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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Same thing in France with CB. I’ve only recently understood why I was asked to choose between “CB” and “Visa” when paying by card online, when both were written on my card. Actually, when I got my first card as a teenager, I was a bit nervous about that, I was scared of “making the wrong choice” when paying online; I rememberd asking adults around me what that was about and how to choose which one to select, and not one of them could give me an explanation, they told me that there was no difference and that I should just pick one at random. Now I feel kinda bad about all the times that I chose Visa, because from what I understand their fees are generally higher for the seller.




  • Je connais une personne âgée à qui il est arrivé quelque chose de similaire. Elle a reçu un appel provenant soi-disant de la police, lui disant qu’en raison de cambriolages dans son quartier, ils allaient venir pour mettre ses bijoux en lieu sûr. Elle savait qu’il y avait effectivement eu des cambriolages dans le coin, et a baissé sa garde. Un « policier » (ou deux, je ne me rappelle plus) est venu rapidement devant chez elle, elle lui a donné ses bijoux de valeur, dont certains lui venaient de sa mère et avaient une valeur affective importante. Très rapidement après le départ de l’escroc, elle s’est rendu compte de ce qui s’était passé, mais c’était trop tard. Ça l’a beaucoup choquée, et elle m’a dit se sentir bête et avoir eu honte de ce qui lui était arrivé.



  • Right-wing should be defeated in the election and on the streets, not in the court.

    This is not about defeating the far right, this is about temporarily preventing several politicians who misappropriated public money thanks to their position from gaining access to positions that would allow them to commit a repeat offence. (Let’s keep in mind that they’ve not even expressed regret about what they’ve done, instead they’ve spent all the trial playing the martyrs.)

    1. The decision had nothing to do with the RN’s political leaning. Nothing. It’s beside the point.

    2. The RN will still be able to take part in the presidential election. Nobody’s forbidding them to take part in the election. For example, the RN’s current president, Jordan Bardella, has not been convicted or even prosecuted (even though he was one of the fake assistants!), and is free to try to run for the election.





  • La phrase est un peu ambigüe, mais non. On peut aujourd’hui demander une dérogation pour ne pas atténuer la peine; avec la loi, la non-atténuation sera la règle dans certains cas, et le juge devra motiver sa décision pour pouvoir atténuer la peine.

    Je cite Vie Publique :

    Un assouplissement de l’excuse de minorité (diminution de moitié de la peine par rapport à un adulte) est également instauré pour les mineurs de plus de 16 ans récidivistes, lorsqu’ils sont poursuivis pour un crime ou délit puni d’au moins 5 ans de prison. Le régime en la matière est inversé, puisque l’atténuation des peines ne sera plus le principe mais l’exception : le juge ne pourra retenir l’excuse de minorité que par “une décision spécialement motivée”. Dans les autres situations, le principe d’atténuation des peines demeure applicable, le juge pouvant y déroger sous certaines conditions. Les sénateurs ont également modifié la majorité requise au sein de la cour d’assise des mineurs pour écarter l’excuse de minorité : la majorité qualifiée des votants est remplacée par la majorité absolue.



  • How is your comment related to the article? This trial isn’t about the National Rally’s ideas (which are indeed illiberal, fundamentally racist and plainly disgusting). It’s about them embezzling millions of euros from the European Parliament, during more than a decade, by having many of their members be “fake” MEP assistants who got paid for a job that they didn’t actually do. WTF does this have to do with religion or illiberalism.

    Although not being French I do not know the extent of laicité.

    Indeed you do not. Laïcité, among other things, guarantees the right to believe in (or not believe in) and practice (or not practice) a religion. What you’re proposing is religious discrimination, not laïcité.


  • France actually was in the same timezone as the UK before WWII and the German occupation. My grandma remembers switching to “German time”. Franco’s Spain similarly changed timezones in 1942 to match their German allies. So, yes, the change was made politically. :-) I’m guessing France is also responsible for Algeria and Morocco being in UTC+1, not sure if they’ve ever discussed changing zones.

    Edit: I just checked and I was wrong about the Moroccan time zone. Algeria is in UTC+1 though (all year long, they don’t use DST), not sure why it’s in yellow on your map.


  • In France, normal time is UTC+1 (CET), and summer time is UTC+2 (CEST), when we actually belong in UTC+0 (and were, before being occupied by Germany). Permanently switching to the so-called “summer time” makes no sense if you’ve ever seen a map of time zones.

    And by the way Spain is in the same situation. Spain, which is more western than Greenwich, is going to change time with us this night and we’re both going to spend six months in Egypt and Finland’s normal time zone. That is so wrong.