That’s Windows 7 alright

I’m really scared that the “rape without intention” is going to stick around… That would be an absolutely awful precedent.

That’s roughly what I had in mind when I wrote that comment indeed…

What they’ll do is they’ll ask for subsidies to build power plants, privatise them, sell the power at increasingly extortionate rates and cut maintenance costs to increase their margins and profits.

Possibly.

I guess it matches Aisha’s age in the Qur’an

But you see, it’s different because… Reasons.

When you’re rich they just let you do it.

It’s not that they don’t care I think. It’s more that the human brain is not very good at understanding and visualising massive things (be it numbers, space, complex systems, etc).

We’re really good at gathering and communicating information though, which helps us make sense of the world.

The big problem is that we allow people’s opinions to have as much weight as data and facts. So when you have data and facts about climate change presented at the same level as climate denialism, most people don’t really see the difference when it comes to the weight of the data vs the opinion of some guy.

It’s almost like some people benefit from withholding information, controlling the narrative, and having a public with low critical thinking.

That we know of, I guess. Would be pretty fun to have an afterlife similar to the Good Place.

Le mec qui est devenu riche grâce aux contrats de l’état américain, au frais du contribuable, va pousser l’échelle derrière lui. On serait presque surpris.
Le même mec qui était un immigré illégal pendant un temps.

Nos équivalents français jubilent et prennent note pour 2027.

Oui ! Avec du bon fromage et de la bonne charcuterie des Halles de Lyon histoire de marquer le coup.

The US has a massive political and cultural influence all over the world. Trump’s victory will open a whole new Pandora’s box when it comes to geopolitics, climate (in)action, and support of racist, sexist and xenophobic policies. His campaign strategy will probably be used by politicians all over the world, and will embolden them to try more and more unhinged bullshit.

I don’t know how it will personally affect you, but it probably will in many many direct and indirect ways.

Now watch the effects ripple through the world. Now that a guy like him can be elected, politicians around the world will take note and use the same playbook. And it will probably work.

We already felt it in France with the 2016 US election, I can’t imagine what the next decade will be like…

And I wouldn’t be surprised if Taiwan was next now

Please take them back, we have enough self absorbed assholes to deal with already.

I guess it’s a matter of context and who says it. It was used derogatorily back then, so the connotation still stands today.

Given the number they supposedly have, even if only 1% of them actually work, that’s way more than enough to blow up the world.

Especially these people indeed, it’s one of the reasons they get so rich in the first place.

Perso j’ai absolument adoré Venise (fait en période de faible affluence) et Amsterdam. Mais Venise c’était très spécial, c’est une ville millénaire, unique et dans son jus.

… So far