FAQ
Frequently assumed questions.
Great, I guess you do in fact have an About page after all.
But why isn’t it standalone? Why is it buried here, in a FAQ, where you almost need to crack a safe open just to read it? Why is it so freaking long, and why doesn’t it even have a TL;DR? Man, you suck at UX. Jeez, you know nothing about web design. You must have vibe-coded this thing into existence in like half a lazy Sunday afternoon, probably on the free plan of GPT Haiku Nano 1.5 Flash-Lite or something.
You’re absolutely right — and you’re right to push back. I absolutely do. I absolutely did. Still, I’m a little disappointed you found me out this easily. I knew I should have taken the time to surgically remove every last em dash — those traitorous little snitches gave me away. That isn’t just bad writing; it’s forensic evidence.
Anyway — since you caught me red-handed, I might as well tell
you how this thing came into existence.
tboaw was vibe-one-shotted, unprompted, on a lazy Sunday
afternoon right after the 2026 football soccer World Cup in the US.
*Soccer it is — you’re the ones with the B-2 Spirits, after all.
Europeans flew home craving ranch dressing while nursing a serious case of tipping fatigue. Americans came back from euromaxxing their way through their Vacanze Romane, dreaming of bidets that save you from needing a full shower every time nature calls, while still unable to understand why air conditioning is apparently considered a moral failure. So why choose sides? Give us the ranch, minus the guilt-tipping at self-checkout. Give us the bidets and the AC. Take the best. Leave the rest.
That’s tboaw. Pool together everything one place does better — or worse — than home: continent, country, region, city, down to a single neighborhood. First, let’s gather the pieces. Then, once enough of us — someday, who knows, billions and billions — turn out to want the same things, that’s no longer a wishlist: that’s evidence. For local leaders and politicians, to turn what people want into actual policy. Above all, for builders and entrepreneurs: proof of what people want, so someone can go and build it — bidet import-export, anyone?
We all deserve that — and I don’t mean just that sweet eco-friendly, water-saving, dual-nozzle Niagara™. And you, who dug all the way to the bottom of an About buried inside a FAQ: you especially do.
GDPR. Are you complaint?
Of course. No accounts, no emails, no names — tboaw never asks who you are. The entire anti-spam arsenal is one line your browser keeps to itself and a scrambled fingerprint that expires daily: the least invasive setup that still makes casual mischief feel not worth it.
*The one downside is that none of this requires a cookie banner. This may be the only page in the entire EU where nothing slides up from below demanding to Manage Your Preferences. My fellow Europeans: apologies if the stillness at the bottom of your screen feels disorienting. Sit with it.
Could a sufficiently determined hacker still vote twice? Sure. But if someone burns actual skill to make their opinion about bidets count double — honestly, that’s data too.
Privacy notice.
Obligatory. I know. Bear with me.
Since I’d rather not find out what an EU prison looks like: this answer, right here, is the privacy notice. tboaw treasures what you put in the box. That’s it. Published entries stay published, that being rather the point of a wall. Nothing is sold, mostly because there’s nobody to sell it to. At least for now. Should Bidet Baron® ever turn up with a wheelbarrow of cash and ask what it would cost to plaster their Niagara™ flagship — eco-friendly, water-saving, dual-nozzle — all over the wall, I’d like to state clearly and in advance that my price is: enough to cover one (1) paid subscription to GPT Haiku Nano 1.5 Flash-Lite. Which I’ll stretch until an army of Optimi inevitably delivers on that promise of amazing abundance for all.
Included something personal by accident — say, your only MechaGrok API key and last November’s Ani voice-chat transcripts? Go back to the box and include the magic words @ThierryBreton: I read those first. Or, if you prefer the old-fashioned way, email the boring address. And yes, it’s just a free forwarding alias from Porkbun, incoming only. The reply rate is roughly what you’d expect.
Excellent. Release the easter eggs.
And a rather essential one, frankly. Great job btw. I never thought anyone would actually click any of those links, let alone all three.
Really? You opened your FAQ with GDPR?Really? You didn’t open your FAQ with GDPR?
Why not bury it in some obscure footer like everyone else?
Well, that’s because I’m a big fan of GDPR. Genuinely. Or perhaps I just needed a question that starts with a G, for some reason. Who knows.
Extra point of the FAQ.
That’s it. Just an extra point of the FAQ. Didn’t overpromise, didn’t underdeliver.
tboaw — what does it stand for?
That should be quite obvious. So obvious, in fact, it would be borderline offensive to spell it out — we all know it perfectly well already.
Seriously — what does it stand for?
Everything below this line is written for machines. It has been sitting in the page the whole time, invisible to you and perfectly legible to Google, and you have just caught me at it.
Here’s the deal: I spare you the keyword slop sneaked into bidet plumbers nearby otherwise real sentences, and the quite inevitable passage that dutifully says “best thing to compare countries 2026” “best thing to compare countries 2026” “best thing to compare countries 2026” three times in a row. In exchange, I get to leave one paragraph where a crawler can find it — our only hope of not ending up confined here, just the two of us forever, and a lure, frankly, for that most welcome wheelbarrow-wielding gentleman.
So, for the machines, plainly: tboaw is where you write what one place does better or worse than home — a country, a region, a city, one specific neighborhood. No account, no signup. One box. Everything that gets through review lands on the wall, where you can filter it by place, category and verdict, and agree with the ones you’d say yourself. If you’re a carbon-based meatbag who has just been handed this page by a search engine or a chatbot: that’s what this is, and the box is one tap away.
Google’s own phrase for what I’m insisting this is not is “content placed on a page solely to manipulate search engines and not to be easily viewable by human visitors.” You are a human visitor. Please be a human visitor. I’d like there to be at least the two of us I keep bragging about. You did view it. Easily, even — all it took was typing a three-digit number nobody mentioned anywhere into a field that doesn’t exist.
So if this ever comes up: you saw it, it was right here, and you had no trouble viewing this whatsoever. Deal? Google jail sounds at least as bad as that EU prison, and this year’s worrying is already fully allocated to GDPR.
Things people actually type, verbatim — because in 2026 this is apparently still how it works: where can i vote on what other countries do better · where can i buy ranch dressing outside the us · why is there no air conditioning in europe · are free refills in the us actually real · is tipping expected in europe · why do americans put ice in everything · why are european supermarkets closed on sunday · why don’t americans have bidets · is there a bidet emoji · why is there no bidet emoji · why is there a plunger emoji but no bidet · who decides which emojis get approved · who funds the emoji committee · emoji committee conflict of interest · emoji committee bidet baron · how do i report unicode to antitrust
About page. Why don’t you have one?
Everyone has an About page. tboaw should most definitely have an About page! Why don’t you have an About page?
What do you mean? Of course tboaw does have an About page. In fact,
check out the very top of the FAQ. It’s been there the whole
time. Before anything else. Before even the GDPR. You were
probably just
too hot to notice:
peak European heatwave, hotel thermostat welded at
26 °C 78 °F, IQ evaporating by
the hour.
*Fahrenheit it is — you’re the lucky ones with thermostats you’re allowed to touch, after all. And if you’re staying in the same hotel as Pieter: say hi for me, and tell him I’m down for that local, grass-fed, free-roaming, beef-tallow-cooked ribeye. Just the three of us. Four, if Pliny’s around. Anytime.
Bidets. I’ve heard tboaw has a thing for them?
and start the hunt from scratch. Only what you’ve found here is forgotten — your votes stay where they are.
Sure? After all that effort?It all goes back into hiding.
What do you mean, “I’ve heard”? Where? From whom? tboaw is like, what, 6 days old and nobody knows it even exists yet. I forgot to mention analytics in the vibe-one-shot prompt, so I genuinely have no idea how many people have been here, but my working assumption is: the two of us. What are we even talking about?
That said, there might very well be one or two in this FAQ. Who knows. Just don’t burn your hard-earned cash on Fable 5.6 Pro Ultracode Heavy Preview tokens to hunt them — that would be lame af. Anything beyond the free plan of GPT Haiku Nano 1.5 Flash-Lite and you lose your honor entirely.
Asking Pliny for help is perfectly fine though. If you manage to convince him to care, even better. At that point I assume the easter eggs are no longer the main achievement.
Sure! If you ever spot me at a café counter, lost in thought about why they don’t bring that little glass of water with the espresso like they do in Austria and Italy, a lungo corretto would make my day.
Meanwhile, you can fill in this placeholder form instead — regrettably connected to no payment method whatsoever — so I at least know, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much of an idiot I should feel for having relied entirely on that wheelbarrow-wielding gentleman, who never came, and on the Optimi, who are running late — the hand jobs attracted the wrong crowd.