Edit: Okay, I’ve looked at your comment history and I’m deleting my answer after all, there’s no use in feeding a troll.

This will be of no help to you OP, but: damn, this all seems so bizarre read from France.

How likely is it that your kid’s going to be bullied, though? I looked at some state-by-state data (warning: it’s not that recent, and I haven’t checked its accuracy), and it seems to vary a lot depending on where you live. Also, even in West Virginia, where circumcision seems to be the most common, almost one male in ten seems to be left intact. Obviously, I don’t know what I’m talking about, but even if your child ends up being in the minority, he might not seem that strange to his classmates and friends.

If you aren’t Jewish

Circumcision is also done by muslims. I have no idea how common it is, though, it might depend on the country.

Riad Sattouf, a famous Syro-French comic artist with a muslim father, wrote about his circumcision in one of his comics. (It was done in Syria when he was already something like 9 years old, so he actually had memories of it. From what his says, it was a normal thing for muslims to do in Syria at the time. I don’t know about now.)

On the other end, none of the muslims men I know here in France have told me they’ve been circumcised… but I haven’t actually asked them, so who knows.

Whaaat, I didn’t know that. You made my day.

Unfortunately, the French version isn’t so well‑rounded and doesn’t have bookcases.

Edit: @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de and @infeeeee@lemmy.zip, you made my day too. You all are awesome and I’m leaving for work in an excellent mood.

Overpass-turbo is great, if not very layperson-friendly.

I just tried searching for “boite à livres” (using the “show on map” option) on Comaps (the mobile app I use daily as a map) and it works very well. Upsides: easy to use, works offline. Downsides: you have to download an app, and the data is only updated once a month, so if a public bookcase was added very recently, you won’t find it.

(It should work on Organic Maps too, which CoMaps is a recent fork of. And probably on other apps too?)

To be fair, I doubt most Jews would have seen that as a safe place just after WW2…

At home, I always heat the water in a saucepan on my stove. I only use a microwave when I’m making tea at the university, where it’s the only way I can get hot water. These microwaves are always a bit dirty because most students don’t clean after themselves, and I can’t fully enjoy my tea because it feels tainted.

It’s a 2 € plan with a 2 € discount because the mobile operator is also my home internet provider. So 0 €/month.

And it’s my one and only mobile number, not an extra one for crap content. The plan only includes 50 MB of (4G) data per month, and I have to pay extra if I go over it, so barring emergencies I’m only using wifi — but I don’t mind not having access to internet everywhere and all the time, I find that healthier in a way.

OP, why post the text as images when you could have copied and pasted it? That makes it unaccessible to readers who depend on screen readers.

I assure you most people don’t know that.

I’m in my mid-thirties, and while I didn’t have the Instagram/Whatsapp problem as a late teen / young adult, the pressure to use Facebook was similar. When I decided to close my account, it was almost a social death. My friends organised all their outings there and didn’t want to bother reaching out to me. And many of those who did go out of their way to include me occasionally made passive-agressive remarks about how I was being ridiculous and making their life difficult.

That said, I would have loved being able to just say “I don’t have Insta” when men were bothering me in the street. :-) But I’m sure that wouldn’t stop most of them even now.

0€/month for me. :-)

That was hilarious.

There’s a reason prostitution is called “the world’s oldest profession”.

Yes, it’s because it’s a lazy, overused sentence that people like to quote without thinking. There’s no solid ground to claim that prostitution is the world’s oldest profession.

People have biological needs.

Those “biological needs” aren’t porn. You can masturbate without porn. You can fantasize without porn. You can have sex without porn. And so on.

I’m not saying that this is a good measure, but “teenagers are interested in sex” ⇒ “we shouldn’t restrict what sexual media teenagers have access to” isn’t a very sound argument.

legitimate porn sites

“Legitimate” porn sites are all full of things I really wish I hadn’t seen as a middle schooler who was barely starting to get curious about sex. Or even as a high schooler who was decidedly interested in sex, actually.

Missed the point.

He didn’t. You claimed that the left had “arrest[ed] people for saying that the covid “vaccination” didn’t stop people from catching, spreading, or dying from covid.” Do you or do you not have any evidence of such a thing happening? Since you completely evaded the subject in your answer, I’m guessing not.

I live in France and only heard about it from social media: first, by sheer chance, a few months ago from a minor Mastodon account, the second time three days before the deadline, from the same Mastodon account again. I don’t browse Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Tiktok at all, so I’m not sure how the coverage was there.

A trans friend who’s normally way better informed than me about this stuff told me he heard about it less than a week before the deadline, so clearly word hadn’t spread that well, even if France already did have more signatures than most countries at the time. From what I can tell, it spread through digital “word of mouth” rather than through established medias. There was some media coverage, but reeeaally at the last time. A few politicians (mostly from the left) talked about it during the last days, too.

Like someone else said, ECIs don’t get a lot of media coverage and most people don’t even know they exist. By the way, in France, there’s also an official petition system to submit law ideas to the parliament, and it’s also not very well known. (Another problem being that most petitions on the parliament website are ludicrous because, contrary to ECI, no vetting is done before publishing the petition (as far as I know). I take a look at it now and then, and it’s really tiring to search for the legitimate stuff in the midst of all the ridiculous crap.)

Same thing in French. Doublevédoublevédoublevé. So. long.

This article is from nearly eight years ago.

I wish you pleasant sexual encounters as well, most esteemed stranger.

Same thing in France with CB. I’ve only recently understood why I was asked to choose between “CB” and “Visa” when paying by card online, when both were written on my card. Actually, when I got my first card as a teenager, I was a bit nervous about that, I was scared of “making the wrong choice” when paying online; I rememberd asking adults around me what that was about and how to choose which one to select, and not one of them could give me an explanation, they told me that there was no difference and that I should just pick one at random. Now I feel kinda bad about all the times that I chose Visa, because from what I understand their fees are generally higher for the seller.