Caedarai

A tea bag floats though. It’s better to use the traditional balls or anything else metal that will make the tea sink so it soaks better. Alternatively, there are ceramic teapots that keep the tea leaves below the water level.

Plenty of people I know have gotten the little echo dots or the bigger alternative with larger speakers for Christmas or birthdays. Technically they didn’t spend money, but their friends and family did.

Does it make a difference that the tea is never in the microwave? It’s only the method for heating a single cup of water, not of heating the water+tea set.

Neither. Tea bags are for chumps. It’s so much tastier to use fresher loose tea leaves of whatever mix you prefer (and you can control how strong you make it, plus you end up with less waste). I just boil the water in the microwave then when it’s hot I take it out and add the tea.

They’d be able to help secure Europe, could get some sales to EU countries and such, but I see this as a project that would deal directly with established armies (and countries’ defence budgets) rather than going through the EU.

While that’s fine for a situation in which an European army existed, Orban would almost certainly veto such a proposal. In fact, he’d probably veto the EU spending a substantial amount together and call the EU warmongers. The solution is to have countries act independently on paper (with leadership coordinating) so that the EU doesn’t have to get involved in such a way that vetoes can block progress. That’s just the state of affairs at the moment.