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Okay, point of thought: According to Star Trek, future clothes pretty much all look like pajamas. What if 2020 is the year that happened - because quarantine?

Right-Wingers in 2016: "We're not facsists, that's hyperbolic nonsense!" Right-Wingers in 2020: "If you didn't want to be abducted by the secret police, you shouldn't have been outside with different thoughts than me."

Tor - Terry Pratchett's The Watch to debut on BBC in January

To be fair, things like India wasn't even a government decision. Hell, as far as personal correspondence at the time has shown, the actual people in government were rather annoyed with the East India Company about that whole thing. Then they just had to run with the ball or it would have been a very bad job indeed.

For that dose of around the world... Hong Kong Media Mogul "held" over alleged foreign collusion under new national security law

MindCircle - The Bridge Tunnel that connects Denmark with Sweden

Because we were just that damned good at it. Mad dogs and Englishmen, wot?

History Department Recruiter: "You there! Do you like historical fiction? Period dramas? Historically themed films, tv shows, and video games?" Prospective Student: "Yes!" History Department Recruiter: "Would you like not to?"

To add further thoughts for the discussion from a random internet quote..

34 Years Ago, this day in America...

Since the film came out 34 years ago today...

"Don't worry I got a good look at the bomb." "So you can disarm it?" "Uh.. No. However, I can make a shaped charge that will blow it." "..... Wait. Your plan is to... blow up the nuclear bomb?" "If I do it right, we'll get a run of the mill explosion. Not the whole, you know, mushroom cloud thing."

I quite enjoy the female Agent's maniacal giggle when you stab people. There's something immensely entertaining about it.

Happy Birthday!