Technically legal on the Isle of Man too, but see the TT and how several people die on it every year for how bad an idea that is

Fortunately in this specific case we’re probably not close enough to be useful

It’s Lays, they’re the same thing with a different name

https://www.thecampbellscompany.com/newsroom/press-releases/campbell-completes-sale-of-european-chips-business-to-valeo-foods/ it did! Including the European and Middle Eastern parts too, not just the UK parts

That spelling thing is hilarious

The branding is identical. Did Valeo buy the UK branch or something?

I can highly recommend Co-op’s own brand Irresistible crisps. The salt & vinegar ones especially

Kettle chips are made in the UK, but the company is American and also owned by Campbell’s (of soup fame)

Edit: Campbell’s actually sold the European branch of Kettle to Dutch Valeo in 2019 https://www.thecampbellscompany.com/newsroom/press-releases/campbell-completes-sale-of-european-chips-business-to-valeo-foods/

Ahh, good points all round

A small clarification: pre-Columbian Mesoamerica did have copper and bronze metalworking, after picking it up from contact with South American societies some time between 600 and 800 CE. The Nahuas (Aztecs) had bronze axes called tlaximaltepoztli, for example. Macuahuitls might have just been better at cutting than bronze blades, though. Societies that learned about ironworking mostly replaced their bronze weapons with it, after all

I don’t think I agree with that. Decoupling from American military and tech products can happen with or without tariffs, but doing so is primarily for the security of Europe. The tariffs are done to damage the credibility of the politicians responsible for them. They’re attempting to achieve separate goals. Regardless of whether Europe can trust America — and I agree with you that Europe can’t — if Europe has the ability to turn American public opinion against policies that harm Europe, doing so is beneficial to Europe. Better a large power that can’t be trusted than one that is actively hostile.

They tend to aim for things made in states that elected the politicians responsible. In the case of Jack Daniels, that comes from Mitch McConnell’s state

The EU has historically been quite targeted when counter-tariffing America. A couple of quotes from this Guardian article:

These tariffs, which target notable US goods worth €4.5bn, often from Republican states, will snap back on 1 April.

And

“We try to hit … where it hurts,” said a senior EU official, who said the bloc was targeting soya beans, which are grown in Louisiana, the state of the US speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. “We love soybeans, but we’re happy to buy them from Brazil or from Argentina or from anywhere else.”

To be fair I would be very intimidated by someone swinging a weapon that can kill a horse with one blow

Learning Esperanto first allegedly increases a student’s ability to learn other foreign languages

It should be noted that being multilingual at all improves the ability to acquire new unfamiliar words, this isn’t something unique to Esperanto (or at least, that project does not show that Esperanto is uniquely good for this purpose)

It really upset him when we built a wind farm within sight of his other one here, we should just blanket them in turbines

I’m not sure it would. The Nazi economy was supported by plunder, they had to keep attacking to fund it. They couldn’t get to Britain or America, and they had otherwise more or less run out of Europe.

I don’t want to imagine the kind of atrocities they could have committed in the time that it would take for them to collapse, but I do think the collapse would have come

Monaco has had an open border with France since 1865, so I don’t think that specific thing is a concern

Every part of the world has a history of imperialism. Europe just happened to be the part that developed the tools to do it on the biggest scale, and the continent eventually burned itself down with them

China has had several of the biggest empires in history. So has India, so has Iran. Peru was once the seat of one of the biggest empires, and so was Mongolia. The Songhai and Mali empires were enormous. Ethiopia, the one part of Africa that kept outside conquerors out the longest, was itself a massive empire. Tonga once subjugated most of the other Pacific Islands.

The European empires inflicted a horrific amount of suffering, and they aren’t completely gone. The mindset that created them, unfortunately, has been present in just about every society for all of history

Mod support is a surefire path to silliness if you have a playerbase that cares. Assetto Corsa is an extremely straight-faced game, but people still modded in things like “your car is a big stompy t-rex” and “everyone races on office chairs”

It’s a Celtic cross, traditionally a symbol of insular Christianity (the not-particularly-unified practices of Christianity in early medieval Ireland and the Celtic parts of Scotland). As is so often the case, shitebag neo-nazis have tried to take it for themselves, because they haven’t had an original idea since the invention of simultaneously losing to communists and capitalists