In a dark dark town, there was a dark dark street, in the dark dark street, there was a dark dark house, in the dark dark house, there were dark dark stairs, down the dark dark stairs, was a dark dark cellar and in the dark dark cellar... Three skeletons lived. But not the ones you're thinking about.
Maybe it's their neighbours.
The high commissioner for childhood, Sarah El Haïry, said the “no-kids trend” amounted to “violence against children” but that her target was not couples who decide to remain childless, but adults who do not want to be disturbed by other people’s children.
Sure, sure. Violence against children. What a fucking ridiculous thing to say.
EDIT: I'm not from France but I speak French natively and was looking into more information about this person. From her party's website, apparently:
I don't understand her point at all. She says that because some places are not accepting kids, it's putting pressure on parents and force them to show videos to their kids instead of interacting with them.
Lady, nobody is telling you that you can't fucking bring your kids to Disney Paris just because some people would like to have a hotel nearby where they won't have to hear your kids. She's so fucking entitled. She equates not wanting kids nearby to forcing parents into plugging their kids on screens. And violence against them! Is asking your child to stay quiet is also violence? Are quiet train cars violence against people that would like to shout their lungs out?
C'est ta putain de responsabilité d'empêcher tes enfants de grimper sur les étrangers dans le train, mais t'as pas forcément à les mettre derrière un écran pour ça. C'est pas la faute des passagers autour si tu sais pas t'occuper de tes enfants. T'as pas à leur imposer. Ils peuvent être des enfants qui lisent, qui dessinent, qui jouent à des jeux de table... C'est pas parce que t'as des enfants que toi et toute ta famille avez le droit d'empiéter sur les autres. Non mais quelle stupidité.
I've always liked the message an image like this conveyed. Being independent, going your own way, liking a bit of type 2 fun. But at the same time if you take it literally, it reminds me that doing precisely this is often frowned upon for different reasons.
According to the principle of leave no trace, you should ideally stick to the already established trails. The parks in my region all require visitors to stay in the trails, and camp in designated sites unless it's the back country. It's kind of difficult to do something like this in the real world without being kind of a jerk.
Also, life is discriminatory and we have evolved a fucked up way of socially distancing ourselves from people that society considers eccentric.
So even if I understand the message, it also makes me think about how doing something like this can often be hard and isolating.
That's one of the reasons I stopped rewatching Stargate. It's so noisy.
One night, I was rewatching Stargate late during the night and I realized I needed to lower the volume often to avoid annoying or waking up the people around. I could wear headphones but I don't want to hear guns and explosions so frequently so near.
I really liked Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis) but now a big part of what I see and hear when I watch it, is guns and explosions, and I'm passed that.
Have fun with your real life in real reality because of your obviously right choices. Here's a view from the side of fantasy land, where others made different choices, and are apparently not serious, and not real adults for this.
Hi, I live in fantasy world. I get my groceries on foot, making multiple trips a week instead of one big trip. Sometimes I go to a bigger store with my bike trailer and my panniers. I live in an apartment (even more signs that I'm not a real adult), so no renovations. And for recycling stuff like old computers, tables and stuff like that, I also use my bike trailer. Otherwise there are companies specialized in moving stuff. Either on bikes, or they own the truck and deliver stuff to me. Or take it somewhere else.
I go camping with my bike in national parks. I pull my folding kayak with a trailer. All in fantasy land. I will never be an adult because I don't drive a car or own a house. I'm not even a real human. It's true that everything is made around cars and sometimes it's a pain to have to use or rent one, but most of my life can be done without it. We are millions like this. Just not being real enough for you.
And of course, the goal is to force you cycling everywhere and get rid of your precious F150, and not just motivate a few more people on kids bikes or into shitty public transit so you and your precious real life can have more space on the roads.
It's so ridiculous. I know it's a provincial matter but some suburbs around Montréal are trying to build TOD and they get threatened by the transit authority to have their train lines reduced or cut. Even if they are already not in function during evenings and weekends.
And VIA Rail trains have been extra late for a few months now, with no end in sight.
Plus, the coach industry is continuing to reduce and/or cut routes. Fifteen years ago I could go from Drummondville to Victoriaville, and be back the same day. Now there's three coaches a week. I once heard a guy in a train from Drummondville to Montréal, saying that he was visiting his brother in Victoriaville when he had to leave a day earlier and discovered there were simply no coaches leaving the city that day. He paid $80 for a taxi to get him to Drummondville so he could then take a train home.
As someone that tries to get around without a car, some days, all levels of governments make me wish I had one.
The region where I'm from is trying to re purpose an abandoned rail line into a rail trail. The project dates from 2012 (in French). All the bureaucracy involved makes the process take forever. Meanwhile the extension of a multi lane highway plowed through a wooded area, some farmland, required the construction of a bridge, is now completed.
Same for public transit always being cut, while highway extension is like the proverbial carrot on a stick for voters.
VIA Rail won't even take fucking bikes in the Corridor, yet! Going from Montreal to Drummondville with a bike involves paying $35 for the coach ticket, $15 for your bike, that must be in a box or a bag that they will sell you for $15 if you don't have one, and pay the same again to get back! Oh and there's two coaches per day, for your convenience. Also, even if you ditch the bike so you can take a train, it's going to be seriously late.
But if we're so worried about the environment and quality of life, instead of trying to get everywhere using public transit and/or a bike, maybe we should buy an electric car. That's a very good message from our "leaders".
Cars cars cars! Buy a car! Do you like your new car? You can go to places in your new car! Because you won't get there using public transit, and cycling will make you fear for your life.
Making sure Canadians can buy affordable e-bikes? Naaah. Buy a car! It's good for the economy! Everyone needs an affordable car! Cars cars cars!
I'm not sure how my install works, as I just found a script that installed everything for me and it worked on different SBCs. However, when I look into "About", HA says the installation method is supervised. And according to the article, this is precisely what is going to stop being supported.
Home Assistant is deprecating two installation methods, meaning they will continue working for now, but support will end in six months with the release of Home Assistant 2025.12. This includes Home Assistant Core, which runs in a Python environment, and Home Assistant Supervised, which involves running your own operating system underneath Home Assistant.
This is what I do. I have an Orange Pi 3b as a file server but it also runs HA in a docker image on top of that. I guess I'll just wait and see if it stops working. If so I'll try to reinstall using whatever "new/official/supported" method they want, and if not working, I'll jut give up on HA.
You'd do the same if the last time you left fish on your wooden table, it took days for the stench to go away.
I'm always a bit amazed of how things have progressed and on what Linux can still run.
This is an extreme example, but it's also possible to run a modern Linux OS on SBCs like a Raspberry Pi Zero, and still have something somewhat usable depending on your needs.
To have a computer half the size of a credit card with more RAM than my full tower rig from 2001 is amazing. And it can even run software from that era with dosbox or wine.
My 15 years old laptop is still supported and can still read 1080p on YouTube, using Linux.
Linux devs just recently decided to drop support for 486 CPUs and some early Pentiums.
There's just no competition.