In general, the borders between premodern polities were often rather fuzzy outside of natural geographic boundaries - and the occasional man-made one like the Great Wall of China - but under the circumstances the HRE feels *especially* bad for this.

So I googled it and the answer is pretty cool actually.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy birthday!

That is also very true — some of the same arguments are circulating here in Europe.

Right, yes. I think I knew about all of those in isolation, but thanks for putting it together.

Why Japan?

"Used to be" is, in theory, an important distinction to make. In this context, it's extremely suspicious that they didn't redact his name.

I think a lot of *ideologically* anti-advertising people just spend too much time on the Internet and thus associate advertising with spam, malware, and intrusive audio/video.

I don't know that you really can separate technology from the context it's created in. Science doesn't just happen in a vacuum - there's a social, economic, cultural, and political context to what gets funded and pursued.

Fortress?