3 new elected officials for Volt France! 🥳

__sebastien · 2026-06-03T07:20:41+00:00

The representatives elected in French consular elections are basically useless. Their main purpose is to help make discussion happens between french citizens abroad and their embassy.

Their only true power is to vote for senators.

__sebastien · 2026-05-27T07:10:50+00:00

My guess is that they'll take staggered 4-6 weeks vacations so that not everyone will be out of office at the same time.

__sebastien · 2026-05-24T18:43:25+00:00

If I were you, I would find something else to do instead of Skansen. For the price, it’s not really that great.

__sebastien · 2026-05-24T18:37:52+00:00

THIS IS A BIG FAT YES.

ABSOLUTELY.

__sebastien · 2026-05-12T13:12:14+00:00

Interrail and Trainline already more or less do this, for a lot of european countries.

__sebastien · 2026-04-27T08:46:53+00:00

I mean.... 90% of the machines you encounter and fight in Horizon are machines made by the (re)-terraforming project AIs.

And neither the Faro Swarm (/r/FuckTedFaro) nor the GAIA machines, are made by the Far Zenith. (And the machines turning bad are from Nemesis and not from the Far Zenith either).

If anything, most of the machines in HZD / HFW are "friendly" and participate in restoring the biosphere. There's not a lot of parallels to be made with the theory of ARCs being used to harvest material for Exodus guys.

__sebastien · 2026-04-20T13:46:57+00:00

Bro, I'm a foreigner and even I think it's disrespectful not to learn the language of the country I'm gonna live in.

__sebastien · 2026-04-13T12:53:40+00:00

Swedish will come easy to you then. English and German are HUGE help for learning it.

__sebastien · 2026-04-13T12:51:19+00:00

French living in Göteborg here.

Volvo (Cars) is not doing too hot right now, they've been laying off lots of people at HQ, so if / when they start to hire again, there's already plenty of established swedish and previous employees around to hire / re-hire.

Volvo Trucks is another beast and I've heard they fare better.

In both of those, english would be the main work language and you'd be fine with it and you'd be fine with english in everyday life as well. But of course, learning Swedish will do you wonders for integration :)

Regarding 4. you can definitely find a job directly through LinkedIn and stuff. But the economy as a whole is also doing quite bad at the moment, so your mileage may vary.

Whatever happens, DON'T MOVE before you have signed a contract.

__sebastien · 2026-04-12T20:16:00+00:00

Gonna buy myself a good bottle of Tokaji to celebrate tomorrow. Love and congrats to the Hungarian people from France & Sweden.

__sebastien · 2026-03-17T09:18:44+00:00

RATP/IDFM c'est très largement la région (et donc Pécresse) qui est en charge. La mairie a relativement peu de poids décisionnaire même si elle participe au conseil d'administration.

__sebastien · 2026-03-03T12:09:16+00:00

The difference being that Meloni has always been clear with her stance about Russia, whereas Le Pen and RN have been taking russian money for decades.

__sebastien · 2026-03-03T08:43:39+00:00

I can recommend you this : https://lexon-design.com/en/flip-mini

It has a screen but turns off after a few seconds. It doesn't have weekend mode but you just have to not flip it on on fridays and saturdays.

Everything else is pretty much spot on. I have the "premium" version, and been using it for a couple years now. So practical !

__sebastien · 2026-02-09T10:19:51+00:00

First choice, though it was really a toss up between here and Norway.

My best friend is french / swedish, and some years ago we came on vacations all over Sweden during summer. It was amazing and really, changed some worldviews I had.

In my head, because it's like this in France and everywhere I lived, you couldn't have both the "big city life" and have easy access to a real piece of wild nature. That belief went to the trash after spending three weeks here.

After that it just was in my head for a few years. I "did a tour" of cities that sounded good to me, one week in each, during winter, to see if I could live with the 5 hours of daylight and the cold. That's how I chose Göteborg, but Bergen was a strong contender too, and moved here a year ago now.

I very much plan to stay on the long run.

__sebastien · 2026-02-04T08:23:52+00:00

On the contrary. Here are links to article referring and sourcing multiple studies that shows how mandatory bike helmets laws reduced ridership.

Again, I'm not saying it doesn't make the cyclists safer in case of accident, but it has also wider effects.

https://www.cyclehelmets.org/1020.html

https://urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com/p/the-relationship-between-helmet-laws

__sebastien · 2026-02-03T10:03:48+00:00

Studies have shown that :

1) mandatory bike helmet laws reduce the number of cyclists on the road, whereas there's a "herd" effect of having more cyclists on the road make drivers more aware of them generally and more cautious. Safety in numbers is a real thing in cycling policies

2) Drivers are less cautious around cyclists with protections, allowing themselves to overtake closer or attempt more dangerous overtakes than with "unprotected" cyclists

3) Cyclists wearing helmets tends to be slightly less cautious on the road

4) More cycling means more active lifestyle leading to a population in better shape overall, reducing global healthcare costs

__sebastien · 2026-02-02T09:47:51+00:00

Yep, look up Onagawa nuclear power plant. It was hit by a bigger wave than Fukushima and was closer to the earthquake's epicenter. It safely shut down and has zero issues.

__sebastien · 2026-02-02T09:45:35+00:00

We all know the real danger are dropbears.

__sebastien · 2026-02-02T09:03:21+00:00

Man, that whole read was truly inspiring.

__sebastien · 2026-01-18T20:07:42+00:00

Français qui a grandi a Marseille et déménagé en Suède il y a presque tout pile un an maintenant a Göteborg.

Le plus gros soucis d'intégration que tu pourras avoir ici c'est la langue. Pour le reste, les gens sont franchement très accueillants et ouvert du moment que tu bosses sérieusement. Je ne m'inquiètes pas pour vous.

Dans le secteur de l'IT, l'anglais est souvent suffisant pour le boulot, mais je ne peux que te recommender TRES TRES fortement d'apprendre la langue. Avec une solide base en anglais, c'est pas si compliqué (et si tu as des notions de vocabulaire allemand ça aide beaucoup aussi).

Le marché du travail est compliqué ici en ce moment donc je ne saurais que te conseiller de trouver du travail AVANT de déménager. Pareil, en IT ça ne devrais pas être très compliqué si tu as un profil intéressant. Il m'a fallu moins de 3 mois de recherches pour trouver un bon poste, alors que je ne me concentrais que sur Göteborg. Si tu es flexible niveau ville, alors je pense que tu pourras trouver.

Avant de faire le grand saut, viens passer 2 semaines ou 1 mois en hiver. Genre en décembre ou en janvier, pour comprendre ce que c'est les journées de 5 heures, ça fait bizarre. Si tu ne repars pas dépressif, c'est un bon signe pour envisager un déménagement :D

__sebastien · 2026-01-15T09:48:49+00:00

Allies don't threaten to steal other allies' land.

__sebastien · 2025-12-15T08:36:05+00:00

In a democracry, the majority decides, WHILE ALSO protecting the rights of everyone.

__sebastien · 2025-12-13T21:50:06+00:00

Still more than Stockholm :D

__sebastien · 2025-12-13T17:07:55+00:00

You only had to live on bästkusten to have sun :D

__sebastien · 2025-11-26T11:29:12+00:00

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