Political maps are a terrible tool for visualizing cultural / linguistic practices (and on this one, colonization didn’t make it even worse). Just gotta roll with it and enjoy the weird assumptions :)

Paris doesn’t need new housing, it just needs to keep upgrading its existing apartments :)

Otherwise yes sounds right.

They correspond to the larger eras in French economy.

• Industrial revolution
• Entre-deux-guerres, a period of strong urbanization and a huge push towards social housing. I suppose they included WW2 cause nothing was built there anyway.
• 1946 to 1970 is “les trente glorieuses”, the time of rebuilding everything, which means everyone had a job and could afford a house or apartment.
• The oil crash in 1973 ushered in a more modern era, usually more left-wing after May 68 and with the election of Mitterrand in 1982.
• The 1990 one is around when we elected a right-wing president and the public policies vastly changed.
• 2005-2006 was starting to get tough because of oil again, I believe. It is also around the beginning of the US subprime crisis, of which the consequences affected us all too.

Proud of you!

The US two-party system is such an aberration to me.

Poor Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden not even speaking their countries’ languages :(

(One of the first things I learned when I joined the Localization industry was to never use a flag to represent a language!)

I’m meeting with my local work union tonight to suggest a citywide Wikipedia half-day event where we improve pages about labour law and the history of work unions. I hope they’ll like the pitch!

Cottage with more people or rooted with fewer people.

I hope the new job is going to work out for you!

Personally, I’m pretty unhappy in my company, but I’ve mostly been using the free time to do things that I can be fulfilled with - especially Wikipedia editing, which can be done while remaining available for the colleagues and even looking like I’m working because I’m online :)

Maybe this could be some kind of partial solution for you as well?

As for the alcohol, I’m so sorry for this and I hope things will get better. If you feel like you’re losing control, I highly recommend checking out if you can get professional help, by a specialist who won’t judge and is there just for that.

Good luck!

hahaha you’d be surprised! I don’t know why but when I started doing more sports and eating well, I gained weight (a little bit) for an entire month and then lost A LOT in the span of a couple of weeks. The beginning can be weird while your body adjusts.

Congrats on the run, and great news for your wife! The physical effort may also simply mean you’re gaining muscle, which is heavier than fat :)

It’s more Meetup than Facebook groups, I think.

For the videos specifically, probably hosting them on a friendly Peertube instance?

It’s so gorgeous!

Let me guess. Rating companies are US-based?

In an European context:

• Food, shelter and water.
• Identity papers.
• Access to the Internet for essential administrative proceedings, since it’s all getting digitalized really fast. If possible a smartphone with wifi access and access to a way of charging it, if not and in an urban area, public library access.

You may survive without it but it’s nice to have a (digitized) proof that you’re allowed to be wherever your shelter is, and to be able to renew your ID.

Thank you so much! I’ll try to use them wherever relevant on Wikipedia.

Trop cool, merci !

That’s an excellent point, thanks for sharing your insight!

Ahh gotcha! And yeah that was another post by me, from the same website, on the same community, so the confusion is understandable:)

That is a reference I do not get.