Slovenia is based.

I was expecting better from Denmark, though.

Are the Haredi the ones who believe that Israel cannot exist before the Messiah comes?

Though ask yourself: can you get a better deal?

Last year, you could not hear boos when Israel entered, but you heard some between the time the Greek flag (which is the same colours) was seen and Greece was announced, which seemed telling.

You can vote 20 times from any one phone number, and they don’t check if two numbers (or 200) are owned by the same person. And SIM cards aren’t that expensive. Goosing a Eurovision contestant’s vote would be relatively cheap and involve no breaking of any actual rules, let alone laws.

Maybe when the European Digital ID scheme comes in, they can use this to restrict votes per person, though this would still leave countries like the UK, Switzerland, Armenia/Georgia/Azerbaijan and Australia open to manipulation, unless they locked down their voting similarly. And you want something like Eurovision to be relatively frictionless, as it’s meant to be a party rather than a serious exercise in democratic governance.

The upmarket ones can advertise having new CRT monitors. By then, surely someone will have started a factory somewhere making them in artisanal quantities for well-heeled retro-gaming enthusiasts.

The Lemmy user base tilts alternative (queer, neurodiverse, subculturally niche, politically leftist beyond the mainstream centre-left and such), whereas sports fandom is coded aggressively mainstream, as part of what it means to pass the normality tests, so there’d be fewer sports fans than in a randomly chosen population. Maybe if there’s an influx of normies here, the sports forums will fill out.

Those look like men; I don’t see voluminous hoop skirts.

They’d be a Taiwanese electronics firm founded between the 70s and 90s. I’m fairly sure I had one of their SVGA multisync monitors back then.

May your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth with the force of a thousand caramels

As the IRA said to Margaret Thatcher, they only have to succeed once.

Tomorrow’s bingo halls will instead be net gaming centres, and the old men sitting at tables in bars playing cards will be playing Balatro.

Fairly sure this guy was the opposition leader in the recent Australian election

Hungary, Poland and such

They should lobby for the UK to rejoin so they can be third lowest.

Mastodon.social is also bound by German law, and ¼ of their trending timeline is people dunking on Israel in ways that are classified as anti-Semitism under the IHRA definition (i.e. calling it racist/an apartheid state). They don’t seem to be in any hurry to change this.

At least, with things being on fire at home, there’s less survivor’s guilt

“The Left” here being anyone who’s not an arsehole.

The voice of someone known for his sound life choices

There was also a tale about a European monk who cut the sleeve off his robe as not to disturb his cat’s sleep, and I recall hearing about a similar Islamic story attributing this action to the prophet Muhammad. There are probably variants wherever cats are domesticated.