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Plenty of their other stuff did pretty damn well here, it’s just that I’m Gonna Be did so much better than everything else that it would feel wrong to pick another song. It’s the one everyone still sings at sports events

I have no idea how well known this is outside of Scotland, or at least the UK, but it meets all the other requirements: I’m Gonna Be by the Proclaimers, probably better known as 500 Miles

Also that. But I’d say that wewbull’s point stands that there are more and less authoritarian flavours of that too

Based on his past I assume he intends on simply not actually paying half of the people involved

It looks like it’s not a case of Sweden asking the US to drop the exemption, rather Sweden can simply decide that there is no exemption for that case and only have to tell the Americans that they are doing so.

In specific cases of particular importance to Sweden, Swedish authorities may withdraw the waiver by providing a statement in writing to the competent U.S. forces authorities not later than thirty (30) days after receipt of the notification described in Paragraph 2 of this Article.

Paragraph 2 says that America has a duty to notify Sweden about anything relevant

Given the Transnistria situation I fully expect that had Russia been more successful in Ukraine, Moldova would have been next

I say this with love: you will never persuade anyone by bringing it up this unprompted. I don’t eat meat myself and I can see that. I’m not sure what a good approach is, but this one puts people on the defensive and makes them entrench themselves out of spite.

That said, if anyone wants a good lentil recipe, check out misir wot. It’s goddamn delicious, as confirmed by my very traditional meat-loving dad, and not difficult to make either

Well RIP Norway I guess, seeing as it’s the world’s 13th biggest oil producer

Title says 75.9, content says 79.5

Looks like there’s a typo in the English title. The French one has 79.5%.

Poland probably gets special attention for being close to Russia and one of the military heavyweights in the EU

In fairness to Mashable, this isn’t their fault. The people that made the report didn’t make the list public.