Yeah but then most likely so is at least one of your neighbours if you’re from USA :-/

They have so much different missions that I would not be able to put any overlap between the 2 functions beside who eventually pays for them… What kind of shitty experience has led to such a take? Care to share some?

I grew up with my father being an officer in firefighting in Europe (not France though) and my perception is way different. Among other things he escaped death quite a couple of times just to extract some poor souls from certain death situations, helped the community avoid disasters and generally be super kind about risk prevention visits…

He was a totally absent father though but I chalk that to his commitment to the local community.

Yo at some point that very idea seems more efforts than planting actual trees… few months ago a French YouTuber (Tev) went deeeeeeeep into one of those Chinese desert and filmed greenery in the middle of it. Like a whole garden thingy built just for the lols or something.

Chinese are crafty and industrious fuckers, once they set to something they generally make it happen. Sometimes it’s swallows sometimes it’s trees I guess…

Dude… kids are fucking cows to milk… in Europe we have special protections for them bundled in GDPR because they are sooooooo good targets with soooooo much potential. To give you some food for thought ; Microsoft is pushing their products as soon as schools so that kids are hooked. And they are far from being the worse….

Am on mobile rn and can’t easily search myself but such a large endeavour could be visible from google maps maybe? Even between 2 snapshots ?

I don’t know how it works for Google but the moment they invoiced you once they might be able to or more precisely they might have to nevertheless keep yr data for years for tax reasons… And then some because they might have to comply with obscure data retention laws or such. But as of the moment this deletion happens you might not be able to access it anymore indeed.

We had calculators but they have llms and what looks like a failing school system that -at least where I’m from- has been removing a whole lot of traditional calculus / grammar and generally « old style » programs with more participative approaches.

Together with less formal scoring, automatic passing year by year for while, not more Latin or higher math or science to make room for more societal or practical classes.

Much bigger classes, less teachers…

Intuitively I don’t like a whole lot of that. Now I understand that whoever came up with this knows what they are doing but still.

Not pictured : spitting the seed as far away as possible, aiming for the dirt patch. Aka trickle down economics.

Back when I didn’t need - didn’t had one I called family to drive us. And then for a few days I took the bus as usual. But that was some 20yrs ago ;-) Now I would take an Uber-like service.

For childbirth though we’re definitely driving to hospital here in Europe unless something went very very bad. Plenty of time between the start of the party and the conclusion of it. It would be poor taste to use ambulance for something actually not urgent.

If this becomes part of nis2 it’s going to make 2026 soooooooo fun.

Erh well, it takes hours with proper tooling with which I have first hand experience… and just as much experience with various police forces… admittedly my knowledge is limited to Europe and LA on that topic.

For reference I saw them deploy very serious means for stuff from csam to piracy so be careful on how you perceive their willing to be major annoyances.

But hey, this is my work experience I offer, you don’t take it it’s not an issue; I’m not invoicing my time anyway :)

Nha my dude you’re lying to yourself if you think that it is nearly enough to survive the level of forensics that will happen in case of a motivated investigation. You need the whole multipass erasure and overwriting or you’re toast. It takes hours…

Unless you have tied the NFC to an arc wielding torch how would proper data disposal process runs its course fast enough? You live in a manor with very long hallways?

For me you got #2 and #3 mixed. I got financially affected before the outrageous and brazen display of fuckery some have adopted in Europe. That or my perception has been recently altered.

The moment you remove it the cold water tap in the toilets stops working…

Or you can accept divergence in opinions and not be an ass about it. Go touch some grass…

Not everything in life needs to be a « good » financial decision… when it’s financially inconsequential while bringing pleasure it’s fair enough. Same for a lot of things that brings you pleasure. Unless you indulge in absolutely nothing your stance is quite hypocritical.

And if you indulge in nothing maybe consider the experience.

You know one can afford rent AND lottery tickets right?

Nothing like the perspective of getting milked forever… building someone else’s capital while tumbling towards old age. I say let them buy some hope…