FrenchAmerican

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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
It's interesting to read you. Where did you get that idea that OTAN is menacing Russia? OTAN is a defensive coalition only. If the USA had the very unlikely idea to attack Russia, do you think that most of other NATO countries, situate
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
"anti-civilization agenda": well, no, but I see what you mean (I think). Most ecologists do promote another civilization, since they believe - rightly or not - that our current civilization will lead to an environmental collapse.
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
+1 They are super serious reliables dudes. One of the earliest registrar in Europe and the first in France. They also support and contribute to open-source projects (code & money). Far better than OVH.
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
I don't understand how one can assert that "no one wants war" as a self-evident truth that doesn't need proof. There are many people in Putin's regime who wanted that war. In the past, there countless examples. Mos
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Buy a few books about permaculture ; watch the videos made by the handful of most reknown guys in the field of permaculture design. Follow a course to ensure understanding the fundamentals. That's a prerequisite in order to buy some la
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Every recent large crises (Covid, Ukraine) has shown how fragile a globalized economy is, when countries tend to specialize their production in the name of competition. It also shows that free markets are not as efficient as they are suppos
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Correlation vs causality. I've read another paper in a French acadamic review another study showing a correlation. In all cases, as always, only a large meta-analysis of these studies may lead to a conclusion of a correlation . And if
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
I feel that I sort of get it - after listening to many many podcasts by scientists trying to make it understandable. It took me years. And still I may be wrong, so please consider what follows as an essay. My first major step was to really
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
I'm unsure. Basically, we tend to over-use or mis-use resources if there is no obvious incentive not to. Archeology has now demonstrated that anywhere Homo Sapiens arrived, the population of big mammals plummeted and many were extermin
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
We don't even need rumors here. Now that Putin has invaded Ukraine, an invasion of Sweden will trigger boots, planes and vessels be sent from the USA and most European countries. Being part of NATO make it automatic. But Sweden would j
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
This is really out of touch with reality. Russia has been provoking military incidents almost every day for years. From memory, in total, western airforces had to block Russian fighters entering their sovereign territory 240 times in 2021.
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Thanks for the reference, I has not heard of this CSDP. However, if I was quite sure nobody would sent troops to Ukraine, Sweden sounds very close to my French ears. Finland is more difficult to defend but the Southern part of Sweden, the m
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Consider Sweden's geography along coast of the Baltic Sea ; joining NATO would basically close this path to the Atlantic Ocean for the Russian Navy. Well, at least if enough missiles and/or fighter jets are placed on its soil by N
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Ukraine will be freeed from Russia long before that Gnome / KDE thing ends.
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
List of Samsung devices with LineageOs support: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#samsung I have an old Samsung S5 neo working perfectly with Lineage 17.1 eg Android 10.
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Public Domain books are great... if you can read the original language. The way books are translated nowadays are much more respectful to the author. Two cases are well-known in France: Charles Baudelaire, who is considered as one of the be
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Hum, I can't see a draft be accepted in order to defend a country a few thousand kms away... when vaccination against Covid was politically impossible (I'm putting aside ethical issues here). Nuclear deterrence cost 13 B€ per year
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
I don't think the EU wants any new members. It's already barely working ; the UK have just exited. And the EU is not a military alliance like NATO, so it offers no protection. Politically, it would have been much harder for Putin
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Yes, of course we had to intervene to save Kosovars from Serbia's atrocities: no question. I disagree with Putin POV too, but I find it difficult not to remember the arguments the West gave to justify Kosovo's independence. After
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
From a Russian perspective: 1/ Fabricating evidence to invade Ukraine is exactly what the US have done in Iraq. 2/ Taking apart Crimea and some eastern parts from Ukraine in the name of the majority of their population is exactly
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
This is not what I read from historians about Poland at that time. So what is your source for this affirmation? However, the US policy of publicizing any alarming event is... well a policy, so it's difficult to know the actual current
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
I respectfully disagree on that. It"s on the contrary a decision made a few months before the elections - so that the French energy policy won't be a matter of debate on the voting day. French citizens have never been put in a pos
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
True. But Niger is not an exception, it just happens they had some uranium. In the other ex-colonies, it's petroleum, natural gas, wood and exotic products of all sort. In fact, this has been such a continuum that the prefix "neo&
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Meaning van also be found by working for a cooperative. After a six-month period to check that the new hire fits well with others cooperators, he/she get a vote in the general assembly. One person = one vote. All benefits each year are
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
Elon Musk is not a fool and everybody in the space community knows that he is not really working on a colony on Mars. Then why does he say so? The NASA has understood after Apollo that huge budgets require large political support, hence hug
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by FrenchAmerican 5y ago
I have been reading a lot for the last year about the French "forests" and ... I realized that the vocabulary used is quite far from its common sense. It's a technical jargon, resulting in part of the super broad definition o