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Yes (or at least I don't personally know of anywhere that it isn't the case), this is just a German newspaper reporting on a German professor's work

Oh, I was thinking of it as keeping the cucumber clean

Surely if you're going to eat it, it kinda defeats the point of having a coating in the first place? But if it stays solid I imagine it can be thrown into compost

I believe this is almost exclusively a Telegraph thing, and even then mostly in headlines. From their style guide:

"Percentages: per cent does not take a full point. Use pc only in headlines and % only in tables. In City page copy pc is acceptable."

The same section of the style guide chooses to use hundredweights as an example unit of weight, so I definitely think there's a significant degree to which they've just always done it and do not want to change it

Frankly I would be happy to take centre right over some of the people pushing the anti-migration stuff here

Don't be ridiculous, it makes them expats

Seems like great news! Since the article doesn't mention it, is anyone able to explain why this works? I don't know much about this kind of stuff, but I can't imagine any reason that radiation would help stop cartilage from breaking down

The tariff number might actually be a lot simpler and a lot stupider than that. The tariffs were calculated by literally just scaling it directly to the trade balance between the US and the other country. The US has a higher trade deficit proportional to the total value of trade with Switzerland than it does with the EU

This calculation is how some of the poorest countries in the world got hit with some of the highest tariffs. Of course the US has a huge proportional trade deficit with, say, Madagascar; Madagascar cannot afford to buy American goods

I don't know how Finnish law works; how would they make this happen beyond their term? Like, here in the UK there's nothing a government could do to bind the next one that had enough votes to undo it

Ukraine has gone through the process alongside Moldova up until now, but Hungary is blocking Ukraine from moving any further

I know this is actually a serious issue, but it is kind of hilarious that France managed to have a government collapse that fast

A country could be producing millions of tanks and zero cars, it still doesn't make tanks something the general public would buy. I don't know the truth of this cars vs tanks discussion, but this specific argument definitely doesn't hold up