u/Ziggurat — Ziggurat

Tesla understood that _Batteries are expensive so let's make a fancy car so customer are OK to pay for the batteries_ main brand either didn't have an EV or tried to make a cheap electric car, cutting down the autonomy (e.g. the Renault Zoe). Add the whole _We're a progressive company, so we give Tesla rather than diesel mercedes to our executive_ and Tesla was the main player on the niche market for a decade.

However, as electric car stop being a Niche, every brand has now several electrical models, from a affordable urban one_ to a comfortable and fancy one, If you can afford a Mercedes, Tesla is still an option (but then there is Musk personality not helping) but if you ain't rich, you can go to Volkswagen or Renault depending on how broke you are

It's not because your neighbour smokes and drink that you should do so

>There should never be any funding from any government for any religious schools whatsoever, anywhere in the world

This is a historical defeat from the french left, most likely since the 1905 secularists laws. Private (often religious) school, have the the possibility to be agreed by the state, in that case the teacher are paid by the ministry of education but have follow the official curriculum and accept to be audited by the ministry of education. The "private part" is only about the building, and the extra activity, which may (or not) include religious course. Technically there is some non religious private school but most of them would be Catholic (mostly jesuits) and a few of them would be Muslim or Jewish, but many parents put their kids there either to bypass the "school district map" (when the neighbourhood isn't nice enough to get a good school) or when they're kid grades are borderline to be accepted in high-school, in that case paying will help (With some of these schools being the place where kids learn to grow weed, get laid, party and barely graduate, but they didn't go to vocational school

Last attempt to stop this funding of private school by taxpayer money was in the 80's or 90's and put all the right wing in the street. I doubt a left wing government will burn their crediblity on that issue. (And politically wise, I am rather putting all right wing on the street on a tax reform or on housing prices rather than on school)

While I hate that we have to increase the defence spending, at least it's creating job in Europe, and supporting the European technology sector rather than the money spent abroad. Moreover, I would love to see the European defence industry having enough revenues to afford telling Sunnii-petro-monarchy to fuck off rather than having to sell money to people who bomb civilian and sentence gays to death.

According to wikipedia, there is rougly 2.5 Billions of Christians with half of them being _catholic_, moreover the Catholic church is a relatively centralised religion giving a lot of power to the Pope compared to other religious leaders. So I can't think about many religious leader having that much global authority.

I Wouldn't be surprised that the death of Ayattolah Khamanei will also quite a big news. However, while pretending to be "a religious leader" he is also the _de facto_ political leader of Iran

People travel to China because there is nice stuff to see and great food to try. While US doesn't have the great food they have the nice stuff to see and are still way better than China.

Realistically speaking, she's most likely somehow sponsored by big pharma (Well considering that it's imaging, it's more the interesection between big tech and big pharma, not sure where to put health division of GE or Siemens) , and cancer treatment/dianostic bring them a lot of money so they like cancer research.

Can we do like Trump does with F35 and brick them if they use them against EU interest. I feel like Erdogan isn't much better than Putin. Pretty sure he faps on invading Greece and keeping Cyprus

Considering the low wage in French Academia, and the lack of permanent position (Which used to be a benefit offsetting lower wages) I am not sur it'll attract that much person.

But still a great initiative.

It's great. However, from the french _ministère des armées_ Link I count 3 types of satellites for a grand total around 8 including two dedicated to satcom. (assuming this is up to date, and that all informations are public) It's not a bad number of a "medium-sized nation" but unless other European nation have the same capacities it's definitely not enough to provide 24/7 intelligence to Ukraine

The 20 days detention for westerners aren't usual (while they are for others) but being stopped at immigration because they think you may work is unfortunately standard. If your lucky, they'll search your laptop as good old corporate espionage if you're not, you'll fly home with a denied stamp on your passport