It makes it more dangerous : the sting is attach to the venom bag, so the venom bag gets to empty itself whole if it stays. Evolution would have chosen the survival of the hive, not the survival of the bee.

One thing is weird though : you can extract the sting of a wasp with a pincer. The wasp will live through it. Why do the bee dies when it loses it's sting and not the wasp?

"tout les hommes" ne veut pas dire "chaque homme". C'est la distinction entre le groupe et les individus. C'est de la sociologie. Spécifiquement ici, il s'agit du fait qu'il n'y a pas de sociologie spécifique des violeurs en dehors du fait qu'ils sont des hommes. Le fait qu'ils soient des hommes est le seul point commun entre eux.

Your mistake is to consider an election is a rational competition. It's not. Not anymore, because medias make it impossible to know the truth. So it is more like a football match. People have the team they support, and for most nothing will change their mind because there's too much propaganda. When almost everything is propaganda, you get to choose the reality you "prefer".

So the point of the campaign is more about convincing people to vote in order to defeat the opposing team. Or to persuade the other team to concede.

As a matter of fact, satire does not work. Fascists will idolize the fascists in satire, always. It feels like satire only works with people who already have an education about the dangers of fascism.

In the broken mind of a fascist, satire is actually a kind of utopia. It's how the world is supposed to be in their twisted ideals.

J'avais pas vu ça a l'époque, mais la situation est un peu différente aujourd'hui : le nfp a la majorité au bureau de l'AN. Cette fois il y a donc une chance que ça aille vers un vote devant l'assemblée.

That's blatantly wrong. There is a tradition in France for all parties to ally to prevent the fascists from accessing power, but that's only an election alliance. It barely worked for the last election : the left does vote against the fascists every time, but some liberals refused to stand back in favor of some left candidates, and liberal voters largely refused to vote for the left because of the anti-left propaganda. This lead to the fascists making a third of the assemblé nationale.

Now the president must choose a prime minister, but the left arrived first, and he refuses to let them get the power. So he waits for anyone to accept an alliance with the liberals which is not happening yet.

Predictions are going that he will end choosing a PM that is fascist compatible rather than letting the left have any power in the executive.

Il avait un programme politique exceptionnel, mais il était au PS avec Hollande, et il s'est poignardé dans le dos par l'aile droite du PS qui est parti soutenir macron. C'était pas vraiment que c'était pas le bon moment, c'était plutôt le pire contexte pour proposer ce programme. Le PS 1vait son étiquette de traître, et il ne s'en est pas désolidarisé. Beaucoup se souvenaient encore de Hollande qui prétendait que son ennemi était la finance...

D'un autre côté on pourrait plus entendre ce que disent les ministres...

C'est tout à fait vrai. C'est ce qui justifie une déstitution d'ailleurs, mais comme indiqué elle n'aboutira pas.

Après, foutu c'est un grand mot. Y aura des points d'étape de la montée vers la dictature. Le premier sera le budget. Mais y a des outils pour passer outre ce problème. Le second, ce sera dans un an quand macron pourra redissoudre et nous expliquer qu'il faudra mieux voter cette fois. Le troisième, ce sera la présidentielle dans 3 ans.

In supreme commander it's Air Superiority Fighter, ASF. Acronyms are a plague if you intend any non specialist to understand anything though.

Pas à ma connaissance. Y a eu peu de cohabitations pour commencer. Et encore moins de cohabitation minoritaire (aucune je crois ?)

Mais c'est clairement un cassage de la séparation des pouvoirs de mon point de vu.

Perso, ce qui me choque le plus avec cette histoire, c'est son aspect dictatoriale : Macron prend une décision à la place de l'assemblée nationale. Il veut éviter que l'assemblée nationale ne vote une censure ce qui retire à l'AN à la fois sa décision et son pouvoir. Ce devrait être à l'AN de censurer un gouvernement, pas Macron de le faire à sa place.

Ce type ne comprend pas la démocratie, ou pire encore il ne la respecte pas.

En effet, et la première étape, c'est de déposer la proposition signée par un dixième de l'assemblée, ce que lfi peut faire seule il me semble.

Derrière ça forcera un vote à l'AN : qui veut destituer Macron ? Ce vote n'est pas à bulletin secret à priori ? Et donc on pourra voir si le PS et le RN roulent pour macron ou non.

People do see how bad it is in the movie. What I'm saying is that people do not believe anything in their reality is comparable. When I say that people see it as fantasy, I mean that they see it as an imaginary world with nothing comparable in their own world.

Yes, but nobody in the US will imagine the right is the orcs.

That, or he's still fantasising that he can controle the situation and win through "political wits" and authority.

I'm speculating, but I feel like if his party doesn't rule, Macron will completely lose controle over it. So he's doing absolutely everything he can for that to not happen. But he will have to face reality at some point. Unfortunately the 5th Republic of France doesn't encourage him to be reasonable.

Easy, Macron said he wouldn't talk to LFI or RN anymore. Without LFI and RN, macron's party is the largest.

Yes, but not as directly as sci-fi can be. We won't ally with elves to fight orcs in the foreseeable future. We won't talk to ents or ask a wizard for help. Fantasy is metaphorical in essence. Sci-fi is descriptive, realistic. Yet people still treat it as fantasy.

Macron is actually imposing a majority government of his party. He is now excluding the far right and LFI from discussions. Which leaves his party the biggest one he accept to talk with. If they make a coalition, which I imagine is what he will suggest they do, his party will be the biggest of the coalition.

Meanwhile, as long as he fuck around like this, the old government still governs like nothing happened.

For the first, it can be women too. For misogyny it's harder. But there is a trend currently to attract and radicalise women into conservatism too. The trad wives movement. I don't remember the names but there are movement for spirituality and naturalism that are also linked to trad wives. That is also a slippery slope : first you hook them spirituality, and at the end you have JK Rowling who is an anti-trans activist.

Women and men are not in the same groups simply because conservatives are misogynistic so they like to separate men and women.

Overall it is a culture war lead by the far right.

I'm pretty sure most people think robocop or starship troopers is fantasy and as removed from their reality as lord of the ring for example.

A feature of indoctrination is that you don't see it on yourself.

It's a slippery slope. First it's either a community they can share anything with, or it is a subject dear to them that they see people give solution to. Then, slowly, one idea at a time, they get litteraly corrupted. Ideas are imprinted through repetition, values are suggested. Then, or before, you imprint the idea that the others are lying. This is key because it seed doubt in everything, but as he is closer from this group, this group get to imprint its own ideas through repetition alone. Distance is built with relatives so that the group is the only group he has. Then if he starts to disagree, he will be kicked, sometimes also punished, and he'll be left alone, or at least he must be convinced of it. Once there radicalisation is a process that's hard to stop.

Doubt, distrust, and a group to be with are the key ingredients. Liberalism is a fertile ground for this because it promotes individualism when humans are social creatures. So it's very easy to find people in need of a social group that gives belonging. And racism makes the easiest pretense : you belong because of your blood, or because you're born here.

For sexism, it's mostly a reactionary backlash, and secondly this liberalism problem of promoting individualism to humans who seek belonging. Feminism did won, and the old way of treating women is being addressed. But it is a process, and while we know what's bad, we don't have much new examples to follow. Yet most people have been trained in the old way, so now they are at lost. It's not the first reason why they're alone, liberalism has this place, but it is far easier to blame it on women and feminism than to try to build a new society. And also, it again gives them belonging with men like them that understands them and give explanations and solutions to their problems. Not good ones, but that's not the point.

Nexus: the Jupiter incident. It is a now a bit old tactical space combat game with a big focus on the narrative. It's awesome, but I never see it mentioned anywhere.

Tient donc, encore un article qui veut abattre Mélenchon. Probablement écrit avant le discours de l'intérressé d'ailleurs qui annonce acceptée qu'aucun ministre ne soit LFI si c'est Lucie Castet qui est nommée, et qu'une motion de déstitution sera déposée si elle ne l'est pas.

Sometimes I wonder if these people understand that no player ever wanted exclusivities on a game store. Instead of providing a decent service, they're litteraly trying to kidnap customers with a choice between waiting for months for this big release or taking it on a subpar platform.

The truth is that war kills people. And Russia started this war. Russia can stop it. Those are hard facts. As hard as the sun is yellow and bright in the day, and the earth is a sphere orbiting the sun. That's not propaganda.

Propaganda is your bullshit pretending that saying the sun is yellow and the earth a sphere are points of view you are free to disagree with.

Oh so managers are biological LLMs! It explains everything!

Ukraine has no nuclear weapons. Nuclear arsenal is basically meant to face nato/USA in Russia.

Ukraine invading Russia is a humiliation. But it's not a real threat for now. Russia didn't even declared the state of war yet.

I've heard that Russia can't really use atomic bomb against Ukraine because Ukraine has no atomic bombs itself. If it did, it would spark nuclear proliferation by breaking a tabou. And China wouldn't allow that, because they don't want Taiwan to get the bomb.

But nato is an atomic power. Thus, atomic bombs are fair game.

A neutron reactor (Institut Laue-Langevin). The mix between 80's concrete bunker like structure or yellow steel bars and uber high tech mirrors that reflect neutrons is amazing, as is the crudeness of the experiments that achieve the best matter probing on earth. It's straight out of retro-futuristic sci-fi, and at the same time higher tech than many modern sci-fi will imagine in some technical areas.

I feel like like inventing the wheel every five years is not the best use of talented people's time.

What's the problem with the gecko engine?

Y en a faudrait qu'ils comprennent que la politique c'est aussi exposer et exprimer des positions et des volontés. La question n'est pas de savoir si c'est possible, mais qui s'y oppose, et qui le soutient.

Et ces propagandistes le savent certainement très bien. Mais le narratif c'est que Mélenchon il est caca.

They are completely lying about the situation in France. They are talking about the propaganda of the previous government (Attal, under directions of Macron), but it's all lies debunked by the president of the institue in charge of controlling and evaluating pensions budgets.

These are lies. It's literally disinformation. The president of the organisation whose job is litteraly to assess how sustainable retirement funding is explained that the government estimates for their reform was the worst possible scenario first, and second it was demonstrated that there are many other solutions to fund retirement plans in France than shitting on the new generations.

One parameter of this disaster in France is that a good part or the missing funding comes from the government refusing to increase public workers salary, or to pay them with primes that are not taxed, and thus don't fund retirement, or to decrease the number of public agents.

Another parameter is that the system is not under any risk on the long term. Only the next 10 to 15 years are planned to be difficult.

I can understand that liberal assholes want to enslave workers as long as they can possibly get away with, but spreading lies when the truth is that the government is litteraly sabotaging the system for it to happen is akin to what dictatorships do.

Indeed. I'd add that you need the application open source and respectful of people's data and privacy.

Then there is another problem : you need people to adopt your application and use it. Because regardless of the qualities, the most important thing is the number of people using the service. That's why Facebook is still not dead for example.

The problem is not the how. The problem is that your agency is a company driven by profit. How do you make an agency that's not driven by profit in a capitalist and consumerist society?

So as long as the litteral nazis are not in charge genociding people it's fine and there's nothing to worry about? Syndicalistes and ecoactivists being arrested for terrorism is fine already?

That is totally right. I'm french. Laws protect renters, but not that much, and landlords don't hesitate to threaten with false pretense. And if you mention anything illegal they're doing, you simply won't have the apartment. They ask documents they have no right to see, but if you don't provide them they won't even look at your application. Obviously people of colour do have a harder time finding an apartment, but even for engineers it's hard to find one in a city.

In France you need to earn 3 times the price of the lawn, and you need warrants (garants) : people who will be forced to pay if you ever don't. To prove you can pay, you need 3 months of salary sheets. You need to prove your job is not a CDD (short determined time). You need to show insurances and prove your identity too of course. Half of those are not legal, but landlords don't care because you're in competition : you visit the apartment with a dozen of other people who want a place to sleep too. And the landlord will choose the chosen one as he pleases.

It depends on the place, but Lyon is absolute madness to find an apartment.

And yet most of the political forces in France are advocating to remove all these rights. Sindicalists are arrested under terrorist laws, as are eco-activists. And maires trying to enforce price ceiling for lawns in cities are considered like Staline.