Swiss here, quick correction. Yes, we have the rifles in our attics and basements, but, generally, no ammo is given out. You get that at the armory when you go to mandatpry training or in case of emergency.

Which is probably why the last mass shooting was some 20 years back.

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This… what?

I’ve never heard of these Northern English pecularities. Fascinating.

Frank Abagnale would have a field day with that.

The iRobot series by Asimov. Going into Foundation now.

The math checks out.

Exactly the same. Usually standing up, but if it’s a really bad morning I sit down.

More often than not I also close the drain so it becomes a bath and suddenly I’m stewing in my own shame and regret.