Nobody in Europe has spent the past week looking at their stock portfolio, wondering if they could still afford to send their kids to university.
The recent TV show Adolescence is a good watch related to this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence_(TV_series)
Rugby star Sébastien Chabal won two Six Nations titles with France, reached a World Cup semifinal and played 62 times for his nation as a powerful forward.
But he does not remember any of it due to memory loss stemming from the concussions he sustained as a player.
“I don’t remember a single second of a rugby match I played. And I don’t remember a single one of the 62 Marseillaises (national anthems) I experienced,”
Some of his plays https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KK7viBLQz8M
The FBI assassination part seems to be corroborated by this National Archive page https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/individuals/fred-hampton. I guess NARA being an official USA agency, they would not make a claim against the FBI without being certain.
Only if they come from Wink, Winkler County, Texas. Otherwise they are just sparkling eyelead carrier and receiver.
The rest of the story from Wikipedia:
During the raid, Panther Mark Clark was also killed and several others were seriously wounded. In January 1970, the Cook County Coroner held an inquest; the coroner's jury concluded that Hampton's and Clark's deaths were justifiable homicides.[14][15][16][17]
A civil lawsuit for wrongful death was later filed on behalf of the survivors and the relatives of Hampton and Clark.[18] It was resolved in 1982 by a settlement of $1.85 million (equivalent to $6.03 million in 2024); the U.S. federal government, Cook County, and the City of Chicago each paid one-third to a group of nine plaintiffs. Given revelations about the illegal COINTELPRO program and documents associated with the killings, many scholars now consider Hampton's death, at age 21, a deliberate assassination at the FBI's initiative. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
Is it a sarcastic post? Internet was not safer before, it's just much more accessible to kids nowadays, the good and the bad, thanks to wireless connections, small portable computers and easy UIs.
I wonder what will happen to the collaboration between American GE and French Safran that makes the CFM under Trump.
French multinational Safran is still making engines for airliners (with GE), Rafale fighters and Ariane rockets (with Airbus).
It's sarcastically cringe for fun.
I guess this means your parents are from China too? If yes, then they grew up in a country were demonstrating against the government gets you rolled over by tanks. They have been taught that politics is not something for the people, the party takes care of it for them and they should just focus on being good hard working citizens. So, I would think their behavior is a mix of fearing for your life, which they value way more than politics, and an ingrained lack of faith in the people being able to change politics.
Consider this bias and make your personal choice, especially if you're legally an adult.
Second day of the journey, the energy of the beginning is still there.
I found a cool shell! It says 1500 km, maybe if I were a bird, my guide says 1800.
The theory is that the lines on the scallop shell represent the many ways converging towards Compostela. Compostela is next to the Atlantic coast, so this seashell is common food there. Pilgrims would come back from the pilgrimage with a scallop shell attached to their bag as symbol of their accomplishment. Nowadays, many pilgrims attach this symbol on their back from the beginning. But I prefer the old way, I will only attach one to my bag once I have arrived.
So, the point of convergence should point towards Compostela, right? Well this was my minor 1800 km long pet peeve, many of the shells that indicate the way do not point towards the right direction. Zoom in on the top picture for an example.
The Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Garde basilica in Longpont-sur-Orge was founded in 1031, then part of the highly influential Congregation of Cluny (1200 locations and 10 000 members at the peak). This religious organization shaped a significant part of the European Middle Ages: religious reforms, politics, economy, philosophy, ancient literature copying, architecture and liberal arts between the 10th and the 12th century.
I failed to identify this neoclassical castle.
The way between Paris and Tours is not a major one in France. There are many more Frenchies starting from Vézelay or Le Puy-en-Velay, which go through gorgeous natural regions of France, so I can't blame them. But my way was to start from my home.
Since it's not a major route, the infrastructure for pilgrims is lacking. Marks may sometimes be few and far between, and there are not many of those unbeatable quality/price pilgrim stays, at least not in 2018. So for this night in Arpajon, I had to stay at an "over-budget" roadside hotel, eating macaronis with my trucker mates.
I am revisiting my pictures from my long ~1800 km (1120 miles) walk from my home, in Paris, to Santiago de Compostela in the northwest corner of Spain.
At the time, I couldn't take the whole ~72 days, needed to walk the entire trip, off in one go, but I still had my French-social-system ^TM^ powered multiple weeks of holiday per year to use. So, I completed it in segments of ~300 km over ~12 days at ~25km/day across 5 years (with COVID in the middle).
The thing about starting from your home is that it is incredibly liberating. All you have to do is put your backpack on your shoulders, cross the threshold of your house, and boom, the adventure has started. No need to stress about booking tickets or missing a departure. You decide when and how you move. This feeling of freedom is the essence of the way for me.
At the same time, you do not feel lost ^(it\ does\ happen\ sometimes)^ nor aimless, because you have one goal, to get to Compostela, and signs to follow along the many possible roads.
Santiago is Saint-Jacques in French, Saint-James in English. We have a Saint-Jacques tower in the middle of Paris, the last remnant (destroyed during the Revolution and rebuilt in the 1850') of a 16th-century church. It is a traditional start for Parisian pilgrims, along with Notre-Dame de Paris. It is the top picture of this post.
On this first day, I already had to make a big choice between two routes: going through Orléans or through Chartres. I chose the more historically significant city of Orléans.
The scallop shells, the symbol of the way, sometimes seen nailed to the sidewalk of big cities.
The way I have picked from Paris is the way going through Tours. It is a very old way, even older than the Compostela pilgrimage (9th century) in some parts, so it has a Latin name, "via Turonensis".
The train station of Massy, last stop for the day, sleeping at friends.
I don't have moulds or many rings so they spread too much, but they are good.
Interactive map: https://nco.ign.es/CaminoSantiago/
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Just wanted to report that the latest Nicole spam I received 10 min ago is asking for crypto "donations".
So this may be finally the reason for the phishing, getting crypto donations from gullible people.
Looks like this:
By the way, has anyone contacted Imgur about this? I think they would take it pretty seriously.