My cell phone plan is 5€/month (including taxes, of course), with unlimited calls, SMS, free roaming and 30GB. At that price the plan is 4G, of course. Never any problem as long as I am in urban areas, every now and then it won't work in the country side; but it's quire rare that it will affect my browsing while on a train: it'd be a nuisance only while zooming. And, in any case, there's no chance in hell one could get 5G in such places even if everyone were paying 200€/month. For 10€/month I'd get 5G and 150GB/month: the idea that someone would consider 20$ (+taxes, I suppose; and I hope there's no tip expected) cheap is hard to believe, on this side of the Atlantic.

Nothing the EU says has any impact on you, as long as you refrain from offering services to people living in the EU.

This is about parking on public streets. It might applies also to public underground parkings, but it definitively does not apply to private underground parkings. I do not think there is any private ground level parking open to the public in Paris (or, if there is any, I have never seen it).

My Suzuki infotainment consist in the radio and an animation showing the status of the battery; when I asked about any Sat-Nav option the answer was: Just use your phone! Indeed, that's the way to go: don't waste any time nor money on producing a sub-par infotainment system, and put the savings into physical buttons.

Sorry to break the news for you, but Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Akamai, CloudFlare, Amazon and all the others have different user agreements in the US and in the EU: they have been regularly been under court scrutiny, and fines are humongous (1.6 billion € just for 2022, 400 million of those to Meta).

Seriously, this is a good thing: they are not forcing anything down anyone's throat: as far as real life goes, these are nothing more than proposals: if they are accepted by the people who talk and write about videogames, the language will be enriched; if they are not, all the same. If anyone thinks that Italians calling a mouse "mouse" get any advantage over the French calling a mouse "souris," well, I have some news for you...

I pay 5,99€/month, taxes included, for 30 GB and unlimited calls to Italy (land and mobile), Europe and almost every developed country — even the US, whether or not they satisfy that definition — (land). What's wrong with you guys?

You can set amazon.de to speak English to you

Just remap the right CMD as Meta, and live happily ever after.

And Amazon deals with warranty replacement so much better than any local store that any comparison is embarrassing: with the latter the only way to get service is often to mention that as a member of a consumer protection organization I won't have to pay for my lawyer. With Amazon, reporting that an underwater camera after 13 months is not working properly meant a full refund "since we are not carrying any more that model".
American customer satisfaction + European customer protection is the way to go.

Actually, you usually get paid before the end of the month: in Italy, e.g., payday is on the 27 for private employees and on the 24 for public ones. So it's not that bad.

Here in Italy, the construction of a sidewalk in face of a new development is usually paid for (and built by) the developer. Maintenance could be up to the building owner for a number of years (it depends on the deal you stroke with the local municipality on the building permit) but is usually done by the municipality. In theory residents are responsible for keeping their sidewalk snow and ice-free, and where I live you can even get free salt in order to do that. In practice, either someone does it out of fun (as I do), or someone reminds the building manager that it would be him the one charged with criminal negligence in case sh*t happens.

Actually what you call rare in the US, is called well done in continental Europe.

When I was a graduate student at Brown in the 90s, we gave it as a fact that students would have been cheating in hw assignments, so that the largest part of the final grade had to come from written examinations. On the other hand, we had to give HW assignments some influence on final grade, otherwise most students would have skipped them. 5% sounded about right.

In Europe a 2 week vacation is considered a bad thing: most people get three weeks in the summer. You are also required by law to take your vacation (usually 4 weeks) every single year, it cannot be exchanged for money.