altasshet

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure the photos from early space missions including Apollo were shot on film, not digital camera...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Ha, thanks for the correction.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Swiss Guards are active duty Swiss military iirc. Deployng them could be... Problematic on many levels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Except in this case you probably wouldn't even need to, because right wing views are somewhat of a prerequisite of the job.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So what do they do with all the AFD sympathizers in the police?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Which is wild to me. Pushing through voter reform would win then the next election, and limit the damage when they inevitably fuck it up after that. But we can't have long term thinking, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

But only if all they need is a knife.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It didn't exactly start out as alternate history per se, but I liked Charles Stross' Merchant princes series. He also recently added three new books to it and sorry of concluded it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That was fast!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

But the green zones are current shorelines.

 
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The optimistic note of the last sentence of the abstract doesn't really survive reading the article...

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