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   Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:45:58 JST Stéphane Bortzmeyer

   There were memes before the Internet. The analysis of a chain letter in the USA in the 19th century.

   It was not a scam but a real fundraising system.

   Fun fact : the number of people that you "must" relay the letter to, increased when the photocopiers became common.

   #HIVI

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   Hugo 雨果 (whynothugo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 09:08:43 JST Hugo 雨果

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   @thelinuxEXP The US has toppled my home country’s government at least once. It’s also done massive economic damage to my partner’s country in recent years. It’s been at war with *some other country* almost continuously for over a century.

   It doesn’t matter if we don’t live in the US, whatever president they pick will definitely affect us.

   Or, as someone eloquently put it “we care about US leadership for the same reason that hostages care about their kidnapper’s mental health”.

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   HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 17:35:43 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

   in reply to

   @claralistensprechen3rd @Lassielmr @TheEconomist @GreenFire

   #UK #England #Scotland #Ireland #History

   (2/3)

   ... "United" in the literal sense only since exactly the start of the 19th century.

   It is good idea, though, to revisit this thought (I love the map below :) ), as there have been so many changes over the past milennia.
   "Historian Norman Davies has counted sixteen different states over the past 2,000 years.[1]"

   So, not only Wales, but also #Scotland...

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formation_of_the_United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Northern_Ireland#/media/File:Articles_of_Union.jpg