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They’ll indict him for (badminton) racketeering…
January 5, 2026 at 3:46 AM
They’ll indict him for (badminton) racketeering…
A federalist push at EU level exactly when the far right is gaining ground (and power) in multiple EU member states would be such a boon for their (and Russian) propaganda, I’d expect some relevant people in Moscow would have to procure entire crates of champagne just to keep up with the partying…
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A federalist push at EU level exactly when the far right is gaining ground (and power) in multiple EU member states would be such a boon for their (and Russian) propaganda, I’d expect some relevant people in Moscow would have to procure entire crates of champagne just to keep up with the partying…
Bush Sr actually vomited on a Japanese PM so it looks like Japan just got the short end of the stick in the “U.S. president protocol” stakes again…
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Bush Sr actually vomited on a Japanese PM so it looks like Japan just got the short end of the stick in the “U.S. president protocol” stakes again…
West Germany experimented with something very much like this in the 1950s called “Ganzwortmethode” (lit. “whole-word-method”). Approach dates to 1909, I think?Abject failure. Imagine my mind being blown hearing this was being used in English-speaking countries so long after that…
October 24, 2025 at 6:15 AM
West Germany experimented with something very much like this in the 1950s called “Ganzwortmethode” (lit. “whole-word-method”). Approach dates to 1909, I think?Abject failure. Imagine my mind being blown hearing this was being used in English-speaking countries so long after that…
Seems to me as if a fundamentally (!) more resilient design would be a good idea for the Drone Age in general. Always better to build security into something from the beginning than to try to stick it on later. Should be worth thinking about in infrastructure upgrades long-term in lots of places.
October 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Seems to me as if a fundamentally (!) more resilient design would be a good idea for the Drone Age in general. Always better to build security into something from the beginning than to try to stick it on later. Should be worth thinking about in infrastructure upgrades long-term in lots of places.
Why *wouldn’t* that be a commonly considered scenario? Knock out comms, deal a massive blow to the enemy economy, fry important tech stuff, etc. Why do you think communications needed to be hardened and all that?
October 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Why *wouldn’t* that be a commonly considered scenario? Knock out comms, deal a massive blow to the enemy economy, fry important tech stuff, etc. Why do you think communications needed to be hardened and all that?
![Title of the graphic: “Evolution of defence spending in select EU countries between 2020 and 2024”
It shows that geography matters and that countries which have capitals that are closer to Moscow broadly spend more on defence and have increased spending more as well.
X-axis: Distance of select European capitals from Moscow
Y-axis: “Defence expenditure [% of GDP]”
Left to right, following two downwards sloping lines (one for 2020 in grey the other for 2024 in turquoise, each country represented by a small, similarly coloured circle for both years):
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Sweden, Romania, Hungary, Germany, Slovakia, Czechia, Slovenia, Croatia, Denmark, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Greece, Belgium, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal
Source: Berger, Roland, “The Defence Imperative”, p. 9.
https://content.rolandberger.com/hubfs/07_presse/Roland%20Berger_Defence%20Study_2025_EN.pdf](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ubvnp2wz4s2muecjemawxpx6/bafkreidnz7bzed2dzdmrzryrocrnj5lh6fiiiuu6q3kruxfeg2gg3jccye@jpeg)
September 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If Italians already hate pineapple on pizza, one can only imagine the reaction to pizza with sausages, sauerkraut and mustard…
September 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If Italians already hate pineapple on pizza, one can only imagine the reaction to pizza with sausages, sauerkraut and mustard…
Wikipedia:
“Finck and his colleagues were interned for six weeks in Esterwegen concentration camp,[…]. [They] took their arrest in good stride, because they still performed despite their imprisonment. They reasoned that […] now they did not need to fear because they were already imprisoned.”
“Finck and his colleagues were interned for six weeks in Esterwegen concentration camp,[…]. [They] took their arrest in good stride, because they still performed despite their imprisonment. They reasoned that […] now they did not need to fear because they were already imprisoned.”
September 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Wikipedia:
“Finck and his colleagues were interned for six weeks in Esterwegen concentration camp,[…]. [They] took their arrest in good stride, because they still performed despite their imprisonment. They reasoned that […] now they did not need to fear because they were already imprisoned.”
“Finck and his colleagues were interned for six weeks in Esterwegen concentration camp,[…]. [They] took their arrest in good stride, because they still performed despite their imprisonment. They reasoned that […] now they did not need to fear because they were already imprisoned.”
There are sentences that are so quintessentially German they make you love the language. This is such a dry observation, haha
September 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
There are sentences that are so quintessentially German they make you love the language. This is such a dry observation, haha
Haha!
Good heavens, what has the world come to…
Good heavens, what has the world come to…
August 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Haha!
Good heavens, what has the world come to…
Good heavens, what has the world come to…
Don’t give them ideas…
August 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Don’t give them ideas…
I like the term “social license.” Applies to a lot of other things we see elsewhere, too… or divided societies where exactly this may conflict.
June 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I like the term “social license.” Applies to a lot of other things we see elsewhere, too… or divided societies where exactly this may conflict.
Die Quellentexte künftiger Geschichtsbücher werden sicherlich einige Schüler erheitern.
June 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Die Quellentexte künftiger Geschichtsbücher werden sicherlich einige Schüler erheitern.
Some comedy in all this madness can’t hurt. At least it’s just a photo. That eyebrow does it for me every time.
June 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Some comedy in all this madness can’t hurt. At least it’s just a photo. That eyebrow does it for me every time.
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
June 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
So… in Lord of the Rings “Sauron” means…
June 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
So… in Lord of the Rings “Sauron” means…
With things as they are, why would they stop there? I don’t see how this can be it. Israel has less to lose now over this (beyond retaliation) than in a long time, due to Gaza impact already. Might as well attempt to go the whole hog this time - but who knows…
June 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
With things as they are, why would they stop there? I don’t see how this can be it. Israel has less to lose now over this (beyond retaliation) than in a long time, due to Gaza impact already. Might as well attempt to go the whole hog this time - but who knows…
I did not know that was a name for the Irish. Interesting, thank you.
June 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I did not know that was a name for the Irish. Interesting, thank you.
Tbh, sounds like these Irish slaves were going to be dead either way…
June 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Tbh, sounds like these Irish slaves were going to be dead either way…
It should also be pointed out that if “Higgins” as a surname goes back to “uigan”, Norse for “seaman”, as the article says, the current president of Ireland is called Michael D. Higgins…
June 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It should also be pointed out that if “Higgins” as a surname goes back to “uigan”, Norse for “seaman”, as the article says, the current president of Ireland is called Michael D. Higgins…
Well, I believe the viking raids and abductions of women are still very much known in Ireland for example.
June 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Well, I believe the viking raids and abductions of women are still very much known in Ireland for example.
Mix of Germanic/vestigial Celtic, maybe? I’ve found anecdotally that at least on the Germanic side, German native speakers seem to have an easier time with old English than native English speakers today.
June 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Mix of Germanic/vestigial Celtic, maybe? I’ve found anecdotally that at least on the Germanic side, German native speakers seem to have an easier time with old English than native English speakers today.