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Have you ever heard o Ariane rockets and ESA?

E.g. upcoming Ariane 6: Up to 21.6 tons per launch, up to 11 launches per year.

But xenophobia is not class-based, it can be aimed at powerful people (and be partially justified) or aimed at powerless people. Anyone can fall for it, look at the recent example in South Africa: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66808346

I'm just trying to figure out where to draw a line for an acceptable amount of useful self-defense xenophobia (a sort of protectionism) as a general principle e.g. legislation preventing foreign countries from owning any of your critical infrastructure sounds reasonable vs self-destructive xenophobia e.g. "those damn foreigners"

That would explain why there is a video of the protesters singing "L'internacional"...but it's still authoritarian repression.

What are lurkers for if there is no advertising?

Man, I too would like to have a community gathering place, but the local church is super elitist and the priest is a conservative dickhead, so while I would have imagined that churches would not be like that, many alienate potential community members :/

Apparently, some hydrogen does come out of the ground like methane: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/09/white-hydrogen-deposit-france/ but I assume it's not abundant enough to make a difference

Aren't all protests performance? In the sense that they are made for others to see and to bring awareness? What else are they for? It's not for debate or promoting alternatives, it's too messy for that.

"You have my sword"

Sigh...I just want a technology community where I don't have to see images of musk's face on the top results every day :/

As usual, nuance is the important part here, not slogans (you can hide anything inside them). I'll admit that a little healthy nationalism is useful to keep foreign interests from overwhelming you (or more if anyone gets too pushy), but it's important to not let it stop you using all the tools at your disposal for development e.g. CFA Franc is very useful as a way to facilitate trade between neighbouring countries with the drawback that the "central bank" is located in Paris, but during decolonisation there was no clear leader to control the currency, so a foreign influence made sense at the time, maybe today it could be the AU, but I see no credible alternatives. https://theconversation.com/why-abandoning-the-cfa-franc-would-be-a-risky-operation-120551 (the Wikipedia article is notably terse)

I agree that Africans should be in charge of their destiny, not foreign interests...but "Africa for Africans" sounds just as good/bad as "Europe for Europeans".