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I agree... but it all depend on the situation. For example, existing power grid, including conventional power plant can take 20% or 30% of intermittent power with close to no extra…

Security wise, a much more decentralize system have some big advantages... Yes managing intermittence have a cost, but battery is not the only solution out there. A good diversifie…

This asymmetry makes enforcement easier when it profits the landlord, and make enforcement more difficult when it benefits the tenant... Your reflection seems based on the idea tha…

Even if I am the owner of an apartment, I don't have the right to do a metal concert in my living room some Saturdays at 1 am... or don't have the right to paint my frontage the wa…

I am volunteering in an housing rights organization in France, and I am and have been tenant in a city with high price and housing shortage. There will always be many people taking…

1) If it is where you lived they always could be (and were) kicked out quickly (and it was not that simple in other situations) 2) Now the law changed and it is much easier and fas…

We have a lot of existing stuff ("political stuff" like cabron pricing, or "technological" stuff like double glazing or heat pump) that already make sense economically that we don'…

1) there are still trillions of "subsidies" (that includes some negative externalities)to fossil fuel each year according to IMF (IMF, not Greenpeace!). 2) Agents in the current sy…

Positive discrimination can see as racist, ok. (even if positive discrimination being here because of negative (generally unconscious) discrimination and because "diversity" is gen…

Do you agree the important negative (often unconscious, based on cognitive bias) discrimination against minorities is a problem for the country competitiveness ? (negatively discri…

that is one proxy

There is little ethics in politics and geopolitics. In US politics there are the Jews, the pro-Israel Lobby, and also part of the Evangelical Christian who strongly support Israel …

You do point some interesting points. Note that the issue in not the Nakba anymore. From memory Oslo was about giving to a demilitarize Palestinian state about 10% of the Palestine…

" The question is, what is so special about the Israeli/Palestine conflict that leads to these outsized protests? " - Jerusalem (and more globally Israel and Palestine) is holly fo…

Not sure you know what democracy is... Democracy is not just voting for your MP, it includes unions, strikes and collective agreement If Tesla agreed (like 99,9999% of companies) w…

We have a different sensibility when it comes to words ; for example I personally find Macron's "petites phrases" more problematic than Melenchon's ones, and I find both as good (b…

The main point here is that when you don't have the support of police and military at all, the risk for democracy is lower... when you have their support, it is easier to be more a…

1- Macron is known for his inflammatory and regular "petites phrases" (but often said more calmly than Melenchon), like "people who are success, and people who are nothing"... Some…

And important point I forgot, policeman (for sure) and army (I think) vote very predominantly for the far-right, and very little for Nupes.

--- Answer to your last post --- 1- To me " permanent outrage, inflammatory discourse, obstruction of debates, conflictualization of everything, exacerbating existing social tensio…

--- clarification and details of my initial point --- The starting point of this exchange is me saying that I can see Le Pen or Zemmour as a potentiel threat to the current French …

The fact is you don't know how will end up protest... And even when a protest end up damaging 1 mac donalds and 2 banks, most people are pacific protester... The question is how do…

In France, in most of the cases you don't need police officer for it, some people are willing to donage bank or fight with the police (especially after police overreacting, or bein…

Then you could not organize any "leftist" protest in France :-) Note that they do destroy stuff, they just don't call violence against people. And definitely don't turn in riot eve…

So we should forbid firefighter and farmer's union ? And all leftist union ? And we should forbid any protest where people using black block technique could agree with ?