… took you long enough to figure it out.

Yes, warfare in the Information Age is a real pain in the ass.

Credit where credit is due, to reddit for making them go to court over it.

I have a feeling that an actual martial law declaration would be enough to motivate a general strike.

This actually happened when early nationalists tried to overthrow the Weimar Republic in interwar Germany. Some old generals and their men took over the capital and declared themselves in charge of the country. A general strike was declared, and the whole country shut down. The generals were then left “in charge” of a totally shut down society. Needless to say, the coup lasted a short enough time that it’s usually not even mentioned in world history lessons. This whole event pre-dated Hitler’s first beer hall putsch by like a decade or something, if memory serves.

It happens. Just be aware that someday you could have a kid, and they could really hate intellectual stuff and love sports, and say stuff like “my parents are so boring, they only talk about science and philosophy stuff but I want to talk about…”

Just different people being interested in different things. Only important thing is that everyone is okay with different people actually being different.

You know, this is a really good comment. I think there’s a market for the skill of making people feel history like this, by putting it into the context of how it’d have actually felt to be there and wrestle with the problems they would have faced. You pulled it off in just a handful of paragraphs.

It’s like our version of science communication.

tbf, bootstrapping a navy on the fly like that was probably a lot more doable back in the day. Galley warfare had a lot in common with ground warfare, and the Med is fairly forgiving waters.

If Napoleon had pulled it off vs Britain or something it’d have been infinitely more impressive.

This. Video games too. And porn for that matter. We’re overall a little weak on the trifecta of primary internet subject matter.

At least we’re solid on owls though, my enduring admiration to our dedicated owl posters.

It’s really just recent history.

The funny thing is the groundwork for the current UK was actually formed by a Scottish king who managed to get the English throne. That’s how Scotland and England unified ultimately, the Scottish king peacefully took over both due to some inheritance thing. Like a century later someone else formalized the unification of the two, instead of it being one king who had both crowns.

WW2 is widely considered the deathblow to the British Empire. They were still fully intact after WW1, they still had India, a lot of Africa, etc and that all played an important role in how WW2 played out.

After WW2 is when they started slowly granting everyone independence, in major part because they didn’t have the resources anymore to keep control of everything after being economically drained by both the world wars.

You could make the argument that losing the American colonies was an early indicator of the beginning of their decline, but that’s really debatable. They did grow in land area in other regions (Africa mainly) after that point. Personally I would make the argument that the WW1-WW2 era was the high point of British power in comparison to the other global powers.

Interesting question, I’m not sure. Would need someone more knowledgeable on Turkish history specifically.

Ottomans is an easy one, it was dismantled by treaty after losing in WW1.

Generally there is no clear cut rule about when you draw the line if it’s not obvious, so you could make the argument that the British Empire still exists if you really wanted to. They do still have some overseas possessions after all, that would be a perfectly legit position someone could argue if they felt like it. And I’m sure some people even do.

Oh, interesting, thank you. I did not realize that was a thing.

Anyone have any insight on why NR does particularly well in the south of France?

Marcos also announced cash assistance to tricycle drivers, farmers and…

So, this must’ve been an autocorrect or something? I don’t see how high fuel prices would hurt any of your local tricycle drivers…

Anyway, any ideas what that’s supposed to mean?

edit: I just googled “tricycle driver” and apparently motorozed tricycles are a thing in The Philippines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorized_tricycle_(Philippines)

Was it news to you that religious nuts were kinda uneducated?

Regardless, I’m still asking about the content of the bullshit prophecy, not whether it’s bullshit or not. Discussing it’s actual merits or lack thereof seems like a waste of time to me. I mean, we’re talking about a literal prophecy. Those generally aren’t taken seriously by your average even halfway intelligent person.

Sure. But it’s legitimacy is irrelevant so long as they believe it, which they do.

Waitasec, I’m no expert, but I thought the whole Rapture thing required all the Jewish people to be gathered into one place first. So, they literally require every Jewish person in America to be deported to Israel for their whole process to even begin.

Did I misunderstand something?

I do not envy those jurors, that sounds very hard to rule on.

I think it’s a little more complicated. I can empathize with the reluctance to share, I was raised that way too. He’s right that we can sometimes share even innocuous things we like because that’s easier and feels safer than trying to compose our own thoughts into words. I’m guessing you’ve probably done it with music before, songs are really good at communicating things like that sometimes, it can even just be more efficient.

I grew out of it eventually though. I wanted the choice, the power to either share a piece of media to represent me or just open myself up and present my own case based in my own feelings and with my own logic. Since I can now comfortably do both, I recognize that my old reluctance to open up was an unnecessary burden I was putting on myself, rooted in fears that were ultimately unnecessary and unproductive, that I acquired in my childhood. Much like many other things I acquired in my childhood, it just wasn’t what I wanted anymore. That fear was a crutch, training wheels, and just a hindrance now. Ultimately it had become a weakness, as fear can sometimes be if you listen to it too much.