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yes, if I could do maths
yes, if I could do maths
strings are in base two, got it
They are actually there in the report… but barely. They’re much lighter than every other border. It doesn’t seem to be mentioned anywhere so I assume it was just a mistake
This is obivously not the actual point of the map, but why have a bunch of countries in Central Africa merged? It looks like Angola, both Congos, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea
We thought we were the ones domesticating grass when we invented agriculture, but the grass isn’t the one that changed how it lives
It’s kind of a shitty name to insist upon given our history with Ireland though, isn’t it? Like, regardless of what it was called, we can call the archipelago “the British and Irish Isles” or something if we want to.
Personally I reckon we should call it Maughold’s Isles. “British and Irish Isles” is fine, if a little wordy. “Islands of the North Atlantic” is one I see floated every so often, but it’s miserably generic and even longer. So I suggest we use the patron saint of the Isle of Man. It’s in between Britain and Ireland and technically not part of the UK. Maughold himself was a pirate who tried to play a practical joke on St Patrick, so he’s a bit of a scoundrel, and it’s exactly the kind of silly trivia that we like so much here
Oh neat, I have a book by the creator of this but had no idea about their website
That is a very strange article. The headline is “How Boris Johnson Sabotaged Ukraine Russia Peace Deal In April” and the bulk of it is about how a former US National Security Council officer didn’t say that.
Frankly the NYT one seems a lot more convincing to me. That addition to the security guarantee clause is obviously completely unworkable.
Maybe find an article that says that then. The one you linked says that yes, they were close to an agreement, but at the last minute Russia inserted a clause that was a dealbreaker
What that link actually says:
To the Ukrainians’ dismay, there was a crucial departure from what Ukrainian negotiators said was discussed in Istanbul. Russia inserted a clause saying that all guarantor states, including Russia, had to approve the response if Ukraine were attacked. In effect, Moscow could invade Ukraine again and then veto any military intervention on Ukraine’s behalf — a seemingly absurd condition that Kyiv quickly identified as a dealbreaker. Russia tried to secure a veto on Ukraine’s security guarantees by inserting a clause requiring unanimous consent.
With that change, a member of the Ukrainian negotiating team said, “we had no interest in continuing the talks.”
Under this interpretation, the headline could then read “New Polling Shows Significant Ukrainian Support for War to End the War”
You said Russia was being diplomatic. Nobody is arguing that powerful countries are often cruel. So again, if this is Russia’s diplomacy towards Ukraine, do you agree that America was diplomatic towards Afghanistan?
Oh right, so do you consider America’s behaviour towards Afghanistan diplomatic then?
It’s not meaningful diplomacy to say “give us everything we want or we will take everything we want”
That’s a hard shift from “Russia is being diplomatic” to “Russia can just take what it wants”
The “deal” requires Ukraine to cede a colossal amount of territory before negotiations even begin. Even if the Ukrainian leadership was willing to give up all of that for peace, doing so here would not actually even buy them peace, only a start to negotiations that could collapse at any time. That’s about as diplomatic an offer as Ukraine saying “pre-2014 borders and then we can talk.”
If I’m understanding it correctly, it’s a case of:
So NASA found something interesting a while back and made a best guess based on the data available, and now CNSA found some more data that might change the prior conclusions. On the other hand it is still possible that NASA’s theory is correct, it’s not like anyone found a billions-of-years-old recipe for the moon. This new stuff just tips the scales against it a little.
I don’t expect it will even reduce tourism that much, at least not in the long term. Barcelona is one of Europe’s most famous cultural centres. People will still want to go. They just need enough hotels to get set up to handle them
It feels kinda like how comic books bold words for emphasis, and just about as randomly applied