Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Babel Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 19:48:08 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:48:09 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8a37abffa008efde9824de9a7639a102"; logging-data="3305506"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Pct8FCFjoQrVNoxGx1gnPOSGL5cAoens=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:kxaCuFpNVz80CxPiQLi41BVjJ94= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2121 On 3/27/2024 6:44 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote: > Tim Illingworth wrote: >> Cryptoengineer wrote: >>> Regardless of nigglined edge cases, the point remains. Russia has >>> been invaded many times in history, while the US mainland has not. > >> December 1814 not count? > > I think you mean August of that year. More recently there was an > invasion of Pennsylvania in June and July 1863. > > Some might also count January 2021. Is it an invasion of all > participants were US citizens? One person there was carrying the > flag of the nation (not US state) of Georgia, though he was probably > just confused. This is the first time I've noticed Keith posting in this group. He usually hangs out in r.a.sf.fandom, but that group makes this one look busy, and its recently been taken over by Dr Who fans and AI generated posts. I don't know if Keith's kill filing of me works on Endless September but he may need to update his killfile. pt