Wait until they make it pay TV…

Is this when they spin the breast very fast and then glue on some counterweights?

A mention that the Robin used in the Top Gear episode was modified specifically so that it would tip over: the production added weights to the sides, installed different sized tires to create imbalance, and modified the differential to make it flip more easily.

The stability thing is entirely made up by that single top gear episode.

I genuinely don’t know what point you’re trying to make.

You agree that french workers have strong protections, and that these were achieved by their aggressive protests, so that’s not it…

Is it only about the effectiveness of recent protests?

Because the explanation for that seems fairly simple: €1 billion of business costs are very easily absorbed by today’s multinational corporations, but not so for a small local company, so the mega wealthy come out even stronger.

Huge multinationals need to be cut up by governments, like the robber barons they are, except that we’re in such a globalised economy that no country wants to shoot itself in the foot that hard, hence the current downfall.

My hope for Europe is that trump eventually pushes so hard that we outright restrict market access to the likes of Amazon, Microsoft etc, and put in place a system that prevents any one company from obtaining such huge shares.

In the meantime, I’ll protest.

Nah, bullshit.

France has stronger worker protections, shorter work hours and far lower persistent unemployment than Spain, saying that they do worse than Spanish is, at the very least, highly debatable.

True that Spain also has a very active protest culture, more centered in collective bargaining and less propensity to catch things on fire. That doesn’t make either more effective on its own, they do what works for them.

Quoted, you:

I don’t remember the last time when French riots ended with any concessions from the government.

Well now you do, and that’s a whole of a lot more than what most of the world, and especially Americans, do when they get fucked in the ass by the pedoelite.

Also, you’re deluded if you don’t see how the riots and public protests feed the opposition and gives them the ammo to shut down the government.

Of course Bayrou’s was a wimpy government, it was like Macron’s 7th attempt or something, but do you have any doubt that they’d have cut the 2 holidays and pensions and healthcare if people didn’t come out as they did against it? And the next guy who thinks to propose the same will hopefully not have such a short memory.

Are you being sarcastic or ignorant? I legitimately can’t tell. I’m low on time so I’ll only cover recent events:

2025: then PM Bayrou proposed massive budget cuts to pensions, welfare, and cutting 2 holidays for the sake of “productivity”. Massive uprisings across the country “Bloquons Tout” (Block Everything), government collapsed.

2024: Tractor blockades around Paris (“Siege of Paris”) and across the country forced the government to drop the planned phase-out of the diesel fuel tax break, provide €400 million in emergency aid and announce other concessions.

2018-19: the “Gilets jaunes” riots, weeks of protests including violence on the Champs-Élysées, caused by Macron’s pro-wealthy politicies (abolishing the “solidarity wealth tax” that applied to millionaires, or the “exit tax” letting them run away with their fortunes to tax havens, and several more), earning the nickname “Président des riches”. The riots forced an increase in minimum wages, scrapping of a fuel tax that would disproportionately tax the poor, tax relief for pensioners and other tax cuts that directly improved low-income families, etc.

You can go back and keep finding more and more examples of situations where ACTUALLY FIGHTING for your rights caused the money grabbing elite to actually stop in their tracks - for a while.

That’s just a campfire by french standards.

The second flush is the killer.

Especially when that first one has gone halfway down, and in your hubris, you’re certain that the now fully charged 2nd wave will clear away the nightsoil,

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If you made a homophobic gay guy forget that he’s gay, chances are he forgets he’s homophobic too and end up with just a guy.

Was gonna say that! AI is halfway there…

The GNU project has a page on it:

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/pronunciation.html

This is what we’d do because we were broke. If we had money we’d go to bars and stuff, but otherwise we’d ask the supermarket for free fish ice and buy beers, then filled the bathtub with them.

As people came over they’d go drop the booze in the tub and pick up a cold one.

Many fun nights, though finding people using your bed, not so much.

The article from BBC here.

Von der Leyen told the EU’s State of the Union address that the bloc and Canada “see the world with the same eyes”, including on topics ranging from AI, to climate change and geopolitics.

“And we have stood together: on Ukraine, on defence, on raw materials and on supply chains. But above all… Europe and Canada believe in democracy.”

The US has fallen, we need to stick together.

The specific type of bird represented in the picture is different, in that it does have live birth, so the joke works.

But it would still work regardless, because a joke doesn’t have to be scientifically accurate - it can play off the human tendency to anthropomorphize, so a “big bird with little birds inside it” can still be a mother instead of the logical explanation that it’s a predator, and this unexpected shift in view point (ruthless predator who just ate a bunch of babies, to the loving aspect of motherhood) is what makes it funny.

We’re overanalyzing this…

There’s a lot of that to go around, for sure.

Politicians have been relying on the “surely no sane person would vote for them” for way too long, instead of cutting down the capitalist overlords that rule the planet.

Guess what, looks like with enough money and astroturfing you can get anyone elected, and now we’re all fucked.

I was triggered by that statement too and about to throw a rant, but I think they mean it like “creating a webpage”, using stuff like wordpress and the like, because they’re an artist who wants to show off their portfolio or something.

There’s a lot of “DIY” that abstracts away the actual programming part, so others can just build what they need easily.

He has to be desperate for a new “supplier” after his BFF Epstein was suicided, maybe he’s thinking these morons fit the bill.

By all the same arguments that you could invoke to justify British colonization in the first place, assuming you’re not going for bullshit like “god gave our King that holy right”.

What no, I’m talking of the 1830s. The British came back and expelled the Argentinian settlement, and settled back in.

They came back because the Argentinians occupied it.

I see two different reasons for a claim for Argentina: that they settled when there was no permanent occupation, like the French and the British did originally, and that they inherited Spain’s claim (who purchased the French settlement) following their independence from Spain.

My post was mostly going for humour, but if we’re looking at it a bit seriously, England’s claim is a colonial one, a legacy from a bygone era. They will inevitably have to cede the islands.