To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can't be reprimanded if 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.
To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can’t be reprimanded if 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.
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.
I recently discovered Mubi 🇬🇧.
Based in London and founded by Efe Çakarel. Born in Izmir and educated at MIT, he was worried that american streamers were flooding the world with mass Hollywood crap while quality cinema struggled.
Mubi supports and distributes movies from around the world.
On their catalogue, you find some the best award winners from the Cannes Festival, the European Film Festival, the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival.
https://mubi.com/en/films?sort=popularity_quality_score
Netflix is like going to Pizza Hut.
Mubi is like eating at a Pizzeria owned by a Sicilian family.
People should never trust Apple
They slowed down their iPhones on purpose to encourage people to buy new ones.
If you want to see what ideology can do to a nation's elite, look at the United Kingdom today.
London isn't a global financial center because the British have special genes for money. London is a global finance center because the United Kingdom was the most powerful global empire that the world had ever seen.
Throughout history, the powerful nations scream "FREE TRADE, OPEN YOUR MARKETS. NOW !!!" because they are confident. They know that their big corporations can be unleashed on the small countries. At the peak of its power, the UK was the most free trade country in the world. In London, the UK elite were 100% confident their corporations could dominate the world. The Chinese try to resist? They don't want to accept our corporations ? We will make them open their market, whether they like or not.
For a long period, the US was actually a protectionist country.
Why did the entire US elite became a cheerleader of globalization after World War 2 ? Extreme confidence. They know that globalization means Coca-Cola, Starbucks Coffee, Amazon, Adobe, Boeing, Microsoft and Apple can be unleashed on the planet.
From Tokyo to Mumbai, from Montreal to Rio de Janeiro, from Mecca to Sydney. They want to see McDonalds and Starbucks everywhere. They want Amazon everywhere. They want Adobe Software and Microsoft Windows everywhere. They want to see Apple phones everywhere.
In recent years, the Chinese started to build sophisticated large corporations capable of threatening US dominance in fields like Pharma, Satellites, Chips, Robotics, Technology, Planes.
That's when the US elite really started to worry. Under the Biden administration, the americans tried to throw money at Intel and Boeing. They created a powerful wall to protect car corporations against BYD. Trump is just a symptom of the american panic, but he is crude and ignorant.
The British are no longer an empire. They are increasingly a small little country like many others. And like all small countries, they are fucked by corporate empires like Starbucks Coffee or Amazon
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-19967397
https://www.channel4.com/news/amazons-tax-bill-and-government-grants-revealed
Make absolutely no mistake. Going to Amazon is worse for the economy than going to a British-owned book store. Going to Starbucks is worse for the economy than going to a British-citizen owned coffee. Anyone telling you otherwise is taking you for a fool. In one case the money is leaving Britain and increasing the foreign deficit. In another case, the money is taxed and stays in Britain.
The London elites, still believe they run the British empire. They openly scream "We LOVE globalization, we LOVE free trade". These fools went as far as selling their critical water infrastructure to foreign investors and bragging about it ("Britain is open for business").
Now, Trump openly declared a trade war on them. The British Chancellor reacts by saying calls for buying British products are bad because it's against free trade.
That's what happens when you completely swallow your own bullshit.
American influence is the worst thing that ever happened to Canada.
Take for instance Opioids.
Canadians are now the second highest per capita users of opioids on the planet, only behind the USA.
Opioid sales in Canada have increased by +3000% since the 1980s.
https://www.mironline.ca/the-opioid-crisis-a-canadian-perspective/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31845436/
According to a recent study, Canadian and American doctors are 7 times more likely than European doctors to prescribe Opioids after a surgery:
How did it happen? English-Canada doctors go to conferences with their american colleagues. They liked them. They socialized. They trusted them.
"Wow, we are so similar haha"!
"It was nice attending this conference with you. See you next year !!"
Health Canada is also responsible for this disaster.
A number of studies have pointed out Health Canada’s failures to control the promotion of opioids in Canada, allowing Purdue to spread misinformation about OxyContin in particular and opioids in general
Based on little evidence, in 1996 Health Canada approved the drug for the management of moderate pain, ignored the risk of addiction, and allowed the statement in the product monograph that the risk of misuse is low. In addition, the product monograph provided no recommended maximum dose, allowing the drug to be marketed and prescribed with no upper dose limit.
It also took Health Canada more than ten years to revise misleading claims that appeared in the OxyContin product monograph
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10310031/
Again. Health Canada largely trusts the US FDA. They attend the same conferences every single year. They socialize. If the americans say something is safe, the Health Canada officials largely trust them.
The Opioid Mess is exactly what happens when you trust the most institutionally corrupt nation in the West because they sound friendly and speak English. Thank god Quebec doctors kept reading french newspapers and listening to french regulators. They largely avoided this Opioid plague.
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 :
https://www.ouest-france.fr/elections/presidentielle/presidentielle-pas-une-voix-pour-marine-le-pen-demande-jean-luc-melenchon-d46ece44-b8fd-11ec-bd14-a849d20f46a4
https://www.bfmtv.com/politique/elections/presidentielle/le-pen-et-macron-ne-sont-pas-equivalents-melenchon-ecrit-a-ses-soutiens-avant-le-second-tour_AN-202204130675.html