A good policy agenda for France is to look at what every riot movement in the last 10-15 years has demanded and do the exact opposite. Raise the pension age, raise the fuel taxes, accept more immigrants, mandate vaccinations, protect Jews and POC from mob violence, lay off the cheminots.

i was doing something with this a while ago and found this really was the easiest way to work out what was a station: anything with non-zero passenger entrances or exits

right but Europe is a continent filled with small countries and small countries that pretend to be big (Germany, the UK, Scandinavia). there are like three actually big ones

Belgium, Netherlands, Austria and Slovakia do pretty well

For centuries, Oxford made graduates swear that they would "never consent to the reconciliation of Henry Simeonis". The odd thing was, nobody could remember who the hell he was.

In fact we organized a "rail ticketing challenge" to demonstrate the actual problems passengers face. Teams competed to find the best tickets for real world scenarios … and discovered how difficult it can be. One policy maker summed it with their exasperated "but how were we supposed to know that…"

good for them - they're not squashing and anonymising the git history. maybe it won't be the usual "code over the wall" approach

"people who are unlikely to be alive to see the benefits of short term disruption are against short term disruption" i am shocked, personally

1) teenager's parents go away for the weekend and she asks chatgpt what day the bins go out 2) her rogue ai agent hacks into the PAF. the foregone revenue causes the collapse of the universal service obligation 3) lost tax revenue from outer Hebrides postcode lottery players. the country spirals

that's probably fine then, nvidia-all is just a nice way to install older drivers. i had to find a specific one that worked well with the kernel, GPU and had CUDA support

sure, but i would be pleasantly surprised if that's the case with the SNCF it's how it works on the chemins de fer de provence. thankfully the SNCF has not yet noticed that they exist

> La montée s’effectue à l’avant du train. Une fois à bord, le voyageur doit aller informer le chef de bord de sa destination. amazing. presumably CGT vetoed "le chef du bord doit aller récolter les destinations de passagers"

unité urbaines are fine in themselves if you can work out what the british equivalent is (and i dunno) the metropolitan borough of wakefield is a political rather than statistical boundary again this is why i prefer looking at maps :)

these numbers are always basically lies. it's just whatever is convenient to help the current politicians stay in power for longer FUAs are better but Béthune will be too small to be its own but this is why i use maps