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It does seem like it. A lot of the details of the map in the full-size image are a bit screwy in that way that AI does it. Denmark appears to have merged a bunch of its islands together, Pembrokeshire in Wales has migrated northward, and Stranraer in Scotland has sunk beneath the waves

They’ve fixed it now. The first number is 3, not 40

I don’t think I agree with that. Decoupling from American military and tech products can happen with or without tariffs, but doing so is primarily for the security of Europe. The tariffs are done to damage the credibility of the politicians responsible for them. They’re attempting to achieve separate goals. Regardless of whether Europe can trust America — and I agree with you that Europe can’t — if Europe has the ability to turn American public opinion against policies that harm Europe, doing so is beneficial to Europe. Better a large power that can’t be trusted than one that is actively hostile.

They tend to aim for things made in states that elected the politicians responsible. In the case of Jack Daniels, that comes from Mitch McConnell’s state

The EU has historically been quite targeted when counter-tariffing America. A couple of quotes from this Guardian article:

These tariffs, which target notable US goods worth €4.5bn, often from Republican states, will snap back on 1 April.

And

“We try to hit … where it hurts,” said a senior EU official, who said the bloc was targeting soya beans, which are grown in Louisiana, the state of the US speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. “We love soybeans, but we’re happy to buy them from Brazil or from Argentina or from anywhere else.”

Learning Esperanto first allegedly increases a student’s ability to learn other foreign languages

It should be noted that being multilingual at all improves the ability to acquire new unfamiliar words, this isn’t something unique to Esperanto (or at least, that project does not show that Esperanto is uniquely good for this purpose)

Every part of the world has a history of imperialism. Europe just happened to be the part that developed the tools to do it on the biggest scale, and the continent eventually burned itself down with them

China has had several of the biggest empires in history. So has India, so has Iran. Peru was once the seat of one of the biggest empires, and so was Mongolia. The Songhai and Mali empires were enormous. Ethiopia, the one part of Africa that kept outside conquerors out the longest, was itself a massive empire. Tonga once subjugated most of the other Pacific Islands.

The European empires inflicted a horrific amount of suffering, and they aren’t completely gone. The mindset that created them, unfortunately, has been present in just about every society for all of history

Depends on what you count as “under control” I guess? No ships have been captured or sunk since last June, so in that regard yes. On the other hand, civilian ships were still getting hit by things a couple of times a month.

Either way, though, the EU has the capacity to shoot into Yemen and isn’t doing so. I would argue that regardless of ethics, it’s not actually a helpful thing to do. The Saudis bombed Yemen for about a decade, and if that had achieved anything then we wouldn’t be in the current situation.

The EU has had ships in the Red Sea for this reason for a year already, they’re just keeping to shooting down missiles and drones instead of flinging missiles into Yemen

Sure, maybe it should be one of those two

amid tensions with Russia and the U.S.

Literally the first sentence of the article. Tension with the US over Greenland, with Russia over the war in Ukraine

Based on the votes it seems like nobody is getting the joke here, but I liked it at least

That’s “vegetarian”. Veganism avoids all animal products (there’s more to it than that, but that’s the simple version), so the dairy in most chocolate is out

I don’t think that can explain it alone, since a British MP was in trouble over £4,000 from gambling companies last year

They’ve still got an economy to run and they’ve got a lot of productive agriculture in the country. Once the people are fed, anything left over is worth exporting for money. Also, though, while the number of people fighting is enormous and the number displaced is even greater, it’s still a minority of the total population. There are about a million in the armed forces, 6 million refugees outside of Ukraine, and 8 million within Ukraine. That makes 15 million total. There are about 33 million people in the country (a number which doesn’t include the 6 million external refugees, I believe), so that’s 24 million still trying to live life as normally as they can