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I expect that Russia will avoid peace talks until they see how the American elections turn out (and if the current American government can get over the current roadblocks to arming Ukraine). If Trump wins then either Europe has to compensate for the loss of American support, driving a wedge between Europe and the US, or Europe fails to make up the shortfall and Ukraine has a far weaker hand in negotiations.

I can imagine it's also possible that Ukraine is doing this right now specifically because Russia probably wants to wait for the American elections.

Whatever happens, I wish Ukraine the best of luck. I hope we give them the strength to get either a good deal or a victorious end to the way, whichever they choose to go after

"Of course we have a UFO sighting club. It keeps detailed and well-organised records and 95% of sightings have perfectly ordinary explanations."

That's some peak Germany right there. Amazing.

I know, they've already explained it. I'm just explaining why English first-language people might be confused by the phrasing.

I assume you're using a direct translation of a German term, but in English that doesn't make sense. "Ethnic" as an adjective by itself usually means an ethnic minority, and while "non-ethnic" isn't really a term anyone uses it would be read as meaning the majority ethnicity in a place

Bulgaria

I think they just meant the logos are terrible, rather than the software

It's "February", so when the user typed "Febu" the program discarded "February" as an option. Only the "ary" part is autocompleted in that image, the "Febu" part has been typed manually. Although I can imagine that that first R will steadily get dropped in some dialects of English considering how it isn't really pronounced in them

It's aioli that someone figured out how to sell before they finished making it

I tried self-teaching with some books and Duolingo, but I was struggling to keep a real focus on it and not making any good progress. I live in a part of the country with little in the way of any Gaelic culture, so there wasn't a lot that I could make use of locally either. Turns out the University of the Highlands and Islands does a distance learning course that is very cheap for anyone living in Scotland, so I've been doing that and getting along much better. By its nature it also means I know a few more people that are also trying to learn

Australia is so ridiculously huge that even the relatively tiny fraction that's amenable to crops is still one of the world's biggest. Only 4% of its land is arable and that still means it has the 10th largest arable area of any country (ten times more arable land than Taiwan has any kind of land)

There are several deals he made that are, in the findings of the case, considered to have been facilitated by fraud. Since any income from these deals is therefore considered to be "ill-gotten gains", the full income from them is the amount in question here. So it's like, he defrauded people in order to sell $355m of property so he loses the income generated by that fraud

I do have to wonder if Excel would still have done that had the creator not mis-spelled February

I'm learning Gàidhlig and have a speaking exam coming up, so I'm practicing with a friend on the same course on Saturday. Sunday I'm being way less productive and getting together with some friends for lunch and a session of Victoria 2. I'm kinda anxious to get out of the house for a bit too, as weather and illness have kept me stuck indoors for a while

If Milei saves the current Tory government by doing some stupid shit in the Falklands I will personally move to Argentina for the sole purpose of playing bagpipes outside his house at 3am every night

Frankly I think we should call up the International Phonetic Association and tell them that you've developed a better transcription system than their alphabet

I'm a Scottish man that likes whisky, haggis, and beer and I actually do own and wear (at the right occasions) a kilt. Unfortunately I balance it out by having an accent from a different part of the country to the one that adds about a dozen extra syllables to "purple burglar alarm"

Here you go https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X19305371?via%3Dihub

The paper's introduction actually does explain it:

In his book, Shadows in the Sun, Davis (1998: 20) recounts what is now arguably one of the most popular ethnographic accounts of all time:
“There is a well known account of an old Inuit man who refused to move into a settlement. Over the objections of his family, he made plans to stay on the ice. To stop him, they took away all of his tools. So in the midst of a winter gale, he stepped out of their igloo, defecated, and honed the feces into a frozen blade, which he sharpened with a spray of saliva. With the knife he killed a dog. Using its rib cage as a sled and its hide to harness another dog, he disappeared into the darkness.”

There's also the story of Danish explorer Peter Freuchen, who claims to have used his own frozen shit to make a chisel to dig himself out of some ice. The paper takes the time to say that it is strictly about knives, though, not chisels

They aren't trying to force "social security" on us, it's an article primarily aimed at an American audience using the term Americans will be familiar with in the headline. The article body calls it the Department for Work and Pensions

Swahili with its eighteen noun classes strides above it all like an eldritch god