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  • aligned with the far-right

    They didn’t release the victim’s name initially.

    Why?

    Because he was more than aligned. He marched with the groups. He did the salutes. He was at the front of the parades carrying flags. He was a known neo-nazi.

    I’m against violence. Stating facts is not condoning violence. Quentin was not an innocent choir boy, he was not ambushed in the manner that was originally reported, he was not left for dead; he refused to go to hospital after the fight and didn’t call the emergency services until some time later.









  • I live in France. One thing that comes to mind is hesitancy to report it due to parents not taking their children to hospital.

    The other thing is that there is a lot of pressure put on children starting in middle school.

    I teach at a business school and the students tell it like this:

    • growing up their parents sign them up for extra curriculars, usually 2 days a week;
    • starting middle school, they must cope with the joys of adolescence on top of extracurriculars and teachers telling them that the brevet is the most important thing ever;
    • the brevet is a test that helps determine their parcours, or education path;
    • getting into a good high school is very important for some students;
    • once arriving in high school they begin to prep for the final exams, the baccalauréat (the Bac);
    • there is a very poorly designed thing called Parcoursup that determines post-secondary education choices…

    Basically, students are told again and again that everything they do is the most important thing.

    Some of my students are still so traumatized that they cry if they get below 75% (15/20). To underline how things have changed, in 2006 (when I moved to France) students used to applaud each other for getting higher than 60% (12/20) but now everything is ranked. Add in hormones and social media and anxiety… Lots of burn out and depression.


  • On my personal computer I ended up using a terminal RSS reader (Newsboat) because the RSS software I tried before either rendered poorly or slowly and I would always end up reading the article in my browser. At least I can get through the feed fast. It also does podcasts and I set it up to deal with my YouTube subscriptions too.

    On my Android phone I use Capy Reader.

    There is no syncing between the devices.

    Like lots of folks post-Google Reader I tried a number of online and syncable readers, like Feedly. It turns out it isn’t a big deal of things aren’t synced.