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Yet another problem of carbon credits. Just an accounting trick which ignores reality. Reality is catching up either way, even if it’s not convenient in excel.

The French president notoriously said a few weeks ago in June during the third (!!!) heat wave of this summer “who could have predicted [it]”… that’s the level, at the highest layer which decides on policy.

Never on that scale. This is unprecedented. France asked other EU members for help as the firefighters are overwhelmed and the fire uncontrollable. There hasn’t been an evacuation this large since WW2 (300k people displaced so far, 0.5% of the country’s population)

This isn’t a “it’s summer, and fires burn” type of a deal. Even though most fires are set by idiots on purpose, it spreads so well because everywhere is dry. Most parcs and fields look like savannas instead of the usual green.

People live there. So do animals and insects. Never mind the air pollution.

A couch is more comfortable to sit on that an hydroponics system, all else being equal. I’d pick the couch every time.

In a mind boggling number of companies, “productive” measures output, not value.

I think this is reason enough. The US (and others) are turning a little more despotic and totalitarian every day. Imagine what they can do with such tools?

Same reason why for example banning encryption “to save the children” is laudable but it would weaken the ability to exchange messages privately so much that it’s unacceptable. The powers that be would very much like messages not to be private, partly because it would neuter any ability people would have to organize and challenge the current powers.

It’s unfortunate that giving up these cameras or the ban of encryption would also empower other types of crime but to most the trade-offs are too big and so we’d rather have stronger privacy at the cost of (potentially) a little more unpunished crime.

Sad but true. Even Camacho was more reasonable.

From a purely greedy/capitalistic standpoint, this strategy made sense.

If Presdient Camacho can call a sport’s federation and have a penalty canceled and the administration is as rotten and corrupt as its demonstrated every day, it’s worth a shot for that company to try and avoid a recall.

A recall costs money, people they don’t know getting sick costs them nothing.

DeepL is pretty decent.

Ok I give up. Let’s agree to disagree and go touch grass outside.

That was… once, 500 years ago. The hottest summer before this year was 2023. The one before that a few years before.

38 in daytime and 30 at night kills.

Ah yes, the hottest summer ever. Probably nothing to worry about.

We’ve figured out how to make reusable rockets and computers that can talk you into committing suicide.

I’m sure we can figure this one out too.

It’s a tad hot in some places lately, and getting hotter.

I can hold a strong opinion on this matter without risking any of my own money.

I own no Musk stock and never short anything.

I don’t think that affects the opinion I stated in any way.

“Shocking nobody” I would add… This is an obvious Musk scam and anyone with financial knowledge called it as such ever since it’s been on the table. Why else lobby and change the NASDAQ listing rules for instance?

Samsung is such an evil, dishonest, cunning company. I can’t understand how their devices sell so well despite that!

How?

To add, Switzerland is a little weird with accident vs disease.

If it’s an accident (ie sudden, unavoidable, unpredictable, more or less) it’s great because you have nothing to pay, you don’t even need to worry about the bill and there is no deductible and everything is covered no questions asked.

If it’s a disease, then it’s the regular insurance rules which can be quite arcane and you’re never sure what’s going to be covered and how much.

My transport was from adverse consequences of a surgery and so they deemed it not an accident, and that’s why I had to pay.

Oh wow. They were cool with me they said if we transport you it’ll be expensive. I didn’t have a car, I was living pretty high up a hill, it was midnight, and I had lost quite a bit of blood already so I thought “fuck it I’ll find out how expensive it is once I’m fixed”. But they wouldn’t have charged me if they hadn’t transported me (at least that’s what it sounded like)

I guess I made the right call because I fainted in the ER later from blood loss.

I had to call an ambulance in Switzerland where ambulance prices are freely set by the operator (except in a few cantons which are enforcing reasonable flat rates)

A 5 minutes ride cost 1500.- (more or less the same in USD)

Because I had used a good broker to pick my insurance plan, I was left with “only” 500.- to pay out of pocket for the ride.

In Quebec, as a resident, going 3 blocks in the ambulance cost us about 500 CAD if I remember correctly.

What do you mean? It’s been around for a while and people still use it yes

I too loathe LinkedIn. However it kinda feels like you have to use it if you’re a freelance senior developer and want to find projects. At least that’s what many B2B people say.

So I’m wondering: long term freelancers who make a living out of freelancing (and I’m not talking employee type of positions where you’re basically an employee but get paid on invoices), where and how do you acquire customers if not on LinkedIn?

How do you not participate in the LinkedIn AI slop and still fill your pipeline?

That’s not how it is there though. Any change whatsoever, justified or not, is opposed. So the government goes for bust and makes changes that help the biggest companies, the richest in the country, friends of the president (whoever they are, different presidents same joke) because it’s going to be a struggle anyway so it might as well payoff for their friends. Plus they need the wealthy’s support (they own the newspapers and media)

And so we’ve given up on the train for instance because when it’s not striking it’s broken down for some reason.

Retirements and social security, same thing, the only changes made was for the industry not for the people. And we’re careening into the wall.

It’s not only their printers. Their computers and peripherals are also very low quality nowadays. Enterprise buys them because they’re cheap not because they’re good. The bar they have to clear is to keep working for the lease’s duration (3 years typically).

I’ve been burnt a few times now I run away when I see HP (even their “enterprise” line, which used to be good)

There is a strike or demonstration of sorts every other day in France. Or so it seems living there. It’s become so frequent that it has little to no meaning anymore. The government is scared to implement any meaningful change because it’s guaranteed there’ll be a strike or demonstration of sorts. And so we continue towards the wall pedal to the metal.

It’s as if they were working super hard to obliterate their domination of the consoles market.

Xbox is in shambles but if Sony keeps pulling these braindead moves and annihilating any goodwill they have, Xbox might come out on top despite their best efforts.