Jack Schickler

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The UK House of Commons literally begins each session with prayers!

A highly competitive top 10 but I worry #8 is about to accuse #1-7 of running a cartel

not entirely sure it's true either. The ruling (and dominant) party in Germany literally has "Christian" in its name

not to mention that he spelled her name wrong

Meanwhile, in the real world, editors just say "don't use the word launch" and "get me pictures of Spiderman"

The Prime Minister of France does not appear to know the name of the European Commission President, which seems, well,,

I’m a musician in a film. I can’t play that tricky passage at my first attempt, but I can after hearing an inspirational message

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The developer guys at @contexte.com , of whom I’m constantly in awe, did a thing. Enjoy! www.contexte.com/eu/article/e...

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Tragic

Not to mention other adjectives

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Don Quixote by Picasso

Trump having a go at windmills be like

Great factoid

Year of first recorded use?

"I never wrote a picture in my life" is a quote for the ages. If it doesn't make it into the ODQ, what are we even doing here

guy tapping head, saying, 'can't leak the MFF, if there is no MFF to leak'

The von der Leyen method: an update

they also take a late May bank holiday for Ascension, though. Pentecost is in June (or was this year, anyway)

Bear in mind this is a country that gets a public holiday for pentecost. Pentecost! I'm sorry but nobody even knows what that is

They have a holiday for pentecost though. Pentecost!

What a great chance to use this meme

Still , good job they didn’t pick the one who stumbles on his words

Guardian quote from Trump: “no they’re going to be tariffs the tariffs the tariffs are going to be the tariffs”

I hope that’s clear

Yes I think you're right! (though, coming back to the original question, there may be other factors that make the business case for crypto stronger in those places - privacy, risk of capital controls, etc)

yes, I know! I just mean there are a number of payment innovations in a number of areas where the US trails Europe. (Instant payments, chip and PIN, credit card fees ...). And in each case, in my view, for similar reasons (regulation and the role of the state)

my info may well be out of date! but there's a lot of metrics/areas where the US trails the EU here. (Agree the case for crypto as a solution is weak - but I think even weaker in Europe)

Ok my info may be a little out of date

Indeed there aren’t trillion-dollar companies, there are boring but effective initiatives like FPS, Bancontact and the European payments council

I think it's an area where the European instinct for regulation / centralisation is genuinely helpful. The US seems to have an ideological problem with it.

Don't disagree. But the headline of this piece is that the stuck-in-the-mud innovation-fearing Europeans should take more lessons in how to do payments from the US, which I find hard to stomach

Like, there is (apparently) regulation, though enforcement was clearly lacking

The FCA has been raiding those crypto ATMs though!