Say what you want about tiktok but damn if it isn't extremely effective at sending information out of reach from governments, I don't know what it is. You can see they fear it hard.
Gendarmes are the police branch of the military (they're mostly present in rural areas and in elite teams like GIGN), we also have Police Nationale which is your standard popo and the Police Municipale which is local police for towns and city centers.
SYDNEY/PARIS, May 17 (Reuters) - French police reinforcements have started arriving in New Caledonia as part of a massive operation to regain control of the capital Noumea, the top French official in the Pacific island territory said on Friday....
I don't have all the details but I believe that the native population (the Kanak) managed to get an agreement a few decades ago to make sure only they could vote in their local elections. This was done and seen as an anti-colonial move.
Recently the French government, without a care in the world or of its word, decided to revert this agreement without actually consulting the ones mostly impacted by it, i.e. the Kanak, and allow residents to vote as well (you would need a 10 years residence in New Caledonia to be able to vote)
I believe there was a referendum about voting rights and independence but abstention was really high so the results are not very representative, and given that France doesn't give abstention/null voting any value, the government chose to ignore the population's actual feelings and do its own thing.
It's a pretty interesting move given the current context and the support France has given to Israel.
Yeah that's how I try to explain ADHD to neuro typical people. It's a lot of things that everyone has in some ways (poor attention span, executive dysfunction, working memory issues, rejection sensitivity, etc.), but in a nice package, cranked up to eleven (thousand).
It's not entirely accurate but it's good enough to make people understand what it is.
President Joe Biden on Saturday called Donald Trump “clearly unhinged” and claimed that “something snapped” in the former president after he lost the 2020 election....
One of the things that makes french pastry so good is the buttery taste. You can have good pastry without butter but it's definitely not on par with a proper butter croissant.
I haven't tried vegan butter yet, it's easier to find margarine around here, which tastes like ass most of the time. But I'd definitely give it a try if they manage to get the buttery taste without the suffering.
Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state’s second, sprawling airfield in its southern desert reaches “within the next 10 years” in a project worth nearly $35 billion, its ruler said Sunday. ...
It's a Palestinian baby that was born just moments before (or after, I don't remember) her mother died. And apparently she died too. It's just sad and awful...
For sure, but there are places in Germany and everywhere in Europe where you shouldn't be eating or drinking anything that comes out of the ground because of coal emissions, and places you can't do anything in because of the gigantic coal mines. And that's still currently happening and will keep happening for the foreseeable future.
A Louisiana man has been sentenced to decades in prison and physical castration after pleading guilty to raping a teenager, according to a news release from the region's district attorney. ...
Any punishment with no possibility of back pedaling should never be given. The chances of permanently harming a potentially innocent person are far too great.
Because he most likely won't be the last one to be given such a sentence. And some of them will probably undergo the castration. Which is cruel, pointless and not reversible.
Yeah he did, don't get me wrong this guy should go to jail. But imagine for a second he (or anyone else for that matter) was not actually guilty, and got convicted on a technicality or a judiciary error.
You would mutilate or kill someone and then absolve them of the crime if ever found out they were innocent, oh no you can't, because what happened is utterly irreversible. I mean, it's not like it ever happened before right?
The exercise of law shouldn't involve emotion, there is a reason why mob justice shouldn't be a thing.
Of course I would be upset and want the guy dead, mutilated or whatever if it involved someone close to me.
But that's the thing, dude's a monster, he should go to jail, and get psychiatric help and be rehabilitated to the best of his capability. If he's never safe enough to be a free man ever again that's fine, but in no way he should be killed or mutilated by the state.
But the point isn't about him specifically, if he gets such a sentence, it sets a precedent that a sentence like this is acceptable for a given crime. And that's unacceptable on many levels, a state should never have the power to kill or mutilate a person, for any reason, ever.
You can get out of jail, you cannot grow your balls back or be not dead. Jail damages society because of the way it's implemented, that's a political choice, but that's another argument.
Yeah, ruling in the favour of this would be a massive Pandora's box and I'm not sure the supreme court would want that at that moment. If Trump were President they would probably agree though.
System is Arch Linux. NTFS-3G is installed. I have had this problem on Gnome (Nautilus) and KDE (Dolphin). I already tried fixing it with Testdisk. No success. Any help is appreciated....
Disks mounted via your user are mounted differently than when you sudo or with root.
The driver needs FUSE support to allow you to mount it via your user.
ChatGPT is not conscious, it’s just a probability language model. What it says makes no sense to it and it has no sense of anything. That might change in the future but currently it’s not.
Brazil counts cost of worst-ever floods with little hope of waters receding soon ( www.theguardian.com )
Real men wear diapers ( www.snopes.com )
Louisiana becomes 1st state to require the Ten Commandments be posted in classrooms ( www.nola.com )
French Tiktok ban makes VPN usage soar in New Caledonia ( www.techradar.com )
Time for a CGI animation ( lemmy.world )
'Massive' French police deployment arrives to fight liberation forces in the colony in New Caledonia ( www.euractiv.com )
'Massive' French police deployment arrives to secure New Caledonia ( www.reuters.com )
SYDNEY/PARIS, May 17 (Reuters) - French police reinforcements have started arriving in New Caledonia as part of a massive operation to regain control of the capital Noumea, the top French official in the Pacific island territory said on Friday....
Old XKCD, still relevant ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
It's worse when there's a test involved afterwards ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Ship in Baltimore bridge collapse lost power hours before leaving port - report ( www.theguardian.com )
Cargo ship experienced electrical outage 10 hours before departing then lost power again before collision, preliminary report says...
UK Tory row to ignite over subsidies to wood-burning power stations | No more funding should be handed to biomass electricity until it can prove it does not worsen climate change, MPs say ( www.thetimes.co.uk )
Key context
Game: blouses. ( lemmy.world )
Biden calls Trump ‘unhinged’ and says ‘something snapped’ in former president after he lost 2020 election ( www.cnn.com )
President Joe Biden on Saturday called Donald Trump “clearly unhinged” and claimed that “something snapped” in the former president after he lost the 2020 election....
Gotta use all those brain cells ( sh.itjust.works )
Debian maintainer unilaterally strips KeepassXC package of a lot of features ( fosstodon.org )
Italy's falling birth rate is a crisis that's only getting worse ( www.euronews.com )
Italian welfare systems are already struggling to cope with the ageing of the population, and there is no consensus on what to do about it....
Every time Zionists call me an antisemite for speaking out against Israel ( lemmy.ml )
World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target ( www.theguardian.com )
Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds...
Imagination rule ( lemmy.world )
Alt text: Using AI is the coolest new way to let people know you have no imagination of your own
Mlem ( jlai.lu )
Princess Fluffybutt First of Her Name ( jlai.lu )
Why France is finding vegan croissants hard to stomach ( www.bbc.co.uk )
Which drugs have you used?
After contract, Southwest flight attendants now highest paid in industry ( sh.itjust.works )
https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/112368152131332805
Fox News is now claiming that young people are identifying as seasons. They made it up. ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Dubai plans to move its busy international airport to a $35 billion new facility within 10 years ( apnews.com )
Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state’s second, sprawling airfield in its southern desert reaches “within the next 10 years” in a project worth nearly $35 billion, its ruler said Sunday. ...
Saved from her dead mother's womb, baby Sabreen was laid to rest in a mournful and sometimes angry funeral ( www.nbcnews.com )
"Cruel and Insane": Republicans condemn Kristi Noem's dog-killing revelation ( www.salon.com )
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal—and why it won’t go back ( arstechnica.com )
Louisiana man sentenced to 50 years in prison, physical castration for raping teen ( www.cbsnews.com )
A Louisiana man has been sentenced to decades in prison and physical castration after pleading guilty to raping a teenager, according to a news release from the region's district attorney. ...
Italian party "Lega" will defend "cars" in the European parliment ( mastodon.uno )
Lega is far a far right populist Italian party....
Sanders hits back at Netanyahu: ‘It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable’ ( www.theguardian.com )
Trump v. United States: Can presidents get away with anything? ( www.brookings.edu )
Why can I only mount external disk via CLI? ["SOLVED"] ( lemmy.world )
System is Arch Linux. NTFS-3G is installed. I have had this problem on Gnome (Nautilus) and KDE (Dolphin). I already tried fixing it with Testdisk. No success. Any help is appreciated....
"I want to live forever in AI" ( lemmy.ml )
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14869314...
Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM
www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm...