I’m in France in a small village but I’m quite lucky with the doctor situation.

If I’m sick I go online, see what shot is available for my doctor and book it, usually in the best few days. If it’s urgent I can call or go there and I’ll usually get an appointment during the day with my doctor or one of the other two doctors working there.

Then I walk there since it’s 400m away.

I disagree, using Latin terms means that all technical terms stay the same across languages.

Twizzlers.

I tried them in the US and it just felt like I was chewing on a piece of plastic.

On the other hand, unlike most of the people in the comments, I love licorice.

I did an internship in an office where the company was keeping the fridge and cupboard in the rest area filled with snacks, drinks, ice cream, frozen pizza and premade meals for people who wanted to take lunch there.

A big friend of Putin as well

Everyone who reads Tintin knew already since 1954 that there is caves on the moon.

Now we just need a giant red and white rocket to get there.

Not a YouTube channel unfortunately but there are several videos and documentaries about it.

The castle of Guedelon is exactly what you are describing.

In France a group of archeologists decided to build a full castle, from scratch pretending to be in the XIIth century.

A blacksmith is making the tools, they are chopping trees in the first forest around, extracting stones from a local carry, carrying on carts built by the Carpenter, making their own clothes …

It’s amazing !

Edit: here is an aerial picture of the castle in 2025

Not pirated but my local cooperative ISP is offering to split the fiber connection with neighbors and give advice on how to do so.

We can even have two bills, two completely separated intense accesses on one fiber connection and they will split the bill in two, or three, or four (plus add a few euros for administrative fees)

I think it’s more that the doctor was struggling to insert it, so he offer the local anesthetic only to make his job easier.

It was defined as

one ten-millionth of the shortest distance from the North Pole to the equator passing through Paris.

The stick of metal in Paris is just so people don’t have to do measure the distance between the north pole and the equator each time they want to check their measuring tool.

It’s not just for my home server but for EOL or other issues I used bitwarden emergency access options for passwords. Of anything happens to me my wife can request access to my vault and if I don’t deny it in a certain timeframe she will have full access to it.

I did that after my brother in law got in an accident and fell into a coma. I’m very grateful he had all his password saved in chrome on his unlocked laptop because if not it would have made the period insanely more difficult for my sister.

Simple things like paying the bills would I been insanely more difficult and stressful and you don’t need extra stress in this period.

I was in the same boat two years ago.

What I did is that I’ve setup a VM with NixOS in it to play with, learn the language and tweak the configuration file.

The great thing about NixOS is that once I was feeling confident enough to switch I installed NixOS on bare metal, loaded the configuration file I prepared in the VM and I instantly had everything installed and running. (Except for the NVidia drivers, fuck nvidia)

Since then I’ve stayed in nixos and I’m not looking back.

My wife is on my left, it’s going to be interesting

“Be on time for your appointment next week”

Here, I hope it will help

An unusual hat works as well. I frequently have people asking questions on my hat.

Same, just black for me. No distraction.

You should find a startup incubator of whatever is the equivalent around you.

You have a product idea, it’s great but is just the start. I’m sure 10 other people got up this morning with the same idea. What matters is what you do with this idea.

Now you need to learn how to refine this idea and turn it into a business and for that you need help. This is exactly what startup incubators are here for.

Yes, this dude got his dick cut off as well.

Same provider but I’m paying 6€/months for unlimited calls, text and 40Go of 4G data.

Do you need to pay to get married ? I don’t think we paid anything for the administrative side in France.