gbzm
@gbzm@piefed.social
- Comment on Physics! 3 days ago:
Why is the mercury arc rectifier getting a “what the fuck”? I don’t know much about them, are they more magic than glowing rocks, runes, levitation and demon cores?
- Comment on Dawg... 1 week ago:
It’s ok: you only get this value every two years. That way, even though it’s a decrease from the previous year you have actually no idea whether the figure is higher than two years before
- Comment on French President Macron appoints new government, led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu 2 weeks ago:
It is.
It could be construed as a form of constitutional brutalism: in theory the president is free to name whomever he chooses, however he is expected to choose someone from the parliementary majority.But this is the first time in the history of the current constitution that the parliamentary majority isn’t an absolute majority or cannot form an absolute majority coalition. The consequence is that they can’t systematically no-confidence-oust any head of government they don’t approve of, and basically enforce this expectation directly.
So Macron can just name someone from his minority (3rd biggest group even) every time a prime minister is ousted, and pretend he’s not violating the spirit of the constitution if not the letter. He can frame it as defending the republic against “extremes” even though the relative parliamentary majority he’s “defending against” is just a run-of-the-mills leftist alliance between parties that span from barely liberal to a bit more angry, but not extreme even by the state council’s own definition. The second biggest group, however, is actually the far-right authoritarian racist party founded by literal ex-SS that’s going to win a presidential election at some point if he doesn’t stop helping them with his own constant authoritarian propaganda and infuriating antidemocratic behavior.
- Comment on French President Macron appoints new government, led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu 2 weeks ago:
Lecornu quit first thing this morning
- Comment on French President Macron appoints new government, led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu 2 weeks ago:
Seven over his two terms. Three since his party lost its relative majority last July
- Comment on French President Macron appoints new government, led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu 2 weeks ago:
“New” in this case means almost literally a permutation of the same people, with two ‘additions’ from previous failed governments.
- Comment on oui oui 3 weeks ago:
The tweet is a lie, the photo is from a novelty shop (thx falcunculus@jlai.lu)
- Comment on oui oui 3 weeks ago:
Merci pour Le fact-check
- Comment on oui oui 3 weeks ago:
“Une graine dans le bocal piment” ?
- Comment on Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating 5 weeks ago:
I don't know about this Milhouse business, but he did have some very salient point: that time he gushed blood uncontrollably from bis neck and died has raised serious doubt in my previously staunch anti-gun disposition. Now I have to manually remind myself that most gun violence victims are unfortunately not Charlie Kirk.
- Comment on Practical Magic 5 weeks ago:
Maybe one of them performed their spell over the dark web, with bitcoin as sacrifice.
- Comment on Aged like milk 5 weeks ago:
Tolerance is not an absolute principle, it's just a social contract. People who breach it aren't protected by it; end of paradox.
- Comment on Aged like milk 5 weeks ago:
That and making, in what should be seen as the sole crowning jewel upon a veritable turdwagon of a life as a professional waste of carbon, the best argument in favor of gun violence since Brian Thompson strolled past St Luigi
- Comment on Aged like milk 5 weeks ago:
At least he died doing what he loved
