Pretty much, because the organisers of this event won’t follow their own rules and does anything and everything to keep the genociders participating.

To reiterate, the turmoil is not directly because of the genocide, but it’s because EBU (the organisers) refuse to allow its members to even vote on whether Israel (who have constantly been breaking the rules in recent years) are allowed to participate, despite EBU’s own rules clearly stating that such votings should be conducted.

The double standard is unbelievably biased and has permanently destroyed the contest’s reputation.

Because it’s not kilowatt per hour (kW/h), it’s kilowatt hours (kWh). It would be fine to say GW years, but then the question would be over how long? Most likely one year, which gives us GWy/y = GW.

It was definitely intentional, but also it looks like only one punch. The video just shows it from 2 angles.

Still enough to hopefully get the pig suspended and fined.

Because military threat is more imminent. From a logical POV it’s absurd, but sadly most world leaders don’t use their brains or they can’t fathom how a slow change can be slowly killing us.

Yeah, this 200 kg of cocaine is probably one of the largest busts ever!

To be fair, this mainly seems lika Purra being Purra, or in other words, a lunatic. This is only her proposal for new budget cuts and none of the other government parties have agreed with them so far.

In fact, even the NCP have said this proposal doesn’t seem reasonable and will need a lot of negotiation to even become somewhat feasible. Let’s see this autumn where the negotiations lead us, but I don’t believe most of it will make it into the budget plan.

As far as I understand, it’s still a bit unclear.

Thailand claims Cambodian troops were approaching a Thai border guard station and started firing towards the Thai soldiers, leading to the Thai soldiers firing back.

Cambodia claims the patrol was walking the regular route, and Thai soldiers suddenly opened fire towards them.

Obviously one (or both) is lying, and the situation escalated quickly.

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Yes they do. This is a deterrent, not a last-ditch effort to protect ourselves if war breaks out.

The Parliament would decide to ratify Ukraine’s accession to the EU, but the official papers are signed by the president, so he could use his veto to block it.

The decision goes back to the Parliament, and if it passes with a 2/3 majority the president is forced to sign no matter what he thinks.

Again, I’m not 100% sure it works like this in Poland, but it does in several countries.

As I understand, the president can still use his veto, forcing the question back to the parliament requiring 2/3 majority to overrule the veto.

Rice shortage?

The title is, unsurprisingly, heavily exaggerated. The study does not claim there are “billions more people”. They studied 307 different dam construction projects around the word, and found the actual number of affected people in those rural areas was like 40-80% higher than estimated.

Their conclusion is that it’s likely the population of the world is quite underestimated, but they don’t want to guess by how much, that’s all cooked up by the “journalist”.

Finn here. The common answer is that all sad people kill themselves here. The suicide rate is surprisingly high.

For a more serious answer, you have to look at what the survey actually measures. There are 3 big factors in this survey.

1. Social support, the people believe they will get help if they need. While healthcare system receives lots of criticism due to constant budget cuts, it’s still fast and cheap enough for those who really need it. Economic security is possibly the best in the world, where you receive decent support if you’re poor enough and a small apartment if you’re homeless, without any preconditions.

2. Freedom, the people feel like they’re free to do what they want with their lives. There are both laws that protect you from things like trespassing, meaning you can walk anywhere you want in rural areas, while the police are really lenient in urban areas and don’t really care what you do as long as you don’t disturb others. Also in general, people don’t want to bother others as much as I’ve seen in other countries.

3. Perceptions of corruption, the people believe in the government and media. We enjoy a strong democratic system that, although not perfect, is among the best in the world. The political climate is also rather mild, with the largest party in every election being centre-left, centre or centre-right. Although the right-wing has recently been on the rise, it seems like that trend is starting to turn. As for media, the state sponsored YLE is about as unbiased as media can be, although their coverage of global events can be somewhat lackluster. Also, despite being state sponsored, they operate completely independently.

I feel like I have to introduce a counter-example, this song has been absolutely stuck in my head in the last few weeks. I’ve listened to it literally hundreds of times in that timeframe and it’s still an absolute banger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3HOMhAeQY

I’d say the issue here is that the rest of the song is in English. It’s literally only this one word that is supposedly in Maltese, in the sentence “I do it all the time, serving kant”.

In order for negotiations to conclude, both sides have to agree. The US isn’t one of those sides. In 2022 there were a lot of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, but they were so far from agreeing that they realized there’s no use in negotiating for a long time.

There’s nothing Biden could have done, apart from sending even more aid, to help the situation. And now with Trump chatting with Putin, there’s hardly any difference. No deal will be reached without Ukraine agreeing, which they’re clearly not.

The only result from this will likely be that the US completely stops all support, forcing the EU to send even more aid, and the war will drag on a lot longer, probably years.

It could’ve been closer to the truth in 2022. At least in Europe when the energy prices skyrocketed I think I paid closer to 1€/kWh.

That’s some hella expensive electricity you’re buying there. I’m getting mine at 14 cents/kWh, which is roughly 1.2€/W per year. This isn’t even close to the cheapest option available.

As a non-Englisman, I’d say it’s pretty normal for devices and house appliances to have physical text in English but software in another (local) language.