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Is this loss?

My most-used chat app is Discord, and that one has custom emojis.
These are my most frequently used “emojis” there:

I think the main problem is that they get stripped from their context? So it becomes unclear whether an emoji is used in earnest or whether it is used sarcastically or ironically.

The custom emojis do add a bit of a personal touch though

I was talking to my boyfriend a few weeks ago (he’s from Iceland) and he pointed out that in order to actually join the EU they’d need to amend the constitution. Specifically on the topic of sovereignty.

In order to update the constitution they need a 2/3rds majority in parliament twice, with a parliamentary election in between.
And that is on top of a second referendum that’d have to pass after a deal with the EU has been hammered out.

Joining the EU would not be decided by such a narrow victory in a singular referendum.

Iceland has always been very close to a 50/50 split on whether to join the EU or not. In the end it came down to the undecided voters, who ultimately landed on the “no” camp in the last few days before the referendum.

Edit: From my understanding polling for the youth vote also switched from “yes” to “no” at the last moment, so I have my suspicions that there may have been some Tiktok propaganda tomfoolery going on as well.

The main issue is the common fisheries policy. That is the policy that would have allowed fishing vessels from other countries to fish in Icelandic waters, and vice versa. It’s a sensitive topic to Iceland, because fishing is such a large part of their economy and their identity.

It’s still a bit silly to not even bother negotiating with the EU though, because the EU had signaled that the common fisheries policy was something that could be a topic of negotiation. Without talks we will never know if the EU was willing to give Iceland an exemption on the common fisheries policy.

It’s worth keeping in mind that this was a refending on resuming negotiations. There would have been a second referendum on whether or not to accept the deal that would have resulted from those negotiations.

The first time I saw a black person as a kid, I was staring… as young kids do… The guy notices and engages by showing the palms of his hands and saying something along along the lines of “Look. Not all of my skin is black.”

Apparently that scared the crap out of young me

My mom still likes to tell that story sometimes