France. Recipes are sometimes not at all what is pictured, they always tell you to use way too much salt and I feel like some ingredients get updated and they never check the recipe. The portions are very uneven and most of the time very small. If you know how to cook it’s fine and you end up with edible food. If you blindly follow the recipe you’ll end up with junk half the time.

They pretend they cut food waste but I always end up with loads of seasonings in little bags because they give too much of everything. I’d rather have more of the base ingredients…

Their marketing is also toxic shit and they have the nasty trait of only giving vouchers when there’s an issue (pesto bag exploding for instance…).

I would not recommend.

Still a lot of denial about this in Belgium. At school I was told that the accounts of hands being cut as a punishment for minor slights were greatly exaggerated.

Don’t try to make jokes about someone’s great-grandfather just asking the Congolese to lend a hand also, the posh people I said it to pretended they didn’t get it.

I’m not saying the Ancient Greeks were nice, but I think politicians, especially career politicians, should face drastic consequences for betraying the constitution of the countries they’re supposed to serve. And classical Athens was only a minority of rulers among people who didn’t have any rights, but their institutions had some aspects that were more robust than modern States that have no checks and balances and rely on “but no one would ever do that”.

French police and municipalities have been using illegal surveillance (like Briefcam with the facial recognition enabled) for a long time and there are also no consequences, except for the fact the surveillance is being made increasingly legal because they “need” it.

Classical Athens punished the people who proposed evil laws with fines or way worse. But our enlightened ”democracies” just let this happen without repercussions.

Incredible that no one died and a tank still got taken out.

You can spoof IMEI and pretend your phone is an old iPhone. Carriers wouldn’t know.

It’s so pleasant that DM has clean toilets for when I’ve poorly planned my liquid intake, shops in France don’t generally have toilets for the public and the malls that do don’t really care if they’re clean it seems.

But it is generally one of those things Games Media doesn’t cover since protecting trans folk is a good way to get boycotted and EVERYONE loves retroarch for their emulation needs. And the outlets who DO tend to cover this kind of stuff are under near constant attacks from kiwi farms et al to begin with so…

Thanks for the links, took me a while to get to it. It’s really missing some actual investigative journalism into this because it’s a confusing mess.

I did not realize there were so many toxic people around emulators, of all things…

Do you have a link that explains how RetroArch is transphobic? I’m OotL.

Shit I just posted this without seeing your post. Deleting 🥲

Vuvuzelas.

I’ve always found the people who consider them high-brow TV arrogant, they’ve been a platform for crackpots forever. They love pseudoscientific bullshit… So if you have more than 4 brain cells you can dismiss quite a few documentaries. It’s sad because they produce and/or show a lot of good stuff.

Linen can be farmed and processed in Europe.

Not only that but recent lineups from a lot of manufacturers have 95% of the same power train including essential parts, and loads of different models with different tunes. The lowest trim BMW 1 series from a few years ago can be tuned to 200 HP without any mods… it’s illegal in a lot of places, it doesn’t stop people.

No, no and not really. You can check with carto.tchoo.net it shows electrification and max speeds.

Sure that helps, still not enough when it’s 35°C or more outside every day for a week and doesn’t cool down further than 25°C outside at dawn.

What? Quick (everywhere) and Burger King France are groupe Bertrand assets…

It’s Switzerland. Not many thefts.

They’re fine on disused tracks to make the land more useful, which they’re doing in France.

The Olympics have this every time. Summits for the elite too if it’s needed. What’s a bit new here is how shamelessly it’s advertised.