Hardly a shocker that launching a war against our neighbour would make us trust them less, is it? Not to mention the fact that Russia was happy to conduct assassinations on British territory well before 2014 anyway

You know for a fact that they’ll literally coming charging across the countryside to rescue you though

I’m not sure about that, actually. There’s a similar power dynamic involved — Arnie’s terminator is unstoppable compared to Kyle Reese, but then the T-1000 is unstoppable compared to Arnie. Worse, it can now be anyone in almost any scene

Terminator 3, on the other hand…

While I do not think that Aliens was a bad film at all, I kinda wish it wasn’t a sequel to Alien. It’s a completely different film, far more action-oriented

Then again my view is probably significantly coloured by the fact that I enjoyed the first one a lot more

As I understand it, the Wielbark culture is the earliest one that we are certain was associated with the Goths, and it was based around modern day Poland and Lithuania. There’s some theorising that they came from the Swedish island of Gotland before that. The Roman historian Jordanes said so, but he was writing in the 6th century, so a couple hundred years after Gothic migrations.

However upon checking, it looks like I did slightly misremember that chronology; they mostly moved to the area you describe before the Migration Period, rather than roughly simultaneously with it as I had been thinking. I think I was mentally overestimating the physical separation between the Ostrogoths and Visigoths. I will edit a correction into my comment

Genoa was one of several Italian maritime republics of this period (the best known being Venice). They used their very powerful navies to get rich in the Mediterranean, both because they were able to protect their merchants from piracy and because the larger European powers wanted to be friendly with them to have access to that naval power. Since they relied on sea power, their expansions focussed on grabbing useful ports rather than big swathes of land. They would often make agreements with the larger powers to set up a colony on the coast in their territory, which suited the larger power in question because it meant the republic’s ships would be bringing valuable goods to and from that port.

Theodoro is a bit of a historical oddity — it was the last Gothic state. As in the Germanic people that burned Rome down way back at the fall of the Western Empire, roughly a thousand years before this map. When they migrated into central and western Europe, some of them went to Ukraine and eventually into Crimea instead.

Crimea remained part of the Eastern Roman Empire up until the Fourth Crusade, in which France and Germany were supposedly going to go capture Jerusalem. The entire Fourth Crusade was a colossal shitshow which resulted in the crusaders partitioning the ERE instead, and the Crimean Goths basically just bounced between whoever happened to be the main power in the region for the next few hundred years. They managed to more or less maintain independence so long as they paid tribute to whoever was in charge that year (first one of the ERE’s successor states, then the Mongols, then a Mongol successor state, then a successor to that) until they were eventually conquered by the Ottomans a few decades after this map.

Crows. They’re incredibly intelligent and seem to have settled on using that intelligence almost solely to be little mischief gremlins. They’re the only kind of bird that seems to understand that my cat can’t get to them through the window. I watch them work in pairs to steal food from seagulls - one goes in for an obvious attempt, all the seagulls chase it off, the other grabs a bite while the gulls are distracted, and then they swap roles. I’ve even seen one actively dipping chips (fries) into a pot of ketchup. In winter you can very occasionally spot them playing in the snow. They’ll intentionally slide down a snowy car windshield or roof, then fly back up to the top to do it again.

I volunteered at a greyhound rescue shelter for a little while, there was a rook (very close relative to crows, distinguishable by their paler beaks). He had been hit by a car years beforehand and the owners of the shelter found him at the side of the road. They took him to a vet, who had to amputate one of his wings, so obviously he couldn’t live wild any more.he was instead having a comfy life hanging out at the shelter. Totally unafraid of the humans or the dogs. When I sat down to have my lunch next to him he would yell at me to share a biscuit with him.

The customer decides what?

I do not know the actual answer to this, but I can definitely see a potential causal link between “shitty to no QA” and battery fires

mate this is explicitly about people choosing non-alcoholic options at social gatherings

Many people are satisfied with their chiropractor services

That seems awfully self-selecting, doesn’t it? Someone that is dissatisfied is not likely to remain a customer

Medical Community used their stupid PR to drive them from the discourse

Why are you blaming this on actual medical practitioners immediately after saying “They did it to themselves with the voodoo bullshit trying to be pretend doctors”. Of course actual doctors aren’t interested in what people who are lying about being doctors have to say

I agree completely

No, but it is being a belligerent in a war. To be completely clear I am pro-Ukraine and think that we in Europe and North America should be doing far more to help Ukraine. I’m just also wanting to make sure we can call zante for the actual wrong stuff they said rather than misunderstandings

While I do think that zante is just trying to both sides a situation that is very much not both sides, “belligerent” does not mean “aggressor”. Everyone fighting a war is a belligerent in it

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:712379/mmsi:518998865/imo:9329760/vessel:EAGLE_S

It’s registered in the Cook Islands. Not that that matters, because flags of convenience make registration functionally meaningless most of the time with modern shipping

Yeah same, it is odd. I’d guess it was an accident

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Your friends and family are lucky folk! What a magnificent colour it is, it looks so rich

I think it has technically been repealed since 2008, but it’s here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX%3AC2001%2F125%2F03&from=EN

Normally you can find them on eAmbrosia

But this is the law that registered it, and you can see that it is “implicitly repealed”. I’m definitely not up for reading a bunch of laws to find out exactly why right now

More interestingly, here’s the description it has for making sahti:

Sahti is brewed by gradually adding water to the mixture of malt and cereals, starting at a temperature of around 40 C, which is increased to around 100 C by the time the last water is added. This is known as “mashing”, and in some places this phase also includes boiling the mash. The heating times vary from short to a thorough boiling. Next, the wort is separated by straining in a trough or vat, and hops may be added. Traditionally, juniper twigs and rye straw are used for straining the wort, which is then fermented into sahti using baker’s or harvested yeast. Top fermentation is used. The main fermentation takes around three days at room temperature or cooler, after which the sahti is kept cool for at least one week. The alcohol comes exclusively from the sugar in the malts and other cereals.

“Baker’s or harvested yeast” is presumably the relevant part here, as that seems to me to exclude cultivated brewing yeast. So on that basis I’ve done it wrong (and I plan to do some fining too, so doubly wrong), but since my stomach doesn’t know any better I think I’ll be safe from legal challenges

Oh that sounds absolutely delightful. I might have to experiment with something like that once I get a bit more familiar with making this style. Cheers!