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Nope, wild garlic is not garlic just grown outside of gardens.

Garlic is a tuber while wild garlic is a leafy plant which just happens to smell a lot like garlic.

Nah, we just put a lid on the shit bucket, and now it’s overflowing.

Germany checking in: He shouldn’t throw stones sitting in a glass house.

It’s a crucial choke point to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific for any sort of ship, which includes warships. Compare it to the importance of the Bosporus Straight and multiply by 100.

There are dozens of us!

They should ask the Swiss for their expertise as they had rigged most of their border bridges for decades.

I do not remember there being such a gap between book and show but at least in the book it’s earth reaching out while the one good guy on Trisolaris tells them not to.

In which reguard?

The Trisolarians actively blocked humanities scientific progress in order to avoid further advancement during the 400 years it would take their fleet to get to Sol. Humanity didn’t choose to slow down or even regress.

Now hold my beer for a sec, but isn’t the IRC a NGO?

So you asume Rocketboy also sent the units tasked with operating his nuclear arsenal to Ukraine?

In principle, I agree. However, in detail there are the same issues and more as when everything was outsourced to China:

• While there are stable and democratic states in Africa, a lot of the resources for manufacturing might will come from not so stable parts. I am looking at Congo as an example in particular.
• If you think about it, it is Colonialism 2.0: Cheap labourers turning basic resources into goods that are too expensive for them to buy themselves, which in return are sold for cheap in relation to local production costs in other countries.
• Exporting the environmentally harmful jobs elsewhere makes us look good on paper, but has drastic consequences for locals.

While China has until recently and to a significant extent been able to turn the second point around, the environment is where this whole plan might come apart before it even can be put into practice: The African continent is possibly most directly impacted by climate change. In the past, present and future. Don’t get me wrong: We are all going to suffer. But the African combination of geolocation and political and social stability is a powder keg.

Don’t get me wrong, I do not want to leave Africa and its people in the dust. If we can build a relationship on a basis of mutual trust and long-term benefit, let’s go for it. However, I am highly sceptical that in our current political climate the EU and its countries or, let alone companies, would be going to invest more than the absolute minimum to get any form of production going. And investing the absolute minimum to extract the most benefit equals colonialism 2.0.

But it’s such a simple and easy solution to our problems! /s

Well, Elon and German far-right politician Alice Weidel claimed in a recent talk that Hitler was a communist…

Well, since the only persons on his mind appear to be Trump and himself: Yeah, everybody’s cheating.

Probably yes. But in case the Poles are serious this time, we have to talk about the Ostgebiete as well.

On a more cynical note: Ukraine grows a lot of Russian obituaries, which the EU doesn’t have to, should they try to invade the Baltics once they are successful in Ukraine.

Well, Christianity started as a doomsday cult. So I guess old habits die hard.

Except they won’t because the gravitational pull generated by a human body is so low that the gases expelled are likely moving faster than escape velocity.

Engines in space don’t produce visible smoke because A) they are precision engineered to burn 100% of the fuel they are supplied with, and what is colloquially known as smoke is unburned particles. All this awesome smoke that engulfs rockets before they take off? Most of it is vapour from water under the platform, protecting the structure from melting. B) Thrusters in general are build to expel the reaction mass as fast as possible in order to go as fast as possible with the least amount of fuel.

So yeah, you are trying to compare what happens in a cars’ engine with what’s going on in the exhaust: It’s the same stuff but under very different circumstances.