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sorry it's reddit I know but too good not to share

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1ipx2gi/revised_unitedposter_from_earlier_added_some/

original with comparison to the original original one from 1943: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1ipmvdo/european_unity_is_now_more_needed_than_ever_so_i/

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_…

Have you ever looked at a map and thought, "You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates." Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality.

Let’s buy California from Donald Trump!

Yes, you heard that right.

California could be ours, and we need your help to make it happen.

The Tremendous Plan

1. Crowdfunding Goal of $1 trillion (give or take a few billion). That’s just 200,000 kroner from every Dane. Skip a few lattes, and you’re golden.
2. We’ll send our bestest negotiators – Lego executives and the cast of Borgen.
3. It is in the national interest to promote the extraordinary heritage of our Nation, so California will become New Denmark. Los Angeles? More like Løs Ångeles.
4. Danish Values: We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood, bike lanes to Beverly Hills, and organic smørrebrød to every street corner. Rule of law, universal health care and fact based politics might apply.

Måke Califørnia Great Ægain

Disclaimer: This campaign is 100% real… in our dreams

From a Reddit user:

I briefly went through the documents about this and the entire thing is mostly about a push towards a single capital market. The most notable points are:

• Launch of an EU-wide, auto-enrollment to Long Term Savings Product, which looks like a pension fund/savings account where citizens of the EU will be able to invest, leveraging tax incentives

• Harmonisation of EU Member States' regulatory frameworks

• Implementation of an EU-wide capital market access-point for small and medium enterprises so that they can have access to capital from the entire EU

• Rollback of some red tape around the scrutinisation frameworks

• Creation of European Green Guarantee - an EU-wide scheme of guarantees for banks to mitigate lending risks to help green investment projects and companies get liquidity

• Introduction of a new scheme combining the European Long Term Fund with tax incentives

• Pan-European payment infrastructure with the Digital Euro

• Widespread availability of supranational AAA EU Bonds to increase flexibility of the European Central Bank

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1ilmxfn/comment/mbwsdbj/

But the article is worth reading

"It's not against the American credit card, it's about the fact that we are not able in Europe to build up European credit cards," Letta said, estimating that some $300 billion a year in European savings are going into the US financial market, to a US company.

This annoys me even in Australia

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54997990

If anyone from Jlai.lu is able to do the dub, I would really appreciate it. As this valued work would introduce a lot more people to the campaign in the large vast country of France.

Merci et viva la France🇫🇷

https://jlai.lu/ has definitely quite a few new joiners, curious to see how other instances are doing.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18128718

My current digital kitchen scales (Brabantia) go through batteries faster than I would like. I use rechargeable batteries, but still.

I was looking for long-lasting mechanical kitchen scales or at least one of those kinetic energy scales (turn the knob to power it) to use in the kitchen. Any model that can measure in the ~1g to 5kg range with a tare function is more than enough.

Does anyone have any recommendations or experience with these types of scales (knob or mechanical)? E.g., does the knob thing break easily?

!Norway@sopuli.xyz or Norway

Did you know Rudolph the Reindeer (and all reindeer in general) has no upper teeth?

Join us for beautiful pics of auroras, reindeer teeth trivia, and grousings about grocery prices! Whether you're a born Norwegian, immigrant, tourist, or just think reindeer are cute, this is the place to be.

(Sven says hi!)

Germans call in sick more than 20 days per year on average, much more than workers in other EU countries.

Without the increase in sick days, the German economy could have grown by around 0.5% in 2023, instead of retracting by 0.3%, a study by pharma industry association vfa estimated last year.