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The article reads like the act of landing the drilling equipment in Greenland was in itself illegal. Not the same as drilling, and ofc IANAL, but still...

That's what's called a life cycle assessment and these are standard in products like this for a long time. If they came out negatively, you can be damn sure that the fossil fuel in…

Also no more limit on the cost they can bill you for providing the information. This can easily be 5 figures and isn't known before it's too late.

> price CO2 emissions at the actual cost of sucking the thing back out if the atmosphere This is the only relevant bit actually. The rest will follow from there. And in principle, …

I've been mapping out shops, their contacts, cuisines (for restaurants), opening hours etc in my area. It's a lot of work and much of the information will actually simply not be av…

well, I sure don't get to have access to all the pokémon data even if I ask very nicely, do I? I'd think that's a (related but important) difference

It's not just trains. You might have a look at this book that I can't recommend enough: https://www.leslibraires.fr/livre/24410316-quand-le-parisian... FWIW yes, TERs need much, mu…

Even people in some French cities don't get it. Here in Toulon (southern France, between Nice and Marseille) it's hard to get the point across. Lack of public transit, lackluster b…

Wow, the link to the petition is buried halfway down the page. How is this not part of the first visible content?

You're roughly describing Chromatone and their Muto method of notation: https://muto-method.com/en/index.html Sure, if path dependency was were not a thing, this might make more se…

Yep, I changed town a few years ago and my new social circles are mostly like that. Either it works right away without any further questions, or they'll not do it. Sadly, also if t…

check volts.wtf and notably these recent podcast episodes: https://www.volts.wtf/p/sooner-than-you-think-electricity https://www.volts.wtf/p/giving-clean-electricity-a-political

errr... so anything related to UGC now has a lower bound of 3-4 FTE? Sure, I'll hire a team of content moderators next time I think about putting a comment form under my blog...

You've clearly not been hanging out with French retirees.

I gave up on Google's language and region settings a long time ago, years before giving up on google as a product. To this day they still think I'm in Sweden sometimes, in Paris ot…

I task GPT/Claude with researching stuff that pertains to very specific cultural or legal aspects in French politics, on a daily basis. Even though French is a way more common lang…

Nothing opposes a setup like this to collective action. Given that most of modern technology or at least most of the internet is built to actively distract you as much as possible …

Hey, welcome on my favorite soapbox! That many people don't know what a file is, is most probably down to the very explicit war of one company, namely Apple, on the very concept of…

In a very similar situation to OP, this move totally broke a volunteer-run platform that allows (allowed...) users to report issues with bicycle lanes, missing racks, dangerous spo…

Thank you for explaining this! I've been feeling this on my girlfriend's macbook for years and I've always wondered what the hell that was. :D

My goodness, the only branch of work that I can think of where knowing something a few hours earlier is probably day trading also. Seriously, if you're working on anything worthwhi…

Seems like accidentally they uploaded a local development build of the HTML:

Personally, I cancelled my subscription the day that they announced there would be ads in ChatGPT. Not that I was surprised on that day. I find it kind of fascinating seeing people…

France as a whole is way too centralized on Paris and it's actually hurting the country. If you do read French, there is a very interesting book from 2024 (IIRC) about this. It's c…

Very sorry for drivers' inconvenience, but if they hadn't realized how bad SUVs are for health, climate, and basically anything that's going on in the city, then announcing it earl…