[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yes, it WAS fucked up. That's how it was back in those days.

An illustration from the H. Strickland Constable's Ireland from One or Two Neglected Points of View shows an alleged similarity between "Irish Iberian" and "Negro" features in contrast to the higher "Anglo-Teutonic." The accompanying caption reads "The Iberians are believed to have been originally an African race, who thousands of years ago spread themselves through Spain over Western Europe. Their remains are found in the barrows, or burying places, in sundry parts of these countries. The skulls are of low prognathous type. They came to Ireland and mixed with the natives of the South and West, who themselves are supposed to have been of low type and descendants of savages of the Stone Age, who, in consequence of isolation from the rest of the world, had never been out-competed in the healthy struggle of life, and thus made way, according to the laws of nature, for superior races."

There was all kinds of stupid racism back in those days, and "science" (but actually pseudoscience) was used as an excuse for it, like Calvin Candie in Django Unchained going on about skull dimples.

Well, I say "back in those days" but really it's alive and well in the present, too. Have you ever read what modern racists believe? It's still nuts.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

If he's higher up than me and my job is at risk and I need the job, wouldn't mouthing off be a bad idea?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

What's my motivation? Is there a reason why I'm listening to Alec Baldwin brag about his watch? What's stopping me from simply walking away?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

China seems to think it can be friends with everybody.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

We could write a book about all the mistakes Marvel made after the Infinity Saga.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

The interesting thing is that "Remmick" isn't an Irish surname. It's of German origin, derived from "Roemmich".

It's also worth noting that Remmick doesn't start using an Irish accent nor singing Irish songs until AFTER pretending to be a poor southern blues singer has failed.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah but you're basing this analysis on competent historical fascists

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I suspect Trump will more likely move more of the R&D under the auspices of the USSF (ie the Space Force). He can't claim to have "created" NASA, but the space force is his baby.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There is no magic system that will allow us all to live in a world where we don't have to be ever vigilant against corruption. That will ALWAYS be the price of freedom. FOREVER. But we can make it easier on ourselves. Good laws can't solve all our problems, but they can keep them manageable.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

My personal favorite platform is GOG simply because it offers actual ownership instead of a crippling dependency on their ecosystem. My second favorite is Steam because it has games GOG doesn't. I'm not sure why I would want EGS beyond the free games, which are frequently not of interest to me anyway.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"We had been operating relatively conservatively, in how many people we were allowing ourselves to hire and capital expenditures," Romo said. "This will allow us to release a little bit of that conservatism and lean into some stuff like electric propulsion and potentially other vehicles that are going to allow us to grow long-term."

(Emphasis mine)

He said this but then never really elaborated. This was the only part of the article I wanted to read more about. It sounded like he was talking about something akin to the EmDrive, but my understanding was that the EmDrive had been debunked as a measurement calibration error, so I'm curious WTF he's talking about.

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Bravo

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