Antarctica is divided up into a whole bunch of wedge-shaped territories managed by different countries (plus an international treaty where everyone agreed to only use it for scientific purposes), and most research stations are near the coast. The Chilean, Argentinian, and British areas are in that area near South America. For the rest, starting in South America would mean you’d have to cross a big chunk or even all of Antarctica to get where you want to be

But Greenland’s resources ministry said that contrary to Price’s claim, there were “no actually active permissions for any exploration activity or permissions for preparations for these activities”.

Not Greenland, apparently. The executive chair of company’s comment is basically “we lied” in fancy dress. I assume one of two things is likely here: either they intend to just start anyway and rely on the American government to protect them by force, or they have no intention of drilling at all and this is functionally a photo op so that the American government can say “look at this deal we got”

The name derives from an old Irish one that means “little king”, so in that sense it’s pretty perfect for a cat

That is a full-force complaint right there. That’s going straight to your manager whether you like it or not

The GlobalEye looks like a regular airliner with some stuff glued on to it. The C295 with the super high-mounted wings and unusually-tapered fuselage that seems to have been designed to match the wingtips definitely looks weird even before the surveillance stuff gets attached

It’s like they can turn their bones off at will

He looks like a wonderful little guy. His eyes are very expressive

Seems like this is due to a corruption scandal with high-paying jobs in the Moldovan air traffic authority? I don’t know much about Moldovan politics and a lot of articles seem to be keeping things very vague here

Like Alaric the Goth! Naming a black cat after the wrong kind of goth seemed funny to me. Also “Alaric” means king of everything, which seemed about right for him. I am glad to hear that his Ostrogothic kinsman is faring well

Of course!

Visi, he is named for the sacker of Rome

Well because I didn’t? Bizarre thing to be so hostile about. He didn’t pull it over himself, he just burrowed under it

Captivating eyes!

This is a far worse way to show YoY change

I suppose it probably depends on their coats quite a bit? One with a dense layer of down hair is effectively wearing a winter coat compared to another cat wearing a windcheater

But in general, their natural body temperatures are a degree or two higher than ours, which is probably part of why they love being so warm

They did, the simulated non-Brexit UK has roughly the same trajectory through covid

This is a comparison of Scotland (or rather, the UK, Scotland is just the worst-hit) against a hypothetical version of it that didn’t leave the EU

I doubt they’d be that dominant. Having lots of land is great, but having the technology to exploit harsher land only means that you’re bringing that harsher land up to (economic) parity with less harsh land

You also need people to actually do the work, and Russia’s population is large but not that large. It’s about the same as Mexico or Bangladesh, or to Germany and France together. Compare that to some of the world’s heavy hitters; the US has more than twice what Russia has, the EU has three times, and China and India have ten times

To make a comparison: how dominant is Canada in the world? It’s also huge, cold, and resource-rich. It’s wealthy enough to develop basically whatever it wants in its territory. It’s doing great. But is it massively out-competing Germany, France, or the UK?

How dare you level such accusations against a man so upstanding as Farage, he’s paid by a crypto billionaire. It was his party’s leader in Wales that got done for being bribed to be pro-Russia, and it’s a total coincidence that Farage says the same things

Ahh yeah, that’d make sense