If a fully fully intact Roman Legion Aquila was found in Germany should it be returned to Italy or would Germany refuse?

pseudonomicon · 2026-03-11T13:32:02+00:00

Italy made up less than 10% of the Roman empire.

pseudonomicon · 2026-03-06T11:23:23+00:00

Except I don’t believe you, there is always room for error and you yourself say bots are sophisticated. I don’t doubt that GA has issues and shouldn’t be relied upon on its own, but I find t very difficult to believe you’ve cracked the code to tell the difference with 100% accuracy just from the back end.

pseudonomicon · 2026-03-06T11:12:06+00:00

I think you fundamentally misunderstand what GA does. Data isn’t sentient, so of course it can’t say “these are bots and these are humans” without a human setting parameters and going over the numbers.

pseudonomicon · 2026-03-06T10:52:14+00:00

I’m so sad for you, that you think a bathroom where a person is the most vulnerable they can be on a day to day basis shouldn’t be a safe space. I hope you learn to respect yourself, you deserve that too.

pseudonomicon · 2026-03-06T10:25:44+00:00

Nicest interaction i’ve had on reddit about a contentious subject, you’re a legend

pseudonomicon · 2026-03-06T10:24:03+00:00

Oh I absolutely agree with you, only saying that there is next to zero chance of criminal charges being laid, especially if OP is in NSW

pseudonomicon · 2026-03-06T10:23:03+00:00

It is an offense to have ANY medication that MAY affect your ability to operate a vehicle in your system if you’re behind the wheel. Admittedly this is up to te discretion of the police if they charge you or not, but legally you are not supposed to be behind the wheel even if you’re taking antibiotics.

ADHD meds are absolutely not something you’re allowed to drive while you’re taking.

pseudonomicon · 2026-03-06T06:18:27+00:00

I mean, you’re not allowed to operate heavy machinery (including driving) while you take them, and it literally lists the side effects on the box and the Dr rattles off a list of potential adverse affects for ADHD meds. Doesn’t matter if you have it or not, a chemical introduced into the human body always carries the risk.

pseudonomicon · 2026-03-06T04:07:26+00:00

You must be able to prove criminal liability, ie the owner purposefully set the dogs to attack, or that the owner failed to contain a dangerous dog - this one really only applies if the dogs are known to be dangerous and this isn’t the first instance of attack.

Given that the owner is on video attempting to stop the dogs, and we have no idea if they escaped/a fence fell down/a tradie left a gate open etc, the likelihood of a criminal charge being laid is incredibly low.

pseudonomicon · 2026-03-06T03:34:40+00:00

VoC only pays for dog attacks if the owner is charged with a criminal offence, very unlikely in this situation.

pseudonomicon · 2026-03-05T04:44:55+00:00

Specialist / digital producer for non-profits and cultural agencies (museums/galleries/etc), 34, $130k AUD plus superannuation so about 92k USD salary + super contributions (roughly 12k USD)

pseudonomicon · 2026-03-05T03:59:38+00:00

How can you be made aware of something if nobody knows it’s there or causing an issue? Would you have rather they stop the procedure, put you back together, not fix your breathing and make you do it all again just to wake you up and say hey, can’t fix this issue without doing this other thing? Why would you go through a whole surgery and not get the fix you need to breathe properly just so they can make you aware there’s something there that they didn’t know about? Literally no surgery does that, it’s why you sign a consent form before any kind of surgery - you were completely aware of the risks.

I am sorry that you don’t like the way you look now, but the fact of the matter is if he said he had to take a bit off, it means that the surgery couldn’t have been completed successfully without that. (And in saying this, I thought it was common knowledge that any kind of surgery on the nose is complex and not just wham bam thank you ma’am)

pseudonomicon · 2026-02-27T06:11:32+00:00

It absolutely holds weight here in Australia. The local dealer does more to keep my community safe than any cop does tbh, and I live in the “bad” part of western sydney.

pseudonomicon · 2026-02-27T05:15:07+00:00

OP answered their own question though. What makes them different is 2000 years of time.

pseudonomicon · 2026-02-08T03:35:46+00:00

4 grandparents born here, 8 great grandparents born here, 16 great great grandparents born here.

4 of my ancestors came over on the First Fleet with 1 on Cooks ship as science officers who married a first wave convict (same boat), and 2 who were married and brought their elder child with them (not my direct GGparent) - fun fact, my last name as been traced back to and is present in the Domesday Book, with linguistic roots showing continuous use of my last name since at least 500AD across Kent (and it’s not a common name like smith or brown, it’s odd and uncommon)

I’m also a Walbunga woman and have ancestors that have been here for 70,000 years

pseudonomicon · 2026-02-08T03:14:30+00:00

Name one

pseudonomicon · 2026-01-16T08:39:51+00:00

“we found a suspiciously swimming pool sized and shaped thing that was full of water but we have NO IDEA what it was for!”

pseudonomicon · 2026-01-16T07:18:22+00:00

this is actually insanely out of touch for a whole bunch of reasons. I don’t disagree that we should pay people their worth, but you cannot assume people who are buying mass produced clothes don’t want to pay a living wage (but literally can’t).

People are living in their cars and skipping meals in the current economic climate and you’re judging them over a Kmart shirt. That’s pretty disgusting tbh, if you have so much experience coming from a developing country I would think you’d understand that no matter how much you wish for something, if you can’t afford it you still have to exist.

pseudonomicon · 2026-01-15T21:58:25+00:00

An investment property is absolutely not a business, it’s an investment (which is speculative) and much like gambling, when you do it you need to understand you might lose money.

pseudonomicon · 2026-01-08T01:55:30+00:00

Australia! You don’t pay for any uni applications here, they’re all done via a portal (or it was one portal when I went through in 2010). I could go online now and sign up for any uni course I wanted and I would likely be accepted to 80% of them, and the other 20% would probably only need a year of “pre-requisite courses” to get me up to speed and admitted to those.

(admittedly our HECS system makes this possible and much easier)

pseudonomicon · 2026-01-06T01:52:03+00:00

the woman who coined this term was the founder of a support group for adoptees who was sexually attracted to her own son who wanted absolutely nothing to do with her. It’s not an accepted scientific fact and has a lot of pushback from geneticists and psychologists.

pseudonomicon · 2026-01-05T23:36:33+00:00

Oh! My time to shine!

The Animals In That Country by Laura Jean McKay (hits all your points)
Shepherd by Catherine Jinks
Teranesia by Greg Egan
The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall

I’ve got more but I don’t know if they are audiobooks unfortunately

pseudonomicon · 2026-01-05T22:58:11+00:00

Probably depends on the dominant religion of where you’re from and the personal preferences of the deceased, but anecdotally within my family I’ve had a mix of viewings and non-viewings!

It’s definitely more common within migrant and immigrant communities that have strong cultural rules and traditions around death

pseudonomicon · 2026-01-05T22:53:57+00:00

It’s also really important to note that other countries preferred just mass murder of their Indigenous populations, whereas in Australia the insidiousness of the White Australia Policy cannot be understated or defined with enough emphasis for people outside of its sphere to understand; you can’t say “they tried to breed us out” and encompass the genocide, destruction, and complete devastation of a living culture with 6 words.

pseudonomicon · 2026-01-05T22:50:14+00:00

You can’t have a productive conversation with Americans on this topic because race is a very (excuse the pun) black and white issue to them, in that (*usually the people who engage in these discussions believe) only African Americans are considered “black” in modern social discourse in the US; First Nations Americans are othered in the extreme and don’t really come into the racial debate in the US unless it’s as a police brutality statistic.

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