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[smjjames]

The troll toll video was kind of spot on. Germany knows that nearly all of Europe's freight traffic passes through Germany, because there is not other route. It's like a troll standing on the only bridge across a river and demanding troll toll indeed.

Unless you want to take a thousand mile detour to go around Germany and go through Switzerland, Italy, and Austria. It's certainly more than a thousand miles, but same point that it's a huge detour.

[martinuzz]

That, plus the Austrian / Italian / Swiss infrastructure can't cope with a significant increase in freight volume. It would turn the three countries into a massive traffic jam.

[Strife26]

We already do that. It's called gasoline tax.

Sounds like Europe will only benefit from the new German toll then.

Please, do indulge me: How exactly are decreased mobility in border areas and bankrupt petrol stations beneficial to Europe? I'd be very interested to understand why that is.

Easy, the faster the EU collapses in on itself like a house of rotten wood, the quicker all the countries trapped inside can struggle their way out of it.

[Loud Whispers]

Easy, the faster the EU collapses in on itself like a house of rotten wood, the quicker all the countries trapped inside can struggle their way out of it.

The Byzantines didn't collapse in a day, which means that the Greeks will suffer for another thousand years

[martinuzz]

Catalonia is going to hold another referendum for independence in october. Spanish parliament has already declared it illegal (again)

[smjjames]

Catalonia is going to hold another referendum for independence in october. Spanish parliament has already declared it illegal (again)

Didn't I mention that some weeks/few months ago?

I wonder what will happen if the referendum goes through, ends up in a yes for independence, and Spain doesn't recognize the independence? Any sort of attempt at intervention, military or otherwise, is going to be met with... problems.

[Strife26]

Easy, the faster the EU collapses in on itself like a house of rotten wood, the quicker all the countries trapped inside can struggle their way out of it.

The Byzantines didn't collapse in a day, which means that the Greeks will suffer for another thousand years

I think likening it to the Holy Roman Empire would be more entertaining, with the EU eventually being just Cyprus, or possibly extending to a country explicitly not in Europe before everyone flees.

[martinuzz]

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam

[Veylon]

I think likening it to the Holy Roman Empire would be more entertaining, with the EU eventually being just Cyprus, or possibly extending to a country explicitly not in Europe before everyone flees.

It could happen. EU's old rival EFTA is still floating around, after all.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Catalonia is going to hold another referendum for independence in october. Spanish parliament has already declared it illegal (again)

That seems like a good way to empower the independence voters. Hard to lose the message of how put down upon you are if the government is trying to ban your local political authority.

[Strife26]

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam

EU DESIGNATES LATIN AS OFFICIAL CONTINENTAL LANGUAGE

[Helgoland]

That would be so awesome.

[Sheb]

I'd be in.

[martinuzz]

An automobile drove into pedestrians at the Central Station of Amsterdam, wounding 8 people, of whom 2 critically.
The driver has been taken into police custody. Police say it does not look like there's foul play or terrorism here, they think the man became unwell behind the steering wheel.
Police had just told him to leave earlier, as he had parked his car in a spot where parking was not allowed. Shortly afterwards the man rammed into a wall after hitting 8 people.
Kinda looks like the man became unwell, pulled over safely, then was forced on the road again by police and ran over people.

[inteuniso]

Welp, that's on all of their consciousnesses now forever.

Maybe standardize responses to a situation? First check if they need help & escalate from there? I get that usually this is how you get ambushed but- fick this world needs better technology in order to deal with all these uncertainties. Heisenberg's principle says we just need one not all of these.