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Aging Tommen up by like five years relative to the books made it a little better.

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Why does everybody in CA politics go on about people having to preserve water personally when only about 6% of the water in California is used for personal consumption?

Most of it seems to be used for growing fringe non-essential agricultural products like alfalfa and almonds.

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because I get all ze best ingredients

Victoria having fun with a mock German accent?

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As someone who's read several books that aggregated both Allied and German radio reports alongside what actually happened, it's mostly that both were overoptimistic in interpreting current events, but they weren't completely making stuff up.

Like, if Allied or German forces were pushed out of city X, the reports would be "Despite temporary setbacks, our forces are in a great position to recapture city X", but if that didn't happen in the next couple of days, they wouldn't outright lie and pretend that they took city X back.

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The British might have, but the French weren't going to. There was a very strong French-Polish relationship at the time.