klu9
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- Comment on Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe 6 hours ago:
I remember this same whole “Wahhh! You don’t buy our cars!” palaver playing out with the US and Japan back when that cunt was first expressing his love of tariffs. (Late 80s/early 90s)
Sure, Japan had some trade barriers. But Japanese automakers absolutely worked their arses off with market research, design etc in order to succeed at selling in the US market. US automakers couldn’t even be arsed to install coin holders that fit Japanese coins, let alone put the steering wheel on the right side of the car.
And even if US automakers nowadays showed even a modicum of nous for foreign markets, practically their entire production line has been geared to churning out ever more monstrous pickups and 4x4s, thanks almost entirely to their fucked up tax rules on vehicles.
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 7 hours ago:
I mean, “Yanks” is right there.
Or “septics”, if you wish to be politically correct.
/jk
Writer H. L. Mencken collected a number of proposals from between 1789 and 1939, finding terms including Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, and United Stater.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 9 hours ago:
Tombstone, 1993.
With the passing of Val Kilmer, I realized I had still never seen it!
Finally realized the source of this meme:
- Comment on Couldn't be worse than what we have now... 4 days ago:
Narf!
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 5 days ago:
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 5 days ago:
[OT: watch “Shadow of the Vampire” after watching the OG Nosferatu.]
- Comment on Fox Picks Up Four Seasons Of ‘The Simpsons’, ‘Family Guy’, ‘Bob’s Burgers’ & Returning ‘American Dad’ In Mega Deal With Disney TV Studios 1 week ago:
With 25% tariffs on South Korea, maybe The Simpsons will be onshored… and end up looking like Dr Katz
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 1 week ago:
Broken link
- Comment on Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, says she has days to live after car crash 1 week ago:
Fediverse version: “I’m dying… let me just make a quick Pixelfed post about it.”
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 1 week ago:
Presumably due to all the Russian donors enabled and ennobled by the Tories for the last two decades.
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 1 week ago:
Finally, a way to unite George Galloway and Nigel Farage.
- Comment on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design 1 week ago:
“His behavior was disrespectful and disruptive and in violation of our code of conduct.”
Remember, folks: you have to obey the MSG code of conduct even when you’re thousands of miles away from MSG, and years before going there!
- Comment on U.S. Presses French Companies to Comply With Trump’s Anti-Diversity Policies 1 week ago:
Interested in seeing if this leads to a boycott by suppliers of goods and services to US govt entities in France or elsewhere. Ambassador having to clean his own toilet with liquid and brush airlifted in from US.
- Comment on What are some of the most well-acted, engaging, complex or interesting antagonists or villains you've watched in TV? 1 week ago:
Came to post Luther Mahoney from H:LOTS, but Marlo from The Wire equally acceptable.
- Comment on Matt Bomer and Nathan Lane’s Gay Sitcom ‘Mid-Century Modern’ Is a Pleasing Spin on ‘Golden Girls’: TV Review 1 week ago:
Directed by James Burrows? The James Burrows who directed episodes of the Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi??? Wow! He’s still going at 84!
- Comment on The pilot episode of Futurama 'Space Pilot 3000' premiered 26 years ago today on March 28, 1999. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why did/do sites such as the pyramids in Egypt or the Roman colosseum end up in an abandoned state, only to be "rediscovered" later? 1 week ago:
I don’t know but my speculation:
- Europe’s economy (from which the Church’s income was largely derived) didn’t go into overdrive until the Renaissance / Columbus landing in America.
- That growth being offset by the Reformation, with a lot of Europeans leaving the Roman Catholic Church.
- The somewhat decentralized nature of the Church, with a lot of assets in the hands of monastic orders and semi-autnomous archbishoprics.
- Perhaps an absolutist theocratic monarchy is not the most conducive form of government for economic and population growth.
The population started to tick up with the Renaissance, but when Italy essentially unified under a more modern constitutional monarchy in 1861, ending the Pope’s temporal power over the city, Rome’s population growth went stratospheric.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 2 weeks ago:
g - Comment on Frankie Muniz confirms that the ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ revival starts filming in a “few days” 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why did/do sites such as the pyramids in Egypt or the Roman colosseum end up in an abandoned state, only to be "rediscovered" later? 2 weeks ago:
In addition to the points others made, Rome has not always been a bustling city.
Its population declined from more than a million in AD 210 to 500,000 in AD 273 to 35,000 after the Gothic War (535–554) reducing the sprawling city to groups of inhabited buildings interspersed among large areas of ruins, vegetation, vineyards and market gardens.
The city’s population declined to less than 50,000 people in the Early Middle Ages from 700 AD onward. It continued to stagnate or shrink until the Renaissance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome#Middle_Ages
Thanks to multiple sackings, power struggles, plagues etc.
It only surpassed a million again in 1936. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome#Demographics
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 2 weeks ago:
Fear City (1984), martial arts serial killer stalks strippers, from the man who brought you Bad Lieutenant and Driller Killer.
B-Movie Bonanza: lemmy.ca/post/41252146
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Musk probably has his own Night of the Long Knives coming sooner or later.
As in, he will be the target, not the perpetrator.
- Röhm = Musk
- Hitler = Trump
- Himmler = Vance? Patel? Other?
- Comment on John Carpenter to score Bong Joon-Ho’s upcoming horror film 2 weeks ago:
Awesome!
- Comment on What TV series have the best intros? What TV series have the worst intros? 2 weeks ago:
The one that started it all?
- Comment on Lost media detectives finally found the full original pilot for Family Guy 2 weeks ago:
Thanks.
I tried the page in a different browser and it loads fine, got to watch it :)
- Comment on Lost media detectives finally found the full original pilot for Family Guy 2 weeks ago:
Cool!
Unfortunately the page that supposedly has the pilot appears empty to me.
- Comment on Why do news articles and such call the governments of countries/groups of countries after the capital? 2 weeks ago:
“Westminster” specifically for Parliament. “Downing Street” for the prime minister and the cabinet. “Whitehall” for central government as a whole, ministries and departments.
- Comment on Win win 2 weeks ago:
🤣
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 2 weeks ago:
Charles Bronson grew up in a coal mining town. Even though everyone worked their asses off, still so poor he sometimes had to wear his sister’s dress to school!
MAGA would have him arrested for that!
