pragmakist

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It doesn't matter what comes after "but", but everything that comes before is a lie

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I usually replace my phone when it becomes impossible to both use the manufacturers version of Android and maintain the illusion that it is my property.

Tends to be every 3 or 4 years.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can we be totally honest here and just state what the fear is?

If slaves could vote they'd vote for freedom.

There's a hole the size of a railroad junction in the 13nd amendment.

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

Ford was innovative because he used the scientific method to find out how long the work-week should be from a factory-owners perspective.
And then he set it to that.
If you're a cog in a wheel in a factory that is still the ideal work-week from your owners perspective, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, what? No!

Yeah, well, I'm sorry, but yes viewing the current Merkins as stupidly violent savages is a thing on this side of the Atlantic.

We Europeans on the other hand would never attack someone without reason.

We've always had reasons, usually some variation of wanting their possesion for ourselves.

And warning: This post contains sarcasm.

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

Well, it was sort of the point that there are things we won't accept that Turkey is unlikely to relinquish.

That said apart from maiming baby boys on their penis, Islam works just as well with reasonable modern European values as Christianity.

Ok, ok, just as poorly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Everyone, almost, in the EU want Turkey to accept our values and become more us, and would be happy to support it if it had any chance of succeeding. (For differing values of "our" and "us").

So nothing to see here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Adventurous cooking is such a good suggestion as a time killer.

It can be done for now and later abandoned if you end lacking the time for it.

Only effect that will have is you learned a bit of some important life skills.

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

Someone below mentioned mandrake. I think that was it.

In which case it would have been 5 or 6 years (and a couple of computers) after giving up on yggdrasil.

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

I never got yggdrasil to work.

Unfortunately that makes me really wonder, what it was that I eventually got to work.

Something on a lot 3½ inch floppies.

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

I'm pretty sure the idea of just making a tube and wearing that must be pretty universal.

It's really versatile, after all.

Unfortunately for people who want to (or must) present European male our version is the peplos, which is thought of as strictly female.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The Romans calling the Gauls primitive is a bit like the British calling the Americans primitive.

True, but for Gods sake don't look in the mirror.

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