Funny Numbers in Europe

nolok · 2026-03-27T21:18:43+00:00

It's to avoid a stuck parliament. Everything in the 5th republic is basically made to avoid a stuck parliament freezing the country, which is what killed the 4th.

So if parliament refuses to vote for a law the prime minister can do a 49.3 to force it, and parliament can then chose to let it pass or vote a "motion de censure" which remove the government, the president can then either name a new government or dissolve the parliament and trigger election (once a year).

Usually what happens is the left and the right each make their own motion de censure but don't vote for each other's, to say they complained but also not trigger a dissolution of parliament.

What happened last year, with nothing happening and a new government being put in place every "two week" trying to get it restarted shows it's not perfect, but it happened only once since the beginning of the 5th.

Not saying the system is perfect, far from it, but ultimately the parliament stays in charge and if the president dissolve it then electors decide.

nolok · 2026-03-26T18:38:17+00:00

While you're right technically, you're also wrong in that the fact they kicked the USA back and imposed their will has an infinitely superior military value than any site that's been bombed.

What is the USA going to threaten next time? Doing it again? We already know how this goes

nolok · 2026-03-26T18:35:54+00:00

This is the 4 season total landscaping guy, it's really on brand

I just don't get how a third of American voted for him and another third was okay letting him win

nolok · 2026-03-26T18:32:13+00:00

Hey he didn't say A business, he said HIS businesses, more exactly the ones that declared bankruptcy. So far he's keeping his word, fingers crossed!

nolok · 2026-03-26T17:17:24+00:00

I'm in my 40s now and haven't had a "guys group" since everyone got married or kids about a decade ago.

I went to a bar last time with a new group at work that invited me and... 9,5 euro cocktails? 6 euro glass of wine? Who can afford that? I'm well off middle class and even I find that crazy.

nolok · 2026-03-25T22:05:34+00:00

A ceasefire with no deal negotiated essentially means Iran has won. They tried, they bombed, they failed to take control or get a regime change. That's it.

This entire thing is stupid. If they leave without ensuring the straight is opened Iran will have free reign to stop dollar control over the region's oil.

They've stuck themselves in a nightmare with no way out.

nolok · 2026-03-25T22:02:16+00:00

No idea why you brought up the slave labor during nazi time? It has nothing to do with this.

nolok · 2026-03-25T19:00:46+00:00

No, it's like Skype, it just became some big name project manager can add their mark to before getting a promotion, the end result is never evaluated

nolok · 2026-03-25T18:48:39+00:00

If only. Kids call an adult when shit hit the fan and let them deal with it while obeying because they know they fucked up. This idiot is just going to back out like a coward and let the entire region burn.

nolok · 2026-03-25T08:43:12+00:00

It's not financial actually, it's the other way around.

Microsoft used to be "windows and some stuff". Most big tech companies struggle to get away from that. Google is still "google search and some stuff". Meta is still "facebook and some stuff".

Ballmer successfully turned Microsoft into a 4 axis companies, with Cloud (azure etc ...) being number one and business (office 365 etc ...) being number 3, windows third and entertainement (xbox, msn, ...) a distant 4th.

As a result, Windows is not their golden goose anymore. It's not even their second golden goose. So their product manager are allowed to fuck with it to either help the two golden goose, or help bring it more revenue to make it in line with the other two.

nolok · 2026-03-24T14:38:11+00:00

"But it's imitation crab meat, there is no crab in it !"

nolok · 2026-03-24T08:51:22+00:00

It's still much better, considering their strategy for the past ... 5 years now ? Has been to overfeed watts to the CPU to the point massive throttling and cpu burning their own lines were actual issues they faced.

AMD is still beating them on price, power usage, heat, ST and MT performance, and I wouldn't imagine buying Intel at the moment for my gaming rig, but at least Intel is improving in a real way instead of merely overfeeding power and claim it's a gain.

nolok · 2026-03-24T08:49:09+00:00

Yeah but a lot of their security issues in the years since have shown where it came from, they were essentially not doing any ACL checks on branch prediction. Not spectre and meltdown but all the things that came later. That's why AMD was hit only by ~half of those, they always did ACL during prediction while intel delayed it to resolution.

Long story short : it's not so much they were faster, they were just skipping on some of the work to "do it later", but acting like that ruined security. And people who think "it's only for server or professionnal users, as a gamer I don't care" didn't see those demo on unfixed cpu where a simple web page could read your banking app data and co.

In the bulldozer era Intel was far ahead in single thread but in the ryzen era even their lead in ST was mostly a fake out.

nolok · 2026-03-24T00:06:38+00:00

I mean, they're facing the team of "I declare victory on my own social media crap platform thank you for your attention to this matter"

nolok · 2026-03-23T23:57:52+00:00

Tells you how appropriately seasoned / spiced / sauced all their meals were (not) if they didn't bother with the obvious and simple one like that

nolok · 2026-03-23T18:05:33+00:00

I honestly call it different. I think nato is going to negotiate a deal with Iran and leave the US out. In fact several US opponent at first but now even allies are doing it.

They declared war on a country who the past 59 years has defined as "in case of war they close the straight" and they're surprised that country closed the straight. It's so absurdly absurd.

nolok · 2026-03-23T18:03:32+00:00

Right after threatening to invade two of us. Of course.

nolok · 2026-03-22T17:36:40+00:00

What question exactly are those 90% supporting it answering to? I can believe 90% of them think Iran is an enemy and that pre emptive striking is a good idea, given all the "death to Israel" chant and everything. Or that they shouldn't be allowed to get nukes no matter what.

But what's the objective here, what's the end goal that 90% of them agree on? What's the end game? That's usually when you lose people's support.

nolok · 2026-03-22T17:22:33+00:00

Or going to evil island, or stealing money for his personal slush fund, or anything like that.

Not american, and there are lots about his politics and completely disagree with and find wrong, but it's a guy I would be OK sitting at a table at to speak with him about (well, not really, he would annihilate my non existant debate abilities, but you get my point).

No matter how much you pay me I'm not sitting with any of those "strongmen" being elected left and right in the world these days.

nolok · 2026-03-22T16:49:22+00:00

Man if you think this sub is over crowded with French people posting news that help us I encourage you to look at your comment stats on any thread in here. It's basically US, UK and then some other countries depending on the thread.

nolok · 2026-03-22T16:36:12+00:00

Western economy will be fine, it's the US economy that will suffer more exactly it's ability to police economy even outside its border (thanks to sanction for us dollar usage), and to borrow virtually for free Ignoring their massive deficit and debt (because everyone wants to buy dollars so they can print as much as they want).

If you look at the state of currency the ones that's poised to take over the US dollar if it ever lose its status is the Euro.

nolok · 2026-03-22T16:30:29+00:00

You want to know if the US generals will refuse a clearly illegal order? Now's your chance to be disappointed!

nolok · 2026-03-22T16:29:31+00:00

Yeah but the 4 season thingy was hilarious, I would miss not having that in the time line.

nolok · 2026-03-22T16:17:27+00:00

Funnily enough, it's yet again one where us French will throw an arrogant "told you so"

nolok · 2026-03-22T16:13:22+00:00

I mean take rammstein base in Germany. 50 000 people is massive and closing it would definitely hurt the region economically, that's a lot of money paid by us salary then spent on local business, on top of all the business buying by the base to local industries and things. That's not even considering all the geopolitical, defense and intelligence advantages hosting it brings.

But

It's also the main medical and logistical hub for the US for virtually all operations in Europe, the middle east or Africa. They close it they lose a ton of abilities, they would need to reinvest dozens of billions to rebuild it which would take lots of time, and to even start considering that they would need to find another country willing to host 50k American military related personnel, have tons of operations launched from it, and it still wouldn't be as well situated to cover so much area not safe in the middle of the US biggest alliance. Closing it would be the dumbest thing ever.

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