They’re also countries with extremely low wages and fairly large English-speaking populations

Wir essen Kosmoskost Wir lesen Kosmospost Wir trinken Kosmosmost Und wir sind bis oben hin so voll!

That looks great! You know, I’ve never actually played a TTRPG set with the kind of technology that would be right for star forts, but I want to know what’s out there now

France already has them, though?

You don’t become this rich in the first place if you have a concept of “enough”

I hope I’m as tough as people like that if and when I get to that age. I like hillwalking and bump into them every so often. I’m fairly capable out on the hills but I take a pretty leisurely approach; I’ll bring a good sandwich and stop to eat it somewhere with a nice view, take a little detour to see something interesting, that sort of thing. One time when I was out I overtook one very old lady four times because every time I stopped she just marched on by like a goddamn machine. On the fourth one she made a joke about the tortoise and the hare. I was glad she said it because I was definitely thinking it

They are at least a lot lighter than an actual motorbike, but yes there should be a line drawn on how fast they can go. The motors are capped at 15.5 mph / 25 kph here, which is a fast but manageable pace for a decent cyclist. Anything above that counts as a motorbike and has to be taxed and registered as one

The opposite happens to me frequently because they have electric assist bikes and I don’t. Holy shit that old boy is keeping up a pace- ohhhhh he’s barely pedalling

I’m kinda envious to be honest

Well justified, though it’ll be a goddamn miracle if it actually happens. Even outside of the invasion, Russia is one of the world’s worst polluters

Nokia and Ericsson

Microsoft, Google, and Apple do not make the kind of telecoms equipment that this is about. The big American companies in this field are Cisco and Qualcomm. The Chinese companies are major suppliers in Europe, the American ones aren’t

Huh?

Traditional Western rivals such as Nokia and Ericsson have struggled to compete on price against Chinese firms due to the way they get partial funding from state backing.

“I’m definitely not a cop”

Never mind getting the Union Jack the right way up, at least some of those dumb fucks managed to paint the Danish flag on a roundabout because they forgot what the English one looks like

It’s essentially a model parliament, but one that gets contact with the actual government. Under-18s fight for election and hold debates in the same manner as the House of Commons

No, I have absolutely no idea how this makes it “woke” beyond that some people just use the word to mean “thing I don’t like”

Funny you should say that, they actually caused one in Moscow just over a week ago (October 31st)

It seems to me like Ukraine is focussing its efforts on military targets and oil production, though. Russia’s oil industry has been getting absolutely hammered, to the point where it has had to start importing fuel

Didn’t they start handing blue checks to high-profile people that didn’t ask for them? Some time soon after they immediately became a marker of accounts run by warped knobheads

I definitely don’t think that they should be restricted, but I do find that weather significantly affects my tastes and some things are way better when specific ingredients are in season. I love cranachan but tend to go for it only when I can get good fresh raspberries, and I enjoy denser and heavier foods a lot more when I’m hiding from the cold

No. I don’t know if this is where you heard the story from specifically, but certainly here in the UK it was basically a lie spread by pro-Brexit figures. There is an EU regulation on the shape of fruits, but it’s only for classifying them; you can absolutely buy and sell funny-shaped fruit all you want. It’s just an easy way for buyers that do actually care about perfectly-shaped fruit to find that, such as wholesalers

It’s the day of Stonewall, so there are loads of pride marches, but also it was the last day of the first battle of Seoul in 1950 so the soul was slightly too early