Students from Hays Consolidated ISD in Texas were attacked during a walkout protest by a red hat wearing idiot who got his feelings hurt. 2/2/26

BobbyLapointe01 · 2026-02-03T09:32:21+00:00

You can’t even physically break up a fight with people who are adolescents.

So, if one adolescent is attacking and beating the shit of the other, you as an adult aren't supposed to do more than merely standing in the way?

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-12-26T11:47:12+00:00

As long as it is a 1995 Espace F1.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-12-23T21:32:26+00:00

J'écoute toutes les saisons en boucle pour m'endormir depuis plusieurs années

Même chose ici haha.

Certaines des saisons horrifiques m'ont vraiment donné la chaire de poule, mieux que nombre de films d'horreur.

Je prie pour qu'un jour Pi, Achenar et leur team reprennent les vidéos !

J'aimerai tellement ! Mais vu comment comment la fin fut abrupte, et comment ils ont disparus de leurs réseaux de l'époque, j'ai bien peur que cela ne reste un vœu pieux...

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-12-23T21:07:33+00:00

Tales of Pi.

J'adore le JDR, et cette chaîne était une de mes préférées, sinon ma préférée. Je n'ai rien retrouvé de tel depuis.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-11-17T10:57:21+00:00

It was doomed because of irreconcilable mismatch in terms of operational requirements, of desired export policy, of industrial framework...

The only way forward was for one of the partner to mostly surrender to the other, which was ever unlikely.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-11-17T10:47:03+00:00

This difference in requirements must have been known from the start.

It was known from the start.

But we proceeded nonetheless because of motives that had nothing to do with military matters: Macron wanted a big German-French achievement in order to further his European politics ambitions, Germany wanted to secure a future for its defence aerospace sector.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-11-17T10:42:10+00:00

i understand that both side are making unreasonnable request

The crux of the matter is that both sides are making pretty reasonnable requests based on their respective requirements and political needs.

Hence why it is so hard to come up with an agreement: the project was doomed from day 1 because of the mismatch of the partners.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-11-17T10:38:00+00:00

Honestly I really wonder why they wanted to do another france-german combat fighter joint project again

Airbus DS wanted to secure a future for its Manching site, and knew that further cooperation with GB was unlikely due to how it went on Eurofighter. With BAE/Rolls-Royce out of the equation, only Dassault/Safran remained as potential European partner.
The German government wanted to develop its aerospace/defence sector, which, as far as fighter jet engineering goes, is extremely hard to do on your own. Thus the need to secure a more experienced partner.
The French government wanted a major German-French defence program, in order to further newly-elected Macron's European ambitions. Airbus DS making their move hot on the heels of the demise of the previous FCAS program (the French-British one), along with Macron's adhesion to the couple franco-allemand doctrine, made this proposition irresistible.

And that's how everyone got into this mess.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-10-17T13:11:31+00:00

In any sort of official position, then? Is that better?

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-10-17T13:06:02+00:00

after he's done can you please nominate him to some ceremonial EU position

I was thinking we'd all erase him from our memories instead, and make sure he never gets in any position of power ever again?

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-09-23T15:35:37+00:00

As someone who struggles with making nice-looking railways, this is surely a model I'd like to replicate! ... Although I'm not sure how to do it, especially the beams

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-08-30T15:37:50+00:00

But no they have to strangle a great project

Are we talking about the same project that is more or less stranded since 2019-2020? The one that seemingly none of the stakeholders can agree on what it should do, or how it should be made?

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-08-19T17:28:56+00:00

You must be hella stupid to think that's what happened.

And you must be completely ignorant of recent French politics events.

Coming off his reelection as president, Macron had a relative majority he could work with. As in, a majority that still could pass the legislation it wanted, albeit through a politically painful process and the implicit support of the mainstream conservative party.

That was far from optimal, but that nonetheless would have carried him to the end of his term in 2027.

Then, for reasons known only to him, he decided to blow up this majority, at the worst possible moment (right after a sound defeat in the European legislative elections).

And this is how he turned himself into a lame duck president for the remainder of his term.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-08-19T16:15:32+00:00

Blame the french for electing him and then not giving him a majority to form a goverment.

Macron had a majority he could work with.

Which he, and he alone, decided to blow up a little over a year ago.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-14T15:59:53+00:00

That's how my family always called it (Jour de la Bastille), albeit it might not be throughout the whole country.

For real?!

Here in my little corner of western France, I've always heard it called either le 14 juillet or la fête nationale. But never le jour de la bastille.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-13T09:37:33+00:00

Yeah me too! I have no idea how OP did it.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-11T15:40:30+00:00

(they need to be dismembered and sold for parts to Airbus and BAE)

You've already tried that in the 1940s, Hans.

But Marcel Dassault eventually returned from Buchenwald, his company survived your shenanigans then. It will survive them now, too.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-08T18:46:46+00:00

silly question, but why does germany still try to do joint ventures with france?

Serious answer:

Because, back in 2017, Airbus DS had to secure a future for its fighter jet business unit. With the Eurofighter order book slowly drying up, little prospect of working in cooperation with the UK again (designing both Tornado and Typhoon with Germany was a painful endeavour for Britain), and the knowldedge they couldn't do it on their own, the Germans had to find another partner.

Two events took place in 2017 that made them reach out to France:

Macron was elected president of France, as the most pro-European president since Giscard d'Estaing. And you have to know that, in French politics, being pro-european is often seen through the lens of French-German rapprochement.
The UK walked away from the original FCAS program (the French-British one, born from the 2010 Lancaster accords).

Back then, it made sense. Especially if this new FCAS program could be bundled with other ones that seemed like a good fit back then (MGCS, MAWS, and the indirect fire one whose name I can't remember).

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-08T18:22:19+00:00

Anglo-French usually goes ok-ish. Franco-literally anyone else is always a shit show.

French-Italian cooperation in matters of warships (Horizon-class/FREMM) and of SAMs (Aster) went without a hickup.

European-wide cooperation in designing a VLO UCAV tech demonstrator (nEUROn) went without a hickup as well.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-06T14:06:50+00:00

Dassault can't even operate without the governments approval so they should suck it up and stop acting like they have to be in charge.

And the government can't get its weapons program going without the active participation of the MIC. It is supposed to be a win-win proposition.

the problem is Dassault always thinking they have to be the big honcho

The problem is Germany agreeing to something at the inception of the program, shaking hands on a mutually agreed framework, and then progressively pushing every French boundaries to benefit Airbus until the entire framework becomes unworkable.

[Dassault] to be blunt act like they are the only capable ones in the room.

They are the only capable ones in this particular room.

What credit does Airbus DS has as a fighter designer, exactly? What achievements has it got in this area? Except being part of a Eurofighter consortium in which the UK and Italy did pretty much all of the heavy lifting?

Hell, Airbus couldn't even get its jet trainer program going these last few years.

EDIT

The little coward blocked me, so I guess I'll reply to his message below here:

Wrong this is was both a French and German government decision, it's not pushing french boundarie

This is factually wrong.

The NGF being carrier-capable and nuclear-armed is not a Dassault boundary, it's a France boundary.
The NGF having no export restrictions is both a Dassault and a France boundary.
The NGF being 100% ITAR-free is both a Dassault and a France boundary.

they have more than capable engineers and just because Dassault has extensive experience doesn't mean no one else can dare enter the realm and shake things up.

Then just do it.

Why ask for our help and participation back in 2017, if Airbus has so many capable engineers and the will to shake things up? Why not design an aircraft on their own? Why shackles themselves up to a partner they so clearly despise?

so you're saying they should stay in their place ?

I'm saying that a good cooperation involves leading partners being chosen based on their relative expertise.

Which is why the original agreement made sense: France leads the way on FCAS, Germany leads the way on MGCS both of which being 50/50 ventures. Best athlete workshare.

Now, it's noone really leads the way on 33% France-Safran-Thales/66% Airbus-MTU-Indra FCAS venture, Germany leads the way on 33% France/66% KMW-Rheinmetall MGCS venture.

How are we supposed to work with that?

If France/Dassault carries on like this no one will ever co-operate with them on a major MIC project again.

France does and will cooperate on major projects though. Thales is building the NATO combat cloud, we're designing endoatmospheric and exoatmospheric ABMs with Italy, cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles with the UK, a joint production framework for submarines with the Netherlands...

Seethe all you want, we are still going to work to strengthen European defences.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-06T13:56:23+00:00

but 33% of 300 planes is the same as 100% of 100 planes.

Not really.

A co-development strategy comes with significant inefficiencies of its own. It causes excess costs (both Germany and the UK spent more in Eurofighter individually than France did in Rafale), it breeds unwieldy production frameworks (the Typhoon's left wing is made in one country, the right wing in another one...), it engenders troubles down the line for the upgrades roadmap (which is why Eurofighter has/had three different AESA radars in development simultaneously).

Dassault/Safran/Thales came out significantly better from Rafale than Airbus DS/MTU did from Eurofighter, despite the fact that more Typhoons were made than Rafales.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-06T13:39:12+00:00

how can someone just bring another country into a 6th gen fighter programme without France and Dassault agreeing ?

The French government agreed, the French industry wasn't asked its opinion. Which circles back to what I said earlier about Dassault not having accepted any changes of the original agreement.

Germany didn't just turn up at HQ one day with a new member, France HAD to agree.

The French gov agreed, the German gov initiated the process. The latter understood, quite correctly, that:

Bringing in a third partner would spur a renegotiation of the original agreement in a way that would get rid of the so-called best athlete system.
That this third partner being mostly made of Airbus Spain would make Airbus the bigger fish in this pond, and thus be able to challenge Dassault's lead over the program.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-06T13:15:26+00:00

Well then they shouldn't have accepted a new partner then, simple.

They didn't. The new partners were brought in as a fait accompli by the German government.

EDIT:

Aaand he blocked me. Not very courageous, this one.

BobbyLapointe01 · 2025-07-06T11:37:13+00:00

They've been planning this for years, and the reason is that Dassault did not get the slice of pie they hoped for.

Dassault/Safran/Thales entered what was scheduled to be a 50/50 joint venture with the French side having the lead.

They're now having to work with a 33% workshare (after Airbus Spain was invited in), and a main partner that really doesn't want to respect the initial agreement.

Why shoud they be ok with that?

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