Joannes Vermorel

Art privé vs. Art subventionné

Il y a tellement de choses à tronçonner en France que cela donne le vertige: - l'AFD - L'ADEME - L'ARCOM - Les centaines d'autorités indépendantes - les subventions par dizaines de milliards aux associations - La trentaine de ministères inutiles - L'éducation supérieure en sciences sociales - les subventions directes ou indirectes au logement - un système de retraite déficitaire d'un tiers par rapport aux cotisations - Le régime spécial de retraite des fonctionnaires - la SNCF à privatiser - Les 45 milliards dépensés par l'Etat pour la "transition énergétique" - la DPE, la ZFE et 95% des acronymes à 3 lettres - l'ARENH - La PAC - le ministère de l'agriculture, machine à enquiquiner nos agriculteurs. - La contribution nette à l'Union Européenne - Le train de vie délirant de Bruxelles - Meteo France - Le SNU qui coûte des milliards - les codes du travail, de commerce, ruraux... à simplifier - France Travail - Un système d'allocations chômage dont tout le monde sait qu'il est abusé dans tous les sens - l'audiovisuel public - les subventions à la presse et à l'AFP - les subventions aux syndicats et aux organisations patronales - Les niches fiscales - le système d'intérmittents du spectacle - le CNC et autres structures culturelles étatiques - Le financement des partis politiques par l'Etat - Un hopital public à privatiser car incapable de gérer ses budgets - le "tout gratuit" dans la santé amenant abus en tout genre - Les aides non-contributives aux étrangers - La fraude sociale - Les aides sociales qui doivent être réservées aux personnes en réelle situation de handicap - La majeure partie du CNRS - Remplacer la cour des comptes par un D.O.G.E dont l'objectif est clairement de réduire les dépenses - 60 à 80% des communes pour nous aligner sur les autres pays européens - les départements ou les régions, au choix. - Les budgets bien trop élevés des collectivités locales - Les ARS - La bureaucratie de l'éducation nationale - Le Sénat - Au moins la moitié des députés nationaux et régionaux - Les ticket restaurants - Et bien sur les impôts qui sont les plus élevés au monde en France ... J'en oublie surement les 3/4! Ce sont les écuries d'Augias. Nous n'avons rien nettoyé pendant des décennies. Au boulot!

Les services qui s'écroulent en France: - la santé - l'éducation - la sécurité - la retraite Les services gérés presque exclusivement par l'Etat: - la santé - l'éducation - la sécurité - la retraite Cqfd

Les chances pour la France nous représwntent bien à l'international. Le passport Français est l'un des meilleurs, mais sans remigration, il ne le restera pas.

@deadalnix For the same reason you need ski instructors, but not walk/run instructors. Snow, especially in large quantities, is deeply counter-intuitive to the human mind. Evolution didn't gave us instincts in this area. Ex: lean *forward* the slope to slow down. This must be learned.

Today, there was an avalanche at Courmayer. Every time this happens, people stay around, film and are generally very passive. Why?

A communist revolution isn’t a revolt against power. It’s a revolt over who controls it. You don’t get less authority. You get more. You don’t get more accountability. You get less. You don’t get more freedom. You get tighter control in the name of “the people.” It replaces one ruling class with another, only this time armed with a moral license to micromanage everything. It starts in theory with the promise of less chains while in practice producing more of them.

If you like having Indian neighbors, go live in India. If you like having Nigerian neighbors, go live in Nigeria. If you like having Colombian neighbors, go live in Colombia. It's all very simple.

The Hurdy-Gurdy, Medieval European string instrument. The hurdy-gurdy's earliest known origin dates back to the 10th century. Musician: Andrey Vinogradov

@deadalnix @aakashgupta In this age of semi-smart GenAI assistants, this entire class of shenanigans are going to backfire explosively. People don't have the time to read, by their agents will.

@aakashgupta That's sounds like a brilliant idea until a year later everybody now knows you just don't fly delta.

Delta didn’t make a mistake here. They hired economists. This is third-degree price discrimination, and it works because of a counterintuitive principle: you can charge more by offering less. The $449 tier has free seat selection, free changes, and a standard seat. The $589 “Comfort Basic” tier removes seat selection and charges for changes, but adds legroom. You’re paying $140 extra while losing two features. Sounds insane until you understand the segmentation logic. Business travelers don’t care about $140. They care about legroom on a 4-hour flight. They’ll pay the premium without reading the feature comparison. Leisure travelers will spend 20 minutes cross-referencing every checkbox because $140 is their airport dinner budget for the whole trip. Delta is sorting customers by how carefully they read. Economists call this “damaged goods” pricing. It’s the same reason Intel once sold slower chips that were physically identical to faster ones, just with performance artificially limited. IBM sold a cheaper laser printer that was the same printer with an extra chip added to slow it down. The degraded version costs more to produce. You spend money making a product worse so you can sell the better version at a higher margin. Delta is running the same play. They created a tier that costs more, delivers less flexibility, and exists purely to make the next tier up look like a bargain. The $449 option isn’t the budget choice. Comfort Basic exists to make you feel smart for spending $589 on regular Comfort+. The Google Flights complaint is the second part of the strategy. The harder these tiers are to filter, the more likely you are to just click “Comfort” and move on. Confusion is a feature. Every minute you spend trying to decode fare classes is a minute you’re not comparison shopping on United. Airlines sell the cognitive cost of not buying the default option.

"Democracy turns many people into small children.  It makes them believe that all problems can be solved quickly and easily if the right people are elected, if money is printed, or if wealth is redistributed from one group of inhabitants to another" lukaskovanda.cz/en/interviews-…

We are gathering a team to search for the long-lost tomb of Alexander the Great. With modern technology, we may find it. Once found, it will be placed atop a gigantic monument we will build.

What’s embarrassing isn’t that leftism gets called extreme. It’s that its supporters can’t see the coercion and contradiction at the core of their own demands. They pretend ownership itself is an injustice. Simply having something is framed as immoral if the wrong person has it. Yet those same people are expected to pay for everything. Billionaires are denounced as predators for existing, but also treated as an endless funding source for every social ambition. They’re supposed to finance society, but never act within it. Produce, but don’t decide. Pay, but don’t use. Exist, but only as wallets. That’s why the complaints about water, energy, or AI are so revealing. The claim is that billionaires are the greatest threat for using resources, while also being morally obligated to bankroll the entire system. Ownership is denied when it implies control, but demanded when it implies obligation. The same applies to their so called goals. Saving the planet, guaranteeing healthcare, enforcing living wages aren't plans. They're wishes that only function through force. Every one of them depends on someone else being compelled to work, pay, comply, or sacrifice. Voluntary agreement is never enough, because consent would allow refusal. They call capitalism predatory while openly claiming a right to other people’s labor. They condemn exploitation while defining justice as living off effort they did not earn. They don’t oppose predators. They oppose the fact that producers aren’t their prey.

@Le_Crapaud47 Je pense que tu rates l'essentiel. Il ne faut pas detester les juifs pour faire ce qui marche, mais au contraire s'en inspirer et le faire nous aussi.

Pour ceux qui ont encore des doutes concernant la probité de ce qui est affiché dans Wikipedia, regardez ceci. (Contenu du courrier :) "Ils ont mis en place toutes sortes de protections autour de votre photo d'identité judiciaire sur Wikipédia, et nous sommes donc en train de pirater Wikipédia pour la supprimer et la remplacer par la photo que vous avez envoyée, qui aura pour titre Jeffrey Epstein, homme d'affaires, philanthrope. Au fait, nous vous avons également retiré de la catégorie des délinquants sexuels et supprimé le titre de la première phrase de Wikipédia qui mentionnait également « délinquant sexuel ». Maintenant, il est simplement écrit « homme d'affaires, philanthrope ». Nous avons enregistré les adresses IP des personnes qui entraient et annulaient nos modifications, et nous avons piraté le site pour les bloquer. C'est pourquoi la page est restée stable."

@dylanmallman Yes, but most corp managers don't know that. They reproduce Gosplan-like org charts into their private companies. This is the reality of supply chain management today in large corps. I am trying to fix this. My book lokad.com/book What do you think? @dylanmallman

“this regime isn’t authoritarian; they are just fucking morons.” Quote of the day. They'd do the exact same thing with more profesionalism, everybody would be cheering. Instead, they'll alienate a ton of people and set back their cause a decade in the process.

Capitalism isn’t “when America does stuff.” It’s private property, voluntary exchange, and profit and loss under the rule of law. A central bank is a state monopoly over money and credit. That’s government control layered on top of a mixed economy. By that logic you could say: Communism has private businesses, just like capitalism does because China allows markets. At that point the words mean nothing. What the meme actually proves is this: When people don’t like the consequences of state power, they rebrand state power as capitalism and call it a refutation. Capitalism doesn’t require a central bank. Statism does.