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 just on it’s own. If it was the empty part of New England or Hawaii it 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.

Ah yes, indiscriminate killing of civilians, a famously effective policy that’s going great for Russia right now. Legitimately valuable tactics tend not to be named atrocities in the first place. Only senseless acts of cruelty that make you the bad guy.

Now, if somebody wants to defend the indefensible a third time, you could say, like, guerillas aren’t going to wear uniforms and that’s technically a war crime itself. Sure, but it’s only coming out in a hypothetical future comment because “use of a marked minefield in a graveyard in contravention of article 7, subsection 1c” wasn’t what OP meant, and we all know it. OP meant rape and torture and smashing babies against trees. Maybe just one of the three, or maybe the works.

If you haven’t seen it before, that little squiggle means “approximately”.

I’m curious how much Nazi Persia the author was imagining. Their whole pseudohistory had them coming from there originally, which is probably why the territory is pictured trailing off in that direction.

Nazi negotiators probably said “just a joke bro” if the Brits ever pointed out that seems kinda expansionist.

This version of Hitler also has a mustache that’s narrow, but incredibly long, and instead of being on-again off-again vegetarian exclusively eats schnitzel and smells strongly of it.

We and Europe are Chamberlain (if we don’t respond), Trump is Hitler.

I mean, it’s kind of both.

Sure. But 70% bikes is still 30% cars (or busses, or offroad whatever).

Farmland has to be at least 10%, and then outside the high arctic there’s trapping and native hunting, if only when someone passes through. There’s human activity. It’s not just crudely rendered videogame scenery as soon as you leave whatever city.

(I think you started a thought and then forgot about it, there)

Yes, it’s definitely harder for the NSA to do NSA stuff than it would be for… eh, the CAC, apparently (maybe?), but obviously it hasn’t stopped the Americans. What we really should be doing is our own counterintelligence work, where we sweep imports for funny business. And importantly, impose the basic expectation that our hardware and software isn’t spying on us in the first place, although that would be a huge shift.

Usually instinctive tool use is excluded. What scientists are interested in - and what engineers can’t replicate - is a creature understanding it’s environment well enough to use it against itself (so to speak) in a novel, creative way.

I know from our everyday perspective itching with a stick isn’t a giant intellectual leap, but how solids work, how limbs work and the type of contact required to itch would be difficult as hell if you put it in mathematical terms. And then on top of that, you have to put it together in the correct order to be a solution. The cow could just as easily have grabbed grass instead of wood, or used the short side of the stick.

That’s true too. I actually use a Chinese brand of phone, because guess what, most of the Western brands are locked down.

Obviously there’s exceptions like FairPhone, and there’s rumors Chinese silicon gets messed with. We don’t need them to pinky swear to anything we can verify, though. We just need them to agree, and unlike somebody they’re pragmatic enough to do so.