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They weren’t “goth” because the entire medieval age was goth (see also: the cathedrals), and when everything is goth, there’s no reason for the term “goth” to exist.

And the coffee is all Robusta (as that’s what grew in France’s colonies) and they can’t make an espresso to save their lives.

Half a century or so later, when France occupied the Ruhr Valley after WW1, they billeted North African troops in the locals’ houses, some say to humiliate the once-proud Germans. (I didn’t read what happened afterwards, but I’m sure nothing bad resulted from this action.)

There was an old wacky-crooks story about a one-legged man who kept getting arrested stealing display shoes from shops when they matched his remaining leg.

Would hospitality include prisons?

About 500m or, if I want to go to a larger supermarket, about 2km.

There’s probably a market for targeting people matching not only a demographic category but the combination of one and attempts to keep it private, like religious conservatives who browse gay porn in incognito mode or seemingly progressive people who have right-wing views they keep secret.

“scientists”

If they do a deal with the Green Party, then maybe they can make inroads. Otherwise, they’ll just split the left vote and help Labour/Farage.

Every generation thinks it invented being a wiseacre.

A good start.

Should it fall only on those descended from First Peoples to learn these languages? One could argue that settler Australians who acknowledge that they live on unceded First Nations land could do their part by learning and using some of the local language (and lore that goes with it).

Though with these languages being exclusively oral and unwritten, and post-settlement society depending extensively on writing, incorporating them in everyday life may be difficult. One could formulate orthographies and dictionaries for them, but then one would arguably have a constructed language that’s more a fan fiction of the original language.

The great* thing about wars in the Middle East is that you can recycle old ethnic slurs just by prefixing them with “sand”

IIRC, in the early 20th century, it was considered fashionable in some segments of French Canada to get all one’s teeth pulled out and replaced with dentures, so maybe time is a flat circle here.

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Did he bring her back to the US after the war ended?

Hopefully this is like the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989: the tipping point when the authorities realise that they no longer have authority.

They may have to race Norway for it.

Threadbare. In cities like NYC, it approximates European transport, though is somewhat more dysfunctional. Elsewhere, you have things like “commuter rail” (like a regio/S-bahn, only with next to no off-peak service, running solely as a shuttle between CBDs and dormitory suburbs). There’s Amtrak, but it’s slow and infrequent and runs on tracks owned by freight railroads, and often is delayed by hours from waiting for freight trains to pass. Bus services have a stigma, associating them with poor (and typically non-white) people, to the point where people who have a choice avoid them, and vote to minimise the amount of their tax money that goes to pay for them. And in some Republican states, the government has scrapped even buses, replacing them with Uber vouchers mailed to households.

So yes, DB is creaking and needs investment to bring it up to scratch, but its service levels (even when wracked by delays) are utopian compared to most of the US.