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Thank you so much. This means a lot to me.
I come from a third world country with tremendous inequality. I was born in the most privileged classes.
In my country, poor people who don’t pay a lot of money die like DOGS in hospitals. Private hospitals don’t hesitate to overcharge sick people as much as they can. If you are not happy, they let you die. We have mostly free elections. But they are useless. Because most of the time, useless and ignorant politicians get elected. Very few people read investigative journalism. In fact, our newspapers are mostly dead. I’m one of the very few people trying to financially support quality journalism in my country.
I used to think our problems were specific. We are dumb. We are fools.
Our problems are actually surprisingly common. I lived in many nations around the world. I noticed that in some countries, some cities, politicians can achieve absolutely outstanding things for public health, labor rights, good transit. They can really take great decisions. And I noticed that in some rich countries, like the United States, incredibly dumb and corrupt politicians can get massive popular support. And ordinary people pay the price:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/10/inhaler-cost-death-optum-rx-walgreens/
My conclusion was simple. Everything stems from the ordinary people. In corrupt places, like my country, people don’t pay attention to politics. They don’t educate themselves about policies. They don’t read quality newspapers. Few people get involved in the community. As a result, they can be easily lied to by oligarchs.
In democracies that work great, like Denmark, you have ordinary people that educate themselves and actively get involved in their community. They support strong independent newspapers. They join community organizations pushing for change. They pay close attention to their MPs and their votes.
If my comment helps people pay closer attention to politics, then I would have achieved my goal.
The Dental Care Plan was part of the Political Agreement signed by Justin Trudeau and Jaghmet Singh. The other measures Justin Trudeau promised were Pharmacare and a law to protect striking workers against scabs. strike.
In exchange for these 3 laws, the NDP agreed to not bring-down the Trudeau Government :
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeu-jagmeet-singh-deal-government-1.6393021
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dental-care-ndp-jagneet-singh-analysis-wherry-1.6797866
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anti-scab-labour-federally-regulated-workplaces-1.7023020
I have my fair share of criticism with Jagmeet Singh. But I’m happy about what the NDP MPs achieved. Politics can be very ungrateful and brutal. Most Canadians may not be aware of it, but you made Canada a better country.
**What now ? **
This month, for the first time, the Dental Care Plan is expanding.
Pharmacare was created. The hard thing is going to be managing these 2 plans properly. It will require honest and determined leadership. I think Mark Carney will try to capitalize on them.
Libé est devenu l’organe de propagande de Kretinsky
Voila un peu ce que je dénonce. Une inquiétude parfaitement légitime (l’influence de l’argent sur la vie médiatique) qui se transforme en du pur complotisme (“Kretinsky veut que les journalistes de Libé détruisent la gauche”).
1. Daniel Kretinsky n’est pas un actionnaire de Libération.
2. Libération n’est pas une poubelle comme Cnews. Libération emploie de vrais journalistes, qui ont une vraie formation de journaliste, et qui sont dotés de cartes de presse.
3. Le directeur de la rédaction de Libération est obligatoirement élu par les journalistes. C’est inscrit dans les statuts du journal. C’est très rare en France.
4. Libération a gagné l’immense majorité de ses procès en diffamation
5. Ces dernières années, Libération a sorti des affaires véritablement hallucinantes :
0·15 days agoTo do list for Mark Carney:
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Encourage all Government Agencies to switch to Linux. It’s completely ridiculous that millions of dollars of taxpayer money are wasted every year on Microsoft licenses. The French Gendarmerie switched to Linux and they never went back to Windows. They saved millions. Money that they can spend on actual policing.
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Create a Canadian fund to encourage Open Source Software. A $10 million fund would not be much money, but it could help open source software a lot. Even $100 000 could help Kdenlive or Krita fight Adobe. Too many Canadian artists and Canadian production companies are exploited by Adobe.
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Ban foreigners from owning more than 40% of any Canadian media outlet. It’s absolutely sickening that an american hedge fund (Chatham Asset Management) currently owns 25 canadian newspapers
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Reduce the immigration rate. Justin Trudeau did a lot of good things, but immigration was one of 2 biggest failures. Under his leadership, the population increased by 3% a year. The Canadian population increase twice as fast as the population of Mexico, Brazil, Spain, the United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia. Canada should aim for 2% population growth instead of 3%. Also, don’t concentrate people in a single place. It’s wrong to have a 4% population growth in Toronto and 0.5% elsewhere.
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Improve the voting system. This was the second biggest failure of Justin Trudeau. The First-Past-The-Post voting system is just flawed. It is basically designed to create two very powerful political parties, at the expense of pluralism. FPTP is the reason why the US is stuck with only two parties.
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I’m not Australian. I don’t know much about Australian politics.
However, I know that Australians drive some of the biggest cars in the world. Car companies just manufacture huge SUVs and sell them to the Australian, thinking “these dumb fucks will buy them”.
I know Anthony Albanese wants to encourage fuel efficiency. Which is a very good policy. I just don’t understand why the other guy wants to get rid of fuel efficiency rules.
Lack of fuel efficiency rules is the main reason why American cars consume so much oil compared to European cars.
0·15 days agoHow are Boeing planes?
After multiple plane crashes and 700 deaths, the CEO was rewarded with $33 million dollars:
If you crash several planes in China, you face death penalty.
Recently, a factory exploded in Tianjin. Everyone was hanged. The owner of the factory, the manager of the factory, the safety inspectors of the factory. That’s their quality insurance system.
Some of his ideas, like defunding CBC, are foolish.
I don’t think Pierre Poilievre is a Nazi. Statements like that are unhelpful.
Fair enough.
I think hardware companies should make money selling devices. They should be banned from jailing their users in a locked proprietary ecosystem.
The Xbox doesn’t have the majority of the gaming market.
The smartphone market is basically a duopoly.
Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft.
Imagine if Microsoft required all Software developers to give them 30% of the money they earn.
This is nothing but pure extortion.
Opening up app stores gives users choices. If you want to pay a 30% up charge for the privilege of having Apple take your money instead of, say, Stripe, be my guest. But no hardware manufacturer should have the right to jail users.
Installing Linux was a good decision.
I have not gone back to Microsoft Windows.
Don’t listen to people telling you it’s hard. I don’t have an IT degree or engineering degree. Installing it was easy. Linux is elegant, secure and powerful. I love it.
Je n’aime pas Emmanuel Macron. C’est un type arrogant et qui a fait un certain nombre de grosses conneries. Mais il n’est pas pour autant d’extrême droite.
Laisser croire que Macron = Marine Lepen, c’est n’importe quoi.
Tiens c’est pour toi :
La principale différence entre toi et moi, c’est que je fais au moins l’effort de lire le contenu que je poste… Tu te contente de poster des liens sans même prendre le temps de le consulter.
Ton premier lien porte entièrement sur le Rassemblement National.
Macron est d’extrême droite ?
C’est juste incroyable de lire des trucs pareils…
On sent les mecs qui ne savent rien de la Hongrie, de la Turquie ou de la Russie
To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can’t be reprimanded they use them.
This isn’t the French Prime Minister announcing the country will cancel Microsoft Office subscriptions and build a fund to support FOSS projects. Gimp has nowhere near the ressources they actually need.
Elle ment comme une arracheuse de dents.
On la voit sur cette photo avec plein de drapeaux russes derrière et photo noir et blanc de soldat soviétique ce qui correspond bien à la marche des immortels.
https://x.com/ChrisChassaigne/status/1922542784105378193/photo/2