In a repressive society where any deviance is suppressed, propaganda is any attitude that paints the deviant behaviour as acceptable. In this context, LGBT propaganda could be a picture of same-sex adults holdings hands looking like a normal thing to do. Or written posts that acknowledge the existence of sexual minorities in Russia.

Because it's not only that Russia doesn't want sexual minorities to have a expression in the public, reserving sexual behaviours to the private space; Russia thinks gays are so bad (and Russia so great) that there can't possibly be gays in Russia, other than through the corruption of the West and their propaganda. And therefore anything that shows gays as an existing reality anywhere in the world is a propaganda attempt to corrupt Russian traditional values.

As an example: as I remember, at the time of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, someone questioned an official about gays visiting the Olympics, and the answer was something like "we don't have gays" [in Sochi, in Krasnodar, or in Russia, I'm not sure].

(I don't disagree on the moral part, but) the argument isn't even economically sensible. It's a knee-jerk reaction whenever a Court or regulatory decision is perceived to negatively affect a beloved MegaCorp. Economics tell companies to NOT pull out, follow the new regulation or Court decision and keep profiting. We get the BS "pull out" argument all the time here. This week in the news, Australia mandates age limitation to social media companies -- "Meta can pull out of Australia!", or everytime "EU mandates X to Apple". Pulling out never happens, because money talks.

France does not have a 2-party system. Effective number of parties is 4.33 for France (USA 1.95-2.00, UK 2.24, Netherlands 7.03) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There are currently 11 parties organised in 3 blocks at the French National Assembly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* Post-WWII, 2 parties were indeed often more important; but a third party was never absent; President Valery Giscard d'Estaing (1974-1981) was from a third party (FNRI, later UDF);
* The 2002 Presidential election saw a surprise increase of another third (FN, later RN), that stayed important as of today.
* Post-2010 the classical 2 parties (PS, LR) collapsed and new parties emerged. Macron initially ran for President as an independent (LREM, later RE).
* Currently the game is NFP (LFI+PC+Greens(+PS)) vs. RN+UDR vs. RE+Horizons(+LR).

The 5% threshold is not specifically German, it is widely used within European countries.

The technique above works for all your files. On my private computer I use clsync ( https://github.com/clsync/clsy... ) to sync my main SSD to a larger HDD (works like an heterogeneous RAID-1); then snapper ( http://snapper.io/ ) to take automatic snaphosts using btrfs-tools on the HDD. It takes hourly snapshots then deletes them to keep few daily, weekly or monthly. I find it useful to quickly recover when I mistakenly delete or modify a file.

I also find the similarities striking, but the Horseshoe Theory isn't currently considered accurate by academics. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I found this 1938 quote from Leon Trotsky enlightening: "To Hitler, liberalism and Marxism are twins because they ignore 'blood and honour'. To a democrat, fascism and Bolshevism are twins because they do not bow before universal suffrage"

Not everything is about competing on lowest price.

They are Augustinians, following the Rule of Saint Augustine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Augustine isn't as detailed as others as he did not intend to formally create an order, so Augustinian monasteries have some independence to decide their own rule. Augustinian principles include "detachment from the world", "silence".

On one side, Blessed Alix Le Clerc (1576-1622) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , Canonesse of Saint-Augustin of the Notre-Dame Congregation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... founded the girls' schools at Schloss Goldenstein https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (famous actress Romy Schneider was there pensioner 1949-1953). The congregation exists elsewhere https://cnd-csa.org/?lang=fr but Goldenstein isn't formally affiliated with them.

On the other side, Reichersberg Abbey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... are also Augustinian Canons.

Due to variations in Augustinian rules, the latter house might follow a stricter rule than the former.

I don't assert the existence of a conspiracy (powerful, evil, hidden group of people that pulls the strings). I am trying to figure out what's in the mind of one particular person. You could call that a "appeal to motive" (which I would fight as well, but I'd concede it's worthwhile to debate it). I clarify in another answer just above, but in short, I think the AF447 is necessarily present in the minds of the Airbus executives right now. Maybe its role is minor though.

I didn't mean it as a bad thing. I mean they evolved and are reacting faster than in the past. Not only Airbus, also the European regulators and the airlines.

The AF447 crash was a failure at several levels, including the EU governance. The reason a plane fell off the coast of Brazil and not above the USA is because the FAA had already declared those infamous old Pitot models unacceptable in their airspace, while the EASA had not made any decision. Air France was happily using the affected planes in the EU and any other non-USA routes, while sparingly changing the probes when pilots reported an incident. Which was pretty stupid of them, as there is no connection between a reported incident and the need to change the probes; the probes needed to be changed due to an antiquated design that did not perform well in stormy weather, which could happen any day on any route Air France normally operates.

I don't mean a conspiracy but increased accountability. Considering the CEO is about to testify in Court in a case of unreliable hardware that caused altitude loss in 2009 and at the same time he hears babies were wounded in a case of unreliable hardware causing altitude loss right now in 2025, it is likely a thought came through his mind that goes "not that shit again".

And it's good that this thought went into his mind; whether the thought was caused by fears for his personal bonus, the fear of the wrath of justice, or genuine worry for the well-being of his passengers (or a combination of those) is absolutely his freedom of thought and not my concern.

Not possible if you plan to use the phone for serious things e.g. using a bank or government apps. You can root / burn ROM in the phone you use for browsing and communicating but you need a pristine phone for mandated apps.

Entire timeline is 4 weeks.
* October 30, 2025, JBU1230 Cancun-Newark aircraft N605JB is diverted to Miami after unexpectedly losing altitude.
* November 28, 2025: Emergency Airworthiness Directive

A context note is that Airbus and Air France right now in an appeal trial for the AF447 crash (Rio de Janeiro - Paris) from 2009. Prosecution appealed a previous dismissal is arguing that "Airbus underestimated the risk of Pitot probe icing" and that Air France "failed to ensure quick enough replacement of suspect probes" https://aerospaceglobalnews.co...

Airbus now wants to give impression they are not underestimating any hardware risks and taking quick measures. Maybe they're thinking it could help them avoid sentencing for involuntary manslaughter.

India is an above-average democracy, though its ranking varies a lot, and a number of commentators have criticised a recent erosion of democracy. Apple has a say, and used it days ago in a slightly different case https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

Ranking of India in Democracy indexes:
* The Economist: #41, 7.29/10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (USA #28, 7.85/10)
* V-Dem institute: #105 0.398/1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (USA #19, 0.84/1)

Quick search on keywords "India democracy erosion"
* https://www.journalofdemocracy...
* https://ippr-journal.com/india...
* https://www.fairplanet.org/edi...
* https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/empt...

There is a difference between a political opinion and a place of birth.

With another Russian candidate interviewed in my story, the HR person asked "how long he would need to get a visa in the current geopolitical context". Answer was something on the line: don't worry it's just an SMO all will be back to normal soon. Well then Mr. supporter of Putin, the job is not for you. While the former, the Physics Professor uncomfortable to elaborate why he needed another country real quick, got a job with us.