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Diego
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Didn't work at all of course, they were shot at from both sides, though eventually they reached an informal agreement with the Bosniaks.
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Living in Brussels, grew up in Brazil. Likes trains.
Blog: metrovelododo.wordpress.com
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Diego
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Didn't work at all of course, they were shot at from both sides, though eventually they reached an informal agreement with the Bosniaks.
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Diego
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There's a French military officer who wrote in his blog about his unit's nonsensical deployment to Sarajevo. They were there not to help one or the other side but to go in between them and "prevent them from fighting".
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Diego
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At the very least Paris is a monocentric metro region.
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Cats of Yore
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WATCH in AMAZEMENT as an 8 lb cat incapacitates a 125 lb human woman using ONLY the power of her CHIN.
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Diego
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With modern digital TV, there's always the one neighbour whose live transmission is 10s ahead of yours.
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Diego
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That's just France having unusually small communes. Cross the périphérique into St Denis or Montreuil and it's denser than anywhere in London.
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Diego
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Ha, in Belgium the normal public TV has basically become a sports channel now. Showing all games of the euros and all stages of the Tour de France.
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Diego
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Wait, 4th? It's Istanbul, London, Moscow, Paris and then St P, no?
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Diego
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He was also dismissive of the people who brought up the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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Diego
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Leftists calling everything "war" is somehow reminding me of me of 18th century liberals calling slightly higher taxes "slavery".
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Diego
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I remember the metro headways were so bad on that Sunday morning I almost lost my bus. I waited 20 min for my train!
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Diego
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Funnily enough I've done this route, when going to a conference in Virginia Tech.
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Diego
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So a left minority government that is able to survive no confidence motions could rule that way. But that's assuming quite the can opener.
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Diego
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Mea culpa for anyone who's been following my posts on French politics. It's the PM, not the President, who has the power to pass a law without a vote (the infamous article 49.3 of the Constitution). But then the government has to survive a no confidence motion.
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Diego
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Murder-suicide as foreign policy
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Diego
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At least he could pass a budget without a 49.3
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Diego
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This shows that the issue isn't egos, it's the French not being used at all to coalitions. Each faction is still dreaming of the day they rule alone. A large part of their voters is still somehow expecting it.
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Diego
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The left campaigned hard on reversing Macron's pension reform, but that's obviously not happening. Meanwhile Olivier Faure is demanding to be PM despite not even trying to negotiate a majority yet. Bit disappointed, I thought the leader would be more pragmatic.
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Anthony Zacharzewski
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Federal government negotiations look set to start tomorrow, De Wever of N-VA to be named formateur and most likely the next Prime Minister, if negotiations succeed.
www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/l...
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Diego
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Now is the time to prepare the public for compromise, instead of dreaming of the day when your minority faction can rule without compromise. You saw how unpopular and ineffective the last 2 years of Macron government were, it can't go on like this.
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Diego
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But a minority government of the entire left and just the left, as the PS leader is suggesting, makes no sense. They'd always need support on their right for any vote. And probably always the same elements within the right. You'll need to negotiate with them anyway, why insist there's no need?
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Diego
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A French minority government with PS and the leftmost elements of Ensemble could make sense. Seek support from your left on economic policy and on your right on foreign policy.
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Diego
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Would it be crazy for the federal government to ban such subsidies? (It distorts interstate commerce etc.)
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Diego
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In any case, even in my technical writing, I choose my words carefully. If I'm worried something is confusing or will be misunderstood, I try changing a few words or adding emphasis. There are definitely differences between low and high quality technical writing.
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Diego
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But you can already use barebones text with bullet points etc. Gen AI at best just adds distracting flowery language on top. For transcribing speech to text gen AI is indeed good in the cases when you don't need much quality control
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Diego
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*speech-to-text transcriber
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Diego
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It's good at deskilling some professions. An experienced speech-to-text may be more productive per hour worked but outsourcing this to someone else working with auto-generated text is more productive per € spent (even if the end result is a bit worse)
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Diego
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They're working on it, what with their plans to defund research.
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Diego
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I've even heard an experienced speech-to-text transcriber saying it was way more annoying to go through the errors of a computer-generated transcription than getting it mostly right in the 1st listen. But here I guess the point is deskilling the profession.
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Diego
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Fully agree. The most fun part of writing is when you've done all the prep work, you're fully focused and in the flow writing line after line of your first draft.
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Diego
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I like how RN tried to paint this as an elite conspiracy, but millions of voters were in on the conspiracy! This doesn't happen without the record turnout and the tactical voting.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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this is an extremely important thing to understand. transit needs density and walkability in order to work more than it needs money. if you have the density and walkability, transit is *profitable* to operate!
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Diego
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You know, it's exactly the same in Brussels, except trash mounds this high are rarer because most of the city isn't that dense. But hey, in front of my previous apartment one of those trash mounds caught fire.
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Too Big to Fail
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Honestly, seeing people find out in the wild that New York City has giant mounds of trash bags ten feet high along every sidewalk in the city three or four times a week is one of the great pleasures of the internet. Yes, the entire city. Every trash day. Looks like this. For real, not a joke.
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Diego
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Ça doit être beau de vivre dans le déni.
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Diego
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Un changement de la loi d'immigration, c'est quelque chose qui pourrait se négocier. Ça va ne va certainement pas changer s'il n'y a pas de gouvernement.
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Diego
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Le président a un parti, et ce parti est représenté à l'Assemblée Nationale. Un gouvernement majoritaire doit forcément inclure soit Ensemble, soit le RN. Sans majorité, pas moyen de voter des lois, sauf 49.3 pour le budget.
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Diego
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Just think what happens if LR files a motion de censure and Ensemble and RN both vote for it. Or if nobody outside NFP votes for your budget, will Macron do a 49.3 for you and force it through? Sorry if my little foreigner brain cannot grasp it
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Diego
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Nice try, I do know a lot about what I'm talking about. Consider touching grass, a minority NFP government will just not happen.
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Diego
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The only way a minority government can kind of work in France is if you hold the presidency. They don't. I'm sure they realise it, not sure what the point of this reality-denying posturing is.
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Diego
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The French really aren't used to coalitions. It wasn't just Mélenchon who ruled out an alliance with Macron, but also the leader of the socialists.
The people who were decrying Macron's arrogance now want to lead a minority government with zero compromises?
www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
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Diego
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I'm hoping his party will break apart under the pressure. They've never been this close to government
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Diego
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It's tragic because he was on the losing side of many important debates, even though now the consensus moved in his direction. France couldn't do a unilateral stimulus in 2013 no more than it could intervene unilaterally in Syria.
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Diego
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Oh, I meant Moscovici, who was maybe budget minister or something? But Macron was also a Greek dove of course
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Diego
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And now he went back to the region where he started his political career and made his small contribution for the left's win today. I'm not a specialist, don't know the details, but seems plausible that his name recognition was decisive here, given that LR+RN had 56% of the vote together?
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Diego
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I do like Hollande, though, very under-rated policy-wise. Facing a difficult economy, he balanced the books by raising taxes rather than cutting welfare. His minister of the economy successfully advocated for loosening the noose on the Greek economy. He was also the most anti-Assad Western leader.
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Diego
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The disappointed faces of the RN politicians is making my night. Boo it's so unfair that despite a large minority of the voters liking them, everyone else hates them and is willing to join forces to defeat them.
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Diego
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Hahaha yes, this was purely an electoral coalition, I fully expect the rest of the left (communists included!) to take their distances from Mélenchon's LFI. Hell, I'm rooting for LFI itself to break apart if its saner members get tempted to join a government coalition.
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Diego
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The disappointed faces of the RN politicians is making my night. Boo it's so unfair that despite a large minority of the voters liking them, everyone else hates them and is willing to join forces to defeat them.
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Diego
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I believe the President stays regardless, there have been many examples of a "cohabitation" where the government is led by a different party from the President, whose powers become more like those of a German President. Even in the Assembly I think they can try forming a different government first.
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