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Wait, so are the EU nations individually weak or is the overarching EU weak?

Not much. We have nuclear power already. Fission and fusion aren't all that different if you are just looking at them as power sources. Both have 0 carbon footprint. Both would be used to biol water to turn a steam turbine.

The EU is effectively a confederation, organized similarly to how the US was under the Articles of Confederation prior to the current Constitution, as well as to the CSA during the American Civil War.

Confederations are, outwardly, very similar to Federated nations (e.g. the US, Russia), but have significantly weaker central governments, and a lot more legislative and executive authority is given over to the component states. The pro of this is that your local governments have quite a bit of leeway with respect to how they function, but the con is that if there are problems that are too big for your local government to solve, they have to be solved at the level of the central government...which is a huge issue, because of how weak that central government is. This means that confederations are pretty weak in crisis situations, which of course is absolutely not what you want from a central government.

Again; the US tried this system of government, and it failed pretty catastrophically.

More accurately, the early Christians replaced the local solstice celebrations with Christmas when they were vying for the minds and souls of the population. (Addition: How can you compete with the local religion if your holidays aren't anywhere near as good?)

That's why in English we celebrate the Paschal Holy Day under the name of Eostre, the goddess of dawn. (And rebirth [spring], and fertility [hence eggs and bunnies].)

This makes sense.

Does the EU have problems managing itself? The last sentence makes me assume that.

In the United States we have individual states that have their own laws, own governor, legislator, etc. but when we travel between states we all use the same money, and there are a set of laws that also apply to everyone, that individual states can’t overrule.

The EU is much like that. It generally creates a uniform currency and allows for easier travel between countries. It also helps regulate trade between countries.

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When we think of traditional colors certain times of the year, those are actually the colors of nature at that time. In the wintertime, the trees you do see are evergreens. The only colors you generally see are bright red berries from an assortment of trees and shrubs. In the spring, the pale flowers that first come up are the colors we associate with Easter and spring clothing. In the fall, the fields and trees and squashes, including pumpkins, are the colors we think about with thanksgiving.

Edit- to add, many will point out the historical roots of Christmas trees, but those were still generally based on what was available in nature.

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My laptop about 18 years ago had both.

15 years ago I was sharing my dial up connection at home with wifi.

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No, that's a hoax. The popular depiction and tale of Santas came way before Coca Cola even existed: https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2021/12/03/coca-cola-did-not-create-santa/

https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/origin-of-santa

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My friend had an interesting job then at a major financial industry company. Lots of rollerblading through the offices with a radio receiver and a pair of scissors.

Around then wifi security was bad even if you did set a password (because it was probably still WEP*). Yet the convenience was too tempting for some employees. They’d bring in a router and plug it into their ethernet cable so they could have their own little rogue network in their cubicle.

So my friend would home in on these spots, cut the ethernet cable, and leave a note that they’ll be fired if caught doing this again

* Shoutout to my neighbors at the place I moved to in 2011 for still using WEP security. Our cable didn’t get set up for a week or two. Lifesaver

Fancy pants richers with their DSL modems.

> There was no use case for a wireless router.

Well home wi-fi did exist. In 2002-ish my friend got an "antenna" that he attached to his laptop and we'd drive around the more affluent neighborhoods looking for wireless networks. No one who had wireless bothered to secure the network back then, and when we'd find one we'd go into the printer and make it print out various things ("help I'm stuck in the printer" or "YOU'RE FIRED"). Ah, youth.

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Honestly, the connection quality on BT devices is garbage now vs in 2005. The tech evolved, but not necessarily in a great way.

It wasn't common because interfaces people used every day were established and analog. Cars had tape players and a BT stereo was a wild.