[–] 17 points 5 months ago

Anyone who hasn't seen it before, go read Tolkien's letter to the nazis when he wanted to publish the hobbit in Germany.

I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago*

    Big scary noise. Imagine being a footman walking into battle, then hearing a sound like a mountain falling over, then a dozen men in your formation fall over dead while a cloud of smoke erupts from behind the enemy pike wall. I'd be pretty concerned.

    But in terms of killing effectiveness, bows at the time were better.

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    I had this thought after remembering one time that my DT (digital technologies) teacher at high school suggested that some of the class could try join a hacking competition. Nothing ever came of it, but I thought it was interesting at the time.

    What's really interesting is seeing the choices I made, and asking "what if I did the other thing". Just off the top of my head, I could be still at uni doing research on maths or physics, I could be working on designing new robots for who knows what, or branching off even earlier, I could have been a doctor like my parents.

    I'm only 24, so it seems like I might be a bit young for this kind of thinking, but there's still a lot of things I could have done differently.

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