Napoleon's tactical errors leading to a ton of his skilled and valuable horse soldiers self inflicting and defeating themselves basically made it easy for wellington to triumph though he did enough to earn the w. That is just from memory 20 years ago when I read from Les Miserables, there is like a 100 page section--maybe 150 just on the battle of Waterloo which isn't that critically tied for the plot. Victor fucking Hugo, ladies and gentlemen.
Napoleon's defeat led to alliances across Europe for protection, which led to WW1, which guaranteed WW2 due to unsustainable concessions for Germans leading to Hitler's rise, which led to USA being gifted a churning economy almost undamaged and populace relatively unscarred by war compared to devastated Europe. Baby boom, relatively equal wealth distribution and a GI bill built the US might that is now imploding under it's own fetid weight of corruption and ignorance, as many empires fall to, but it's all pretty linear imo from Napoleon.
I remember learning a statistic in the early aughts that only 17% of US households were married man/woman married with child(ren), when so much of media and societal representation and expectations was based around norms from the 1950s or earlier. Society changed for real in the US mid century, and continued to evolve; single parents, adults with no children, skipping marriage, same sex and/or other sex/gender/orientation households, but the christian-facist propaganda kept up.
Just remember, something as basic as "what is a home or family group", the "standard" or "normal" is less than 1 out of 5. It's actually the exception! This applies elsewhere.
Don't discount imposter syndrome, it's powerful. We're all, mostly, normal.
Thank you for the link. I'd heard of "straight laced" but never straight edged: punk was a bit before my time and I was out off by the general punk aesthetics when I was younger, only to realize I would have gotten on famously with punks over politics and many other things.
Having read the wiki, it sounded reasonable until it got to no caffeine, hard stop.
The title was cut off for me too, "traditional relationship" was not visible until I opened and then looked above the text of the post. Probably an innocent question, they likely didn't look back at the title thinking it would be different and the text doesn't have the original question in it from the title so probably why they asked.
At least I can enjoy stupid corporate leaders lapping up the dogfood they're told to eat, except for the pain workers and real people suffer as a result of this yheft, trash and grift.
Apple isn't a marketing company? Wow, if anything I would say that singularly defines what has made them successful. They put out solidly mid hardware, but are the best marketers in tech and always were.
Yup. They also rewrote national broadband funding criteria so starlink would win most of the state contracts for funding. If the states are stupid enough to take it, the Elon Musk will own their citizens internet. Colorado just announced Starlink won half of all the contracts and Amazon the other half(I didn't even know Amazon provided Internet holy terrifying):
You may experience difficulty connecting to some web domains and your homepage has been preselected for you. Your monthly history will be reviewed and unpatriotic web usage will result in detainment or deportation.
It be turbulent if you were in Wyoming and trying to compete against the stable coin of say...California. wonder which one most investors would choose?
Getting nervous about the general public are we?
Sow:reap