Parisian Franch sounds pompous and snobbish to other French. Although, it really depends which accent you’re talking about, there are several distinct accents coexisting in Paris nowadays.

Anyway, I really respect the effort of Quebec to keep inventing new French works.

The cats at my parents home have a portion “RECEIVING PET” that is at least as big as the “SLEEP”, they will never get tired of pet and cuddles.

I visited Kraków recently, it was very nice :)

Real photo of the Wieliczka salt mine:

The second kind of football of course! You know, the one where players mostly carry the ball with their hands.

One football field divided by a Washington monument.

Wait until you find out goats have rectangular pupils !

The game has very complex lore and it’s super interesting. For instance 2B and 9S have to follow many rules from the Commander. To learn more search for “2B rule34”.

There is a playable demo available: UNBEATABLE [white label] / Steam Store

About the power of the hardware, you don’t need to worry too much. My NAS is a SBC with 6 ARM cores and 4GB or RAM. It run flawlessly all the services you’ve listed and more ! (Also, without transcoding for jellyfin).

I don’t know if your budget includes Hard disks, but it should be plenty enough to get you an ready made NAS from Synology or other brands, that will give you an easy start with self-hosting.

If you want to go the DIY route. Then I recommend to build yourself a small computer from a Intel N100 motherboard, or the older J5040. From there you can install Open Media Vault, or otherwise the Linux distribution you are the most familiar with, and install Docker. You can check Linuxserver.io for many guides for spinning up docker containers for all of the services you’ve listed.

Dismantle independent media: Also check

Who else is holding them and other GAFAM accountable to any capacity? Not any single country by itself has this level of influence. Is it enough? No! Is better than anything done elsewhere? Yes!

This is what I want of the EU. I want it to do better. Especially for the environment, public transports, social protection. I believe the vote I casted last Sunday reflects that. I am sad not many of my compatriots see things the same way. But that’s the system we have to deal with. It’s true that 1 vote every 5 years, isn’t as democratic as I wish.

Google has been fined 5 times so far.

They do: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDPR_fines_and_notices

The only effect of gdpr is having to click on a trillion check marks

This is only the visible part of the iceberg for regular users and I agree it sucks. But most importantly GDPR take companies accountable for personal data management and data-breaches. They are mandated by law to disclose publicly when they have suffered a data-breach, which was not the case anywhere before, and still isn’t the case in the US. It also mandates the data of EU-citizens must be managed and stored in the EU, and cannot be saved more than 1 year without renewed consent. GDPR is a very meaningful progress.

For all the agriculture and environment topics, I agree with you that it is a debacle.

They forced the nationalisation of our energy production, of our railways, etc.

I think you mean privatized energy and railways.

I agree, this was a complete shit show, especially in France.

Although, it’s not the EU constitution and political systems that is fully at fault, but the people we elected to take the seats in the parliament. This time around we get fucked even harder, with a huge set back for Greens and Left in general, and big rise of hard-right and liberals.

Without the EU, how can our small individual European countries hold against massive Americans corporations and other giants like China or Russia? Neo-liberal policies would still dominate in our countries but all of or industry and agriculture and media would be enslaved to bigger entities of the “free market”.

Today, the EU still helps us to stand against erosion of our privacy and mass surveillance (although there are big red flags on this point at the moment), push for better standards on technologies (universal charging, GDPR). Also, freedom of movement, unified currency. You know you can move to another EU country, find a job there, no need for any special work permit or visa, and then you can also vote for municipal elections there too ?

We have a lot to loose along side the EU. I guess that makes me a reformist more than a revolutionary.

I agree with you this is the result of decades of liberal policies and the left was never been able to stand against it in any capacity. It’s a really shame, but we had it coming for a long long time.

Although the EU is far from perfect, I still think it brings more good than evil. We should try to salvage what is good.

I am not so much on board for cutting heads, but think these corrupt motherfuckers should rot in prison for life.

The erosion has started a long while ago (~15years ?), together with the erosion of independent media and sabotage of education. What we see today might very well be a breaking point.

Yes, yes… On est dans la merde !

France is collapsing right before our eyes. Give it until year-end to turn into a totalitarian country.

Ahrr… Bon sang d’bonsoir !