Copper tarnishes quickly and forms a green patina in salty sea air, and the vast majority of ancient settlements happened to be on the coast.
I live in an older town about 700 miles from the ocean, they recently restored our courthouse with a new copper roof to replace the one from 1824 and it had a green patina in less than a year.
I don’t think salty air is a requirement for patina, just oxygenation.
Do you want to see the people who killed Osama Bin Laden prosecuted?
Because the United Heath CEO killed far more people, including many more children, than Bin Laden did on 9/11.
I simply wouldn’t believe it.
There’s no way so many people could keep something that big quiet for so long.
It would be more than just the leaders, there would be thousands of people involved over the course of decades. Someone would have spilled the beans at some point by now.
The next biggest economy would likely fill the power vacuum, which at the moment would be China.
European countries would likely band together but still align their policies closer to Russian polices because they’re a more imminent threat than China.
There would probably be several small brush wars as countries try to to consolidate power amongst regional areas like North America and the Middle East.
Fragile ceasefires backed by American influence would pretty quickly dissolve like between North and South Korea.
And in a few decades everything will settle into a new “normal” just like it did when other great empires have lost their influence.
No, but I know what I’m doing later now lol
Disregard, double posted because shitty connection
Iron Sky, it was a B movie in the early 2000’s
Because who can afford a new gaming rig/system AND games to play on it?
Don’t respond. Anyone who feels the need to express that is just looking for a reaction. Don’t indulge them. When people genuinely dislike someone they tend to only interact with them when absolutely necessary, so if they’re volunteering the information without being prompted it’s only for a reaction.
Absolutely.
There are two ways to make sure nuclear weapons are never used in war:
#1 is never going to happen. The US, Russia, and China are for sure never ever giving up their nuclear weapons.
So #2 it is, level the playing field and give everyone nuclear weapons. A nation is far less likely to use a nuclear weapon if they know they can and will get nuked back right away.
If there’s a Discworld community they’ll love this
Michael Caine
Weed, they got baked and leaned the knowledge of good and evil.
The opposite. Google won’t be able to leverage chrome to drive website design and Internet policy anymore and it’ll give smaller companies an opportunity to get a better foothold in the market. That’s the whole point in breaking them off from Google in the first place.
About the time they start walking.
Once they’re standing up, they’re tall.
While they’re still laying down, they’re long.
They have shareholders now, if half the site traffic disappeared (and I feel like that’s being optimistic about the actual number of real people on the site) it would be devastating to the stock price.
and to be compelled not to censor content.
I think we all know that means removing any safeguards against misinformation.
They’re absolutely going to ramp up censorship of anything anti-Trump.
They’re going to promote “free speech” the same way Leon Musk does on Twitter.
It’s more or less always been like this.
p2p services like Napster were getting shut down and replaced with limewire, then limewire was shut down and replaced with FrostWire.
The Pirate Bay has been shut down at least half a dozen times, demonoid was shut down 6 years ago, Grooveshark was once an ad free music streaming service but tried to go legit at some point to save themselves.
Every few years the movie and record industries get a burr up their ass and go for the piracy and streaming websites. But these websites have always been like a Hydra and when one of them is killed, several more eventually pop up to take their place.
We used to call them “spider balls” because they were rumored to keep spiders away but that is false. I’ve never heard horse apples but Osage Orange is also common in my area
Every spider you kill that you see makes them better at hiding in your house