So much this.

"- I hate the fact that my landlord gets half the money I make without doing anything to earn it!

-If you think it’s so easy why don’t you buy yourself a flat and rent it?"

Well because I don’t fucking want to become a bloodsucking leech myself, is that so hard to understand?

Mandatory military service ended somewhat recently in France (1997), but it’s still enough of a gap that the military isn’t ready the massive influx of new, reluctant recruits that bringing it fully back would imply.

The idea has been floating around for a few years now, especially since the start of Ukraine’s Invasion by Russia, but it’s still very unpopular among both the military and civilian society.

I do think you’re in the right though: this is clearly a first step to build back the infrastructure and to test the waters for a full reintroduction, but I don’t think anyone is ready to cross that bridge just yet

I’m sure there are plenty of activities that you could enjoy but never thought of. Try joining a sports club that isn’t a gym, or a board games club, or a book club, anything really. It doesn’t have to be something that you currently do or that you already enjoy, you can also try expanding your hobbies by thinking of cool stuff you’d like to do but never got around to try

And it’s not like it’s a surprise for anyone. Everytime someone caves to him, Trump takes that as a sign that he can ask for more. I truly don’t know what the EU was thinking with that bullshit agreement

And in a matter of a few hours a single guy will have read the manual, figured out the clue and put it on a wiki or a Reddit post so that none of your other players have to rtfm

I’ve fallen into this exact trap when I played the HD remaster of Suikoden 1&2 a few months ago. The games still hold up pretty well but are a bit too dated to my taste to have more than a single playthrough, so I followed guides to get the perfect ending, which involves recruiting all 108 characters into your army.

At first I was just looking at a very light guide that told me which characters were missable and approximately when to get them. Then I got impatient and looked up their location and recruitment conditions. And then I ended up following a complete walkthrough step by step to make sure I wasn’t making any mistake.

That completely took the fun out of the games and I burnt out halfway through the second one.

Same Edit : found a workaround by looking up the issue. Go to this page https://www.gog.com/cart/add/1486951595

It should add the Freedom to Buy Games as a free item in your shopping basket, which you can then add to your account

Neat & Dough

Ireland is another European country that speaks English, but I’ll grant you that it’s not super relevant in this case considered it’s geographical position behind the UK

La France des gens qui ne remettent jamais en questions leurs idées préconçues, c’est beau

J’ai toujours eu du mal a comprendre la différence profonde entre le principe des tickets restaurants et les gens qui donnent une pièce a des SDF en précisant “C’est pas pour acheter de l’alcool ou de la drogue hein !”.

Je trouve les restrictions du ticket restaurant tellement paternalistes

Yeah, shower sex might be one of the most overrated things I know. It always feels like a good idea at first and then you quickly realize that the logistics of it are hell

Honestly I don’t think it’s that complicated. I’m convinced he just threw a temper tantrum because his ego couldn’t handle being let go of his position has head of DOGE, and since Trump’s ego is just as big as his things just escalated from there

Just so you know: GDPR has (mostly) nothing to do with those cookie banners. It’s a very broad text that doesn’t go into specifics like that.

What you’re seeing is a result of the 2002 E-Privacy directive that has been reinterpreted by data privacy authorities in light of the new definition of consent brought by the GDPR.

Basically, since 2002, websites are required to ask users for consent before depositing cookies. The issue was that there was no definition of what this consent meant. What the GDPR did is simply to define the concept of consent as a free expression of will that must come from a positive act (i.e. it must be explicit rather than implicit).

The GDPR was supposed to come out with a sister regulation called the E-Privacy regulation, but due to intense lobbying that text was buried. Local data protection authorities in Europe then decided to reinterpret that old directive in light of the GDPR to fill the gap.

All in all, blame the lobbyists, not the GDPR

Not sure whether it means something else in English, but in french a vernissage is the first opening of an art exhibition

Hey, I’ll let you know that I’m a judgmental asshole and I happen to be french, but I don’t hate the world, only the parts that aren’t french

I remember the “They hate us for our freedom” line from the bush-era. I was still a kid at the time and I clearly remember asking my parents about it because it seemed like such a weird thing to say.

Of course, as a french kid, this was also the time when I kept seeing Americans on TV pouring wine in the sewers and calling us surrender monkeys because we refused to join the Irak war, so that might have influenced me a bit

I just use one of these bad boys

“Why should we solve the world’s problems for free? The rest of the world should pay us!”