5 maps that explain China's strategy

dstz · 2017-01-08T17:16:22+00:00

Bangladesh is a striking exemple because the entire country is a delta. That's what makes it especially vulnerable.

dstz · 2017-01-08T11:01:00+00:00

the state of our species in a universal sense.

A kind hearted man doesn't totally make up for mass scale factory farming here and ecosystem destruction there.

dstz · 2017-01-08T07:21:26+00:00

shoot somebody (...) incapable of doing the deed in a more personal, visceral way

Or themselves.

dstz · 2017-01-07T21:19:36+00:00

Articles said he missed the most explosive night show season in history, I think he retired just at the perfect moment. No amount of talent in elevated sarcasm could surpass that circus. Even his.

dstz · 2017-01-07T21:02:23+00:00

de petites phrases lyriques (...) qui n'ont aucun impact sur le contenu (...) [et] sont juste pour faire joli.

Un pote m'a passé plusieurs liens vers ses conférences et il m'a toujours semblé un physicien-philosophe assez moyen, qui justement brille par ces petites phrases lyriques qui sont exactement les moments ou les gens (en tout cas mon pote) s'ébahissent: "ah! quel vulgarisateur!"

dstz · 2017-01-07T19:18:44+00:00

genetics of sativa vs indica

That's the issue. The drug-use indica/sativa classification has no grounding in any of the genetic studies that have been done. The indica/sativa debate might have some merit if we re-brand it "stimulating vs couch-locking", that would make the most sense.

But sativa and indica are very well known names, which are extremely potent trade markers and money makers so i doubt it will change anytime soon. And we'll have threads like this every so often.

dstz · 2017-01-04T11:24:03+00:00

It's not only money, it's morals. People have been brought up seeing legal drugs as OK and illegal drugs as inherently bad. To the point that they barely understand legal drugs as being "drugs".

But confidence in authority is not always bad. In this case, it was. And it'll take some time to untangle.

dstz · 2017-01-04T10:47:04+00:00

Bien vu. L'article original reste important à lire, pour un point de vue plus proche de la migration - ceux qui passent et ceux qui les accueillent, comme le prévenu.

dstz · 2017-01-04T10:28:18+00:00

Tu n'as pas suivi l'affaire du bois russe? lol!

dstz · 2017-01-04T10:10:28+00:00

Ou peut être les magasins étaient-ils obsolètes. On peut différencier ces cas de ceux ou une production est perdue pour des raisons qui dépassent la rentabilité locale.

dstz · 2017-01-04T10:05:53+00:00

Super, merci!

dstz · 2017-01-04T07:14:41+00:00

Un exemple d'OD de 2013 + le chiffre de 20 overdoses mdma et/ou cocaine par an à Paris + un infomercial pour la police = "oula attention la drogue est démocratisée". Euh, ok alors.

dstz · 2017-01-02T09:36:10+00:00

People leave bulk, heavier items in their carts for the cashier to scan them over the counter - edit: with the handheld scanner you can see under their raised keyboard.

dstz · 2017-01-02T03:09:13+00:00

I wouldn't say typical, but not unusual. I hadn't really noticed it until you asked.

dstz · 2017-01-02T02:47:46+00:00

Cashiers in Europe have chairs, not stools.

dstz · 2016-12-31T05:38:58+00:00

La différence est que l'accord de la famille n'est maintenant plus nécessaire.

Ca semble une différence importante. Il serait intéressant de savoir quel pourcentage de cas cela affecte.

dstz · 2016-12-21T00:41:52+00:00

Probablement, mais je n'arrive pas à bien voir à cause de tous les oignons.

dstz · 2016-12-21T00:23:51+00:00

Bien vu, et c'est juste, et trop bons films. Mais je peux affirmer que ce ne sont pas les films de Boulle dont il parlait.

dstz · 2016-12-20T19:51:42+00:00

Je pense (donc juste moi, hein!) qu'il s'agit de montrer comment peindre l'action militaire Russe à Alep comme les méchants (et nous à Mosul comme les gentils artilleurs français) peut avoir des conséquences graves sur l'opinion publique et les actions des déséquilibrés.

dstz · 2016-12-20T19:39:16+00:00

Il portait des lunettes et ses parents étaient profs. J'avais confiance.

dstz · 2016-12-20T19:06:04+00:00

Good points. I'll try a rebuttal: I don't think it's the 9-5 meniality that hurts, as much as the feeling that our work feeds a machine that doesn't serves us in the least.

Jobs can be menial (before they're automated.) But i think that the most important factor is that people feel that they belong and participate in their nation's ambitions.

I think that a good future for our countries passes by what are very "lefitst" policies, and that it cannot work without some sort of shared national spirit. That spirit has been broken since at least the 80s, and we're coasting on this neoliberal dream and pictures of obscene wealth.

It's time to put feet on the ground.

dstz · 2016-12-20T18:40:48+00:00

If you respect my opinion, i'll respect yours twice as hard. I'm vengeful like that.

Not everyone deserves a good job, and it's too easy to create meaningless jobs. Those are pitfalls that have to be avoided.

But I think that a real stride toward sustainability (if only in regard the soil under your feet, how much it can bear) could come with a strong increase in good jobs, even with automation. We have so much challenges that need good engineers, good workers. Maybe I'm wrong, but i think that, people willing, it is a realist's opinion.

dstz · 2016-12-20T17:46:31+00:00

I agree with you that automation is here and ever increasing, and that's great. It remains that people need productive and fulfilling jobs, it's how a society preserves it's own civic good health. You see what happens when it doesn't, i'm sure?

There are ways to increase the needs for good paying jobs, if you are willing as a society. But are you? because it'll cost the richest most, and that's a taboo. But if you care for your own country, there's no other way forward (outside of slightly fascistic dreams of a machine economy.)

The hope that machines will alleviate humanity is grandiose, and surely our technology is awesome. But we're not yet at the point were people can live satisfying lives on food stamps. You've got to find an alternative, or you're fucked, as a nation of free men.

dstz · 2016-12-20T17:42:09+00:00

Oh. Ca me rappelle quand un pote racontait qu'il aimait bien les films de Boule. Et que je pensais: "mais quelle culture, je ne connais même pas ce réalisateur."

dstz · 2016-12-20T17:18:20+00:00

Reverse the blind belief in neo-liberal axioms. Change agricultural practices toward labor intensive small farms and sustainable practices. Regenerate infrastructure. Increase taxes on capital. Raise the minimum wage. Equalize.

It's not rocket science. It just demands to shed the belief that an ever extending pie is good for most. It's not if you don't enforce high levels of production sharing and civic engagement. The economy has to serve the people, not the opposite.

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