I’m too cheap for a safe deposit box, but I work in an office and keep a hard disk there. I have two identical ones. One at the office, one at home receiving backups. Every couple of months, swap them out.

Fascinating… my son drew a potato portrait of our family a couple of months ago and I love it 😊

“Misstated” through an honest error or “blatantly lied”? My money’s on the second.

That usually doesn’t happen.

It’s a blend produced by the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, in this case by the best sommeliers.

The MOF awards are quite neat as a concept. Most famous for chefs and patisserie, but it covers a wide range. I once lived in a town where the news of the month was that a local won the MOF for plumbing. 😀

Hoo boy. I hadn’t heard of VEP before and I see why!

How about that MOF blend?

Addendum to fun fact: some guinea pigs make up for the lack of tail with butt cheeks.

I saw these ads and was surprised at how transparent they are. But maybe only to people who are already on the “let’s not feed the superpower as it falls into outright fascism” train?

I’m on a rewatch of some other Roddenberry goodness, Earth: Final Conflict. I’m in season 2 now.

Non negligible amounts of plot holes looking back (and even at the time) but on the whole it holds up. I’m mostly watching it on a phone and I’m impressed at how good it still looks (most of the time).

I’m far from an expert on current Parisian politics, but I can confirm that the mayor of Paris doesn’t preside over a lot of suburban area. Not sure for the power of the mayors of the individual arrondissements.

The (populated) area inside the red line is basically all high density so the people actually doing the voting should be rather in favour of fewer cars and better transit. The surrounding suburbs — where there are more carbrains — are different administrative units so they don’t really have a say in how central Paris is run.

In many areas (e.g. Toronto), these suburbs also vote for the mayor and tend to block progress. I think this is also part of how Paris can make rapid progress— the voters actually live in the city proper.

Kenya, oh Kenyaaaa! Where the giraffes are and the zebraaare!