That’s why I started my sentence with “In Europe”

In Europe, this is no biggie

I just saw a reputable 2400W kettle on a random online store for 50€

Looks like there are 3000W options too

It happened in this very post, actually. Serves them right for French bashing.

The rest of the time, I’d agree with you, I’ve never done this joke nor condone it.

OMG YOU ACTUALLY DID IT XDDDDDDDDDD

You gotta eat a baguette sandwich with the French cheese of your choice, with a side of French red wine as penance.

Feel free to remove the language pack then, I suppose.

(You’ll lose 50% of the English vocabulary, btw)

If you’re dumb enough to hate the French, you deserve what’s about to happen to you.

You can get magsafe cases for basically any phone these days

I’d argue the small loans are just a symptom of the underlying issue: overly unequal wealth distribution.

Who needs welding anyway?

Still, this steel alternative has a style and might just be less energy-intensive than steel and store carbon. And its better mechanical properties might also displace some steel in mechanical applications, not just the style uses toutes in the article.

Please post it!

Geopolitics. Coal is available in tons of places and cheap to use and extract.

It’s so hard to tell how far a bird is by eye that I and, I think, most people would be easily fooled. Especially in clear weather.

It definitely didn’t end the way I expected

No, I’m a happy i3wm user.

Because I’ve tried to get GNOME to do what I wanted. (Also it was too slow on the machines I was using at the time).

And that’s besides the point: on linux you can just use a good DE without messing with much – KDE, cinnamon, etc…

The registry never has and never will be simple nor usable. Windows is rotten to the core.

While all of this sounds true, none of the EU states has a health minister of the caliber of RFK… At least that I heard about.

Nor who has enacted policies as stupid as he has.

So this data might not remain true very long…

I wrote my original acidic comment in the hope to shake some sense in the US and make them realize how nonsensical these policies are, I’m European and well aware we have our own crackpots, I have some familial relationships with a few of them…

I’m sure half the population (vote for which one in the comments!) will just get fake papers or an exemption from their pastor…

Europe needs to quarantine, if not ban American tourists and immigrants…

Yes, I only listed means to store or produce energy because upgrading powerlines won’t fix power fluctuations : that is due to imbalances between production and consumption, no amount of upgraded to transmission capacity is likely to help.

Load management might help, however. But it’s typically hard to get people to consume more when needed and power shedding is expensive on the electrical operator… Especially since those oscillations were unexpected. Also those things already exist in many European countries.

France already has bidirectional power lines to trade electricity with Spain.

They were used to rapidly restore power in northern Spain after the outage and that interconnection actually caused a very short blackout in southwestern France.

The infrastructure France thankfully refused to allow is fossil gas lines, saving Europe decades of gas usage to justify the investment.