They've been projecting their little movie privately worldwide. They showed it - again behind closed doors - to the french congress a few months back.

Half the time there are actual IDF soldiers well visible in these videos they look and act like they think they're at the beach or something, it's truly mind-boggling

What happens if Ansar Allah decides to launch like 10 Shahed drones at the same time / in the same tight window at a US military boat ?

Genuinely asking, these interceptor mechanisms must have an incoming throughput limit, right ?

Also and not to mention, IIRC some of those interceptor missiles cost a million+ bucks a piece. They can't have an unlimited number of them onboard.

Just look at this bastard. This is Macron's freshly appointed new prime minister; a long-time friend of the presidential couple. This is someone that of course went to the bourgeois private schools in Paris but also and funnier specifically filed papers when younger in order to be able to add his mother's noble particle ("de Couriss") to his name in order to, one assumes, feel like an authentic pre-French-revolution noble.

Anyway, that particular imbecile just did his first "general policy" speech in the French congress; in it:

• He very regularly expressed his desire to induce "respect of authority" among the young; saying insane shit like "I am convinced transmission of knowledge is only possible through deep respect for authority, and our republican values, and of course secularism" or "authority must be respected everywhere: in classrooms, in the family, in the streets".
• There's a thing in france called the RSA - it's not exactly basic income but it's what you can get when your unemployment runs out (with deeply horrible conditions and snooping that would deserve a comment of their own); recently those morons started an "experiment" in several regions where they force people receiving it to work 15 hours a week, unpaid, in order to keep receiving it. The bastard announced in the same speech they will now put that measure into effect country-wide soon, without waiting for the results of the cruel "experiment".
• There was also an intermediate help you could receive between unemployment running out and the thing I talked about above; they're removing it entirely
• He quickly said that in the context of climate change, "degrowth would never be acceptable because it would destroy our incredibly generous welfare system", basically; more generally the economics stuff was basically your usual neoliberal software, except taken to eleven.

And the same awful bastard is rumored to be, on top of Macron's puppet, his planned successor (him not being able to run again due to term limits).

From the "fucking horrifying news" section, several LGBTQ+ support nonprofits here have recently revealed that France has now started discreetly keeping a registry of trans people (article is in French, sorry).

They're alimenting it by snooping on the civil process that allows one to change their gender officially; and it's specifically aimed at being accessed by cops - and transphobia is unsurprisingly rampant among police in France.

One of the multiple lemmy newcomers that defederated from us; in their admins' words, because we apparently "deny certain genocides".

@suspended@lemmy.ml what "genocides" would those be exactly ?

literally lmao

Like the school year started three days ago here in and there have now been several examples of "abaya" dresses being stopped despite not "being abayas"; and the reverse as well (and of course there would be; they're fucking casual dresses, I'm fairly certain you'd get a different answer on whether one is or isn't even from fucking textile experts or something). Often with the deciding factor being the color of the skin of the person wearing it.

The whole thing is a racist trip; along with a sadly common recurrent theme in french politics to divert the national attention when other shit is going on

I'm French and actually he's bang on the money, it's entirely about racism under the bullshit cover of "secularity"

"die anyways" ? how so ?

Exactly; this just needed an emulator like goldberg

Bethesda games usually don't go for heavy DRM stuff (beyond the basic steam DRM), because it impairs modding (especially injection / nonofficial modding, stuff like SKSE for skyrim)

intentionally keeping the standard of living of the working class that low

Let's see:

Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million

China’s battle against poverty has benefited the largest number of people in human history

That truly sounds like hell

please let me know when yall start burning cop cars and court houses and shit

That's not the example I'd have chosen honestly; more the mutual aid networks for example