Thanks for sharing. The synopsis is pretty heavy on abstract nouns, and as usual I find myself wondering who exactly is going to read the full paper much less act on it (given that serious parliamentarians and civil servants seem to be a vanishing breed in this age of dumbass populism) but clearly this is roughly what needs to happen.

An aside: degrowth is coming, whether we want it or not, but personally I prefer the term used here: post-growth. It’s an easier sell.

C’est dit dans l’accroche même : pour “relancer la compétitivité du secteur” et pour éviter que “trafic aérien stagne”.

La stupidité atteint vraiment des combles.

Ouais on est bien d’accord que j’ai le droit de m’informer, mais t’as posté un truc sans aucun contexte ou explication, c’est pas ça qui va susciter une conversation (ce qui est normalement le but de ce truc).

PS: c’est fait.

Cette petite diatribe aurait mérité un peu de contexte (si possible neutre) pour ne pas dire un lien vers une source (si possible neutre) avec plus d’infos.

(Si cette loi est si conséquente et mon ignorance est partagée, j’avoue que c’est un problème en soi.)

Interesting numbers. My own worry, related to the military one, is about the tech implications in general. It’s easy (in theory!) to achieve autarky and then go for economic contraction while maintaining living standards (via redistribution). But you’re inevitably going to get left behind by technology, which has always been a global game. AI is now supercharging this race, of course.

As this article hints, how do you get voters to accept that their currency is now too weak to pay for the latest gadgets? I agree it’s going to have to happen one way or another, but still.

in places like France and Japan

This is completely wrong.

You talk exclusively about Japan, so even if your anecdata is representative, then my point is not “completely” wrong. Let’s begin by using language correctly.

Pretty convincing arguments. Thanx.

Tells you that you can take your social media back from big tech then casually recommends Bluesky. Gimme a break.

I generally agree but I still feel it’s important to keep some perspective. Bluesky is not the solution but it’s definitely progress compared to existing corporate platforms (because it has real fundamental differences - several articles posted here went into detail about this).

IMO the best argument against Bluesky is that it will suck up the oxygen for other, better, solutions. That’s a fair theory but it seems to me that there’s plenty of market share to go round right now. Everyone is still on the evil corporate platforms.

RSS still exists and it’s still beautiful.

Agree, I use it every day.

Je sais tout ça. Je dis simplement qu’il n’y a pas de noir et de blanc ici, de commun accord le WaPo sort encore du journalisme irréprochable (hors page d’opinion donc), il y a encore d’excellents journalistes qui y travaillent, et il n’est pas encore temps de tout jeter.

Absolutely agree. This feels like a subtle dig at the fashionable pseudo-solution of the day, abundance.

Oui oui d’accord, on ne peut plus se fier à quoi que ce soit, ils sont tous vendus, tout est foutu, etc etc, c’est compris

I’ll be honest, a quick review of this thread did not clearly reveal who was downvoting who for what. My position, and this other person’s, is that downvoting opinions is bad manners and toxic to healthy discussion. If there was genuinely harmful advice there, then OK, downvote away.

(Obviously these days the word “harmful” is thrown around liberally so this probably just puts us back to square one.)

Freedom of speech as an absolute

Of course it’s not absolute, where did I say otherwise? Straw man.

paradox of tolerance

This just feels like a fancy reference deployed to back up intolerance.

Exactly my point. The virtual equivalent of taping someone’s mouth shut because you happen not to agree with what they say.

Their original staff was a bunch of pretty serious journalists sourced from the BBC.

Si on juge comme ça, il n’y a pas un seul journal français crédible. Ils appartiennent tous aux milliardaires. Sauf que, de fait, on y trouve toujours du bon journalisme car la structure de propriété n’est pas le seul critère pour juger la crédibilité.

En l’occurrence le WaPo reste très sérieux comme source.

Similar to: chough

It’s a type of bird but good luck knowing how to pronounce it. Ahh, English.

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A few years ago I considered learning Greek. Abandoned the plan because Greek has the triple whammy:

• quite a hard language, with tricky grammar and different alphabet (phonetics easy tho)
• only spoken in one small country - not very useful (tho good for general culture - 6% of English lexicon comes from Greek)
• the locals all speak English (coz tourism) so you’ll have trouble getting a chance to progress

So: good luck.

Rigth - and downvotes fixes it? This is lunacy and detrimental to discussion/sharing.

Thank you. But anecdotally, it seems there are few of us who think this. I still don’t understand why.