It used to be less accessible and visible, I don’t think a lot of people really thought how weird and disgusting it is to do this to children. Was the consensus that child actors in the 1980s were systematically exploited? At least from mainstream media archives you wouldn’t think so.
If it’s a historical monument you’re stuck with period windows installed by approved contractors (or yourself if you manage to source glass that wouldn’t get you fines for not respecting the historical accuracy the State wants). There’s a reason there’s so many ruins, the rules are insane.
If you’re a rich enough hotel magnate you can buy off the people writing the compliance shit and/or the inspectors, I guess.
Lead helped with the valves not getting as much wear because of specific metallurgy that depended on it. It wasn’t strictly needed, the change occured after cars were already mainstream.
Beef is heavily subsidised either by giving money directly to the producers, or letting them get away with pollution (or deforestation in places like Brazil) and using terrible food and/or drugs for their product.
Without subsidies I’m pretty sure beef wouldn’t be affordable even in rich countries.
Kind of but cars are a big burden:
Ursula going beyond her mandate again?
Maybe she should start being held accountable, she’s done enough damage.
As if sex workers were treated fairly in the EU…
Free software activists in Europe have been saying for decades that it’s a matter of sovereignty and the investments may be painful at first but will end up saving untold amounts of money.
The Marshall plan goodwill has run out now.
Unions at least know good lawyers but it wasn’t necessary at all, the first denial was just to waste my time. Sadly union membership in France is becoming insignificant so they’re not as good as they once were.
And I was saying France is “communist” in jest.
The regulation is all right in France but insurance definitely has some very favourable laws (many delays for notifying them are quite short to the point where with shortages of GPs you have to waste everyone’s time at the ER if you really need to be off work).
Every workplace accident I’ve had has been denied at first due to technicalities. In France, touted as the great communist system where you pay nothing (which is of course wrong).
Even without other people watching: the dopamine pumping sometimes happens for the most mundane stuff, great! Or for incredibly convoluted shit, because for some reason the novelty is fun, or I’m in a mood.
And I know it’s happening and I know it’s stupid, at least sometimes.
Didn’t happen for more than 90% of surviving Nazis. Good luck with that.
Google has every incentive to break reCAPTCHA competitors and/or use botnets to spam anything not protected by reCAPTCHA.
I drive a small EV that does 14 kWh/100 km, that’s 4.44 mi/kWh. The charger is not 100% efficient though.
Elsaß Frei!
They’re only common because of tax laws. Everyone else in the world uses box vans for most “work” purposes, and if not box vans, the same frame with something else in the back. Pickup trucks have their uses but they’re worse than vans for most trades.
The NSA did (and still does, most likely) this too.
Police abusing access to surveillance and stalking people has also been a thing for many years in many countries.
If their career and pension aren’t at risk for abusing their powers they will.
France.
General checkups are considered a US only thing that is actually detrimental. You don’t go see a doctor if you’re all right usually, there a few stupid reasons you still have to. If you have a benign seasonal illness but you need to be off work you need a form filled out by the doctor so your employer has to allow it and the health insurance can pay if they need to (I’ll spare you the details but it mostly depends on the duration of your illness), if you are joining a sports club you typically need your doctor to certify you’re fine to do that (this needs to stop doctors aren’t nannies and they have too much work as it is!!!).
I’m very fortunate that I have a GP who’s generally available within a day or two. There’s a shortage for all healthcare professions, the French refuse to believe it but it’s mostly because it pays shit: Luxembourg and Switzerland don’t nearly have as many issues getting enough staff in hospitals. A lot of people don’t even have a GP. If you can’t travel the waiting times for some exams or specialists are 6 months or more, people think this is somehow acceptable. You can still do medical tourism at the expense of French insurance if you border one of the richer countries, any money leftover you’d have to pay would be a pretty reasonable amount but they may try to wriggle out of paying claiming you’re doing medical tourism for no good reason.
For cancer checks if you live near one of the good hospitals for cancer you don’t have to worry too much about them making you wait until it gets to stage 4. But you have to be assertive and advocate for yourself if you don’t and possibly give up and go 500 km away.
For a broken arm you’d pay nothing usually unless you’re in the cracks of the mandatory extra insurance thing because you don’t have a job but you’re also too rich for the State-funded one, so maybe around 50€ including X-rays and the cast.
France is very behind on mental health care and psychiatric wards in hospitals are a disgrace mostly due to extreme understaffing by doctors. For most other things they’re all right except busy ERs have insane waiting times and they have no money to hospitalise you if you will survive so they’ll send you home even if you barely have the strength to get into a taxi.
The food in hospitals is all right but I wouldn’t ask too much of the vegan options.
But don’t worry social credit systems where you’re barred from public transport is so dystopian only the Chinese do it.
Even longer in France. Strangely enough some people have 500 prepaid SIMs to their name and are in 500 places at once!