Theoretically, there’s nothing stopping any new country from joining getting a carve-out. You just need everyone to agree to it. And tbh, getting them to agree to let Canada continue using the Canadian Dollar is probably a much smaller ask than getting them to let a North American country into the European Union.

It may not be an issue anymore (I don’t recall hearing about it in a while, but I’m not sure how long), but it used to be the case that there were two countries that were often regarded as EU troublemakers, and by working together, even though they didn’t agree much of the time, they could veto any attempts to undermine each other. I think the other troublemaker was Poland, and I think it may have been before their last election, but that’s a lot of unsurity.

Suspension, fwiw, requires unanimity apart from the country in question, so one single dissenter can prevent it.

The EU requires unanimity among its existing members in order to add a new member. It’s not impossible, but getting Orban to agree to it is, I think, a much bigger stumbling block than the article implies. Any “concessions” Orban demands to accept Canada would themselves have to be unanimously agreed to by existing members.

Isn’t the premise that the life you’re now living is the coma? So tbh I’d welcome the wake up.

Yeah…they cross-posted. It literally uses the same URL and the automatic cross-post detection picked it up.

I’m repeating the words you used. What’s the relevance?

What’s the relevance of the founding fathers, then?

They were clearly talking about the Union during the Civil War…

at least we have proportional representation

Only in the Senate. And only on a per-state basis, so it’s only as proportional as “a proportion of 6” can be…which is much less proportional than a proportion of 40, like if the Senate were done nationally.

Naval Group, a French naval defense company

Ah shit, that’s the same company Australia had a deal with to buy diesel subs, before our fuckwit former PM reneged on the deal to create AUKUS and buy American nuclear subs.

I’ll take both reasons as cannon, thank you very much

FTFY

Australia watching on with regret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM

See, you cannot create content in a community, if every second post is about another community, instead of the topic that should be discussed

Well, it’s easy to make any decision look good if you just make up shit about the people accusing you of wrongdoing.

One the reason you got banned and calling me/us power tripping.

Well, yeah. You banned them for the crime of helping new users find alternatives in case they were unaware they existed. Being unaware of alternatives is one of the key UX problems with the fediverse, so informing people about them is critical. Banning people for doing that, especially in the incredibly respectful and apparently targeted way OP was doing it, is pretty awful. The team agreeing on it doesn’t change this, it just means the whole mod team is PTB.

you seem to be quite fixated an numbers and have a rough, even hostile commnication style, even victimizing yourself

No, you victimised them. You banned them for a shitty reason. That makes them the victim. You, ironically, are trying to play victim in this very thread, because they’re calling you out on your poor behaviour. You’ve barely even tried to justify yourself, except by saying that the whole mod team agreed to it…which isn’t a justification.

I’m confused. Americans are the only ones that do say “gasoline”/“gas”. For the rest of us, it’s petrol.

Fwiw scholarly consensus is that Jesus almost certainly did exist, and he did get baptised by John the Baptist, and was executed by crucifixion.

Obviously he never produced any miracles, and indeed nearly every other aspect of his life described in the bible or accepted as religious practice is wrong or subject to debate. Even his birthday. But he did exist.

Probably a conflation of this scene with the one where Palpatine says “I love democracy”.

We learned that if you make an effort to speak their language, most French people are very helpful. But if you just assume they’ll speak English, they’re likely to be offended and won’t help you out.

You’re not the first person I’ve heard this from. It seems to be a pretty universal experience, particularly in Paris.

Personally, as someone who took French in school, when I went to France I wanted the opportunity to practise it. And I found the French to be very friendly with it.

I think that’s showing a total score of 501, and that the screenshot-taker downvoted. So at least 502 people upvoted it.