Yeah, “detect alignment” is not a call available in any standard library.

Don’t do it, Europe. Listen to your experts.

There’s also credit unions.

Knowing your nationality, some Canadian provinces do have a public bank too, like ATB in Alberta.

In theory they’re legally obligated to switch one day. In practice Romania is being blocked by other EU members.

Don’t worry, they physically can’t get any angrier. The people on the other hand mostly support the idea of joining.

The far right is currently collapsing here, and was never as prominent as in France or Germany in the first place.

I wonder what you’re thinking of. On just about every issue there’s somewhere in Europe further right or further left. Since this is Lemmy you probably don’t mean we like immigrants too much.

Northern Union? Atlantic Union?

Honestly keeping it the EU might be the easiest.

You can still decorate your Euros how you want, so we could keep our beavers and loons.

Less hypocrisy, more dysfunction. There’s a whole two EU nations that want two keep hungry around, but that’s enough to keep them in it regardless of what it does.

Does this have more backing than the motion to ban the AfD entirely did?

It was not slapstick. The show starts with a monologue by the guest star. They were clips drawn from actual recent works, and the punchline was “gee, I sure do have a lot of intense scenes!”. There was another one where she’s lit on fire as well, although that one was goofier. I’m not a moron who watches comedies, while somehow not understanding comedy.

I’m sure I could find stronger examples if they didn’t all blur together, but it was the one from my lived last 24 hours.

I actually have no idea what it was in originally - it was just a clip shown in the intro to Saturday Night Live. Which goes to show how normalised that sort of thing is.

Hmm. Would that be politically viable? If they’re coming to your rescue militarily the relationship has to be deeper than just trade.

Really? Just since I posted this, I saw Mikey Madison getting shot into a lit stove and catching on fire.

The actual Russian part is the European part, though.

They have >1000. They only need a 1% success rate.

Based on intel from my MI buddies

I really hope you’re lying about that.

Yeah, even he has to know that if Europe does fight back (as you and me know it would) it will go poorly for him.

Clearly, Putin underestimated Ukraine at the beginning of his invasion. But Russia can maintain the war against Ukraine for a long time to come.

Barring help from the US, I would be shocked if they don’t have hyperinflation within 15 months. Maybe they can keep going through that, or maybe not.

There’s a chance Trump’s successor as fuhrer will be more directly militaristic, but only a chance. Most likely, Putin is still expecting Europe to fold and submit this time he escalates. Probably because he’s misread the complacency of the West over the past two decades as a weakness of personality.

likely when this happens will have new allies besides the US

Who are you thinking of? Canada’s a “shoe in” if you’ll take us, of course, but anyone else?