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In cliché world yeah.... But in reality, not so much. 😀

It been years... no... decades that smoking have nearly disappeared around me - including in the office.

I work with hundreds of people and the amount of people smoking can fit one hand. 25 years ago, i needed more than 2 hands to count them. And in my family, nobody starting at my parents generation and younger smokes.

Same story with wine during lunch. 25 years ago, it was several bottles each day at lunches.

Today, no more wine bottle and the trend started since easily 15 years now. Only for big occasion and the quantity have decreased a lot.

People drink more beers now. But far less than wine.

I see your point now. If you focus on the "republic" creation, yes. USA is older than France republic by few years.

But, please, don't tell me the original writer had that in mind. He/she is talking about nation. And, for example, a monarchy (our previous gouvernement state beforethe first republic) is a valid nation definition.

Well it's true English is not my native language so we could miss some intricate details of your message. But please, don't enter into the education system discussion. For your sake :)

Nop, nop nop.

You focused on the notion of state versus nation (what the screenshot talk about).

The nation of France exists since centuries and have never been reset by any war or change of leadership.

We didn't reset our identity as Franc(ais) because we updated our government system (we iterate it several time and will continue probably soon by another version).

Sometime it's monarchy, sometimes it's republic. Depend on what happens to us.

But the nation of Franc(e) started to exists when Clovis Ier merged several kingdoms at around the 500 AD. We learn that in history class when we are young and learn about our history (for those interested: wiki).

Using one of the government iteration of a nation to say: it's no more, let's reset everything is missing the point of the global message.

Does the usa reset when updating its constitution?

this answer contains a lot of errors and misconceptions. You shouldn't keep it in memory

Crazy! Look at the big electrical pylon in background, on the right.

What a strange way to see the world around you: "all our enemies surpassing us", "how did this become a thing anywhere before america"

Your country is really young so it's normal others countries got it before you. And why this "ennemy" flag on us? Can't we have free health care without becoming an enemy of the USA?

A LOT of things Americans love to say (globally, not necessarily you) as being "the first in the world" or "the best of the world " is usually true if the world was just America. But it's far from being true.

Did you cut the access to the firefox telemetry server (via PiHole i assume) before setting the parameters?

It could be Firefox trying to inform the telemetry server to not keep the data and/or logging the fact that you have disabled the telemetry.

Probably technical. A too big variation (hertz, voltage in this case?) can trigger an automatic disconnection from other networks. The cut in France was quick to fix as soon they isolated the Spain network and rerouted/decreased/increased production from others part of Europe.

That means you didn't think enough of the potential nefarious usage of this informations could allow.

Why we would boycott our fries? (or more precisely, our Belgian fries?)

We have nothing to loose by boycotting USA food anyway.

Take control of ressources, land and navigation path so he could enforce pressure points like a mafia boss (for example: taxes to all European ships traveling near).

Power, control, coercion is all what matters for him.