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My thought simply put is: why not rebuild it as it was? Even if it isn’t literally the same floorboards, bricks or whatever, is it not basically the same building? Buildings are modified all the time and we don’t say they’ve lost their historic value because some original pieces of wood were...

This is it. I’m doing my laundry in the morning before work because during the daytime the machines are sometimes in use. I have about 20 minutes left before I have to pull everything out of the dryer. Pretty boring.

My standpoint is a likely biased, one that does not see how NATO presents a credible threat to Russia in the military sense—no one I know of would advocate an invasion of Russia, not only from the threat of nuclear weapons, but just: what is the point? I don’t see it in our Western interests to...

We get a lot of talk about smartphones and the dangers and what not, but do you remember what life was like before it? I do. I can’t say it was any better or worse because I wouldn’t have foreseen the changes, so what was there was just there and I didn’t put a lot of thought into it.

Primary season is kicking off soon and I thought it would be “fun” to have a thread where we go state by state and make our predictions for winners and percentages of votes. As stated in the title, this is not the place to discuss candidates or policies you like—we have a panoply of people...

I was reading about some Doge of Genoa that I picked at random from a list and I thought that as much or as little as we know about ourselves today, how much do you think will survive to the future? Think about your minor representatives, state governors, backbench MPs. Considered of importance...

U.S. Prez lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. UK PM lives at 10 Downing St. The Russian premier lives in the Kremlin. I don’t know what the address is. South Korea’s White House is the Blue House. Again, no idea about the address. But the rest, do you know their names or addresses? Japan’s is...

For me, I feel like many things can be broken up into my life, at least in a certain sense, between before 9/11 and after 9/11. Remember the Spice Girls? That to me has a distinct feeling of “oh, this is a before thing.” Same with Regis hosting Millionaire, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and...

Assume in some capacity greater than infrequent or use-in-passing. Sorry if the list is a little jumbled!

No, no, not insults against him. Joe Biden has this folksy, almost antiquated way of doling out the dabs on people and I thought for a fun exercise we could all try our hands at it. Have a go at it, you onion-peelin’ tree trimmers.

Please refrain from politics, sex, religion, etc. Add your own thing. Am I the only one who hates wall-mounted TVs? I just don’t like them. I always thought of the TV as, like they used to be, in a cabinet or some kind of console. Lots of people put them up on the wall and then have all this...

Everyone has their own motivations. What are your primary ones? I think I’d want to do it (if I did) because aside from the issues, I’d be somewhat motivated by the power and status attached to it.

It’s happened to you before!

Mario: • defends a reactionary government • has blonde girlfriend but never intimate • always wears a hat Sonic: • gotta go fast • collects golden rings • arch enemy has a big mustache and huge land army

I’d talk to a whale. Does he like plankton? Does he ever feel annoyed that he’s oily? Does he think he’s the king of the ocean? I feel like dolphins would be neurotic, sharks would be zealots, and general fish would be boring. Land animals? Maybe a koala. I expect them to be like Stephen...

Don’t be a nitpicker about the poll. I’m going triangle. Why? I don’t know. 3 sides, seems to work.

BACKSTORY: What if Napoleon had won? 1812: Napoleon's armies march on St. Petersburg and dictate terms to Czar Alexander I. 1814: The United States win a decisive war against Britain in North America, forcing a cession of Canada to the new republic. 1815: The humiliation of defeat in Europe...

I disagree. Some have argued on technical grounds that Greece did not exist because it was a collection of states, but I don’t think this technicality is sufficient to answer the question; Italy was ruled by the Romans, but we do not consider the modern nation of Italy to be a successor to...

Someone asks you: hey, how far away is x? Do you say the distance or time it takes to get there?

Around where I lived before, there was a Kentucky Fried Chicken that closed down and then became a car dealership. It’s obvious what it was from the shape of the building. How about the rest of you? What obvious and unusual building conversions have you seen?