Luckily the millions of protest nonvoters are taking action to stop this fucked situation.

Right?

Oh, no, wait, people like me are fucked because it was never anything other than posing for purity points with your online friends.

And if we have actual elections in 2028, none of you will learn a goddamn thing.

The blood of millions doesn’t matter a single goddamn whit to any of you so long as you can talk about LIBS BAD.

Office Space

Fucking Christ. This timeline gets stupider and stupider.

Accuracy is hilarious sometimes

Aurelius actually gets a decent amount of flak from historians and contemporaries, for various reasons. A later Emperor, Septimius Severus, even called him gutless for not having it in him to kill his son, Commodus, for the good of the Empire.

Aurelius is a good Emperor, and the last of the Five Good Emperors, but far from unhated.

After the war he expressed immense regret for his anti-Japanese cartoons, and recognized the racism in them.

Wartime fervor is a hell of an influence.

Always happy to share obscure trivia!

Dammit, that’s too fantastic to NOT be an idiom

Just wanted to share something interesting and happy (I’m not OP; I linked to them in the post body though), quarreling over which parent is the favorite most resembles her was not what I expected the comments to look like.

“No, you can’t get online, your grandmother is on the phone.”

are the Finns okay

I can still hear the MSN message sound in my head

And the original Steam chat sound

so it turns out that dad is probably older than the kid.

Big if true

Will the political will to start an actual shooting war with the US be there?

Theoretically yes. This is an issue that has been considered before, though admittedly not with regards to fucking Greenland. Turkiye and Greece have long been enemies as well as members of NATO, and it’s been considered that the invocation of Article 5 by the aggressed-upon party against the aggressing party in case of a serious war would, theoretically, be binding on the other members of NATO.

In practice, NATO is a gentleman’s agreement with no means of enforcement. Everything comes down to political will - NATO is just an organizational structure to facilitate a response. It cannot replace the will (or lack thereof) of national governments.

Medieval castles often weren’t ‘planned’ in that sense - the original might have been a full-on traditional motte-and-bailey with a wooden palisade, but as the fortunes of aristocratic families wax and wane, they add (or subtract) from the work of their ancestors as their means allow.

Or it could just be the artist drawing what they liked, idk.

Modern aristocrats are fucking lame, they never build REAL castles anymore. It’s all that fairy-tale Disney castle shite. Where is the architecture of the brutal ruling warrior-caste we deserve?

Probably should’ve thought of that before ruining our relationship with every last one of our allies. Fuck’s sake.

The Tiffany problem

I mean, looks like an older skeleton, could have been a natural death and they just found it. I feel like a hunted Elephant Seal would have a more… butchered look to its bones.