Hell even on the issue of Cuba specifically, during his presidency Trump chose to undo the progress Obama had made. He has already made it worse

It was wild re-reading all that back when Russia launched its “special military operation”. One of the last things Trump did in office was attempt to extort and/or weaken the country Putin was gearing up to invade again

There are ways to mitigate this. Scotland and Wales use a system that’s basically FPTP with compensation. It’s not perfectly proportional and some of the elected representatives are from a party list rather than being voted on individually, but the individual ones are picked first and it’s proportional enough that voting for smaller parties isn’t a waste of time

Germany is usually at least in the top fifteen of that list, if not in the top ten. It’s not as big as the US, but the disparity is substantially smaller than between the US and Denmark

I would be quite interested to see how they would rank the EU. Not an average of the EU countries, a score for the actual EU itself

I believe that the main reason for people as wealthy as him to own newspapers is not the money, it’s the influence. This does hurt that

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Sanders turns out to have no idea how to play a shooter game and the next day every news outlet reports that he defected to the communist automatons

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Cadbury used to taste substantially better here and has been coasting on that reputation since it was bought over by Kraft (now Mondelez) in 2010. It was never exceptional, but it was definitely better than it is now

The loan is cash they’re giving to Ukraine. The loan is then paid off with profits from the frozen assets. Ukraine does not need to pay for the loan.

serviced by profits generated by Russian assets immobilised in the West

Making it a loan serviced by the assets makes it a large upfront sum that can be paid off without diminishing the original sum, and also makes it all come in the form of easily-used cash

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Dr Strange being a professional surgeon and barely making it past the neutral mark on the qualification axis seems, well, a bit strange

Oh shit, the Democrats have Witchers now?

For real though I think that a strong performance here could be quite effective for her if what I’ve read about the prevalence of Fox News on public screens in the States is true

Surely for such a common character it would be easier to make a new keyboard layout that always types the preferred apostrophe when that key is pressed?

I’m having the same issue, unfortunately

Maybe we can make a new post with the exact same link. “Mildly infuriating: this mildly infuriating article presents a login page to other users for no apparent reason”

The actual mid-20th century German Nazis wanted to create an Israel, although they intended on it being in a different place. It was basically their way to “justify” deporting every Jew

Strictly speaking it’s “only” aged 51 years, these were released in 1999

I assume you’ve tripped up on your measurements somewhere, because 4 ml would be a very sad dram. A spirit measure in the UK is 25 ml, so you get 28 of those out of a 700 ml bottle for $7,000 at that bar.

Edit: upon looking it up, apparently a dram actually is 4 ml in America? In Scotland that’s just the word for a glass of whisky, assumed to be an approximate “one drink” rather than an actual specification of volume. If you offered someone a dram and poured them 4 ml here, they’d think you were the stingiest person since Ebenezer Scrooge

However bars mark drinks up like mad, and they will absolutely do so on extremely premium drinks because the only people buying those are people who do not care how much it costs. If you take $3 for a shot of a basic vodka, that’s $84 for the bottle, and there’s absolutely no way you’d pay $84 for that same bottle in a supermarket.

You definitely could spend seven grand on a 40 year old bottle of whisky if you went looking for one. This specific bottle is 51 years, but it’s commanding this price because it’s a very rare special edition from a big and popular distillery

Paradox’s games don’t really do storytelling in a traditional sense. They’re strategy and management games. Some of them are pretty damn good at creating stories dynamically through gameplay, or providing a frame upon which you can create your own stories, but they were never intended to be narrative experiences

None of the Anglosphere currencies would make this anything other than the price of a car anyway. This is absolutely just a collector’s item for those with more money than sense, never expected to be actually drunk