Tar_Alcaran

Medieval peasants had SOOO many holidays.

Holidays meant “you don’t have to work for the lord who owns your land”, but since they were subsistence farmers in the middle ages, that meant they still had to tend the animals and do the work on their own plots. They were absolutely still working during their “holidays”.

If I screw up my visa to El Salvador, they send me home. If I screw up my visa to the US, they send me to El Salvador…

Yeah, but that’s mostly because it’s lumpsum. Over time, it’s not much at all.

Dutch people already fucking hate animal feed producers, because they’re the ones actively backing cattle farmers in their opposition of nitrogen regulation.

The nitrogen issue is a huge problem for basically every last bit of nature we have, and thanks to the cattle farmers lobbying, it’s limiting the building of roads and houses.

The animal food industry is directly and indirectly costing the Dutch people billions of euros.

This just further confirms they’re fucking assholes.

When I calculate the “time of fun per euro spent” I’m always shocked how cheap videogames are. Even something like the new Doom, which is 70 euros for 16 hours of play, comes down to €4.40 per hour (or just under 14 minutes per euro). And we consider that ridiculously expensive for a “short” game.

Try doing anything for < €5 per hour.

Then I look at something like Warhammer total war, and I’m up to 132 minutes per euro spent

I’ve got this rough theory that we can get decently historic pieces from around 50 AD (but only in central italy, nowhere else), around 1200, 1800 and then from 1900 to now. Everything else is even more of crapshoot.

Anything between Commodus and Charlemange is especially cursed

I do historical reenactment, so I have a hobby that involves researching the age of a certain embroidery stitch, for example.

I’ve learned to just switch off that part of my brain for games and movies, or I’d cry a lot more. I just project them to an alternate reality where they totally had nylon in 1200.

Signed, and why the hell isn’t this already a law?

BoTh SiDeS!

Nothing a little ducktape won’t fix

The point isn’t the US economy. The point is stockmarket manipulation to get Trump and his friends more money.

That’s literally the only reason.

Ask what Tasha Yar thinks about that

And downvoted like all AI slop should be

Why can’t both of those be true? Should Europe ignore Russia until they CAN march into Amsterdam? There are far too many corpses in Ukraine not to take them seriously, regardless of economics.

I mean, these arguments really only work if you disregard that NAFO isn’t NATO.

“Centrism” has always been “conservative but I don’t like people calling me on that”.

That’s just basic cruelty. “Hurting other people is great”

Oh? Can you give an example? Because I’ve mostly seen official channels take Russia very seriously

If Russia never ends up invading Lithuania then this will only harm Lithuanians, either people who step on it by accident or while trying to remove them

Wait, I think there’s a big disconnect here. Nobody is suggesting they scatter a million landmines around Vilnius, or even emplacing them along the border right now. You can have landmines ready, but not place them until you notice troop buildups. You can even pre-place basic fences to keep civilians out of the zones you plan to use, it still works.

The time to place landmines is when you’re (about to be) at war. Not just for humanitarian reasons, landmines don’t actually work reliably forever.

It has been proven far and wide these things kill long after a conflict has been resolved.

And, very harshly, you can weigh those deaths against immediate deaths when you’re at war. Against an enemy that has repeatedly demonstrated that losing a war will mean you stop existing as a people, the equation becomes a lot less complex.

But, those factories can obviously operate just fine inside Europe, as they are currently doing so. They just make more profit under the lax Chinese regulations, which are set that way by the Chinese government.

Europe can’t legislate China.