Every country in Europe needs to think about how they would do anything different from Ukraine, and how much of that planning still relies on Starlink/Starshield… Europe needs to move with wartime haste, not to be reliant on the US or SpaceX.

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White is turbulence-free, light blue a bit bumpy, darker blue gets "interesting", orange and red, time to recite the Rosary. This map is featured in the following article.

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I travelled back to Britain yesterday, starting from Sydney, via Hong Kong, and let's just say I've had more pleasant flights. "Moderate" turbulence does not feel *that* moderate when you're in it, and we were. A lot. Then I saw this Smithsonian map, and I understood why. Explanation to follow.

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And, in the thick of it, again, the noxious AI cheerleader encamped at the heart of Burnham's government, Kanishka Narayan.

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Re France, fiscal consolidation + retirement age reform + other acts to raise employment are opposed by Le Pen in the current parliament. She promises implausible spending cuts when she's in power. The ECB won't compress spreads in these circs. So: the French electorate vs bond traders.

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