Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 24, 2025, 10:38:03 AMQuote from: Josquius on December 24, 2025, 04:12:09 AMA billion is not 1000 million but a million million.
Hillary or Sav, tell me what this means. I thought he wanted to change the meaning of "billion" from 1,000,000,000 to 10,000,000,000.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on December 20, 2025, 05:30:20 AMNot even the few seconds of gameplay that the Total Warhammer 40k trailer had.Not much, only the campaign map really:
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on December 23, 2025, 11:38:30 AMI think we need to create powerful trade unions and join socialist parties; perhaps some of the more exuberant can become anarchists![]()
Perhaps a Temperance League? But I don't like the sound of that as drink provides some solace from the pain of having malignant half-wits in charge![]()
Eugene Debs almost made a viable third party candidate until Ross Perot came along and actually split the GOP vote.
Early unionisation in Norway was clearly inspired by guest workers returning from the United States. My maternal great grandfather was, well, suspiciously into both temperance and anarcho-syndicalism, but could not see why his daughters needed an education.
Back in my early teens, I picked up a lot of Jack London novels from the library. One of them was "The Iron Heel". I sort of scoffed at it, it was preachy, and unlike London's novels from Alaska, not very believable. In the 1980s, that is. People would use Marxist analysis during conversations? Riiight.
I did re-read it, and it is still rather rubbish. And so is almost any literature coming from the United States these days.
Stop the pessimism, we will get through this, your European cousins are here for both the UK and the USA.

Quote from: Syt on December 24, 2025, 11:29:13 AMIn German you go:
Million 1 000 000
Milliarde 1 000 000 000
Billion 1 000 000 000 000
Billiarde 1 000 000 000 000 000
etc.

Quote from: Josquius on December 24, 2025, 04:12:09 AMA proposal - the English language should switch back to traditional long form billions.
A billion is not 1000 million but a million million.
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