The US gets a lot for its military spending. Comparing total budgets is insane anyway - I live in Belgium, a country the size of Maryland with 11 million people. Even if Belgium doubled its military spending, it wouldn’t make much of a difference. The reason NATO leadership doesn’t worry too much about the actual…

but I don’t think you can really interpret that particular conflict as indicative of a broader expansionist agenda on their part.

I had a base 2006 Jetta and it never had a problem. I may have just dodged a bullet, but the current VW lineup seems relatively reliable these days.

I think the Dems need to make universal care the litmus test - I live in Belgium, which has universal but not single-payer, and the outcomes are just as good as those of the NHS. Same goes for Germany and Scandinavia.

No, the IEA, the International Energy Agency. Their yearly reports are the gold standard.

Just going to stop you early - if you want answers to these questions, there are multiple lines of research done by the IEA and numerous national energy research organizations addressing these topics, and the answers are more complicated than this format is really workable for.

Natural gas isn’t replacing nuclear, it’s replacing coal - it’s quite common to refit a coal plant as a CCGT plant. Nuclear is dying almost entirely on the cost side - nuclear plants are far more expensive than anything but large scale hydroelectric, and the permitting cycle and high maintenance costs have scared off…

Dude, you and Ballaban actually need to look at where electricity is coming from. Right now. Not 50 years in the future, but right now.

Natural gas is already the largest electricity source in the US, and has been for several years. Coal is falling off a cliff as a share of electric generation, and most places with large uptake of EVs have pretty low shares of coal.

WhatCar is from the UK. Reliability surveys in Germany have had similar results as well. Lexus products may be too uncommon to give a useful sample - I certainly see them pretty rarely in Belgium.

The issues are explained on the page - unlike Consumer Reports, these are actual faults requiring repair, not infotainment system annoyances. Mostly engine electrical system failures, suspension problems in the regular RR, exhaust system issues in the Evoque.

Here’s the WhatCar reliability list for luxury SUVs for 2018. Sure suggests that JLR reliability being poor is still very much a fact.

Come to Europe:

Citroen and Renault have had two-tone cars out for several years now, but Toyota may be the only company doing it in the US.

3 wheel cars have traditionally had different licensing and taxation rules in Germany, kind of like the Voiturette sans Permis (basically super tiny city cars without licenses) in France.

$220/day for a 500C

bernie just overtook biden

I don’t understand the petty resentment Hillary supporters have towards Bernie.

That’s my main problem with Bernie as a candidate as well - he seems to detest the institutional order so much that I have little confidence in his ability to use it to pass policy. There are a lot of systemic obstacles that won’t be overcome simply by yelling at them.

it gives me an aneurism to hear a Sanders acolyte whinging about the voice of the people