The Octonaut @ TheOctonaut @mander.xyz

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It's a comment made by a person who lives in a country where in living memory a small spark of resistance led to the eventual defeat of the most powerful empire on Earth.

"Almost impossible".

Sorry guys we didn't want fascism but the alternative was just, like, hard.

If only there were some unique way in which Americans were better prepared than most populations to deal with quickly resisting and overthrowing a tyrannical government.

Oh well.

In what sense was that not clear

Yeah ok bud, I'll let the Swiss know they can stop pretending to be a country now that France, Germany and Italy are unlikely to subsume them.

It is absolutely a foundation. Foundations dry and even crack but that doesn't bring the whole house down if you've built something on it. Which in Switzerland's case is insane rent (to keep the Italians out), mass armament (to keep the Germans out), watch making (to keep the French out), and cowbells (to keep one specific Dutch woman out).

Then you are incredibly wrong. Creating a siege mentality is literally one of the easiest tricks to make people bond and form a cohesive group. I'd say about half of Europe's countries exist in large part as "we're not English/French/German" as much as any real original common identity.

No, lawyers. Long suffering lawyers.

The UN is specifically not a protester with a gun.

The moment the UN uses proactive force, it just becomes NATO.

Yes this is just a strongly worded letter. You might think that's useless. Not sure what you expect them to do differently though?

You can just say you don't know what the UN is, it's ok.

They forget it because that's not the words of the song.

The song uses an Italian phrase from a fictional gravestone and spells it the Spanish way to appeal to American Spanish speakers.

Those photos are from planes.

It felt like "shoot them in the streets" was plainly obvious a few months ago but that's harder than an Instagram story.

The phone company can get your location down to a few dozen feet depending on the number of 4G (50 to 70 metres) and 5G (10-50 metres) towers around.

Be glad it wasn't Gal Godot

I have terrible news for you if you think using a homophobic slur is as bad as anything the previous popes and cardinals have been doing.

The equivalent would be seeding a torrent backup.

You should probably note, the functionality you're describing now requires modding/plug-ins and not the "search and enable" kind, the download from third party sites and run random install scripts kind. It also since February requires you use your Kindle to download and copy every book you own (a chore if your family buys a lot of pulpy urban fantasy novels)

Given that she began as Christian Evangelical pop, then rose to fame with a song fetishising performative homoeroticism as "not what good girls do", no. Quite far off.

Stellaris is like $200 if you don't want features pay-walled from you. And good luck playing a Paradox game the week it comes out - you get to add "Software Tester - Unpaid" to your CV.

Plenty of us did nothing

Quite apart from all these people telling you that the day used to start at sunset, I am curious as to how you came to the thought in the first place, since the moon and it's phases do not align to hours at all.