The US military is currently directly involved in fighting in Yemen and Somalia. It’s relatively small-scale, but it is happening

I’m pretty sure comparing this spike to the spike from when he actually did drop out is exactly what they intended to do. They’re showing that even though this spike exists relative to recent weeks, it’s small compared to the number of people who were relatively on the ball.

This is actually a Lord of the Rings shitpost and it turns out that Bree, Eriador has a thriving cheesemaking industry

I’m pretty sure they are only talking about windfarms that would otherwise actually be built

Outer Wilds (and Echoes of the Eye) technically qualifies with the community’s rules, but I think the answer more in keeping with the spirit of things is Shadow of the Colossus. The Opened Way is the most “fighting a building-sized monster as a normal guy but still winning” piece of music I have heard

Honestly I don’t think that is necessary to explain this. China is seeing the same issue as western countries with birth rates way below replacement, but it hardly has any of the immigration that mitigates it for (most of) Europe and North America. It’s not easy for an economy to support an ever-increasing proportion of its population being retirees

If it was just that, surely there’d be a rebound visible on the chart after 2016 (8-year-olds and younger)? Instead it falls off even harder

Just dirt. The article calls them earthworks and compares the wall to a Romam vallum, which was an earth rampart with a wooden palisade on top

Roux is definitely a tough one. At least the ingredients are fairly cheap if you do mess it up, but damn you better be prepared to put in the work, endure the heat, and watch closely if you want to get it right. Damn tasty though.

Russia did author this one, and it was in November 2021

Hell even on the issue of Cuba specifically, during his presidency Trump chose to undo the progress Obama had made. He has already made it worse

I kinda want to start describing sensible people as “hinged” now

You can usually remove predicted words if this starts happening. On mine, it’s done by pressing and holding the prediction, then confirming. If you use the name Scott regularly anyway, it’ll re-learn it without the incorrect association

Most of Iceland’s energy usage is from geothermal sources, but only about a quarter of the electricity is. They do a lot of direct heating with it, literally just heating up a whole bunch of water and running that hot water through pipes to houses and pavements and such, rather than having electricity-powered heating elements everywhere. Most of their electricity production is from hydro though, so it’s still very clean

The EU has absolutely done similar things against American companies before. The Boeing-Airbus saga is a good example

If you like beer, it’s probably cheaper and easier to get started with. The process is much less sensitive to air exposure, you can get kilos of malted barley dead cheap (at least where I am, but I would expect it to always be cheaper than grapes), and best of all you don’t need to age it so you can try your work f as r quicker

I don’t know what it’s like in Sweden, but at least anecdotally here in the UK I really appreciate not seeing discarded plastic bags floating about in the wind nearly so often. People were up in arms about it when it came in, but it seems like it worked. Could’ve done without working at Subway at the time, though. Pricks ordering a shitty sandwich with every sauce and extra on it and then getting pissed at me because a plastic bag to go around the already-wrapped sandwich that they are going to immediately unwrap and eat increases the cost by 1% were a dishearteningly common occurrence.

Russian invasion of Ukraine is becoming a Korea-Korea proxy war

Assuming 0.125%, it’s very roughly 10% of the original total every three months for the first year