gbzm

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that americans and europeans don't have the same psychology.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not entirely wrong, of course, but they’re really stretching this simple stereotype into some deep difference in psychologies and assigning it to this “concept of a marketplace of idea vs. rationality and enlightenment” oversimplification. Honestly to a European person who’s lived in America, they mainly sound like an American who’s angry with the state of the US and who’ve completely idealized Europe as a result. Which would be fine if they hadn’t worded what amounts to an overindulged shower thought in such a peremptory fashion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that americans and europeans don't have the same psychology.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks more like the blowback is less about one side being better or worse than the other, and more about this whole thesis sounding like the most obnoxious fourteen year old you’ve ever met larping as a sociologist with zero substantiation to their sweeping statements

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physics!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  aaaaand it's gone

  Lecornu quit first thing this morning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French President Macron appoints new government, led by Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The tweet is a lie, the photo is from a novelty shop (thx falcunculus@jlai.lu)

  https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-knife-concealed-in-baguette-is-from-french-novelty-shop-not-weapon-c-idUSKBN2781KE/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oui oui⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Merci pour Le fact-check

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oui oui⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Une graine dans le bocal piment” ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say what you will about Kirk, but he made some great points in his debating⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe one of them performed their spell over the dark web, with bitcoin as sacrifice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aged like milk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least he died doing what he loved