Feed him enough of it and it will work

Their loss wasn’t nearly so catastrophic as to make it clear they’re in the minority. The issue with democratic legitimacy is that it’s mostly about impression of consensus rather than pure numbers because humans suck at processing numbers. Sure, neither government might have the actual endorsement of the constituency, but it doesn’t matter if the voting portion of it is split closely enough that it seems like they do.

If, say, the Reps hat lost 30:70, they possibly wouldn’t have been quite so bold, and on the other hand, the Dem leadership might have felt more confident in opposing them. Moreover, reducing Rep significance to a footnote could create space for progressive movements to be more than a spoiler, which could give them more weight in the internal party politics.

Note, however, the abundance of “could” and “possibly” and “might”. The difficulty with counter-factuals is that you can’t really compare them to facts. It’s just as possible that nothing would have been different at all. Much of predicting politics and public opinion is guesswork based on incomplete information, and putting it to a representative test would probably be impossible and possibly dangerous.

As it stands, you’re unfortunately right.

Explanation:
Both Trazyn the Infinite and the Star Wars character General Grievous are essentially robots, ripped away from their biological roots, collecting things in an obsessive manner, as the meme describes.

For Trazyn the Infinite, a Necron, that obsession is the collection of historical artifacts, be that specific objects or entire segments of historical battles (including live combatants, eternally frozen in stasis fields).

Grievous collects Light Sabers of defeated Jedi. He isn’t entirely robot, as he still has some fleshy bits (vital organs which he very much fails to shield or otherwise protect) and isn’t immortal, to his fatal detriment when a certain “Bold One” (Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi) manages to land a shot with an “uncivilised” but nonetheless effective weapon (a Blaster).

It is now my headcanon that the reason Obi-Wan disappeared in A New Hope is Necron Archivist shenanigans.

I once worked on a codebase where the reset function had a hardcoded default password

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What year? Mine was 2003, I think. Apparently it was just introduced back then (second heading, second paragraph).

What’s more impressive to me, Rome managed to bounce back from it anyway. This was the kind of incursion that could have spelled doom, but it didn’t. Truly one of the more impressive conflicts of pre-modern history.

Some rural place down in BaWü. The headmaster wasn’t even a fan of advanced education. I wonder how state policy may have had an impact on this. Maybe BaWü was just more bent on being internationally attractive in its education policies?

Also, my current employer’s company has been internationally active and accordingly multilingual for over two decades too, from what I hear, so that might introduce additional bias.

I guess it boils down to “our country is too diverse to allow sweeping generalisations”. I am glad to learn your perspective on this :)

Actually, my position was newly created in a company just now fostering overdue digitalisation. Some bloke came up with the idea of actually trying to figure out what they’re doing and justifying their effort at progress with figures because that’s what upper management likes to see, so they brought me on to do just that.

People definitely died for the company, but that’s not my fault. Or so I tell myself to sleep at night.

My company is using Lenovo, and a bunch of my colleagues were already working there 20+ years ago, now I’ve got a permanent contract too… I think it might check out.

It had its pretty sides!

And an ugly front, back, top and bottom.

Hey, at least dd/mm/yyyy still makes sense

Idk what you average over, but I learned English in school from the first grade over twenty years ago. When I was done with school, I worked as a tutor for it too. At least the youth seems to be getting on with it alright, and in the IT world, a level of English proficiency is expected and in places even required. I can mix in English phrases if I can’t think of the German one and my colleagues understand me well enough.

Sure, the other person’s “better than native speakers” might be hyperbolic, but English proficiency isn’t as awful as you make it out to be.

In the particular context of a Hamburg Airport sign, I think the language requirements for working in aviation mean that anyone working there will speak English. I don’t think it’s particularly surprising that their IT system would be configured in English at an intersection between two English-heavy industries.

Sauvigny war der Großvater des CDU-Politikers Friedrich Merz, der diesen als Vorbild für sich und die Briloner CDU anführte.

Naja, ich würde “Mein Nazi-Opa ist mein Vorbild” definitiv auf die Liste der Kritikpunkte nehmen.

To put a finer point on that “outside of Sparta” note:

In Sparta, we’re talking about 15-20% free folk depending on the point in time. Even other Greek cities looked at Sparta and its 85% population of Helots and go “Okay, that’s a bit extreme, don’t you think?” Plutarch, himself belonging to the (non-Spartanian) Greek elite, at some point remarks that “in Sparta the free man is more free than anywhere else in the world, and the slave more a slave”.

Slavery was never rosy, but Sparta made a contest out of who could treat them worst.

There is a gun and a bottle of wild turkey next to my printer

I wouldn’t leave a gun in the printer’s reach. The fucking thing will murder you in your sleep. Those things are the work of the devil and every day they continue to exist is a day too long.

No, that’s not “back”, which implies they left. That’s just staying with what you’re used to, what is normal to you.

Google has become established enough that the name has obtained a sense in itself. When switching to something else, the new tool has to convince in a way that the previous one doesn’t. Often, function isn’t enough if the form doesn’t fit.

Ich hasse Drucker jeden Tag noch etwas mehr. Der Gedanke daran macht mir schon wieder miese Laune. Ist nur eines von zwei Projekten auf der Arbeit, aber eben leider doch eines.

Put them on an Ark - wooden, overloaded, cast adrift in the type of weather that would cause massive flooding, if you catch my drift. Of course, gathering two of each animal would be cruel, so we’ll skip those.