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One of the "granddads" of metal music...

Without knowing any further details, my first suspects would be corrupt Ukrainian politicians trying to get rid of an anti-corruption campaigner... too specific a target to be of any interest for the military efforts (unless the target was to poison the whole intelligence service staff and failed in spectacular Russian fashion)

I saw a few trailers and clips on Youtube for Frieren. Looks just up my alley, so I'll probably pick that one up next

I seem to have developed this weird, almost obsession like craving for Danish remoulade... no, I'm not pregnant A couple of importers offers it for sale in Australia. At a 200-500% markup So, I did a bit of google search and found what looked like recipes for traditional Danish remoulade. I'll save it on my phone and do a bit of extra looking around next time I get to do some shopping. This is just for a small jar of remoulade for dipping purposes. I want a liter of it! Just kidding, but I'll buy enough to make plenty of mistakes and hopefully also leaving enough for lasting me a while. I was surprised by the turmeric, as I'm sure some of the industrial stuff I remember, used something like madras curry for colouring it bright yellow (like hi viz vest yellow) Ingredients 3 tbsp mayonnaise, (good quality) 1 tbsp sour cream (about 18%) 1 tbsp carrots, (finely chopped) 1 tbsp pointed cabbage (Murdoc cabbage) (finely chopped) (or other crisp cabbage) 1 tbsp gherkins (finely chopped) 1 tbsp chives (finely chopped) 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tsp red onions (finely chopped) 1 tsp strong mustard 1 tsp turmeric adjust according to color preference 1/2 tsp sugar 1/2 tsp salt Pepper to taste Instructions Prepare all the vegetables. In a bowl, mix all the ingredients together. Add extra turmeric if you want a stronger color. Add extra salt and pepper to taste. Let your homemade remoulade rest in the fridge for 30 minutes before serving.

Sounds like when I left the region... Should've added to my original post, the exceptions I remember from top of my head are, the Danish minority and their regional party (SSW) in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein is exempt from the 5% rule and in Denmark, the Faeroe Islands and Greenland are guaranteed 2 seats each in the parliament in Copenhagen. Maybe they learned a thing or two from the British?

Call me vulgar, but I like Sergio Leone and I love "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"

I know Germany and Denmark (at least used to) have some other minimum requirements like 5% and 2% respectively of the votes in order to get seats. Bar some constitutional exceptions for ethic minorities that is. Lots of parties, but not just “frivolous” in nature edit: doesn’t that there isn’t a lot of small parties, but they need to get enough votes to get parliamentary representation. In Germany you usually have 4-5 parties with seats (decades old info, someone please correct me). Denmark had half a dozen parties in parliament give or take a few

Not garrum, but I do love adding a spoonful or two of fish sauce when I make curries

Politics, Politics never changes...

Continued from previous thread.... https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/132278-the-all-things-political-topic-politics-is-the-entertainment-division-of-the-military-industrial-complex/ The beauty of a two party system... other countries may be in the same situation

Global warming is real...

Hands up those forum oldies who knew Grounded was one of Obsidian's biggest games (pun unintended)? Might have something to do with the game pass thing. It had 15 million players already a year ago... https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/obsidian-s-i-grounded-i-has-grown-to-15-million-players

It starts out with the biggest obstacle, almost like a disclaimer. One side has a leader that is a crook on the run from the law and has to cling to the seat at all cost (and nothing helps clinging to seat like a war) to avoid prosecution and the other side doesn't have a centralized leadership you can negotiate with

What a happy coincidence one can be used as cover for the other...

"Black Friday" sales started a bit early for some stores here in Australia. I used the opportunity to finally buy myself a new TV, so I've spent half the day trying to navigate the menu When I bought my old plasma TV (which sort of indicates when I last bought a TV) was analogue only and I had a little external TV tuner box, that could convert the digital signals from suppliers into analogue signals... and I had 5 TV channels! Found some of my favourite channels, sadly the only dedicated news channel seems to be Sky News Lots of subscription channels which I have no interest in whatsoever. But... I could watch DVD movies again on something larger than my monitor. Speaking of larger... 55" was one of the smallest you could get, so I figured, great, that should fit right in, right? There seems to have gone inflation in screen sizes, it felt effin huge

Just another song by my favourite Faeroese songbird...

Now I became curious, because I remember Louisiana coming up in the past when looking for remoulade... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remoulade True enough. It features together with Denmark as two major variants of it. Originating from France Danish remoulade Danish remoulade has a mild, sweet-sour taste and a medium yellow color. The typical industrially-made variety does not contain capers, but finely-chopped cabbage and pickled cucumber, fair amounts of sugar, and a touch of curry powder (mustard seeds, cayenne pepper, coriander, onion powder, and turmeric) mostly for color. The fresh herbs are replaced by herbal essences, e.g., tarragon vinegar. Starch, gelatin or milk protein may be added as thickeners. Homemade or gourmet varieties may use olive oil (especially good with fish), capers, pickles, carrots, cucumber, lemon juice, dill, chervil, parsley or other fresh herbs, and possibly curry powder of various contents. In Denmark, remoulade is mostly used for french fries, hotdogs and for open sandwiches with roast beef, salami, fish cakes or fried fish. Louisiana remoulade Louisiana remoulade can vary from the French-African Creole, the rustic Afro-Caribbean Creole, or the Classic Cajun version, and like the local variants of roux, each version is different from the French original. Creole versions often have tan or pink hues and are usually piquant. Louisiana-style remoulades fall generally into one of two categories—those with a mayonnaise base and those with an oil base, but sometimes both mayonnaise and oil are used. Each version may have finely chopped vegetables, usually green onions and celery, and parsley; most are made with either Creole or stone-ground mustard. Salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper are also standard ingredients. In the oil- and mayonnaise-based versions, the reddish hue often comes from the addition of a small amount of ketchup and/or paprika.[6] The sauce is often topped with paprika for the aesthetics as well as the flavor. Generally, lemon juice or vinegar are added for acidity. Other additions include hardboiled egg or raw egg yolks, minced garlic, hot sauce, vinegar, horseradish, capers, cornichons, and Worcestershire sauce.[6][7][8] While the classic white remoulade is a condiment that can be offered in a variety of contexts (e.g., the classic celery root remoulade), Creole remoulade is used on shrimp, crabs, fried calamari, artichokes, and fried green tomatoes among other foods. Today, shrimp remoulade is a very common cold appetizer in New Orleans Creole restaurants,[9][10][11][12] although, historically, hard boiled eggs with remoulade was a less expensive option on some menus. Shrimp remoulade is most often served as a stand-alone appetizer (usually on a chiffonade of iceberg lettuce). One might also see crawfish remoulade, but restaurants seldom offer remoulade sauce as an accompaniment with fish, where ****tail sauce and tartar sauce are generally preferred. However, food columnist and cookbook author Leon Soniat does suggest to "Serve [remoulade] over seafood or with sliced asparagus."[13] Central Mississippi has comeback sauce, a condiment that is very similar to Louisiana remoulade.[14] The Louisiana version sounds a bit more complex to make, maybe because of the many variants. Time to dig up some recipes for the Danish version... google, here I come.

Reading your posts here in the food thread, I'm not sure I can blame them Gromnir, you need to get better at managing expectations Edit: Still on the hunt for a source of remoulade. A condiment that is ubiquitous in Scandinavia and northern Germany, but dang it, unknown to most of the rest of the world. Haven't had it for 15 years now

Expect a certain percentage of those "id less" people to be working for GRU. They'll probably head back once the pain of the cold surpasses the benefits of their government paychecks.

If I had a real answer to that, I would nominate myself for a Nobel prize. Not that I care about the title (since that one has largely been politicized these days), but the monetary grant could always come in handy The only thing I have is observation skills and opinions. But I guess you have to start asking questions somewhere and I do tend to question people, if I think they have entrenched themselves in opinions. For the this part of The Middle East, the options are somewhat limited. The two sides are not equal, since one side is effectively the one in control and calling all the shots (literally and figuratively). Similar to asymmetrical warfare, you have an asymmetrical power balance, where one side has all the soldiers, all the tanks, all the fighter jets and also all "international recognition" from several of the richest and most influential countries. The other side has been living as a defeated and occupied enemy for close to 70 years, without a proper leadership nor infrastructure (Israel has actually worked against any form for centralized Palestinian control since 1948, which doesn't make it easier to have a face to face meeting between leaders, since one side categorically rejects the idea, that the other side could have a leadership, as that would imply something close to statehood. One idea? Support the creation of a *viable* state for the occupied population to call home. People tend to be easier to negotiate with if they feel they have something to lose other than their lives. They haven't had anything to lose the last 2-3 decades. Hence why you can't bargain with "them" (an abstract them), because they don't have central leadership, no sense of identity (other than victims of occupation) and no sense of purpose. Give them something to lose and see if they are willing to make it work?

I *think* it's due in statistical terms. Just based on memory, one of the locals told me while I was living there, the Wellington fault line caused major earthquakes on average every 150 years. It's possible to miss it in a lifetime, but I wouldn't make long term investments in property Bold face by me... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_Fault "The Wellington Fault is also capable of producing earthquakes of up to magnitude-8.[1] While a major rupture on the Wellington Fault can be expected anytime in the next 500 years, a significant earthquake on other faults in the Wellington area have a shorter 150 year return time.[3]" I always found walking down Lambdon Quay a bit unsettling, with all the brass plaques saying 'shoreline 1840', because this shopping mall in the city centre was the old waterfront before an earthquake rearranged local geography. I sort of did the math while living there... 1840 + average 150 = approx 1990, so the next chance of become part of some earthquake statistic was 30 years overdue. I almost felt a bit of relief when moving to a geographically stable area Edit: That should probably read 10-15 years overdue, as I moved to Wellington in 2003 Edit2: They didn't mention that in the job interview

They just don't do genocide like they used to in the old days... Europeans used to be good at that. No rebellions or uprisings when there is nobody left to rebel or rise up. The world has grown soft... Just kidding of course, but they are still all discussing fighting the symptoms of a problem instead of addressing the cause. Edit: which would be something along the lines of too many people kicked out of their homes with nowhere to go but refugee camps and walled in ghettos and no discernible future. Refugee camps with people that have no home and no future will always be a breeding ground for violent agitators

There be dragons then...

I can't put my finger on exactly why, but that video for some reason made me think of OMD. Maybe it's a similar vibe? Similar...ish sound? Meh, for some reason, it just triggered memories of the latter band. Falco... I guess I remember the time period better than the artist I suppose. He did do quite a few hits back then... Der Commissar, Rock me Amadeus, Jeanny etc. One of his last songs (I liked the word play, which does need a bit of knowledge of the language to understand the play on the word "koks", meaning both coke - fuel for heating and cocaine and "kohle" meaning both coal and money depending on context) Some Australian rock/pop band doing a show in some European country (it's not even part of the EU)

Wouldn't that require some sort of logistics and planning, which Russia has shown itself in short supply of the last year or so?