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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • Work less as a society, so finally switch to the 32h weeks and setup the Universal basic income, it would allow to share the work (because someone needs to pick-up the thrash) and leverage on the productivity gains to benefit to everyone.

    Provide training, and support life-long education, you should keep your unemployment rights while attending university as an adult for example, but also offer more short training including some level update for people whose skill got rusty in a previous job.

    Promote non merchant activities. A volunteer who coaches kids sport or plays amateur theatre in nursing home and hospital does more good to society than a marketing corporate executive, why are the latter seen as more important ?









  • Peer review…

    Too many cooking sites are let’s exchange your recipe and end up with either stuff missing or absurdly high amount of sugar (as a rule of thumb divide by 2 the amount of sugar) or a lack of salt/spice even when they’re notsimply forgotten.

    Published books tends to be a bit better as in principle they’re revised.

    Peer review is how scientists correct that. Often it’s as simple as on figure 2, the labels are too small and sometimes it’s I don’t get how you’ve built your experimental setup can you clarify this section? It’s rarely catching biq mystake but really improves overall quality


  • Unfortunately, in this economy, young graduate needing one year to find a job isn’t uncommon.

    As usual,

    • how easily can you move, it’s easier as a 20 year old kid than as a middle aged parent with an employed spouse in a niche sector

    • Lookat various temporar/consulting agencies. It pays badly, isn’t a permanent position but any experience is better than no experience

    -what about further training? A non professional bachelor, is usually too theoretical for employer, and when they want theoretical profile they are people with master degree

    -What about government job, may be not a dream job, but with just a bachelor you’re eligible to middle management position, not fun to manage a team of civil servant in charges of dealing with whatever paperwork, but again, it’s a job.

    • don’t forget to join an union supporting the Universal basic income and affordable housing so you can do something to improve our situation







  • Can we avoid using the reciprocal word where it’s mostly an uniltaeral decision from US ?

    I bet that the only US jobs that will be created on the short term will be to re-inforce the purchasing department of US companies importing foreign group, and the US-logistic department of foreign companies exporting in the US. But in between, I see why many corporation will push the brake on any non urgent purchasing. (And Ironically, business school graduates aren’t a category massively impacted by unemployement nor fearing to be replaced by LLM)



  • At least in (most of) Europe, we do still have a large public part in healthcare/retirement and in general less stock investment culture so people won’t see their safety netand retirement money collapsing, sure loosing let’s say 10% of your saving sucks, and may even impact your ability to buy a new home (unless interest-rate fall faster in that case you may even be able to buy a nicer home)

    We’re also kinda lucky, The US adding tariff means that we’ll export less to the US, but we can still export to the rest of the world at the same conditions as before. Note also that the remaining manufacturing in Europe is mostly complex product with high added value Planes, industrial robots, or Champagne’s wine are already very expensive so I expect that many of the American who can afford these will still be able to afford-it with the tarifs. I am not Naïve, export to the US will dip, but I see some factors that should limit the dip.

    Don’t get me wrong, some European companies will loose US contract, and will at best launch mass lay-off plans or even bankrupt, and people will be unemployed (see point above about public safety net it makes the difference between selling your car, not going in holiday and shopping at Lidl and ending up homeless). But I am kinda optimistic, the impact for real people will be under control. I am old enough to remember 2008, and it wasn’t that bad.