And Israel only need bring up that Australia did something similar with their own brown people a while back, so why can’t they do it right now?

“That was then, this is now.” is not the greatest of arguments.

Which is why I said we should leave that can at the back of the cupboard.

Tricky prospect. If they admit Australia on that criterion, they’d have no good reason to not admit Israel if they asked to join, and that’s a can of worms I don’t think Europe would want to open. Best leave that can at the back of the cupboard.

Now, if we could find some other criterion, I don’t see why not. Sticking it to Britain by accepting all of the Commonwealth except Britain could work as an argument, and might even be popular on the continent.

It would have to be couched in cleverer language, of course, for the sake of plausible deniability.

I wonder how likely it is that the Mafia would like and respect ICE agents. And if that’s not likely at all, whether they know of any very deep holes.

Putin considers Ukraine to be part of Russia and thinks that anyone with a differing opinion is wrong. I hadn’t really thought about that previously, but it does somewhat patch the hole you found in my logic.

Vat is problem. Is job.

(Too dark?)

Well, Richard Stallman is an archetypal greybeard, so there’s a tenuous link there.

The anti-Christ that doesn’t know or is pretending that he doesn’t know he’s an anti-Christ, seeks to warn people of people like him, but not him specifically because he’s warning them about it, so it can’t possibly be him.

There’s something ironic about real bears being repatriated to a country run by a toy one.

They asked, and were refused, in 2012 according to this article: https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/germany-gold-reserves-us-storage-repatriation-concerns-13878824.html

Heck, it wasn’t even a Republican government at the time. That gold is gone.

Oh thank f–k. I don’t think I could have handled there being a war with the US over Greenland.

Now all I have to worry about is the Online “Safety” Act and the rise of authoritarianism and the far right in my country!

I bought a cheap USB Bluetooth dongle decades ago and while the interface has changed in Mint over the years, I’ve always been able to use it to communicate with my ancient flip-phone to get pictures off it. In fact I was able to use it with some very rough and ready software to pull the texts off it at one point.

It probably also worked on Windows, because I’ve had both since before I switched.

The phone’s camera got water damaged a while back and now all the pictures from it - not that I take many - have a literal watermark on them, but the Bluetooth still works both ways.

Can’t vouch for whether it would work with more heavy duty hardware like a headset or speakers, but I guess it must be luck of the draw with a lot of these things.

Strong odds he’s the next Prime Minister. Unfortunately at least 50% of my countrymen are (still) stupid enough to believe the lies.

Trump and his family have gladly accepted Russian money and one of the world leaders he most admires is Putin because of the way he “handles” his political opposition, so they’re very much influenced by what Putin says, does and asks them to do.

Frankly both Putin and Trump can get in the sea.

You sound like the sort of person who would say “it’s for their own good” if Russia did lean into its patently obvious expansionist plans and try to take land from other countries. “But Belarus is OK and that would be easy”. There’s a Russian puppet in charge there, just like there’s a Russian puppet in charge of the US.

I don’t think many countries have room to talk on that one.

Very much this. I took out a paragraph about it because what should have been a short comment was getting too long.

Much needed with the deprecation of ClamTK.

My only gripe is the choice of GNOME / GTK4 / Adwaita, because I really hate the direction GNOME have gone with all that. Anyway, I look forward to this being a standard package in Debians starting 2030 or so.

Trump has already called Canada the 51st. None of his yes-men would dare be caught altering the big man’s numbering. Even if they do appear to be trying to obtain 52 first. Edit: Or possibly 53. Got my wires crossed between Greenland and Iceland.

(Trump hasn’t quite grasped, or is refusing to acknowledge, that Canada is already split into state-like provinces, nor that those are split into counties in much the same way as US states are.)

doesn’t care how many die

He’d have to understand in order to care. I don’t think he’s capable of fully understanding the harm he does. Anything that doesn’t harm him is incomprehensible to him.

A large percentage of the world finds Donald Trump being president of the USA unacceptable.