twlldun.bsky.social
Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.
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It helps if you realise that the joke is on you, the rube, expecting an answer
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8/10, which wasn’t bad
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It’s nonsense, though. The joke dates to the 1840s. It wasn’t dangerous for chickens to cross the road in the 1840s!
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Also, worth pointing out here, they are all idiots.
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I read it here, if I recall
www.penguin.co.uk/books/213365...
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Yeah, they think the British public hates Muslims more than it enjoys locking people up and - leaving aside the fact that, y’know, a substantial portion of the public are Muslims - that’s a major miscalculation.
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Yeah, there’s speculation that the west African trade network included the coast of Brazil in the 1400s, but that’s nearly a millennia after the Olmec and several thousand miles short in either direction.
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Sorry, *wife of
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That’s not quite true I don’t think, hasn’t she taken quite a libertarian position on “should Tory councillors encourage racist riots?”
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2020 was - in many ways - the last great year of the poaster
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That’s the dream Jon, that’s the dream.
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Dunno whether I want Bob Dylan to last another 5 years or whether I really want to hear Trump’s eulogy to him
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Forget it Twildun, it's...
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Sounds good to me.
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I am paying you £25 fine English pounds sterling to have my hair and beard trimmed. I expect to come out of the experience with the same amount of facial features I went in with.
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“Experience of government” is a big one, you’d think.
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Oh, see, I just don’t think it’s possible anymore. Back in the original era when everything was one guy’s code. Sure. Now, it’s just too collaborative an industry to be personality led.
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I mean I am not hugely bothered by it, while still thinking we could do with more railways lines that serve the coast and centre of our great nation
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Is in England and is not a North-South wales railway line, it’s an English railway line!
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Maybe your first issue is being concerned with that fact.
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There is no North-South Wales railway line
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*toggling through options menu in rising disquiet*
“Your voice profiles were last updated at _2am_ _today_.”
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The reason you don’t have internal monologues is you are both figments of my imagination
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Samsung fridges rocking up at my brother’s house 55 miles away.
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*clears throat meaningfullly* “Britons”. *clears throat meaningfully*
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The irony being that there are two whopping great events (the pandemic and Ukraine) which advocates for the tories could - correctly? - identify as hugely derailing their agenda and they just sail past them?
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Man, the link is still there. Amazing
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He watered his horses in the waters of lake Vänern Edward, wash your mouth out
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‘Honestly I feel like “empires” already cause some issues for people trying to squeeze them into a modern nation-state paradigm’ - be honest, tempted to expand “empires” to “pretty much every polity prior to the early modern period”.
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Generally speaking, maps are a pretty useless way to understand nomadic confederations
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Yeah they absolutely fielded armies there at one point, and had some kind of rule going on, but I’m going to say most of it was both nominal and highly likely not concurrent with their force projection elsewhere
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“Sphere of influence” is a pretty nebulous term also. It means things like “holding on to bits of Armenia for three years” and “sending an army into the Crimea” to literally claim they ruled them both decades earlier
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Yeah I see what they’ve done now. They’ve taken the largest extent of the sphere of influence of the two halves of the Turkic khaganate *after the khaganate split*, and backfilled a claim that the khaganate was a single unified state ruling directly over the entirety of that space.
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It’s a bit more “couldn’t afford a tv license for a decent part of it, then when I could made the switch to streaming instead” tbh
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(I haven’t, btw, but unlike most people I don’t think it makes me clever or interesting and I do actually still watch tv programs)
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As per my old joke “I haven’t had my tv tuned in for the best part of a decade, and it’s saved me so much time, which I mainly use to tell people I haven’t had my tv tuned in for the best part of a decade”
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Well, I guess you should be grateful I guesstimated your age wrong by about five years tbf
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(Costs both material and non-material, one could say)
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Tbf that came under “the costs of adulthood” in my equation.
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I suspect the big age divergence is the move to console - people my age and (mainly) younger made the leap, the older brigade mainly didn’t (the exorbitant price, the costs of adulthood coming hard in on them etc etc)
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Yeah, I think the cut off is nowhere near as stark as Jon thinks tbh and basically gamers get filtered out slowly. I remember buying home computers and games most of the way through the 80s and the shops being full of men a decade older than me.
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Just gonna tag him
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Their highly disciplined and effective PR message obv