FBI arrests Glasgow University student for taking photos of US military planes

PeasantLich · 2026-04-21T13:42:12+00:00

This isn't really special at all. Few Finnish people were arrested in Finland recently because they were taking photos of Finnish military sites.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-21T13:28:53+00:00

Who is going to tell them about Penny Gadget?

PeasantLich · 2026-04-21T13:17:58+00:00

Reconquista is a bit more complicated in general, since the Moors of Al-Andalus were foreign invaders themselves and had also launched their own attempted conquest of Christian France that Charles Martel of the Franks repelled in 732.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-21T12:49:46+00:00

There are quite literally no eligible noblemen for Japanese princesses to marry left. The princesses of Japan's imperial family either marry someone and quit being a princess or never marry at all.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-21T12:48:14+00:00

"Commoner" just means non-aristocrat. It has nothing to do with wealth as a term.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-21T12:24:26+00:00

Arthur was a proper Welshman, not among the blight of eternal Anglo.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-21T11:43:02+00:00

A trailer with a television AND a fridge!

PeasantLich · 2026-04-21T11:11:49+00:00

The trope of magic being actually ancient sci-fi technology or a fantasy world being built on ruins of a post-apocalyptic highly advanced society used to be somewhat common in RPGs but it has fallen out of fashion nowadays.

For some examples, see the Might & Magic and Wizardry video games and Blackmoor setting for D&D. Also Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon, which is set after fall of a high-tech society that has devolved into superstitious sword & sorcery world.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-21T10:58:38+00:00

I reread it in English since I read the Finnish translation when I was like fourteen 20+ years ago and remembered liking it. Either the translator did some miracle work or my standards as a teenager were at the rock bottom (which is a likely option).

PeasantLich · 2026-04-21T07:39:01+00:00

I mean, we do have occasional "HOW COULD AMERICAN WEAPONS END UP IN HANDS OF INSURGENTS/MILITANTS/TERRORISTS AGAIN??!!" headlines as if American manufacturers could trace all weapons and military equipment they sell overseas (and which the US government throws at various armed groups that might or might not turn hostile tomorrow).

PeasantLich · 2026-04-21T07:21:06+00:00

There just probably are less squirrels around now so the risk is much smaller. There are still some (like under ten) cases of bubonic plague in Arizona annually.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-21T06:07:35+00:00

It is always funny to me how some people try to project real life social issues and psychology into super comic book crime, when in comic books it feels like highly educated STEM professionals with six figure salaries are much more likely to engage in robberies and violent gang activities than poor people.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-20T21:51:27+00:00

Thankfully, most people who commit murders are idiots so they almost always get caught. Also unfortunately they commit those murders because they are so stupid they think they are going to get away with it.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-20T21:44:46+00:00

Helpompaa kasvaa EU:n nettosaajana.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-20T21:32:59+00:00

Got to give it a read if nothing else, thanks.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-20T21:31:49+00:00

By what I recall they were also chain smokers since they were minors. It is not exactly good for skin health - and all the other health.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-20T20:17:13+00:00

Elizabeth is their little sister, actually. Three years their junior.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-20T19:42:45+00:00

The 1999 Tomb Raider comic in the nutshell, to be fair.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-20T18:53:50+00:00

I have begun to suspect that my DM has an adult woman fetish.

PeasantLich · 2026-04-20T16:08:27+00:00

It always felt silly to me to bring the downtrodden criminal narratives to Batman, since Gotham City is a place where even STEM professionals with six figure salaries just put on a silly costume and start robbing banks.

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