In a few French cities they use the heat from data centers to heat up public pools

There is often cases where the first class offer exactly the same service as the second class, people are just paying extra to not be with poor people.

France has been carefully walking on eggs for decades with New Caledonia.

They have been a bit less careful lately and cracked a few eggs.

I don’t know much about the situation either.

Is it really a drop in the bucket b when we take the value per vehicle ?

If we compare Ford to BYD for example.

In 2023 Ford sold around 2 millions cars and BYD around 3 millions.

For Ford only 72 608 cars out of these 2 millions were EV (3.6%) For BYD it’s was almost 1.6 million EV (53.3%)

In 2023 Ford got $9.2 billions from the US government to produce EV, so around $126 000 per EV sold in 2023.

$126 000*1 600 000 = $2 trillions ! So unless BYD received more than $2 trillions dollars from the Chinese government in 2023 it means that each EV sold by Ford is more subsidized than an EV sold by BYD.

This is not an analysis, I took huge shortcuts in this comment and might have done mistakes in the calculations.

The argument of China subsidizing EV is always coming back but I would be curious to know the comparison with the US.

The US are subsidizing EV too I would not be surprised if the amount of subsidy per EV produced is much higher for US manufacturers than China.

I had a roommate who was eating bird eyes pepper as a snack with her 2 years old daughter.

Seeing the 2 years old going for it I thought it should not be too bad so I tried a tiny bite of one. I was definitely wrong.

Why does he look so soft !?

Its the other way around, to some people cilantro have a similar taste than the smell of stinkbug.

For these people cilantro taste awful.

The Chinese cars are probably much safer on the road then the huge pedestrian killing machines built by US manufacturers.

Always use the right tool to remove a tick.

If you use tweezers or rubbing alcohol you will make the tick spit the blood back in your sister with all the pathogens with it, this is what causes diseases.

With the right tool the tick is very easily removed with a very low risk of infection.

OSM is great for everything non-commercial. Hiking path, finding a playground, public toilets or even the closest with few benches to eat a sandwich.

But for everything commercial and car navigation google maps is unfortunately much better.

On the other hand the engineers building the CERN had to include a system that compensate for the land tides due to the moon and sun gravity.

This is what France is doing.

The subsidy for EV is 27% of the price of the car with a maximum of 4000€. (+3000€ for people with low revenues).

The cost of the car must be under 47000€, the car must weight less than 2400kg and it must have a low environmental impact during its production.

The goal of this last rule is clearly to indirectly exclude cars produced in China. I think tariffs against a specific country is not possible in the European Union so French lawmakers had to come up with a creative solution to exclude Chinese cars.

Plus the $7500 tax credit for buying an electric car, this is another form of subsidies for car maker.

I was thinking exactly that yesterday, I looked for a way to have few web apps without using ferdium.

Antoine de St Exupéry is a French aviator and writer who opened airmail route between Europe, Africa and South America.

One day he flew back from Africa to France with a Berber, someone who lived in the Sahara desert. As they flew through the Alps he saw all the waterfalls, lakes, streams, rivers …

At this point he told the St Exupéry that the god of French people must love them more that their own god.

In France I’m buying from ArianePlast. It’s good PLA for a decent price.

I have not tried it but they also have “Eco” PLA at 13€/kg

And we get these 100W from transforming food that we find on/in the ground.

Global clipboard synced with the smartphone thanks to KDE connect !

In France the cost for a doctor’s visit is 26€. 18.55€ is reimbursed by the public health care insurance and the rest is generally reimbursed by private insurance.

There is a big debate right now because the doctor’s unions want the cost of the visit to go up to 30€ !