France General Discussion III: Tout doit disparaître

[Zinneke]

Macron Job Approval (IFOP)
Approve: 54% (-10)
Disapprove: 43% (+8)

That is quite brutal to be honest. He was going to see his approval rating go down but not so quickly, that is likely the results of his recent controversies

How does the military cuts and the resignation of the Head of Armed Forces make such an impact? I always thought being Minister of FA and Minister of Defense was actually quite an easy portfolio to handle judging by Fabius and Le Drian's approval ratings as people didn't seem to care, but now it seems to have undone Macron's early momentum.

[Zinneke]

Hamon has changed the name of his movement again or is it another breakaway?

[Zinneke]

I think the most satisfied electorate Macron will have are Left-accelerationists.

[Zinneke]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/11/france-impose-total-ban-mobile-phones-schools/

Good, now ban laptops from university classes.

[Zinneke]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/11/france-impose-total-ban-mobile-phones-schools/

Good, now ban laptops from university classes.

(except computing, math, business modeling, etc. classes where it may be necessary)

yeah, but even computing now some courses just straight up get you to start writing code on paper.

[Zinneke]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/11/france-impose-total-ban-mobile-phones-schools/

Good, now ban laptops from university classes.

(except computing, math, business modeling, etc. classes where it may be necessary)

yeah, but even computing now some courses just straight up get you to start writing code on paper.

That's straight-up incompetence, I would argue.

Yeah its crazy for CS.

Regardless a lot of econometric work I did we did in a computer lab, and obviously we had the software available on the pc for assignments if we wanted. But personal laptops were a hinderance otherwise. So are phones.

Bit sensationalised but there was a good feature about attention economy on the BBC the other day : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoIufBVLDvM

[Zinneke]

Pretty extraordinary story that should put Macron in hotter water than he currently in.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44898387

EDIT : given Colomb knew about it the day after the events happened, he looks like he will be the next senior political casualty of the Macron government. Manu himself will have the same plausable deniability as Mitterand did with the Rainbow Warrior, but all evidence seems to suggest that he was informed of Benella's misconduct.

[Zinneke]

Hulot resigned over French hunting, which is totally environmentally irrelevant.

Its not just that, he listed a whole bunch of stuff he was unhappy with. This resignation was in the works since the moment he entered office, its just that the timing of it means there is now an irrelevant debate over hunting as if that was the only thing Hulot listed as being a major problem.