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Europe is at a turning point. Timid EU elites should take lessons from The Leopard

I found this quite interesting although the opinion piece doesn’t really say much. I think I can agree that we Europeans, and I’m starting with myself here, have been content with voting every four years and otherwise not thinking about or discussing how to stop this slow decline. But our politicians aren’t delivering. I mean, look at the lack of political imagination we’re getting here in Germany, all these small cuts to slowly make life worse bit by bit instead of serious policy to revive the continent at large.

In my opinion we need greater cooperation with each other if we want to have a chance of success in a world dominated to a larger degree by other players. At least we need to have these conversations.

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BEHOLD: The most ludicrous Christmas gift of all time

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I wouldn’t go that far, but they ripped off the person who gifted me the thing on exchange rate. We live in Europe and she ended up paying something like $100 more than regular price, before duty and VAT. Customer service just stopped responding to her, which I don’t like. If you’re in the US they’re probably nicer.

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James Hoffmann tested V60 filter papers

Just to anti-clickbait the stupid YouTube thumbnail question: He finds that rinsing bleached filters is no longer necessary from a taste perspective. And all Hario filters now seem to come from the same Japanese supplier, so there are no longer some that are better than others.

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