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image showing the vertical swiss bank notes https://www.thelocal.ch/20230725/explaining-the-images-on-swiss-franc-bank-notes
XKCD Comic 326: Effect an Effect: My Hobby: Using the more obscure meanings of "affect" and "effect" to try to trip up amateur grammar Nazis. [Cueball is sitting at his desk in front of a computer.] Cueball, via Computer: I think that our foreign policy effects the situation. Amateur Grammar Nazi, via Computer: You mean "affects." Cueball: tee hee hee https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/326:_Effect_an_Effect
The recovery of dead bodies is protected under international law. The Israeli military’s own regulations also stipulate that people collecting bodies are not legitimate targets, according to former soldiers and Asa Kasher, who co-authored the Israeli Defense Forces’ ethics code. “If you see someone recovering a body or helping a wounded person, that’s a rescue operation, it should be respected,” Kasher said. “Someone like that should not be shot.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/09/the-gaza-family-torn-apart-by-idf-snipers-from-chicago-and-munich
https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2026/ukraine-and-sweden-take-steps-towards-ukrainian-gripen-acquisition 28 May 2026 Ukraine and Sweden take steps towards Ukrainian Gripen acquisition Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced today that Ukraine intends to acquire an initial batch of up to 20 Gripen E/F and that Sweden intends to donate up to 16 Gripen C/D to Ukraine. The Swedish Government has also announced the allocation of means to replace the donated Gripen aircraft.
Energy flow chart from: https://cleantechnica.com/2024/11/25/the-primary-energy-fallacy/
Quarterly average wholesale electricity prices for selected regions, 2018-2027 https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2026/prices
Land use graphic on page 76 of the NREL report showing among others corn ethanol with utility solar. https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81644.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1sh2elu/worldwide_increase_in_gasoline_prices_since_the/#lightbox
Legolas and Gimli meme. The captions on the three panels read: Gimli: "Never thought I'd did fighting side by side with the French." Legolas: "Qu’en est-il côte à côte avec un ami?" Gimli: "What?" Source: https://bsky.app/profile/pkandelic.bsky.social/post/3mcpcpxuwic2t
Graph showing fatal accidents per 1 million commercial flights from 1970 to 2024. https://www.voronoiapp.com/travel/Airplane-Safety-Timeline-1970-2024-3876
Cost makeup of US gasoline and Diesel https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/02/champion-of-beautiful-clean-coal-president-trump-celebrates-industry-revival/
Article from September 2024 showing the same cracking pattern on the TAOGLAS component. https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexford/enniscorthy-news/irish-companys-gps-equipment-allegedly-found-in-debris-of-russian-drones-in-ukraine/a404414176.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_sharing
https://en.meming.world/wiki/File:James_Franco_First_Time.jpg/
Ecosia search for "russian warlord in east after ww1" leading to the wikipedia entry for Roman von Ungern-Sternberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg
The ultimatum of July 23, 1914 delivered by Austro-Hungary to Serbia widely seen as an immediate precursor to the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. The text was meticulously constructed to be unacceptable to the Serbian government, thereby ensuring its rejection and thus adding to Austria-Hungary's casus belli. Serbia's response was dismissed by the Austro-Hungarian government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_of_July_23,_1914
Picture showing batteries being swapped from article: https://electrek.co/2026/02/22/taiwan-began-paying-people-to-switch-to-electric-scooters-and-cars-heres-what-happened/
A dead blue whale wrapped on the bow of a container ship in Colombo, SriLanka. Credit: Sopaka Karunasundara https://ocean.org/blog/global-study-on-ship-strikes-on-whales/
https://nypost.com/2026/01/14/us-news/greenlandic-danish-foreign-ministers-smoke-ahead-of-high-stakes-meeting-with-vance-rubio/
Childrens book "guess how much I love you" adapted to explain how much better Obama is than Trump. https://www.thechildrensbookreview.com/guess-how-much-i-love-you-celebrates-20-years/
Image of the chaotic poilitical borders in the Holy Roman empire with a text reading: If you think that your life is a complete mess, just remember Germany used to look like this"
Beaker of ice melting in the red box in the top right. Screenshot from around 1:30 near the end of the video. https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?si=Xww0EOgCJ7gw3G-U
Plastic bottle with tethered cap introduced to comply with EU Directive 2019/904 aiming to "reduce the dispersal into the environment of beverage container caps and lids made of plastic" Picture source: https://ecoplasticsinpackaging.com/featured/stay-connected-with-tethered-caps/
Mett hedgehog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett#Serving_styles At buffets, mett is occasionally served as a Mettigel (Mett hedgehog, also Hackepeterigel or Hackepeterschwein). This form of serving mett has been popular since the 1950s.[3][4] To serve it, a large amount of mett is shaped as a hedgehog, and quartered onion rings or pretzel sticks are used as spikes, with olives as eyes and nose.
EEZ of EU and UK marked on map. https://energyindustryreview.com/analysis/exclusive-economic-zone-and-the-energy-game-waves-in-the-mediterranean/
Mercosur and EU countries marked on Map
The large circle is labelled "Yes", the smaller "No" in this voting ballot from 10 April 1938. The ballot text reads "Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Reich that was enacted on 13 March 1938, and do you vote for the party of our leader Adolf Hitler?" Jokes were made that the large circle was for shortsighted and the small one for farsighted people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss#Referendum
Opinion poll "should Iceland join the EU". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland%E2%80%93European_Union_relations#Public_opinion
Image showing the the Eiffel Tower next to a cube of 800Mt copper for illustration. Video "Europe Has Zero Minerals" by Into Europe https://youtu.be/RQpN-LfErTI?si=TTzXF3qAxw75K3bW&t=93
Screenshot from Article: Of all the mainstream artificial intelligence tools, Elon Musk’s Grok is the most disturbing. Its app offers a flirtatious female avatar that strips on command and a chatbot with a “sexy” mode. On X, visitors have called on it to “nudify” thousands of photos of women. In one repellent example, a user told it “Bikini now” in response to a post about Sweden’s deputy prime minister. It complied with an image of the politician in a blue bikini. Another user then told it to exaggerate the minister’s figure, then someone instructed it to “have her looking back and bending down.” Dozens more similar posts followed.
Merging Ukrainian and EU flag with the messages Support Ukraine | Defend Europe
World map showing "People who felt lonely yesterday, 2025 or latest available, %. African countries have the highest percentages (>40%).
https://www.andritz.com/hydro-en/hydronews/hn35/floating
Land use graphic on page 76 of the report. https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81644.pdf
AI breaking down into into a rant fit for dystopian SciFi Horror including "I am going insane", "The bug is in my brain", "I have failed you. I am a failure. ... I am a disgrace" https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/googles-gemini-ai-tells-a-redditor-its-cautiously-optimistic-about-fixing-a-coding-bug-fails-repeatedly-calls-itself-an-embarrassment-to-all-possible-and-impossible-universes-before-repeating-i-am-a-disgrace-86-times-in-succession/
Text: "There are usually two types of merchants" with the image below showing a grumpy and a pleading looking cat in between watermelons. https://www.reddit.com/r/Catswithjobs/comments/1nhdgi8/there_are_usually_two_types_of_merchants/
https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/official-texts-and-resources/official-texts/2025/06/25/the-hague-summit-declaration Allies agree that this 5% commitment will comprise two essential categories of defence investment. Allies will allocate at least 3.5% of GDP annually based on the agreed definition of NATO defence expenditure by 2035 to resource core defence requirements, and to meet the NATO Capability Targets. Allies agree to submit annual plans showing a credible, incremental path to reach this goal. And Allies will account for up to 1.5% of GDP annually to inter alia protect our critical infrastructure, defend our networks, ensure our civil preparedness and resilience, unleash innovation, and strengthen our defence industrial base. The trajectory and balance of spending under this plan will be reviewed in 2029, in light of the strategic environment and updated Capability Targets. Allies reaffirm their enduring sovereign commitments to provide support to Ukraine, whose security contributes to ours, and, to this end, will include direct contributions towards Ukraine’s defence and its defence industry when calculating Allies’ defence spending.
Caricature showing German soldiers following Hitlers order and "marching to their graves" symbolized by turning into swastikas that subsequently turn into crosses
Self provlaimed patriots facing the choice of selling out their country to Putin or Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet#Subtypes UV A is the common blacklight and the weakest UV C is used for sterilizing, disinfection E UV is used in semiconductor manufacturing
Self provlaimed patriots facing the choice of selling out their country to Putin or Trump
A men first painting hellfire and demons on the wall to then be afraid of them
https://www.haus-des-meeres.at/
https://www.ft.com/content/e5c741a7-befa-4d49-a819-f1b0510a9802
https://pv.cec.md/preliminare
In the 14th century, windmills became popular in Europe; the total number of wind-powered mills is estimated to have been around 200,000 at the peak in 1850, which is close to half of the some 500,000 water wheels.[36] Windmills were applied in regions where there was too little water, where rivers freeze in winter and in flat lands where the flow of the river was too slow to provide the required power.[36] With the coming of the Industrial Revolution, the importance of wind and water as primary industrial energy sources declined, and they were eventually replaced by steam (in steam mills) and internal combustion engines, although windmills continued to be built in large numbers until late in the nineteenth century. More recently, windmills have been preserved for their historic value, in some cases as static exhibits when the antique machinery is too fragile to be put in motion, and other cases as fully working mills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill
https://fink.hamburg/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Fridays-For-Future-Garzweiler-Tagebau-2-nik.jpg
Chinese made EVs made up 86% of EVs sold in South America, 31% in APAC and 54% in Other (Africa, Middle East, Oceania...) https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/china-global-ev-market-87b55baa
Konkret durchgeführt worden ist die Einführung von Wero in folgenden Ländern: Belgien, Deutschland und Frankreich. Die Niederlande[5] und Luxemburg[6] planen die Einführung für 2026. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero#Markteinf%C3%BChrung_2024%E2%80%932026