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The biggest ones are about the size of teff grains or fine couscous, which is more like sand than a fine powder

No, not right now. There was a comment from the German foreign minister saying that Europe should apply the same amount of funding as it did against covid, and that was about €670 billion ($700 billion). However the discussion is ongoing and Britain and France have both just said they're willing to put troops on the ground to protect a ceasefire, so hope is not lost

which is barely a drip feed compared to Bidens firehouse

Europe has given Ukraine more than America. Source

Biden's last package closed the gap a fair bit, but Europe is still the bigger source of support and definitely the more consistent one

The "rental" part of the deal is that we leased the missiles from America and pay an American company to maintain them. Once they're fitted with a warhead (done in Britain) and loaded aboard the sub, though, they can be fired with literally no outside participation. Being a submarine-based deterrent as it is, they kinda have to be able to operate independently from anything on the land, British government included.

Ahh, I see what you mean now. Thank you for explaining!

This is a paradoxical sentence in this context. Raw material was used because it was practical and functional, but at the same time it was fashionable too.

Perhaps I phrased it badly. All I meant to say is that "not using concrete" does not equal "not brutalist". I agree with the rest of what.you said, I think that I've just failed to communicate what I intended to beforehand

It's think that Corbusier would take offense with his name associated with this.

I don't know enough about Le Corbusier to agree or disagree with you - I did study some of his design, but it was a long time ago - but he would hardly be alone as an artist that wasn't so keen on what his work influenced. I don't think that would make it any less true

It actually has protected status in part because it is an example of brutalism. To quote its listing:

"Architectural innovation: the building displays an unusual blend of New Brutalist architecture (influenced by late Le Corbusier) that is mellowed by an inspired application of upturned curves to the main elevations, sweeping car park ramps and the curved ends of the former taxi rank."

Concrete wasn't necessarily a defining feature of brutalist architecture, it was just the thing that was really cheap and available in abundance when Europe was attempting to rebuild itself in the wake of WWII. Since brutalism does avoid the decoration or adornment of materials, in practice this resulted in a lot of visible concrete, but it's not like designers were going "let's use concrete only because it's the fashion"

I'm fairly sure you're just making a joke about the name here, but brutalist architecture was actually a pretty genuine attempt to improve the circumstances of the public. The thinking was basically to put function over form and then embrace the raw appearance of materials and make it a feature. It didn't always succeed at this, but th ethinking was pretty good

I think that you've shown that non-horizontal horizons can be used to artistic effect, but I don't think that just letting it happen without intention is necessarily a good idea. The horizon in your photo has clearly been very carefully aligned with the corners of the image. It seems much more intentional than OP's image.

Also while obviously nobody should treat compositional "rules" as actual hard-and-fast rules, I do quite like this one if it is cropped to put the person and the horizon on the thirds lines

Here's a rotated version, cropped as little as I can manage.

I don't know about a military context or if this would be acceptable to fly in this context, but flags like this are usually seen here being flown by supporters of football teams that play in black and white strips, like Newcastle United.

Artist Jonathan Parsons also made one like it back in 1993 that was about the disappearance of black and white TV and film. This photo is definitely not about that, of course, but I found it interesting

Ahh my mistake, you're right

Ehhh there's not no interaction though, as .ml has them all federated and quite a lot of posts are there

I was misremembering, see below

Underlining the difficulty Europe could have in summoning a united response, some member states, including Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Romania, said they were unhappy that the Paris meeting was not a full EU summit.

They are represented in a sense by organisations like NATO and the EU, but that's also true for France and Poland and they still got invited as individual countries

Excluding the Czechs seems especially weird given how enthusiastic and effective they've been in their support for Ukraine

Greece specifically has one of the largest tank forces in Europe. Mostly because Turkiye also has one of the biggest tank forces in Europe.

Genderswapped Malenia vs Radahn

I assume it must have played a role. The Chinese border with Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar has some pretty damn big mountains too, which is one of the other classic "invading through this sucks" features

No individual European country is, but you and I both said "Europe", not "a European country". I'm saying that of the support Ukraine has received, most of it is from Europe. In terms of different categories of military equipment, though? Yeah, the US has often been outspent. In terms of value sent by individual countries, Poland has sent the most tanks and Germany has sent the most howitzers and anti-air systems. Sweden has nearly matched the US for IFVs. Even if you completely ignore the costs of supporting the Ukrainian government financially, giving homes to all of the Ukrainian refugees, and paying for humanitarian work in Ukraine — all of which are absolutely necessary for the war effort — the only way you can think that Europe isn't doing anything is if you've just never looked.

Source: https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker