Just curious, do you get 10¢ for every metaphor you write or something?

I certainly could have made myself clearer to begin with.

It is your opinion town centres are dying from not enough parking space?

This used to be the mainstream opinion back in the sixties, but nowadays basically any “revitalisation” programme will be removing asphalt, because small business health has been shown to be correlated with how well connected the area is to public transport, and how pleasant it is to loiter in.

The way I read it, this post complains about “wokization” more than enshittification.

Else why would it point out “African or Indian last names”, reviews using the word “brave”, or “books about Trump gathering dust”? Those are all right-wing memes.

This greentext is literally just right-wingers convincing each other their already-held stereotypes are true.

You seem to be getting emotional over a joke cartoon and your own preconceptions.

The truth is everyone around the world sucks about the same, and drawing broad generalities about millions based on memes and confirmation bias is ill-advised.

À titre perso j’aime bien l’ambiance tel quelle et je suis pas sur de vouloir que jlai.lu devienne /r/france 😅

Agree with all your points, but I think our world being bigger and more interconnected does blunt strikes: not only are corporations bigger and have better access to capital (helping wait out the strike), but also alternatives are more readily available if a worker stops producing.

What I mean is back in the day if the coal mine stopped then all local industry, heating, cooking, etc. would stop, so there would be immense social pressure on ending the strike. But nowadays downstream consumers would just switch to an other source. In fact it is an argument often used: “if the local steel mill workers strike, they’ll just close it down and move production to China, and they’ll be worse off”.

Also police and media handling of strikes is much smarter, the media is more effective at vilifying them and police riot control can effectively disperse them without so much violence that it would only increase anger and make public opinion sympathetic, like would happen a century ago when policemen would open fire instead of using rubber bullets, CS gas, water cannons and such.

I’m not saying strikes didn’t bring results, only that today they are less useful than they used to be. (perhaps largely as a result of their past effectiveness)

What will a million peaceful demonstrators achieve? Mostly nothing, or at best the lukewarming of a controversial law. Nowadays demonstrations are means of expression more than action, useful as a morale boost and social gathering for the movement mostly.

Over the past century and a half, capital has largely defanged demonstrations and strikes. Just because it worked a century ago doesn’t mean it is relevant today (and even then it was insufficient, given we still live in capitalism).

Il y a un truc qui m’irrite sur /r/france c’est cette volonté d’être toujours être contre le grain, cette suffisance à « dire ce que les autres ne veulent pas entendre car ils sont trop irrationnels ».

Oui ce que tu dis est vrai et tout le monde le sait. Mais c’est aussi une hypocrisie crasse de la part de Spotify, qui fait des campagnes de pubs sur les grands noms qu’on trouve sur sa plate-forme façon « on 🤍 les artistes ». C’est aussi une direction dangereuse à prendre car les ces IA génératives peuvent reproduire n’importe quel genre sans limitations techniques. Aujourd’hui la génération statistique remplace de l’ambiant et de la lofi et on s’en fout, demain elle remplacera le metal, le hip-hop, la dream pop ? Est-ce à Spotify de décider quels sont les genres musicaux qui méritent d’être joués par des humains ?

Plus largement, l’industrie de la culture est en train de largement scier la branche sur laquelle elle est assise en voulant remplacer toutes les petites mains par de l’IA. Le problème est que beaucoup de grands artistes, de grands cinéastes, de grands photographes ont d’abord été des groupes de quartiers, des assistants monteurs, des pigistes en intermittence. Ils sont en train de couper les vannes, et ne resteront que les produits du népotisme et de la culture à la chaîne. Oh pas de soucis ils ne vont pas remplacer Gojira et Igorrr par de l’IA, c’est juste qu’ils n’auront plus de successeurs.

À titre personnel j’essaye d’acheter ma musique sur Bandcamp qui prend 15%, ce qui fait par exemple qu’un album à 10€ revient pour l’artiste à trois mille écoutes Spotify à 0.003€. (Et Qobuz, mais je ne sais pas quel est leur marge)

My city hosts a number of cruise ships, and it was explained to me they can’t be connected to the city grid, so they instead keep their diesel engines running the entire time.

It’s a local air quality issue, and the bigger the ship the more it pollutes locally, even though it might be more efficient on a global level.

A far-right candidate (Nicolas Dupont-Aignan) proposed imprisoning French mujahideen in the Kerguelen Islands in 2016.

I choose to believe this is brilliant trolling

Force choke over several miles seems unlikely even for Darth Vader.

Doesn’t he kill Admiral Ozzel that way?

In 1945 the British general staff assessed the possibility of war against the USSR for Poland and concluded it wasn’t feasible. It was codenamed Operation Unthinkable.

On ne peut pas se vanter non plus; la Chine fait déjà du 350 km/h pointe commercial, alors que la SNCF se limite à 320 sur de petits segments. Ils construisent et exploitent beaucoup plus de trains à grande vitesse que la France. S’il faut attendre d’un pays qu’il augmente la vitesse commerciale de ses TGV c’est sans doute plus de la Chine que de la France

How can the West do that without interfering in these countries’ internal matters?

it’s France of 1794. A bloodbath that ended, as it always has in history, with a conservative backlash and a dictatorship.

It didn’t “end” with a dictatorship. Social change continued for a century, in which the people gained more and more power to the detriment of autocrats, until the establishment of today’s strong liberal democracy. The millennia-old institutions that opposed this change couldn’t be replaced in a day.

Reading this feels like I’m at the bar. Kinda agree with the sentiment though.

🍻 Cheers to you