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  • Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged

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  • It is extremely obvious all these cable cutting "accidents" are done on purpose by Russia, Russian actors, or someone contracted by Russia. The ship should be seized and used for financing new cables, even if it the rusty bathtub is only worth a couple of bucks. Most importantly the crew (regardless of nationality) needs to be sentenced to something like 20-30 years in jail for acts of war or the like. Then future crews and shipping companies will realise the cost of accepting these contracts from Russia.

  • Norway’s Wealth Fund Divests From 11 of 61 Stakes in Israeli Companies, After Criticism

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  • Yes, I know, I can read Norwegian. The name of the bank is still "Norges Bank", not "Norges". NBIM is a department of Norges Bank managing the Governement Pension Fund of Norway. As you are very set on it being called "Norges" I assume you can read Norwegian and can read the Norwegian Wikipedia article on the department:

    https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norges_Bank_Investment_Management

    Here, I'll even throw you a bone and link the English article for Norges Bank:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norges_Bank

    See the part where it's name is "Norges Bank" and not "Norges"?

  • Norway’s Wealth Fund Divests From 11 of 61 Stakes in Israeli Companies, After Criticism

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  • It's about companies involved with the Israeli military and their actions in Gaza. The rest have either, not been found to be involved, or are being kept as a bargaining chip I guess.

  • Norway’s Wealth Fund Divests From 11 of 61 Stakes in Israeli Companies, After Criticism

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  • If the central bank of England was named "Englands Bank" would you call it Englands?

    Norges Bank literally means Bank of Norway, and is the central bank of Norway. Norge is the name of Norway in Norwegian. In Norwegian you add a s after a noun to make it possessive.

    Edit: Downvoting changes neither the name of the bank, nor Norwegian grammar, lol. This place is so Reddit-brained.

  • EU Plans Tariffs on Norwegian Steel Components

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  • It ain't really a secret that the EU wants to bottom trawl and surgically remove every fish in Norwegian waters. As can be seen every time the quotas are distributed and the EU is on the brink of threatening war with Norway over them.

    Guess what would happen the instant Norway joined the EU with the current deal that's on the table.

  • EU Plans Tariffs on Norwegian Steel Components

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  • When the US introduces tariffs on smaller weaker nations (allegedly as a protective measure) the EU screams about how unfair it is and how it will hurt the global market and the US.

    But when the EU introduces tariff on a smaller weaker nation it's suddenly necessary, cool and rad.

    Okay sure, sound logic.

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    Russia won't end Ukraine war until NATO "pulls out" of Baltics: Moscow

    www.newsweek.com /russia-end-ukraine-war-nato-baltics-2082912

  • China says it may speed up rare earths application approvals from EU

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  • Preferably we'd be self-sufficient since Europe has a lot of, if not most of the rare earth minerals in various deposits. But, no wants to deal with the ugly process of extraction and processing, not to mention the upfront costs. Until someone steps up I guess we sadly have to deal with China.

  • faen

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  • I'm nowhere near being an expert on languages and phonology, but I think the Ø-sounds in the Nordic languages are more or less the same. With some tiny differences on pressure, pitch, and maybe tone. Close enough to be considered the same in my opinion. It probably boils down to what would mostly be accent and dialect differences between the languages.

  • faen

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  • Experience with English and Norwegian (should probably have sourced it), but also from wikitionary. There are some audio examples here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slut

    IPA for the word "slut" is /slʌt/, the upside-down V sounds like this. While not exactly the same sound as Ø, the audio examples on wikitionary for "slut" sounds closer to Ø for me, as I use Ø daily in Norwegian.

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    Norwegian uses this sound for the "u" in "slutt", the full IPA for it is /ʂlʉtː/. For some reason there isn't IPA for "slutt" in Bokmål, but the Nynorsk pronunciation is the more or less the same. Sadly there isn't an audio recording of the word on wikitionary, but it has a double consonant which is a fun rabbit hole in Norwegian.

  • faen

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  • Sure, except the Norwegian spelling is "slutt". The pronunciation is a bit different from the English word "slut", the English one uses more of a ø-sound for the u. "sludd" is the Norwegian word for sleet, which is a mix of snow and water, this is even stated by your sources.

  • The EU wants to introduce an EU driving license!

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  • Can they standardize some kind of ice road driving experience requirement if you are driving somewhere it gets cold in the winter? It's a constant problem with people who have never seen snow before racing around like maniacs on slippery ice roads in the Nordics, often with summer tyres. Both cars and heavy lorries from central and southern Europe often crash in the winter, and they're always surprised at ice being more difficult to drive on than plain asphalt. There's a reason it's an obligatory part of driving education in the north.

  • Poland gears up for war

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  • They've been ramping up acquisition and production as much as they reasonably can the last few years. The rest of us should really follow their example. Luckily the production is increasing all over Europe, though it should have begun much much sooner than this. The hard part going forward is manpower (as stated in the article), and all the command structures needing to be rebuilt without the US. And, over time removing the dependence on America for air defence, both planes and land-based missile defences. Fully local drone production is also going to be a game changer, as we have seen the importance of drones in Ukraine.

  • Americans walked from door to door and failed to find a family Vance's wife could visit before cancelled visit in Nuuk, according to Danish TV2

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  • God, they're so desperate for the smallest possible propaganda win to spin into something big. They really aren't update to date on what goes on outside their own backyard.

  • Poland aims for up to a million mines on eastern borders

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  • Shit, I hate mines as much as the next guy, but against a Russia who doesn't care about any kind of laws or rules of war you have to use all the tools at your disposal to keep them away.

    Europe should probably invest in some kind of European FASCAM alternative. So in the event the Russians actually do launch an attack we can absolutely cover the roads, fields, and forests their side of the border several kilometres deep with mines. While we bunker down and just keep draining their resources on clearing mines in their own land.

  • Europe Is Short of Gunpowder and TNT When It Needs Them Most

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  • There's some serious NIMBY'ing going on with new manufacturing. People understandably don't want to live next door to a explosives factory. So the next option is to build the factories far away in some forest, but then environmentalists get up in arms over forests being cut down. Also, the longer commute makes it harder to get workers.

    All in all it's a lose-lose situation. Hopefully someone can cut through, find an agreeable solution somewhere in the middle, and start building new factories.

  • Elon reportedly orders government to stop feeding the bomb-sniffing dogs

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  • Surely THIS will get price of eggs down.

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  • It's impressive how much Fico and Orban keeps whining about LGBT, considering how firmly they've got their faces planted in Putin's crotch.

  • BYD to supply 1.6 GWh of battery storage for Greenvolt in Poland - Energy Storage

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  • It's good to see Poland green shifting their electrical grid. Hopefully this can alleviate the dependency on coal plants during peak hours and nurture more renewable energy over time.

    But, I really don't like Europe's general dependence on China for green energy. I hope politicians will finally learn to not trust autocratic regimes with the whole ongoing Trump thing.

  • Ukraine ready to accept 30-day ceasefire as US says 'ball is now in Russia's court'

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  • I wonder what Trumps response is going to be when Putin rejects the offer. Doubt he's going to go as hard on him as he did with Zelenskyy.