🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

Its weird, I want to work right now more than play video games... but at the same time I feel like I should take a break for a few hours or maybe ther est of the day...

@hans You are the second person today who has recomended that link. And for entierly different reasons.

@hans

Apparently holland existed (though was no independent) as early as 1083 (first written record). Just checked.

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@hans

As I understand it the Dutch were quite old by the 17th centruty.. By that point they already started recovering land from the water.

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@mxtthxw The number of borders means a hell of a lot less thant he length of it, especially relative tot he size of the country. The USA has **far** more exposed borders than most countries.

Besides one of those borders is with canada, and we all know they nuke the USA in a second if we even blinked :)

@hans

I'd be curious to take a closer look at how the borders might have changed between the Netherlands and Germany over the years. I know the Dutch were their own nation going back quite a ways at least, but I suspect the borders have moved quite a bit.

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@hans Late 1500s

@mxtthxw Gun ownership wouldnt effect civil war either way as both sides are on equal footing int hat regard. And the geography excuse seems weak to me, we have no huge natural varriers and have land routers on **both** sides that covers about 1/3 of the land mass of the world...

@mxtthxw

> I’m just not convinced by it.

History shows it pretty well.. i mean hitler aside the japanese even tried to invade us and never got past hawaii. In fact despite us starting wars left and right there has never been a single battle on US soil with a foreign entity... never. For a country as large as the USA and one that starts a lot of shit that alone is telling.

> I remember a podcast, a guy was saying the reason people are polite in America is because of guns. That was weird, I’m generally polite irl and it has nothing to do with firearms.

Its also nonsense... Guns are almost never on americans minds and outside of maybe texas you will rarely even find one. Not counting police I think I've seen 2 guns in my entire life prior to me buying guns..

Plus the idea that you'd need to be in the USA to understand... nah... there isnt anything all that gun like about america. In fact I never owned guns before going to europe, and more generally traveling. It was literally my time abroad and in europe that changed my mind on gun ownership.

@mxtthxw LArgely

Tons of factors... Mosst of it is simply how people are raised.. thats probably 80% of the work. The rest is a multitude of factors but the largest one that the govt has any control over would be excellent access to mental health care

@mur2501

No he didnt... They wouldnt be antiques for atleast 100 years.. So all he witnessed was some random rich people bling :)

@thor

@mxtthxw The very first post in this thread was this:

https://mxtthxw.art/@mxtthxw/111291265652618379

I think i did boost some meme, but you didnt respond to it so I had no idea you were referncing it. In fact your post didnt tag me and was top-level. So I assumed I was responding to something completely unrelated to me.

@mxtthxw

> And New Zealand bought in additional controls after a mass shooting…

They certainly did respond to a shooting by making people less safe under the guise of

> It’s an emotive subject which I typically don’t involve myself in but the meme you shared I found totally unconvincing (I know, it’s just a meme) from an outside perspective safety... and yes thats a different tangent.

What meme? As far as I can see you started this post not me, and I never posted a meme.

> the gun thing in the US is mad, given how many kids, innocent people etc. get shot.

Why would the very thing protecting the lives of the kids and reducing the number being shot be madening? Yes there is aviolence issue int he USA that needs addressing... As I've laid out with statistics many many times before, when you ban kids MORE people die, in huge numbers, with little or no benefit. So yes its madening when people say "Why dont you address the violence issue int he USA by taking away peoples ability to defend themselves, who cares that the statistics show it will actually cause hundreds of thousands to die"

@mur2501

Here ya go: https://qoto.org/@freemo/103231965588035697

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@mur2501

He was the baron of some region around a fairly major city I think.. hold on ill dig him up now.

@thor

@thor

My pedigree is of **no** value. I didnt even know it existed until I did my family history... ITs a novelty of history and maybe a cool story for my kids, thats its.

@mur2501