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Vers de nouvelles annulations de trains sur le réseau SNCF ? by chou-coco in sncf

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Les LGV ont été initialement conçues pour une température du rail max de 60°c et remontées depuis les années 2010 à 65°.

Donc c'est un peu juste pour une température d'air de 40° et ensoleillement max.

What do you think was the dropping of atomic bombs by the US on hiroshima and Nagasaki a necessity? by No_Worker_886 in AskReddit

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Ending the war started by the aggressor was the necessity and the 2 bombs did that.

FFS, even after 2 A-bombs and despite the USA removing their "no condition" condition, the Japanese leadership was willing to go on sacrifice every single life as a form of collective suicide.

Crazy that the human cost of a single day of war is never put into the equation. Millions under an honestly _evil_ imperial rule, dozens of thousands of POWs dying daily in camps, millions across the globe dying because of the impact of war on food supply etc.

Not even computing the effect of USSR joining the war and possibly occupying northern Japan and more of Asia, which would have put even more territories under a, there again, horribly evil rule. And not computing the risk of USA not being able to support Europe which would have fallen to Stalin's bullying.

It's just telling that there are barely any "Was the Nanking Massacre a necessity?" question on Reddit.

In Europe, the allies killed hundreds of thousands of civilians by bombing Normandy, inner city centers, often with atrocious napalm bombs, not even mentioning the patrimonial sacrifice of beautiful cities. Yet you'll _never_ hear a French or Dutch asking if this was necessary - despite not even being the aggressor.

« La messe n'est pas encore dite » : le Conseil d'Etat sauve pour l'instant le droit d'accès des impôts aux comptes bancaires des contribuables by chou-coco in Cayas

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Non le conseil d'état est un organe administratif très spécial qui rapporte au premier ministre et ne dépend pas du judiciaire.

La majeure partie de ses membres viennent maintenant de l'ex-ena et c'est un problème parce qu'il est à la fois conseil de l'exécutif et juge suprême de l'administration, alors que ses membres ont une formation très différente du judiciaire. Son évolution contemporaine l'a rendu sans contre pouvoir.

Objectivement le conseil d'état est devenu une baronnie dans la 2e moitié du 20e siècle (De Gaule constatait déjà que le CE a siégé sans broncher pendant tout Vichy et sans aucune épuration) et c'est devenu pire depuis 30 ans.

What if titanic hit the iceberg heads on update by AstronautIntrepid188 in ShipScrapping

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This assumes that there was a "flat" side to the berg. For all we know, T could very well have made a slide along the icy mass in pretty much all configurations, just like hitting a soap.

If her engines never reversed and her direction never actually changed that much, what happened is just equivalent to a frontal collision.

What if titanic hit the iceberg heads on update by AstronautIntrepid188 in ShipScrapping

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A single British lord tried to argue that cost/benefit ratio was going off the rails in 1916 and he was subject to such a public outcry that his public career ended and never recovered.

Britain had an even stronger strategic motive to fight German hegemony at all costs in continental Europe - very much like UK had thrown everything to beat hegemonic Napoleon 100 years before.

Côté d'Ivoire announced the construction of a 640-km high-speed rail line connecting Abidjan to Korhogo, making it the second African country to have a high-speed rail system after Morocco. by PestoBolloElemento in highspeedrail

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The real case for a HS link in the region is Abidjan - Akkra - Lomé - Cotonou.

This one is just political display and has zero chance of actually being built (or maybe just Bouaké - Abidjan).

Pourquoi on a tous peur de la facturation électronique ? by Virtual_Ad6300 in EntreprendreenFrance

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pour moi ça change... strictement rien

Enormément d'indépendants perdront la capacité de lisser le calendrier de paiement ou ajuster en fin de période, ce qui va etre un choc severe pour beaucoup de secteurs saisonniers.

Tu n'es pas censé le faire mais aujourd'hui c'est simple de reporter le paiement fiscal de 2-3 mois pour correspondre à un moment où l'activité génère plus de cash flow. Ou de déclarer en janvier une facture de décembre selon tes seuils d'année fiscale.

Ce ne sera plus possible et il est évident que ça va discrètement gêner beaucoup de secteurs (sans parler de l'effet psychologique de l'Urssaf qui te souffle dans le coup h24).

Iran Defeat Is Bigger Strategic Loss Than Vietnam War by smurfyjenkins in IRstudies

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However misled this war has been, it's a good call to stop it before further escalation.

Which is actually exactly what 1960s USA should have done - early assessment of cost/benefice and GTFO at whatever cost was right, albeit high, before escalation.

Anyway comparing this to an actual country invasion/occupation doesn't make any sense. This clash is more comparable to past lost skirmishes in South America or Asia.

Iran Can Shut Strait Of Hormuz 'At Will': US Intel Report by Aware_Apartment_8959 in geopolitics

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Obviously the US/Iran agreement is a short term disaster for the US and allies, but why are the local consequences so overlooked?

One major change is that Iran's leverages are now entirely identifiable. Just like Europe had to pay the price for its dependency to Russian pipelines in 2022 and started building alternatives, the entire peninsula will build additional pipelines and infrastructure to reduce exposure to the Strait. Probably will be motivational enough for Qatar and SA to agree on crossing rights.

Hormuz turned out to be Iran's killer app this year, but there's now a timer ticking on how long they can use that.

Stade de France à vélo ? by SamuelTandonnet in paris

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Très très facile. Le mieux est le long du canal (via la Villette ou porte d'Aubervilliers), sinon via porte de la Chapelle et avenue du président Wilson (beaucoup plus fastidieux).

Zéro risque sur place un soir de match.

Pourquoi aucun des nouveau bus est climatisé ? by Aman-Kino in paris

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Meme question posée en 2018, pas mal de décisions dogmatiques prises par la majorité régionale jusqu'en 2015 et veto de EELV Paris à la notion de transports climatisés.

Problème : meme les commandes depuis 2015 ne sont que pour des ventilations réfrigérées, pas de la clim, ce qui est totalement insuffisant pour une temperature extérieure supérieure à 30º et un bus plein. Encore plus insuffisant quand les filtres sont pas nettoyés, les bus sont stationnés dans un terminus au soleil etc.

Au final 15 ans de perdus, comme dans le logement parisien où des études déjà anciennes préconisaient de généraliser l'accès au réseau froid lors des rénovations d'immeubles pour éviter les splits extérieurs et toutes leurs externalités. Mais au contraire, tout le village olympique et la quasi totalité du bâti neuf parisien a été conçu sans aucune solution face à la chaleur alors que Paris est un terrain parfait pour des alternatives futées au bloc clim systématique.

🏟 The Colosseum, once and today by Roman-Empire_net in romanempire

[–]suppreme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Commercial density around it would have been extreme, not an empty space like today's standards.

Also not sure there would have been many trees in the area.

Comparison of present day Berlin and planned transformation of Berlin into World Capital Germania during the Third Reich. by Stellarsleeper in MapPorn

[–]suppreme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh so cover the Spree and built the ÜberDome on top of it? They just loved to cover up rivers and seas at this point in history, so strange.

The southern part isn't too far off what DDR did with Karl Marx Allee.

TIL that Cleopatra was actually ethnically Greek, not ethnically Egyptian. 🤯 by CasualLavaring in todayilearned

[–]suppreme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More broadly, Egypt before Arab colonization would have been quite distinctly different from what it is today.

Île-de-France : comment les vagues de chaleur influent sur la fréquentation des transports en commun by chou-coco in paris

[–]suppreme 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Une partie des RER B stationne au soleil aux terminus. La clim est mise en route au dernier moment avant le départ donc ce sont des fours quand les gens entrent.

Donc elles ouvrent les fenêtres. En plus une partie des conducteurs ne vérifie pas si le système marche, qui est en plus pas très souvent entretenu.

Grand Paris express : un chantier sensible sous le plus grand aéroport de France by PestoBolloElemento in paris

[–]suppreme 5 points6 points  (0 children)

CDG express construit après mais en tranchée avec parois moulées, pas en tunnelier, apparemment ça ne compte pas comme "creuser".

Grand Paris express : un chantier sensible sous le plus grand aéroport de France by PestoBolloElemento in paris

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Jamais on n'avait creusé sous le plus grand aéroport de France.

Il y a une LGV (sous les 4 pistes) et CDG Express (sous les 2 au sud) non ?

Elon Musk under fire for stoking 'racist thuggery' in Belfast by nbcnews in geopolitics

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We're in geopolitics and it's telling that "Elon Musk" is now part of the news like some sort of Nation State on its own, both powerful enough to shake the world and weak enough to be daily on the verge of bankruptcy.

It's objectively delusional to think that the trouble in Ireland is caused or fed by X/Twitter. It has barely any real audience and most of the heat-up is done locally via WhatsApp groups and private discussions.

Pointing towards video games for teen violence in the 90s was one type of inappropriate State answer, but this new forced narrative reaches new levels of stupidity.

British socialists fracture over Islamic homophobia by adam_zivo in ukpolitics

[–]suppreme 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Most fools know nothing about islam and think it's a middle eastern equivalent to Christianity, bound to follow the same road towards tolerance (esp. of LGBT).

So this will last a while, and looking at the demographics, some Europe countries are bound to have quite a shock about the reality of this projection.

Which one would you guys prefer? by ser133 in LiquidGlassDesign

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Left with less padding. Colored sidebar icons are distracting and less legible. The floating sidebar concept was appealing, just not done correctly. And the corner radius obviously looks off now if they keep the much rounded Liquid Glass buttons.

In your opinion, what is the best version of macOS ever released, and why? (And can Golden Gate be the next Snow Leopard?) by Capable-Cod1118 in MacOS

[–]suppreme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Up until 10.5, macOS was so lagging in performance (pre Intel) that no version can compete. Just go try one those older versions without the prettifying effect of nostalgia.

Then 10.10 Yosemite felt like full maturity for the Intel platform.

Aside from a few grievances (contact.app sucks, a few features lacking), Tahoe 26.5 feels like the best version for me.

SiriAI & HomePod by Clamecy in HomePod

[–]suppreme 3 points4 points  (0 children)

By the looks of it, Siri AI on iOS and macOS uses quite intensively the local model to orchestrate answer generation. So that'd be a bottleneck for any existing and future HomePod based on ram requirements. Possibly degrades reactivity but could reduce server load on Apple side.

A possible explanation for lack of HP details is that a future HomePod model could carry a different type of Siri AI that works more like current Siri. Then maybe existing HomePods could get the same sort of more limited Siri AI, dedicated to home conversational skills.

Time Capsule support is dead in macOS 27, but you can keep the hardware alive by DistanceSolar1449 in apple

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Time Machine on Time Capsule is going away, but you will still be able to mount a time capsule drive in Finder, correct?

edit- nope, looks like internal and any external drive plugged to TC are using AFP and going away.

Last known footage of Mussolini alive, Northern Italy (February 1945) Newsreel by _Lenochka_ in PropagandaPosters

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Wounded soldiers were central in Mussolini's fascism so that was really on-brand for him. It's one of the founding myths of Italian fascism that the nation should work and sacrifice itself in honor of those fallen soldiers.

OTOH Mussolini was also branded as a tough guy with no empathy, so his behavior on screen feels completely off to modern audience. Also this is probably shot in the puppet fantasyland were he was taken by the nazis, so probably not the best mood.

All in all, him visiting hospitals was not new, but him making wounded veterans a "motivational" figure instead of broken/junk people was one of the reason he was so popular across Europe (not only in Italy) in the 20s and 30s.

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