Post-columbian fruit is underselling just how new at least posts of it are. Carbonara was invented by US soldiers in the 1940s, literally made using bacon and powdered egg from their rations.

Tiramisu is unclear, but 1939 seems to be the earliest of the possible candidate, the earliest actual document is from 1969.

Pizza as we know it today was reimported from the US.

I love Italian food, but it’s much less traditional than people pretend.

Heat tolerance will also not help against the increases in storms, floods and wildfires that are directly caused by the heat increases.

Summer being 110°F is not even in the top 10 of why climate change is bad.

The irony being that Poland doesn’t have border controls towards Germany, but Germany has illegal border controls towards Poland though.

Just because almost every party decided to go full populist “Screw the people and the economy, there might be Muslim terrorists in Poland”

At least were not going up against the Sicilians

One thing Amazon is better at (at least here in Germany) is free shipping. But seeing how that is a least partially responsible for creating a cutthroat delivery market, where companies contract out delivery work to barely self-employed drivers for barely any money, paying for shipping doesn’t seem like a bad idea (even though I know the drivers won’t really see any of that money in the end)

Theres also CalyxOS, which is not only easier to install than lineage, but also relocks the bootloader and includes MicroG, which improves overall compatibility (especially regarding banking apps).

There’s an archive of books belonging to a certain anna, which has not failed me yet.

The US always had terribly low resilience in the way their government is structured. The “checks and balances” were pretty great in the late 18th century, but their protections are paper thin and assume good faith.

Several countries have iterated upon their constitutions in the last 300 years, often to close exactly the kind of vulnerabilities we can see exploited in the US right now. For example, because of what the Weimar republic’s article 48 was used for in 1933, the German president no longer has those powers.

I understand that the US constitutions had had amendments, but as far as I can tell, the fundamental flaws across several core institutions have never been addressed. Until they are, the US can not be a trustworthy partner for any endeavor longer than the next election cycle.

And not even impossible. The EU council and commission can basically freely decide if a state counts as “European”.

I think the biggest hurdle might be that Canada would immediately be the 5th most powerful member state because of their population.