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True. I should’ve added: “Without significant foreign support”.

Like no shit, if neighboring countries provides weapons, training and even manpower then it’s hardly considered an uprising, is it? More like a proxy war.

That covers Vietnam, Cambodia and Syria. The latter was literally just a gigantic proxy war. Like look at this shit, this is not a popular uprising:

Don’t know enough about Iraq, but in Afghanistan the military did jack shit against the Taliban and in Myanmar the military was the one rebelling.

Every single uprising hinged on:

• Who is supported by the country’s own military?
• Who is supported by foreign nation’s militaries and to which extent?

None of them depended on the popular opinion of civilians.

East Germany 1953, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, China 1989.

It does not cause any long-lasting unrest. Crushing protests with tanks is extremely effective and has always worked if the military was called upon and willing.

Full control of everything? It would take at most around 1000 soldiers on the ground to siege a modern a city - shut down water, electricity and close the highways - and you’ll regain control. People don’t like to live without food and water.

Plus no country cares what you do to your own population beyond strongly worded letters and maybe some targeted sanctions against like 3 entities.

They don’t need to kill the entire workforce. People generally don’t want to die, so you only need to kill a small fraction to terrorize the rest into submitting.

This has worked for pretty much every single uprising since WW2. Just send in the tanks. Only when the military refused were uprisings successful.

The military today is able to kill nearly the entire population within days. That’s pretty much it.

As long as the military is not on your side, you will lose badly. And as long as the soldiers don’t suffer, they will support the status quo because they have something to lose.

That’s not 4k, it’s 2400 by 1500. More like WQHD version.

Sieben Vereinigte Niederlande?? Wieso so viele??? Reicht euch nicht ein einziges?

But why would I use third-person pronouns when interacting with you?

I think we’re referring to different words. Look at the text in the back (which is apparently called “blurb”) - the p is not closed and if it were closed, it would be way too “big”.

You are right about the x having become a k on the front though, I didn’t spot that.

That doesn’t explain the wonky looking p in the word “exploring” though.

Also I’m fairly certain you live in Germany which means it’s 4 am when you replied. Go to sleep!

AI slop? The text looks a bit wonky and the ISBN is invalid. It’s either 978-0220331132 or 978-0220331432, I can’t really tell but neither is valid. Besides, the last digit looks like it’s about to fall off.

But still, the book’s physical condition itself looks realistic. Look at the bottom left corner or the spine for example, there are lots of tiny defects a real book would have. So the image and therefore the cover must both be real.

Yet look at the ridges on the spine! You can’t (easily) achieve this with regular printing paper. It has to be a real paper book cover. But there’s no way anyone would AI generate the fucking ISBN bar code and sell it like this, is there? After all, I can’t see any pages either though which indicates the cover is standalone.

I’m confused.

I’m not really relevant to your interaction but I thought it was a little cute. Not tactful, but the spirit was there.

If I wanted to write a similar message like yours, I’d probably have done it like this:

Let’s say I were to call you a “bitch”. What would your purely hypothetical response be? 🥺

That’s:

• less direct
• playful (“If I were to insult you” is a very fun way to tease AND pretend to be an innocent little angel)
• probing the water to see if they’re interested

At least in my opinion. I’m terrible at flirting though so you may want to evaluate this yourself.

That’s about as lewd as writing a song titled “Fuck off” tbh

Especially when referring to the person dominating you, that’s bound to result in some fun >:3

So does every number:

6.000000…

Quoting, parodies etc. is explicitly regulated and very tightly regulated. I can only speak for Germany here, other EU countries have different laws but I know they tend to be on the strict side as well.

For example, parodies must explicitly comment on the original work to be permitted. Modifying the lyrics in a funny way alone is not enough to be a parody.

Same with quotes: They are only permitted if they serve a scientific, informative or analytical purpose. Quotes for illustration purposes or entertainment are explicitly not permitted.

In 2021, “pastiches” were legalized which allows for some entertainment use of derivative copyrighted works but there is no legal precedent yet that defines their scope.

Fair use is a US-only concept. Western EU countries tend to have much stricter copyright laws.

Balls objectively suck, way too sensitive things. Also testicular torsion is a thing.

But urinary tract infection prevention tubes are fucking awesome! Like I’ve heard women (or unpenised individuals more broadly speaking) can get them from sitting on a cold surface for too long??? That’s so awful, I’d be WAY too unfit to stand around an hour for my delayed train in winter.

Aren’t all gloves unisex? What would even be the difference? I guess size but that feels a bit artificial considering there is a lot of overlap.