Both, based on IFW Kiel’s numbers. Military aid was about even until the end of Biden’s term, Europe generally provided a bit more non-military. The US sent a huge amount right at the end of Biden’s term. Since then, the US has sent basically nothing and Europe has mostly covered the shortfall

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That price includes a whole bunch of stuff besides the actual tank. To quote the Czech Ministry of Defence (machine-translated):

The purchase price of 44 tanks includes self-propelled and anti-mine protection systems, as well as integrated logistics support including spare parts, support management, documentation and training.

So basically it’s 44 tanks plus a massive service and supply contract to keep the tanks running properly

Most of the Nordic countries do not have those. Norway has a lot, Denmark has a little, the others have nothing significant

It was at least common in (my part of) the UK when I was in university over a decade ago

Oh wow, I had completely forgotten about all the hydrogen car experiments! There was even an actual functioning hydrogen bus system for a little while in a city not too far from me

Thanks for the link, that was interesting

It’s so bizarre to me that Toyota in particular isn’t a bigger player in the EV market after they were the first to get a mass market hybrid going. They were halfway there before anyone else, why’d they stumble so badly?

Well as a nonsense sound in music it’s way older than that, right? Like Scatman John used it a whole bunch. The notability of it recently is that is started to be used more like a normal word, even if there’s still not much of a meaning

Well yeah, every map projection has to mis-represent something. In this case they’re arguing that presenting area is more important than presenting angles. Outside of long-distance travel on ships and planes, which are not using general-purpose world maps, nobody is navigating with a world map, so I think that they’re probably right here. It seems more important to me to understand the relative size of Africa to other landmasses than it is to know that the Korean peninsula is actually a few degrees off of being straight north of Borneo

They did. They are specifically advocating for the Equal Earth projection.

I personally think that Eckert IV is a little more visually pleasing while otherwise achieving all the same benefits as Equal Earth, but both are good

Seriously, I’ve never worked anywhere dealing with anything so sensitive as “the government raiding homes” and yet still several of them would have rightly chewed me out if I was using whatsapp for business

Ramming the other Chinese ship definitely wasn’t intentional, but I’m considering the behaviour of both Chinese ships as attempts to ram the Filipino one. If it wasn’t an intent to ram then it was an utterly reckless risk of ramming

Respect to the Filipino sailors for offering to help the people that literally just tried to ram their ship

I suppose she was probably a monarchist herself, even if that’s not why her death got so much ridiculous fuss

Elizabeth’s funeral took place over one day. If you’re counting the lying-in-state, you should also count it for Kim

Deprivation Of Rights Under Color Of Law is the one, by the looks of it. Which explains to some degree why every news outlet is describing it the way they are. NBC gives the actual name https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/breonna-taylors-family-heartbroken-one-day-sentence-recommendation-ex-rcna219947

If I wasn’t being mean about my boss beforehand, I would most definitely start being mean after he subjected me to a polygraph about it

The actual paper the number comes from (Fate of Empires by John Glubb) is complete bullshit, though. Even the cherry-picked examples it uses, which are limited strictly to the surroundings of the Mediterranean, don’t use any kind of consistent criteria for when an empire starts or ends. He tries to count “Alexander (and his successors)” as one coherent entity and then picks an end year in which all of them had either already collapsed long ago or would not do so for many decades to come. He cuts centuries off of the Roman Empire’s lifespan by just saying that the empire was unstable and getting invaded a lot (and ignoring the Eastern Empire entirely). HIs reckoning of the “Arab Empire” includes three separate caliphates, and the end date isn’t even the actual end of any of them

Other than that, no, it does not attempt to find an average in the sense of a mean lifespan. It actually does argue that 250 years for an empire can be compared to a human living 70 years.