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Made exactly the same experience. Dumped the map plugin and using memories now, to geo tag and re-import photos to my existing local photo manager. I might even transfer the whole bunch of photos¹ from local storage to NC. Which will be a good reason to get rid of all tha external drive and SAN-based crap in the house and replace it by fiber and a proper NAS.

¹ 20+ years worth of them, I basically shut down my darkroom and analog lab when digicams became available to common mortals. The bastards who stole my Minolta, my Fujica and the case with most of my lenses, flashes etc. made the decision to go digital a lot easier for me.

Finally an excuse to buy these nice but somewhat pricey (actually more like fucking expensive) Italian guitar strings.

First of all we were talking about parlamentary immunity which is quite different. Secondarily if diplomatic immunity weren’t, diplomacy would be dead. But, I guess you don’t need diplomacy, so it’s a bad thing, anyway.

Would you mind to elaborate? That fact that you think something was “terrible” is not an argument. I think, you don’t really have an idea how immunity actually works. It’s not synonymous to “impunity”.

Is there no immunity of parlamentarians in the US? Not a rhetoric question, I just don’t know.

If I’d believe in god I’d hope he’d throw some brain at you.

Nonsense. You seem to think the USA is everywhere and you don’t understand the difference between states and individuals. Trump has zero authority in Vatican state. The pope does not leave Vatican state and “go home” anywhere. Not ever, except for official visits. Trump can fuck wall outlets or squirrels but he has absolutely no viable way to screw with the pope - he can’t even threat to sanction the Vatican as he did with Sweden and whoever else, because the do not export anything. He can’t freeze his payments because he literally owns nothing. Right: the pope does not recieve a salary and does not have any personal belongings. He doesn’t need to pay for anything (there are people in his entourage who will do that for him) he does not need to own something, the Vatican will provide anything the pope requires.

Sounds like herecy to me. Oh, wait they’re protestants - they actually are heretics. Religion is a funny thing to watch from the ouitside.

Beauty comes from the inside.

Trump putting pressure on the pontifex maximus? I’m not a catholic but I’d say that might be somewhat difficult but certainly interesting. You are aware that the pope is head of his own state and doesn’t give a fuck about American legislation or sanctions? The US can’t even invade Vatican State without triggering article 5 of the NATO manifesto which might cause even more interesting political turbulences. Specifically with the more strictly catholic NATO members first of all, obviously, Italy.

As an atheist I don’t really have a horse in that race but I can’t help remarking that these “christian” Americans sound a lot like the bad kind of satanists to me. Usually I am finding satanists quite amusing as they tend to piss off the orther zealots, but these guys are just disgusting. The worst about them is that they might actually believe the shit they are talking.

The whole vanity publishing industry works like that. Yes, there is such an industry. There’s a highly accurate, slightly satiric and utterly confusing book about it, named “Il pendolo de Foucault” by Umberto Eco. (Probably something like “Foucault’s Pendulum” in English). If it weren’t that excessively long and the plot less complex I’d highly recommend it.

In Soviet America the crackpots will hospitalize you.

Partially here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero Note the contradictions between his alleged reasons to light up the city and that they’re all based on hearsay and not too convincing while the only fact-based argument states he wasn’t even in town when the fire started.

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Fotzenfritz is an ultra-reactionary, revisionist, eight-winged concretehead. He can’t say “nazi” without mentioning the communists were just as bad, he can’t condemn a right extremist terror action without mentioning imaginary left-extremists hiding behind every corner. You can find this rhetoric in literally every sentence he says about political extremes. Merz is not half as moderate as he claims but a notorious nazi apologist and anti-democrat.

Fake news. Nero did not burn Rome. Nor was he actually crazy or fanatically prosecuting Christians. Nero was mostly smeared by his successor’s family who also happened to have him assassinated and needed at least nominal justification for their coup d’etat. Not even they caimed, however, that Nero set the city on fire. This urban legend mostly was spread by 1950s Hollywood dramatizations of “history”.