jcr

@jcr@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific fraud and the reform of science publishing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is sciencedirect.com a good source for reliable studies ? I found pertinent answers for some questions regarding pollution, and it is quoted by a few news outlet. Anyone having reasons not to use it ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO 26300⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone who is not aware: https://stallmansupport.org/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tablet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “they have health insurance”. It is a given in quite a few countries. No link to being wealthy. Driving your car is not about being wealthy, dependant low wage workers have to drive to go to the factory too.

  The stability of the owner class comes from the lack of necessity to labour to have spending money. You can be a wage worker like Emmanuel Macron, president of France with a current wage of net 8k€ ; but he just sold his wife inherited house for 3m€, when they got it for 1m€ (1.5m after the tax bureau caught him for under-valuating it). This is not working class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radiation is a literal Lovecraftian Monster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You just summarized the short “Colour out of space” by HPL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars,⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “amEriCA wENT thGROuGH 2 WoRld waRs” no fight on usa soil ever …

  There should be an another to tell it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Long article, but interesting in the end: quote “”“Economists critical of Trump’s April 2 tariff announcement recall another event, the Suez Crisis of 1956, that broke the back of the British pound. The military attack on Egypt was poorly planned and badly executed and exposed British political incompetence that sank trust in the country. The pound fell sharply, and its centuries-long position as the dominant trading and reserve currency crumbled.”“” I did not know about the british pound superiority after ww2, anyone ?