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There is some! Argentina, Chile, and Australia grow a fair bit. Nowhere near as much as the major Mediterranean producers, certainly, but not nothing

I suppose they've got the climate for it. Same reason those three are some of the biggest wine producers outside of Europe

Without touching any item descriptions and only worrying about the main story in the base game, you get:

• The intro cutscene which explains the overview of the setting and how it got to be like it currently is
• Dialogue with characters like Miriel and Gideon, who are very knowledgeable about the world
• Melina, who helps you level up when you rest, tells you a relevant story when you reach many different locations
• Quite a lot of dialogue from Margit, one of the main bosses who you fight several times and who gets a couple of cutscenes, tells you about what's going on
• Basically every NPC in the Roundtable Hold has some kind of significant involvement with either a possible ending or a major faction and can tell you about it if you progress through their story
• The finger reader crones give you prophecies
• Ranni, Blaidd, and Iji will all tell you a lot of stuff that turns out to be highly relevant to the main story if you help them
• Jerren tells you about Radahn and Malenia, two of the main players in how the setting got to be like it currently is and also significant factors in why it is still that way, before you fight Radahn

Like, it's still a story told with very little direct storytelling compared to its peers, and there is still a lot of info in item descriptions. You don't need the item descriptions though, you just need to be ready to piece things together from what disparate people with strong personal biases tell you and what you see

Well I love a whisky but I've never had a German one. I'll have to have a look out for it, especially if it's gonna be a bit cheaper!

The thing about the name reminds me a little of some of Scotland's islands. The Orkney and Shetland islands, two archipelagoes in the north, both call their biggest island "Mainland"

Fair enough! That's not a field I've got any knowledge of

I'm not sure it would work very well as a rest to make removing the bag easier, since the press would be at its maximum depression while resting on the trunk. You could release sone length of rope to reduce the force, but if the weight of the log is a significant obstacle to lift then you do still need to lift it to get the bag out. It would probably be better to remove much more of one of the two branches so that you can press down beyond the junction, release the rope to the wright, then raise it and push it sideways just a little to keep it elevated above the bag

That said, I do think it being a limit on the amount of vertical travel the lever has to prevent bursting / otherwise over-pressing the bags makes sense

Absolutely the opposite for me. I am a chill driver but get very frustrated when trying to walk through busy places. I still like when I can take a non-car option, though

That said, my "very frustrated" at no point ever rises to the level of the road-rage that is all too common amongst drivers

I think you must be right. I have no better ideas, anyway

Tha mi ag ionnsachadh a-nis, ach cha robh sas bith agam an uairsin

The hinge point should be at the end of the log on our left, not where the Y shaped trunk is. If you assume the Y shaped trunk doesn’t obstruct the vertical movement until after the point you want to move it to, that then works as a press

You've interpreted it the same way I did at first. I went looking for real historical examples and the hinge point should actually be at the end of the log that's on our left, which makes a lot more sense mechanically. I have to assume that Eheran's suggestion that it's only a horizontal guide and doesn't impede the vertical travel of the lever is correct

It's actually fairly common for mostly-autonomous overseas parts of an EU member state to not be part of the EU. The Dutch Caribbean and French Pacific islands have the same status as Greenland. They're quite independent in terms of domestic policy and also not typically very close to Europe, so applying the EU's laws to them is not always practical or useful. I believe they all have standing invites to join if they wish, though.

There's actually a tiny exclave of Germany that is completely surrounded by Switzerland and is also not in the EU customs union, so sometimes it can happen on mainland Europe. Other EU stuff does apply in that exclave that does not in Greenland, so it's not quite the same, but still

The two British military bases on Cyprus do still fall within the EU customs union despite being British Overseas Territories, so a tiny bit of the UK that sort of didn't Brexit

Is that Y-shaped tree trunk meant to be there? It seems to me like it's just getting in the way of the press operating

"Let's spend a tonne of money to try to break mutually-assured destruction so we can have a whole new nuclear arms race"

It's not censorship when a random fellow commenter says they don't trust you

If we take the ancient Greek example of calling anyone whose language you can't understand a barbarian, the US and UK are probably tied for peak civilisation

It is unscientific, but let's not pretend we here in Europe don't sometimes do it anyway. Racism is still a thing in Europe, unfortunately. But also, it has been a thing in Europe for basically as long as humans have lived on a large enough scale to notice it. In the 19th century you had the "three great races" of "Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid". Even way back in the time of the Roman Empire they were being weird about race, ascribing strength and aggression to the pale people to their north and intelligence and peacefulness to the darker people to their south and east.

We're collectively getting a lot better about not doing it these days, but we've got to recognise that there's still progress needing made

Thanks!

What I should've done is tell her that Scotland invented English and they stole it from us. Aberdonians actually still speak the dialect of Shakespeare, who was so successful because he was the first to popularise the language in England. The English spoke French ever since the Norman invasion, after all

OP, I think you just linked ABC's home page instead of the article