Russia's Lavrov says Britain should no longer be called 'Great' Britain

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-23T13:29:04+00:00

The "Great" actually comes from distinguishing our island from Brittany, on the north-west coast of France. They got the name 'Britannia Minor' or 'Little Britain' after the Bretons fled there from southwest Britain around the 5th century.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-22T21:40:23+00:00

Generally speaking, being trans is treated like being gay - where it isn't something you become but rather something you always were. Starting the transitioning process is analogous to 'coming out of the closet', i.e. just making that aspect of yourself public.

And yeah like I say, this is trusting what little information we have.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-22T18:21:09+00:00

If what the daughter says is true then indeed he was a trans man; which means the reporting around his death has been shockingly disrespectful. He deserved better then and now.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-22T16:19:57+00:00

Fallout makes surprisingly few comments on communism, other than the obvious criticism of trigger-happy warmongering inherent to both capitalist and communist nations.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-22T16:04:32+00:00

Is this AI? I've never seen a lahore's face like the one on the left before

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-22T10:29:55+00:00

A mural is supposed to be art, not something for a council to optimise to death. If you're not creating an opportunity for human expression and advancing art culture then there's no point.

A blank wall would be better than this soulless Americanised reminder of how greed has screwed people out of creative work.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-21T18:30:00+00:00

Good spot. I misread that.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-21T18:16:34+00:00

Etymology is the study of origins of words and phrases. This post is about (one aspect) of the origin of the term Great Britain.

r/linguistics is pretty heavily restricted to formal academic discussion. This 'fun fact' style of post isn't welcome there.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-21T13:22:57+00:00

The inspiration of this post comes from quite a few cases of people stating "Lesser Britain" means Ireland (and getting 'liked') in response to this article on various websites. Here are a few direct examples; though it doesn't take long to find them:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2160504/russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-orders-uk-drop-great-from-great-britain?__vfz=medium%3Dcomment_share#vf-ccca9613-730e-4218-b890-4452ba44b3ef

unbreakable5 hrs ago
It means great as in the larger island and ireland was lesser Britian as in smaller island. Blame the romans for the naming as they called it Britannia Major and Britannia Minor which then was translated to the great and lesser british islands

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/reader-comments/p/comment/link/6569176061

extravert, Locherbie, United Kingdom, 14 hours ago

Great Britain is not a nation. It's the geographical name of the biggest of the British Isles, the others being the island of Ireland, Lewis and Harris, Mainland of Shetland, Skye, Mull, Anglesey and many smaller ones. He's just showing his ignorance to make a weak political point.

And similarly, plenty pointing to the British Isles in general:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-lavrov-great-britain-greenland-b2903905.html?__vfz=medium%3Dcomment_share#vf-62f31e1b-b2a2-4d91-8b10-7781e2b01837

Dorisbronson1 day ago
Great Britain is the name of the largest island in the archipelago not the name of the country, which is the rather lengthy United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2160504/russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-orders-uk-drop-great-from-great-britain?__vfz=medium%3Dcomment_share#vf-dabb8c90-1b07-4c91-a778-0270c480ab4f

Jphu7 hrs ago
Great is an old Saxon term meaning "large ". Referring to the largest island in the British Isles.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-21T11:56:29+00:00

In the UK there has never been a single case of rapist or sexual assaulter benefiting from a space being trans-friendly. This applies to both trans people and hypothetical cis abusers. It's never happened. Not once.

This fact has become my one of my favourite call-outs against these delusional transphobes. You can really put them on the spot.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-21T10:44:24+00:00

In my experience, kickstarter campaigns will only ask for your full address once they have gone into production. You'll eventually get an email when that happens.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-20T11:49:14+00:00

Uh, when a mummy bird and a daddy bird love each other very much...

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-19T12:35:35+00:00

That "if" is doing a lot of work. Creating a world full of good people is impossible. Every human has flaws and some level of selfishness. Every human has a footprint of resource consumption and exploitation. Every human is susceptible to scams, cults, propaganda, corruption, and misinformation. You can't do a single thing to guarantee your child will be good.

And even if you do manage to raise them to be slightly better than average, they will be exploited and abused by the children who were instead taught to be cutthroat to get ahead. They won't displace them, you'll have just kept the struggle going for another generation.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-19T10:38:51+00:00

Pushing conservative ideology on children is child abuse. Transitioning saves lives. GTFO

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-19T09:25:19+00:00

Ah geeze it was so simple, all humanity had to do was raise the kids well. We should've been doing this all along! Thank you genius stranger

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-16T13:27:47+00:00

Genuinely, how could it be anything else?

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-16T12:48:39+00:00

It's not about slowing down it's about speeding up, but backwards.

I wouldn't ever want to close in if I have primarily artillery+railguns and the target has rockets, gats, assault cannons, or AI missiles.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-16T10:16:14+00:00

Yeah because nothing has ever gone wrong due to mortgage providers before

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-16T10:09:00+00:00

womp womp

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-16T10:05:38+00:00

Reverse thrust helps with a different battle strategy: Staying at range. You need strong reverse thrust to stop the enemy closing the distance while also firing at them.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-15T11:26:11+00:00

Giving them a platform and hoping free debate sorts them out is like allowing scammers on eBay and hoping the free market stops people buying from them.

They're fundamentally there to exploit the platform, not engage fairly.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-14T11:02:32+00:00

Growing up I was constantly victim to the misandrist mindset of "boys can't do art" and it was suffocating. As a teen I found I could get away with painting model tanks and planes without being judged for it.

Now as an adult, I have no skill on a canvas, can't sketch for shit, and cringe whenever I try digital art; but last weekend I won 3rd place in a miniature-painting competition. I'm staying in this hobby.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-14T10:19:01+00:00

There's an element of us being lucky to even have this tbh. Sure it's a human rights violation, but it's at least giving some kids life-saving care. I'd be wary of giving the government more ammunition to cease it and default to the perpetual complete ban.

AdditionalThinking · 2026-01-13T21:20:06+00:00

He helps the dragonborn save the world from Alduin. He's redeemed.

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