IIRC about 20% of the cost of a new home is framing. So even if they make it free, it’s a nice little cut, but not world-changing.

The technology itself is still interesting. Maybe you could use it for water works or a chemical plant - things where a large, weird-shaped container is the goal.

Roman Emperor Claudius, so the story goes. If it did happen, it might have been for show rather than because it was really practical for warfare.

No, Claudius actually boated them over to scare the locals into shape. Or reputedly so.

It’d be pretty easy to guess, honestly. Just saying “a lot like a cow, with legs like in the front” would cover it for sculptural purposes - the flattish tail being an excusable detail.

Medieval artists did a lot of this, although sometimes the results were less than perfect:

Yep.

Although any reasonably large cargo boat should be able to carry an elephant, anyway. That would be how the Romans did it in Britain.

Edit: Maybe? Apparently the only source on that episode is from much later.

And cost of living. I’m guessing that’s a big part of how Cyprus ends up with more disposable income than Italy.

And AK, for that matter.

Man, Nigeria better be careful.

Beware of Chinese propaganda outlets as well. Especially on Lemmy.

Whatever big NGO will have decent information on China, as will anyone who’s been there. It’s openly authoritarian and aggressively nationalist, but pretty well-functioning and stability-loving within those significant constraints. And like anywhere in peacetime, a normal day is normal.

(At least in the core Chinese areas. Obviously Xinjiang is fully in the middle of a genocide, and Tibet does have notes of the same system)

I know it’s not the jerk, but I wonder why he chose this moment to go back to elbows up. Blowing smoke up Trump’s ass was working pretty well, all things considered, and the Greenland crisis is over.

When did it stop being the British Empire?

Like, I’ll agree that it did, but it wasn’t before WWII. The Union Jack flew long after that, and many of the shitty domestic practices stayed too - just ask anyone Native.

If we’re saying yay rape or torture, that’s bad and dumb. If they’re saying yay kill the POWs, that’s also bad and dumb. Again, I’ll let people be their own judge.

… Well, why don’t you want to be the 11th province.

Since I know you’re one of the good Americans, it’s not really going to answer the question of how they’d respond, since I’m honestly not sure.

I’ve had acquaintances actually asked this while down there, I’m not making it up.

There’s a fair minority in Canada, too. If it wasn’t for the whole 10x our population thing maybe it would be fine.

California has about the same population all on it’s own. Just the empty part of New England or Hawaii might be a good addition.

Yeah, if they actually took that up, d’oh!

Not American.

Also agree it’s not great to reduce a nation to stereotypes and make fun of them. But, it’s pretty universal.

I kind of want an American to ask me all butthurt why I don’t want to join the US, just so I can use the 11th province line.

That’s actually encouragingly low, in light of their usual appetite for smiting enemies.

The trees thing was Cambodia of course. Rape and torture were all kinds of people, including The British Empire (AKA Canada).

I’ll let readers decide what what was obviously meant. I’m not sure killing in “creative” ways from further down can be twisted into something more generous, regardless of how much you try.

Hmm. Are European EVs more expensive than American ones? I thought they were similar.

Yes, that goes for phones as well. The Americans have definitely been on the lookout for hardware trojans on computing devices. Probably us too in some capacity, being in the five eyes.