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Town hall in Limoges 'largely lost' to blaze set during French protests

Coming from Limoges, things fell apart badly mainly due to police actions :

  • a group went apart tried to go and block the highway

  • the police decided to tear gas everyone, including the peacedul protest with families, babies and elderly persons

  • people where told by the police to stand back and to go to townhall neighborhood

  • building was unprotected, though it's usually is in case of protests

  • despite a few plainclothes police officers, no action were taken when first fires started

Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but everywhere in France things were so badly handled by the gov and police that it look almost intentional.

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Paris is crawling with bedbugs. They're even riding the trains, and a ferry.

Man with bedbugs PTSD here. Let me tell you what will happen if you notice bedbugs at your place :

  • You will call a company to get rid of it

  • They will tell you that they can't come in less than 2 weeks and that they will charge you 400€ min. Deal with your itches until then, sleep well.

  • The company will tell you their prerequisites, usually : get rid of ALL your fabric/clothes and wash it at 60°c or freeze it for 4 days at -20°c

I assure you that you never know how much fabric/clothes you have before you have to wash it ALL of it. My SO and i had forty 100L garbage bag of fucking stuff. The garbage bags are here for storage but also to keep your clothes and fabric sealed, to avoid the fuckers to either get away or get in. It will cost you money, you will lose time and about half your clothes thanks to the hot temp and shrinking.

If the infestation is too big, you will also have to fucking freeze your books if you have some (they can hide between pages), throw away your mattress and eventually your bed.

Also, the company will come at your place at least 2 times, best is 3, with a week interval. So during 2 to 3 weeks you will live among garbage bags, breathe insecticide for weeks, and eventually repeat the process in a few months cause one bedbug escaped and was hosted by your neighbor. Good luck to you ! (be brave)

Ps : if you have animals, you will also have to deal with them during 5h the day the company is at your place. Spoiler : that will cost you days off and about 1000€ in total.

[edit] typos, formatting and adding ps

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Inspired by the success of games like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, French president Emmanuel Macron declares 'videogames are part of our culture' and announces a new international gaming festival

He's full of shit, please do not trust any word coming out of his mouth. Last week he wanted to create a dragon ball z theme park with saudians, but didn't have the copyright stakeholders approval.

Meanwhile, he cut by 80% the already tiny envelope for school renovations and push for far right financial backing by French banks, lied about firefighters allocations... And so on and so on.

PS: we have Paris Games Week already btw

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Make a weekly menu, pin it on the fridge and stick to it. Then buy only the ingredients needed.

The key of success is to be lucid and plan 1 or 2 lazy day, with pizzas or whatever, dishes that don't need any effort to make.

You'll save a ton in groceries, and will waste almost nothing. Bonus point : you can generate the menus with an AI.