I hace no idea how serious a blow this is. Can anyone provide any sense of magnitude for these 264 000 tons of munitions? Like how big a chunk of total ammunition stockpile woukd this be? How big is it compared to current manufacturing rate?

Imo, the issue in your comment is not the fact that it might not be politcally correct - that's sounded kind of like a preemptive strawman.

It's that once more a body perceived as feminine is sexualized.
These people were protesting for their rights, not hoping to be ogled and commented upon by strangers on the internet.

Also, not everyone is attracted to the same traits in another person.

Macron is a POS.

This is only the start of his virtue signaling declarations with no intent to follow through to see if polls get good enough for him to re-trigger legislative elections.
He fired the national representation and triggered legislatives elections in 2024, hoping to gain a better majority but ended up losing to the left.
He wants to try again, but he had to wait 1 year (because constitution) and that wait period comes to an end... in June.

Macron has learned a lesson from Trump: reality doesn't matter. He's been denying real, established facts and lying like no president before him for a few years now.
Don't mistake him for a good guy, he's just doing a tiny bit better than actual fascists.

Ps: it's 2025, maybe we could stop using "having balls" as an expression of courage?

I knew the comment was insensitive due to what it’s happening but I wanted to say it

I'm a bit surprised you don't seem to see what's wrong with this.
Would you mind explaining why you find it ok to write offensive things that are only tangentially related to the topic?

Yes I sexualize female bodies because I find them sexually attractive

What happens in your mind belongs to you and I'm not judging that.
On the other hand, posting it in a public place - especially commenting a news article about a fight for their rights - just adds to the societal misogynistic habit that it's ok to sexualize fem bodies anytime, anywhere and to care less about their message than the way we see them.

Downvote me, that’s why the mechanism is there

I don't feel like it's an appropriate response, I'd rather engage in the discussion for two reasons:

1. I might be able to get to you and change your mind a bit or you might have arguments that'll make me rethink my position, downvoting has no chance of getting us there
2. For the other people reading the comments here, seeing the discussion between us might help them understand the issue better and make their mind about it

In case someone went from windows in the 2000's to Linux in the 2020's and misses Winamp:

• reskinning a native Linux media player as Winamp
• installing the OG winamp on a windows compatibility layer (PlayOnLinux)

I had never envisioned spacex as a climate change activist company!

France here, our mainstream media is currently either billionaire-owned and pushing Trump and Musk admiration or publicly owned but influenced by our current government (Macron and co.) which does everything possible to cosy up to billionaires so they haven't yet (and probably never will) called Trump a fascist or Musk a neo-nazi.

You came and died in France during two world wars in the 20th century but I'm afraid France as a nation isn't gonna have your back in this timeline - except if we manage to elect a real-left government next time.

Good luck!

Been happy for a few years using EndeavourOS, arch-based newbie-friendly gaming-ready distribution. Also ships kde by default so might be something you want to look at ;)

And another time posturing, while afaik we didn't go back on saying that we were not going to arrest Netanyaou if he comes to visit France.
Macron's cronies virtue signaling while paving the way for the far right and fascism as usual.

Adhd?

Our current government is openly pro-israel and anti-palestinian, we're not gonna do squat.
They've been calling any criticism towars bibi and any palestinian support antisemitic for the past 2 years - and most of the billionaires-controlled media has happily done the same.
Even if soldiers are killed, it's gonna be labeled a communication incident or some shit.

I still believe there are democracies in America but the US of A aren't one of them.

Much more so than having a car-centric infrastructure. If you start cherry-picking you'll of course find cases where a car would have been more efficient but public transportation needs to be understood as a whole.

You know you do. And even more, because it's gonna be a cute kitty!

Fu -ish facts: bra is feminine, purse is masculine, mustache is feminine, boobs is masculine, dick is feminine, vagina is masculine, love is masculine when singular and feminine when plural.

Don't look for meaning or logic, our langiage is a clusterfuck (that ot transactivists have been working at it for centuries and doing a great job).

Have fun learning and remember no native speaker cares if you misgender an item, we usually find it funny and/or cute ;)

You seem to imply that we have to maintain the same decorum in anonymous online spaces as we do in real life.

I feel like here lies the root of our disagreement.
One one hand you are right, I do imply that there are similarities between anonymous online spaces and real life public spaces.
On of them is consequences: the people on the other side of the screen can be hurt by what we say as much as they would be if these things had been said to their face and this should make us be mindful of what we choose to write and what we keep for ourselves or only share with friends in private spaces.
On the other hand, you've been mentioning political correctness and decorum as reasons for which I would criticize your post. I don't feel like I'm big on either, be it online or IRL (as a vegan I've been politically incorrect and have lacked decorum in a online and IRL discussions and would do it again in the same circonstances). But to me, reinforcing the toxicity of a public space (online or IRL) for an oppressed category is never a good thing and I try to avoid it. As for why I believe your first post belongs in this catagory, I've explained it as clearly as I could in my previous answer and I don't think I can provide anything more.

When I’m online I can allow myself to be pure ego, because that’s the point of anonymity in the internet. I will continue to enjoy that as long as I can. Anything can be offensive to someone so I don’t worry too much about what is or isn’t offensive, especially so in anonymous online spaces.

Again, IMO focusing on the offensiveness is missing the point.
For example, were I to write FUCK YOU FOR MAKING LIFE HARDER FOR WOMEN IN AN ALREADY MISOGYNISTIC SOCIETY, that would be offensive to you. But I think it would still be ok because afaik we're both men talking about how to react to women's bodies and in this way neither of us belongs to a category that oppresses the other so I would not be reinforcing a toxic societal structure that makes your life and the one of people in your category harder.

To your second point. I think it is fine to sexualize all bodies, because we are sexual beings. [...] it’s perfectly fine to let your first judgement be sexual. It’s wired into us and to act otherwise is denying human nature and even animal nature itself

I don't fell like I can provide an educated enough answer to this, so what follows is just how I feel. I'm always very cautious when I read that stuff is part of human nature, or that it happens this way in nature... because of two reasons. First, lots of stuff has been said to be human nature for a time before being proven to be social conditioning. Second, it's an argument that is most of the time used to justify shitty behaviours, so...
I could offer the couter argument that in my opinion, the first judgement that happens in nature is "is this dangerous to me?" (source: none, but I also don't believe you can provide a better one for your point).

I think women should embrace it and do it to men in return. The reason women don’t is often decorum or some idea of how a woman should properly think and act

The reason is societal conditioning, which makes men behave as if women were mainly sexual objects and women behave as if their existence is conditioned by whether men find them attractive (based on criteria that change all the time). This is learned very soon in the childhood and reinforced by mainstream culture (think of the number of "romantic" comedies in which women that don't fit the current criteria for beauty are completely ignored by the man protagonist, of the number of movies that don't even pass the bechdel test...)

We can acknowledge and respect the person for who they are after we know them, but before that I think it’s perfectly fine to let your first judgement be sexual.

I'm again not trying to judge what happens in your mind, and your first judgement about someone you see or meet belongs to you alone. But I'm also saying that while we feel what we feel, we can still choose how we act. And we can take a bit of time to think about how our actions (and what we say or write) affects the individuals that receive them and in which societal dynamic they fit. And for me that's a better measure of respect than the vague impression that somewhere in our mind we respect the person. I usually respect the woman next to me in the street by not groping her ass or not making a loud comment about her cleavage, however attractive I might find them inside myself.

By no means does that mean that I reduce people simply to their sex appeal, rather that without anything else to go on, that will be my first thought. I mean I can assume a lot of things about this lady from where she is, what she’s doing, other parts of her appearance etc. But I would only be assuming. Her being hot is the only objective (her attractiveness is a fact, fite me) assessment of her I can make.

The problem here is that no one can know what happens in your mind. The only thing anyone can know objectively is how you act, and in this case what you write. And what you wrote was taking attention from an important fight to divert it to subjective bodily (not gonna fite you because that's not who I am, but I'm not gonna agree with you either) comments about perceived hotness.
So for all effects and purposes, independantly of what happens in your mind, you actually reduced this person to their sex appeal in a public space and I really don't think that is ok.

Thanks for taking part in this discussion in good faith. I'm going to stop here for two reasons. First, IMO we've both made our points and positions quite clear and I don't think we can provide further useful material. Second, I'm about to shout insults at you and I don't believe a productive discussion can happen after that.

So in a nutshell, I think humans better as monke and I allow myself to be monke online if I feel like it.

FUCK YOU FOR MAKING LIFE HARDER FOR WOMEN IN AN ALREADY MISOGYNISTIC SOCIETY AND IF YOU'RE SUCH A MONKEY GO EAT SOME FUCKING BANANAS IN A FUCKING TREE INSTEAD OF ACTING LIKE A SHITTY MAN THAT OBJECTIFIES WOMEN!!! (oops, looks like I'm lacking decorum)

To keep using your metaphor, when you have a severe fever due to an infection, you usually want to treat the fever because although it's a symptom it can hurt/kill you if left alone.

Having extremist/neo-nazis/fascist parties participate in the elections and maybe winning them (hello USA) makes it a lot more difficult to treat the root causes. The less space, means and influence they are given, the better.

This being said, I agree with you that once the dangerous symptom has been treated, we need to treat the root causes or the symptom is going to come back.

The people answering your requests are usually not the ones making the anti-consumer policies and they don't deserve abuse. Sending unsolicited porn material is abuse.
Please remember that customer service is often a shit job with a shit pay that people do because they need a job to afford rent and food and don't vent your frustration on them.

We still have DEI policies focusing on gender, disability and on socio-economic background (which does correlate with ethnicity in a lot of places). Of course in a lot of companies it's mostly for show, but in some it's done with a sincere will and has real effects.

Crosspost for crossfit?
I know where the exit is, don't worry.