Nokia and Ericsson

Microsoft, Google, and Apple do not make the kind of telecoms equipment that this is about. The big American companies in this field are Cisco and Qualcomm. The Chinese companies are major suppliers in Europe, the American ones aren’t

Huh?

Traditional Western rivals such as Nokia and Ericsson have struggled to compete on price against Chinese firms due to the way they get partial funding from state backing.

Funny you should say that, they actually caused one in Moscow just over a week ago (October 31st)

It seems to me like Ukraine is focussing its efforts on military targets and oil production, though. Russia’s oil industry has been getting absolutely hammered, to the point where it has had to start importing fuel

I definitely don’t think that they should be restricted, but I do find that weather significantly affects my tastes and some things are way better when specific ingredients are in season. I love cranachan but tend to go for it only when I can get good fresh raspberries, and I enjoy denser and heavier foods a lot more when I’m hiding from the cold

No. I don’t know if this is where you heard the story from specifically, but certainly here in the UK it was basically a lie spread by pro-Brexit figures. There is an EU regulation on the shape of fruits, but it’s only for classifying them; you can absolutely buy and sell funny-shaped fruit all you want. It’s just an easy way for buyers that do actually care about perfectly-shaped fruit to find that, such as wholesalers

There aren’t really good alternatives to the rare earth metals in terms of what they are used for, but there can be in terms of supply of them. Despite their name they are not actually that rare, just not very easy to extract economically. In terms of the percentage of Earth’s crust made up of them, most rare earths are pretty similar to such widely-used stuff as copper and tin. The problem is that they don’t usually gather up into high concentrations that are easy to mine, they’re all dispersed

China has a combination of really good reserves of them, a lot of industrial investment into the process of producing them, and a conscious strategy to be involved in other places with good reserves by doing the refining of their ores. There’s plenty of rare earth deposits elsewhere, but China has done it cheaper than everyone else for a while now. Brazil, India, Australia, and Russia have the next-biggest reserves, and I can’t help but note that China has made efforts to align with three of those four

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The companies are being investigated on suspicion of disseminating violent, pornographic or degrading messages accessible to minors, which can lead to up to three years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros ($87,465) for individuals involved, the office said. Shein and AliExpress are also being investigated over the alleged dissemination of images or representations of minors of a pornographic nature, which can lead to five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros, the prosecutor’s office said.

I thought I was being so clever making the connections of what I could do with that and it turns out I would actually have been

Anyway, have we tried selling them Opium again?

The UK is one of the world’s leading producers of morphine and codeine, so kinda yes actually

If I had a lot more patience it would be cool to try to recreate one of those slide reels as panels around the pumpkin

It is, yes! I think I should have simplified the hearthian’s design more to make them clearer, but I’m pleased with it overall

60 years is a hell of a run of Hamlet

Thanks!

Canada has a pretty big and well-established aerospace manufacturing industry already, though, unlike Portugal

I think the story you’re referring to is that NYT itself owns a house in what used to be a Palestinian neighbourhood in West Jerusalem. It’s possible that there’s something about one of the owners, but I do not know about that

The house in question is in Qatamon, which was on the Israeli-controlled side of the 1949 Green Line. It was majority-Palestinian, but most of the residents fled during the war. Israel allowed Jews who had fled from the other side of the Green Line to settle it. In 1984, the NYT bought the house for the use of its Jerusalem bureau chief. It got some attention a while back when the NYT journalist living there read the writings of a Palestinian woman who had grown up there, realised she was talking about the same house (or more specifically, the house that his house was built as an upper floor extension of), and invited her to visit

Hopefully, but that’s not likely to be (directly) handled by finance regulations

Australia is a regular participant, the Caucasian countries are also regular entrants and may or may not be in Europe depending on where you draw the border, Morocco is a previous entrant, all of North Africa is eligible to enter but chooses not to, and Lebanon and Jordan have invites too. We should kick Israel out for the real reason of its actions in Gaza and the rest of Palestine, not over silly attempts at technicalities

Two people’s hands. The hand holding the pellets and the hand with the red nail varnish belong to one person (who is to the right of frame), but a second person’s hand with no nail varnish is reaching in from the left

Pretty sure you’re thinking of Marjorie Taylor Greene there, a completely unrelated person