Imagine the opening to Lord of War, but the assembly line passes through a portal into 1859… I could watch that movie.

They should totally do this, but sell the naming rights like a sports arena to the highest bidder.

The SoFi Holy Roman Empire, presented by Palantir

Doctor Who and Star Trek would be fun.

You can experience this in comic form, at least.

It’s not a pyramid! It’s a triangle!

How do we know for sure there are 3 million counting officials?

Who counts the counters?

deleted by creator

The Parker Jotter is a great pen, and Parker-style refills are very common, so finding new ink for it is quite easy.

Could’ve just went for Cesar salad too

Julius Caesar -> Title of Caesar -> Title of Kaiser -> An Italian guy named Cesare -> A salad made in Mexico

German who grew up in the 21st century here. The myth that eating lots of carrots will improve your eyesight/nightvision significantly is still more or less alive and well here.

As a millennial American, I was taught it as a child, and I’d estimate most people I know believe it to be true.

“Quick and painless, or slow and horrible?”

so we’re talking about 6 G€ here, or six gigaeuros.

I’m so behind this concept.

There are several non-nuclear fixed-wing carriers in service worldwide. France has three other carriers that are not nuclear, though they’re helicopter-only and therefore not considered by some to be in the same category.

“Louis, time to stop playing and come to dinner!”

That painting should be old enough to be in the public domain.

It wouldn’t be Getty’s first time stealing an image.

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

Actually, it’s *******

All asterisks?

But I was also taught that common decency is a good thing

Funny, I never saw it as a decency thing, more utilitarian. It’s a waste of effort to try to cram myself into an already occupied box (unless there are occupants staying in the box, of course).

We’re talking mostly 1970s, invented by boomers with too much money and free time

As XKCD once said, “An American tradition is anything that happened to a baby boomer twice.”

and a few randomly generated code numbers to just fuck things up in the database

Little Bobby Tables, we call him.

533.070 ⁰R for hipsters.