jaz, to France
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Alors...

🇫🇷 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #FRAvECo #FRAvSCO #FFRvALB @ Stade Geoffroy-Guichard

Both captains return as #France make 13 changes from last week's experimental side. #Scotland make 6 changes. The last ten matchups are five apiece, the maths says it could go either way but this is an ascendant France team on home soil. Les Bleus are in white ce soir.

Stadium is sold-out, weather's good, should be a great night for the fans.

@rugby #rugby #rugbaidh

Free_Press, to Ukraine
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Let's discuss this.

I understand Biden's point, but by stating that, doesn't he just give Putin incentive to keep the war going?

What are your thoughts? How can Biden better handle the situation?

US President Joe Biden said that Ukraine is not ready for NATO membership. The war must end before the Alliance can consider the inclusion of Ukraine in its ranks.

jwildeboer, (edited ) to France
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: "Mais oui, we will offer booster to everyone, come and get it!"

"Hello. Ve will only boost ze humans that are older than 60 or that have some risk that is up to your doctor to decide. Everyone else: good luck and maybe get those homeopathic sugar thingies!"

SebastianRycuWalczak, to France Polish
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Liberałowie srają się o protesty we Francji.

A wystarczyło zamknąć policjanta mordercę i protesty cichną.

Gdyby nie zamieszki to pewnie dziś by był wolny, a władza by czekała aż sprawa ucichnie.

Libki również nie kumają że te zamieszki to nie sprawa wyłącznie jednego morderstwa.

Morderstwo było jedynie iskrą, która upadła na "proch" systemowego rasizmu, postkolonializmu i braku wsparcia państwa dla grup ludzi z byłych kolonii.

Robienie wokoło tej sytuacji nagonki na uchodźców to zwykle skurwysyństwo.

GottaLaff, to France
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AFP —#France to make #abortion rights 'irreversible': Macron

menelion, to France
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Basically that's it, folks. My work at #InterNations ended today, my apartment in Mannheim is returned to the landlord. There are of course some things to do in Germany (mostly give them money of course), but that's already it. Officially goodbye, Germany. Bonjour, #France!

dukepaaron, to France
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This is tragic and unsurprising. I worry this is the path we're on now in the diaspora.

"Klarsfeld, one of #France's most prominent #Jews, has begun to gravitate towards the same party he once shunned, the far-right RN, or National Rally led by Marine Le Pen. It's a fascinating, but disturbing transformation, informed most likely by the adage that the "enemy of my enemy is my friend."

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-12-20/ty-article-opinion/.premium/why-frances-most-famous-nazi-hunting-jew-is-now-embracing-the-far-right/0000018c-86ab-dd61-a3ad-c6efcc260000

erinwhalen, to sustainability

I missed this last month: France has launched an initiative to reduce textile waste by paying people to repair their clothes instead of throwing them out.

Starting October, people will be able to claim between €6 and €25 of the cost of mending clothes and shoes. The money will come from a €154 million fund and is meant to support businesses in offering more apparel repair services.

Cool stuff! 🧵🪡

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/12/stitch-in-time-france-to-help-pay-for-clothes-to-be-mended-to-cut-waste


#sustainability #fashion #waste #environment #france #repair

kravietz, to Germany
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Complexity of building electricity grid based on #renewables is probably best illustrated on days like this in #Germany^1:

  • instantaneous electricity consumption is 67 GW
  • Germany has 66 GW in wind, but it’s merely potential output if there was wind - and there’s now enough wind to produce 3.8 GW satisfying 5.67% of the demand
  • Germany also has 69 GW in PV, but same story here - there’s enough light to produce 5.3 GW (7.74%)

Note that each of these, wind and PV, have installed capacity alone exceeding the current demand! But installed capacity isn’t much worth when it doesn’t produce any electricity. Statistically that’s the case with wind and PV most of the time (capacity factor <50%)🤷 I think this gives you some idea about the feasibility of postulates such as “we just need to build more renewables!”

Now let’s factor in time. Watt is the unit of instantaneous power, how much the country uses electricity right now. At this load (66 GW) to survive one hour Germany needs 66 GWh (unit of amount of electricity). Lower than that, and you need to start switching off factories, electricity supply to houses, trains, hospitals etc.

Germany, like most of us, is not ready for these consequences of variability of renewables. And this is the sole reason why it runs on gas and coal, including lignite, the dirtiest form of coal: these can be switched on and off whenever needed (they are dispatchable).

Of course, there are other dispatchable sources of electricity which are also as safe and low-carbon as renewables, such as #nuclear (see #France for comparison)^2. However, Germany governments in the course of #Energiewende decided that 0.03 deaths/1 TWh (nuclear)^3 is too much and instead chose to switch to 24.6 deaths/1 TWh (coal) as the dispatchable source.^4

Of course, there are days when wind and PV perform much better so would electricity storage help? Let’s take the 66 GWh hourly consumption: there was much talk about how battery storage is going to fix the whole variability of renewables. ElectricityMaps doesn’t show the total capacity (GWh) of available batteries directly, but it can be somewhat estimated from 30 days average (at the bottom)^1.

Over the last 30 days German batteries supplied 1 TWh to the grid, which makes ~53 GWh per day, which makes ~2 GWh per hour. While we don’t know their total capacity to estimate maximum period they could keep the country running, that’s still 30x less than the hourly consumption. A very rough guess, the battery farms built in Germany in over a decade (Energiewende started in 2011) could power the country for around 2 minutes.

I guess from now on you can make your extrapolations and assess the feasibility of statements like “we just need to build some more storage!”

ElectricityMap data for France

snoopy, (edited ) to France

[Covid] Non, le Covid n'est pas une peluche.

https://eldritch.cafe/@jor/110921862954460640
Une synthèse claire et concise sur la situation actuelle avec le Coronavirus, rédigée par @jor.
Bonne lecture :)

Extrait :

Le covid n’a jamais disparu, malgré la désinformation et le déni - Autodéfense sanitaire

Non le covid ne « revient » pas. Il n’est jamais parti.

Depuis des mois, voire des années maintenant, on nous sert un discours comme quoi le covid serait devenu « bénin », un « simple rhume » (depuis Omicron au moins, qui a pourtant énormément tué : plus de 38 000 décès directs (officiels) en France rien qu’en 2022, sans compter tous les décès indirects).

À titre de comparaison : les accidents de la route tuent environ 3 000 personnes par an ! Douze fois moins que le covid « bénin » en 2022 ! Le terrorisme, qui fait régulièrement la Une et sert de prétexte à des mesures toujours plus liberticides, a tué en moyenne une vingtaine de personnes par an (sur la dernière décennie), mille cinq cent fois moins que le covid en 2022 !

Aujourd’hui on nous explique que le covid « c’est fini » (depuis au moins mars 2023), alors que les patients covid continuent de représenter 10 % des personnes hospitalisées, malgré qu’on soit dans un creux entre deux « vagues » !

Tout va bien, dormez braves gens !
Lire la suite

@france #covid19 #france

glynmoody, to ai
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

New French AI Copyright Law Would Effectively Tax Companies, Enrich Collection Societies - https://www.techdirt.com/2023/10/24/new-french-ai-copyright-law-would-effectively-tax-ai-companies-enrich-collection-societies/ "new laws attempting to control digital technology that they rarely understand but definitely dislike"

xynthia, to France French

L’école peut-elle lutter seule contre les inégalités sociales?

@france
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/journaldecole/blog/110424/l-ecole-peut-elle-lutter-seule-contre-les-inegalites-sociales

Comment expliquer que l’École en tant qu’institution reproduit les inégalités sociales alors qu’à l’échelle individuelle des professeurs nous sommes nombreux à nous investir corps et âme dans la réussite des élèves?

#Ecole #Inegalite #France #EducationNationale

GottaLaff, to France
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We used to set good examples.

’s Senate on Wednesday adopted a bill meant to enshrine a woman’s right to an in the French Constitution, clearing a major hurdle for the legislation.

The measure was promised by President Emmanuel Macron following a rollback of abortion rights in court rulings in the US”
https://apnews.com/article/6e8cfc46d3fa4553c4d78e8a227f23b2

bullivant, to random

France is evacuating citizens from 41 countries. Ukraine is evacuating people from other countries including Georgia and Peru. Britain is only evacuating British citizens. Britain has shrunk so, so far in the world.

#Sudan #Ukraine #France #LittleEngland

w7voa, to apple
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#Apple says it'll issue a software update #for iPhone 12 users in #France after regulators there ordered the suspension of the phone's sale due to breaches of radiation exposure limits.

cerveauxnondisponibles, to Palestine French

Que nous disent les événements en Palestine sur l’évolution du champ politique français ?

Entre interdictions de manifestations, répression violente, propagande médiatique et un tapis rouge déroulé à l’extrême-droite, le traitement du mouvement de solidarité envers la Palestine nous en dit long sur la fascisation de la France.

#thread #Palestine #France #fascisme

BalooUriza, to France

This is the perfect car for commuting in #Tulsa. Too bad it's only available in #France. Is it fast? No, but that's not the point. It's top speed is nearly double the average traffic speed in Tulsa. Can it go far? No, but it'll get you to work and back on a single charge with enough left over to stop for groceries. Is it expensive? No, it's plastic to the point where the doors are unusually symmetrical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7tpbs-slcs

voixdunucleaire, to France French

🔴 La jeune militante suédoise pour le climat Ia Aanstoot demande à d’abandonner sa position antinucléaire dépassée.

Elle le dit avec d'autres jeunes militants 🇵🇱 🇸🇪 🇨🇵 🇫🇮 🇳🇱 : l’opposition anti-science de l'ONG à l’énergie nucléaire européenne sert les intérêts des énergies fossiles.

Au mois d'avril, Greenpeace a annoncé qu’elle ferait appel de la décision de la Commission européenne d’inclure l’énergie dans son système de classification de la finance durable, la fameuse , conçue comme un guide pour les investisseurs privés souhaitant financer des projets verts, et visant à dynamiser les investissements environnementaux.

Ia Aanstoot, qui a participé pendant trois ans au mouvement de grève des écoles du vendredi lancé par Greta Thunberg , déclare que la contestation juridique de Greenpeace sert les intérêts des combustibles fossiles plutôt que l'action climatique.

Avec des militants de cinq autres pays de l’Union européenne 🇪🇺, de , , , et des , elle lance la campagne "Dear Greenpeace" demandant à l’ONG d’abandonner son opposition anachronique et non scientifique à l’énergie nucléaire, et de se joindre à eux dans la lutte contre les combustibles fossiles.

Cette semaine, Aanstoot a soumis à la Cour de justice de l’ une demande pour devenir une "partie intéressée" dans la prochaine bataille juridique entre la Commission européenne et Greenpeace. Si le tribunal approuve la demande, elle et d’autres militants pourront témoigner en faveur de l’énergie nucléaire.

Ia Aanstoot fait valoir que plus d’un tiers de l’énergie bas-carbone de l’UE provient du nucléaire, et que la motion de Greenpeace visant à s’en débarrasser est donc nuisible aux efforts pour le .

"Greenpeace est coincé dans le passé et lutte contre une propre et bas-carbone alors que le monde brûle. Nous devons utiliser tous les outils disponibles pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique, et le nucléaire en fait partie. J’en ai assez de devoir me battre avec d'autres écologistes à ce sujet alors que nous devrions lutter ensemble contre les combustibles fossiles."

Une autre militante, Julia Gałosz, biologiste de 22 ans, témoigne également auprès du Guardian : "J’ai manifesté avec désarroi contre Greenpeace alors qu’ils faisaient campagne pour arrêter les réacteurs nucléaires allemands, ce qui a conduit au maintien du charbon en Allemagne. Aujourd’hui, ils veulent empêcher mon pays, la Pologne, de passer du charbon au nucléaire. Trop c'est trop."

"Aujourd'hui, je lance la campagne avec RePlanet demandant à Greenpeace d'abandonner son opposition à l'énergie nucléaire et de soutenir les jeunes pour assurer leur avenir." Ia Aanstoot sur Twitter : https://lnkd.in/eYHUjzed

Les Voix, représentées par Francois Jaffré dans l'équipe 🇪🇺 de Ia, se joignent pleinement à cette campagne.
👉 Signez la pétition deargreenpeace.org

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/29/young-climate-activist-tells-greenpeace-to-drop-old-fashioned-anti-nuclear-stance

Free_Press, (edited ) to Ukraine
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BREAKING NEWS!

Leonid Nevzlin:
"Putin is hiding in the bunker of his residence in Valdai.

His closest friends and associates also flew there.

The dictator is in a panic.

Additional troops advanced towards Valdai to protect him.

My sources just said this".

straphanger, to random
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"A jacked-up motorcycle in the middle of the night can easily wake up 10,000 people."

More cities in #France install "Méduse" anti-noise radars, which have 4 microphones, and a camera to automatically ticket vehicles that exceed a certain number of decibels

https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/la-baule-44500/la-baule-un-radar-antibruit-sur-le-front-de-mer-pour-faire-la-chasse-aux-vehicules-trop-bruyants-52854c3e-180a-11ed-92be-d940840fee51

jake4480, to punk
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#NowPlaying a fantastic trashy punk record from a couple years back. We had French metal earlier today, now it's French punk.

HOLESHOTS put out their self titled debut two years back and it's full of GREAT, scuzzy, catchy tunes.

https://pigmerecords.bandcamp.com/album/holeshots-debut-lp

#punk #PunkRock #FrenchBands #France #FrenchPunk #Holeshots #IndieMusic

GottaLaff, to France
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Credit Agricole, one of #France's biggest banks, announced Thursday it would no longer finance any new fossil fuel extraction projects, a day after delegates agreed the #COP28 climate deal—AFP #ClimateCrisis

GottaLaff, to France
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Hi GOP Fascist Party. We’ll defeat you and do the same.

The French National Assembly passed a historic bill on Tuesday that moves the country one step closer to enshrining the right to in its constitution.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/europe/france-abortion-rights-vote-intl/index.html?Date=20240130&Profile=cnnbrk

brunus, to punk French
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