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The act of disqualification (or attempting to disqualify) would almost necessarily involve an assessment of the accusation to a certain standard. Under the basic electoral law in many states this could be political more than legal, but there would have to be an assumption that a disqualification...

I can't help but point out that the "climate winners" are mostly places where the terrain likely to experience increased habitability is barely-populated tundra. In other words, to all intents and purposes, everyone loses: because substantially no-one lives in the places due to improve most...

Of course there was. Firstly, IIRC Japan was relatively tolerant of homosexuality (at least by medieval European/Middle-Eastern standards) and it was an accepted practice, at least in certain forms and situations. Secondly, what does anyone think likely to happen when you have men bonding...

Japan is also ~98% ethnically Japanese, so you can see why there might be a certain affinity there. And indeed it's very common. For example, autocratically-inclined nationalists the world over esteem and admire each other: Meloni, Orban, le Pen, Trump, Putin, etc. and all their supporters. The...

I wasn't very clear - that was not directly replying to you about a computer game depiction, I was tangentially using your quotation as a basis to discuss Greek myth. Although if I were to comment on the computer game's adaptation, I'd note that the Aphrodite of Greek myth conventionally wore...

It's not obvious that Aphrodite is the most beautiful goddess in the Greek pantheon. For instance, Hera is said to be in some sources. The trick here is perhaps shades of what beauty represents, as this can differ. Aphrodite for instance reflects beauty in terms of youth and sexual attraction...

Depends on the forest and the season, doesn't it?

What happens overall is relatively unimportant, it's what it does at a local level. Climate change is expected to exacerbate both dry and wet conditions: this means more fires in dry areas and more floods in wet areas.

Maybe so, but a disqualification without clear and serious reason is also disproportionate. People have to be allowed some room to make mistakes, otherwise this world will be a ultra-punitive hellhole where we all routinely receive heavy punishment for not choosing the best response to a situation.

The EBU is a union of public service broadcasters, and public sector broadcasters are nothing if not the quasi-official voices of their governments. Those officials all know they're going to get much further sucking up to the political preferences of European governments than they will by...

I replaced myself with a bot three years ago and no-one noticed.

I have to admit I have not really kept up with Eurovision 2024. That's mostly because it's my wife that keeps a laser focus on it, but she's boycotting it this year because of Israel being allowed to compete despite it mass murdering Palestinians. Never mind the obvious political angle of (the...

By all means change thing to get some freshness, take a break for a while to explore new things, but never feel you have to give games up forever. Best of luck to you.

That sentence alone is worth 1,000 likes.

This is possibly part of the reason they agreed: grab the PR coup and then not get stuck with the MP long-term. There is an obvious PR advantage here: Tories are leaning on the anti-immigration message very hard. Without even needing to compete, Labour can just have (ex-)Tories savage the Tories...