First, framing the decision not to use frozen Russian assets (for now) as a “failure” misses an important point: the €90bn loan package was adopted unanimously, giving it far greater political legitimacy.

Something something The New Amsterdammer

That how the ë is used in Dutch. Looks fucking weird in English though.

I have had to deal with some absolute bullshitry from my energy supplier over the last week and all I can say is that I would like them nationalised regardless of whether that makes them work better, because what I'm looking for is mainly revenge.

#CreepState

Artistic might be stretching it, but it's definitely a vocation of some kind, which I think does fit into the spirit of what you're arguing yes.

I don't know if you're talking literary translation or more general. If the latter, Mozilla just managed to chase away their entire community of volunteer Japanese translators, because they started letting AI mess up their work: support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums...

Sometime in the 1990s, touring until the early 2000s?

Could work if you run things fully remote. Making them share an office might be risky though.

I guess for the same reason that many football clubs around the world founded at that time had English names, except in this case there weren't any actual English people involved, meaning they kind of ended up in uncanny valley names-wise.

I followed the link to their website, and there it says that there was already another team with that name: Be Quick Groningen. They still exist to this day: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Quic...

Believes PLA is in bad shape. Morale is low, incentive to actually fight is low.
But Taiwan is seriously imperilled because of extensive CCP infiltration and cooptation of KMT. Aggressive posturing by PRC could bring preemptive Taiwan collapse. That’s what Xi wants and needs politically.
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