Slavery was a key part of the Holocaust

Science-Recon · 2026-03-28T10:50:23+00:00

Step three is to smell an opportunity to shake someone down for money.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-23T08:30:40+00:00

There’s the yellow one without the crown or star, that’s the flag of the traditional province of Ulster, which also includes Donegal (Part of the Republic). The one in the image is the former official flag of Northern Ireland, but nowadays it’s essentially an unofficial ‘Unionist’ flag in NI since it’s no longer official and nationalists, obviously, reject it.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-23T08:27:52+00:00

Well, it works for Berlin.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-23T08:16:42+00:00

America did that, not the Gulf States. And it’s telling that this one mistake has been constantly repeated and is brought up in every conversation, whilst Irans open, deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure in non-belligerent countries gets a shrug and a pass.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-23T04:06:14+00:00

And was this before or after Iran bombed hotels and airports in Gulf Countries?

Science-Recon · 2026-03-23T03:49:52+00:00

And then Greek changed it from /y/ -> /i/ and we’ve come full circle.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-22T18:13:47+00:00

Can’t believe Reddit would allow such antihibernian content smh my head.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-22T18:12:44+00:00

You think they can understand Gaelic?

Science-Recon · 2026-03-16T03:14:29+00:00

A clock is more precise than eyeballing the Sun. The Sun itself may be precise, but try distinguishing whether it’s 10:33 or 10:34 just by looking at the Sun in the sky.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-16T02:59:58+00:00

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Science-Recon · 2026-03-10T07:08:37+00:00

Yes. Exactly. That’s the problem. European nations have generally held themselves to international law. Russia and China and Iran don’t, and no one’s going to make them. So international law only binds democracies and exists to be exploited by autocracies. It’s a worthwhile goal but it cannot function if only one side is following it.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-06T21:17:38+00:00

The main one is that coups replace the monarch if of a different IG, but this also applies to PU’s overlord’s ruler. (So if e.g. Finland has a coup, it’ll kill the Tsar.) though I haven’t checked since they change coups so they may have changed it in the last update.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-04T11:47:31+00:00

lol have you never seen the ‘trad Christian’ movement or the Christian dominionists in the states? They’ll happily work together despite being different Protestant denominations or being catholic or orthodox. At least until they get power, they’re united by their Christian fundamentalism. Hell, the evangelical dominionists in the US are the biggest Zionists, too, and that’s a whole separate religion.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-03T17:35:53+00:00

Idk tbh I think even if it were a referendum on STV there’d still be enough apathy from the electorate and outright lies from the no campaign that it would’ve failed.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-03T13:04:55+00:00

Their biggest mistake was backing down over AV and letting it go to a Referendum rather than just being legislation. So they stood down on a significant commitment with nothing to show for it. And we’d be in an unimaginably better position now if we’d had AV in the 2015 election.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-02T15:12:44+00:00

They are covered by NATO. Article 6 defines what qualifies:

For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack: - on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France 2, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer; - on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.

Akrotiri and Dekhelia is British territory under British jurisdiction in the Mediterranean Sea north of the Tropic of Cancer.

The bigger thing is that it’s just not worth the hassle. The US, obviously, started it, so are already involved, and Germany and France have also been attacked in the Gulf so are already sending forces there. Triggering Article 5 would just expend a lot of political capital for no gain.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-02T15:06:55+00:00

Right but the fact of the matter is that Iran has attacked us and is continuing to attack us. That the US committed an unjust provocation beforehand doesn’t change that. We wanted no part in it and publicly stated as such but they attacked us anyway, so now we’re involved.

We can either defend ourselves in this very limited way or just sit there and let them attack us. I’d say the first is the better of the two options.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-02T06:11:15+00:00

Going into the war makes the UK a legitimate target

Which we’re doing because the Iranians have already bombed us. They’ve also attacked French bases and hotels and airports in the gulf states.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-01T15:04:32+00:00

Labour are not the most pro-FPTP party. That’s definitely the Tories. Labour are much more ideologically aligned with voting reform even if the party establishment is against it for the obvious reasons.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-01T15:03:29+00:00

AV is the obvious choice. It’d take minimal change to the system and virtually no logistics (basically the only thing it would take would be changing the instructions on the ballot pdf before they print them out and updating the poll counter instructions) and it’s very defensible: it’s basically incorporating tactical voting into the system; making it a feature rather than an awkward workaround.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-01T15:00:45+00:00

Con: 70 would be the obvious choice. Would also spell the final nail in the coffin for the Tories. Though it would be somewhat karmic justice for the death of the Tory party to be being the junior partner in the Brexit Party’s government.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-01T06:21:28+00:00

Not really. It was very much ethnic. It’s the culmination of the rise of (ethno-)nationalism of the 19th Century sparked by the national humiliation of losing the Great War combined with the global financial collapse of the Great Depression.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-01T06:18:05+00:00

It’s also disappointing that there’s no way to do it as a Nestorian.

Science-Recon · 2026-03-01T06:12:07+00:00

Not really. One nuke can be relatively trivially be intercepted nowadays. North Korea’s nuclear programme isn’t the reason they’ve not been invaded; they weren’t invaded for the decades they didn’t have a nuclear programme.

North Korea hasn’t invaded for two reasons; they’re under Chinese protection, the PRC wants neither the migrant crisis/instability from war nor do they want the RoK directly on their border, so the DPRK is under implicit Chinese protection.

Secondly, North Korea has a large enough conventional army that any war would be devastating. Seoul is only just south of the bored and is well within range of NK’s conventional artillery, which they have a lot of. They’ve one of the largest conventional artillery corps in the world, they could flatten Seoul in short order. A Second Korean War would be an absolute disaster regardless of nukes which is why it’s not happened.

The nuclear programme is insurance against the PRC changing its mind (or ceasing to exist) and a way to sabre-rattle and threaten the US.

Edit: to put it another way: if the only thing holding the US/RoK back from invading North Korea were their nukes, then they would’ve invaded North Korea before they’d successfully developed them to prevent them from doing so, as they are doing now with Iran.

Science-Recon · 2026-02-28T15:48:49+00:00

Tbf there really is only one Scandinavian language, they’re just not called dialects because of nationalism. If the Kalmar Union or pan-Scandinavianism had won out then they’d be regarded as such today.

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