France is heavily centralized, has deep rooted corruption, favors the rich with tax exemptions and loopholes while dismantling social security and basic opportunities for the lower and middle class, believes itself to be a global power and maintains a military accordingly, but fails to secure its post-colonial resource exploitation more and more. Add to that a catastrophic strategic blunder in focusing on more nuclear power as the primary energy source, instead of developing much cheaper renewables, which will probably cost the country hundreds of billions if not trillions over the next century.

While Macron was hailed as some sort of “center alternative” to Le Pen in many media outlets outside of France, he actually is a hardcore neoliberal that set out to pillage the country in favor of the rich even more and blame it on the immigrants, further helping the Fascists gain momentum.

For reference how bad the corruption in France is. Former president Sarkozy and his crownies are currently under investigation as they have been bankrolled by the former Libyan dictator Gaddafi.

So it is basically what we see in many countries around the world right now, but the decline is more advanced. France used to be able to mask its internal economic decline with its resource exploitation.

Children and parents shouldn’t be “best friends”. When the children are adults, and especially after having moved out of the house, they have their own social life, their own partners, their own friends, they should stand on their own feet economically and with their households.

Of course i can understand the moving back in temporarily and needing some “familiarity” in the form of family after the break-up. However that cannot go on indefinitely as it risks falling back into being too dependent and recreating relationship patterns that befit parents and non-adult children, but not adults.

I might be a bit biased though as i moved out at the youngest age of all my siblings and i had an older sibling stay very long with my parents. Towards the end of that everyone was just getting on each others nerves but seemed unable to break out of that relationship pattern. For my parents it was the last child to move out, so they felt scared of having to deal with the fact that this phase of their live is now over and a new phase begins. In the same wake for that sibling it kept them back from finally standing on their own feet, making their own decisions and finding their own solutions. After moving out at last, everybody involved got much better for themselves.

Spending time with your parents, or adult children can be great and in our time probably happens way to little. But if it is the center of each others life, that is not good for adults imo. And well, as parent or child the rights and duties you have upon each other are different from the rights and duties you have with your best friend. Your best friend most likely didn’t wipe your butt when you were little. Your best friend is most likely not expected to do so, when you grow too old to do it yourself. Your best friend can give you great life advise, but it isn’t their responsibility to steer you towards choosing a solid path in life. And best friends should not come with the baggage of having made mistakes, that parents inadvertently make in doing so.

Finally in regards to old patterns, when i moved out, my parents “got off my back” at last. It took the physical separation to really acknowledge that i am a self responsible person now and vice versa for me not to lean into the inclination to have my parents help me sort my things out, when they are within my ability. So in regards to OPs question i see the risk of them living out a time they had, or wished that they had, when the son was just a boy. But that time is not coming back. Trying to hang onto it, will cause more harm in the long run.

As a bad metaphor: No matter how much you loved that one hoodie you had as a teenager, eventually you grew out of it. There is no fitting you back into it, no matter how hard you try. You would only make yourself suffer as it constricts your body and eventually it would tear. It is better to cherish the memory of that hoodie, but wear things that fit you now.

Since he is your husbands son, i take it that you are not the mother.

Could it be that your husband harbors bad feelings about whatever happened between the mother of his son, his son and him or that he felt, he couldn’t be there as a father back then?
Could it be that they didn’t went through the process of the adult child emancipating itself from the parents, which always is difficult?
You have described their relationship as “more like best friends”. Is your husband having good friends and social contacts aside from you and his son?
Also being best friends doesn’t necessarily work well with living together. I have seen some close friendships die out as living together removed the aspect of choice from them.

I think in addressing the situation it is important to find out what your husband sees in spending so much time with his son, but also how the son feels. From your description it does not sound like their current relation is a “healthy” father-son relationship for two adults. Of course it is good if the relationship between adult parents and children become more like friendships, but they are not the same and they should not fill that role in either sides life.

I think if you can carefully disentangle some of these aspects in talking with your husband, you could help them move on in a way that is sustainable.

That is more than a 10% loss of that customer base in 2 month.

For any industry that is huge.

Maybe France should just make a betting rack on how long their prime ministers last and use that money to reduce their debt?

I used to run SuSE and i appreciate their 100% open-source philosophy. But when i can’t run videos on websites because the codec isn’t open source, it is not suitable as a daily driver.

I’d be happy for you to provide sources for your claim then.

Even the Media Bias Fact Checking considers Middle East Eye “high credibility”, despite the MBFC having a pro US pro Israel bias.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/middle-east-eye/

Germany is supplying “Anti-Tank” Rocket launchers, for which videos exists of IDF soldiers blowing up houses in Gaza with them. The submarines are used as part of the patrol to enact the sea blockade against Gaza, which is crucial for starving the people in Gaza to death and kill fishermen trying to fish near the coast. Israeli Merkava tanks run on tank engines and gear boxes by German manufacturers. Without these neither the onslaught in Gaza, nor the invasion of Syria would be possible. Other deliveries included artillery ammunition. But also other “gear” like helmets, plate carriers, communication equipment… they all serve an invading and occupying army and are thereby part of the attack.

I agree that it is part of a smoke screen. But the smokescreen already starts in claiming these systems would be deadly or the claim that they would suspend systems that could be used in Gaza, but continue to supply systems that could be used elsewhere. First of all the distinction cannot be made outside of a “pinky promise” and even if it could, Israel is illegally occupying the Westbank and parts of Syria and parts of Lebanon and soon following up probably with Egypt and Jordan to create a zone, where they can ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from Gaza and the Westbank to.

In that sense even “air-defense” is part of an invasion army, and serves to continue invading, rather than the alleged “self-defense”

I feel like many programmers (or their management) have grown ignorant to resource limitations over the past decade or so.

Obviously there is good examples like many linux distros running well on 4GB RAM and the like, but when it comes to windows, websites and proprietary programs, they gobble up insane amounts of RAM to provide almost the same functionality as in 2010.

For extra absurdity:

If i remember correctly the issue with the estimation of the value of houses and land was, that it was done based on 1918 and 1930 or so baseline values that then were adjusted over the years, but the underlying structure, which areas are expensive, which are cheap, what infrastructure is available… was never changed.

So because of systematically undervaluing property to benefit rich people, the wealth tax was stopped because the court found that it is unjust by undervaluing property.

Germany is a Banana Republic which affords more professors to devise ways in which to claim the contrary.

I wonder when we will get from “EU is Hamas” to “we should drop a nuke on Strasbourg and Brussels.”

was the twelfth known leak off Russia’s Black Sea coast this year, according to independent news outlet Agentstvo.

WTF. How can this still be economical to run even? Aside from the obvious that the EU needs to stop financing Russias war chest through direct or indirect purchases of their oil, We need to liberate ourselves from oil and gas products as quickly as possible. These industries are inherently destructive.

The fact that multiple politicians, including former ministers, demand the UK to leave a convention on Human Rights, is an alarming signal for the new UK Authoritarianism/Fascism rising.

At this point it is in the best interests of the people living in Northern Ireland to join the Republic, no matter their former allegiances.

Someone claimed that the problems of the EU would be “foreign”. I showed that many of these problems are domestic. As i have shown by causing these problems the EU governments are knowingly and willfully strengthening those parts of society that actually are known to cooperate with Russia and China to destabilize the countries.

Meanwhile the protest groups that are criminalized as “foreign agents” such as Palestine Action are actually defending supposed EU/European values and laws against criminal governments breaking these laws. The same values and laws that are supposed to differentiate European countries from authoritarian countries like Russia and China.

Solar energy, temperate climates and a self regulation mechanism to distribute heat well, liquid and clean water, plants and animals providing nutrition, materials for anything from a clay hut to microchips…

The issue of China and Russia seeking to destabilize European countries should not be equated with accusing and crushing every protest movement as being funded by either. Incidentally the movements where that is actually known, Fascists and other far-right are getting a rather light treatment, even though their ties to Russia and China are well known, such as with the AfD in Germany and related movements.

Going back to Palestine, Israel has a rather ambiguous relationship with Russia and happily throws European countries under the bus, if it servers their own interests. For instance Israel supplied Russia with surveillance drones after Russia annexed Crimea and started to have “green men” appear in Donetsk and Lushansk. Israel also wanted Russia to keep a military presence in Syria, and even told the Ukrainian government behind closed doors it should just surrender to Russia.

So governments like in the UK or Germany are helping Russia triplefold. First by supporting Israel against EU interests, then by eroding civil rights with authoritarian crackdowns as well as supporting Israeli war crimes, thereby legitimizing Russias brutal regime and finally by continuously strengthening the Fascists that are back by Russia.

Instead of addressing these issues, people who protest against that are brandished and repressed under the guise of fighting Russian influence, which is a transparent lie, once you look at the whole picture.

The UK and other EU countries are becoming increasingly authoritarian. Crackdowns on peaceful protest, branding protests against genocide and against climate change as “terrorism”, Crackdowns on progressive media with illegal searches and seizures of equipment, attempts to influence press directly, cooperation with far right and fascist media to discredit peaceful protests while downplaying racist riots, Attacks on whistleblowers such as the torture of Julian Assange…

All of these are justified with some external threat and alleging that people who care about human rights, climate change or want their governments not to engage in severe crimes are painted as “foreign agents” in order to not address the question, why the UK and other governments are engaged in severe crimes.

At the same time taxes for the rich are reduced, austerity measures are hardened and Fascists are on the rise, with the complicity or inaction of the supposed “centrist” governments. All of this is doing Russia and China a great favor.

You check security critical components to be non defective before using them. Security systems have fail-safes and redundancies.

With due diligence it is not possible for established systems to just fail in a way that is killing a dozen people. The technology isn’t new and there is plenty of cable or cog-wheel railways operating around the world, so there is established practices for security.

Palestine action has been protesting for many years, in particular at weapons manufacturers, whose weapons are illegally used by the Israeli occupation. The UK is, again illegally, using Brize Norton to facilitate weapons shipments and intelligence flights for the illegal Israeli occupation, possibly implicating itself directly in war crimes and crimes against humanity, war of aggression and annexation.

Equating non violent direct action and civil disobedience with “terrorism” is an authoritarian move, setting a precedent to increasingly crack down on civil liberties in the UK, making it more similar to Russia, China, Iran, etc. in how it treats freedom of speech, freedom of press and freedom of protest.

The UK could just not use their military resources for illegal acts, possibly implicating it in war crimes, crimes against humanity, war of aggression and annexation.