I don't trust the EU tech owners, but I recognize that they are at an disadvantage to the US counterpart (and nationalism is a useful tool to sell their product) so they won't be making overt moves to dismantle European democracy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

It’s really really really not up to trust! Imagine if bec of eu oligarchs thousands of folks died because said oligarchs refused to pay for peoples healthcare!

The one remaining guillotine in France would go around!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

So there really is one still in existence? So, like, if a prototype were needed ( just hypothetically speaking, of course), to build more, that could be done?

Asking for a friend. . . Of a friend.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, the things aren't arcane devices from a mythical age, they are pretty well documented if you wanted to build your own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

But they are not that simple, I remember reading that long ago people wrote they were amazed about how they were built, especially the portable ones

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm more in favour of the Mussolini approach. As in: what happened to Mussolini.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

How about when Spain voted out their fascist Prime Minister and put him in the Spanish space program:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Nah, we don't want (more) innocent people to die.

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