Paul Drye
@pauldrye@spacey.space : Unbuilt crewed space projects, phantom islands, alternate history, Muppets, Atomic Age design, weird-looking galaxies, temporary moons of Earth, languages, cartography, the Ediacaran biota, old cutaway diagrams. Canadian with malice aforethought. Baggage Books on DriveThruRPG.
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Paul Drye@lemm.eeOPto
Out of Context Comics@lemmy.world•That'll keep me off the police radar!English
4·11 months agoNick’s hat was coloured to look like a cigarette butt, but the resemblance is uncanny.
I would like one violence, please.
Paul Drye@lemm.eeto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Spock, the master of using logic to lay down an insultEnglish
9·1 year agoMisterspock.
Paul Drye@lemm.eeto
Do It Yourself@beehaw.org•Is there any practical use for pine cones?English
2·1 year agoOrganic enemas?
Paul Drye@lemm.eeto
Offbeat@lemmy.ca•"Mysterious poop chucker" might be targeting Colorado woman for not picking up dog's wasteEnglish
14·1 year agoThe Mysterious Poop Chuckers is definitely going to be my next band’s name.
It’s often under its Italian name, passata. I’m Canadian too and it’s usually sold in glass bottles on the same shelves as spaghetti sauce. It’s from Unico for the one I currently have in my fridge, but there’s a few brands.
Paul Drye@lemm.eeto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Who's fastest, Sonic or The Flash?English
26·1 year agoWhoever the writer thinks should be faster, so as to serve the needs of the story being told.
Paul Drye@lemm.eeto
Buy European@feddit.uk•TIL LU is not French but part of Mondelez since 2012English
20·1 year agoCadbury is also owned by Mondelez, so many British chocolate bars are out too.
Canva is not European, but it’s also not American – they’re from Australia.
You probably should not be surprised to learn that the US does not entirely recognize the appellation. If the wine was marketed as “Champagne” prior to 2006, they may use the name in the United States.
Paul Drye@lemm.eeto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Firefox based European browser alternativesEnglish
10·1 year agoI haven’t been able to confirm precisely, but the Midori browser appears to be from Spain or at least Europe. Their website only comes in English/Español and the only events they have listed as attending have been in Germany. It’s Gecko-based, so it’s “Firefox-ish”. It also takes Firefox add-ins, which is nice.
I’ve been using it for a couple weeks now and it’s been working fine. Spotify hiccups on it, but that’s the only site I go to regularly that doesn’t like it.
Paul Drye@lemm.eeto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•When people in constitutional monarchies pledge loyalty to the monarch, is it actually for real, or just symbolic / a pro-forma thing?English
10·1 year agoNo, they do – it’s just not a codified constitution like almost all other countries have.
Proponents of the idea believe that a constitution that has evolved bit by bit over a long period of time and across a bunch of different charters and unwritten agreements/customs is stronger that one that’s done all in one shot. You’ll see the unflattering metaphor that “a tree is stronger than a weed”, which seems a bit unfair but it’s reasonable point – if not one that’s beyond argument or anything.
Commonwealth countries are politically conservative, small “c” and not big “C”, as the general attitude is “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, even if it’s objectively kind of stupid”. There was a good reason for every one of the decisions that led to today, don’t &^%$ with it, just in case.
Paul Drye@lemm.eeto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•When people in constitutional monarchies pledge loyalty to the monarch, is it actually for real, or just symbolic / a pro-forma thing?English
16·1 year agoThe key word in “constitutional monarchy” is “constitutional”, not “monarchy”. The monarch must follow the parliament’s requests, and not doing so is unconstitutional. Parliament is sovereign, at least in all of the countries that derive their monarchy from the UK’s.
Outside of the UK there wouldn’t be a fight anyway: in all the Commonwealth countries (except the ones that have since gone fully republican), the monarch has a representative called “the governor general” who is selected by the Parliament and recommended to the monarch at which point see above. The monarch has to take the advice of who is to be their governor-general. Issues basically never get to the monarch for them to mess anything up. The loyal-to-his-country deputy gets first crack at everything the monarch does in theory and has no reason to go against Parliament. If somehow the g-g or the king did speak out, it’d be a legal mess but everyone would ignore them. Practically we’d either get ourselves a new monarch or just say to hell with it and become a republic.
To answer your specific question then, yes, it’s pro forma. The monarch’s role is to be the embodiment of all legislative, judicial, and executive power, in a fairly close analog to what the American Constitution is. But the Constitution can’t exercise any of those powers and the monarch can’t either. It’s just a historical oddity that they can walk and talk, unlike a piece of paper.
Paul Drye@lemm.eeOPto
Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.world•Thiess of Kaltenbrun - A 17th century man claims to be a part of a shadowy group of Devil-fighting werewolvesEnglish
3·1 year agoNice find! They had me at “the Devil’s Balls”.
Paul Drye@lemm.eeOPto
Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.world•SS Baychimo - Arctic trading ship trapped in pack ice north of Alaska, abandoned but seen repeatedly in different locations over the next 40 yearsEnglish
5·1 year agoActual footage of the ice spirits:

Paul Drye@lemm.eeto
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•What was your favorite shareware game?English
14·1 year agoCommander Keen is probably the one that I liked the most that is also well known.
My personal favorite was Bass Class, which is weird because I’ve zero interest in real-life fishing, then or now.
Paul Drye@lemm.eeOPto
Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.world•Jerome of Sandy Cove - A castaway with both legs recently amputated, and who never spoke for the rest of his lifeEnglish
3·1 year agoThe identification depends on how correct Jerome’s rescuers were in thinking his amputations were not completely healed and so were recent. Gamby showed up across the bay four years previous and was missing his legs then.
Paul Drye@lemm.eeto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are there historical examples of countries or kingdoms that did a complete 180 on their old allies - not counting vassals or similars changing one master for another?English
52·1 year agoThough the split happened because the Soviets thought they should be master of all Communist countries and the Chinese had different ideas on the topic.












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