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professional Yak Stapler trained in the use of hammers to fix computers, has a love for history, eccentricity and weird military vehicles, a liking for collecting wind instruments and the writings of Adm R Bacon Quite unfashionable IC #500
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Trump is not trying to replicate the Nazi party of the 30s, he is worshipping the Russian Oligarchy coupled with the worst parts of Leopold. To him the navigation acts and corn laws would seem halfhearted. The state exists to support the pirates and he is the owner of the ship

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One of my guilty pleasures is watching Chinese costume dynastic/cultivator dramas (both good and bad). They all have an obsession with musical instruments. For some reason there is always a flute and it is obvious that none of the actors can play. As an amateur flautist it always makes me wince

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Reading up on the causes of the First opium war there is a similarity in mindset to that seem reported in foreign policy from the current US administration. Very much an imperistic mindset.

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I get the feeling that if Trump or Musk actually bothered with looking at History they would choose Leopold II as person to aspire to emulate.

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Latest rabbit hole triggered by a sentence in a book on the Mosquito about a German officer been shot by a Vietnamese sniper in France. I am now finding how the Vietnamese war could have roots in 93k french indochinese troops deployed to the western front in FWW. Love history rabbit holes

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History of the SWW keeps astounding me. When you read of a Gallop poll in July 1943 saying less than 1 in 5 Danes objected to sabotage, you start trying to wonder just how they managed to conduct the poll and that there was that many honest answers in an occupied country.

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Part of the Joy in Ghost in the Shell SAC is thought put into the design and anima of the Mecha and how they behave. The Jigabachi (wasp) attack helicopter and the Tachikoma (jumping spider) think tanks been the best examples.

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I am curious as to how many contracts with the US government would now be considered invalid because they contain words considered unacceptable by the current administration. I wondering just how much DOGE is going to add to the deficit through the cost to implement savings

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