West Virginiaaaaaaa, golden dogggoooooo

Just Brodie would make sense too. There’s a long street called Brodie Lane in Austin, TX.

That covers the germs and steel. Where do the guns factor in?

Central and West Asians really aren’t ready to hear that.

I concede that despite not being alive when it was going on, I am just as guilty as everyone in the CIA that rigged elections and staged coups in South America. Everything I’ve come to know and understand in this lifetime is tainted by imperialism and is therefore invalid.

How to recover from this: hand one to the cashier.

The speech recognition software used by digital assistants that come with most modern smartphones would make it trivial to process the audio locally and map the output to your ad profile. Much lighter lift than sending audio recordings.

Modern aristocrats are also much more mobile than their ancien regime counterparts.

On a completely unrelated note, I wonder how far the FOSSCAD community has come with developing surface to air missiles.

Wow, I’m certain I would’ve done the same. Think I’d make myself a cheat sheet for Scotland and Wales when I get around to visit. Knowing that Cymru is pronounced “com-ree” gave me anxiety about butchering names there if ever I’ll need to ask for directions.

That’s exactly what I thought! I figured that if airport/airline staff there were paid as poorly as in the US (with modern cost of living considerations), maybe it’s more common than I thought at the time.

It bugs me a bit when people treat acceptable synonyms as foreign just because it’s not the word or within the range of words they would’ve chosen.

I had something similar happen getting off a plane at London Heathrow. I asked airport staff where I could find the restrooms and they replied with a slightly confused look, “do you mean toilet?”

As an American, it didn’t click for me until I visited London for the first time why names like Leicester and Gloucester were pronounced the way they are by Brits. My dumb American brain sees the names as Lei-cester and Glou-cester rather than Leice-ster and Glouce-ster.

Phantom Doctrine 2, there’s a store page for it on Steam but no updates on development status for years now.

The game ending on a cliffhanger was so disappointing.