Countries for which genocide is a deal breaker:
Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain
Countries for which genocide is not a deal breaker:
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany (2nd largest arms dealer of the genocide behind the US; historic fan of genocides), Greece, Israel (our good friends who are carrying out the genocide), Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, L…
Any comms people guess what this auction lot is? It's listed as 'CPU cabinet' - but to me it looks like fibre cabinet on one side and I'm not sure what on the other - PABX???
https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auctio…
Another #Brexit bonus. British-born dual citizen cannot enter the UK on their non-UK passport. Unlike foreigners they cannot travel to Britain on a visa or an ETA, but they must have a UK passport. Yet lapsed UK passports may not be renewed in case of name change, particularly for women (e.g. married vs. maiden name). It's a fine mess.
An irrational fear of the date is known as paraskevidekatriaphobia.
In Spanish-speaking countries and in Greece, it is Tuesday the 13th that frightens people. In Italy, it is Friday the 17th.
#fridaythe13th
I’m reading Civilization Before Greece and Rome, by H.W.F. Saggs. The old saw about how if history doesn’t repeat itself, it certainly rhymes, comes out quite clearly. Hittites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and hosts of other kingdoms and tribes, were pulling all the same gags 3 and 4 and 5 thousand years ago that Putin and Trump and the rest are doing now, especially the bits about how god’s on their side. Plus ça change, plus c’est le même chose. It’d be funny, if it wasn’t depressing…
Tomb Raider: Greece and Egypt
Having decried the lack of verticality in the Peruvian levels, St Francis's Folly more than made amends. The main part of the level has you scaling up and down a central room, opening doors with levels and solving puzzles in rooms names after Greek mythology1. The permanence of enemy deaths is very noticeable here, where the bats you shoot at the top of the room can sometimes be found lying on the ground at the bottom; when using original…
A Greek court sentences four people, including spyware maker Intellexa's founder, to prison, for using spyware to target journalists, politicians, and others (Nektaria Stamouli/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/predatorgate-greece-court-…
CFP: Greece and Germany — Literature, Philosophy, Culture, and the Arts
https://ift.tt/PxGYgUf
updated: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:12pmfull name / name of organization: Dedalus: Portuguese…
via Input 4 RELCFP
Multi-Partner Project: Multi-GPU Performance Portability Analysis for CFD Simulations at Scale
Panagiotis-Eleftherios Eleftherakis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), George Anagnostopoulos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Anastassis Kapetanakis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Mohammad Umair (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden), Jean-Yves Vet (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), Konstantinos Iliakis (National Technical University of A…
For more than a decade, dozens of journalists and human rights activists have been
🆘 targeted and hacked by governments all over the world.
Cops and spies in Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary, India, Mexico, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates, among others, have used sophisticated #spyware to compromise the phones of these victims, who at times have also faced real-world
"Unlike Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Turkey, Britain declined to offer any protection to those of its nationals who took part in the humanitarian mission, and made no comment when Israel arrested its citizens."
New freedom flotilla to sail for Gaza in the spring | Morning Star
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National job stereotypes need updating
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/01/22/national-job-stereotypes-need-updating
Archive https://archive.ph/Y1ZuB
'According to newly released data, the PIGS have, perhaps for the first time, a lower unemployment rate than Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Finland and Denmark (see chart 2). In Greece joblessness is just 8.2%; hoteliers are complaining about labour shortages. By contrast, Finnish unemployment recently rose above 10% for the first time since the 1990s.'
Via Matt Steinglass
@mattsteinglass.bsky.social
Cancel culture in ancient Greece #Monsterdon
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