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Well, the tweet provides additional point, so...

Finally Europe is waking up. Although, this can be a slippery slope. Military industrial complex in USA get out of hand and we have to learn from USA mistakes in that field. Let's have strong military for deference, but in a way that do not promote arms racing, or being overrun by our own companies.

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.

Simply enjoying the life ☺️ I could do it for decades, even centuries. But there are still people who are wondering what they would do is they could live several decades longer in great health 🤔

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 😉

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.

Volonte 😉 Fakte, en Vikimedio EO, kiun mi gvidas, mi komencis iniciaton por krei datumojn, kiuj helpos al disvolvo de tiaj tradukiloj. Sed tio daŭros kelkajn jarojn. Parte ĉar TEJO rompis sian promeson kaj detruis projektan mastrumilon, kiun ĝi provizis al ni, do ni prioritate traktis tion 😒

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