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New comment by lores in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

lores — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:04:47 +0000

The Traction Avant is a thing of beauty. Literally the only car I ever lusted after. Pure class, with a slight air of lawful evil.

New comment by lores in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

lores — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:06:51 +0000

I don't have any number on murder, but rape is a fantasy shared by 55% of Americans, women more than men, many/most of whom necessarily thinking about its logistics in at least some detail without ever doing anything to anyone non-consenting. On murder, the popularity of true crime media means many people enjoy thinking about motives and logistics. I don't think it's a small fraction.

New comment by lores in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

lores — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:39:50 +0000

I think the zero-risk approach common nowadays is insanely corrosive to democracy and freedom. If a million people fantasise about shooting the sheriff, and one ever goes on to do it, I don't believe avoiding it warrants creating an apparatus of mass surveillance. After all, if people were really serious about zero murder, the only practical solution would be to lock up everyone. Some (most?) tradeoffs have exponential costs at the limit and we/lawmakers should recognise that.

New comment by lores in "Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee"

lores — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:18:07 +0000

Nah. The first thing I saw when I walked out of Anchorage airport is a truck with a bumper sticker saying "my truck is worth more than your life."

Every bad thing in the US is a caricature of what caricatures were 50 years ago.

New comment by lores in "Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'"

lores — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:51:25 +0000

I like to tell people I grew up 10km from Canada, in northern France.

I admit I'm not a whole lot of fun.

New comment by lores in "Romania soccer introduces black card to 'combat abusive behaviour' from parents"

lores — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:10:56 +0000

Abandoned matches are reviewed by the relevant league, and depending on the reason and circumstances the match can be replayed, resumed, or adjudicated. When a side is judged to be at fault, the outcome is often a default 3-0 loss for them, on top of assorted punishments for the players/coaches/teams involved.

New comment by lores in "Mistral raises €3B"

lores — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:02:09 +0000

PPP the EU is also about 30 trillions, which is probably the better measure since we're comparing production for domestic purposes.

New comment by lores in "Flights cancelled at UK airports due to ATC issue"

lores — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:02:23 +0000

There's really very little you can do bar booking an alternative flight at great expense. If you're lucky and you know the delay in advance, at least you may have a chance to take the Elizabeth Line into town and go for a stroll. I'd count a fat hour to go from the terminal to, say, Paddington. It's a pretty area and there are excellent Persian restaurants around.

New comment by lores in "Mistral raises €3B"

lores — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:29:35 +0000

Or it would be gone. Or it would be in the hands of psychopaths. Europe trades off the extremes for a better middle. It doesn't produce quite as many big names, but US and EU economies are roughly the same size.

New comment by lores in "Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private"

lores — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:31:57 +0000

Yes, you're entirely right. One further, I was at a talk from a law professor at a big uni once, where he had printed the entire text of the Medicare bill on a giant pile of paper. He explained that it had taken him, a professor, several months full-time to understand everything at stake; what chance has a representative to do so, let alone on every bill? What chance has a voter? What does it mean for democracy that no one with decision powers understands what they decide?

New comment by lores in "Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private"

lores — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:25:26 +0000

"Educated" and "informed" aren't the same.

New comment by lores in "Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private"

lores — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:14:50 +0000

Democracy requires an informed electorate. Just having the right to vote isn't enough.

New comment by lores in "Anthropic candidates face blunt money question"

lores — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:02:21 +0000

That's a common belief, but that duty is not absolute and does not imply the executive must choose money over morals.

New comment by lores in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

lores — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:59:32 +0000

These conversations about EU regulations, bureaucracy or general slowness and carefulness contrasted to American ease of doing business and raising capital always make me think "but... look at the state of America! Is it really something to emulate?"

New comment by lores in "Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk"

lores — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:12:51 +0000

Oh, pretty sure journalists and headline writers are also well aware of it, if for no other reason that every comment thread must be mentioning it. Their incentives are just to publish trash and generate engagement, that's all.

New comment by lores in "Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk"

lores — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:05:38 +0000

But causation requires correlation. In general, I think it's unhelpful to point out something so basic to or about professional research, researchers are well aware of it.

New comment by lores in "UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August"

lores — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:06:29 +0000

It doesn't give you 25% a year, because you don't have your investment anymore (or most of it, if there is a second-hand market.) After the first year you'd have a -75% return, after the 5th you'd be at an effective annual 4.5%, after the 10th at an effective 9.5%.

It goes up from there, but it takes a while to become an investment better than alternatives. Inverters start failing after 10 years, too, and they're half the cost of a $400 setup, I believe.

New comment by lores in "Samsung chip workers will get an average $340k bonus as AI profits soar"

lores — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:49:46 +0000

The American propaganda machine has done a good job on Americans...

New comment by lores in "Brands got worse on purpose"

lores — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:55:31 +0000

In the immortal words of Ladré:

  Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira!
  Les aristocrates à la lanterne.
  Ah! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira!
  Les aristocrates on les pendra.
  Si on n’les pend pas
  On les rompra.
  Si on n’les rompt pas
  On les brûlera.

New comment by lores in "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"

lores — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:57:52 +0000

These convenient and cheap book/game/video platforms sure killed piracy. Now that piracy's gone forever, we can enshittify the whole thing again! At least I imagine that's how it went in the meeting of 35 year-old corporate suits.