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Cake day: March 17th, 2024

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  • Both the EU and NATO require unaminous approval of existing members to add new members. Both organisations contain several members that have been under Russian domination within living memory. Given Russia’s frequent aggression towards its neighbours in the post-Soviet period, why would the likes of the Baltic countries trust Russia to be a reliable ally?

    Additionally, Russia just straight up does not meet the Copenhagen criteria to join the EU and doesn’t have any measure of the pre-accession integration that every other applicant does







  • I am proud to say that I know a decent amount about Icelandic pronunciation despite not being able to speak it! This is entirely because Skálmöld songs are really fun to sing along to so I memorised the soinds of a few of them

    Edit: and also that one time Eyjafjallajökull shut down air travel over half of Europe



  • The biggest disputes are Russia/Ukraine, Taiwan, trade dumping, and cyberwarfare. The EU wants Ukraine to win the war, the status quo to be maintained in Taiwan, to protect its domestic manufacturing, and to protect its computer systems from interference. I don’t know enough about the latter two to say the truth of what China and the EU are doing, I just know that the EU has disputes with China about them

    I do think that a healthy China-EU relationship in the near future is far more likely than a Russia-EU one and even a little more likely than a US-EU one. There are disputes, but to my amateur eye they look more surmountable






  • It’s the leaves you’re after, and the stems are also good if weaker than the leaves. Just take care to do your reading beforehand, because it looks really similar to a couple of other things that are poisonous if you eat them. The smell is very helpful in making sure you’ve got wild garlic, of course, but just make sure youre confident about identifying it




  • Ooh, happy birthday! What’s the cocktail of choice? I’m quite partial to an espresso martini, but they’re a bit frustrating in that I don’t usually want caffeine and alcohol at the same time of day

    Circus: I don’t think I’ve been to one since I was too young to really remember it properly, but I do think there’s a genuine appeal to displays of athletic and acrobatic skill. I guess in my head, the circus is to Olympic gymnastics as the WWE is to Olympic wrestling?