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No. Just, no. It's really arrogant how you assume you understand GP's situation better than themselves.

Swift is slow and expensive as hell, the fees can run into 10s of dollars per transaction. SEPA is limited to the EU, not even the official candidate countries have it.

Ancient Romans did enough pollution to affect the climate. https://www.earth.com/news/roman-activities-cooled-climate/

The original "sick man of the East" was Ottoman Turkey.

Caps Lock makes for a wonderful layout switcher key.

He agreed to stop sending bombs in exchange for publication of his manifesto.

Russia isn't known as welcoming to Central Asians either, yet they still (used to?) come there to work. Money talks.

Nitpick: he is a Labour member but not a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party, so he sits in the Commons as an independent.

Azerbaijan has closed its land borders for Covid. Still hasn't reopened, three years later.

(off-topic question: do you come from Murmansk, by any chance? That username sounds familiar :)

This is mostly but not entirely coincidental. The name München is derived from the word for monk, which would be "monaco" in Italian. Both "monaco" (monk) and "Monaco" (city) ultim…

We generally don't, most of the passengers on these trains only go part of the route. Train trips taking 2-3 days (like Moscow to Urals) used to be more common, but flying has beco…

Not just you. I have to use Google search at 80% magnification tops, otherwise the results don't really fit on the screen.

At a previous job, a coworker got a new Mac but still wanted to use Linux. He spent several days setting the system up, and eventually got it up and running smoothly. Except that t…

Python does actually have an abstract type for numbers, and it is called Number: https://docs.python.org/3/library/numbers.html .

> I got the impression that I could continue riding to Amsterdam in the same fashion if wanted to. You definitely could. A couple of years ago I've actually done a trip like that, …