I dressed up blackface once… I was eight or nine, and the whole family was dressing up as the star trek voyager crew, since that was airing at the time and we were huge trekkies. I got to be the coolest of the characters - Tuvok. I got to dress in black clothes with yellow shoulders, a spatula as a phaser and the tv-remote for a tricoder, and my dad put band-aids on my ears and darkened me with some shoe polish. I felt awesome. I was so cool. I got to do all the lines and be all vulcan and logical. Later, I understood it might’ve not been the most tasteful…

Just to underline what this comment is saying: this type of breakthrough was the wet dream of WW1. The race to the sea, where the western front was established, was based on finding a flank and turning it. That was the objective of most warfare up to that point, and it ended because they ran out of ground on which to turn a flank. Then they couldn’t meaningfully break through the defenses (or layers of, to be more accurate), like we see Ukraine doing in Kursk. If they turn the flank, they’ll have routing russians for days, and have achieved maneuver warfare again.

Yoy got it, no buying produce.

Well, you’re not exactly contributing to a world where that insecurity is eliminated. And besides, you’ll never win an emotional debate with rational arguments.

Found the sandwich speaker.

It is a factory belonging to SKF, a swedish company that produces bearings. Famous for supplying bearings for use in tanks by almost every major power during ww2, and supply to the german side was finally cut off when SKF told the allies that the entire stock was for sale to anyone who paid. I believe the last payment was made by the US 10-15 years ago, finally settling the debt.

Since the war, SKF has grown into a very large supplier of the highest quality bearings, and saying its a factory making parts for weapons is a bit narrow. Bearings are used in most things that have rotating parts, and SKF is large in a lot of markets that aren’t weapons. Their product catalogue is well over a thousand pages, for example.

I’m gonna admit to doing the reddit thing where I read the title and the comments and start to form an opinion.

Reading your comment, I thought Hmm, well, that doesn’t seem too unreasonable. Should a new partner in a separated-parents-scenario really have a claim on custody? Well, reading the actual article where same-sex couples get married and have children get the birth certificate retroactively changed to not include one of the parents is a whole different story.

Shameful, hateful shit. What the hell Italy.

Yeah, I’m with you. What the actual hell.