France. Boarded-up shops in the middle of the city centre. H&M behind plywood. Homeless on the sidewalk. This is what they did to Europe. This is not progress. This is decline

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French presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Mélenchon has unveiled a left-wing political platform featuring radical promises of earlier retirement, shorter working hours and expanded government benefits ahead of the 2027 election.

The 75-year-old politician's proposals include:

•⁠ ⁠Lowering the retirement age from 64 to 60

•⁠ ⁠Increasing pensions

•⁠ ⁠Reducing the workweek to 32 hours

•⁠ ⁠Providing national health insurance covering 100% of medical costs

•⁠ ⁠Increasing housing benefits by 10%

•⁠ ⁠Introducing price controls on essential products

•⁠ ⁠Offering €1 meals to students

•⁠ ⁠Phasing out nuclear power

Mélenchon's France Unbowed is a major force on the French left, and he could emerge as a challenger to Marine Le Pen in the presidential election's second round.

With France's aging population and plummeting birth rates, who can guess how Mélenchon intends to deliver these promises?

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Two passenger jets almost COLLIDED MID-AIR shortly after taking off from LAX, with just 400 feet of vertical separation between them.

The incident occurred early yesterday morning when an Air France Airbus A350 made an unauthorized left turn, crossing into the flight path of an American Airlines Airbus heading to Dallas.

The two aircraft could collectively have been carrying more than 500 passengers.

Air traffic controllers spotted the developing danger and immediately instructed both pilots to turn away from each other, preventing a potentially catastrophic collision.

The Air France crew was subsequently questioned about its deviation from the assigned departure route.

Both aircraft continued safely to their destinations, with no injuries reported.

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Despite John Doyle and others claiming that demographic shifts sank Trump during the midterm, the midterm electorate was actually Whiter despite missing millions of Trump voters, which would’ve actually won the midterms for the GOP

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This should come as no surprise to anyone who knows even basic facts about fat and cholesterol in particular. The brain is the most cholesterol-rich organ in the body, something like 20% by weight. Reducing intake of cholesterol will obviously not benefit the brain

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Lyon, France

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A senior Iranian lawmaker warns that 8 MILLION Iranians face absolute poverty and malnutrition, while up to 50 MILLION struggle to afford basic necessities.

Ali Babai Karamani, chairman of parliament's social affairs committee, said many Iranians are being forced to work multiple jobs just to survive.

The news comes as Trump faces growing pressure following the midterms, pushing him toward a ceasefire with Iran rather than another military escalation.

With that pressure, and Iranians supposedly struggling, could we be getting close to a breakthrough?

The math lines up that way, at least...

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Marseille, France. A protester smashes a shop window. Then the other protesters turn on him and beat him in the street. This is not a protest anymore. This is mob rule. Everyone vs everyone

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New OLED degradation just dropped

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BTC is now in the recovery phase.

The bull market pump is yet to come.

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This is Pakistan. He is frying in oil that seems like it hasn't been changed in 4 years. It looks like motor oil. A tourist eats this and dies in 60 seconds

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I am attempting to explain why so many people experience a profound aversion to AI. I am referring to Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.

Freud developed a profound argument in "A Difficulty of Psychoanalysis" of 1917. In it, he writes, "that the general narcissism, the self-love of mankind, has so far experienced three severe impairments on the part of scientific research."

With these three illnesses he meant:

1) The cosmological upheaval – Copernicus: The Earth is not the center of the universe. Therefore, man can no longer consider his place of residence as the self-evident center of the world.

2) The biological illness – Darwin: Man comes from the animal kingdom and is related to other living organisms. He is not biologically outside of nature.

3) The psychological illness – psychoanalysis (Freud himself): The human being does not have complete access to his own soul life and does not fully control his drives. Much of what moves him remains unconscious to him, according to Freud.

For the third insult, Freud found a particularly memorable formulation. In his "Lectures on the Introduction to Psychoanalysis," also in 1916/17, he wrote that the ego is "not even master ... in its own house." There he also called it the "third and most sensitive insult."

In reference to Sigmund Freud, I assert that we are currently experiencing the fourth narcissistic phase, the fourth severe impairment:

Humans (have to) realize that they are not the most intelligent entity on Earth any longer. For a long time, it was believed that the species of human was superior to all other animals and unparalleled in its intelligence. However, humans have now created an intelligent entity that, in general, surpasses them in intelligence.

Unresolved human problems, like those in mathematics, are resolved by AI within a short time and the end of development is not in sight. Almost a Pavlovian reflex causes many people to react by claiming that "AI is at least not as creative as humans and could never be." They are greatly mistaken. It is also a psychological defense mechanism.

The admission of having created something that pushes humans off the throne of intelligence is therefore the fourth great malaise that I postulate in reference to Freud.

Also feels invited to discuss or disagree about it.

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Residents’ CCTV in Bois de Rombly shows gangs of migrants walking through their streets.

Thousands of illegal migrants walk through a sleepy village on way to UK. This is from a small village in Northern France. "They're like the walking dead"

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Nobody on this board wants a segregated neighbourhood. Each person only asks that at least 3 in 10 of their neighbours look like them. If not, they jump to an empty spot where that is true.

Then the colours pull apart into big blocks, and the average person ends up with about 3 in 4 neighbours like them, far more than anyone asked for.

Thomas Schelling showed this in 1971 with pennies and dimes on graph paper, and he shared the 2005 economics Nobel for work on how individual choices add up to patterns nobody chose. The lesson is that a pattern in the whole does not prove a wish in the parts.

In the second run each person asks for 5 in 10, and the blocks are even sharper.

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