Hotels are fine when you are alone or a couple. When you have (young) kids an appartement or house is much better, where the kids get a room. Hotels have family rooms, but its usually an extra bed in the same small hotel room. Where you basically have to be silent when the kids go to bed and have zero time as a couple.
Well your country voted for him, TWICE!
Even if France would change back exactly to how things where in 1970, that is not going to fix this. People are getting older (so more years retired and more years with extra healthcare) and at the same time there is a lower birth rate. France went from about 3.1 working contributors per retiree in 1970 to just 1.8 in 2024.
Al developed counties have this problem and they all struggle to solve this, France also has a huge debt.
This is why I don’t understand the point of the riots. Every time famers in France get less money or more environmental rules, riots. Every time people are told you have to retire later, because the current system is going to collapse, riots. It’s the goto move, but almost no structural changes are made. France needs to understand they can’t maintain the current system.
His talking points aren’t even really interesting. AI is overhyped, companies don’t like to lose IP and data to AI companies, etc.
For me it’s also a price issue, after my streaming more expensive year on year at some point I just stopped and paid for VPN and Usenet.
Unfortunately my local gas station (Netherlands) also puts ads on the pumps. Glad I never have to go there anymore (recently switched to an EV)
When I was in the US it was just confusing sometimes. Like I went to this restaurant to order a pizza, to-go. They had a sign outside and the pizza was like 18 dollars, but when you want to pay its more because of tax, and now they also expected a tip. Ok but it’s to go right? So you also tip when getting groceries? The entire system just felt very arbitrary.
Yeah not every Iranian that is against the current régime wants the Shah back, they also don’t have a great track record.
I think what will hurt them much more is the EU realizing the danger in dependence on American tech like Microsoft, and slowly replacing it with (open source) alternatives.
This meme is just so annoying and dumb. I’m not from the US so yeah the Democrats would be considered right in most EU countries. But saying its either that or anarchy and Communism, is just dumb. Just like the political right, the political left is a spectrum. Where I live we don’t have a 2 party system. There is a big difference between a centre right and far right party, same for the parties on the left.
This isn’t really new, when I was young a lot of kids wanted to be a pro footballer or singer.
Yes just like radical Christians, radical Muslims don’t like anything gay, female etc. There is a reason in some Middle Eastern countries women can’t go outside without a man “protecting” them.
Yeah what I mean is for me it doesn’t really matter, I am not going to break a bottle, and even if I accidentally did (not really sure how at the beach in soft sand) I would clean up the glass pieces. Broken bottles at the beach are left by assholes, not by accident.
For me it doesn’t really matter, glass or cans, just take whatever you brought back home or to a trash/recycle can
My wife told me our son is hypermobile like her because he can sit like this https://andersonvillept.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/711ce16c-8c00-4abc-a7c5-3947d70fb2e5.jpg
That was when I found out it isn’t normal and I’m als hypermobile
I can also do this (I though everyone could) https://my.clevelandclinic.org/-/scassets/Images/org/health/articles/23118-hitchhikers-thumb
You’re bi and that’s totaly okay! I also like my car and enjoy decent public transportation and walkable cities.
I don’t know about your city, but getting towed away can cost you between 150 and 500 (diffent in every city) plus the fine (parking on a tram lane) 120 plus about 25 for every night your car is not picked up. So people avoid that.
When I just got my drivers license I came home one night and found a free parking spot, felt like the last one. When I needed my car about a week later it was gone. Went to the police to report it as stolen, turned out it was towed. I accidentally parked on a reseved spot that you are not allowed to park in. Pretty dumb but it was an honest mistake. The fine was about twice what I earned a month from my partime job as a student. It really sucked, but it was a good lesson.
Before reading this, I was going to share something about salvia as well. Its the only drug where I had actual real life hallucinations. Once after smoking it, my living room was filled with friends in a party/birthday setting (I was actually alone at that moment).