Might be worth checking !LocalLLaMA@sh.itjust.works which can have tons of useful inputs

Looking at the Ukraine and Armenia war I am getting curious about “cheap” drones or drone version of light aircraft. For the price of a Grippen, you can get 100 VL3 (even counting the modification for a drone version). Sure a cool ultra light plane isn’t barely as cool as fighter jet.

However, With a swarm of 100, I doubt air defence will intercept all of them even in modern countries. Let alone operations in countries with no air defences

Every decade had it’s pile of shit, and for the moment, the 2020’s have been a walk in the Park compared to 2010’s.

Sure covid was a wild-ride, where we had to mostly stay at home when no valid reason to go-out, and when out the city was quiet. and then proceeding to normal life with some accommodation is weird,

Remember the 2010’s with the long-tail of the 2008 economic crisis, the terrorist attacks (and all the security measure impact on day to day life), The start of the Ukraine war, The Syrian civil-war, the politicians not listening to kids protesting climate change, the Brexit, and tons of other crazy problems ?

What’s the most common lie westerners believe about North Korea?

Are you allowed to read Marx, Proudhon and other communist philosophers?

How privileged are you to have access to the Internet and do an AMA?

What do you think of that North Korean girl doing videos on YouTube? (Not sure how she is called, just saw a documentary about her)

French has the bépo layout which applies the Dvorak methodology to French

I would like to see more rpg discussion, I like that the !rpg@ttrpg.network doesn’t end-up an D&D community like in the alien website, but I would love to see more than one discussion thread per week.

With Orban and Meloni at the head of their respective countries and the far-right emboldened everywhere,

This is actually the real issue, while we look at Trump we have far-right government in the EU, and far-right parties having a significant weight in many countries. So let’s not laugh at US too fast

Atheism isn’t a religion, so there isn’t “must read books” nor mandatory workshops. Do what you please.

Interesting,

I know that in the french alps we can reach the mountain police through VHF if needed, and that during heli-rescue they give a call on the free-flight frequency to let paraglider know that they are coming. but I am pretty sure that they have their own network too, and that VHF is a way to call them when you have no mobile phone coverage

Is there place were law enforcement still use regular radio ?

Nowadays, it’s a protocol similar as mobile phone with digital data transmission and encryption rather than good old analog radio.

And it’s typically a case were encryption is important, even for the privacy of the involved persons

Unpopular opinion but Don’t panic.

It’s been decade that economy has been shit for real people with crisis starting before the previous one finished, high unemployment, stagnating wages, expensive real estate and more

If you’re rich enough to be impacted by stock market collapsing you’re already way above average.

Sure it’s not making things better, and not the moment to change job, but it’s been shit for a while and will stay shitty. The era when boomer could find a job without any degree, get a living wage with yearly raise and promotions is over.

Can we avoid using the reciprocal word where it’s mostly an uniltaeral decision from US ?

I bet that the only US jobs that will be created on the short term will be to re-inforce the purchasing department of US companies importing foreign group, and the US-logistic department of foreign companies exporting in the US. But in between, I see why many corporation will push the brake on any non urgent purchasing. (And Ironically, business school graduates aren’t a category massively impacted by unemployement nor fearing to be replaced by LLM)

I am going to grab some pop-corn, and may-be even a Lyra, if I have to watch the world burn, let at least enjoy-it

And glad to be in Europe, where we’ll just be hit by the turbulence rather than the main blast

As a rule of thumb, if you think you need to see a doctor, see a doctor.

A first step may be your general practitioner. But it’s not unreasonable to do a check-up with a cardiologist once a decade, better identifying risk factor when they’re still risks rather than disease.

True goal: start making butter that’s as good as Kerrygold.

This says a lot about the state of US dairy industry if you consider kerrygold as the “gold standard for butter”

It’s an interesting societal question. Every worker has the right to social security, which should be paid by the employer. Is a prince who get an allowance a worker ? I don’t know the list of duties coming with it.

20 years ago, a group of french Ph.D student who were funded by a large cancer/disability foundation went to court to get social security, and they win, because they weren’t given pocket money by the foundation but were actually working for them, giving them the same right as every ohter worker. When you’re 25 year old you may not need social security (well breaking a leg may happen) but when you’re 60 year old you have significant chance to get large medical fee.

At least in (most of) Europe, we do still have a large public part in healthcare/retirement and in general less stock investment culture so people won’t see their safety netand retirement money collapsing, sure loosing let’s say 10% of your saving sucks, and may even impact your ability to buy a new home (unless interest-rate fall faster in that case you may even be able to buy a nicer home)

We’re also kinda lucky, The US adding tariff means that we’ll export less to the US, but we can still export to the rest of the world at the same conditions as before. Note also that the remaining manufacturing in Europe is mostly complex product with high added value Planes, industrial robots, or Champagne’s wine are already very expensive so I expect that many of the American who can afford these will still be able to afford-it with the tarifs. I am not Naïve, export to the US will dip, but I see some factors that should limit the dip.

Don’t get me wrong, some European companies will loose US contract, and will at best launch mass lay-off plans or even bankrupt, and people will be unemployed (see point above about public safety net it makes the difference between selling your car, not going in holiday and shopping at Lidl and ending up homeless). But I am kinda optimistic, the impact for real people will be under control. I am old enough to remember 2008, and it wasn’t that bad.

for things that will most likely happen.

When I took the First-aid/CPR course, the red cross trainer spent like 30 minutes doing a list of what can realistically happen where we are. An interesting exercise.

Full blown apocalypse is unlikely, but doing stuff like checking the flood-risk map before renting/buying a home (Especially ground floor apartment and single-floor house) does wonder at not having to evacuate. Knowing the kind of dangerous factory/goods in your area also helps a lot planning for the right thing.

How is it even legal for the US to wash chicken with Chlorine ? Sounds like so ridiculous.

She won’t see an actual jail unless she seriously fuck-up, most of the sentence is suspended and as the remaining time is under two years she has the right to request house arrest or any other alternative sentence.

So the remaining sentence is that she can’t run at next presidential election (provided that she doesn’t get something else in appeal before the election).

Obvious reminder that if you or I would have stole 4 millions Euro we would see an actual jail.