• 0 Posts
  • 23 Comments
Joined 4 个月前
cake
Cake day: 2025年6月10日

help-circle
  • It is. It could be construed as a form of constitutional brutalism: in theory the president is free to name whomever he chooses, however he is expected to choose someone from the parliamentary majority.

    But this is the first time in the history of the current constitution that the parliamentary majority isn’t an absolute majority or cannot form an absolute majority coalition. The consequence is that they can’t systematically no-confidence-vote out any head of government they don’t approve of, and basically enforce this expectation directly.

    So Macron can just name someone from his minority (3rd biggest group even) and wait for the parliament to (more or less slowly) disagree enough with it that they’ll agree to no-confidence-vote it out (usually when the government proposes a budget). Then, every time a prime minister is ousted, he can pretend he’s not violating the constitution – in spirit if not in letter – when he starts again. He can frame it as defending the republic against “extremes” even though the relative parliamentary majority he’s “defending against” is just a loose leftist alliance between parties that span from barely liberal to a bit more angry, but not extreme even by the state council’s own definition. The second biggest group, however, is actually the far-right authoritarian racist party founded by literal ex-SS that’s going to win a presidential election at some point if he keeps trying to out-authoritarian them.











  • Actually 157 out of 192 UN countries recognize the state of Palestine right now. When Crimea was invaded by Russia in 2014 and Israël had already been occupying parts of it illegaly for over 40 years, the count was 133. As soon as 1994, even before Netanyahu’s first tenure, there were more than half (96) UN member states recognizing the state of Palestine.

    Most countries absolutely do and have recognized Palestine and the imperialism that goes on there is old as fuck. Yours maybe doesn’t, mine only switched this year as a mostly performative act. Source: even a passing glance at wikipedia


  • Unfortunately not. Quantum teleportation is an awful name: it’s called that way because it implies “destroying” a quantum state somewhere, and “recreating” it identically somewhere else, effectively transmitting information. However, the process also requires a classical information transfer at some point, and is absolutely not instantaneous . It’s only useful for cryptography because it’s mathematically impossible to listen in on this information being transferred without disturbing it.

    It’s one of the most unfavorable coolness-of-name vs. coolness-of-actual-thing ratio in physics.