Just because handcuffung is normal in the USA, that doesnt make it normal or sensible. No one gets cuffed in a normal traffic stop or house visit in the UK for example.

That’s not neither, it’s one of the options.

Ew, Joe Rogan.

They would drop tactical nukes on NATO forces.

Yeah maybe. I was operating under the prevailing idea in this thread that NATO would steamroll through Russia. It’s not something I necessarily agree with.

It’s never going to happen anyways.

Well, quite. This is all just a thought experiment, no one thinks it could happen. NATO is a purely defensive alliance.

I’m not willing to gamble but I don’t think they’d go nuclear. The trick is to offer amnesty and support to everyone but Putin so they have a better option than death for themselves and their families. Loyalty to dictators is always about self preservation.

There’s no year zero, it goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE.

At this rate we’ll be renting individual strawberries to show off at parties.

(This was a real thing with pineapples, once upon a time.)

What… uh… what do you think it is?

Take a holiday in the Netherlands, visit any clothes shop, enjoy the length. Source: Am a 6’4 2xl Brit and shopping in Amsterdam is sartorial paradise.

In the UK, Jacamo are excellent.

Och aye tha noo.

Woke always boils down to “the extreme opposite of bigot”.

This is silly. The top left one is clearly from a cow and one of the others is a sheep.

Sorry, I know I’m not always the clearest. :)

Virtually no one could afford air travel prior to the 1960s, that’s a very large part of my point. It got affordable in the 70s and very affordable in the 80s.

In the UK, at some point during the 80s, it became normal for almost every single working family to get on a plane and go somewhere sunny once a year for two weeks. Every year. Minimum.

They were and still are given a choice. I can fly from London to New York on British Airways first class or Easyjet. Consumers consistently choose the cheapest headline price.

Like you’re some Greta Thumberg trying to make a valid point.

Concorde wasn’t far off that sort of speed. But it was too expensive. Such speeds will probably return in some form one day.

Planes are three times faster, five times longer range and 95% cheaper per mile, in real terms, than those early days.

The consumer was given the choice and they chose this. Honestly, air travel is great.

Yes, capitalism sucks. I hate being nickle and dimed for hand luggage, lottery tickets, snacks, hidden booking fees and all that shit. Some gentle regulations would be really nice, just to curb the excess.

We definitely don’t need vigilantes.

I think you’ll find that flat earthers from all around the globe are in total agreement.