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This can’t explain the exclusion of Russia, since the entirely uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands got their own entry on the list. There cannot be a trade balance with a place where nobody lives. The islands got the “base rate” of 10%, so for Russia to have been excluded there has to have been another reason

*Trading partner tariff rate is calculated by the White House to include “currency manipulation and trade barriers.”

This needs to be way fucking bigger than a tiny light grey caption under the image, AP

That kind of car is amongst the fastest road cars it is possible to buy. There are a few rare things that go even faster, but they costs millions of euros and are often only barely road-legal

Technically legal on the Isle of Man too, but see the TT and how several people die on it every year for how bad an idea that is

I’m not sure it would. The Nazi economy was supported by plunder, they had to keep attacking to fund it. They couldn’t get to Britain or America, and they had otherwise more or less run out of Europe.

I don’t want to imagine the kind of atrocities they could have committed in the time that it would take for them to collapse, but I do think the collapse would have come

Ahh, fair enough. I knew about the pebbling from that one time I went curling while I was in school, but I had assumed that they used something at least zamboni-adjacent to level the ice before doing that. Turns out the method is to just flood it

We’ll have lots of English speakers here given the language the question was asked in, so I’ll do Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) instead: dìochuimhneachadh, at 17 letters. It means “forgetting”, and it is pronounced /ˈd̥ʲĩə̃xənəxəɣ/. No, I can’t say it smoothly.

Gàidhlig isn’t one of those languages that can compound words like Finnish or German, this one is just a consequence of a few different things. Firstly, the language’s spelling rules result in a lot of letters that do impart information but aren’t directly pronounced. Consonants have two forms depending on which of two sets of vowels they are next to, so any consonant or consonant cluster must always have vowels from the same set on either side. For example, the “i” in the “imhne” bit in the middle is basically only there to match the “e” at the end, since u and e aren’t in the same set of vowels and we need to know which version of the consonants between them to use. Every h is a modifier on the consonant preceding it as well. Second, the root of it is “un-remember”, so it’s already a shorter word with a prefix. Third, we’re using the verbal noun version, so it’s “the act of forgetting” rather than present-tense as in “currently forgetting something”

There are probably longer words in the language, but I don’t know it very well yet and this was the longest one I could find on a word list. I think there’s actually a version of dìochuimhnich that includes a suffix marking it as being a conditional first person plural doing the forgetting, so “we would forget”, but I don’t understand how that part of the language works. If I was to say that at the moment, I would use two words to do it, so I don’t feel like I can give it as an answer here

Scotland has a fair few curling clubs, which I guess would be as likely to use them?

It is, but I have no idea what to look for or when. OP should know if they know why it was removed

How do you know the reason for the removal? Is there a modlog entry we can look at?

Based on the votes it seems like nobody is getting the joke here, but I liked it at least

The cave diver Vernon Unsworth lived in Thailand, so Musk just tried to spread the rumour that he was a paedophile instead. And unfortunately Musk now has a bigger following and platform than ever

To be clear I don’t necessarily agree with the Society’s decision. I just think there is a pretty obvious possible motive without the Society having skeletons in the closet, regardless of whether it actually does or not

More likely they know that Musk has a well-documented habit of frivolous litigation and spreading lies about anyone that gets under his skin. They’ve decided it’s not worth the fight

Yes, and Gods & Kings. I did technically play the game without them but it was long enough ago now that I don’t really remember it without them

I’m not the person that you asked, but I do hold the same opinion. My biggest reasons are:

• Civs are far more incentivised to expand in VI, resulting in more conflict
• Districts make city placement a much more complicated question
• The city state influence game is much more interesting than just a spending race and also has more game-changing rewards
• The culture and science victories are much more interactive with other civs now, rather than just hiding away and waiting for a bar to fill

I don’t think V is bad by any means. It was the one that got me into the series after bouncing off III and IV. I just think that most of the changes in VI were improvements

He is simply an avid Crusader Kings fan, there is nothing to worry about

Actually I think it might be worse if he was the kind of CK fan that would get “deus vult” tattooed on himself

It’s actually a Jerusalem cross, which is a separate thing but… equally suspect in this context. It’s a symbol of the crusaders, so it goes right along with his “deus vult” one

The first two principles for virtual currencies that they have listed are “Price indication should be clear and transparent” and “Practices obscuring the cost of in-game digital content and services should be avoided”, so if EVE is honest and up front about it then it should be fine

It is circa, but I like to think it’s “chemist’s approximately”

Trick question, Sonic is Barry Allen’s fursona. They run at the same speed because they’re the same person