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Was curious about those numbers and ended up reading this article, which was quite interesting : https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid

In short, i think the difference in death rate between covid and hantaviruses’ respiratory infections is probably smaller than 40 to 1 (though still presumably high). This is because (i suppose) both number are a ratio of confirmed death to confirmed cases. As the article points out, the number of confirmed cases can fluctuate depending on how much you test people : for covid, this kind of mortality rate (CFR) was higher at first because few people were tested. Once a lot of tests were made, it diminished. I guess (and from now on it is 100% my uneducated take) that the respiratory infections due to the Andes variant are not well tested, and the high mortality rate is partly due to the fact that it’s more likely to test people dying or nearing death because of it, than people who had less or no problems but got silently infected.

Still, had no idea death rates were that high, thanks for sharing this ! I’ll be more careful about this issue now.

Oh there seem to be some confusion here, my bad. My point was that PS (Socialist Party) is center-right, not LFI (which is left to my eyes and to most people excepting right wing fearmongers). I don’t know what you mean by communist supporters, if you mean people fighting for the worker’s rights outside of existing structures, then yes. If you mean leninist and derivatives, then not only : you’d have to include anarchists, libertarian marxists and close forms of revolutionary socialism.

Do you mean what makes the French Socialist Party a right-wing one? Support for neoliberalism, for worse working conditions, opposition to more democratic alternatives, taking their distances from actions led by common people (anti-cops protests, yellow jackets movments and more recently the 10th of September Block Everything action), etc. They are like living dead, both left and right at the same time : left in the official categories and alliances, right in their political orientation. They’re clearly not hard right conservatives, but they clearly are capitalists supporters.

Historians at least in France typically divide between left and far left as reformists and revolutionary. So they would be simple left. Just because the old school left parties now support right-wing policies should not make the whole political spectrum move to rhe right. Although right-wingers are playing this card right now in France, calling former leftists with neoliberal programs “left”, reformists “far left” and revolutionary “ultra left” (no joke) but this is outright manipulation and should precisely be avoided.

Shameless copy/paste of the main info if anyone wants to catch a glimpse without going to reddit :

Summary of events:

On 5 March 2026, a Wikimedia Foundation employee accidentally imported a malicious script to his account on Meta-Wiki while testing global API limits for user scripts (see his global.js page history). The malicious script was created in 2023 to attack two Russian-language alternative wiki projects, Wikireality and Cyclopedia. In 2024, user Ololoshka562 created a page on the Russian Wikipedia containing the script used in these attacks. The script, which had been sitting dormant on ruwiki for 1.5 years, then spread to several accounts on Meta, including WMFOffice, and mass-deleted pages in namespaces 0–3, leaving behind an edit summary of “Закрываем проект”, Russian for “Closing the project”. The staff member, as a global interface administrator, has permission to edit meta:MediaWiki:Common.js, which allowed the script to infect any user who visited Meta-Wiki while it was active. To prevent the script from spreading further, all Wikimedia projects were set to read-only for about 2 hours, and all user JavaScript was temporarily disabled.

Post from WMF staff member on Discord:

Hey all - as some of you have seen, we (WMF) were doing a security review of the behavior of user scripts, and unintentionally activated one that turned out to be malicious. That is what caused the page deletions you saw on the Meta log, which are getting cleaned up. We have no reason to believe any third-party entity was actively attacking us today, or that any permanent damage occurred or any breach of personal information.

We were doing this security review as part of an effort to limit the risks of exactly this kind of attack. The irony of us triggering this script while doing so is not lost on us, and we are sorry about the disruption. But the risks in this system are real. We are going to continue working on security protections for user scripts – in close consultation with the community, of course – to make this sort of thing much harder to happen in the future.

If i’m not mistaken, i vaguely remember some rule about how you cannot condemn an accomplice if you cannot condemn the culprit. Could be wrong though and maybe they can still be condamned for something else.

In the same sense, there recently was a disclosure of footages of this kind of camera during a massive protest in france, with thousands on each side. It was very violent, with two protesters into coma if i’m right. Turns out, police forces were told beforehand to “record to prove we’ve done nothing wrong”. The result is hours of footages of insults, illegal use of their gear, call to use lethal weapons, and pleasure of sending people to hospital, because those morons forgot to turn the cameras off when those happened.

+1. I ragequit windows when it reinstalled Teams during an OS update, just after i uninstalled it.

Wow the hexbear brigade really does not like the idea of non-tankies commies. Communists were there before Marx and Engels, some disagreed with them, and still do, and some that agree with Marx and Engels disagree with stalinism and maoism. Authoritarianism isn’t built in communism.

What’s the difference between hug and cuddle? My frenchie ass always thought they were the same

Interesting numbers for people who dont wanna read :

• on all the new contributors they taught, only ~5% were flagged by the AI detection tool.
• on the AI flagged articles, only 7% presented sources that didn’t even exist. Most of the AI outputed correct statements with existing sources.
• however, north of 66% of AI articles failed verification : the citations or facts could not be found in the sources provided by AI

It was a quite debated matter amongside law specialists, if i remember my time learning it. Like there was an obligation of community in the text, translated as an obligation of sexuality in jurisprudence since more than a century, but some recent interpretation of it were far more tolerant. I remember one case where judges ruled that a lesbian woman married to an asexual man for the apparences, and both living their sexual lives separately was still proper marriage because they cared for each other. Still was kind of an exception though, i’m happy to see it change officially at last.

Yup, as others pointed out, not exclusive to electric cars. I was just pointing out the gap between the headline saying “Chinese EVs bad” and the article saying “All EVs bad”, but people are right to point out that it’s “All connected vehicles bad”.

The important bit is “electric cars fundamentally pose a spying risk, not only Chinese ones.”

Probably because that’s what they mean by “no”

Many thanks, comrade !

All this without using their guns and over possible use of cannabis. That’s why tout le monde déteste la police / everybody hates the cops.

People are pointing out some aspects this group revendicates : it targeted a neighbourhood with many rich people, they apologized for every struggling people affected by this, they used the same tactic against Tesla factory. Don’t know what to think about it, those are just the comments of people that seem a bit knowledgeable about the situation.