Perl

Raku?

Stay away. Everyone wins.

I really hope Israel will return to the rule of law and will curb the extremists. Same goes for the USA.

Not really: you want to prevent people from being passive smokers, and add sufficient taxation on cigarettes.

Yeah, session limits are kinda show stoppers.

I have phds both in pelicans and bicycles and may professionally attest that are some fine specimens of pelicans riding bicycles.

The interface got much worse, managing large liberties is impossible.

EU has a really big problem with lobbing/corruption. Qatargate, russian connections, von der Leyen–Pfizer affair.

Oil countries (that includes the USA) buying political will in Europe is nothing new. The EU was already fighting against its own internal corruption and inequality, the state of the world is not helping at all.

As inequality grows in any part of the globe that money will be used to corrupt the rest of the world. The EU is not immune to it.

So, we all need to fight against wealth accumulation, inequality and corruption.

It kind of sounds like you're blaming other countries for corruption in the EU?

I read it as the EU was having a hard enough time with corruption before external pressure got involved.

It isn't just the EU. Anytime $1M in lobbying will buy you $1B in contracts or regulatory capture, it will always be a no brainer. We need better transparency about the money trail and full disclosure before things go to vote so the public can weigh in.

States, generally, have to combat corruption.

This is an example. The corrupting influence of "Big money" up against transparency

Transparency helps, especially in Europe where civil society runs deep.

My mind is blown by the USAnian president blatantly grafting, out in the open, and it is not a political liability. Many political analysts think that is what cost Orbán the Hungarian election

I'm not sure - their kiosks in Poland are horrible, nagging you to order more. Event hardware is broken, as your recipe with order number tends to get stuck in the machine. What makes me wonder what our Fiscus thinks about it.

Why are you working instead of watching the match?

That's what crossed my mind too: It's like a nationally-mandated break to watch football.