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Long-standing Roman meme joke treating Germans, Germanics, barbarians, Celts, etc, as 'dirty words'.

The artist draws G*rmanics as elves because ~~it's cute~~ they're both dirty forest creatures

I'll keep an eye out for them going forward!

Tried to grab a pervitin pill with his mittens to stay awake, couldn't grab just one, so he just downed a handful, figuring it wouldn't be THAT big a deal.

Man took 30 pills, his entire's squads allocation, and completely blacked out. No memory of his journey, just operating on meth.

This is the kind of meme analysis I love NCD for

The president: "MARTIAL LAW"

The military, coming out in full kit: "Uh, civilian control of the military. Guess we can't refuse."

The legislature: "UNMARTIAL LAW"

The military, packing up: "Civilian control of the military. We can't refuse."

Explanation: The Romans in the Late Empire often seemed to have trouble mustering the forces to combat barbarian incursions, but curiously always seemed ready to rumble for the Imperial title...

Limitanei were border patrol troops instituted late in the Empire, after the decline of the Roman Legions, The Roman Legions were professional and served limited terms. Limitanei, on the other hand, were often poorly trained and equipped (and poorly compensated), conscripted for life. For obvious reasons, this was not a popular job, so a large number of prospective recruits would cut off one of their thumbs to make themselves unsuitable for conscription - something which would become so widespread that the death penalty was imposed for doing so intentionally.

'Scout equites' are a unit from the game Total War: Atilla, and while they are only of marginal historicity (ie only insofar as Roman units included scouts who were mounted), they're part of every garrison, and the only troop worth a good goddamn when the barbarians come knocking, lmao.

Explanation: The Romans in the Late Empire often seemed to have trouble mustering the forces to combat barbarian incursions, but curiously always seemed ready to rumble for the Imperial title...

Limitanei were border patrol troops who were often poorly trained and equipped (and poorly compensated), conscripted for life. For obvious reasons, this was not a popular job, so a large number of prospective recruits would cut off one of their thumbs to make themselves unsuitable for conscription - something which would become so widespread that the death penalty was imposed for doing so intentionally.

'Scout equites' are a unit from the game Total War: Atilla, and while they are only of marginal historicity (ie only insofar as Roman units included scouts who were mounted), they're part of every garrison, and the only troop worth a good goddamn when the barbarians come knocking, lmao.

Traitorous fuck can't stop thinking about how to serve his paymaster, Putin.

Metal limbs were a relatively late invention. 14th century, I think. Cranequins and windlasses weren't integral, but invented around the same time/15th century.

The crossbow at its inception in the late 10th and 11th century didn't even have a stirrup to put one's foot in - it was spanned from a sitting position, which severely limits draw weight. The invention of the stirrup and rolling-nut - of belt hooks, pulley systems, and then the goatsfoot lever - allowed wooden (and later, composite) limb crossbows to be made with ever-greater draw weights that enabled them to move from a bit-player in sieges and the hands of specialists to the professional military weapon of Frankish Europe. By the 15th and 16th centuries, you're looking at a weapon that has sights, a modern trigger system, refined locks, a shoulder stock, etc etc etc.

EDIT: Look at these poor sons of bitches loading!

It depends on your local police department, honestly.

People are products of their environment. If the local police are decent, your brother-in-law may actually be a good fit. If the local police are shit (ie the average in the US), then your brother-in-law will either become fired, immensely stressed, or shit just like them.

We relate a lot of stories about bad cops, and Lemmy isn't the most military-friendly place, but one thing I constantly see repeated by veterans, both those with and without police experience, is how baffling the utter lack of discipline and oversight in US police is. Pointing out that RoE are looser for cops than infantry in active combat zones is common.

In Northern Ireland he supported "mixed" (i.e., Catholic and Protestant) child education. In 1991, he gave £8m to the Integrated Education Fund,[20] a grant-making charitable body which aims "to make integration, not separation, the norm in our education system".[21] Queens University Belfast also received grants of more than £100m,[20] for capital projects, child education and medical research.[22]

More controversially, Feeney gave substantial personal donations to Sinn Féin, a left-wing Irish nationalist party that has been historically associated with the IRA.[14] Following the IRA ceasefire in 1994, he funded the party's office in Washington D.C.[20]

Feeney supported the modernization of public-health structures in Vietnam,[18] AIDS clinics in South Africa, Operation Smile's free surgeries for children with cleft lips and palates, earthquake relief in Haiti, and the UCSF Medical Center at the University of California at San Francisco.[8]

Jim Dwyer wrote in The New York Times that none of the one thousand buildings on five continents that were built with Feeney's gifts of $2.7 billion bear his name.[1]

On September 14, 2020, Feeney closed down the Atlantic Philanthropies after the non-profit accomplished its mission of giving away all of its money by 2020.[25]

Immensely based