rumschlumpel @ rumschlumpel @feddit.org

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Influencing their subjects (especially other aristocrats) through their economic power was always important for monarchs, though. The medieval period had lots of weak kings who had substantial trouble bringing the aristocrats under them in line, a lot of the time they weren't even able to collect taxes at the kingdom-level (you kind of need a money-based economy for that, and civil servants were in very short supply in the middleages).

The 14 words are distinctly a USA thing (possibly anglophone). It doesn't translate well into other languages, because the number of words changes in translation, and nazis are typically nationalistic.

You really think the tourists would stop looking at British castles etc. if the UK became a republic?

Which king?

The power of insomnia!

And yet evidently it is, and making fun of them without explaining anything doesn't make it any less niche.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

Unfortunate price.

I found that most gift ideas that are somewhat good suffer from being over budget for the kind of relationship I have with the person. Same would be true for most people who might ask me what I want - if it's that cheap, I probably already bought it myself.

LA also just doesn't seem like a particularly safe place in general (though IDK how much that spills out from the real 'problem' districts into the kinds of places that OP would be at).

Which city in which country? TBH I'd be wary about being openly GNC anywhere in the USA right now, but even there there are degrees to this.

I have a hard time believing that not having enough sex was ever the reason that prehistoric people had too few children.

Fetal alcohol syndrome has to have a huge negative impact on population survivability. I have a hard time believing that even that one one-in-a-million genetic freak superman is able to offset that. Seems more likely that if anything, the general benefits of alcohol consumption (e.g. incentive to settle down into agrarian communities, increased social cohesion) outweight the negative health impacts.

Ranger-ing? Boromir's gear seems more suited to open field warfare than tracking and guerilla fighting in a forest. It's literally impossible for a handful of warriors to stop an army, but it's still a crucial job to scout, harass and delay them. Now it's possible that Boromir had the skills for that, but Faramir proved that he was both a capable ranger, more traditional fighter and commander at Osgiliath. And IIRC he was somewhat better at resisting the ring, too.

Which distro are you using? AMD has been completely plug-and-play for me.

I hate any insect that's making noise around me, and with flies you also know that they're very unhygienic (as opposed to certain beetles that are just kind of loud and annoying, but completely harmless).

blocking the sun at every step

That's a feature. I don't want to be grilled by the sun everywhere I go.

Great for local air quality, too.

Could also be multilingual third party bots.

Can't blame them, learning a language from a completely different language family is really hard, especially if you also have to learn a completely different writing system (though the latin alphabet is at least objectively simpler than the chinese and japanese writing systems). I lucked out because German and English are closely related, but I didn't even manage to properly learn Spanish despite trying for 6 years.

The Germans are definitely just using Reddit. As the other commenter said, compare the numbers of native speakers of e.g. German (about 100 million) with those of English (about 400 million) and then consider how much more common English is as a second language compared to most other European languages. Spanish is probably the biggest question mark here, they actually have more native speakers than English. There is also the possibility that Reddit-style platforms just aren't as popular everywhere, it appeals to a particular demographic that might just not be as big in e.g. Colombia as it is in, say. Sweden.