But the local politicians will somehow get a home renovation, a new truck, and a vacay they feel they deserve if they approve it.

Yeah, France actually has a sense of self worth among the populace.

Idiocracy isn’t supposed to be an instruction manual, but apparently conservatives are already that fucking dumb and we’re stuck in this car with them falling off the cliff.

Yeah… I don’t care what the guy in the audience said. If it was a threat or dangerous then the freaking mayor should call the baluff/police chief/sheriff who is going to be sitting in that room and let them deal with it.

If it’s not an arrestable offense or something that would allow the mayor to eject the man from the meeting, he needs to act like a politician and ignore it in the moment. Threatening a member of the public during a city council meeting? He should be resigned immediately. He cannot continue to have the chance to wield the power of the office against a member of the public.

I have a PhD in IoT technology uses (mostly medical/clinical monitoring applications). My appliances do not have firmware to update. Don’t buy that shit, it’s stupid.

I try other options now and again. When something is better I use it. Until then, I have things to do with what works.

People continue to innvote, test, and develop new options. Someday one will eventually work out a superior approach that takes off among the general userbase.