studying for uk residency
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@jsbarretto huh, never heard it in my life. live and learn
@whitequark It's been somewhat coopted by politicians nowadays sadly, but most people that have lived ancestrally in the UK since the war have some sort of family story about the blitz. For me, it's my great grandmother dodging bullets from a Messerschmitt that was firing down the street with her knickers around her ankles because an air raid caught her when she was on the loo
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@whitequark If you want an example of how skewed the British institutional view of history is: I didn't learn of the _existence_ of the Holy Roman Empire until I was.. 19? and that was from reading history myself. UK schools teach tedious crap about the royal family, WW1, WW2 and then you're done. Maybe it's different now (unlikely).
@Foritus yeah not hugely surprised, my hs history class was incredibly tedious and not useful at all, i had to fix that myself later
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@whitequark "The crop failed." Huh! I wonder if anyone has looked into this.
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became how
became independent how, motherfucker
@whitequark Do not ask such questions. It more important that you know that a Conservative
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@whitequark Reminds me of one particular moment watching the Space Battleship Yamato live-action... If I had been drinking anything when they said it, my screen would probably have been covered in it. "On April 7th 1945, the Yamato set out to bring a ray of hope at a time of utter despair" (I may have substituted a few words by accident, but the phrasing is largely accurate)
For context, that date is "Operation Ten-Go", aka "The Yamato attempts to fling itself at the Americans invading Okinawa, beaching itself, and to keep firing until it physically can't." It didn't even make it to Okinawa before it got blown to shrapnel by the US. (And it's quite disturbing just how pointless the whole thing was, all because the top brass couldn't get their heads out of their "honor-bound to do something" asses...)
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@whitequark "The structure of DNA"
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Turing machine? They don't mention what happened to the guy it's named after, do they?
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this... document... is gravely insulting to at least tens of millions of people
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@whitequark i wonder if anything embarrassing happened in the falklands
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@whitequark I get the feeling that the author thinks that Turing machines are, like, a real physical thing?
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Turing machine? They don't mention what happened to the guy it's named after, do they?
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@whitequark I get the feeling that the author thinks that Turing machines are, like, a real physical thing?
@whitequark Also supersonic flight was first achieved by an American aircraft...
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this... document... is gravely insulting to at least tens of millions of people
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems i was aware immigration involves a lot of bullshit gatekeeping everywhere, but i wasnt expecting it to also involve this kind of brainwashing
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@whitequark i wonder if anything embarrassing happened in the falklands
@kouhai i thought it was embarrassing for argentina?
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@whitequark "Shipbuilding and coal mining declined"
Exactly *how* did that decline happen?
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"most" paramilitary groups in NI are inactive
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"most" paramilitary groups in NI are inactive
@whitequark What do I know about the life of Roald Dahl? More than I'd like to, thank you very much.
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@whitequark "for the most part" doing some very heavy lifting there.
