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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.

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.

Vuvuzelas.

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.

https://xkcd.com/2501/

They were a lot more limited. They got this bad anyway.

Picture taken in Paris ~20 years ago I’d say so you weren’t far off.

If those fuckers could read I wonder what they’d think of the book.

I’m still bitter Morrowind vanilla didn’t let you side with Dagoth Ur if you decided to also play an evil xenophobic maniac who wants to spread a flesh-eating disease on the continent.

I’d say very few games have a lot of effort put into the evil arc.

AliExpress at least lets you buy close to the source of a lot of goods that you won’t find made elsewhere than China. Some stuff I find there exists from European makers, latest example, trim clips for cars: you can buy Restagraf but you need to live near a car body shop supplier that will be willing to sell you a few clips without insane markups.

I’d have to agree, the quality of electrical components has gone way up since the 1980s, and almost every shitty part has been replaced with reliable electronics over time: ignition went from points to distributors to statically timed electronic boxes, carburettors have been replaced by very smart EFI with basically no wear items if you keep up with maintenance. All my old cars have had insanely shitty connectors, stupid wiring and finicky tuning.

Hybrids don’t even need alternators.

Can’t judges requisition anyone as a Marshal and send them to capture ICE thugs held in contempt? I don’t think that will happen but maybe it should.

In English they’re called reflex cameras. No one makes them now.

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So if you hit wildlife you have to pay or does it only count for domesticated animals that aren’t allowed on roads in most places? That sounds insane. In most countries if you hit a dog with your car the dog owner is liable for damages to your car in most cases, same with cattle unless it’s part of a convoy.

Levi’s in Europe has been shit for decades so welcome to the club. Sadly it seems only premium denim isn’t fragile shit nowadays.

It’s also a concern with methylphenidate and is actually checked when it’s given to children.

I don’t know if I am fun but filling forms online sure beats losing years worth of income to my own stupidity if I were to be intoxicated (which I do not do anymore but you never know…).