The world is trying to tell you something, Kate.

Yes exactly. I don't think you need to have a European demos to have a European Union. You only need an EU demos to have a very specific type of union, which has fallen out of favour anyway.

Drones are just fancy airships.

are EU ships not allowed to transport oil below the price cap? It's fine to suggest even that mechanism is insufficient/immoral, but surely not enough to sanction any Greek oligarch.

To be fair, Rooney is using the publicity-machine quite adeptly here. She is explicitly tying the royalties of her books to payments she will separately make to Palestine Action. This feels contrived to say the least.

Lol yes I'd never heard of the other shows
Listen everyone is in the market for comedic Aussie hyper-violent noir lightly surreal TV. They might not know it yet.

Have you ever watched Mr Inbetween? Completely unique, three short seasons. Thing I've enjoyed most in years

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my 86-year-old father-in-law gets an Economist sub every year (at his request!) but hey I am a bit biased.

Posh food staples I find are good for people who genuinely need nothing. nice salt. olive oil. stuff that effortlessly elevates a meal-- actually gets used.

Irish GDP figures are garbage - even the Irish don't use them. Distorted by intellectual-property tax dodging by Big Tech and Pharma. Best to exclude entirely from EU GDP analysis.

he's 27 until he's 28

But how will I know, as a casual browser on Instagram, whether the expert chef lovingly dicing the onion on camera is real or not? I just won't. I know Kim Kardashian is real, sure. But 99% of Instagram is content where I don't know - and perhaps don't care - if the human portrayed actually exists

note that the idea of "no unfreezing of assets until reparations are paid" has already been agreed at G7 level and I think at European Council level. So that rubicon has already been crossed politically.

There is an element of circularity here, given you have to tie the lifting of sanctions by RU to the payment of reparations also by RU. This is morally right but it is legally tenuous, given reparations are far from agreed. "Give us cash to gain access to your own cash" is pretty near confiscation

A well-curated Instagram timeline generated by AI is basically indistinguishable from a real influencer, no? I think the pics are basically the entire narrative - beyond a small group of superstar influencers. So my guess is the AI model spells doom for basically 99% of Insta stars.

however much AI image-generation costs it will always be cheaper than flying to Mykonos for that "authentic chill" snap for your timeline.

We haven't seen legal text yet. And I have heard a lot of different variants. But isn't the central point that the CBR claim on Euroclear would be in some way conditional (on payment of reparations)? Clearly their claim is constrained, or else the cash would be in Moscow already