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Je souhaite à Bolloré de manger une salade de racine de pissenlit si tu vois ce que je veux dire… Félicitations pour la nomination, je ne suis pas du tout le public ciblé en effet 😅

It’s crazy that this ideology is still so alluring when you have the weight of (relatively recent) history to show where it leads. We don’t really have the excuse of elevated levels of lead in the air to justify this hatred and violence…

Pas de soucis, je pense que j’avais en grande partie compris ton point de vue, c’est pour ça que j’ai fait mon possible pour être mesuré dans mes propos. Je suis d’accord qu’il n’y a rien de sacrés dans un livre à proprement parlé et je pense que je partage aussi ton point de vue et pétage de plomb 😁

Ça va paraître très ironique ou malhonnête vu la position que j’ai défendu mais je ne lis presque pas de livre aujourd’hui (papier ou autre). Du coup, je ne suis pas vraiment au courant des dérives dont tu parles, mais merci de les mettre en lumière. Tu aurais des liens pour que j’en apprenne plus ? Je sais qu’il y a beaucoup de soucis avec l’audiovisuel ou le journalisme en France sur ces sujets là, mais je pensais naïvement que la littérature était justement exonéré de ce genre de problème.

J’ai une dernière question, peut tu me parler de tes livres ou au minimum me donner un lien pour en découvrir plus ? Un peu de promotion ne fait jamais de mal ☺️ (et tu peux répondre en anglais pour toucher un public plus large).

Merci de ta réponse, je te souhaite du succès dans tes projets et une bonne journée !

Thanks a lot for your kind words! I felt a little bit of pressure as I assumed that as an author, he might know a lot more than I do and see broken sentences that I can’t 😅

To answer your question, I think that it’s about value.

A book can be read by multiple people over time, so it can have a bigger lifespan and usage than a single lifetime. By destroying it, you cut that potential. For example, with what OP did, you might loose a part of these books, which make them worthless.

Beyond that, you have made a destructive modification on an object. Usually, there is only two outcome possible after this. Either you made it better in some way (like people who mod they cars or, to stay on topic, people who draw on the paper edge of a book) or you decreased the value of the object (if you were to resell it, this book has now very little value, except if it gain some notoriety for some reason).

I don’t think we should strive and encourage the destruction of value or voluntary spoilage. This mostly struck a nerve as most of what we do is fight entropy (and that requires energy).

We are surrounded by products and we may sometimes loose the context of how something is made and what it took, especially when we are living in a consumerist society. Also many “made thing” are close to worthless and sometimes absurd (“who would need that?”). This and trends like fast fashion accelerate this feeling of spoiling on a mass scale, making this voluntary acts of destruction even more irritating.

One last point, book burning and destruction is usually done to erase culture and people, so it’s related to very bad events and it feels deeply wrongs.

But, of course, if OP is honest about doing that to be able to read something that he would not read without (99% sure it’s for the même), and the books modified in questions are not prescious or rare then I agree that it is not a big deal. In the end this is done for the laughs, it will not trigger a big trend and cause the destruction of precious books. But I just wanted to explain the triggered side and try to answer your question hoping it was honest.

PS: I not a native English speaker and you are an author so please forgive me for my spelling mistakes, I hope you and other still get my point across. Thanks

They added a field and everyone is losing their minds because systemd has already a bad reputation for doing too much and being too powerful and also because everyone hate age verification so they don’t want it in their free OS so it crystalize the hate. There was something about AI too if I recall. I don’t want US law to impact international FOSS and I don’t want any kind of identity or age verification inside my OS so I understand and share the rage. But this change was very much not a big or impactful thing. Please correct me if I’m wrong, I’m 70% confident on the issue.

Would not call him a hero 😅

Can’t wait for the hacking scandal…

Destroying schools is part of the Israel blueprint. Destroy culture and education as soon as you can.

It might be difficult but if I were you, I would stay in security in Switzerland. But I understand that it may be impossible for you financially or otherwise. I hope this situation will not escalate and that you and your family will find a solution. Good luck out there, my heart goes to you.

Very impressive! Do you have benchmark to test the reliability? A paper would be awesome to contribute to the science.