Yeah but these are often accompanied by us flying all of our military aircraft over London. I think the analogy holds, even if ours is a bit eccentric.
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rwtwm@feddit.ukto politics @lemmy.world•"The road to authoritarianism": Tim Walz says the time for "sternly worded letters" is over4·23 days agoI’m not American (but we do get a lot of US Pol foisted on us), so forgive me if I’m missing something… I thought the US democratic party was basically everyone more left wing than Joe Manchin. There are ‘third parties’, but in general the broad church argument applies… Anyway aren’t USians able to actually pick the candidates that stand for those parties? So wouldn’t you use the generals to vote ‘against’ Republicans, but then use the primaries process to vote for the shape of D you wanted? Here that’s not an option, the party puts up candidates. But you have the ability to pressure the candidates even after they are elected. Might be a long shot, but is inherently less fatalistic than just giving up, or even (as seems disturbingly popular these days) calling for some form of civil war.
What was the Sheriff of Nottingham doing in St Albans?
rwtwm@feddit.ukto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?2·2 months agoI think a lot of people in this thread are overstating the suspicion of outsiders. International trade has existed for thousands of years. There was even limited tourism in the middle ages. It would be rare to encounter people that you couldn’t communicate with, but I don’t think you’d be automatically sacrificed.
I’m in London, so would fare better than most as they would definitely be familiar with outsiders. That said people in many of the old European cities would likely be able to blag their way to local universities. Oxford definitely already existed 650 years ago so I’d start by heading there.
I think all scholarly writing was in Latin at the time, so I’d need somebody to translate, but (with luck) I could move maths on a couple of hundred years. I reckon I could get basic electricity going too. Obviously the more you said upfront the more suspicious people would be, but if you drip-fed knowledge over a few years, trying to let the steps rest upon each other you could probably share a lot of what we know today.
rwtwm@feddit.ukto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Despite our differences in social upbringing, nationality, language, religion, etc... We all agree in 1 thing, that Die Hard is a Christmas Movie, right?1·7 months agoJumping on here, because this is often overlooked. If you didn’t know the title of the film, and someone played the first 20 mins to you you’d expect a hallmark film. Going to see the estranged wife, trying to repair a relationship, the awkwardness at the Christmas party.
The whole thing subverts Christmas movie tropes. It’s not just an action movie set at Christmas. It’s a Christmas movie which gets hijacked.
Even the final scene plays on the parody with the ‘snow’ falling, the comedy comeuppance for the nuisance bad guy, and then they kiss and drive off as ‘let it snow’ plays.
‘Hold my beer’ I believe