I wasn’t aware that Hillary Clinton ran against Antonin Scalia.

Apparently you haven’t heard of the “Thirty Years’ War” or “German Unification Wars” or any of the various german wars in between. It took well over 200 years of near constant German warfare for Germany to finally unify. Arguably the only bloodier unification/expansion in history was the United States’ push for…

The comment I replied to originally that you then counter-replied to said exactly that “Spain shouldn’t exist.” in its first sentence. If you’re looking for a different thread, this ain’t it. As far as history, it’s pretty clear that Spain owns Catalonia...so that doesn’t really help their case.

Okay, either way, Catalonia has still been a part of Spain since before the existence of the United States of America, Germany, Turkey and a whole host of other nations. A certain level of autonomy doesn’t change my larger point; if we’re going to go back and redraw maps based on who was under whom in 1714 we’re in…

“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” is, admittedly, one of his better written stories, but not all of them are quite so well-written. Even then, in that first passage there are some serious flaws. In one sentence, Isidore is drowning a spider at the sink, then in the next other characters are concerned about how…

I thought this was a sarcastic comment at first, but then you seem to be actually serious. Dick was an excellent idea man, his concepts at the time were incredibly inventive and hit the correct emotional nerve...but his prose and his plots...not so much. Generally speaking his prose gives you no or little idea of what…

You can split hairs that way, but what it boils down is that it was ruled by the house of Aragon which was ruled by Spain since the 1400's, was briefly independent of Spain and was then recaptured during a bloody civil war. That’s not really much different from saying that Georgia has only been part of the US since…

Fair point.

Catalonia was actually part of Spain in the late 1400's when the Pope declared it the “Kingdom of Spain”. Catalonia’s integration into Spain was no less forceful than the integration of any other region into Spain (most of Spain was conquered after decades of domination by the Moors). Catalonia’s culture is no less or…

Well I mean, nation states came into existence precisely to counter-act violence from raiding nomads so...yes, actually that is true. The modern nation state is a lot more than just military and violence. A separate Catalonia region only works because in the modern day launching an attack on western Europe is a recipe…

Worth noting that there is actually a group trying to harness the power of hurricanes. I can’t seem to find the article I read right now, but they were looking into building special turbines to specifically survive very high winds and turn the wind energy into power; their biggest hurdle was that they couldn’t find…

If anything, you should blame the Moors. The dynasty that established what we, in the modern age, would call Spain was formed mostly because the Muslim Moors had been kicking European ass all over the Iberian peninsula. This forced two dynasties, the Hispania and Aragon houses, to merge and form what the Pope would…

I mean, if you’re going to say “Spain shouldn’t exist” then you should also say the same of Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and pretty much every major nation in Europe. I mean hell, Germany wasn’t even Germany until 1871! If we’re going to go back to medieval times to draw our maps then a whole lot of…

A lot of the older “pro wrestling moves” are actually based on legit wrestling and/or jiu-jitsu moves; they just modify them so they don’t hurt that much. The version that Jericho uses aka the “Walls of Jericho” aka the “Boston Crab” isn’t quite so painful, he keeps his opponent’s legs higher up so doesn’t apply…

Holy shit. I’ve never seen that music video, and now that song just seems creepy and weird.

You forgot 5. getting hit by a bus

I’m more than a touch skeptical that this was an actual, factual, quantum-secured transmission. Directional wobble as a means of measuring the particle doesn’t necessarily strictly identify the photon in question; you could have a very similar photon and possibly fool the encryption. What’s more, just because it’s a…

She’s not wrong though.

QUOTE | “The feedback you get at shows is almost always going to be positive, at least in our experience. So that can be a trap. People don’t really want to say too much about the game sometimes directly to the developers.” - Phantom Compass founder and Auto Age: Standoff developer Tony Walsh cautions devs not to…

How the fuck are they worried about losing fans over this? They’ve got a much younger fanbase than both MLB and the NFL, the only league younger is MLS. They’ve also got a fanbase that is much more diverse than the NFL and MLB. Their fanbase are exactly the sort of people that expect the big stars to protest. Adam…