Le souci c’est que “la gauche” 'n’existe pas. Il y en a au moins deux, avec des priorités et des valeurs plus irréconciliables qu’à jamais. Donc cette hypothétique unité ne pourra jamais être que de façade, avec un destin tout aussi prévisible que celui du NFP actuel.

Besides evidence (what you see in front of you), there’s also reason (what you can deduce from first principles).

I’d say the key concept of science is that knowledge can be built upon. That there is not yet an answer to every question. That you can say “We don’t know but we’re working on it”. This was absolutely revolutionary in human affairs.

Perhaps AI could be used to rewrite this post so that it makes sense.

Yep. Pathetic and embarrassing.

Conversely, as I just learned with surprise from an episode of The Ancients podcast, homo erectus seems to have been somewhat carnivorous for a period of a million or so years.

But sure, the primate family and related rodents and lagomorphs are generally herbivorous.

Just that photo I find hard to look at.

That’s certainly an oddly optimistic take in this neighborhood.

Unless you mean space exploration, which I personally think is a delusional distraction.

that could be because it is an AMAZING post – it covered all the points and no one has anything left to say

Finally, I know why.

Synopsis:

This constant tinkering with the genetics and reproductive systems of farmed animals has enabled the livestock industry to squeeze more food out of each animal and make meat, milk, and eggs cheaper, thereby increasing consumption of these foods — a vicious cycle that has led to animal suffering on an unfathomable scale.

NB: Vox is the only big publication that covers this subject regularly. Consider subscribing if you can afford it.

Voilà. Je le vois comme ça aussi. Il y a tellement de pessimisme aujourd’hui et ça se comprend. Mais le cynisme est corrosif, et si tout le monde devient nihiliste ça ne fera qu’empirer la situation déjà mauvaise. Cette idée me taraude pas mal pour tout dire.

Et donc en conversation je cite souvent cette bonne nouvelle, parce que ça ne concerne pas que Paris. Le changement dans certaines villes chinoises est encore plus impressionnant, je parle d’expérience. Dans tous les pays développés, même les USA, les villes deviennent beaucoup plus vivables, suivant l’évolution des valeurs et de technologie. Et comme le monde s’urbanise rapidement depuis des décennies, on peut s’attendre à ce que des milliards de gens bénéficient un jour des ces changements positifs.

Bref, c’est une bonne nouvelle qu’il ne faut pas hésiter à propager pour contrer le pessimisme ambient.

Is not really a showerthought and flagrantly breaks rule #6 #3. Put this elsewhere.

Occasionally the showerthoughts here reach the quality level of the R-site.

Sure, it’s fine. But if I’m only publishing text and photos, and I don’t need tons of specialized plugins, and I’m dealing with things myself - then personally I will go with a static-site generator every time. It’s at least as fast, and more secure by design.

Did not know that. Useful.

Full DB-driven monster for a few bytes of text. Sledgehammer to crack a nut if you ask me. But sure, this is the obvious answer.

Even more interesting IMO: what are the options that do not involve self-hosting (thus avoiding the PITA of babysitting a domain and server security)?

But surely the average Zuckerbook user is not so dumb as to miss what this graphic is describing - a crazy utopia where they could talk to people on TikTok and Xitter as well as Zuckerbook?

And then some of them learn that downvoting is obnoxious and toxic, while others never grow out of infancy.

Voilà. Et voilà le risque. Car à ce niveau de participation il en faudrait peu pour que les oppositions sabotent l’opération.

This is a just a style thing, EN-GB vs EN-US.