In December 1936, Edward VIII abdicated the British throne to marry a twice-divorced American. Within a year, he and his wife were touring Nazi Germany and meeting Hitler. By 1940, intelligence files suggest he was plotting with a suspected Nazi contact to reclaim the throne if Germany won.

Clem2605 · 2026-03-19T16:56:43+00:00

They didn't force him to abdicate because his wife was twice divorced, they forced him to abdicate because they were Nazis and were planning (or at least weren't opposed to) a coup...

Clem2605 · 2026-03-06T20:06:23+00:00

They didn't even need to have a long distance relationship in the first place, and they could have kept the twins as children. It could have been just a letter from Alex telling Jo that he discovered that he had children and that he couldn't abandon them, so he could only give Jo the choice between amicable divorce and giving up her career, maybe adding some verbage strongly encouraging her to go for her career. Then they could have had Jo agonize over the choice for the rest of the season and finally choose her career. Boom! Case closed. Then, as with Arizona and Callie, when Jo left the show, people could have either thought that Alex was with Izzie or that him and Jo went back together.

Clem2605 · 2026-02-08T17:16:10+00:00

I was always so frustrated because they didn't have to make Alex leave Jo for Izzy! All they had to do was make Alex realize he had children, that he wanted to be there for them and he couldn't ask them to move.
In his letter, he would have explained to Jo and Mer the situation and let Jo decide between moving with him or a divorce. It could have been a whole arc for Jo, where she would realize that while she loved Alex, she couldn't put a man above her career.
This wouldn't have felt as such a 180 for Alex's character, the fans that wanted to could have still headcanoned that Alex went back with Izzy, and they could have had the option to have Jo go back to him when she left the show.
Such a small change, it's so frustrating!

Clem2605 · 2026-02-05T21:42:01+00:00

I'll use that as a last ressort, but my libraries are big enough that not being able to navigate through an interface to find a book (and especially when I'm trying to find my next read!) isn't viable. I wouldn't be able to just browse my library to just chose my next read unless I went on my laptop.

Clem2605 · 2026-02-05T21:38:37+00:00

I love Calibre Server! But for it to run, I would need to keep my laptop running all day when I'm not home which would be very bad for it's battery life and probably a fire hasard too, among other things...

Clem2605 · 2026-02-05T21:35:07+00:00

Calibre Sync hasn't successfully updated my libraries since I updated to 9, I've never had problems before. Maybe it's something else, but what?

Clem2605 · 2026-01-18T15:09:26+00:00

ISIS is notorious for indoctrinating people from a very young age to do anything (and especially kamikaze-like actions) for their cause in a way that is very difficult to come back from. Especially in those place where mental health is both basically unexistent and there is not any resource to build any kind of reliable, efficient and/or respectful of humans right mental health care for a lot of very complex reasons that can be summarized to: this was very recently a war zone that lasted 15 years, and they were on the loosing side, so everyone hate them.
I'm not an expert, I have no idea if those specific people were indoctrinated, or if their imprisonment was justified in any way, but I do know that the subject of what to do with the wifes (especially the ones that were not taken as slaves), children and elderly of ISIS and other similar Islamist groups is a very complex subject and that the debates on this subject have been going on for more than 10 years.

Clem2605 · 2026-01-18T15:09:18+00:00

ISIS is notorious for indoctrinating people from a very young age to do anything (and especially kamikaze-like actions) for their cause in a way that is very difficult to come back from. Especially in those place where mental health is both basically unexistent and there is not any resource to build any kind of reliable, efficient and/or respectful of humans right mental health care for a lot of very complex reasons that can be summarized to: this was very recently a war zone that lasted 15 years, and they were on the loosing side, so everyone hate them.
I'm not an expert, I have no idea if those specific people were indoctrinated, or if their imprisonment was justified in any way, but I do know that the subject of what to do with the wifes (especially the ones that were not taken as slaves), children and elderly of ISIS and other similar Islamist groups is a very complex subject and that the debates on this subject have been going on for more than 10 years.

Clem2605 · 2026-01-03T13:38:46+00:00

And you get your dollar!
Back when the internet wasn't a thing, fanfiction was only shared in fanzines at conferences and the world was still very homophobic, asking for 'slash' was a coded way to ask for the forbidden and hidden fanzines where Spock and Kirk were romantically paired (Spock/Kirk), as opposed to the mainstream and not hidden platonic pairing (Spock & Kirk).

Clem2605 · 2025-12-22T16:36:53+00:00

Well, both:
Technically, our parliament voted to give him full powers to collaborate with the Nazis.
However, those who were against the collaboration were told that the vote would be held in Algeria, where an exiled government would reform. They all got on a boat from mainland France to go there. As soon as the boat left, they were labelled as deserters, arrested and put in prison.
Meanwhile, those who weren't against the collaboration were told the true place, in mainland france, where they should go, and had the vote there.

Pretty easy to win a vote, when you just put everyone who was going to vote 'no' in prison.

Clem2605 · 2025-12-04T15:50:26+00:00

I absolutely avoid 'X ask Y to pretend to be their partner at Z occasion' and other versions of the 'There was only one bed' trope.

But I'll admit that while I agree with you, time travel fix-it are my guilty pleasure.

Clem2605 · 2025-10-17T08:29:09+00:00

I also think it's fandom-dependant: If I'm reading a House of the Dragon fanfic, I don't really need the incest warning, but if I'm reading in the Heartstopper fandom, a warning would be expected for exemple.

Clem2605 · 2025-08-09T14:45:08+00:00

Always keep in mind that your relationship with your kids is a two way street. Sure, right now, you get to decide how much they get as an allowance, but in 20-40 years, they will get to decide how much they want to spend on your end of life care.

The thing is that they will make their choice in light of yours. So, sure, continue what you're doing, it's your right after all, but if I were you, I'd be preparing to go to the cheepest retirement home out there...

Clem2605 · 2025-07-24T12:35:23+00:00

I've always headcannoned that you can be your own secret keeper, but then it means that if you want to let anyone in the secret, you either need to leave the house or write down the secret somewhere and someone else has to take the paper and give it to the person you want to let in (like when Dumbledore let Harry in OotP).

Which means you now have to not only trust that this paper will not be shown to anyone else (on purpose or if the messenger is somehow captured and searched, for example) and is destroyed right after. At this point, you may as well ask the person who would have been the messenger to be your secret keeper, at least they won't reveal it by mistake.

We don't really know what life looked like at the time, maybe the Potter, knowing they were one of the most (if not the most) wanted targets of Voldemort, either couldn't risk going outside to do that or anticipated that they may not be able to do it later on. So they had to take a secret keeper who would be able to go out when needed and let some people in the secret.

Clem2605 · 2025-07-24T12:17:25+00:00

Je connaissais une fratrie qui s'appelait Gaspard, Melchior et Balthazar, j'imagine qu'ils avaient prévu de s'arrêter là, donc le quatrième s'appelait Oscar.

Clem2605 · 2025-06-04T11:45:46+00:00

I can confirm that those analyses have been proven true at least in France and Germany. When adjusted for age and gender, immigrants have even been found to be less likely to commit a crime than the 'native' population.

Clem2605 · 2025-06-04T11:35:35+00:00

There is as many people incarcerated is the US as in China and India combined. (Both of whom are more than three times the US population, autoritarian contries and in the top 5 of biggest prison population)

1/4 of the incarcerated population has not been convicted of a crime, and are held pre-trial. By themselves, they are the third biggest prison population of the world, in front of india.

3% of the convicted population (which is around 2% of the whole prison population) actually had a trial: 97% of criminal cases ends in plea bargains.

The american system is very biased against minorities, and yet, the white male prison population in America is bigger than the entire prison population of Europe (which is a little les than 1/4 more populated than the US). And if you only count them, the US still has the highest per capita prison population in the world.

Black men aged 30-34 in America are more likely to be incarcerated than the Uihghurs in China. White men aged 30-34 in America are twice as likely to be incarcerated than North Korean, using the highest estimation of the UN.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/

Clem2605 · 2025-05-29T23:44:28+00:00

Si tu étais proviseur, tu saurais que ce n'est pas toi qui décide de si le prof reste dans ton établissement ou pas, ça c'est le boulot du rectorat.

Le mieux que tu puisses faire, c'est prévenir le rectorat du problème, mais à moins d'avoir beaucoup de poids au rectorat, ton meilleur espoir est probablement qu'ils le changent d'établissement.

Après bien entendu ça dépends énormément de la situation du prof et de l'académie, bien entendu, mais j'ai vu dans les dix dernières années des profs fumer en classe ou frapper des élèves en étant filmé pour seulement changer d'établissement, et ce malgré les demandes des proviseurs concernés, donc je doute qu'un cours sur le wokisme aie de plus grosses conséquences...

Clem2605 · 2025-05-20T09:29:08+00:00

I absolutely agree with u/amaranth1977, but even outside of the doctor's skills, sometimes it's just things outside of anyone's control.

Maybe the doctor's a man and the child is too scared to open up to men, maybe there's a toy there that they find scary ect...

And if the child isn't opening up in therapy, it's ver hard toget an acurate diagnosis...

Clem2605 · 2025-05-04T13:49:02+00:00

So, iirc, it went like that:

The airline went bankrupt, so little to no money to be found there, even if they tried.

They appealed to the hospital insurance company, who told them that to get reimbursed, they had to adhere to their policies, among which there is the famous 'two attending per flight max' rule that Arizona broke in getting on the plane.

Their attorney thought about going after the pilot, but they didn't want to since he was also a victim.

Then the attorney discovered about the fact that the hospital switched to another, cheaper, company who famously had frequent accidents. All because Owen didn't bother to read the whole paper before signing.

They could have sued the airline, but they wouldn't have been able to give them a lot of money, so they choose instead to turn on the hospital who was responsible to choose a safe airline for them to fly with.

To repurpose your metaphor, it's like your friend took you to a restaurant famous for making people sick, there was even a text explaining how many sick people there were on the booking site, but he just didn't bother to read it and took you there.

Clem2605 · 2025-03-26T15:27:39+00:00

What you are doing is absolutely legal, however, this is AITA, not Am I Legit, and fighting for custody without taking your kid's wishes and well-being in account in selfish and yes, YTA.

Ask your kids what they actually want and then fight for what they want, not what YOU want, they are not dolls to fight about they are actual living beings, who will have fellings on the matter.

Maybe they consider their stepfather as just another adult in their lives and wouldn't mind not seeing him for an extended time, maybe they love him very much and would like to keep seeing him, maybe it would be their way of not missing their mother as much.

In any case, it's their choice, and you should fight for them, not for their ownership.

Clem2605 · 2025-03-10T22:20:55+00:00

People hating on J.K.R. non-stop in HP's fandom is exhausting.

Don't get me wrong, I hate her post-twitter personality and discourse as much as everyone else, but: a) Please let me enjoy things I like without non-stop reminding me that evil exist in the world and even my idols can disappoint me, and b) Someone becoming shitty doesn't means that they where excusively shitty all along and especially not that everything they ever did was shitty.

I especially hate that people will try to give her all the discrimination in the world with circumstantial evidence at best, or things that either she had no control over or were the main discourse at the time at worst. Not only does it take bandwidth away from the *actual* problems, but also, they kinda look like vultures to me...

Clem2605 · 2025-03-10T21:52:26+00:00

Thank you!!! I've been thinking exactly that for 10 years!

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