in places like France and Japan

This is completely wrong.

You talk exclusively about Japan, so even if your anecdata is representative, then my point is not “completely” wrong. Let’s begin by using language correctly.

Pretty convincing arguments. Thanx.

Tells you that you can take your social media back from big tech then casually recommends Bluesky. Gimme a break.

I generally agree but I still feel it’s important to keep some perspective. Bluesky is not the solution but it’s definitely progress compared to existing corporate platforms (because it has real fundamental differences - several articles posted here went into detail about this).

IMO the best argument against Bluesky is that it will suck up the oxygen for other, better, solutions. That’s a fair theory but it seems to me that there’s plenty of market share to go round right now. Everyone is still on the evil corporate platforms.

RSS still exists and it’s still beautiful.

Agree, I use it every day.

Je sais tout ça. Je dis simplement qu’il n’y a pas de noir et de blanc ici, de commun accord le WaPo sort encore du journalisme irréprochable (hors page d’opinion donc), il y a encore d’excellents journalistes qui y travaillent, et il n’est pas encore temps de tout jeter.

Absolutely agree. This feels like a subtle dig at the fashionable pseudo-solution of the day, abundance.

Article très bref ! Ça valait le coup de poster ? Alors c’est vrai que j’ai déjà été planté par cette ligne, qui a subi un glissement de terrain juste avant mon départ. J’ai dû prendre le bus.

Oui oui d’accord, on ne peut plus se fier à quoi que ce soit, ils sont tous vendus, tout est foutu, etc etc, c’est compris

I’ll be honest, a quick review of this thread did not clearly reveal who was downvoting who for what. My position, and this other person’s, is that downvoting opinions is bad manners and toxic to healthy discussion. If there was genuinely harmful advice there, then OK, downvote away.

(Obviously these days the word “harmful” is thrown around liberally so this probably just puts us back to square one.)

Freedom of speech as an absolute

Of course it’s not absolute, where did I say otherwise? Straw man.

paradox of tolerance

This just feels like a fancy reference deployed to back up intolerance.

Exactly my point. The virtual equivalent of taping someone’s mouth shut because you happen not to agree with what they say.

Their original staff was a bunch of pretty serious journalists sourced from the BBC.

Si on juge comme ça, il n’y a pas un seul journal français crédible. Ils appartiennent tous aux milliardaires. Sauf que, de fait, on y trouve toujours du bon journalisme car la structure de propriété n’est pas le seul critère pour juger la crédibilité.

En l’occurrence le WaPo reste très sérieux comme source.

Similar to: chough

It’s a type of bird but good luck knowing how to pronounce it. Ahh, English.

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A few years ago I considered learning Greek. Abandoned the plan because Greek has the triple whammy:

• quite a hard language, with tricky grammar and different alphabet (phonetics easy tho)
• only spoken in one small country - not very useful (tho good for general culture - 6% of English lexicon comes from Greek)
• the locals all speak English (coz tourism) so you’ll have trouble getting a chance to progress

So: good luck.

Rigth - and downvotes fixes it? This is lunacy and detrimental to discussion/sharing.

Thank you. But anecdotally, it seems there are few of us who think this. I still don’t understand why.

Really sad. Realistically, though, environmental protection will always come second to human development. To stop human-wildllife conflict, the only solution is poverty alleviation, healthcare, education. India’s progress here is too slow but it’s definitely happening.

Everyone who cares about privacy needs to have a response to this fallacy practiced and ready to go. The aim should be to convince skeptics that they too already have “things to hide”, or at least that they might show a bit of solidarity with the good guys who do.

Rhetorical questions can that be effective:

• Money: How much did you make last month? Oh! That’s private, right.
• Health: Would you be happy if your medical insurer could somehow get access to your browsing history? Hmm?
• Politics: So you really are an open book with nothing to hide! Fine. What about whistleblowers, investigative journalists, dissidents, etc? If we’re all shouting “I have nothing to hide - be my guest, spy on me!”, how effective do you think they’re going to be at holding the powerful to account - on our behalf?

The last argument is the really powerful one, but unfortunately it’s pretty hard to pull off.

Ce que tu es en train d’avancer, je suppose, derrière ce discours sur la statistique, c’est la théorie comme quoi la pollution parisienne vient non pas des bagnoles mais des autres sources diverses et variées. OK. Est-ce que tu es conducteur par hasard ?

Un lien peut être corrélation comme causation, tu vas bien le savoir.