Particularly considering the incredible amount of investment France put into nuclear power since the early Cold War era - a strategic policy that was designed specifically to minimize energy dependence on non-allied regions and nations. As per this list, as of 2022, securing supply lines from Canada and Australia for the foreseeable future looks like a good idea.

Also, maintaining and building out their nuclear infrastructure would make them (once again) the leaders in European nuclear technology, which has very important implications in both civil and military matters - even moreso, considering how geopolitics are going all off-axis nowadays.

If Google’s top lawyer is writing an op-ed to discourage you from what you’re doing, you’re probably doing something right.

To save you a click, the country is China

It’s just… so blatant. That’s what shocks me the most.

Sure, but seeing a bunch of better and cheaper (for them) domestic models on the road means that the ads are rapidly decreasing in effectiveness.

Tbh I’m more surprised that their market share hasn’t dropped more, considering the much higher quality:price ratio that Chinese EVs have these days

Tbh Canada should just close it from their end.

They should also post Canadian Army patrols at crossings and perhaps start running random patrols (and definitely step up drone surveillance along the border), just in case ICEatzgruppen is feeling expeditionary.

Wish we had this in the states

Do they…? I’ve never thought so for the most part, tbh.

They very obviously redacted things like “don’t” in some PDFs I’ve seen. Hmmm. Don’t. Don T. Wonder why that was done.

Which is hilarious considering how so many of them are getting absolutely wrecked by the tariffs. Because they can either eat the tariff and hemorrhage money, or pass on the tariff to customers and hemorrhage sales (and thus hemorrhage money).

I wonder when they’re gonna realize that they should try something other than shooting themselves in the dick? Time will tell, I suppose.

Yep, and the CEO essentially says as much on a regular basis. Not to mention, the origin of the name of the company is the scrying sphere that Sauron and Saruman (the bad guys) in LOTR use, so that’s telling in a comically dark fashion as well.

Lmfao who wants to buy a Chrysler Stellantis product? They’re just… bad. They’re not even cheaper. They’re just worse, and break more.

If you go to a us dealership, there’s pretty much always some sort of financing deal or somesuch. But there’s also very often a “dealer markup”. Never, ever pay that.

That said, for some cars, they refuse to budge on that. For instance, when the new Nissan Z came out a few years ago, the dealers tacked on like 10-15k pretty much across the board, and then Nissan corporate was surprised when it didn’t sell too well… because the dealerships got too fucking greedy.

If I needed to buy a new car, I’d vastly prefer to just spec it out online, click “order”, and then have a text come in when it arrives at my local Nissan or BMW or Hyundai maintenance facility (as appropriate for the car). I do not want to talk to a human and have to literally socially engineer them into giving me a fair fucking price. Jesus christ.

I’m guessing she’s a fan of Emperor Hirohito, too

It really is

I mean I don’t either, but us unitedstatesians are now subjected to the tender mercies of Palantir, which is kind of fucking awful… so, potato, potato.

Tbh being able to purchase cars direct from the manufacturer would be dope. New car dealers are literally nothing but middlemen.

God I fucking hate stealerships. If car dealer cartels in the US as a concept die as a result of this era of idiocy we’re in, that’s a pretty great silver lining.