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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I’m not trying to perpetuate “Arab bad”. And my experience is anecdotal but that doesn’t mean you can correct - it was still very much real.

    • French kids my age had no issues with me. Some were weirdly enamored by me. Some older French folk were rude about my nationality, no doubt. But never the pure, cruel, hatred I experienced from some North Africans kids. (I say French kids but this included a lot of Western European ethnicities whose families immigrated and integrated with the French culture already. An admittedly much easier task given they already share similar cultures.)
    • Yes, mostly true. But since you’re not me, and did not live my life, you wouldn’t know I was attending the French equivalent of ESL classes with some first geneneration North Africans (I apologize I can’t be more specific.) They were some of the meanest and we couldn’t even speak a shared language.
    • If your point is that immigration is not a problem until the 2nd/3rd generation, what other solution is there than to stop it at the 1st generation until the rest of it can get sorted? I’m not pretending to have a solution, someone much smarter than me will need to figure that one. But what I do know is people are getting hurt by people that weren’t there before. A tale as old as time.

    Also as a side note. 1 in 3 is not good enough. Most people are risk adverse, give them 33% odds of something positive and they’ll tell you to shove it.


  • I’m a white American that lived in France for 7 years in grade school. It’s the only time I’ve experienced racism. I know that sounds ridiculous as a white man, but I was relentlessly targeted by North African immigrants for no other reason than being American. Immigration is an issue in France. People are coming but they are not integrating. They don’t follow the laws, they don’t view women as equals, they hate LGBT, they hate western ideals. So, as an American who believes immigration is a good thing in the States - I understand why the French want to lock that shit down.





  • The people they interviewed for this article truly sound bonkers

    That being said - I share my Find My location with my SO, my parents, and a couple close friends I don’t live near anymore.

    For those saying this causes fights in relationships, no it doesn’t - the relationship has issues despite this, not because of this. My SO and I fight sometimes, not once because of a ‘suspicious’ location. Because neither of us are cheating shitbags and we know this.

    I travel a lot and I know it gives my Mom peace of mind if she can quickly glance and know I’m safe. Close friends are convenient, especially when you don’t live very close anymore. A few times I have seen us closer than normal and plan something to meet up.


  • One thing you left out is that Proton petitioned against this law after this happened. They successfully had the law changed so this can’t happen again.

    I’d also like to clarify that no logs existed of this court ordered mailbox. It wasn’t until after the court order that logging began. So their claims are true - there is no logging. But yes, they can start logging whenever. So could every ‘no logs’ company.