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.

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.

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.

Self-cleaning and lubricating.

The model Y is the worst car I cross at night in any car with a low seating position and even in some vans. The beam is too bright and also aimed directly at my eyes. Yellow glasses aren’t enough.

This summer I may sleep in my smelly basement since I work nights. I’ll get a cot so I don’t have to be on dirt, but it’s better than a room where the temperatures are over 30°C even on smelly wet dirt.

Vinted or whatever the locals use the most in the EU. Outside of the EU I don’t know.

A lot of old army surplus boots and shoes are Goodyear-welted or in the case of Italian mountain boots, have a Norwegian double stitch. They cost nothing when compared to dress boots, you can find NOS boots for 25 to 100€ and they last a very long time: you can hope for 4-5 resoles if you let them dry after every wear.

Depending on where they’re based the data protection authority may act on complaints about this.

(Looks like they’re German, I don’t know if the authorities care about GDPR violations that much but if you feel like spending the time it may be worth it)

Brands love to brag they’re European but sell you Chinese tools, most of the time they’re not even their own designs.

It’s annoying that they don’t have to be more transparent about this.

Eurovision did the same.

The copyreich above all.

Love the textures

Companies who get good deals on them and only care about the financial aspect.

The people who warned against this when the PATRIOT Act passed were called “conspiracy theorists” at the time.

I can confirm this was due to the film being too tightly packed on the spiral.

Which kind do you use? I find the Paterson ones are the only ones that work for me.

Jim Green shoes/boots come very wide, decent quality. Gel insoles (replace as recommended by the manufacturer) help a lot with comfort for those kinds of traditionally built footwear. Size up a bit so you have plenty of room to put a nicely cushioned insole.

Metal contamination in food is a double edged sword as well: if you live in America it’s unlikely you’d ever need selenium supplementation, in Europe there’s basically none in the soil so it’s not impossible to be deficient.