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DnD Central / Re: The Republic and Democracy
Many or perhaps most materials still aren't digitized. But some random edition from 1901 holds no interest unless you're specifically researching editions of Vondel's works. I already have a random edition from 1937 right here in the house if I just want to read the text. To be able to perform a quick breakfast or before sleep investigation into what such editions may have looked like through the years is a marvel. It may have taken weeks even just a couple of decades ago, and was thus effectively impossible for pretty much anyone not a professional scholar[1] or in the leisure class.
1 Their main purpose of travel would almost certainly be something more important, but they might do something like that as a side project while they're there.↵
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DnD Central / Re: The twits on Twitter
The only thing we ever begged (read: lobbied) for was to please let us help Ukraine more. It took a very long time to get America to allow us to do so. All of those F16 fighter jets could have been there a lot earlier.
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DnD Central / Re: The Republic and Democracy
Quote from: ersi on
They went to school in 1970s and 1980s.
I went to elementary/primary school in the '90s and high/secondary school in the 2000s. They made a not half bad attempt to teach us how to interact critically with primary sources. I'm not sure if or to what extent they did that in decades prior. Though the national half-myth stuff is really more elementary school.

And yes, mine was happy too.

Quote from: ersi on
By the way, I found a gorgeous edition of the play https://objects.library.uu.nl/reader/index.php?obj=1874-297393&lan=en
Yes, I definitely adore this part of living now and not fifty years ago.
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DnD Central / Re: The Republic and Democracy
Quote from: ersi on
Either it became common knowledge later or they forgot their school curriculum.
Liever dood dan slaaf[1] is one of those phrases a bit like schild en vriend or alea iacta est, if decidedly less famous than either one of those. For us it's one of the more famous military defeats that are probably a bit less impressive if you think about it too hard,[2] for them it's a source of pride.

It was definitely common knowledge in the '50s and '60s. I checked with my parents.
2 Also compare the pride we feel for the Battle of Vlaardingen, probably little more than effectively luring the emperor's army into a swamp — not that there's anything wrong with that. Next you'll tell me your correspondents don't know about Holland's founding battle. :)↵
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DnD Central / Re: The Republic and Democracy
I disagree with the people you talked to, unless we are talking extremely specifically about detailed facts relating to "the Dithmarschen Republic (1227-1559)" as opposed to Frisia consisting of a swath of republics, longer in the east than in the west.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friese_Vrijheid
Quote from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisian_freedom
For most of its history, Frisian self-governance was maintained in East Frisia, between the Weser and Lauwers rivers.[1] Meanwhile, parts of West Frisia periodically fell under the feudal occupation of the County of Holland.[10] During the Friso-Hollandic Wars, the concept of Frisian freedom was used to mobilise armed resistance to feudalisation attempts by the counts of Holland.[11]
That is, crudely summarized, general knowledge.

The Friso-Hollandic wars are also the subject of one of the most famous historical plays, but that time the Frisians got the upper hand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gijsbrecht_van_Aemstel_(play)
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DnD Central / Re: The Russian Invasion of The Ukraine --- Is War on the Horizon?
Eutelsat is ready to take over from Starlink if need be, but as everybody knows it has both higher latency (25 ms vs 70 ms) and lower overall throughput. But the biggest issue is that Ukraine has 42k Starlink antennas and only a few thousand OneWeb ones.
Quote from: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/08/als-elon-musk-starlink-uitschakelt-voor-oekraine-is-er-dan-een-alternatief-het-franse-eutelsat-zegt-klaar-te-staan-maar-heeft-wel-wat-nadelen-a4885684
“We don't make our own antennas but there are a number of suppliers. We are in talks with them about increasing the production. We also have a few thousand terminals ourselves in stock and are now looking at how we can get them into Ukraine as soon as possible get them there.” According to Berneke, replenishing up to tens of thousands of antennas would take months, “but tripling them can be done in as little as weeks.”
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DnD Central / Re: Canada
I'm not sure if they do models differently in America, but quoting from the model people:
Quote from: https://www.cpb.nl/modellen
Models cannot be used as a prediction machine. Models are simplified by definition, meaning that they always exclude certain data and relationships, even when they may be relevant in reality. Also, the results of a model depend on what you put into it. In addition, models are generally less reliable in crisis situations and major policy changes. Most models are calibrated to data from the past and thus are mainly suitable for normal cyclical fluctuations and limited adjustments to current policies.
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DnD Central / Re: Nonsense from the West over Ukraine
Quote from: ersi on
It's easy to tell that you did not. Here's the headline from Fox News of all things, Ukraine ambassador's reaction to fiery Trump-Zelenskyy Oval Office clash goes viral.
It's worth noting that Fox News the website is a half decent newspaper.[1] It has fairly little in common with Fox News the TV channel.

Quote from: OakdaleFTL on
If Zelensky won't negotiate with Putin
Even ignoring all that which happened prior to Zelensky taking office, what Zelensky clearly stated is that he himself already did so in 2019, and that didn't avoid the attempted blitzkrieg invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It's not Zelensky's fault that such an agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on.
1 Or whatever you want to call it. My point is it operates like print media, which means it has certain journalistic standards.↵
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DnD Central / Re: Nonsense from the West over Ukraine
That makes more sense as an objection, although I think it's phrased in a strange manner.[1] From what I've seen he emphasizes pro-Ukrainian sources and he mostly draws pro-Ukrainian conclusions.
1 Liberal.↵
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DnD Central / Re: Nonsense from the West over Ukraine
While apparently part of the EU is somehow still busy being surprised by Trump's unsurprising behavior,[1] Turkey's just swept in to emphasize their unwavering support for Ukrainian sovereignty and NATO membership.
1 Granted, I'm also surprised that he seems to have switched sides rather than just pulled support, but ultimately that makes little difference.↵