I tried this: "What happened to Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand?"

Fenêtrexit, pehaps?

How many flakes in a scale?

The UK uses it for crane flies.

That'll be John Zorn's band Naked City. Try their album Torture Garden, featuring such tunes as Jazz Snob Eat Shit

Je viens de signer la pétition contre cela.. https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/i-5158

Nope, I still have a floordrobe.

This is just off the top of my head, so the numbers are approximate.

In France it's (of course) a bit complicated in that you often pay first and then get partially reimbursed by the state system. If I go to my doctor and get a prescription, I'll pay about 20€ for the consultation + about 8€ for the medicine, no matter what it is, but will have about 70% of that paid back to my bank account later. If I were to go the hospital and have to stay overnight, I'll get charged a considerable amount for the treatment, medication and the hospital bed (and have that also partially reimbursed). However, there's a sliding scale of cosmetic to serious treatments that are reimbursed at progressively higher rates. This means you pay more for trivial stuff and less for important stuff up to life-threatening illnesses (e.g. cancer) for which the treatment is free (I think, I've not had one).

I pay around 8% of my annual income in health tax. Most people pay extra for private medical insurance (around 50€ a month, typically) in order to have all costs fully covered. The insurance companies are strictly regulated and pay out. I had a tooth pulled and it cost me 8€. If I want to replace it with an implant, it's 800€.

France is complicated.

In the UK there's usually no charge at all for a consultation or hospital treatment. Prescriptions are about £9 per item, no matter what the drug is. I pay approximately 11% of my annual income in health tax. Some people still pay extra for private health insurance in order to get preferential treatment and increase the inequality.

The above applies to residents, not to visitors unless their country has special agreement with the UK or French governments.

source: I've lived in both countries and I've almost bored myself into a coma by typing all this unnecessary detail.

Came in for this comment! I usually use an SM-57 on vocals, guitars and snares. The sort of singers I record really love grabbing the 57 and jumping around just like they do on stage. SM-58 is too fancy for these guys.

If it's any consolation, that's a petition against this bill with about 600k signatures on it (you need to be a French citizen or resident to sign it).

Nobber by Oisín Fagan . After ripping through his short story book Hostages and thoroughly enjoying it, I took far too long to get around to his debut novel. So far it's intriguing, weird and uses lovely Irish-English language.

I'm going for Michael Moorcock's "Dancers at the End of Time" series. In the far future, Earth's human population is like 120 immortal people who possess science that is indistinguishable from magic, powered by some kind of Dyson Sphere. They've long forgotten how the tech works and lead lives of leisure in which their main activity is amusing each other. Although old (1970s, I think), it feels contemporary in that is has many gender-fluid elements and seems like the kind of world tech bros dream of. It has a Sci-fi premise but it's pure Famtas It's philosophical and also quite funny.

I've been perfectly happy with AppImageInstaller. It's an easy way to generate .desktop files and has a provision for manual AppImage updates. It's worked without any issues for all (only six) of the AppImages I've installed. I hadn't heard of GearLever but now I'll give a try.