Bernard Arnault, the CEO of LVMH, is now the richest person in the world above Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

It did not happen by accident.

I strongly disagree, for me a transient lifestyle like that can be great for kids. Discovering different cultures, new way of living, new languages is extremely enriching.

I’m a bit biased since I lived in 9 differents places in 3 different countries before I was 12.

However I have never been homeschooled so I can’t give an opinion on homeschooling. There is schools part of the French educational network everywhere around the world so I’ve been able to stay in the French education system even when living in Africa.

But I know that people sailing around the world are able to maintain their kid education. I don’t know for other countries but in France there is the “CNED” that gives material to study remotely, the parents uses the material to teach the kids and there is regularly tests that the kid send back (online now but it was by mail before) to be evaluated by real teachers.

En théorie l’idée est bonne mais en pratique j’ai peur qu’on se retrouve dans des cas ou Jean Patron consomme 2500kWh par an pour 16000km avec sa Tesla et quasiment rien dans le reste de la maison vu qu’il vit dans une maison d’architecte quasi passive, un chauffe-eau thermodynamique couplé solaire, des panneaux PV, de l’électro-menager neuf basse consommation…

De son côté Martine-prolo utilise déjà 3000kWh rien que pour son chauffe-eau électrique, plus ses radiateurs électriques qui tournent a fond tout l’hiver pour arriver a maintenir 17° dans sa passoire thermique, son frigo Emmaüs qui consomme à fond …

Instead they put antibiotics in the chicken feed

When she was a kid, every year for her birthday my mom would get fancy silverware from her parents, that’s it.

One year it would be the tea spoon, another year the snail forks …

Of course she was not allowed to use it before she would get married. The idea was that she would get a full set when she is 18.

A scoop of vanilla ice cream with chartreuse poured on top.

The wind is not even the worst part of a hurricane, the rain and raised water level can be way more damaging than the wind alone.

I’m sure your country will be happy to welcome the people from these islands. Right ?

It’s not like people living there really have a choice.

I’m in the same boat but with semi professional needs.

I have not found any alternative yet to Onshape that works on linux.

I’m trying FreeCAD and derivatives from time to time but it really feels like a serious step backwards.

Air fryer is also great to make a quick garlic bread.

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.

USSR, not Russia.

I disagree, a fan is way more economical and ecological than the AC.

So you should put the fan first and if the fan is not enough then you put the AC on. Especially if it’s a ceiling fan that is almost completely quiet.

One word: privatization

I’m sorry but 1 star out of 5 on the European NCAP is terrible ! This car is a death trap !

I would never set a foot in a Chinese …

Oh wait ! I was looking at the Jeep wrangler, never mind.

The BYD has a 5 star rating as well as an the other chinese cars I checked.

Euro NCAP - Jeep Wrangler

It’s a real story!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/charles-proteus-steinmetz-the-wizard-of-schenectady-51912022/

At the beginning of the 20th century Henry Ford’s electrical engineers had issues they could not solve with a gigantic generator. Henry Ford called Steimmetz, a genius mathematician working for GE to help them.

When he arrive at the factory he spent 2 days and night listening to the generator and scribbling on his notebook.

After that he asked for a ladder, climbed on it, put a chalk mark on a specific spot and explain to the engineers that they needed to remove the plate and replace sixteen windings behind the plate. After that the generator worked perfectly and Ford received a $10 000 bill.

Ford asked for an itemized bill and Steinmetz sent this

• Making chalk mark on generator $1.
• Knowing where to make mark $9,999.

Ford paid the bill.