No, I meant specific means. But if you have something good for templates, I can take it as well (but that seems to work OK on search engines).

🎶 Keep it in the ground, we’ve got to keep it in the ground! 🎶

Okay, a side note here:

apart from Brazil’s President Lula da Silva, Xi was the only major world leader to attend the parade.

Can smb explain Lula’s stance on Putinist Russia?

To be honest, Merz would probably do that with or without Trump in power. It is an issue, but it is another issue…

The UK and India have agreed a trade deal that will make it easier for UK firms to export whisky, cars and other products to India, and cut taxes on India’s clothing and footwear exports.

Okay, but to export cars, you need to make some first.

Yeah, totally. And there are many, many top scientists already in Europe.

The thing is that to do research, you need money. Not just your (and your staff’s) salary. Experimental research requires actual, material resources. Cutting-edge equipment and reagents. If more top scientists come to Europe, but the resources for research do not increase, it is hard to imagine more top research being done.

The UE spends around 2.2/2.3% of GDP on research and development:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?oldid=551418 (2021 for fair comparison) https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20221129-1

Meanwhile, in the US, it was almost 3.5% (of the larger total GDP), and in China, more than 2.4%.

I believe we have a lot of amazing research in Europe. Possibly the best fundamental research in the world, amazing sustainability and climate-related project, growing focus on open access and reproducibility from funding agencies. We all know science pays off in the long term. Let it grow!

Very small, but good start. (Just the National Science Foundation in the US had the budget of $9BN last year, compared to €2.3BN of European Research Council, so it is not even close to filling the gap).

Not exactly what I was looking for, but very interesting. Thanks!

Yeah. I generally hope that the situation will move the consumer choices beyond: “I chose product A over product B because it was 0.1€ cheaper, and I do not care about all the rest.” or “I chose product A because everybody talks about it, I haven’t heard about product B, who cares about them?”. Like everybody talks about McDonalds, everybody knows it tastes awful, has awful nutritional value, and awful practices along the supply chain. And yes, it is c h e a p.

I guess it would take a lot of time to accommodate Mars for trees. More than for algae ;)

An alternative to Kindle would be PocketBook, originally Ukrainian, with its current headquarters in Switzerland, and manufactured in Taiwan. I’ve used their ebook readers for years now, great stuff.

Apart from Storytel, I also know Bookbeat, but haven’t tried the latter. Storytel was good though, reliable, decent selection, nothing special beyond that.

Thanks!

Paywall… Is there an archived version?

显然，DeepL 也有简体中文。它为我自动选择了简体中文。这样看起来更好吗？

We should make an email/mail template if we want many people to contact their MEPs.

Let the 5-year-old watch Shrek or sth.

Subversive. By mocking an extreme, you want to avoid the main issue here: Marvel is a toxic shithole normalized by aggressive marketing.

I upvote because the flowers look cool, no idea what Faygo is though

I don’t get it, why you have a line of crisps next to the sandwich? And why would you have cold food with cola?

WTF are boneless wings?