It seems like you mean a post-scarcity society rather than a currencyless one. Sex work done to earn a living is still done to earn a living if it’s in a society that distributes goods and services in another way. I’d hope that the sex worker in question is getting personal fulfilment from it, but unless their basic needs are covered regardless then it seems foolishly optimistic to assume that it’s the case
yes, if I could do maths
strings are in base two, got it
Never mind the depths I was already on edge when I met the fucking crashfish
I suspect that this might be a tactic intended for the domestic audience. The current government is extremely unlikely to be in power a week from now, and might be doing this just to force the next government to either follow through or retract it
It’s actually in England, although funnily enough the part of England it’s in is called Cumbria, which has the same origin as the Welsh for Wales “Cymru”. So it’s sort of in Wales, just not the Wales that we call Wales in English.
Anyway it’s Old English torr, Middle Welsh penn, and Danish hoh. And like many British place names the pronunciation is not what you would expect at all at first glance. It’s “tra-pen-uh”
Apologies, I was using “NATO troops” as a shorthand for the large number of countries involved rather than the specific command structure. You are right to bring that up
The Korean War had over a million NATO troops and also tens of thousands of Soviet troops and, somehow, remained a proxy war. A particularly bloody one, but there was still no actual open full-scale warfare between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Even China and America remained officially at peace, despite making up the majority of the forces on each side
The British monarchy does have a relatively unique position in having been atop one of the world’s biggest economies for far longer uninterrupted than any other extant royal family. You’d expect them to have amassed more than other royals solely because they’ve had access to far more opportunities to do so. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they’ll have outpaced every other rich family in the UK, but I can see where the person above is coming from
The only way that what you’re saying makes sense is if you hold Cypriots liable for not pushing the UK off of the island completely. This is a ridiculous standard to place upon a colonised people, holding them responsible for the actions of their colonisers
So you’re blaming Cypriots for getting colonised?
How about you actually explain your thought process here rather than just continuing to leave sarcastic implications everywhere. Why, exactly, do you think that the country Cyprus is responsible for RAF Akrotiri?
jesus fucking christ the land that RAF Akrotiri is on is not and has never been part of the political entity that Hezbollah is issuing threats to here. It is not leased from the Cypriot government. There is no arrangement allowing Britain to run a base on Cypriot land. It is just not Cypriot land. You are doing the equivalent of blaming Morocco for something Spain does in Melilla, or blaming Spain for something Britain does in Gibraltar.
RAF Akrotiri is not in the country of Cyprus, it does not explain why Cyprus the country would be a target
Right, but… still not in Cyprus. And this entire thread started off as a question about why Hezbollah would view Cyprus as a target
Because it’s a list of “bases owned or used by the United States Armed Forces”. But that doesn’t change the fact that, as I said in my other comment, those bases are not in the country of Cyprus
Akrotiri and Dhekelia are British, not American, although American units are based there. More pertinently though, they’re not part of the country of Cyprus. They’re British overseas territories on the same island.
I’m more or less defaulting to kbin.earth now. It’s a shame to see the original fall apart, but the idea and foundation are being carried on. I hope Ernest is doing alright
There’s also the simple fact that there’s almost nowhere for the SNP to go but down. Virtually any result would be a loss for them because there are so few seats that they could have but currently don’t. All the drama with the end of Sturgeon’s tenure and Yousaf’s brief leadership will not help them either (plus, of course, just the loss of Sturgeon as a very effective politician).
They do have a ridiculous proportion of Scotland’s seats right now, though. They won those seats completely fair and square, but FPTP makes them unbelievably overrepresented compared to their actual vote share. It’s a shame that they’re the biggest party that wants to actually do something about that
While I agree with you that I don’t think OP has correctly described what they’re actually thinking about, there is plenty of sex work that doesn’t involve actually having physical sex with anyone. Like a solo porn model, or erotic dancers