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  • C'est une petite place en bas de chez moi

    Ils vont tout refaire à neuf et rendre piétonnier, avec donc un parking souterrain. Mon expérience à Bruxelles centre d'un quartier populaire qui devient piétonnier c'est que les petits commerces et cafés disparaissent au profit des starbuck et autres paul qui servent une clientèle touristique ou de passage attirée par la "tranquillité" d'un quartier sans voitures.

    Aujourd'hui autour de la place c'est 100% local - ils vont mourir s'ils deviennent inaccessibles derrière des grillages, des trous de deux étages et des engins de chantier partout pendant 2 ans.

    En fin d'aprème on va visiter un truc en centre ville.

  • Mon médecin vient officiellement de m'interdire le Dessert 58

  • Tu bois ces trucs ici t'as pas besoin du Ristretto de la machine italienne serré-serré, tu dors pas pendant une semaine

    Santé !

  • On a le droit de basvoter? Je demande pour un ami. Courtoizement et Pauliment, bien sûr.

  • Mouaip on pourrait contre-chipoter que tout ça est suisse de toute façon, à travers rachats et holdings.

    Un truc qui m'intrigue c'est pourquoi la suisse ? La Belgique, avec son (monstrueux) passé colonial, avait évidemment accès au cacao mais qu'est-ce qui a pris au suisses de s'y mettre ? C'est quoi l'économie d'un pays sans port maritime qui se met à se faire une spécialité d'un import aussi tordu ? On y pond du fromage (on le fond occasionnellement, beurk), on y importe du deutschemark, on y étale des cimes sur des cartes postales mais le chocolat ??

    Y aurait-il un rapport avec le secret bancaire ? Un complot international d'évasion de sucreries ?

  • Et les frites. Ça empêche pas d'avoir aussi les meilleurs chocolats

  • "Ptilinopus" c'est trop génial comme nom, j'adore. La prochaine fois que j'ai besoin d'un pseudo...

  • Arch Linux on Dell 7389 : just works. Also had OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on this machine, best installer ever.

    Debian on Thinkpad X390 Yoga : with included variable-pressure pen, the touchscreen is actually a wacom tablet, perfect. Also, one if the best installer there is.

    Ubuntu on Thinkpad T480s : just works. Installing Ubuntu today is literally just a couple of clicks. Wife hasn't complained in 3 years, this distro must be doing it right.

    (Everything Gnome here, no additional setup whatsoever. The KDE gang will argue that Plasma has a lot of goodies for touchscreens, be sure to check it out)

  • Made it to level 23 before my phone's browser crashed. What a glorious mess!

  • Y'a un chouette thaï rue du prieuré, Soï

    Avez-vous pensé à la sous-location avec le pote ? Ça se fait à Genève. Tu sous-loue pendant 5 ans puis tu demandes à la régie de transférer.

  • I was surprised how easy it is on my RE 350 Classic - I was expecting quite a fight to harden the settings for when I have a passenger but it's actually smooth both ways, even with the relatively short wrench provided

  • Travail et demain, travail mais c'est un chouette projet

    Pis la semaine va être calme, c'est tranquille

  • L'ennui est le piège numéro un de l'utopie décrite des cette civilisation, en effet. Et je me demande combien en réalité cet ennui serait combattu pat la malfaisance, le désir de nuire etc

  • Ah bah moi y'a rien qui change eh, en tant que branleur assermenté (aka intermittent du spectacle) je vis déjà gratuitement sur le dos des autres

    Éclairagiste et régisseur général

  • Real story: I have to go to work in the next country, in a festival where friends go also but to enjoy it. i made very clear that no drugs, no anything was to be in my car since there's a border crossing and I can't get involved in that shit since I am expected to work the day after.

    It's my car, my job,.. My rules yeah. Also that festival was pretty famous for being the open-air supermarket for everything smokable, sniffable, suckable whatever.

    And of course one dude has "quite nothing really, only 2 grams hashish and a half acid". Fuck you dude I said "nothing" not "quite nothing" ffs - so the guy said, "it's okay, I'll put it in my mouth and swallow if we get stopped".

    Comes the border crossing, I triple-check him. It's in his mouth all right. And I make him so nervous he swallows when we cross (without being stopped).

    He slept the entire remaining 700km, then was angry with me because it was late when we arrived and it was gonna be a chore for him to find stuff right away instead of having time tomorrow because I made him swallow.

    He went his way that day, and probably got back by bus. I guess.

  • We're now 57. At age 25 my SO went to work for MSF in a really remote place - like, no road through the jungle, small airfield served by derelict Russian aircraft, and in the middle of that nowhere, a huge refugee camp serving 2 warring nations.

    It's something she needed to do.

    The pay was shit, but the local expenses where null, with food and accommodation being provided; her entire salary went into calling once a week for about 20 to 30 minutes (if the phone lines worked). She wrote also, same rhythm like once a week, but I would usually get them as a bunch of 3 or 4.

    I couldn't write. Dunno why retrospectively, I just couldn't. Not getting the phone calls was nerve-wracking of course.

    She was good at what she did, so in order to have her stay beyond the scope of her original mission they offered a Logistics position to me so I could join her. As it happens, in these conditions that position was untenable & she didn't want us as a couple to establish ourselves in such a hellish place.

    She came back changed of course. But mainly, when she did move across the earth again a few years later, we went together.