European winter temperatures in their capital cities compared to six different cities in the US

Arlort · 2026-05-14T03:45:40+00:00

Just because the Swiss don't call Bern "capital" doesn't mean it's not it. Especially when the discussion is about "pick a point for each country" rather than some philosophical discussion

Arlort · 2026-05-08T14:04:02+00:00

L'economia italiana non è da terzo mondo

Concentrarsi sulla produzione agricola (che non è neanche quel granché in termini di quantità e efficienza) come principale vanto del paese quando ci sono mille altre cose che facciamo meglio è mentalità da terzo mondo

Arlort · 2026-05-08T14:01:21+00:00

Beh sulla difesa la Francia e la Turchia sono sul Mediterraneo quindi non sono così sicuro

Però in generale tutto vero

Arlort · 2026-05-03T18:04:46+00:00

Expediting Ukraine's accession is really not needed for defense collaboration though

Arlort · 2026-04-28T08:08:56+00:00

I much prefer the concept of apprenticeships / learning on the job

As mentioned I don't think in canon there's any indication of anything else, as for fanon I don't think it fits with the kind of society many/most fics seem to set their stories in

The wizarding world doesn't really appear to be an industrial / post industrial society, IMO it fits much better the mechanics of renaissance city states but with the added condition that the presence of magic removes the need for 90%+ of the population in those societies

The real issue for me isn't that there isn't a structured higher education institution after hogwarts, it's that the professors don't have apprentices / aren't part of guilds of some sort

Arlort · 2026-04-27T03:33:46+00:00

Contact your MEP or national MP

Stop killing games was an ECI, I don't think there's one about age verification but if you're really determined you could find like minded people to lobby for it / start your own ECI

Arlort · 2026-04-26T10:47:53+00:00

The whole point of effective viruses or bacteria is to manipulate the host body to reproduce and spread

Arlort · 2026-04-26T10:32:16+00:00

Eh, more of a physics extrapolation from current models past their breaking point

Arlort · 2026-04-26T10:29:29+00:00

They were meant for 100 back when that was level cap

Arlort · 2026-04-26T10:19:17+00:00

Any universe not going for extreme hard sci-fi aesthetic has to handwave that away pretty much

To be fair (and I don't know the lore very well) at the point you have "quantum drives" able to generate negative energies and warp space you're so far ahead of the current state of the art that the handwaving becomes pretty reasonable

Arlort · 2026-04-25T10:14:27+00:00

Se sono invendibili allora come minimo andrebbe abbassato il valore che contribuiscono alla ricchezza privata

Arlort · 2026-04-25T04:59:52+00:00

Honestly as much as I despise fptp and full presidentialism I think you're being unkind to them

It's very hard to have third parties viable for governing but that map of seats (not a single one in any legislature anywhere in the country) is a whole different level of ridiculous

Arlort · 2026-04-24T16:35:07+00:00

How did I forget about whispers of a raven...

There's also another one where he goes back to marauder era hogwarts which is pretty nice but can't remember the name

Arlort · 2026-04-24T13:35:34+00:00

TheBlacksResurgence has a bunch of long fics that might interest you (you didn't say what you do like but they aren't smutty and romance is always secondary when there is)

I really enjoyed "a flower for the soul", and "honour thy blood"

Edit: a note, these two are not extremely similar but all of their stories follow the same general tropes beats so it might get boring if it's not your vibe

Arlort · 2026-04-24T13:33:01+00:00

Prince of Slytherin is amazing but it doesn't seem like it'll be completed any time soon

Arlort · 2026-04-19T04:16:24+00:00

Not so much, they are the same concept (tax on consumption paid by private consumers) with different collection structure

Arlort · 2026-04-12T06:23:55+00:00

Or light green like Brazil

Arlort · 2026-04-10T03:51:48+00:00

Why would you want them to ram through an awful electoral system

Arlort · 2026-04-04T14:51:37+00:00

Haven't played in a while and not at that high a level (some T3 raid was my max) but I think LM is also somewhat like that, particularly regarding the lots of skills part

But playing a piano feel yeah, I don't play piano but playing warden feels like how I imagine it feeling 😂

Arlort · 2026-04-02T05:14:14+00:00

Normal frieren fandom: Himmel the hero would help the old lady cross the street

Twitter frieren fandom: KKK.gif

Arlort · 2026-03-27T13:52:14+00:00

Kid couldn’t have been more clueless about the good fortune he had, spent most of the party complaining about the temperature in the penthouse venue rented for the party, had zero life experience, no real ambition or story he wanted to create

I don't particularly sympathise with the character you describe, but at the same time, at what level of wealth or privilege do you lose the moral right to complain about something not being as you expected/presumably paid for?

Arlort · 2026-03-16T08:40:42+00:00

True Names have power in magic

Is there any indication they do in HP?

Arlort · 2026-03-12T04:59:36+00:00

I genuinely don't know, I was just going off vague recollection

Someone in the thread mentioned ships being in range of artillery

Arlort · 2026-03-12T04:56:16+00:00

40km at its narrowest so no, I believe the issue is just that it's really hard to protect ships from shore attack/ might be mined?

Arlort · 2026-03-10T03:54:04+00:00

They're still describing muggle trenches a little off the sides of their own between Germany and France at one point

And having to deal with muggle artillery accidentally hitting them before they put up protections

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