Well of course I'm not paying several thosand euros just to design doodads for personal use.
Yes it's easier. WAY easier. You can learn a lot with the traditional ones just experimenting, and newer stuff like Fusion 360 is even easier. With FreeCAD, you need to watch a tutorial for the simplest things.
I'm persevering because I want to use free software to design my 3d prints, but... it's difficult, very difficult... I'm about to give up and go back to commercial CAD.
So here in Italy a few days ago, a small mountain town got invaded by 10000 people because a random tiktok influencer posted that she was there skiing.
Never underestimate people's stupidity and attraction to celebrities.
He'd still be a celebrity, a couple of talk show invitations and he'd be better off than the bar majority of Americans. Not to speak of other opportunities he'd have.
Long story short: he marched on Rome with a handful of wackos, the royal army absolutely had the power to wipe them out without breaking a sweat, but the king decided that baldy was a cool guy and handed him the government. Many people liked him.
Hardly a military action, and he went on to govern for 20 years, a streak that stopped only because he chose to stand on the wrong side of history, unlike, say, Franco.
There's another factor that jumps to mind when I think of cars in France: they buy A LOT of French cars! I don't have any statistical data, but it feels like half of the cars on their roads are French... And now that their manufacturers' offer of EVs is starting to flesh out, they probably prefer buying "local".
Well, it's not from this or the previous year, so you're in luck