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I agree, but that's also where it gets complicated, since the Eurovision is "apolitical", so it's in the Eurovision rules that you shouldn't talk politics during the show.

That's not coming from the EBU, which is very much political. But why Israel is allowed to be so political in the Eurovision is where the double standard comes in.

Pretty much yes!

Sorry for the essay answer, but I hope this gives some more insight into the situation.

Since the Eurovision is between broadcasters, not directly between countries, it depends on whether the broadcaster qualifies as a member of the EBU or not. The official stance of the EBU is that Russia's Channel One (which represented them) did not fulfill the requirements to remain a member of the EBU, which is absolutely true. Channel One is 100% under Putin's control.

But I find it hard to believe they lost their independence in 2022, and should have been banned long before. However, in 2022 there was a lot of pressure from other broadcasters to finally kick Channel One for not fulfilling the requirements, and the EBU couldn't argue against it, so Channel One was banned.

Regarding Israel, their participating broadcaster KAN is (according to EBU) fulfilling all requirements to remain a member, although there has been some back and forth regarding their membership. Especially in 2018, when Israel won and prepared to host the next year, Netanyahu wanted to make some changes that was against EBU's rules. In the end, Netanyahu had to back down or the competition would've had to be hosted elsewhere.

So it seems like KAN isn't under the same control of the government as Channel One is, although in my opinion neither one is independent enough to be in the EBU (considering the Israeli government's involvement in ad campaigns).

But the real reason KAN is still a member is that not enough other broadcasters are protesting. We need to see similar protests against KAN as we saw against Channel One in 2022 in order to get them banned.

There is, however, one more important piece of the puzzle; the purpose of the EBU. The EBU does a lot more than organize the Eurovision. They aim to protect and promote the free press in and around Europe. Currently, the largest reason KAN remains somewhat independent is that it allows them to pump their propaganda to the European audience. If the EBU were to ban KAN, Netanyahu would most likely take away their last bit of independence.

The real question should be about whether KAN still operates freely enough to make their yearly propaganda show worth it. From what I can see, there is no criticism from KAN towards the government, which really makes me doubt their independence.

Ok I understand that part, but I still don't see how it's a dad joke?

I don't, care to explain?

In theory, absolutely possible. Anyone sub-10 2LLL would probably be like sub-12 if they switched to 3LLL, and the record could've been an OLL skip, or even full LL skip.

In practice, really weird that someone dedicated enough to get that fast wouldn't just learn full OLL. But maybe the person just hates learning algorithms and has focused on building really strong F2L intuition instead.

I believe this is very true. I'm from Europe and nothing in the greentext made any sense to me. Never seen a Windows install with any of the mentioned "features".

But that's the thing, you're NOT out there with your catapult, so the statistics still hold true. Assuming you were given the catapult and I was given a giant tesla coil, I believe I would still be able to zap 30x more giraffes than you could hit with your pathetic catapult.

Because they're selfish inconsiderate pricks who can't fathom how disgusting they truly are.

TIL how to dance cuntily :3

It would be 1939

The title is, unsurprisingly, heavily exaggerated. The study does not claim there are "billions more people". They studied 307 different dam construction projects around the word, and found the actual number of affected people in those rural areas was like 40-80% higher than estimated.

Their conclusion is that it's likely the population of the world is quite underestimated, but they don't want to guess by how much, that's all cooked up by the "journalist".