“Deployment” seems like a weird turn of phrase for what NZ is actually doing here to the point of being probably intentionally misleading
Of note, the Centrist is the recently-founded pet project of a Canadian billionaire who has been attempting to take over NZ’s biggest newspapers
I have the slimmest of hopes that Nigel Farage’s choice to attach himself to Trump will do Reform lasting damage. Fortunately we’ve got a good while before the next election
Isn’t that exactly the kind of “when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they’ll never sit” that you were advocating for?
The biggest fusion reactor in the world is being built in France right now, with the EU as the leading funder
I’d be quite against posting links to Ground News in place of specific articles. It blocks basically everything if you don’t have an account, and there’s no way of knowing which article is actually under discussion
Neutrinos almost don’t interact with other matter. You use neutrons to start fission
Those dastardly Portuguese will be the death of us
Canada joins the EU, king relocates to Canada, Canada annexes the UK, Brexit is undone. I see no flaws in this plan.
It does seem like it. A lot of the details of the map in the full-size image are a bit screwy in that way that AI does it. Denmark appears to have merged a bunch of its islands together, Pembrokeshire in Wales has migrated northward, and Stranraer in Scotland has sunk beneath the waves
I enjoyed it, but it felt like it could’ve done with some editing.
Timo and Kai in particular both disappear for large stretches of the film after getting enough attention to be significant parts of the film but not enough to satisfactorily conclude their storylines. Maybe combining their roles would have worked? Replace Kai’s brief romantic interest with Timo wanting his “friend” back. Timo wants Mickey 17 specifically because he won’t push back on Timo’s bullshit. That way the now-combined storyline for that character gets to feel much more complete and we’re probably also taking less time to do it because we don’t need to introduce Kai
Heard & McDonald Islands! It’s an Australian territory literally thousands of kilometres from the nearest permanent human settlement. Scientists stop by to check on the penguins sometimes. It got its own entry on the list
Several of the entries on the list are not independent countries (French Guiana, for example, has a different rate to the EU despite being part of France and the EU) and one doesn’t even have a human population (Heard & McDonald Islands, an Australian territory near Antarctica)
It seems like they have, generally speaking, made up the numbers by dividing the total value of imports vs exports with that country. So if the USA imports $200,000,000 of stuff from Switzerland and exports $100,000,000, they’re saying that that means Switzerland has 50% effective tariffs against America (no, this does not make any goddamn sense, but it appears to be what they’re doing), and then “reciprocating” with half of that number, so 25% tariffs on Switzerland. 10% is the floor which they’re applying no matter what… except for on Russia, apparently
The UK presumably imports more American stuff, proportionate to exports, than the EU does
I don’t think I agree with that. Decoupling from American military and tech products can happen with or without tariffs, but doing so is primarily for the security of Europe. The tariffs are done to damage the credibility of the politicians responsible for them. They’re attempting to achieve separate goals. Regardless of whether Europe can trust America — and I agree with you that Europe can’t — if Europe has the ability to turn American public opinion against policies that harm Europe, doing so is beneficial to Europe. Better a large power that can’t be trusted than one that is actively hostile.
They tend to aim for things made in states that elected the politicians responsible. In the case of Jack Daniels, that comes from Mitch McConnell’s state
The EU has historically been quite targeted when counter-tariffing America. A couple of quotes from this Guardian article:
These tariffs, which target notable US goods worth €4.5bn, often from Republican states, will snap back on 1 April.
And
“We try to hit … where it hurts,” said a senior EU official, who said the bloc was targeting soya beans, which are grown in Louisiana, the state of the US speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. “We love soybeans, but we’re happy to buy them from Brazil or from Argentina or from anywhere else.”
Learning Esperanto first allegedly increases a student’s ability to learn other foreign languages
It should be noted that being multilingual at all improves the ability to acquire new unfamiliar words, this isn’t something unique to Esperanto (or at least, that project does not show that Esperanto is uniquely good for this purpose)
Every part of the world has a history of imperialism. Europe just happened to be the part that developed the tools to do it on the biggest scale, and the continent eventually burned itself down with them
China has had several of the biggest empires in history. So has India, so has Iran. Peru was once the seat of one of the biggest empires, and so was Mongolia. The Songhai and Mali empires were enormous. Ethiopia, the one part of Africa that kept outside conquerors out the longest, was itself a massive empire. Tonga once subjugated most of the other Pacific Islands.
The European empires inflicted a horrific amount of suffering, and they aren’t completely gone. The mindset that created them, unfortunately, has been present in just about every society for all of history
Depends on what you count as “under control” I guess? No ships have been captured or sunk since last June, so in that regard yes. On the other hand, civilian ships were still getting hit by things a couple of times a month.
Either way, though, the EU has the capacity to shoot into Yemen and isn’t doing so. I would argue that regardless of ethics, it’s not actually a helpful thing to do. The Saudis bombed Yemen for about a decade, and if that had achieved anything then we wouldn’t be in the current situation.
Deploying elsewhere in Europe, not in Ukraine. It is for Ukraine’s benefit, but the headline is implying that they are deployed in Ukraine