“Deployment” seems like a weird turn of phrase for what NZ is actually doing here to the point of being probably intentionally misleading
Of note, the Centrist is the recently-founded pet project of a Canadian billionaire who has been attempting to take over NZ’s biggest newspapers
I have the slimmest of hopes that Nigel Farage’s choice to attach himself to Trump will do Reform lasting damage. Fortunately we’ve got a good while before the next election
Isn’t that exactly the kind of “when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they’ll never sit” that you were advocating for?
The biggest fusion reactor in the world is being built in France right now, with the EU as the leading funder
Based on your enjoyment of management and strategy, Paradox’s grand strategy games might be something you enjoy. Same publisher as Cities Skylines. There are four main series of them, each with their own mechanics but enough broad-scale similarities that knowing one helps with the others. They are:
What distinguishes them from strategy games like Civ and Age of Empires is the greatly-reduced abstraction. There’s no expectation of every starting point or playable country being balanced; if you start as Belgium in Hearts of Iron, you’re going to have to do something clever to not get steamrolled by Germany. There’s also no win condition beyond what you set for yourself. When I start a game of Crusader Kings, I’m not trying to win the game, I’m saying to myself “let’s see if I can unite all of Britain and Ireland under a Gaelic ruler”
All Paradox games have quite a lot of DLC, but the base games are solid (often now including several of the earlier DLCs for free, in the case of older games) and they go on steep sales pretty often. If there’s not a specific time period or mechanic that sways you towards one of the games, I recommend Crusader Kings 3 for the best new player experience
After this they’ll remaster Morrowind. It’ll be Elder Scrolls III 2, and two threes is six, so that’ll be Elder Scrolls VI
Imagine what it’d be like if halfway through this livestream they just shift the “I” to the other side of the “V” and reveal VI as well though
I’d be quite against posting links to Ground News in place of specific articles. It blocks basically everything if you don’t have an account, and there’s no way of knowing which article is actually under discussion
Neutrinos almost don’t interact with other matter. You use neutrons to start fission
Those dastardly Portuguese will be the death of us
Canada joins the EU, king relocates to Canada, Canada annexes the UK, Brexit is undone. I see no flaws in this plan.
There are definitely things worth seeing in the US. I think the best example is the national parks. Europe absolutely has protected parks, but we’ve got nothing on the same scale because there have been settled agricultural societies all over the continent for millennia. Our geography also simply doesn’t include anywhere like Badlands or Grand Canyon parks, nor do our forests have anything like the giant redwoods.
Also while we have a tonne of interesting history and culture in Europe, different history and culture is a draw. I’m a fan of jazz and blues music and Cajun food, so I’d very much like to see New Orleans some day. The Puebloan Cliff Palace would be pretty great to see. I don’t know much about most of the Native American societies in what is now the US, but I bet there are a lot of fascinating stories to hear.
I personally wouldn’t choose to holiday to the US at the moment, but I can recognise its draws.
I’d also add that CK3 is a step above most Paradox games in terms of beginner-friendliness. Everything has a tooltip defining what it does, and most of the game-specific words in that tooltip have tooltips of their own. It’s not like the older games and their “lol keep the wiki open and good fucking luck” approach to explaining themselves
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It does seem like it. A lot of the details of the map in the full-size image are a bit screwy in that way that AI does it. Denmark appears to have merged a bunch of its islands together, Pembrokeshire in Wales has migrated northward, and Stranraer in Scotland has sunk beneath the waves
I’d expect it’s a Cold War thing. When Germany (or West Germany, at the time) was concerned that it could be the frontline of WW3 at any moment, it probably wanted somewhere to keep its gold reserves that wouldn’t be captured. The current German gold reserve is the second largest of any in the world, so on the assumption that at least most of that was from West Germany then it’d be a huge thing to capture in the event of war. If it could magically all be sold at the current London gold fix price, it’d be worth well over 300 billion USD
They’ve fixed it now. The first number is 3, not 40
The Glasgow ice cream wars feel like a fitting setting
Kettle chips are made in the UK, but the company is American and also owned by Campbell’s (of soup fame)
Edit: Campbell’s actually sold the European branch of Kettle to Dutch Valeo in 2019 https://www.thecampbellscompany.com/newsroom/press-releases/campbell-completes-sale-of-european-chips-business-to-valeo-foods/
They tend to aim for things made in states that elected the politicians responsible. In the case of Jack Daniels, that comes from Mitch McConnell’s state
Deploying elsewhere in Europe, not in Ukraine. It is for Ukraine’s benefit, but the headline is implying that they are deployed in Ukraine