Luxembourg did not request that their official language, the Luxembourgish dialect of German, be an EU official language.
Nor did Belgium request it for Flemish or Austria for Austrian.
The Western Balkan accession countries are going a different route. https://t.co/4ky8oIvdjt
> be Alexandra Elbakyan
> be born in Kazakhstan in 1988
> start coding at 12
> hack your internet provider at 14
> hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford
> get a CS degree from Satbayev University
> intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech
> speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces
> notice researchers can't read the papers they need
> notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper
> notice peer reviewers worked for free
> notice editors worked for free
> notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money
> build Sci-Hub in 2011
> upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published
> give it away for free
> get sued by Elsevier
> get hit with a $15 million judgment
> don't give a flying f*ck
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get domain after domain seized
> register a new one
> keep Sci-Hub up
> get investigated by the US Department of Justice
> don't give a flying f*ck
> get accused of working for Russian intelligence
> don't give a flying f*ck
> have the FBI subpoena your iCloud
> get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science
> get a parasitoid wasp named after you
> get a deep-sea snail named after you
> get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge
> become a legend
The Houthis in Yemen released a threatening and rousing song video, saying that a small group will triumph over the United States, Israel and the entire West.
Why many EU/UK countries are extraordinarily bellicose in the Ukraine-Russia war is easy to understand, if thought in simplest possible terms.
Costs to them in lost people or destroyed infrastructure are zero. They do bear financial costs but these would be compensated by the seized Russian assets.
They put an implicit value of zero on Ukrainian lives.
Their implicit value on Russian lives is negative b/c they believe that there is a fundamental conflict between Europe and Russia: Napolean, Crimean War, Hitler, Cold War. 4 big wars in 200 years.
Since Russian dead are a plus, and Ukrainian dead are a zero, the longer the war last the better.
Until both sides are totally exhausted & have in the meantime destroyed own countries.
This is like Churchill's mid-1930s idea about the ideal Nazi-Soviet war to total exhaustion.
Danish PM bragging how they swapped out their dependence on cheap Russian gas, which posed a theoretical threat, for dependence on expensive US gas, a direct existential threat to Denmark. Must be that high European IQ that race science weirdos rave about
https://t.co/oVKCmyVYWs
SHORTER CARNEY: We can’t accept the U.S. abusing us like we helped them abuse Palestinians, Venezuelans, Haitians, Iranians… We thought ourselves rich enough and white enough to be exempt.
Venezuela hasn't collapsed. Maduro's government is still intact.
The only thing that has happened is the US settlers have kidnapped a head of state because they are lawless and violent.