Yer a pterodactyl, Mox. A pterodactyl.

The portrait of Herzog which we all want to see, is the one he produces himself.

Because when your incredibly distressed child needs an explanation for the horrors they just saw on their screen, you suddenly feel more willing to accept a much higher level of dire conditions to shield your child from experiencing war.

Because psyop.

Which isn’t to say that there aren’t genuine participants; only that it is notable that XR, JustStopOil, InsulateBritain, et al all materialised at the same time, seemingly from nothing, with expensive publicity campaigns, and performing actions guaranteed to be alienating at best.

Forgot to ramble earlier, so have this scant link instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_stone#Dry_stone_walls

Looking forward to a photographic journal of learning to build similar walls on LallyLuckFarm.

You know it is going to happen.

Outside of the US, soccer fixtures are the biggest sporting events (certainly in Europe & Russia).

Due to a long history of violent football hooliganism, there is already elevated security around these events & international intelligence coordination preceding them.

Additionally, it is usually very difficult to obtain tickets unless you have connections to a club.

These factors would make them trickier targets than lesser sporting events or concerts.

Differences in transport access to sporting stadia & theatres in different countries may also play a role. Terrorists naturally take logistics into account.

And maybe the US just picks up more chatter about sporting events & not much about theatres?

But yeah, broadly either type of target is possible anywhere.

Given that the purpose of the EU was to dramatically reduce the conflicts that plagued Europe for thousands of years, culminating in WWII, through ever greater cooperation, the credibility of the project may come into question if Europe is unable to cooperate enough to see off Russian aggression in neighbouring terrain.

Relative to many of the issues which the EU & closely aligned neighbours must agree upon if they are to act, responses to a military threat ought to be easier to arrive at, and yet here we are.

On the other hand, can be useful to have a moderator in a totally different time zone to the rest of the team.

Lack of history seems more relevant, though not as much as a candidate’s personality.

Indeed & this aches my heart.

Think we all get why they’re too cynical to kick off, but still.

Loved my one very short trip to Germany & really want to start making many more visits.

Great people, beautiful language & seems like you guys have a bit of everything. Banging.

Yeah, I’d say that French brusqueness was softer than Danish.

Faffing around overly seems rude to me - too much scope for misunderstanding when one have to hope the other person has read between the lines as one intended them.

Tbh the reputed rudeness was usually just brusqueness, only a mode amongst some of the population (with just as many or more being utterly charming), and had largely ceased to be a thing over 20 years ago.

Idyllic!

Think the idea is to build a good supply of hydrogen as a resource, not as a store of wealth or a currency.

Yup, am sure that forcing people into physical distress will make them soooo much more attractive to employers, that bosses will just conjure jobs out of thin air & Tory greed.

Rancid fuckstains.

Point is probably to cause professional urban Putin supporters to query their own view of him if he does not grant clemency in this case.

Because though dictators rule with an iron fist, they still require some level of backing & tacit approval from their populations. If they had the power to totally ignore public opinion, they’d have no need to try to shape it so brutally.

Certainly he seems to like to pretend to his domestic audience that he’s capable of being reasonable.

Would have thought avoiding a digital record entirely would be best.

An app which does not ever upload your data could be ok, but I wouldn’t risk it without various kinds of blocks just in case - only takes one unaudited update & boom, your data is on a server somewhere the police can access.

Scary thing is, though abortion is easy to access in the UK, the laws on the matter are far, far tighter.

This means that it would take very little to drastically reduce access.

So though there is little appetite amongst the public for restricting abortion, or reproductive health generally, a government in thrall to certain types of donor can impose restrictions nigh instantaneously.

Sure, there would be court cases and patients/doctors/clinics would likely win, but the law moves painfully slowly relative to human gestation.

It worries me that people take a “wouldn’t happen here” attitude.

Be quite amusing if we could poison their well by persuading a great many people to send in samples from other life forms.

Probably easier, cheaper & faster to make their data unusable via other means though.