Totally!

And probably a multi-tier EU would be great too! Imagine Ukraine being able to join it’s next tier already next year instead of waiting for 3-5 ears to get the full membership.

Not necessarily. But I am quite sure that Jonathan made the tweet.

I was in a pizzeria with 2 friends and we bought 2 pizzas. In order to divide them equally we have asked to cut them into 6 pieces instead of usual 4. They have cut them in usual 4 orthogonal pieces and then have done a diagonal cut. At the end, we technically have cut them to 6 pieces, but it haven’t helped us to divide them equally 😕

Attribution 😉

Absolutely! The videos that helped me to understand English was podcast-like. I am a big fan of audiobooks and podcasts. Mostly to give some rest to my eyes, and to consume them while I am walking outside to protect my physical health.

I learnt it since I was 3. I was literally forced to do it instead of playing outside with my friends. And always out was hard…

Then I found the language Esperanto, that is supposed to be 10x easier to learn and use. I tried it and I can conform that to be true 😊

But I needed English for my (volunteer) work in a social movement, so I slowly learn it. But still had big problems to understand spoken English. Then I found English videos about topic that was very investing for me. I was trying hard to understand and finally I did.

Long story short, I still prefer to speak Esperanto, and much more people should, IMO.

The fact that power of speakers matter is very valid while those speakers are centered on the ethnocentric level of care, or lower (see eg Integral theory by Ken Wilber: Loevinger; Spiral Dynamics etc). But when society as a whole develops, they care more about other groups and humankind as a whole. Then it is much easier to do adopt a lingua franca than serves them all rather than just forcing smaller nations to use language of the hegemon of the time.

While it is definitely true that in such case English would be quite fair inside of EU, it also puts EU in worse position in outside world where USA have those advantages…

Beside that there is a viable alternative. Remember that Izrael has revived its ancient language, and Indonesia created a new one based on language of one of their small islands. That language united nation of hundreds of millions!

We can use Esperanto. It is artificial in origin, so no one nation speaks it natively (native individuals do, but not nations). It is designed to be easy to learn and use (I personally confirm it - 2 years of autodidacticly learning Esperanto was equivalent of 15 years of school learning of English). So even people who never heard about it can very quickly get to very usable level.

And possibly the best part is that it can serve as a language that units humankind as a whole. We all can preserve our national language for national communication and use Esperanto for international communication. This will not happen tomorrow, but with political support it can happen quickly. Until then, many people, as me, use it daily and support it’s spread.

Yes.

Sounds like Elon Musk who tries to buy old Russian ICBM, but without the nuke 😅

Eliminating privacy in order to “protect children”. The old discussion and misuse 😬

I am still amazed by the English thing in EU. Only 2 EU nations, and even quite small ones, speaks English natively, and not even as their only one language. In the same time, who speaks English natively? One country that left our club, one country that wages economic war against us, couple of great partner countries outside of Europe, and couple of others.

When we wanted to unite more, we promised to abandon our national currencies and adopt euro. But we still play small when it comes to language…

I personally also stopped buying F-35s.

It is hard to imagine just from those photos. And that is probably a good thing 😬