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I turned on the A/C in the apartment for the first time this year, a bit after 18:00, when the inside temperature had breached 29C. We had been coasting through by opening the windows in the evenings and mornings, but tonight it will still be 28C when we go to bed, and about that when we get up. (There are no screens, so we won't leave the windows open while we sleep.)
The Lisboa Amoreiras weather station (near our previous apartment) hit 41.3C yesterday and 41.9C today. Friends drove in from Cascais to have lunch with us, and we took public transit to the restaurant. We had checked that it had A/C, and it was running, but they also had the door open, and seated us by it! Sigh.
Géméllus, avenue Duquesne, Paris 7e. Three-course lunch menu, 55€. This was the best meal we ate in Paris.
FinchHaven sfba"'I'm sure that Texas et al. will decide that that anything they don't like (1984? Fahrenheit 451? Dreams From My Father?) is adult-only and will require this hard-to-get credential."
And here is the crux of the matter
All the #AgeVerification #AdultOnly moral panic is merely to establish a precedent for a control mechanism
Once the control mechanism is in place, nationally, what is specifically to *be* controlled will be established at a later date
So happy to see people happy about their ICFP 2025 acceptances. I hope there are not too many denied. I wish I'd known that 2019 was to be my last time, but it probably would have just gotten weird. (Though I managed my last in-person lecture without weirdness, but only because no one knew about it except me and my Director and Dean.)
The new legislation won't affect our day-to-day lives. But it is a sign that the mood of the country may have shifted, after decades of mostly stable centre-left government. We aren't panicking (yet), but we are starting to think about our options. This may be an inflection point.
Citizenship is more than a matter of voting. Some interesting jobs require EU citizenship (though Hildy is happy with her current job). Without it, we can't legally spend more than 90 days a year in the rest of Schengen, or too much time out of the EU. There are numerous small benefits, in services, online, at airports.
Unfortunately, the re-elected centre right government (AD) is trying to out-xen the far right (Chega) who are now the official opposition. This week they introduced legislation to change the residence requirement for Portuguese citizenship from five years to ten, make family reunification harder, etc. Demonizing immigrants is easier than regulating real estate as investment.
This Guardian article is a concise and accurate summary of the Lisbon housing crisis, written by a Portuguese urban planning specialist and researcher.