So drums in washing machines have to stop being sealed where you can’t even access the bearings?

Doubt it.

It’s probably only about availability of parts which isn’t the real problem: prices will still be a nightmare and parts will still be highly specific so third parties don’t bother making any.

The pedos wield scepters and wads of cash.

Thank you for trying to give a nuanced viewpoint on this. Public health officials aren’t saints but somehow because there was a pandemic we have to worship them now? Or hate them? There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground.

Easy to forget how much lying and idiocy “both sides” did. The conspiracy theorists may have had crazy theories but they weren’t crazy for thinking they were lied to and/or their fundamental rights were threatened.

In France they wilfully oversold vaccines by saying they would stop transmission. When questioned in Parliament the health minister admitted they had no proof for their grandiose claims. Then the opposite happened because people were told they were invincible with the vaccines, but you couldn’t go to all the “optional” public places without an insanely priced Chinese-made test from less than X hours ago (X changed a few times) or without proof of vaccination, all this on government controlled databases. This also became the standard restriction for travel for around a year, even for going back to your home country… All that and retirement homes weren’t on strict lockdowns for a very long time in 2020, data showing older people were more vulnerable was available early on.

I was paid a lot of money to stick social distancing stickers in public places and there was nothing proving it was of any use: the distancing or the stickers.

A lot of people hated the restrictions because they were hypocritical at best. I couldn’t do remote work and was always forced to work in proximity with others anyway. The government made false promises like no loss of salary for anyone catching the virus, that quickly went out the window, I still lost more than 40% of my salary the month I inevitably got it. I got it before vaccines were available and never got it again (got tested a lot, mostly because I was curious): I was still considered like a plague ridden heretic for not wanting to get the vaccines when they decided to force people to get vaccinated and wasn’t allowed to do sports outside in a club without paying 40€ or more for a test each time. The first lockdowns I still had to work but I couldn’t go for a walk outside more than once a day.

EDIT: oh and in 2020, and until 2022, it was expected to clean and disinfect shared tools and surfaces. Now no one cares! I go through a lot of disinfectant wipes to minimise how dirty my hands get at work, and I shouldn’t have to do one pass to remove the black grime then another to disinfect…

In theory yes. In practice not many places actually do anything against serial fraudsters.

Even with GDPR requests there’s zero guarantee they actually comply with deletion requests. They may decide to show something that may lead to think they have complied. That’s it…

The current designs are boring but good. Nature and birds would be good, people not so much.

Heart attack.

J’en voyais dans certaines galeries commerciales plus ou moins désaffectées : c’était la sono pour le breakdance.

Les deux ont disparu de l’espace public.

I look like a dufus in mine but it’s treated against mosquitoes and doesn’t mind machine washes. Turns out stuff given to people to invade desert countries is actually designed to withstand harsh conditions.

La Méhari n’est pas une 2CV, c’est une Dyane !

(Dyane qui avait aussi un hayon et qui a inauguré un nouveau bicylindre qui s’est retrouvé sur la 2CV ensuite)

I was explicitly told the reports of chopped hands were greatly exaggerated.

Disgusting.

Et l’A31bis arrive à grands pas : tunnel et destruction de zones humides et monuments historiques pour un itinéraire bis inutile et qui ne fera pas gagner de temps. Le chantier va encore plus pourrir une région déjà trop urbanisée et avec des friches industrielles partout.

En plus c’est prévu que l’A31 existante devienne payante pour compenser le coût démesuré (environ 2 milliards d’euros), si ça arrive tous les villages environnants vont devenir invivables.

On attend toujours le moratoire sur l’extension du réseau routier, les subsides à l’élevage et la résurrection du transport de marchandises sur les chemins de fer.

I wouldn’t count on his sanity.

Russia is likely funding useful idiots who do sabotage and/or organising it themselves, arson and drone fly-overs are very cheap and disruptive.

Yes 90k missing at the same time roughly, and their business is selling you services to look for those people. Pretty sure you can’t look for a lot of missing people in China if you like your freedom or your life, the Party won’t like it if you try to uncover their dirty deeds.

I am not defending the US but one country is clearly way worse than the other.

China disappears people and does not have accurate statistics about it, with heavy censorship. Even catastrophes have extremely suspect statistics.

Canadians crossing Hell in a locomotive with cubic metres of flammable fluids: “anyone got a light?”

Soon travel advice to the US will not only tell you the tap water in many places is moderately toxic, but also that if you want to survive your trip you have to eat cooked food only. Like in India.

La logistique et l’outillage du chauffage au bois, personnellement même en vivant loin de tout je voudrais éviter : c’est chronophage et cher, une autosuffisance avec renouvelables et batteries + un chauffage d’appoint qui ne dépend pas de l’électricité pour survivre à une grosse panne, ça me paraît pas être un investissement colossal et ça évite les ramonages et autres maintenances obligatoirement extériorisées pour faire plaisir aux assureurs.

Why not both…