Lors de la dernière législative j’ai voté par internet (français de l’étranger).

L’élection de notre député et un nouveau vote a été effectué car une partie des électeurs n’ont pas reçu les SMS avec les codes de vérification pour voter.

C’est ça le problème du vote par internet, ça fait reposer le bon déroulé des élections sur des acteurs privés.

Ça ouvre la porte a tellement de manipulations potentiels. Dans le cas des français a l’étranger aller voter leur signifier devoir prendre un billet d’avion a plusieurs centaines d’euros, une nuit d’hôtel et deux jours de voyage. Dans ce cas la balance penche en faveur du vote par internet malgré les défauts, en métropole c’est moins évident.

One word: privatization

I’m doing that and generally the next step after that is : “OK, can you do it again and this time DO NOT CLOSE THE ERROR POPUP so we can get information on what is happening”

Plus your probably save on gas too.

I can guarantee if the story is true or not but my father talked regularly about a neighbor that he knew when he was a kid.

The neighbor was a ballet dancer above 2m tall and was driving an old school mini.

To be able to fit in it he removed the front seat and was driving sitting in the back seat.

C’est la NUPES mais sans Mélenchon ?

C’est la merde !

Same thing, I’m mostly using the GPS on my phone but unless I try to always carry a paper map with me as a safety.

J’étais déjà en train d’imaginer a quoi pourrait bien ressembler la fondue danoise.

If we want to build a stable 100% renewable energy electrical grid we need backup power station for when there is no sun or wind.

Right now coal and gas power stations are mainly used but renewables option are limited.

Hydro can help to an extent but the locations and power output are limited, battery storage help to smooth production but it’s not enough for seasonal variation.

Nuclear could work perfectly but I’m losing hope on trying to convince people that a bit of nuclear would help to each a 100% renewable energy grid.

The last option is biomass, it can be vertuous is the wood resource is well managed or terribly damaging for the environment if not.

Do I think biomass power station are needed of we want to transition.

On the other hand I did took care of a pool for a while, it was in a villa that my in laws owned.

We did a few things that helped lowering the maintenance cost and the pool was pristine.

First thing is a salt chlorinator. It keeps a constant (low) chlorine level so the pool stays clean, there is no more chlorine smell and you only need to top up salt after too much rain.

Then we were using hardware store muriatic acid to bring the pH up and baking soda to control alkalinity. We still went to the pool store to get productd for the calcium hardness and cyanuric acid.

The last thing is a bit more involved but this is what made the biggest difference on the bill is to replace the pump with a DC pump directly connected to refurbished solar panels, no batteries, no inverter. This way when there is a lot of sun the pump is running a lot, a little sun and the pump is running a little.

It’s perfect since the amount of algae development is proportional to the amount of sunlight. There is almost no electronic in the system, just a extremely reliable DC pump and solar panels that can last for decades, I found that to be a great low-tech solution.

However we were in a tropical country, I have no idea if this would apply in another climate.

This was my criteria for buying a house : no pool !

I’m using both a the same time, one tab, two space, another tab…

This way everyone is happy.

Moving out a whole apartment with bikes : https://youtu.be/qCraLSgVx6E?si=x_UZpk--c5Kkdgcu

In a few French cities they use the heat from data centers to heat up public pools

France has been carefully walking on eggs for decades with New Caledonia.

They have been a bit less careful lately and cracked a few eggs.

I don’t know much about the situation either.

I had a roommate who was eating bird eyes pepper as a snack with her 2 years old daughter.

Seeing the 2 years old going for it I thought it should not be too bad so I tried a tiny bite of one. I was definitely wrong.

Its the other way around, to some people cilantro have a similar taste than the smell of stinkbug.

For these people cilantro taste awful.

The Chinese cars are probably much safer on the road then the huge pedestrian killing machines built by US manufacturers.

On the other hand the engineers building the CERN had to include a system that compensate for the land tides due to the moon and sun gravity.