was told this in school, never forgot it 😊

well retrospective analysis might actually be more worthwhile than a random experience. Witnesses of historical events tend to be a blessing and a curse in history, because they all come biased.

Hornblower?

Yes, exactly! Thanks! EDIT: According to Wikipedia, the CVT in Toyotas is based on planetary gears, so both seems correct.

not necessarily. Toyota uses planetary gears which also change transmission without discrete “gear shifting”. Although going fully EV removes that necessity of course.

Well, dominance asserted.

brain surgery, eh? Not exactly rocket science.

ouch that’s dark 😁

What a terrible day to have eyes

Trepooche, the superior pooch machine as inspired by the superior siege engine

Wasn’t there this sad story of one of the members who would much rather have become a lumberjack? Leaping from tree to tree? As they float down the rivers of British Columbia? The Fir, the larch, the mighty Scots pine…

It tells you that concepts like rights, morality, right and wrong are all human inventions and are all relative. Nature or the universe do not enforce them. You have a certain right, if the society you live in thinks you should have that right and if circumstances allow that you have that right. That means none of these rights are unalienable or guaranteed, they have to be defended constantly. Both physically and legally, both against internal and external threats.

Cucumber Saladus here, pleased to meet a relative.

Sure: we’d protest the measures, but the protest was not approved.

If it is what the user wants, then it is a factor for adoption. It is a hard sell to say “yes it can only perform half the stuff you usually do with a phone, but you don’t need that anyways”. It comes across as condescending, too.

What? From did you get that?

Yeah sorry, that was very poorly worded. Corrected it. But I stand by my statement that these were German people and no immigrants. It was the Nazis who argued that they could not be true Germans. Whatever that may be.

What? That’s not true. They were part of the country. Some even got decorated fighting that country in WWI. They were no immigrants. Not that it should make a difference, but for me that makes it even worse. Edit: Corrected a very poorly worded phrase. What I mean is that German Jews saw themselves as German and fought and died in the trenches for Germany only to be backstabbed by their countrymen.

What is the context of the original picture? Seems like something along the lines of "husband lost at sea? "

That’s how the french revolution went. Not a great outcome in the short term for most people involved. Violence, no matter how justified, has a tentency to spin out of control.