Sphinx moths are awesome ! And a lot easier to see in the country where I live, yes. :-)

I’ve never seen one of those in real life. I’ll be ecstatic if it ever happens.

Let’s give him a nice Gift.

using public transport helps. At least I get to relax, play a game, knit, etc.

This is true, but only if it’s not crowded and you get to sit down. The same commute time feels completely different during rush hour and off-peak.

She was getting hundreds of notifications per day from Youtube of AI generated videos of Pope Leo doing bad stuff or something…

What the fuck.

some states explicitly do not ask about immigration status. It’s better to have all drivers licensed and insured than for immigrants to drive unlicensed and uninsured

Interesting, that makes sense. I don’t think it’s possible in my country (France) for foreigners to take their driving test without a valid residence permit.

Wait, you don’t have ID cards in the US?

I’m French, worked in Paris during the Olympics, and I’m pretty sure that the Medium “article” is fake news.

And anyway, a lot of Americans visited Paris every year before the Olympics, so I think that we’d have heard about this before if it was a thing.

I don’t know New York enough to answer. What’s special about Staten Island?

At home, I always heat the water in a saucepan on my stove. I only use a microwave when I’m making tea at the university, where it’s the only way I can get hot water. These microwaves are always a bit dirty because most students don’t clean after themselves, and I can’t fully enjoy my tea because it feels tainted.

It’s a 2 € plan with a 2 € discount because the mobile operator is also my home internet provider. So 0 €/month.

And it’s my one and only mobile number, not an extra one for crap content. The plan only includes 50 MB of (4G) data per month, and I have to pay extra if I go over it, so barring emergencies I’m only using wifi — but I don’t mind not having access to internet everywhere and all the time, I find that healthier in a way.

I assure you most people don’t know that.

I’m in my mid-thirties, and while I didn’t have the Instagram/Whatsapp problem as a late teen / young adult, the pressure to use Facebook was similar. When I decided to close my account, it was almost a social death. My friends organised all their outings there and didn’t want to bother reaching out to me. And many of those who did go out of their way to include me occasionally made passive-agressive remarks about how I was being ridiculous and making their life difficult.

That said, I would have loved being able to just say “I don’t have Insta” when men were bothering me in the street. :-) But I’m sure that wouldn’t stop most of them even now.

0€ for me. :-)

I didn’t know that one, thank you!