I have two answers to give you.

• Flamanville is a new generation of reactor that we are testing out after regretfully stopping the large-scale production of reactors in France. Therefore the welding sector had been lacking work for 20 years, many retiring. The same issue goes for many other highly-specialized skills in the field. Americans had to be brought in to fill in for these positions, at high cost. So the left hadn’t been corrupted by Russia into being against nuclear power in the first place, Flamanville would like gone about as well as developing a fundamentally different design can. I will grant you, however, that this isn’t the design I would have liked to see deployed: France used to be developing the Phoénix and SuperPhénix fast neutron reactors until protesters made them stop. These kinds of reactors are cleaner, more fuel-efficient (by several orders of magnitude!), some variants can even consume previous nuclear waste, although I don’t think these two French designs could. These would have been wonderful to have access to. Russia and China have already developed these designs, in large parts with our researchers when they lost their jobs, and we’ll eventually just buy them from them again. Nice plan.

• What would you replace these with? Batteries? Once again? Coal? Renewables? How would you deal when, all over Europe, every winter, there are weeks on end with next to no wind nor sun? Should we create new mountain ranges and rivers to store more energy hydraulically? Shift demand? Nuclear is the worst system except for all the others.

At framework, only the desktop and the 13 offer Ryzen AI options.

That said, my 16 is plenty powerful enough.

What do you mean? The cost of an old nuclear reactors’ MWh is 40-50€, that’s really competitive.

And unlike solar and wind, it produces anytime. As a French person, not only do I think we were right to build them in the first place, I’m annoyed we stopped in the 2000s after the Chernobyl scare campaign, it’s safer than Germany’s coal, which also produces radioactive waste and isn’t properly regulated, unlike nuclear.

There is such a thing as properly insulated apartments (eerily so, btw, I’ve been impressed)

You can do so much with modern CSS tho

They’re gonna have a difficult upcoming few weeks, I wish them strength…

Now it’s time to clean up the other thousands of elected officials corrupting the French political sphere…

Source: I’m a local

You’re right… I fixed it.

The original conservatives were in De Gaulle’s party, which was ferociously anti-nazi.

Although, naturally, as a conservative party they’re now talking about immigration, restricting liberties and the like…

Still a far cry from what Le Pen is up to.

She’s not your average conservative. She’s an actual fascist – linked with Orbán, Trump, Meloni, received millions from Putin, and her party was formed by and still includes numerous nazis, regardless of her rebranding efforts. This goes both for the founding members and the current recruits.

This is the way!

I had no idea! I’ll keep reading reporting on the elections, that bastard has ruined European politics long enough now.

Given how many voting cards Orbán gave to non-hungarian nationals, I’m not sure I would call Hungarian pollings élections anymore…

I do hope dearly he gets what’s coming for him, though.

A last point to consider is that the rafale is cheaper to operate than the F-35

Trump’s reverse-Kissinger is looking fire!