They’re also countries with extremely low wages and fairly large English-speaking populations

Ahh fuck I was trying to hold off on buying anything new

Wir essen Kosmoskost Wir lesen Kosmospost Wir trinken Kosmosmost Und wir sind bis oben hin so voll!

Just to back this up, I combined this map with OSM to show where Moscow is

For the Northern Ireland one it’s a particularly messy question to answer because the attacks were not all working towards the same goal. Pro-UK paramilitaries were a huge part of the Troubles, it wasn’t just pro-independence paramilitaries vs the British army

Beslan and Moscow are both off the eastern edge of the map

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Em dashes are definitely a less reliable sign in professionally written and edited articles. That’s the context where actual humans will use them most often

It could be to do with the fact that this is not a map of average wealth but of how much of the population is at risk of poverty. I don’t know what Copenhagen or North Sjaelland are like, but prosperous capital cities do often attract less well-off people looking for opportunities and also have high costs that make the situation precarious for people who would be doing fine on the same income elsewhere. That could explain a high proportion being at risk of poverty even though the average income/wealth is very high

France already has them, though?

You don’t become this rich in the first place if you have a concept of “enough”

I hope I’m as tough as people like that if and when I get to that age. I like hillwalking and bump into them every so often. I’m fairly capable out on the hills but I take a pretty leisurely approach; I’ll bring a good sandwich and stop to eat it somewhere with a nice view, take a little detour to see something interesting, that sort of thing. One time when I was out I overtook one very old lady four times because every time I stopped she just marched on by like a goddamn machine. On the fourth one she made a joke about the tortoise and the hare. I was glad she said it because I was definitely thinking it

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They are at least a lot lighter than an actual motorbike, but yes there should be a line drawn on how fast they can go. The motors are capped at 15.5 mph / 25 kph here, which is a fast but manageable pace for a decent cyclist. Anything above that counts as a motorbike and has to be taxed and registered as one

The opposite happens to me frequently because they have electric assist bikes and I don’t. Holy shit that old boy is keeping up a pace- ohhhhh he’s barely pedalling

I’m kinda envious to be honest

Well justified, though it’ll be a goddamn miracle if it actually happens. Even outside of the invasion, Russia is one of the world’s worst polluters

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