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InterestedParty
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@PartyInter45709 @mistasoiaf @childofrhaenyra @everayy @sultanerys is adaptation not synonymous with changing?
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Grrm on Daenerys being a white savior by the way, because it was never intended or written that way:
Brynden Rivers🩸🐦⬛@I3loodraven
some of you believe the white savior trope is just “a white person helps a poc” and it’s just wrong
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@mistasoiaf @childofrhaenyra @everayy @sultanerys >a good adaptation
>changing
That isn't how this works.
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@childofrhaenyra @everayy @sultanerys one of the things a good adaptation would do on expending and changing actually
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@Gabriel64869839 This would be a modern Black Arrow. We might never recover from a blunder of this magnitude. It is a terrible idea.
We would be throwing away several entire industries by cancelling GCAP. We would be permanently damaging several more. God no.
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UK should pull out of GCAP, painful as it is to say.
As gov is not willing to spend what it takes to keep Forces from functionally dying (because that is what they are effectively doing, capability by capability), can't afford to spend another 12 billions just for development.
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@Gabriel64869839 If I ever put all my money into Lockheed I will still be less obvious than this.
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@akihiro_95 @westerosies Yes, you are spot on! Although they will both be much older obviously.
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@westerosies Game of thrones fans correct me if i'm wrong, but the second picture are basically cannon in the books right ? Ser duncan become a Kingsguard for egg ?
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Dexter Sol Ansell via Instagram:
“4 years ago, I found this throne in London and my mum took a photo of me on it. Neither of us knew what it was. Little did we know years later I would be connected to it in a way we could never have imagined. 🥚👑”
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@YouGov Royal Navy, followed very closely by the RAF.
Then the army is following both a good 20 paces behind.
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@ferguson_r98773 @ross_baglin We will pay them back the day we crumble their empire, and not a second sooner.
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@ross_baglin We paid them back by not going to Vietnam.
Whatever got us to this position today is gone.
I also know the US Navy has had its own issues. Mighty as it is, if they need support, I would give it.
Highly trained Air Defence Destroyer crews will be needed.
Let’s get stuck in.
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For those with long memories of 1956, it is mildly amusing that the US is now begging Britain and France for help in unblocking what is, in effect, a shipping canal.
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@fauxfilosopher @mezonsartrepo @terminallyOL Fair enough in copying the man rather than the movie based on him, but I do not for a second believe it is a coincidence that Herbert stumbled into a chosen one, from a foreign and greener land, becoming the leader of a desert people. And Spice is just oil, cmon.
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@PartyInter45709 @mezonsartrepo @terminallyOL T.E. lawrence was a real person and chosen one narratives are as old as time. Largely coincidental.
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star wars fan talking about the cultural impact of dune
TaiSho 🇯🇲@Taishoja
Maybe but it will never have the cultural impact
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“The King of England should refuse to sign a bill”
Turning Point UK 🇬🇧@TPointUK
We call on King Charles III to do the right thing and refuse to sign the extremist full-term abortion bill into law. Only 1% of the public support it. This is a chance for the monarchy to show they stand with the British people against radicals. @RoyalFamily
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@mezonsartrepo @terminallyOL Dune was moreso influenced by sabers of paradise and herbert's own experiences with native americans and ecology although there's some lawrence of arabia in the mix too
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Not sure how to explain it to people overseas but UK summer has better vibes than anywhere else
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@Sheffiel1Antony @james_rogers Labour have a large majority, that doesn't entitle them to Amsterdam.
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@james_rogers And if a Cypriot president is elected with a pledge to renegotiate the terms of the treaty establishing their presence? To have the territory returned to them? Shouldn’t a British government respect (in that case) the clearly expressed wish of a sovereign republic?
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The are no British bases in Cyprus. There are sovereign British territories on the island of Cyprus.
Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall
Cyprus PM on future of British bases: “When this unfortunate situation in the Middle East is over, we need to have an open and frank conversation about the status and future of the British bases in Cyprus,”
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@JorgeAl86038271 @Defence_Index "Gens" aren't real, defined things. You must understand this.
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🇵🇱 BREAKING: Poland is moving to join the Global Combat Air Programme, a next gen 6th generation multi role fighter initiative led by Italy, Japan, and the UK.
Official talks are underway with Italian and Japanese aviation industries, signaling a major leap for the Polish Air Force.
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@navalhistorian @NavyLookout @CommonsDefence The MoD gains more influence in number 10 by the week, at least while global tensions keep rising.
I reckon they have a lot more wiggle room now than they did 4 months ago.
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@NavyLookout @CommonsDefence was effectively going to be best endeavours "we've just got to do the best we can with that lack of manoeuvre" was the precise wording. (11:46.55) parliamentlive.tv/event/index/e5…
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MoD to "move away" from the crippling annual budget cycle to 10-year plans.
If this is followed through (and funded) properly, it should mark a major improvement in the management of UK defence.
UK Defence Journal@UKDefJournal
The Ministry of Defence set out plans to move away from annual budgeting towards a 10-year Defence Investment Plan and a new procurement model, marking a significant change in how the department plans and delivers military capability. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/defence-shifts…
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@PartyInter45709 @yomiprof @Softnessa_ No, you dope! The French guy said "You Americans..."
Now, when was America 'established'? Stick to whatever your native shitbot language is. English isn't working for you.
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@yomiprof @Softnessa_ Since 1776? Do you think you were fighting the French?
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@Softnessa_ That French guy been holding that joke in his chest since 1776... man saw his moment and delivered it like a musket.
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@MeghansMole @MattSunRoyal When you require support you have to go get it. Look at Churchill.
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@MattSunRoyal I have never seen a leader from a country claiming to be at war travel so much to glad hand other people
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This is, I believe, the seventh time that King Charles has met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. I struggle to think of a world leader he has met as many times while King. Canada’s Mark Carney will be up there, but, interesting nevertheless…
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@_Joey_at @j_hyphen_p @stephen_taylor He was the Governor of the Bank of Canada, before the Bank of England.
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@j_hyphen_p @stephen_taylor I mean he was a British politician before he was a Canadian one. He was governor of the bank of England for years.
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@destlerlilt Maybe the dumbest asoiaf theory I've come across.
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also enjoy the idea of a "divine punishment" for upsurping a woman which could show a unique connection between female targaryens and the ability to hatch eggs.
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always find it interesting to think why dragon eggs stopped hatching.
my fav theory is that, during the sacking of the dragonpit, dragonkeepers scrolls were burnt and so ancient valyrian knowledge of how to prevent eggs turning into stone was lost.
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