New Pocket: now with blockchain and AI.

The local postal service will slap a €10 handling charge on top of that

IIRC, some of the Microsoft ones were designed by Susan Kare (who previously did the Macintosh icons).

Great to hear. Now let’s hope Poland makes it as well.

Slovenia is based.

I was expecting better from Denmark, though.

Now there’s a guy whose skinsuit fits awkwardly

I doubt this will happen. Given the length of Finland’s railways, going from Helsinki all the way to the Arctic Circle, it would be prohibitively expensive, and the money would have better uses.

If they’re fearing a Russian invasion, a more cost-effective mitigation would be the Swiss approach: preemptively mine railway lines/bridges/tunnels with explosives.

Others including Iceland and Norway, both of whom are debating joining?

I look forward to the Antideutsche declaring that fascism is now antifascism and vice versa

Depends on which option would serve better to advance the plot

This is my surprised face.

During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Nazi Germany toned down its rhetoric as to appear normal to visitors, and “No Jews allowed” signs disappeared from public places. The moment the Olympics were over, they reappeared.

This has the same energy.

Maybe once His Excellency The Sultan no longer sits on the throne, things will start moving again.

See also: Elon Musk’s how-do-you-do-fellow-geeks shtick (“it’s the car Blade Runner would drive”)

The ones that were a condition of freedom of movement, you mean?

Germany has a constitutionally enshrined obligation to ensure the security of Israel (the Staatsräson, or reason for the Bundesrepublik to exist), so blacklisting them is a nonstarter.

The ongoing union ban on working with the notoriously anti-union company can’t have helped much either.

There’s the Tintin/Captain Haddock “what a week” meme.

Perhaps we can get some Bernd das Brot or Grodan Boll memes, or some reaction frames from Jean-Luc Godard films or something.

The compelling part is how recent and rapid the transformation has been. Only a few old people remember Dutch cities being choked with car traffic, but anyone who was in Paris 10 years ago will tell you that there were a lot more cars and fewer bikes. Which is proof that cities can be improved, and it’s not just Amsterdam/Copenhagen having been special forever.

Which should be effective in Europe (particularly former communist cities that embraced private cars as a signifier of freedom in the 90s), though will hit a wall of American Exceptionalism (“what works in Europe won’t work here”) once it crosses the Atlantic. Though hopefully the NYC congestion charge will serve as a positive example there.

You think?