I’ll go with a slightly older example so that it has more settled scholarship: Indonesia during the East Timor genocide. I don’t think anyone stopped recognising Indonesia despite it invading and occupying what is now Timor-Leste, killing tens to hundreds of thousands of a population smaller than Gaza’s, and conducting mass-scale sexual violence

Aside from how plenty of other governments are recognised while committing horrific acts, this is recognition of Palestine, not Gaza. Even before the displacement and deaths of the last two years, most of Palestine’s population was in the West Bank, and it is not run by Hamas. Hamas won the last election, but it did not get a majority and has not been in government for most Palestinians for almost 20 years

Several did it last year, Sweden was 2014, Iceland was 2011, Slovenia and Bosnia were the 90s, and a hefty chunk of Eastern Europe did it in the 80s (and has continued doing so in the post-Soviet era). The two highlighted are because of disputed recognitions

Disputed recognitions.

Czechoslovakia recognised Palestine, and both successors said they would carry on international legal stuff from Czechoslovakia. However, the Czech government now says that Czechoslovakia never formally recognised Palestine. I don’t know how meaningful that claim is or what it’s based on. Slovakia independently reaffirmed the recognition shortly after the two split

Hungary’s case is just that communist Hungary recognised Palestine and Orban’s government is mad about it (though apparently not mad enough to formally retract the recognition)

Usually, yes. This one is effectively a d6 (a cube), but two of the flat faces have been replaced by curves that connect opposite flat faces. As such you’ve got four flat faces that the die can actually stop on. If you ignore the curved parts but consider all of the flats to be separate faces, it’s a d4. If you consider two flats connected by a curve to be a single face altogether, it’s a d2.

It’s a projection on to (presumably) fabric rather than a screen. If you look closely you can still see some of the tower’s metalwork through it

Don’t be ridiculous, obviously you roll a d20, subtract one, and then count how many digits the result has

I’m really surprised that this does not seem to be an existing thing for d10s specifically. I can find nested d10s and there are heaps of liquid core dice, but apparently none that combine those two ideas

I honestly don’t care about the motivations right now if it does literally anything to help. If the reasoning was shitty then let’s deal with that later

Doesn’t seem like it. Most of the countries highlighted here have launched microsatellites that only became more widely available in the past decade or so, so Libya hasn’t been in a great position to take part. The list that launched satellites prior to the Libyan civil war is Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, and South Africa. On the one hand that does mean that Libya’s fellow North African states were pretty early in the game, but on the other Libya does still have a substantially smaller population than that list so even before the war it had a lot less in terms of resources to throw at it

You could also argue that Libya sort of has one, though, as it’s the biggest partner in the pan-African group Rascom and it has launched a satellite

Better late than never, Keir. Good on the current UK government for not riding out the September deadline to the very end, though. I’ll take the silver linings where I can find them these days. The joint statement is good too, lends more weight.

An exasperated sigh as reality plays out exactly like expected

I am by no means an expert in this kind of thing, but I believe they usually separate it by broad categories of components. In the Eurofighter, for example, avionics were primarily handled by the Italian part of the consortium. The F-35 similarly has a lot of the vertical take-off stuff handled by the British partner companies because they’ve got experience with that

They probably are right that they could do it alone given that they made the Rafale, but that doesn’t mean it would be better if they did. Airbus was the largest contributor to the Eurofighter Typhoon, so we equally know that they’ve got experience bringing a project like this to fruit

I don’t know how Dutch law works, but this sounds like the proscribed organisations in the UK. If it is like the UK then the courts decide who has committed acts of terrorism but the government can also proscribe a group to say that just joining it is a crime. For a sensible example, the neonazi organisation Atomwaffen Division is on the list

“I have been unable to sleep properly for weeks after the horrors I witnessed. This is wokeness gone mad”

Could probably make it serrated with that stuff

I think it’s just not really in the spirit of the event. It’s not meant to be a completely serious athletic endeavour, it’s a bit of fun and fundraising. They’re getting 2,000 people of all ages on to a tiny island with a population of 61 to chuck some stones across a pond. There doesn’t seem to be a big cash prize or anything. There was a raffle to win a wheelbarrow described as doing “0-3 mph in 1 second”

Here was me thinking that Toss Master was the one to go for

I think I can skim a stone farther than I can throw one, given a good stone and flat water… and a few attempts. I’m definitely not getting remotely near 60m though, that’s wild