Biscoff butter is great. Absolutely horrendously unhealthy IIRC, but tastes great.
Also, there are so many chocolate spreads out there that are a hundred times better than Nutella nowadays, don’t sell your palate short!

There’s a pretty massive difference in scale and impact here…

And you can’t have this with open standards…?

The question is whether they have the same iron grip, or if they would eventually fall

This “stranglehold” only happened because of the US and Israel. Iran’s actions seem pretty sensible considering how we got to where we are today.

I’ve gone days after an interaction with a cashier or similar (i.e. someone who will have forgotten our interaction two minutes later) thinking about how the phrase I used was dumb or weird.

With people I know it’s even worse. I get “remember that time you said that weird thing” a year later… it sucks.

Don’t put this on the rest of us. Most of Europe has no ill intent towards Cuba, we’d be happy to see them grow into a prospering nation, ideally without sacrificing too much along the way (like essentially giving control of their economy to the US or China).

Trying to bully someone and they just don’t give a fuck, leaving the bully feeling useless