XiaCobolt

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[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I think there would have been a WW2 it just would have been communist continental Europe versus the UK/Commonwealth-USA alliance maybe with Imperial Japan as a wild card.

Still probably a better timeline but uncertain.

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 3 points 7 hours ago

Also Louis XV should have been guillotined too, so I wasn't completely wrong.

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Thanks, Yeah, I thought I was screwing that up. It's the unbroken Louis XIV to XV to XVI that got me.

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 4 points 9 hours ago

Definitely, though importantly the King was often changing those frequently too.

It's like how if you are not able to have a shower you still feel fresher if you change shirt, underwear etc.

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

2035 me: look the limited nuclear exchange between France and Israel was as bad as it was surprisingly. But Tony Gilroy's Firefly reboot on Disney-Flix-Plus was an also an unexpected balm in these trying times.

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 8 points 9 hours ago

The media can be notoriously homophobic and misogynistic

Anti-fatness too, which is still bad but was worse in the 90s and 00s

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (5 children)

Louis XIV should have gotten the guillotine just like his grandson. But he probably didn't smell that bad.

Experimental historians have shown that changing your clothes multiple times a day, like the dozens of times Louis XIV would, soaks up the sweat and smells quite effectively.

It's a form of conspicuous consumption as only the King and high noble can afford to go from a sleeping outfit to breakfast outfit to early morning outfit to morning tea outfit and so on etc.

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 12 points 11 hours ago

He's yanking their chains!

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The second season of Mo perfectly captured the specific fucked personal vibes of an Israeli, without any things they could be accused of antisemitism for.

Like Guy seems nice initially but the longer the show spends with him, you realise he sucks. Not like in a nefarious mustache twirling way, just he's a terrible hang.

Also way he pivots between I'm a proud Israeli who knows Krav Magra and I'm just an open minded smol bean running a "Mediterranean" restaurant based on the situation.

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 37 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It's funny how it's probably a matter of statistics like if villages are 30-100 people assigned male at birth, and being trans feminine is like 1-3% (trans women are 3% in Samoa where it's quite accepted) automatically about one per village.

Then if there's religious ceremonial significance to be trans, an extra trans person might move to a neighbouring village without one etc. That smoothes out the statistical outliers either side (village with 0 and 2).

Then this guy comes and says "oh they must elect one person"

[–] XiaCobolt@hexbear.net 7 points 13 hours ago

I think partly the decision was due to there being a large movement of poor whites from the south to industrial areas like Chicago. The young patriots thought they could use the confederate flag as sort of rebel counter culture image. It was a stupid idea and they dropped it after a short while of working with the Black Panthers.

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