From top of my head, you can add superman, side plank, bridge, fire hydrant, donkey kick. Maybe you can attach weights to your forearms too for the arm muscles.

Isn’t it supposed to be love rather than just friendship?

There are a lot of people and organizations that are just slow to move and don’t really know where to go.

He’s supporting this change, he’s part of the local government developing it. So he’s saying that to illustrate the change of mindset.

Yes, I think you’re not getting the point, it’s about making the default for bikes and pedestrians now, and treating cars as secondary users, that have their smaller delimited special lane.

Yes, I said it is paywalled a couple of worlds before the link. I was just giving a source for the quote, it’s not really the point of the article.

No, Le Monde (The World) is center left, which in France means close to Socialist party, which is close to Bernie Sanders in the USA. It’s probably the most well respected newspaper from France.

Not really, for now it is mostly “here’s the bike lane”, because the street is attributed to cars by default. So this quote is about reversing this mind set.

In European cities, the worst noise over capacity ratio is motor scooters and those large motorbike that are designed for noise (such as Harley-Davidson).

First story kinda reminds of French female rapper Diam’s who got famous in the 2000’ for her songs talking about women emancipation and her positions against right populism. After about 10 years being at the top, she announces retiring because she converted to Islam, married, had a kid and stopped making and listening to music because it is haram, she later moved to live in Saudi Arabia. She also published an autobiography in 2012 and a documentary in 2022 to explain her trajectory where we learn that she had many psychological troubles since her teens and being bitten by her partner at 17, had stays at a psychiatric hospital in 2007, stopped her treatment, attempted suicide and converted to Islam at the end of 2008.

There was a boy in French high school who seemed a bit impaired, in the sense that he seemed way more childish than people are at this age, so he was often mocked, and I don’t remember him having any brilliant grades. Turns out he went into the top of the top of the French scientific universities (École Polytechnique).
Think Harvard level of prestige (countless top scientists, leaders and CEOs from there), but specialized in science, with way fewer seats, fully paid by the state and an extremely competitive entry exam that the best French students spend 2 to 3 years preparing for after high-school, with the vast majority failing and entering the next schools on the prestige list (still a lot of other prestigious schools under it). I guess he exploded his intellectual potential at this time, when others just implode into depression due to the high pressure.
I was floored when I learned about it and really happy that he took his revenge this way.

Doubt it will keep being the case in a couple of decades given the demography of China, India and Africa once they are all developed enough to produce as much media as the USA today.

I think it’s probably because it is informal or maybe ambiguous.

I had a Pycharm linter with “inconsiderate writing list” flag my use of “bi” as inappropriate, recommending to use “bisexual” instead. In my data job, BI, means business intelligence, it’s everywhere.

Electoral college is weird AF

I think it’s less unique than people think. In France, there is an electoral college specifically for the Sénat, which is a secondary legislative chamber compared to the Assemblée Nationale. They can amend law proposals after they are submitted by the Assemblée, but in case of conflicts, it’s the Assemblée that decides.

The college is made of people locally elected in various types of previous local elections. I think part of the reasons for this system is to have a representation of every locations that is not only proportional to the population. For example to prevent populated areas from dictating laws to unpopulated areas that don’t make sense for their local circumstances (typically around urbanism and transportation).

Why would you get down voted for that on a leftist forum?

Où est-ce que tu vois facilement l’information sur la fédération ?

Est-ce qu’il faudrait quand même défédérer de notre côté, par prudence ? On ne sait jamais, ces gens-là ont tendance à vouloir recréer leurs anciens empires par la force.

“reactionay” = going against their tankie ideology.
Eventually, it’s a good thing they decide to delist the instance (while jlailu is discussing it too), it will reduce useless conflicts.

Je suis d’accord. En poussant un peu loin la réflexion sur les vêtements, je me suis demandé s’il faudrait un jour autoriser la nudité en toutes circonstances par respect des choix personnels. Si on n’autorise pas la nudité, comme définit-on précisément la limite de ce qui est considéré comme nudité ?

Bah non, tu vois pas qu’elle est trop contente pour toi ? Elle a les yeux qui brillent et tout.