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by skitout 2y ago
I agree... but it all depend on the situation. For example, existing power grid, including conventional power plant can take 20% or 30% of intermittent power with close to no extra cost... And the energy mix, the interconnections, the locat
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by skitout 2y ago
Security wise, a much more decentralize system have some big advantages... Yes managing intermittence have a cost, but battery is not the only solution out there. A good diversified / complementary mix of source of energy reduce the le
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by skitout 2y ago
This asymmetry makes enforcement easier when it profits the landlord, and make enforcement more difficult when it benefits the tenant... Your reflection seems based on the idea that there is a symmetry on the enforcement
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by skitout 2y ago
Even if I am the owner of an apartment, I don't have the right to do a metal concert in my living room some Saturdays at 1 am... or don't have the right to paint my frontage the way I want... cause it creates negative consequences
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by skitout 2y ago
I am volunteering in an housing rights organization in France, and I am and have been tenant in a city with high price and housing shortage. There will always be many people taking "illegal deal" as sometime you have no other othe
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by skitout 2y ago
1) If it is where you lived they always could be (and were) kicked out quickly (and it was not that simple in other situations) 2) Now the law changed and it is much easier and faster to kick them out. It was always illegal to squat, now sa
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by skitout 3y ago
We have a lot of existing stuff ("political stuff" like cabron pricing, or "technological" stuff like double glazing or heat pump) that already make sense economically that we don't use fully. How AI deeply impact i
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by skitout 3y ago
1) there are still trillions of "subsidies" (that includes some negative externalities)to fossil fuel each year according to IMF (IMF, not Greenpeace!). 2) Agents in the current system have incentives to prioritize short term bene
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by skitout 3y ago
Positive discrimination can see as racist, ok. (even if positive discrimination being here because of negative (generally unconscious) discrimination and because "diversity" is generally good for innovation and competitiveness). B
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by skitout 3y ago
Do you agree the important negative (often unconscious, based on cognitive bias) discrimination against minorities is a problem for the country competitiveness ? (negatively discriminated despite "merit") Do you agree that reducin
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by skitout 3y ago
that is one proxy
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by skitout 3y ago
There is little ethics in politics and geopolitics. In US politics there are the Jews, the pro-Israel Lobby, and also part of the Evangelical Christian who strongly support Israel for religious reason (while sometime being a bit antisemitic
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by skitout 3y ago
You do point some interesting points. Note that the issue in not the Nakba anymore. From memory Oslo was about giving to a demilitarize Palestinian state about 10% of the Palestine mandate territory mostly in "islands" controlled
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by skitout 3y ago
" The question is, what is so special about the Israeli/Palestine conflict that leads to these outsized protests? " - Jerusalem (and more globally Israel and Palestine) is holly for Jews, Muslims and Christians ; more than ha
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by skitout 3y ago
Not sure you know what democracy is... Democracy is not just voting for your MP, it includes unions, strikes and collective agreement If Tesla agreed (like 99,9999% of companies) with the democratically designed collective agreement, there
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by skitout 3y ago
We have a different sensibility when it comes to words ; for example I personally find Macron's "petites phrases" more problematic than Melenchon's ones, and I find both as good (but with different style) debaters, able
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by skitout 3y ago
The main point here is that when you don't have the support of police and military at all, the risk for democracy is lower... when you have their support, it is easier to be more authoritative. Do you agree with this ? A general idea o
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by skitout 3y ago
1- Macron is known for his inflammatory and regular "petites phrases" (but often said more calmly than Melenchon), like "people who are success, and people who are nothing"... Some of his minister (eg. Darmanin) too, wit
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by skitout 3y ago
And important point I forgot, policeman (for sure) and army (I think) vote very predominantly for the far-right, and very little for Nupes.
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by skitout 3y ago
--- Answer to your last post --- 1- To me " permanent outrage, inflammatory discourse, obstruction of debates, conflictualization of everything, exacerbating existing social tensions" or using "vague" undefined word or u
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by skitout 3y ago
--- clarification and details of my initial point --- The starting point of this exchange is me saying that I can see Le Pen or Zemmour as a potentiel threat to the current French democracy, but not Melenchon. Le Pen is from a political par
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by skitout 3y ago
The fact is you don't know how will end up protest... And even when a protest end up damaging 1 mac donalds and 2 banks, most people are pacific protester... The question is how do you handle this in a democracy ?
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by skitout 3y ago
In France, in most of the cases you don't need police officer for it, some people are willing to donage bank or fight with the police (especially after police overreacting, or being violent for free)
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by skitout 3y ago
Then you could not organize any "leftist" protest in France :-) Note that they do destroy stuff, they just don't call violence against people. And definitely don't turn in riot every time
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by skitout 3y ago
So we should forbid firefighter and farmer's union ? And all leftist union ? And we should forbid any protest where people using black block technique could agree with ?
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by skitout 3y ago
Presidential Monarch (that is a witty remark) means you get elected monarch, then there you have quite the power of a monarch, with little counter power, including now quite not having to deal with assemblée nationale (or just rarely). No o
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by skitout 3y ago
Many people where against 35 hour workweek, more people where supporting the previous Macron attempt to make people work longer (but was seen as more fair, including to number 1 union)...
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by skitout 3y ago
To me your first sentence basically describe so many politicians on the French political scene from all parties ! (except for the "revolution" part which I am deeply surprise to read here) So why do you have such focus on Melancho
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by skitout 3y ago
Used to work just find in France before Macron
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by skitout 3y ago
So when your grandma wait hours in her shit and piss in a corridor of an hospital because their are not enough bed and enough nurses, and then suffer bad after effects because of this waiting time, this is not some sort of violence accordin

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