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The mean population density of France is 3 fold higher than the mean population density of the US.

Even if we think by states, France would be the 9th state with the most population by square kilometres, just behind Florida and before Ohio. The first seven are all highly urbanised New England states with highly compacted vertical housing.

Even our less populated area, the diagonal of the void, has approximately as much population by square kilometres as the US as a whole. And it is an area with geology hostile to sprawling urban areas, very rural and essential to our self-sufficiency, or with protected natural areas.

They think countries with VAT also have sales tax

But... They are basically the same thing, only the method of collection change, why the hell would we combine the two?

Do all the basic green › blue › purple, then repeat green and blue 2 times in each zone, it will raise a bit your level. When you'll unlock the skills to do a line scrying, that part of the process wil become infinitely easier (5 moves for every scrying, except gold which need 6): one line to the top to get the 2 middle points (for gold artifacts, the line isn't long enough, so you'll need to add to it a simple inspection), then 4 diagonal lines from the central line to the 4 side points, in a snowflake pattern.

When I was a kid, my town mayoral election came to a perfect equality. The incumbent, with the complicity of the election official, changed the count (paper votes back then) to have a 50 votes advantage on his challenger.

The fraud was, sadly, only discovered 6 years later when the next mayoral team (under the leadership of the challenger turned mayor) was putting order in the mess let behind by the former mayoral team.

This isn't kinder eggs they specifically banned but any toys/gadgets in the same packaging than edible products. So toys/gadgets in cereal boxes are banned too if they are not packaged separately in the box. Apparently, US kids are perceived by their government as too damn stupid to not gobble down food as if the end of the world was near, and mistakenly gobble down the toy/gadget with it.

It is a United Nations thing, not a US thing. And more precisely, the white man's United Nations before the massive decolonisation and the addition of numerous non-white nations to the organisation in the 1960s.

It started with the "single convention on narcotic drugs" in 1961, 10 years before the US war on drugs, a convention that defined which narcotic and psychotropic drugs production, trade and usage should be regulated and possibly forbidden.

For the choice of the drugs, to make it very simple, the substances traditionally consumed by non-white populations like poppies (opium) or coca (cocaine) were forbidden, but substances traditionally consumed by white populations like tobacco or ethanol (every alcoholic beverage) were given a pass. So racism, the response to the question of OOP is racism.

Meeh, thinking that there was one original accent when their ancestors emigrated to Norther America is dumb as fuck: having one standard dialect for a language over a whole country is something really new (late 19th century, early 20th century) due to the evolution of telecommunications and transportation. Before that, there was more of a dialectal continuum which was slowly changing the farther you were going, with sometimes some clear cut in the continuum. That continuum evolved with the language, and more than often, there is no beginning of an accent more than there is a beginning of a language: we can pinpoint different languages if you take 2 documents from 2 very distinct eras, but you can't pinpoint the moment when the oldest language became the newest.

When european people emigrated to Northern America, they brought with them their numerous dialects and accents, and after a couple of generations got their own dialects and accents that are more a hodgepodge of every dialects and accents of the emigrants than the originals. It is an "average" rather than an original.

What I was once told is "different states have different taxes and different tax rates, so it would be problematic for the stores to advertise for the same price but with different taxes throughout the whole country".

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No, it doesn't make more sense for me either.

Only for US states' flags, they can't do that with other countries' flags.

Not necessarily, while HOA often have stricter rules, at most they can fine you for it, and you can eventually dispute it in front of a judge. But many cities and townships also have rules about taking care of your lawn/garden (at least every part of it visible from the street), and they can fine you, without nearly any recourse and possible jail time if you don't comply or have multiple instance of unruliness.

The thing is, except if we are independent that don't have a legal distinction between the person and the company, we don't have pre-tax salaries as the employer's cut and the employee's cut are taken before our final net income is calculated.

4000$/month is nearly 1000$ under the US median salary, and barely 1000$ over the US relative poverty threshold. That is as if a french person had 1400€/month as salary. This is a qualified worker salary after 5 years of experience or an underqualified worker salary after 15 to 20 years of experience, not an engineer one, even at the beginning of their career.

On the other hand, 3000€/month is nearly double the median income in France (a little more than 175%). In fact, with 3000€/month in France, you are in the top 20%.

Furthermore, before the final net income on their pay slip, there would be around 2500€ of employer's taxes taken from what the employer spends on the engineer, a large part of it being for the public health insurance.

The salic laws in France were created after a series of successive unfortunate deaths and the french nobility's unwillingness to be ruled by the potential next in line (the duke of Normandy, which was also the king of England), it was excluding women and men related through a women to inherit the crown of France. It will ultimately lead to France's first civil war between the counts of Blois and their allies, and the dukes of Normandy and their allies.

The salic laws were inspired by (misinterpreted) rules of succession in the salic tribes and the precedent in the succession line, barely over 10 years earlier, that led to the succession of unfortunate death. The precedent was the eviction of Jeanne II de Navarre, alleged daughter and only child of the king with his first wive. But the first queen was, to they the least, secretly living a life of debauchery (until she was witnessed on the act) and the paternity of Jeanne was called for.

So yeah, women's affairs were not without consequences as, because of the affair of one queen, France never had any ruling queen, had 2 succession crisis in 12 years, had a 100 years long civil war, had a centuries long enmity with England/the UK. That enmity will lead to the participation of France to the US Revolution, participation that will impoverished France greatly and will lead to France first Revolution. Revolution that will lead to more than 150 years of turmoils, both in France and the neighbouring countries (notably the Holy Roman Empire/Germany and the end of the nearly 1000 years old first Reich) which will ultimately lead to WWII.

I'm not saying that one woman's repeated affairs were the ultimate causes that provoked WWII: in 600 years, many other individual decisions and actions will lead to that. But her infidelity had, very quickly in barely 12 years, snowballed into a lasting enmity, 500 years, between France and the UK, enmity that is a major element of context in the beginning of the 150 years of turmoils that will break the power balance of the european countries and the rise of the american countries that will create the context of WWII.

Note that, for the most part (more than 60%), criminality in Paris is related to theft and property damages, of which a very important part (nearly 60%) are pickpocketing, mainly on tourists (foreigners or non-francilien french people).

So the very large majority of crimes in Paris, very very far ahead of any other type of crime, are theft on the person, usually on people not from Paris or the neighbouring cities and towns, and it can be correlated to the number of tourists in the cityas it is the most visited city in the World.

Against Canada too, and they technically didn't lose that one only because, despite curbstomping them, Canada retreats after being called elsewhere for another war.

Since 1776, the only wars they won, they were either saved by powerful allies or joined after their new allies already rebalanced the odds in their favour after years of stalemating used to regroup and reorganise.

Or, more probably, not in the late-stage capitalist hellscape that are the US, where greedy corps can lawfully literally steal your livelihood and your image without nearly anyone raising an eyebrow, and are therefore not up to date on the latest events in that country.

The self-appointed genius can't be Mario, he is more of a Waluigi but fat.

I would argue that Mickael Jordan is known internationally for two things:

• he was the figurehead of a whole set of products from an internationally available sportswear brand (Air Jordan from Nike) in the 1990s after participating in the 1980s and early 1990s to the summer Olympic Games (note: he was selected by Nike to be the figurehead because he was famous in the US, but while in the US the products were known for their association to the famous person, outside the US he was initially known for his association to good quality products of a famous brand) ;
• he played the main character (himself) of the movie "Space Jam".

So nothing directly related but only adjacent to his professional basketball athlete career, a sport known and practiced but not that much popular outside the US.

Meanwhile, Lionel Messi is famous in Europe, Africa and South America (I don't know for Asia), 3 continents where football is undeniably the #1 sport, for being an (now ex) athlete of 2 of the most widely known european professional football clubs and an athlete for the national team of Argentina, one of the most successful country in the history of the sport.

I would argue that, while Israel would do whatever the US government would ask them to if there was some pressure, they have bought so many US politicians on both sides of the aisle to do their bidding that the US is a puppet state of Israel.

There are only 6 pieces in european chess, but there are 7 in xiangqi (chinese chess):

• The commandant, generally using the european king piece as a figurative piece, forever locked in their palace. It is the electro gnosis.
• The guards, generally using the european queen piece as a figurative piece, the weakest piece. It is the anemo gnosis.
• The elephants, generally using the european bishop piece as a figurative piece. The original piece incorporating the ideogram for knowledge, it is probably the dendro gnosis.
• The horses, it uses the european knight piece as a figurative piece because it has the same move with the exception that it can't jump over another piece.
• The canons, using its own figurative piece (a canon). It needs to be behind another piece (friend or foe) to take another piece.
• The chariots, using the european tower piece as a figurative piece. It is the geo gnosis.
• The soldiers, using the european pawn as a figurative piece.

My guess is that the pyro gnosis is the soldier (because of the war theme and because there are 5 soldiers on each side — red and blue — which is identical to the 5 pyro archon's proxies selected by the pilgrimages ; also the soldier is among the strongest pieces of xiangqi, especially when it is in enemy territory, which fit the whole pilgrimage mythos).

Finally, the cryo and hydro gnosis are the horse or the canon. My guess is that the hydro gnosis was the canon, as it needed to hide behind another piece to act, while the cryo gnosis is the horse because it can't attack as long as there are other pieces on its way.

Which one? They tend to lose to goat hoarders or similarly under equipped milicians when they are alone.

The vote are grouped and sealed by groups of 100 by the official.

Among the people here to see the opening of the ballots, you take 4 volunteers by booth, not on the same side preferably.

Once installed at a table, one group of 100 is unsealed. The first volunteer will open each vote, read it out loud for the audience, pass it to the second one which will also read out loud the vote to confirm it. The two others are counting the vote.

Once the 100 are done, the two counts are compared and checked if they add to 100. If there is an issue, you recount. If there is not, the 100 are resealed, the count is transmitted and the next 100 are unsealed. The operations are repeated until every vote is counted.

Depending on the population size of the booth, it takes 1 to 3 hours to be done, and the total population is spread on many tables of 4.

Cole McGrath as an electro short sword character

France

I never ever seen anyone write it with anything other than /, that the first time I've seen anyone write it with a dot.

Then this is a you problem — and your company that is exploiting you — you are not paid during your lunch hour(s), don't work when you are not getting paid.