Humanity has invented a machine that will definitively determine whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. The results will be revealed publicly in Zagreb in 15 minutes.

Retail investors are non-professional individual investors who buy and sell financial assets (e.g stocks, bonds, commodities, cryptocurrency etc.). The percentage of overall US equity trading volume conducted by retail investors in 2021 was more than double that of 2011.

You are an athiest living in a country with a significant (but not extreme) degree of religiosity. There exists a single pill that, if taken, will permanently make you genuinely and earnestly believe in the majority religion.

Pegasus is spyware developed by the Israeli cyber-arms company NSO Group, which can be covertly installed on individual mobile devices. Its capabilities include: reading messages, tracking calls, collecting passwords, location tracking, and accessing the target device's microphone and camera.

NSO claims to sell the software exclusively to government branches such as police forces and intelligence agencies, and has known customers from at least 14 EU countries.

Known as the "ABCDs", the four largest global agricultural commodities traders (ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus) control an estimated 70-90% of the global trade in grains and oilseeds (e.g. wheat, corn, soybean, rapeseed, etc.)

The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina is a position that was created in 1995 as part of the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the Bosnian War. The postholder is appointed by the United Nations Security Council.

The High Representative's powers, without judicial oversight, include introducing or repealing laws or constitutional amendments, removing public officials from office, and banning individuals from running in elections.

For example, in 2021 the outgoing High Representative, Austrian Valentin Inzko, amended existing criminal law to make genocide denial and the glorification of war criminals illegal.

For the purposes of this debate, the "globalisation of art" refers to the significant increase in cross-border consumption of cultural products (e.g. movies, TV shows, music, etc.)

The "Vienna Model" of social housing requires developers that build new residential complexes to lease 25% of units at significantly reduced rates to tenants chosen by the municipal government.

"Commanding Distance" is a military approach according to which commanders should actively maintain social and emotional distance from their subordinates. When interacting with their subordinates, commanders following this approach will typically: not express emotions or vulnerabilities, not share details from their personal lives, avoid social interactions and maintain a purely professional relationship.