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the photo was taken at the shop Chaise Longue, a chain which specialises in humorous and original collections of household items and gifts. The product, called “Baguette knife” can be seen on the Chaise Longue website.

A price label is clearly visible next to the baguette in one of the pictures shared on social media saying “Une graine dans le bocal piment” (“A seed in the jar – chilli”), which is the name of a Chaise Longue product. It is a jar of chilli seeds, which is part of a range of different types of seeds in jars.

This meme implies this is only an issue of personal responsibility ; but in truth to actually lower car deaths we need a systemic approach.

Think of cigarette companies laying blame at “addictive personalities”. They knew making people personally responsible would not threaten their business, whereas public policies against tobacco did.

This post is doing the same thing : when an accident happens we should not just ask “who is to blame?” but also “how do we prevent it in the future?”, which in this case means redesigning streets to be friendlier to pedestrians and developing other modes of transportation.

Russia indeed has a small economy if converted into dollars, but not if the internal price of goods and services is considered. This is because the conversion only works for economies that are well connected and comparable.

This is doubly true for military matters which are very illiquid, and even more so given the sanctions Russia is facing. The measure you are looking for is called purchasing power parity adjustment, or “GDP (PPP)” for short. It is hard to compile though.

No need for “hmm”, just readily available knowledge in economics.

In addition, Ukraine is only supplied by NATO insofar the politics of its member states allow. Many parties inside its members countries oppose supporting Ukraine, which you are no doubt aware of since you are yourself part of this discourse.

Didn’t Gore win the 2000 election ? The Bush clan stole it and apparently the US just didn’t care much.

I assume you mean keeping the outer diameter the same and making one ball lighter than the other. That’s clever, it would eliminate aerodynamism as a factor.

However wouldn’t results still vary, since hollowing out the metal ball increases its buoyancy ? (Archimedes’ principle).

Cette ligne est intéressante parce que pour faire Marseille–Aix la métropole a mis en place un car par l’autoroute, le L050. C’était un de leur projets phare et le résultat est plus rapide, moins cher, et plus flexible (plus de fréquence et d’amplitude horaire) que le train, du moins pour le trajet direct.

Je n’ai pas la formation nécessaire pour produire une analyse vraiment intéressante mais je me pose la question à chaque fois que je fais le trajet de quel serait vraiment le moyen de transport approprié entre ces deux villes, en faisant abstraction des différentes entités politiques (région, SNCF, métropole).

“This is a stark contrast to the U.S., where AI growth is increasingly tied to debates over data center power consumption and grid limitations”

Won’t anyone rid us off this troublesome democracy, so that tech companies may grow in peace ?

dutch-style cycling where high gears are something you use when you’re late for school

Where I lived in the Netherlands there often were electric bikes and scooters and sports bikes going 30+kph on the bike lanes.

Historical materialism is a pseudoscience because it cannot make falsifiable predictions. It’s not possible to disprove, making it little more useful than astrology for predicting the future.

This is […] a strange marketing strategy by AI companies. Instead of selling products based on helpful features and letting users decide, executives often deploy scare tactics that essentially warn people they will become obsolete if they don’t get on the AI bandwagon.

Very insightful for me to read this. If AI in its present state was as useful as it is advertised, it wouldn’t need such apocalyptic language.

I have no proof but I suspect it is a mistranslation. The French legal term “bande organisée” literally means “organized crime group” but is simply the French counterpart to criminal conspiracy. That is to say, they are suspected not merely of breaking the law but also of having done so as a collective that knowingly planned for it.

C’est un simple fait que nous sommes en retard sur les turbines et la furtivité. Le Rafale est un avion dont la conception a commencé dans les années 80 et qui commence déjà à être surclassé dans des exercices face à des avions plus modernes. La production en masse du F35 le permet d’être proposé à environ 80 millions d’euros là où le Rafale en coute environ 110. Son interopérabilité avec le reste de l’OTAN et ses mises à niveau futures ne font aucun doute dans le sens où il a été adopté en grand effectif par de nombreux pays.

Le F35 est à la fois meilleur et moins cher que le Rafale. Il est donc politiquement malaisé pour d’autres pays de choisir le Rafale.

Trappier fait régulièrement des sorties dans les médias. C’est la plus violente jusqu’alors mais loin d’être la première. Ça ne doit pas particulièrement aider aux négociations.

Ça flatte nos égos de frouze d’entendre à quel point on a raison et les autres ont tord, mais la diplomatie française sur ce point est très contre-productive. Pas juste Éric Trappier mais aussi Macron lui-même qui pendant le sommet de l’OTAN twitte une pub pour le Rafale.

Actuellement c’est le moment de convaincre les Européens que les Américains ne sont pas fiables et qu’il faut construire ou consolider une industrie de l’armement Européenne. Ça veut dire vaincre les accusations de chauvinisme et de recherche de profit… Ce que nos dirigeants échouent totalement à faire.

C’est pas facile à entendre mais pour construire à l’échelle européenne la France ne pourra pas rester indépendante dans tous les domaines, il faudra accepter que certains “fleurons nationaux” intègrent des groupes européens.

Tea isn’t very big in France but it is picking up steam, at least in my friend group. So to some extent you might just be unlucky.

There’s three tiers of tea suppliers to me : supermarkets, tea chains (such as Kusmi or Palais des thés) and finally independent tea shops which have the best quality. Which tea shops are “the good ones” will depend on your location though.

Je pense que c’est bien qu’il se rende plus visible. Chez moi les gens de Debout! parlent vraiment à un autre public et abordent d’autres questions que les autres partis de gauche. La méfiance est compréhensible en raison de certaines déclarations et de la forte personnalisation de son mouvement, mais il y a vraiment quelque chose que les autres ne font pas et dont la gauche aura besoin pour gagner.

Ok j’ai lu l’en-tête du blog mais ça répond pas a mon interrogation profonde : si le mec parsème ses textes de jugements à l’emporte-pièce, comment lui faire confiance pour correctement représenter son sujet ? On peut penser que son raisonnement est de qualité similaire sur le reste.

notre époque actuelle, véritable désastre intellectuel (merci les « smartphones », les « influenceurs » et la vaste crétinisation de millions d’êtres humains surtout adolescents)

Comment prendre au serieux un tel texte ? Le reste de l’article est intéressant, mais difficile de lui donner du crédit après ce genre d’introduction.

I don’t have any statistic, but I would guess that the proportion of people wanting a Jack is significantly higher in the group of people interested in buying Fairphone that on the general population.

Fairphone literally does have that statistic. They spent effort to gather that info in order to inform their business decisions. And they report:

We also looked into the consumer data and Fairphone 4’s weight and thickness were more of an issue than the lack of a minijack

I don’t understand this, why not call him the way he wants to be called ? He’s despicable but his name isn’t the problem, I don’t see how calling him Bowman (or calling Donald “Drumpf”) is making any progress.

And it kind of undermines the discourse that we should respect people’s choice as to how they define themselves.

The St-Basil cathedral and Kremlin in the background make the context obvious, they’re not trying to pass it off as a serious photograph.