That’s interesting. I paid a bit over a grand (a lot of money, sure) for what amounts to a full-on scooter with pedals. Seemed amazingly good value to me! For information, I’m not in the USA and the e-bike comes from a certain large hegemonic Asian country.

Article très bref ! Ça valait le coup de poster ? Alors c’est vrai que j’ai déjà été planté par cette ligne, qui a subi un glissement de terrain juste avant mon départ. J’ai dû prendre le bus.

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.

Really sad. Realistically, though, environmental protection will always come second to human development. To stop human-wildllife conflict, the only solution is poverty alleviation, healthcare, education. India’s progress here is too slow but it’s definitely happening.

Ça avance, ça avance.

Everyone who cares about privacy needs to have a response to this fallacy practiced and ready to go. The aim should be to convince skeptics that they too already have “things to hide”, or at least that they might show a bit of solidarity with the good guys who do.

Rhetorical questions can that be effective:

• Money: How much did you make last month? Oh! That’s private, right.
• Health: Would you be happy if your medical insurer could somehow get access to your browsing history? Hmm?
• Politics: So you really are an open book with nothing to hide! Fine. What about whistleblowers, investigative journalists, dissidents, etc? If we’re all shouting “I have nothing to hide - be my guest, spy on me!”, how effective do you think they’re going to be at holding the powerful to account - on our behalf?

The last argument is the really powerful one, but unfortunately it’s pretty hard to pull off.

Ce que tu es en train d’avancer, je suppose, derrière ce discours sur la statistique, c’est la théorie comme quoi la pollution parisienne vient non pas des bagnoles mais des autres sources diverses et variées. OK. Est-ce que tu es conducteur par hasard ?

Un lien peut être corrélation comme causation, tu vas bien le savoir.

Unfortunately they don’t even need wifi any more.

This mass zombification by screens has become a kind of pandemic. It’s something we’re gonna have to fix.

There’s another interesting quality of your “afternoon work”: if you didn’t do it, nobody else would. Paid work is by definition fungible: there’s an economic demand for it, so logically if you don’t do then somebody else will. Net benefit of your labor: zero! But when you work on some project from other motivations, you know that the marginal utility of your labor is 100%. Nobody’s paying for it so it might never get done otherwise. It took me a while to grasp this but IMO it’s an important latent motivation for volunteering.

I’m with you on this. Reminds me of a thing you see regularly on the StackExchange sites:

1. some rando asks a technical question
2. an expert replies with a full answer, sourced, with examples, obviously took at least 10 minutes if not an hour - and that’s an hour of an expert’s time!
3. answer gets no upvotes and rando has disappeared

In this scenario, I can only guess the experts are not discouraged because they’re there for the reputation points and it’s all just a numbers game. For every case like this there’ll be another where they get 100 points for their efforts. If my theory is correct then these kinds of situations are only sustainable with a karma system. Alas.