They are always associated with a Linky smart meter (only meter allowed in the Country, no matter who you are subscribed to, there is only 1 nationwide grid operator and planner ). That meter is designed with home batteries, home generation in it’s design as well as utilities ability to selectively put heaters / car chargers into an eco mode if the need arises.

Oh, yeah: I think the smart Meter ( mandatory linky brand in France) can block outgoing if no incoming in it’s options. So not the fridge (but that one has thermal inertia going for it) but maybe a few led lights, maybe a small computer?

The thing is, I’ve been eyeing those solar+battery systems to save up a bit but I really don’t want to be part of the problem with grid failures.

Not the one you are replying to but I was thinking about what is now popular in Europe: instead of big solar farm, it’s more € 4 000 system with a bit more than a 1.5 KW of balcony solar, and a small 3 or 4 kw battery inside the home associated with a smart meter that doesn’t allow the current to flow back to the grid. It cannot allow for off-the-grid living but it does keep the grid safe and decentralizes energy generation. With the possibility of a call to share in case there is a catastrophic event.

I live very close to the border but on the French side, we had a tiny outage of about 1/3 of a second (but long enough to reset routers)… That’s probably why.

If we don’t save this way our public services, we allow a future intervention by the EU, and seeing what they did in Greece last time. We’re better off doing things slowly without people loosing their jobs rather than the IMF and Bruxelles cutting through our social contract.

Ask any Frenchmen, there are quite a lot agencies who procure exactly the same services. You do not need to fire people, tear down public services, just bring 2 or 3 of those agencies under the same roof. It will also make things simpler for citizens.

So, 3% reduction of the public deficit over 5 years expected. I don’t think it is similar to what is done in the US at all.

Title gore to mobilise ( not accusing the author, the source rather) ? Or is that just merging pyramids into bigger ones without firing people or abandoning missions? Feels like the second seeing the expected reduction in public deficit.

Fatherland is often feminine in Latin languages, example: “la patrie” in french.

Proposer de redessiner les frontières de l’est de l’UE est la proposition LFI qui marque leur allégeance. C’est outrepasser la libre détermination et la souveraineté de ces états.

La fascination et le culte de la personnalité qu’engendre Mélenchon sur le reste de LFI, au point d’exclure, de harceler tout membre qui n’entre pas dans ce culte et se permet de contredire Mélenchon est , par définition, un aspect fasciste au sein de ce parti. Il y a aussi un phénomène d’abrutissement des masses en restant sur des sujets sociétaux plutôt que politiques.

All this is true, bit Vance is the vice president, if Trump goes, we’re stuck with him for the remainder of Trumps term.

Liberapay is a good way to regularly give to open projects with out having to remember to go back to a project page. A european equivalent to patreon for FOSS projects and creators.