altasshet

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[–] altasshet 5 points 10 hours ago

The space French was one of my favorite details. Felt really convincing.

[–] altasshet 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure the photos from early space missions including Apollo were shot on film, not digital camera...

[–] altasshet 3 points 4 days ago

Ha, thanks for the correction.

[–] altasshet 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Swiss Guards are active duty Swiss military iirc. Deployng them could be... Problematic on many levels.

[–] altasshet 2 points 1 week ago

Except in this case you probably wouldn't even need to, because right wing views are somewhat of a prerequisite of the job.

[–] altasshet 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So what do they do with all the AFD sympathizers in the police?

[–] altasshet 5 points 1 week ago

Which is wild to me. Pushing through voter reform would win then the next election, and limit the damage when they inevitably fuck it up after that. But we can't have long term thinking, I guess.

[–] altasshet 3 points 1 week ago

But only if all they need is a knife.

[–] altasshet 1 points 1 week ago

It didn't exactly start out as alternate history per se, but I liked Charles Stross' Merchant princes series. He also recently added three new books to it and sorry of concluded it.

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[–] altasshet 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] altasshet 2 points 1 week ago

That was fast!

 
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The optimistic note of the last sentence of the abstract doesn't really survive reading the article...

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