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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
People attempt suicide but unconsciously don't really want to die, so they choose "inefficient" methods. Therefore they are often qualified as a "call for help", which is disputable. If my memory is right, something
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Why should the meaning of life we choose for ourselves be a delusion? I get the point that this meaning is arbitrary (in the sense that it has no ground since the world is absurd). But as long as this meaning works for you, who cares if oth
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
If the planning was not poor, then the current situation underlines how poorly the Russian soldiers have been fighting for the last five weeks. I admire the fortitude of the Ukrainians fighting back against this unprovoked invasion. The dec
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
There is a specific context though, that makes the propaganda far more believable to many Russians than what they read online through VPN or - for most Russians - through word of mouth. I watched a Russian elderly lady, who appeared like a
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
> Wait, isn't there a contradiction here? You said countries need to protect their agriculture to remain sovereign, which is what the EU is doing. Then you blame the EU for protecting their agriculture. Which is it? I get your point
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Or maybe we need to stop relying on globalized markets for vital production. A country is really sovereign if it produces enough food for its own population. One of the main reason of the food dependency of Northern African countries is ...
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Just plain denialism. The IPCC reports are presented in a quite counterfactual manner. The IPCC presents different possible scenarios at each report ; the first report voluntarily played down the risks, for many scientists were afraid to be
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
As a binational, I am always amazed by the nationalism in the USA. I'm not even talking about "ultras" like many far-right groups, just "normal decent people". An US flag on almost every house, the pledge of allegia
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Meat is by far the production that require land. 1 cow requires 2.5 acres of land, if my memory is right. If we cut meat consumption, then we have plenty of space available. We should eat much less meat in all cases, that's one of the
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Indeed, but that's also true for any large organization, whatever their status: public, private, nonprofit. I witnessed large sums being spent for very dubious reasons in private firms, mainly in order to meet ridiculous demands by exe
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Britain should apologize, but France as well and all other countries implicated (I reckon I don't know which). The US and the democracies in general ought to put a huge pressure on Japan. I don't feel that we belong in the same al
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
It's not senseless at all. Cows also prefer shade rather than direct sun when it's warm. Like we do. :-) There are no unique best way to protect soils. Different approaches may work on the same spot depending what you want to prod
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
I will certainly not defend the US (or France, my second country) for having been exemplary in the past. Both have ventured into their specific form of imperialism, at different times. Both have directed or contributed to coups against demo
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
I wonder if China had any choice in its Covid strategy. They used the only tool they had, e.g. their control of the population. When they had a vaccine, it proved of mediocre effectiveness. So they could not rely on it as the main strategy.
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Economics = capitalism? It feels as if capitalism was some sort of "natural" economic organization. The mere existence of various forms of capitalism is by itself a rebuttal. In many countries, the civil society is fighting back a
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
TLTR: The international laws on war are based on the fiction that only armies are fighting. The article is also quite gender-biased, even insulting. I consider that the fight of Ukraine against Putin's invasion is fundamentally the def
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
"At the end of the day, humans act in their best interest". This point requires a demonstration. In fact, many studies conducted by experimental psychologists have proven this could not be taken for granted. People have many reaso
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
As long as LibreWolf isn't snap-only... so we should contribute to their effort by funding them, if we want them to last. "Pay your maintainers" should become the norm to all users of FLOSS. We must lobby our bosses to make r
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
They are totally aware of the stakes, but they don't care. In our world, the richer you get, the more you can escape the consequences that the poor, popular and middle classes have to endure. The higher income class is de facto in powe
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
I heard a podcast with top scientists about this (in French, still available online) about this: it's indeed a nickname for the phenomenon - but the scientists using it know that, of course. However, this nickname is not absurd, in the
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
This is pure Putin's propaganda.
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Hum. Being able to produce oxygen at very large is one thing, but creating an atmosphere is another. There are reasons why Mars can't retain its atmosphere, even if those reasons are still a matter of scientific research. A search on t
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Erdogan has turned into a despot, but that's a fact, not a prejudice. According to its Wikipedia page, this bridge has been designed by a Danish firm and was built by a consortium of Korean and Turkish firms. Let's all give up the
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
I'll extent that widely: bathroom decoration is art. Marcel Duchamp famously made scandal with his "Fountain", which is precisely a bathroom element. What he meant is that the gesture of declaring that a readymade object is a
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
I have read that both Chrome and Firefox now support it if one enable the proper option in the about:config page (and its Chrome equivalent, but I avoid Chrome by principle). It's in my to do-list in the coming weeks, I have not verifi
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Indeed. The inefficiency of torture has been demonstrated many, many times. It has also been recognized as such by many, many torturers. People think torture works because they think that the guilty deserve it. In other words, they want to
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Isn't it the second time only that a whole country goes on emergency alert for a cyber attack? The first was Estonia in 2007. Others cases I forgot? Israel has super good cyber capacities, so that attack must be massive and/or hig
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Knowing Louis Pouzin's work and role in the birth of the internet. I'm not a veteran by far but I had - with very little merit - the honor to talk with him about that period. Such a nice person. He knew had how important his work
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
I'm tired tonight and my brain read the title as "Zero to production in Russia". :-)
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Even if it is legal, it's still morally problematic. The point is no about the persons you want to pay, but because you send dollars to a country that needs these dollars to sustain its war to Ukraine. Of course, the EU sends €1B ... p

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