Anyone got any insight on what the hell Latvia is doing? Not only are they doing the worst, their two genrally-comparable neighbours are actually doing better than most

I personally switched over to Qwant from Ecosia and have found it to be more consistent. Can’t comment on DDG so much

Hey OP, I assume that you machine-translated the headline one way or another, but it’s currently quite confusing. Replacing “death-painted” with “planned” or “upcoming” would work a lot better here

Edit: thanks!

I hope that this fake imitation screenshot can suffice 😔

This is one of those theories! There are just a lot of different ideas on exactly how and where it fits into the sea. The connection between Caelid and the Mountaintops is part of why I think my idea works (though not what I based it on)

It is, but if trains can carry cargo across the mountains far faster and cheaper than trucks then it will remove a lot of the heaviest and loudest traffic from the roads. I don’t imagine that the locals are demanding that there be no traffic whatsoever, and tourist traffic is - while not always welcome - much more likely to be beneficial to them than passing cargo. The Bavarian link is definitely an issue, and a substantial one, but also one that they have some time to solve

I sympathise with them, but Austria and Italy are already well underway on building one of the longest tunnels in the world to alleviate this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenner_Base_Tunnel

There’s not a solid answer on exactly what it is, though given that I made the video I’m sure I don’t need to re-iterate what I think. A lot of people, myself included, think that it was a part of the Lands Between that got hidden away because of a few different things. The Suppressing Pillar inscription and Miyazaki’s own statements make it pretty direct, in my opinion, but there are various other smaller things. I’ve seen some people argue that it’s an afterlife of a sort, or that it’s entirely within Marika’s dreams, but I don’t personally find those explanations particularly convincing or satisfying. Whatever it is, it was at some point “obscured by the Erdtree”, and there is literally a colossal veil hanging over the entire sky to reinforce that

Toothful (short for Sir the Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and Nothing But the Tooth Esq.)

You’ve been told correctly, or at least correctly enough that it won’t fit in a pocket. The attached pic is a bundle of 1,000 notes correctly packaged (assuming Canadian, since you said dollars and are on a .ca instance, but it’s similar for most currencies). One of those bundles in 100 dollar notes is, of course, $100,000, so presumably it’s some number between one and ten of those bundles

SIXTY TONNES OF BRONZE CANNON FOR THE VASA II

I like to think that the ghost of some 15th century court vihuela player is watching over the raves with great approval

I don’t know about the 35th parallel thing either way, but I don’t think it matters here. The seaweed itself isn’t normally poisonous, it’s actually edible to humans and tastes pretty good. The issue here is what happens when it starts rotting in large quantities

I would certainly spell it Arby if I adopted him

Outstanding video. I really want to know what happened to little RB now. I hope he got a good home

Not being welcomed into an alliance or supranational union is not a sanction. Not being in them is the default state for a country.

At no point have I made the argument that the countries Russia has invaded and controlled want to keep Russia out of these organisations as a matter of moral principals. I explicitly said it was a matter of self interest. They are not telling Russia off, they are making themselves safe from Russia.

• That doesn’t mean that I said anything about colonialism being okay. Don’t put words in my mouth, and especially not those words

• The countries I mentioned were not, in general, colonial powers (there is an exception here for part of Latvia)

• It is still entirely rational behaviour for a colonial power to defend itself against colonisation. Even if they actually were colonial powers then seeking defence against Russia would be a perfectly sensible thing for them to do.

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Huh, the line should have been open to the airport by then, it started operating in 2014 too. That said, if you were flying l;ate at night or very early in the morning then it might not have been an option, as there are no services between midnight and 6am or something like that. Also, I hope you enjoyed your time in Scotland!

It has! The core bulk of the system has been up and running since 2014. The construction was a bit of a disaster, but now that it’s actually going it seems to be a success. An estimated 12 million passenger journeys last year