Either they’re forced or they believe they’re forced to drive cars. I’d become insane too.

Sooo, why is the gf on a leash?

That’s pretty nice, it’s basically additional leave days! I still prefer European style with unlimited sick leave, but you need a certificate from your physician.

Without a doubt! Humans and life in general is uber efficient in terms of energy use. Most of the energy of a car is not directly spent for the work. Work is done when moving mass from a lower to a higher place and accelerating it to a higher speed. But once you have accelerated the mass to the cruise speed, it actually does not require any energy to maintain. Rather, the energy is spent by the car to heat up the air, move it around, wear the road and the tires, and make noise.

We use cars because they are muuuch more powerful than humans, at the cost of wasing a lot of energy. Try to push a car uphill, you won’t ever succeed without pullies which makes it even slower. Doesn’t matter how efficient you are if you cannot output the minimum power required to overcome friction etc.

Police unions are not always a force for good, specifically they can lack solidarity with other workers. In France they lobbied to keep their privilege while the retirement age was increased for everyone else.

In Belgium, we have the same thing. The explanation is that the highest point of the country is at 694 m, so they built 6 m of stairs to reach 700 m.

Yeah, it’s Centurii-chan. Here’s their Insta: https://www.instagram.com/centuriichan/

That’s an overall accurate analysis, but more leftists have dropped out than centrists. A number of centrists refused to drop out, leading to far right seats rather than leftists.

I’m not very familiar with UK politics, but are the Liberal Democrats far-left? It doesn’t look like it, at least by European standards.

Ah non, merci du partage je m’abonne :)

Dat ben ik ook 😋 Mais oui je suis francophone de base, je voulais une instance dans le Benelux !

Qu’il se soit senti trahi par Hollande je peux comprendre. Mais j’espère qu’il s’est rendu compte que voter social-démocrate c’est pas voter contre le capitalisme. Ce qui est bizarre c’est que cette élection semble être la plus prometteuse pour une gauche moins capitaliste et c’est maintenant qu’il baisse les bras.

You know in the game Secret Hitler when the board has sufficiently advanced into fascism that it becomes strategic for the liberals to vote fascism and unlock a bullet? Honestly makes me think of that.

Not saying this is what needs to happen. I honestly don’t know how americans can do to get out of their quagmire.

That’s apparently about to change, let’s see

A bit too shy from Carrasco! Let’s hope they continue like that

Nice to see the fairplay between the teams! They seem to get along.

They’re going to score at some point if this continues 😅

France is increasing the pressure 😰

Dang, France is collecting yellows

Yeah, pretty ashamed of my countrymen… Frenchmen often joke that we still haven’t digested our loss at the World Cup. Seems like they are right.