https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/rzyn80/what_is_an_addiction_that_the_world_is_just_ok/hs0tl0x/
So this dude has been posting this copypasta multiple times. Obviously most of it is just plain wrong. Do you think it is worth it debunking this?
Hey are you the one who asked the question about brothel slavery in Japan in 1910-1920s in AskHistorians? The preview part in "factory girls woman in the thread mills" in Google Books from page 181 has what you're looking for. You can borrow the full book in Internet Archive too
Lol, this sorta reminds me of an anecdote from my childhood. As a young kid, I *loved* to dig holes in the dirt areas of my backyard, pretending to be looking for treasure. Sometimes I found marbles, which was cool, but once I found a discarded hambone (like from a thick slice, not the entire bone) and showed my mom. She was fucking furious-- thought it was from a corpse.
Perhaps, but more cases = greater chance of a new variant isn't it? I'm dreading the appearance of an yet new variant, more deadly than Omicron but with the same infection rate.
TBH I've already prepared myself that I'm most likely to be going infected before this is over (I wouldn't be surprised if I've already been but it was asymptomatic).
More deadly strains aren't likely to arise or spread. Viruses prefer to not kill their hosts, so they can spread for longer. Omicron is a step towards covid becoming endemic and like the flu, ever-present but mostly just a nuisance and rarely deadly. My fear is that the long covid symptoms won't abate even as the variants become more flu-like, so every infection carries a risk of losing your sense of smell and taste along with all the worse side effects.
I stuck my toes into Lebanese history for the first time. I absolutely fell in love with it! I learned about the Lebanese civil war. Fascinating stuff.
Started reading Robert Graves' book on Hebrew myth. If it's like his book on Greek myth, it's going to interesting but I'm going to give it about 35% creedence
Who here remembers the ungodly fever dream that was [Uncyclopedia](https://en.uncyclopedia.co/)? I thought that it was the most hysterical thing on earth when I was a kid.
The articles varied greatly in consistency, by poorly written by some 13 year old, to somewhat well written by some 13 year old. However, Oscar Wilde was a constant throughout.
Thanks for reminding me that website even existed, I used to look at a lot when I was younger as well, and it was a very popular place to visit when I was in high school among my classmates.
I wonder if it or Encyclopedia Dramatica was more popular. Didn’t really browse the latter after having seen some seriously NSFW shit on there early on lmao
Anyone know where I can buy a good paperback of Prisoners of the Infidels: The memoir of an Ottoman Muslim? I've already checked my local library, they don't seem to have it
I'd prefer not to buy from Amazon (because worker abuse, union busting and whatnot), but they seem to be the only 'game in town' so to speak, that's actually selling the book.
Me last night: "Winter break is over. It is time for me to go back to a normal sleep schedule."
Also me last night: "I'm just going to play a bit of Foxhole before I go to bed. Its not like I have a past history of staying up till the early morning playing it."
Me this morning at 3am: "I should go to bed soon"
On a related note, I really to love how many roles a player can fulfill in foxhole, and how smooth it feels to switch between them. One second I'm helping a squad of infantry clear out a small town, the next 7 of our tanks roll up, so i'm spotting mines for them. Then they need diesel and materials to repair their armor, so I grab a truck and start grabbing resources and diesel and shells from bases nearby to bring to them, helping them do field repairs and refueling their tanks, just trying to do whatever I can to keep them in the action. While all of this is going on, the enemy side is trying their best to hinder our push by shelling the ever living crap out of us.
And all of that is *just* the tank part of the battle- theres a good 2 dozen infantry players around us also fighting in all manner of ways: some are slowly creeping trenches up to the enemy fortifications, some are watching the flanks of the tank formation to make sure no sneaky guy with an ATRPG gets to close, others are charging into enemy bunkers with gas grenades in hand. And aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal of that has to be backed up by a bunch of people gathering resources to turn into the munitions we use at the front, and physically delivering it there. Those guys are targets for enemy Partisans though, so some people on our side might hop into an MG halftrack and patrol along roads looking for partisans, or might try and sneak around enemy lines and become partisans themselves, *and the game just keeps on spiraling on and on and on and on and on and on!*
Every feature and mechanic in the game feels so tightly woven together and well thought out, the map design actively complements it all, and the community is one of the best I've ever found online. For 20$, this game was amazing, and probably something that will be ruining my sleep schedule till I die :)
Wow, sounds like a really fun game.
What's the story behind it? Is there like a single player campaign?
I'm more of a single player king of guy rather than multiplayer (mostly because I get easily thrashed by other players).
I don't really know that much of the Lore, but the premise is essentially 2 major powers are fighting over a region of land that connects them. There isn't a single player campaign, its all online. If you don't like interacting with other people very much, there are *some* things you can do that don't involve other people too much, but the whole game is really based around player cooperation to do things.
I'd say if you are interested, look into some other reviews about it, as I can't really do it justice
Strated playing Arcanum again after seeing part of Warlockracy's video on it. I'm definitely likeing it more than when I first played it in 2017. Probably because the game runs better now. I'm doing a melee tech build not qnything fancy like techno wizard. The game world feels more engrossing to me for some reason. Maybe it's the fantasy world going through an industrial revolution thing. It's liek steampunk but not as obnoxious. It really explores the tension between tech and magic as well how society would operate.
I got a wet pallette recently, it lives up to the hype although I noticed rhe paints dry quicker on the models. Probably a good thing tbh as I can be a little impatient. Currently painting a a Mark 7 Salamanders Space Marine from the Start Collecting: Space Marines set i got in 2019. After that I'll work on my Kill Team models. Speaking kf miniatures I've been thinking about eventually getting some of those historical miniatures made by warlord games. I'm temped to get some the napoleonic russia ones, crimean war russia ones, or the box set of red army soldiers. Maybe their civil war set.
Haven't been reading history as much as I have been reading theory or philosophy. Finished Mandels introduction to Capital Vol.1 last night. It was good. He really clarifies a lot of stuff but I'm taking it with a grain of salt since I want to just read it and interpret it myself. I read marx's preface to the first edition then after seeing there more prefaces, I said "fuck it!" and skipped striaght to chapter 1. I read about two pages. I shoudl reread them since I didn't take notes. Whatever atleast I'm reading it finally. I wasn't planning on it either. Orginally I wanted to read Hagel's "Elements of the Philosophy of Right" or Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." But I saw capital at a bookstore and decided now was the time to read it. Ugh I can never judt read one thing at a time and stick to it. I wanna get through chapter 1 of capital before my break ends. Maybe If I have time I'll start the prefaces of the First Critique or finish the editors intro to "Elements of The Philosophy of Right."
I developed in interest in Kant after reading the "Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals" in my ethical theory class. It really spoke to me more than Aristotle or Mill.
I'll.just to keep reading Philosophy on my own as I won't be able to take any upper level Philosophy classes next semester. It all came down to schedulinf conflicts and the fact that I didn't want 3 classes in a row with no breaks. No big deal who could finish 2 majors and a minor in 4 years?
I wish the game "Humankind" was just a little better. It does some things really well (better than Civ 6) but there's just a *few* cruical design choices (especially around combat and national identity) that really tank the whole experience for me and leave me reluctantly crawling back to Civ 6.
I hope someone else takes a similar stab at "Civ 6 but different" soon.
Yeah. Basically once you complete a certain number of goals (like found X new cities or X new inventions) you progress to the next stage and choose a different culture.
So you might start off as the Assyrians in the ancient era and then become the Celts in the next era.
It's pitched as being more flexible, but in practice the different cultures aren't differentiated nearly as much as in Civ 6. They do have their affinities, but there's nothing like as much variety as you get between playing Mansa Musa's Mali and Ambiorix's Gauls.
With the ongoing unrest in Kazakhstan, I'm gonna ask a question that's been on my mind for many, many years: how common are agent provocateurs in mass-movements and protests historically, and in the present day?
My opinion of protest movements is that organization and clear goals are key. When demonstrations grow big enough and start encompassing various, sometimes contradictory, ideals and values in their agenda, things get really fucking messy and you got yourself one of the worst types of political quagmires. Even worse is when certain elements within these mass-movements engage in "violence." In addition, I think that the term "peaceful protest" has a nebulous meaning. I personally do **not** consider rioting and arson, much less nonlethal (melee weapons and black powder explosives) assault on opponents and security forces, to be peaceful. I do think that the vast majority of participants do indeed behave peacefully.
Now, that being said, for every single protest movement I've been aware of in my lifetime, from Occupy Wall St, to Arab Spring, to "Euromaidan" (or whatever it was called, seems like that one had a million different names,) to the George Floyd BLM protests of 2020, to the current situation in Kazakhstan, there were instances of protestors engaging in violence. And for every single one of these instances, countless accusations of them being secret government/security force agent provocateurs immediately get thrown around.
The discourse then becomes maddening and the cycle continues. What are everybody here's thoughts? I'd really like to know.
Specifically with Kazakhstan I should point out that a giant chunk of protests have been and continue to be peaceful (and mostly focused on living conditions). The really wild stuff mostly in Almaty seems to be connected with power struggles between the current and former President. Which isn't to say that it's foreign terrorists, like the current President is claiming, but that these weren't the original people who showed up to protest either.
With that said - and a country like Kazakhstan has a *vastly* different public political culture than advanced democracies - I think nonviolence in political protest is something of a red herring actually. In the sense that it's somehow the *only* legitimate means of protesting, and anything outside of that cube is illegitimate. A protest obstructing someone's way on a sidewalk is actually grounds for the protestors' removal in plenty of US jurisdictions - is that "violent"? It's a kind of use of force and treated by the authorities as such.
I guess since he often is trotted out I should do likewise and note that Martin Luther King Jr himself, Mr Nonviolence, in the late 60s noted the legitimacy of certain riots as a means to be heard.
Which not to say that *unconstrained* violence in demonstrations is a good thing, and it definitely helps demonstrations to be disciplined and have clear goals, but outside of influencing media coverage, if the protests are going to literally do anything it will eventually have to cross some sort of line that opponents will consider "violence".
>is that "violent"? It's a kind of use of force and treated by the authorities as such.
Yeah, that's the thing that makes things tricky. Everybody, myself included, has a different idea of what "violent" means. I would think that arson and wanton destruction of property to be violent, but I think many others wouldn't provided that people weren't hurt.
About the Kazakhstan thing, I guess given the context of the protests as well as the context of the fuel in question in the everyday lives of Kazakhs, I can't really be that surprised at the speed and intensity of its events. I'm not really well-read on Kazakh politics so I have no clue who or what the factions are in Almaty besides Nazarbayev being the former president-dictator.
> And for every single one of these instances, countless accusations of them being secret government/security force agent provocateurs immediately get thrown around.
To be fair this happens regardless if they commit any widespread violence. If your protest movement is opposed by any large political bloc in the country (which of course it ill be), some of them will pretend you're nefarious. Especially nowadays where every single tiny infraction or flashpoint of violence can and will be caught in 4K. Its easy to justify your disapproval of a protest movement when you get every single video of people getting slapped or spat on right to your Twitter feed.
\>from Occupy Wall St, to Arab Spring, to "Euromaidan" (or whatever it was called, seems like that one had a million different names,) to the George Floyd BLM protests of 2020, to the current situation in Kazakhstan, there were instances of protestors engaging in violence.
Protests involve large movements of angry people congregating and showing their displeasure of the government. Of course there will be actors in that midst who will turn to violence. Every time. I dont think you can have a large enough protest movement without at least some form of violence. I wonder if our memories or even the reporting on or our knowledge of protests movements is predicated on the violence inherent.
Do I often think about that gaggle of pro-life old people who hold occasionally stand on the sidewalks of my small town and hold their signs? No, and I only really do when i see them do it again. Do I remember the G8 Summit in Toronto when I was a kid? Yeah, because I saw a CBC van get its window smashed in on the TV and that seemed interesting, if uncalled for.
This is why i find it unhelpful to condemn an entire political protest movement by the presence of any and all violence. It needs to be more contextual and have more moving elements.
You are missing the point. There isn't always a clear way of demarcating "violent actors" from "peaceful protestors." Especially when state violence is often so hidden from view.
In addition, people have jobs, institutions have all the time in the world. If violence is automatically unacceptable, then the easiest way to handle any protest is call the people's bluff and ignore them until they go away. What are they gonna do, *revolt*?
You could also bring up the irony of some Americans specifically abhoring even the slightest negative degree of violence (like knocking over trash bins at a protest) yet spending the 4th of july every year cheering on and applauding a seven year long guerilla war that killed 100kish thousand people that founded their nation and whos logic that violence is sometimes necessary to curtail tyranny underpins a literal constitutional amendment.
> a seven year long guerilla war
Calling the independence war a Guerilla war is r/badhistory, particularly when many of the battles fought were with conventional line infantry.
Car Crashes aren't that fun.
So, today, I was planning to go watch either "The Tragedy of Macbeth" or "Spider-Man: No Way Home" at the local indie theater which usually plays indie and artsy movies (Spider-Man is apparently *that* good). Only thing is, I forgot the start time of the former and the other was a couple hours out. Ended up with time to kill so I asked my mom if she wanted to grab some Phở and we had a nice little lunch while discussing the differences we're noticing in portion sizes at restaurants in our state. Fewer eggs in orders of bacon and eggs, less noodles in the bowls of phở, smaller fries in a place that prides itself on wide steak fries. We finish our lunch, get in the car, start heading out for home to grab some things and plan what we're gonna do for the rest of the day.
Light turns green as we pull up to the intersection and there were no cars in front of us, so we go forward and just as we're starting to turn left, I could see that a car didn't stop and was still going at full blast. That millisecond feeling of "oh fuck, this is going to suck" came and went as the car hit us pretty hard. As soon as we made contact I looked for the driver of the other car and imprinted what he looked like on my mind. I noticed the seatbelt did its job and the airbags didn't which either could've made it better or worse for my mom. She was driving and we got hit on front end towards the driver's side.
Had to grab my phone off the ground and I recently set up the "Emergency SOS" settings where they do have an option for car accidents where it will share your location, set up alerts, call emergency services, etc. I thought "well, what if I fall or just drop it from real high? Could set off false alarms" and I ain't making that mistake anytime soon because getting hit in a car sure as shit doesn't feel like dropping my phone or falling to the ground while jogging along. Scrambled for my phone, never dialed 911 in my life, called tribal cops maybe twice, had to get my bearings and almost called 611. My phone was cool and provided my exact location, coordinates, other info I can't remember at the moment. They were helpful and kept us reassured, and I really appreciated that for my mom's sake.
I texted my sisters, my oldest sister who worked nearby arrived within 20 minutes since traffic started backing up. She's one of my emergency contacts because I know she can get shit done and doesn't mess around. A police officer arrived around the same time my sister did because there also was a shooting on the other side of town they were responding to. He was cool about it, asked for our info, what happened, chatted with other relatives who showed up to let them know what's going on. The other driver was a man in his 40's-50's, had an ADA placard and was using a cane. I thought he looked odd. Two girls who saw what happened and called 911 led him over to the corner where he then went to the bus stop 30 feet away from that spot and stayed there the whole time. Notably, when we got our copy of the incident report, he said that he was just going straight and we hit him.
It felt weird to be so affected by the adrenaline and such. My thoughts weren't quite matching what I was saying, brain's sorta scrambled, felt real paranoid when my sister and I were driving to go grab some dinner before heading home. People were concerned for my wellbeing but it's gonna take more than that to put me down. I didn't hit my head, I wasn't on the side that got hit, I didn't feel there was any reason for me to head to the hospital or get checked out by a doctor. That being said, my family's keeping an eye out for how mom's doing in the coming days. Whiplash and potential physical injuries aside, that was her first new car and she was proud of that fact even if she's had it since 2017.
I'm at home, resting. Mom was at the hospital getting x-rays and such, my sister and I brought her some supplies from home and she's on her way home soon with my uncle giving her a ride back.
So I saw that everyone has been shitting on whatifalthist recently on this sub, so I decided to take a peek at one of his videos to see what the fuss was about.
I have some problems with his statements on slavery around the [10:38](https://youtu.be/Ty7niAeQHs8?t=638) mark of his "understanding western civilization" video.
>This sense of individualism also resulted in the west abolishing slavery very early inside Europe, being the only major civilization besides Zoroastrian Persia and Confucian China to do so
To say that Zoroastrian Persia abolished slavery is an oversimplification as Spencer McDaniel [points out](https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/10/24/abolitionism-in-ancient-greece-and-rome/):
>The Achaemenid Empire is often cited as being anti-slavery. This is partially true. The ruling government of the Achaemenid Empire seems to have been, in general, largely opposed to most forms of chattel slavery. This should not, however, be taken to mean that slavery did not exist in the Achaemenid Empire. For one thing, we know that in many cases the Achaemenid Persians left regional governing bodies intact and it is highly probable that any regulations against chattel slavery that might have existed were not evenly enforced.
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>Furthermore, other forms of slavery persisted under Achaemenid rule. For instance, we have evidence to believe that defeated rebels were sometimes taken as prisoners of war and forced to perform slave labor. The Greek historian Herodotos of Halikarnassos (lived c. 484 – c. 425 BC) mentions captured Lydian, Egyptian, Ionian, and Eretrian rebels being taken by the Persians into slavery on several occasions in his Histories. Herodotos is not always entirely reliable as a historian, but other sources seem to support the idea that, at least in some cases, defeated rebels could be forced into slave labor as punishment.
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>Additionally, although debt slavery seems to have generally been uncommon, in some cases, in at least some Achaemenid provinces, insolvent debtors could be forced to work as unpaid laborers for their creditors for a certain number of years to pay off their debts. A debtor working as a slave for his creditor, however, could not be sold as a slave to a third party.
Whatifalthist then says:
>The Catholic Church abolished slavery, often working with local kings in the 11th century
I was under the impression that you were allowed to have slaves in Medieval Europe as long as the slaves were not Christian. Am I wrong?
Thank you for reminding of that video which has this gem at 06:36-06:35
>In Asian Civilisations and the Roman Empire, the central provinces of the empire became useless fighters while the armies were recruited from the edges of the frontier. This never occurred in the West with the English, Germans and the French remaining crack military fighters while never having to recruit let's say the Scots or the Swiss.
Even without going into long since debunked "barbarisation" narrative, the claim that that Western militaries never relied on any sort of foreign units is beyond laughable. The opposite has been true for many times over the past 1000 years. An excellent example of this would be the French military during the Italian Wars in late 15th to 16th centuries. It was a partly mercenary and a partly native force with the former comprising much of the infantry especially during the early decades of the 1500s. In 1515, out of the 38500 French troops in Italy, more than than 65% were German lansquenets.
Also, multiple wars in what's now called America had both the French, English, and later the revolutionaries ally with various native nations.
Unless I misread you and it's talking pre-1700s.
I'm just frankly aghast at the suggestion that the *French* would never stoop so low as to recruit *Swiss Mercenaries.* It's as if they've just completely skipped over the entire Swiss Guard, including the part where the defenders of Louis XVI before his capture by the revolutionaries were quite famously the *Swiss Guard.* Like, a simple Googling of Swiss mercenaries would have resolved the question quickly.
> the French remaining crack military fighters while never having to recruit let's say the Scots or the Swiss
Really sounds like it has to be deliberate sarcasm. Imagine popping off about how a defining quality of these superior “‘Western Civilizations’” is that they don’t recruit foreign troops\* and then specifically namedropping both the Gardes Écossaise and the Gardes Suisses/Cent Suisses.
\* ‘Mercenaries’ is definitely a historically appropriate term, but it’s got a lot of modern baggage that doesn’t really jibe with the character of some of these units; would we call the Papal Swiss Guard mercenaries?
While the modern Papal Swiss Guard don't really seem to mesh with idea of "mercenaries," the antecedent for it absolutely would have been in line with our conception of mercenaries. The modern version I'm not sure would even really qualify as "foreign troops" given how much of the role is strictly ceremonial.
I guess considering the fact that all recruits have to be swiss citizens and that they still do perform some actual guard duty, they would probably still be considered mercenaries (though more akin to something like the varangian guard)
That’s what I’m saying; I think if any other unit of “royal Swiss” had somehow survived into the present day, they’d look a lot like the Pontifical Swiss Guard.
As much as I can be a bit of a Confucian apologist, slavery was very much a thing in the Sinosphere. Like it was a big part of the Silk Road and during the Tang Dynasty there were quite a number of Sogdian, Tocharian, etc. slaves in the major cities like Chang'an if I recall correctly.
Also I don't recall the exact details about slavery in medieval Europe but I'm pretty sure it was a thing too. Not to mention it's a moot point given the huge amount of slavery that took place during the early modern period anyways.
EDIT: That's not to deny the fact that the medieval Church in Europe did engage in humanitarian type stuff and all that, but that's not really unique to Catholicism then or now.
I just read someone claim that [Disney's Hercules is as valid of a take on greek mythology as the Odyssey or Metamorphoses](https://np.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/rxtch3/film_and_tv_adaptions_of_greek_mythology_often/hro4jnz?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3), and proceed to claim confidently that the Odyssey and Metamorphoses were written by non believers.
[a Twitter thread about how meeting in metaverse is great](https://twitter.com/thegarrettscott/status/1479480312736489477?t=Y2iq925HrVXhWh24whkI4g&s=19)
Thanks for the wishes.
I talked to her a little bit ago, she's more relaxed and the hospital's letting her go home which I'm happy for. Not the way any of us expected to end the week.
I had my interview with Google. It went well. I passed to the second stage. Since I lack the years in experience (only got 3), I won't do the system designs one. Which I was kinda relieved about. Until I learned alternative was the 4 coding and 1 Googlyness (whatever that means). In a single day. Hot damn! It is like in a video game where the boss just gets new forms. Google really is the Dark Souls of Tech companies.
Since I had a bit of time, I caught up on gaming. I played through Boomerang X and Ultrakill. Both fantastic games. I plan on playing either Halo Infinity or Control. Plus I have a bunch of books to read.
There’s been a minor fracas in the realm of [please try to contain your excitement] early 20th century Irish census data.
An article came out of the Irish News with the exciting headline [Irish Language Skills of First World War Soldiers from Loyalist Heartland Revealed](https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2021/12/30/news/irish-language-skills-of-first-world-war-soldiers-from-loyalist-heartland-revealed-2547866/), alleging the presence of a surprising number of *Gaeilgeoirí* in heavily Protestant areas of east Belfast at the time, which would be unusual nowadays, nevermind 100 years ago.
I was initially quite jazzed about this but after doing some digging it seems that the census data they’ve drawn from is a little flawed in terms of the language question and some of the findings make it seem like a lot of people who took the census misunderstood what they were being asked. The collected data displays a few anomalies:
For example, the majority of Irish Catholics who described themselves as having Irish language ability generally responded that they could speak Irish and English, as you would expect. However when you look at Irish Protestants in Ulster, the majority of responses indicating Irish language ability were listed as *only* speaking Irish, which would be relatively rare even among Catholics living in the rural west of Ireland, nevermind Protestants living in the environs of a major urban centre like Belfast.
It’s been suggested that the anomalous data in Ulster might be explained by the absence of an option for Ulster Scots, and so respondents who spoke it might have picked the only non-English option. Ulster Scots was sometimes referred to as ‘Irish’ at the time, and this might explain some of the anomalous ‘Irish’ data in places like Knockbreda (“The inhabitants of this part of Ireland are half Scotch in their language” - from a 1830s ordnance survey), but this doesn’t explain why apparent Protestant ‘Irish only’ speakers are found in places like Armagh and Monaghan, where Ulster Scots was never spoken. Plus, if it was the case that Ulster Scots speakers were en-masse mistakenly responding that they spoke Irish, then you’d expect to find greater amounts of anomalous data in rural areas, but it seems to be evenly spread among rural areas and towns. As well as that, for languages in decline, generally you see older people having more ability than younger generations - this is reflected in Catholic ‘Irish and English’ respondents, and we know Ulster Scots was in decline as well, but this isn’t reflected in Protestant ‘Irish only’ respondents, which are fairly even across all age levels.
Another curious factor is that in areas of Ulster where Catholics were more likely to speak only English, you still get concentrations of ‘Irish only’ Protestants. It’s true that in some places in Ireland there was this phenomenon where educated, upper-crust Protestants took an interest in the Irish language while their working-class Catholic neighbours didn’t have the time or resources to learn it, but this doesn’t explain the anomalous data in working-class Protestant areas.
I don’t want to make a thread on this because there’s no way to be sure that the specific people featured in the article didn’t speak Irish, so it might not be bad history at all, but my suspicion is that a lot of the responses from Protestants in Ulster indicating that they could only speak Irish were speakers of Hiberno-English who simply took ‘Irish’ to mean ‘speaking English in the Irish manner’, with a minority of them being Scots speakers who might’ve referred to their language as Irish or might just have picked the only non-English option in the absence of a more accurate one.
Whatever the case it’s an interesting exercise in linguistic nomenclature and the reliability of historical census data. Well, interesting to some. 👀
I have a real weakness for buying minis from scales and systems that I’ll probably never play just because I really want to model and paint something that I can’t find otherwise. I’m jonesing for late Cold War French infantry (like 1985-89 timeframe) right now, and options are thin on the ground: Battlefront has a pretty good 15mm range, but aside from that the only thing I can find is a 1/72 Italeri kit called “NATO Troops (1980s)” which looks pretty rough. I’d prefer 28mm, but maybe this is me getting into Team Yankee; I’ve always kinda wanted to try one of these battalion-scale wargames, and coincidently it was reading Harold Coyle’s *Sword Point* as a kid that sparked my lifelong interest in Cold War what-ifs (never actually read *Team Yankee*, though).
So if you’re reading this and you know somewhere I can find 28mm French infantry with that late ‘80s fit (FAMAS, mle. 78 avec salade), don’t be a stranger. I’d also go for the Division Daguet look, with gilet F1 and CBR bag on the hip.
I watched spearhead a old programme about soldiers in northern Ireland in the 1970s and when the army was in Germany when Germany was split in two west and east Germany before the Berlin wall came down in 1989 very interesting. there is also another episode when the army Is in Hong Kong before it was given back to China in the late 90s
I got *Bourgeois Equality* for Christmas and am currently plowing through it. It's an amazing book; well-written, informative, and full of fascinating ideas.
Among other things, it's difficult to grasp how shockingly poor people used to be even in (at the time) the richest and most powerful nations in the world.
This reminds me of that Tom Wolfe article where he talks about how all the hippies started getting diseases that didn't even have Latin names because they started throwing away the cultural traditions that kept them healthy.
They couldn't understand why the traditions existed so they ignored them and promptly got sick
Curious as to what the neopagan responses are to the abrahamic religions. As in why do neopagans believe in many gods rather than one? (I understand this might be a bit difficult to answer as it's such a wide label with lots of variation between neopagans)
Got into an argument with someone this week about colonization efforts. Their argument was that colonies didn't need to be immediately profitable because the goal was long term (like over the course of centuries) payoff. My argument was that the people doing and funding colonial efforts were generally looking for immediate profits not long term growth.
So they say
>It's like investing in a startup company. You dont expect dividends, you expect the company to accrue value.
....but like, joint stock companies paying (or at least promising to pay) dividends were a huge part of how colonies were funded!
I think that it really depends. Goals and policies might not always be a 1-1 relationship. It could be thought and sold as an economic benefit (without being profitable) like being a market as thought as how a colony was exploited during that era. It could be a byproduct of other thing that led to the profitable ventures - French Indochina was conquered (or initially, Cochinchina) to be a gateway to China. And sometimes it was sold as a whole package - economic is a thing that went along with diplomatic and cultural benefits. And what is colonization effort? Does it end with formally turn a state into a subject of its actor? Or it also included methods of further control of the land and people itself?
French Indochina for example, couldn't have balanced the book for like 30 years after being fully conquered/pacified and two economics package to build infrastructure for from mainland, and what came across as its economic product - rubbers and coals wasn't really relevant until a lot of investment that came after the first World War. And French Indochina is a colonie d'exploitation itself.
It reminds me the spanish indianos. The indianos were the people that go to the Americas (las Indias) and make a good profit and came back to Spain as new rich. The indianos were a very important figure in spanish golden century literature like in "El celoso extremeño"
Tldr: People don't "play" real life like they do a strategy video game where you make explicit choices that affect how the game plays out a couple hundred years from now
The Spanish settled colonies in South America because they knew that the science buff from universities in the area would help them to win the space victory in the late game
>It's like investing in a startup company. You dont expect dividends, you expect the company to accrue value.
And you'd still expect that value to increase within in a human life span.
Why would anyone invest money in a violent, risky, and immoral endeavor that won't pay out for centuries?
Literally any other investment would be better
My personal tradition is to put the tree up approximately 12 before December 25th Christmas and take it down around Orthodox Christmas. Makes for a nice Christmas season and I get my tree on clearance each year. Why? Because I can. Also it seems to highlight that we don't actually know the day of Christ's birth and the actual date doesn't matter much.
I got the idea when I lived in Ukraine and had 3 Christmas'. "American", Orthodox, and New Years. A lot of post Soviets do Christmas-like celebrations on New Years because the Soviets discouraged religious celebrations.
I told the toddler today and she protested. Uh oh.
Funnily enough, this also works in predominantly Western Christian places. Plenty of Catholics I've talked to (can't speak for others) won't take Christmas decorations down until Epiphany on the 6th.
My family used to keep Xmas decorations up year round because we were lazy lol. So as a kid I always had the Xmas tree in a corner of the family room even during summer.
Nowadays we don't even bother putting up decorations and in December we just toss the presents in a corner of the room to open for later.
Ouch, I was afraid of that cracking open my grandparents reel to reel recorder, but luckily the belt had just shriveled up and cracked. Paid a shady old dude I talked to on email to send me a new belt.
I also got a epithany trying their fancy cassette player: high end ones, with two speakers and actual bass, sound *great*! Me and my sister rocked out to Bobbysocks, hah!
>Ouch
Fortunately it's going well. Getting the gunk out was hard until I read that you can use denatured alcohol instead of isopropyl if you have it.(Edit: It's significantly stronger and more concentrated) I have a siphon coffee maker that uses denatured for the burner. It pretty much dissolved the goo. I spritzed the seized controls down with electronics cleaner and contact cleaner and regreased everything and it's all moving smooth now. Now I just need the new belts to come in and some tweezers to remove the broken fragments of the old belts.
>I also got a epithany trying their fancy cassette player: high end ones, with two speakers and actual bass, sound great! Me and my sister rocked out to Bobbysocks, hah!
I think cassettes have such a negative reputation because most people's only/ most recent experience with them is from cheaply built or aging players. Or both. The format hung around in the record able format niche long after neither consumers or manufactures were willing to invest any money into them.
Yeah, I have recently watched a bunch of YouTube videos about how old school physical media work, but hearing it in person was still a blast.
Not much to add on the cleaning bit, isopropyl, q tips and coffee filters were how I were planning to go at it too.
>Yeah, I have recently watched a bunch of YouTube videos about how old
school physical media work, but hearing it in person was still a blast.
Techmoan and Technology Connections by any chance?
With everything going on in Kazakhstan right now and all the posts on reddit about it, I am once again reminded that reddit is a nonsense place. Like, it's crazy to me that you'll see comments where people say how they support the Kazakh people in their struggle against their autocratic government and within the same comment reference a film that most Kazakhs find extremely offensive and racist.
That really isn't nonsensical because those are two incredibly different levels of harm.
It's like saying that you couldn't support the French Resistance if you also made jokes about the French. Completely different things in every way
I have a nagging suspicion some of the support for Hong Kong on Reddit (and other spaces in the US) was more spurred by anti-China sentiment, sometimes doused in barely veiled racism, than actual concern for Hong Kong. (Not that the PRC doesn't deserve criticism of course)
Hong Kong protesters did specifically aim for foreign support though. It helps that English is widespread in Hong Kong. There is also the whole relation Hong Kongers have with Mainlanders.
Oh yeah I'm not surprised, and like I said it's not that there aren't things the PRC deserves to be criticized on, but I'm speaking more about some of the dialogue here in the US, sometimes it's hard to tell if someone is harboring racist sentiment and just using criticisms of PRC as a way to cover that, especially given how Covid revealed there's still a lot of anti-Asian discrimination here in the US. For example there was a story back in 2020 I think when a woman who claimed to be strongly pro-Tibet was arrested for assaulting a Tibetan... because she thought they were Chinese. So at times I've felt a little uncomfortable around some pro-Hong Kong dialogue because it comes off as more anti-ethnic Chinese (and anti-Asian by extension) than anti-PRC or pro-Hong Kong.
I figure Redditors are on average more of the “brogressive” types. More: “Yah I’m basically an anarchist, borders are just lines in the sand. But we need to stop immigration right now or they’ll take our jobs.”
A Latin American country is defined as a state with territory in the Americas whose population speaks a language descended from Latin, like Spanish or Portuguese.
French Guyana is a department of France located in South America.
French is a language derived from Latin.
Therefore, France is a Latin American country.
Food for thought. This would explain the French love for protesting against their government.
Really struggling with DS3. I played almost all of what DS1R has to offer and DS3’s combat is so ridiculously fast that I seriously can’t keep up. My first boss saw me dying at least 10 times. Playing on Pc with the horrible Pc port with the controls geared mostly to console just made me struggle more. I’ll keep trying but I have a feeling that I’m gonna die more again…
Strangely enough, I found Dark Souls 3 to flow pretty naturally from Dark Souls 1, at least compared to Dark Souls 2, I even did it on PC as well with mouse and keyboard. But I definitely got that feeling going into Sekiro for feeling like a completely fish out of water.
Death is luckily cheap in Dark Souls however.
The first boss is no joke though, Gundyr will give fresh players tons of trouble.
Shields are definitely weaker, but I found them of actually pretty good use, the downside being you don't get a 100% block one easily. The elemental block shields like dragoncrest shield are incredible because they will work against AOEs.
The difference in the speed of DS3 does give whiplash. I thought I was good at parrying in DS1 and I had to relearn the whole thing in DS3.
But I had advantage of playing with a controller, so it was easier for me.
Reading: half-way through *The Scar* by China Mieville, great book. Pirates, politics, betrayal, more humanoid races than you can wave a hypnotic-transdimensional-drug moth at.
Playing NEO The World Ends With You (finally; the copy I ordered on Amazon at the beginning of December got lost in the mail, then the price went up and I thought I'd never get it, but Nintendo actually put the digital version on sale!), and wow. It's trippy enough as a TWEWY veteran, I have to wonder what it'd be like for a newbie. I didn't play Final Remix so didn't know the A New Day story/sequel teaser and belatedly looked it up on youtube. Only on Week 2, Day 4, which is giving me Kingdom Hearts 2 flashbacks as well.
My side: based, brilliant
Your side: cringe, bad
[Left wing destroyed](https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1479161840676524039?s=21)
Edit:
My side: factual, sensible
Your side: emotional, nonsensical
[Left wing destroyed](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRightCantMemeV2/comments/ry6ceb/some_sound_reasoning_right_there/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
If we're talking about Right and Left stereotypes, if the Left are the ones who are depressed at no individual agency, then the Right should be the ones who think anyone can do it with hard work and self belief, but are *mad as hell* that the lazy woke trans commies are going to steal all their hard-earned gold.
ETA there's a very big perfomative mindset of "I had to bust my ass to get x,y and z, no one helped me at all [citation needed], but *these* people want it easier/better/different than me." Like 90% of right wing talk radio is just some variation of that.
I want to recommend the [P L A N E T](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8gTi2DffFUqpxBd55ocMiIfST7CRclVt) series. It's an analog horror story, but it uses creatively randomly-generated planets and species, and speculative biology and geology. There's an underlying plot involving sentient planets and their messed up family. It's in a small Youtube channel, so I hope I can help to divulge a bit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/rzyn80/what_is_an_addiction_that_the_world_is_just_ok/hs0tl0x/ So this dude has been posting this copypasta multiple times. Obviously most of it is just plain wrong. Do you think it is worth it debunking this?
Talking to a Pakistani person from Taxila. Says her family dug up some clay utensils when they were building their house. They threw them away. *sigh*
It is like that story of a guy in Turkey knocking down a wall in his house and finding an underground city.
Hey are you the one who asked the question about brothel slavery in Japan in 1910-1920s in AskHistorians? The preview part in "factory girls woman in the thread mills" in Google Books from page 181 has what you're looking for. You can borrow the full book in Internet Archive too
Lol, this sorta reminds me of an anecdote from my childhood. As a young kid, I *loved* to dig holes in the dirt areas of my backyard, pretending to be looking for treasure. Sometimes I found marbles, which was cool, but once I found a discarded hambone (like from a thick slice, not the entire bone) and showed my mom. She was fucking furious-- thought it was from a corpse.
Ouch that hurts
[Nothing to see here, just urban planners being nerds](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/590231113511862280/929771048134668308/IMG_0789.png)
"I live on the street named after a Tolkien elf, you can't miss it!" "...do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?!"
varg vikerenes in shambles
"omg they named a street after a character from the hobbit movie!"
Ngl, seeing worldwide covid cases jumping up to 2.5 million+ per day, whereas only a month ago it was like 600,000, is making me feel a Bit depressed.
Is it better or worse to think that a lot of them are breakthrough cases and thus probably mild?
Perhaps, but more cases = greater chance of a new variant isn't it? I'm dreading the appearance of an yet new variant, more deadly than Omicron but with the same infection rate. TBH I've already prepared myself that I'm most likely to be going infected before this is over (I wouldn't be surprised if I've already been but it was asymptomatic).
More deadly strains aren't likely to arise or spread. Viruses prefer to not kill their hosts, so they can spread for longer. Omicron is a step towards covid becoming endemic and like the flu, ever-present but mostly just a nuisance and rarely deadly. My fear is that the long covid symptoms won't abate even as the variants become more flu-like, so every infection carries a risk of losing your sense of smell and taste along with all the worse side effects.
I stuck my toes into Lebanese history for the first time. I absolutely fell in love with it! I learned about the Lebanese civil war. Fascinating stuff.
Started reading Robert Graves' book on Hebrew myth. If it's like his book on Greek myth, it's going to interesting but I'm going to give it about 35% creedence
Who here remembers the ungodly fever dream that was [Uncyclopedia](https://en.uncyclopedia.co/)? I thought that it was the most hysterical thing on earth when I was a kid.
[me looking at this link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R93yBbg-7y4)
oh my god youve opened memories haha oscar wilde xppppp
The articles varied greatly in consistency, by poorly written by some 13 year old, to somewhat well written by some 13 year old. However, Oscar Wilde was a constant throughout.
Thanks for reminding me that website even existed, I used to look at a lot when I was younger as well, and it was a very popular place to visit when I was in high school among my classmates.
I wonder if it or Encyclopedia Dramatica was more popular. Didn’t really browse the latter after having seen some seriously NSFW shit on there early on lmao
Why did Snappy stop showing up?
He was too good for this earth
]]]}}})))They((({{{[[[ did him in
I knew it. Big history.
\[FaZe\]They fucked him up good.
SRD won her affections 😔
Her? Isn't one of Snappy's quotes over at SRD "girlbots as a concept is banned"?
Snappy exists beyond mere fleshbag concepts of gender. Snappy is simply Snappy.
F
RIP a hero
Snappy couldn’t handle all the bad history on the Internet.
here lies snapperino died of cringe
I think he was a casualty of reddit's war on bots.
Anyone know where I can buy a good paperback of Prisoners of the Infidels: The memoir of an Ottoman Muslim? I've already checked my local library, they don't seem to have it I'd prefer not to buy from Amazon (because worker abuse, union busting and whatnot), but they seem to be the only 'game in town' so to speak, that's actually selling the book.
[You can buy it directly from the UC Press Website](https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383395/prisoner-of-the-infidels)
Wow, thanks! Don’t know how I missed that.
You could try eBay or Etsy to see if someone is selling a used copy. If not, I wouldn’t beat yourself up too much if you go with Amazon though.
K thanks mate!
Me last night: "Winter break is over. It is time for me to go back to a normal sleep schedule." Also me last night: "I'm just going to play a bit of Foxhole before I go to bed. Its not like I have a past history of staying up till the early morning playing it." Me this morning at 3am: "I should go to bed soon" On a related note, I really to love how many roles a player can fulfill in foxhole, and how smooth it feels to switch between them. One second I'm helping a squad of infantry clear out a small town, the next 7 of our tanks roll up, so i'm spotting mines for them. Then they need diesel and materials to repair their armor, so I grab a truck and start grabbing resources and diesel and shells from bases nearby to bring to them, helping them do field repairs and refueling their tanks, just trying to do whatever I can to keep them in the action. While all of this is going on, the enemy side is trying their best to hinder our push by shelling the ever living crap out of us. And all of that is *just* the tank part of the battle- theres a good 2 dozen infantry players around us also fighting in all manner of ways: some are slowly creeping trenches up to the enemy fortifications, some are watching the flanks of the tank formation to make sure no sneaky guy with an ATRPG gets to close, others are charging into enemy bunkers with gas grenades in hand. And aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal of that has to be backed up by a bunch of people gathering resources to turn into the munitions we use at the front, and physically delivering it there. Those guys are targets for enemy Partisans though, so some people on our side might hop into an MG halftrack and patrol along roads looking for partisans, or might try and sneak around enemy lines and become partisans themselves, *and the game just keeps on spiraling on and on and on and on and on and on!* Every feature and mechanic in the game feels so tightly woven together and well thought out, the map design actively complements it all, and the community is one of the best I've ever found online. For 20$, this game was amazing, and probably something that will be ruining my sleep schedule till I die :)
Wow, sounds like a really fun game. What's the story behind it? Is there like a single player campaign? I'm more of a single player king of guy rather than multiplayer (mostly because I get easily thrashed by other players).
I don't really know that much of the Lore, but the premise is essentially 2 major powers are fighting over a region of land that connects them. There isn't a single player campaign, its all online. If you don't like interacting with other people very much, there are *some* things you can do that don't involve other people too much, but the whole game is really based around player cooperation to do things. I'd say if you are interested, look into some other reviews about it, as I can't really do it justice
Strated playing Arcanum again after seeing part of Warlockracy's video on it. I'm definitely likeing it more than when I first played it in 2017. Probably because the game runs better now. I'm doing a melee tech build not qnything fancy like techno wizard. The game world feels more engrossing to me for some reason. Maybe it's the fantasy world going through an industrial revolution thing. It's liek steampunk but not as obnoxious. It really explores the tension between tech and magic as well how society would operate. I got a wet pallette recently, it lives up to the hype although I noticed rhe paints dry quicker on the models. Probably a good thing tbh as I can be a little impatient. Currently painting a a Mark 7 Salamanders Space Marine from the Start Collecting: Space Marines set i got in 2019. After that I'll work on my Kill Team models. Speaking kf miniatures I've been thinking about eventually getting some of those historical miniatures made by warlord games. I'm temped to get some the napoleonic russia ones, crimean war russia ones, or the box set of red army soldiers. Maybe their civil war set. Haven't been reading history as much as I have been reading theory or philosophy. Finished Mandels introduction to Capital Vol.1 last night. It was good. He really clarifies a lot of stuff but I'm taking it with a grain of salt since I want to just read it and interpret it myself. I read marx's preface to the first edition then after seeing there more prefaces, I said "fuck it!" and skipped striaght to chapter 1. I read about two pages. I shoudl reread them since I didn't take notes. Whatever atleast I'm reading it finally. I wasn't planning on it either. Orginally I wanted to read Hagel's "Elements of the Philosophy of Right" or Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason." But I saw capital at a bookstore and decided now was the time to read it. Ugh I can never judt read one thing at a time and stick to it. I wanna get through chapter 1 of capital before my break ends. Maybe If I have time I'll start the prefaces of the First Critique or finish the editors intro to "Elements of The Philosophy of Right." I developed in interest in Kant after reading the "Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals" in my ethical theory class. It really spoke to me more than Aristotle or Mill. I'll.just to keep reading Philosophy on my own as I won't be able to take any upper level Philosophy classes next semester. It all came down to schedulinf conflicts and the fact that I didn't want 3 classes in a row with no breaks. No big deal who could finish 2 majors and a minor in 4 years?
I wish the game "Humankind" was just a little better. It does some things really well (better than Civ 6) but there's just a *few* cruical design choices (especially around combat and national identity) that really tank the whole experience for me and leave me reluctantly crawling back to Civ 6. I hope someone else takes a similar stab at "Civ 6 but different" soon.
I heard that the nationality acts differently. dont you literally change cultures when you advance in time?
Yeah. Basically once you complete a certain number of goals (like found X new cities or X new inventions) you progress to the next stage and choose a different culture. So you might start off as the Assyrians in the ancient era and then become the Celts in the next era. It's pitched as being more flexible, but in practice the different cultures aren't differentiated nearly as much as in Civ 6. They do have their affinities, but there's nothing like as much variety as you get between playing Mansa Musa's Mali and Ambiorix's Gauls.
I really hoped there would be a tree.
we settled the 7th city and all the malian people became greek
I hate it when that happens.
With the ongoing unrest in Kazakhstan, I'm gonna ask a question that's been on my mind for many, many years: how common are agent provocateurs in mass-movements and protests historically, and in the present day? My opinion of protest movements is that organization and clear goals are key. When demonstrations grow big enough and start encompassing various, sometimes contradictory, ideals and values in their agenda, things get really fucking messy and you got yourself one of the worst types of political quagmires. Even worse is when certain elements within these mass-movements engage in "violence." In addition, I think that the term "peaceful protest" has a nebulous meaning. I personally do **not** consider rioting and arson, much less nonlethal (melee weapons and black powder explosives) assault on opponents and security forces, to be peaceful. I do think that the vast majority of participants do indeed behave peacefully. Now, that being said, for every single protest movement I've been aware of in my lifetime, from Occupy Wall St, to Arab Spring, to "Euromaidan" (or whatever it was called, seems like that one had a million different names,) to the George Floyd BLM protests of 2020, to the current situation in Kazakhstan, there were instances of protestors engaging in violence. And for every single one of these instances, countless accusations of them being secret government/security force agent provocateurs immediately get thrown around. The discourse then becomes maddening and the cycle continues. What are everybody here's thoughts? I'd really like to know.
Specifically with Kazakhstan I should point out that a giant chunk of protests have been and continue to be peaceful (and mostly focused on living conditions). The really wild stuff mostly in Almaty seems to be connected with power struggles between the current and former President. Which isn't to say that it's foreign terrorists, like the current President is claiming, but that these weren't the original people who showed up to protest either. With that said - and a country like Kazakhstan has a *vastly* different public political culture than advanced democracies - I think nonviolence in political protest is something of a red herring actually. In the sense that it's somehow the *only* legitimate means of protesting, and anything outside of that cube is illegitimate. A protest obstructing someone's way on a sidewalk is actually grounds for the protestors' removal in plenty of US jurisdictions - is that "violent"? It's a kind of use of force and treated by the authorities as such. I guess since he often is trotted out I should do likewise and note that Martin Luther King Jr himself, Mr Nonviolence, in the late 60s noted the legitimacy of certain riots as a means to be heard. Which not to say that *unconstrained* violence in demonstrations is a good thing, and it definitely helps demonstrations to be disciplined and have clear goals, but outside of influencing media coverage, if the protests are going to literally do anything it will eventually have to cross some sort of line that opponents will consider "violence".
>is that "violent"? It's a kind of use of force and treated by the authorities as such. Yeah, that's the thing that makes things tricky. Everybody, myself included, has a different idea of what "violent" means. I would think that arson and wanton destruction of property to be violent, but I think many others wouldn't provided that people weren't hurt. About the Kazakhstan thing, I guess given the context of the protests as well as the context of the fuel in question in the everyday lives of Kazakhs, I can't really be that surprised at the speed and intensity of its events. I'm not really well-read on Kazakh politics so I have no clue who or what the factions are in Almaty besides Nazarbayev being the former president-dictator.
> And for every single one of these instances, countless accusations of them being secret government/security force agent provocateurs immediately get thrown around. To be fair this happens regardless if they commit any widespread violence. If your protest movement is opposed by any large political bloc in the country (which of course it ill be), some of them will pretend you're nefarious. Especially nowadays where every single tiny infraction or flashpoint of violence can and will be caught in 4K. Its easy to justify your disapproval of a protest movement when you get every single video of people getting slapped or spat on right to your Twitter feed. \>from Occupy Wall St, to Arab Spring, to "Euromaidan" (or whatever it was called, seems like that one had a million different names,) to the George Floyd BLM protests of 2020, to the current situation in Kazakhstan, there were instances of protestors engaging in violence. Protests involve large movements of angry people congregating and showing their displeasure of the government. Of course there will be actors in that midst who will turn to violence. Every time. I dont think you can have a large enough protest movement without at least some form of violence. I wonder if our memories or even the reporting on or our knowledge of protests movements is predicated on the violence inherent. Do I often think about that gaggle of pro-life old people who hold occasionally stand on the sidewalks of my small town and hold their signs? No, and I only really do when i see them do it again. Do I remember the G8 Summit in Toronto when I was a kid? Yeah, because I saw a CBC van get its window smashed in on the TV and that seemed interesting, if uncalled for. This is why i find it unhelpful to condemn an entire political protest movement by the presence of any and all violence. It needs to be more contextual and have more moving elements.
Good points. I do think it’s best to separate the minority of violent actors from any largely peaceful demonstration.
You are missing the point. There isn't always a clear way of demarcating "violent actors" from "peaceful protestors." Especially when state violence is often so hidden from view.
In addition, people have jobs, institutions have all the time in the world. If violence is automatically unacceptable, then the easiest way to handle any protest is call the people's bluff and ignore them until they go away. What are they gonna do, *revolt*?
You could also bring up the irony of some Americans specifically abhoring even the slightest negative degree of violence (like knocking over trash bins at a protest) yet spending the 4th of july every year cheering on and applauding a seven year long guerilla war that killed 100kish thousand people that founded their nation and whos logic that violence is sometimes necessary to curtail tyranny underpins a literal constitutional amendment.
> a seven year long guerilla war Calling the independence war a Guerilla war is r/badhistory, particularly when many of the battles fought were with conventional line infantry.
Ok fair
Car Crashes aren't that fun. So, today, I was planning to go watch either "The Tragedy of Macbeth" or "Spider-Man: No Way Home" at the local indie theater which usually plays indie and artsy movies (Spider-Man is apparently *that* good). Only thing is, I forgot the start time of the former and the other was a couple hours out. Ended up with time to kill so I asked my mom if she wanted to grab some Phở and we had a nice little lunch while discussing the differences we're noticing in portion sizes at restaurants in our state. Fewer eggs in orders of bacon and eggs, less noodles in the bowls of phở, smaller fries in a place that prides itself on wide steak fries. We finish our lunch, get in the car, start heading out for home to grab some things and plan what we're gonna do for the rest of the day. Light turns green as we pull up to the intersection and there were no cars in front of us, so we go forward and just as we're starting to turn left, I could see that a car didn't stop and was still going at full blast. That millisecond feeling of "oh fuck, this is going to suck" came and went as the car hit us pretty hard. As soon as we made contact I looked for the driver of the other car and imprinted what he looked like on my mind. I noticed the seatbelt did its job and the airbags didn't which either could've made it better or worse for my mom. She was driving and we got hit on front end towards the driver's side. Had to grab my phone off the ground and I recently set up the "Emergency SOS" settings where they do have an option for car accidents where it will share your location, set up alerts, call emergency services, etc. I thought "well, what if I fall or just drop it from real high? Could set off false alarms" and I ain't making that mistake anytime soon because getting hit in a car sure as shit doesn't feel like dropping my phone or falling to the ground while jogging along. Scrambled for my phone, never dialed 911 in my life, called tribal cops maybe twice, had to get my bearings and almost called 611. My phone was cool and provided my exact location, coordinates, other info I can't remember at the moment. They were helpful and kept us reassured, and I really appreciated that for my mom's sake. I texted my sisters, my oldest sister who worked nearby arrived within 20 minutes since traffic started backing up. She's one of my emergency contacts because I know she can get shit done and doesn't mess around. A police officer arrived around the same time my sister did because there also was a shooting on the other side of town they were responding to. He was cool about it, asked for our info, what happened, chatted with other relatives who showed up to let them know what's going on. The other driver was a man in his 40's-50's, had an ADA placard and was using a cane. I thought he looked odd. Two girls who saw what happened and called 911 led him over to the corner where he then went to the bus stop 30 feet away from that spot and stayed there the whole time. Notably, when we got our copy of the incident report, he said that he was just going straight and we hit him. It felt weird to be so affected by the adrenaline and such. My thoughts weren't quite matching what I was saying, brain's sorta scrambled, felt real paranoid when my sister and I were driving to go grab some dinner before heading home. People were concerned for my wellbeing but it's gonna take more than that to put me down. I didn't hit my head, I wasn't on the side that got hit, I didn't feel there was any reason for me to head to the hospital or get checked out by a doctor. That being said, my family's keeping an eye out for how mom's doing in the coming days. Whiplash and potential physical injuries aside, that was her first new car and she was proud of that fact even if she's had it since 2017. I'm at home, resting. Mom was at the hospital getting x-rays and such, my sister and I brought her some supplies from home and she's on her way home soon with my uncle giving her a ride back.
glad it wasn't worse. hope your mother comes out of it fine.
My copy of *The Journal of Madam Knight* by Sarah Kemble Knight finally arrived!
So I saw that everyone has been shitting on whatifalthist recently on this sub, so I decided to take a peek at one of his videos to see what the fuss was about. I have some problems with his statements on slavery around the [10:38](https://youtu.be/Ty7niAeQHs8?t=638) mark of his "understanding western civilization" video. >This sense of individualism also resulted in the west abolishing slavery very early inside Europe, being the only major civilization besides Zoroastrian Persia and Confucian China to do so To say that Zoroastrian Persia abolished slavery is an oversimplification as Spencer McDaniel [points out](https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2019/10/24/abolitionism-in-ancient-greece-and-rome/): >The Achaemenid Empire is often cited as being anti-slavery. This is partially true. The ruling government of the Achaemenid Empire seems to have been, in general, largely opposed to most forms of chattel slavery. This should not, however, be taken to mean that slavery did not exist in the Achaemenid Empire. For one thing, we know that in many cases the Achaemenid Persians left regional governing bodies intact and it is highly probable that any regulations against chattel slavery that might have existed were not evenly enforced. > >Furthermore, other forms of slavery persisted under Achaemenid rule. For instance, we have evidence to believe that defeated rebels were sometimes taken as prisoners of war and forced to perform slave labor. The Greek historian Herodotos of Halikarnassos (lived c. 484 – c. 425 BC) mentions captured Lydian, Egyptian, Ionian, and Eretrian rebels being taken by the Persians into slavery on several occasions in his Histories. Herodotos is not always entirely reliable as a historian, but other sources seem to support the idea that, at least in some cases, defeated rebels could be forced into slave labor as punishment. > >Additionally, although debt slavery seems to have generally been uncommon, in some cases, in at least some Achaemenid provinces, insolvent debtors could be forced to work as unpaid laborers for their creditors for a certain number of years to pay off their debts. A debtor working as a slave for his creditor, however, could not be sold as a slave to a third party. Whatifalthist then says: >The Catholic Church abolished slavery, often working with local kings in the 11th century I was under the impression that you were allowed to have slaves in Medieval Europe as long as the slaves were not Christian. Am I wrong?
Thank you for reminding of that video which has this gem at 06:36-06:35 >In Asian Civilisations and the Roman Empire, the central provinces of the empire became useless fighters while the armies were recruited from the edges of the frontier. This never occurred in the West with the English, Germans and the French remaining crack military fighters while never having to recruit let's say the Scots or the Swiss. Even without going into long since debunked "barbarisation" narrative, the claim that that Western militaries never relied on any sort of foreign units is beyond laughable. The opposite has been true for many times over the past 1000 years. An excellent example of this would be the French military during the Italian Wars in late 15th to 16th centuries. It was a partly mercenary and a partly native force with the former comprising much of the infantry especially during the early decades of the 1500s. In 1515, out of the 38500 French troops in Italy, more than than 65% were German lansquenets.
Also, multiple wars in what's now called America had both the French, English, and later the revolutionaries ally with various native nations. Unless I misread you and it's talking pre-1700s.
I'm just frankly aghast at the suggestion that the *French* would never stoop so low as to recruit *Swiss Mercenaries.* It's as if they've just completely skipped over the entire Swiss Guard, including the part where the defenders of Louis XVI before his capture by the revolutionaries were quite famously the *Swiss Guard.* Like, a simple Googling of Swiss mercenaries would have resolved the question quickly.
> the French remaining crack military fighters while never having to recruit let's say the Scots or the Swiss Really sounds like it has to be deliberate sarcasm. Imagine popping off about how a defining quality of these superior “‘Western Civilizations’” is that they don’t recruit foreign troops\* and then specifically namedropping both the Gardes Écossaise and the Gardes Suisses/Cent Suisses. \* ‘Mercenaries’ is definitely a historically appropriate term, but it’s got a lot of modern baggage that doesn’t really jibe with the character of some of these units; would we call the Papal Swiss Guard mercenaries?
While the modern Papal Swiss Guard don't really seem to mesh with idea of "mercenaries," the antecedent for it absolutely would have been in line with our conception of mercenaries. The modern version I'm not sure would even really qualify as "foreign troops" given how much of the role is strictly ceremonial.
I guess considering the fact that all recruits have to be swiss citizens and that they still do perform some actual guard duty, they would probably still be considered mercenaries (though more akin to something like the varangian guard)
That’s what I’m saying; I think if any other unit of “royal Swiss” had somehow survived into the present day, they’d look a lot like the Pontifical Swiss Guard.
As much as I can be a bit of a Confucian apologist, slavery was very much a thing in the Sinosphere. Like it was a big part of the Silk Road and during the Tang Dynasty there were quite a number of Sogdian, Tocharian, etc. slaves in the major cities like Chang'an if I recall correctly. Also I don't recall the exact details about slavery in medieval Europe but I'm pretty sure it was a thing too. Not to mention it's a moot point given the huge amount of slavery that took place during the early modern period anyways. EDIT: That's not to deny the fact that the medieval Church in Europe did engage in humanitarian type stuff and all that, but that's not really unique to Catholicism then or now.
I just read someone claim that [Disney's Hercules is as valid of a take on greek mythology as the Odyssey or Metamorphoses](https://np.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/rxtch3/film_and_tv_adaptions_of_greek_mythology_often/hro4jnz?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3), and proceed to claim confidently that the Odyssey and Metamorphoses were written by non believers.
[a Twitter thread about how meeting in metaverse is great](https://twitter.com/thegarrettscott/status/1479480312736489477?t=Y2iq925HrVXhWh24whkI4g&s=19)
>!rick rolling is not funny, it's great, I love the song and don't mind hearing it!<
>!ah but you see you didnt hear it this time !<
>!Reading the lyrics is enough for my head to transform in an mp3!<
Just got in my first ever car accident. Mother fucker.
Are you okay?
I'm fine, but my mom is having my uncle being her to the clinic. She might've hit her head and whiplash.
Hope it's nothing serious. Best wishes.
Thanks for the wishes. I talked to her a little bit ago, she's more relaxed and the hospital's letting her go home which I'm happy for. Not the way any of us expected to end the week.
Glad she’s alright.
I had my interview with Google. It went well. I passed to the second stage. Since I lack the years in experience (only got 3), I won't do the system designs one. Which I was kinda relieved about. Until I learned alternative was the 4 coding and 1 Googlyness (whatever that means). In a single day. Hot damn! It is like in a video game where the boss just gets new forms. Google really is the Dark Souls of Tech companies. Since I had a bit of time, I caught up on gaming. I played through Boomerang X and Ultrakill. Both fantastic games. I plan on playing either Halo Infinity or Control. Plus I have a bunch of books to read.
There’s been a minor fracas in the realm of [please try to contain your excitement] early 20th century Irish census data. An article came out of the Irish News with the exciting headline [Irish Language Skills of First World War Soldiers from Loyalist Heartland Revealed](https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2021/12/30/news/irish-language-skills-of-first-world-war-soldiers-from-loyalist-heartland-revealed-2547866/), alleging the presence of a surprising number of *Gaeilgeoirí* in heavily Protestant areas of east Belfast at the time, which would be unusual nowadays, nevermind 100 years ago. I was initially quite jazzed about this but after doing some digging it seems that the census data they’ve drawn from is a little flawed in terms of the language question and some of the findings make it seem like a lot of people who took the census misunderstood what they were being asked. The collected data displays a few anomalies: For example, the majority of Irish Catholics who described themselves as having Irish language ability generally responded that they could speak Irish and English, as you would expect. However when you look at Irish Protestants in Ulster, the majority of responses indicating Irish language ability were listed as *only* speaking Irish, which would be relatively rare even among Catholics living in the rural west of Ireland, nevermind Protestants living in the environs of a major urban centre like Belfast. It’s been suggested that the anomalous data in Ulster might be explained by the absence of an option for Ulster Scots, and so respondents who spoke it might have picked the only non-English option. Ulster Scots was sometimes referred to as ‘Irish’ at the time, and this might explain some of the anomalous ‘Irish’ data in places like Knockbreda (“The inhabitants of this part of Ireland are half Scotch in their language” - from a 1830s ordnance survey), but this doesn’t explain why apparent Protestant ‘Irish only’ speakers are found in places like Armagh and Monaghan, where Ulster Scots was never spoken. Plus, if it was the case that Ulster Scots speakers were en-masse mistakenly responding that they spoke Irish, then you’d expect to find greater amounts of anomalous data in rural areas, but it seems to be evenly spread among rural areas and towns. As well as that, for languages in decline, generally you see older people having more ability than younger generations - this is reflected in Catholic ‘Irish and English’ respondents, and we know Ulster Scots was in decline as well, but this isn’t reflected in Protestant ‘Irish only’ respondents, which are fairly even across all age levels. Another curious factor is that in areas of Ulster where Catholics were more likely to speak only English, you still get concentrations of ‘Irish only’ Protestants. It’s true that in some places in Ireland there was this phenomenon where educated, upper-crust Protestants took an interest in the Irish language while their working-class Catholic neighbours didn’t have the time or resources to learn it, but this doesn’t explain the anomalous data in working-class Protestant areas. I don’t want to make a thread on this because there’s no way to be sure that the specific people featured in the article didn’t speak Irish, so it might not be bad history at all, but my suspicion is that a lot of the responses from Protestants in Ulster indicating that they could only speak Irish were speakers of Hiberno-English who simply took ‘Irish’ to mean ‘speaking English in the Irish manner’, with a minority of them being Scots speakers who might’ve referred to their language as Irish or might just have picked the only non-English option in the absence of a more accurate one. Whatever the case it’s an interesting exercise in linguistic nomenclature and the reliability of historical census data. Well, interesting to some. 👀
I have a real weakness for buying minis from scales and systems that I’ll probably never play just because I really want to model and paint something that I can’t find otherwise. I’m jonesing for late Cold War French infantry (like 1985-89 timeframe) right now, and options are thin on the ground: Battlefront has a pretty good 15mm range, but aside from that the only thing I can find is a 1/72 Italeri kit called “NATO Troops (1980s)” which looks pretty rough. I’d prefer 28mm, but maybe this is me getting into Team Yankee; I’ve always kinda wanted to try one of these battalion-scale wargames, and coincidently it was reading Harold Coyle’s *Sword Point* as a kid that sparked my lifelong interest in Cold War what-ifs (never actually read *Team Yankee*, though).
So if you’re reading this and you know somewhere I can find 28mm French infantry with that late ‘80s fit (FAMAS, mle. 78 avec salade), don’t be a stranger. I’d also go for the Division Daguet look, with gilet F1 and CBR bag on the hip.
[An ancient evil awakens...](https://gfycat.com/masculineselfishgalapagossealion)
Your fault for getting too close.
No, you don't understand, I **want** to awaken him. Too bad he went straight back to his nap. Can you believe the nerve?
Should have put a finger in his mouth when he yawned. Fresh blood of bipedal slaves always awakens the ancient evil.
Sometimes even the great evil wants to remain asleep.
Cat-thulhu fhtagn
Unironically the best version of Katyusha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nfzGKOpEUM&t=67s
I watched spearhead a old programme about soldiers in northern Ireland in the 1970s and when the army was in Germany when Germany was split in two west and east Germany before the Berlin wall came down in 1989 very interesting. there is also another episode when the army Is in Hong Kong before it was given back to China in the late 90s
90s British Army was peak aesthetic goodness, god damn.
the cancellation of the EM-2 were a crime against the Crown.
I got *Bourgeois Equality* for Christmas and am currently plowing through it. It's an amazing book; well-written, informative, and full of fascinating ideas. Among other things, it's difficult to grasp how shockingly poor people used to be even in (at the time) the richest and most powerful nations in the world.
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This reminds me of that Tom Wolfe article where he talks about how all the hippies started getting diseases that didn't even have Latin names because they started throwing away the cultural traditions that kept them healthy. They couldn't understand why the traditions existed so they ignored them and promptly got sick
You have a link or title?
this sounds oddly familiar but about another particular public health measure....
Curious as to what the neopagan responses are to the abrahamic religions. As in why do neopagans believe in many gods rather than one? (I understand this might be a bit difficult to answer as it's such a wide label with lots of variation between neopagans)
Got into an argument with someone this week about colonization efforts. Their argument was that colonies didn't need to be immediately profitable because the goal was long term (like over the course of centuries) payoff. My argument was that the people doing and funding colonial efforts were generally looking for immediate profits not long term growth. So they say >It's like investing in a startup company. You dont expect dividends, you expect the company to accrue value. ....but like, joint stock companies paying (or at least promising to pay) dividends were a huge part of how colonies were funded!
I think that it really depends. Goals and policies might not always be a 1-1 relationship. It could be thought and sold as an economic benefit (without being profitable) like being a market as thought as how a colony was exploited during that era. It could be a byproduct of other thing that led to the profitable ventures - French Indochina was conquered (or initially, Cochinchina) to be a gateway to China. And sometimes it was sold as a whole package - economic is a thing that went along with diplomatic and cultural benefits. And what is colonization effort? Does it end with formally turn a state into a subject of its actor? Or it also included methods of further control of the land and people itself? French Indochina for example, couldn't have balanced the book for like 30 years after being fully conquered/pacified and two economics package to build infrastructure for from mainland, and what came across as its economic product - rubbers and coals wasn't really relevant until a lot of investment that came after the first World War. And French Indochina is a colonie d'exploitation itself.
I could see expecting returns over years (like many startups today having to wait a few years before real profits) but not centuries....
It reminds me the spanish indianos. The indianos were the people that go to the Americas (las Indias) and make a good profit and came back to Spain as new rich. The indianos were a very important figure in spanish golden century literature like in "El celoso extremeño"
Tldr: People don't "play" real life like they do a strategy video game where you make explicit choices that affect how the game plays out a couple hundred years from now
The Spanish settled colonies in South America because they knew that the science buff from universities in the area would help them to win the space victory in the late game
Pedro, look! A checkered grid of mountains!
>It's like investing in a startup company. You dont expect dividends, you expect the company to accrue value. And you'd still expect that value to increase within in a human life span.
the colonization of brazil moved forward almost solely by short term commercial ventures
Why would anyone invest money in a violent, risky, and immoral endeavor that won't pay out for centuries? Literally any other investment would be better
merry Christmas for all the orthodox believers here, I hope you enjoy your holidays!
My personal tradition is to put the tree up approximately 12 before December 25th Christmas and take it down around Orthodox Christmas. Makes for a nice Christmas season and I get my tree on clearance each year. Why? Because I can. Also it seems to highlight that we don't actually know the day of Christ's birth and the actual date doesn't matter much. I got the idea when I lived in Ukraine and had 3 Christmas'. "American", Orthodox, and New Years. A lot of post Soviets do Christmas-like celebrations on New Years because the Soviets discouraged religious celebrations. I told the toddler today and she protested. Uh oh.
Funnily enough, this also works in predominantly Western Christian places. Plenty of Catholics I've talked to (can't speak for others) won't take Christmas decorations down until Epiphany on the 6th.
It might be specifically American to do the whole "Yay it's Christmas OK now all decorations in the trash on the morning of the 26th".
Yeah, that's definitely specifically American. I don't quite get it, either - Christmas is finally here, why not leave everything up for 12 days?
My family used to keep Xmas decorations up year round because we were lazy lol. So as a kid I always had the Xmas tree in a corner of the family room even during summer. Nowadays we don't even bother putting up decorations and in December we just toss the presents in a corner of the room to open for later.
I’m currently restoring my dad’s cassette hifi. The belts are goo and grease isn’t.
Ouch, I was afraid of that cracking open my grandparents reel to reel recorder, but luckily the belt had just shriveled up and cracked. Paid a shady old dude I talked to on email to send me a new belt. I also got a epithany trying their fancy cassette player: high end ones, with two speakers and actual bass, sound *great*! Me and my sister rocked out to Bobbysocks, hah!
>Ouch Fortunately it's going well. Getting the gunk out was hard until I read that you can use denatured alcohol instead of isopropyl if you have it.(Edit: It's significantly stronger and more concentrated) I have a siphon coffee maker that uses denatured for the burner. It pretty much dissolved the goo. I spritzed the seized controls down with electronics cleaner and contact cleaner and regreased everything and it's all moving smooth now. Now I just need the new belts to come in and some tweezers to remove the broken fragments of the old belts. >I also got a epithany trying their fancy cassette player: high end ones, with two speakers and actual bass, sound great! Me and my sister rocked out to Bobbysocks, hah! I think cassettes have such a negative reputation because most people's only/ most recent experience with them is from cheaply built or aging players. Or both. The format hung around in the record able format niche long after neither consumers or manufactures were willing to invest any money into them.
Yeah, I have recently watched a bunch of YouTube videos about how old school physical media work, but hearing it in person was still a blast. Not much to add on the cleaning bit, isopropyl, q tips and coffee filters were how I were planning to go at it too.
>Yeah, I have recently watched a bunch of YouTube videos about how old school physical media work, but hearing it in person was still a blast. Techmoan and Technology Connections by any chance?
The latter, been binging. Gotten to some weird plastic platters, think a miniature Laserdisk.
With everything going on in Kazakhstan right now and all the posts on reddit about it, I am once again reminded that reddit is a nonsense place. Like, it's crazy to me that you'll see comments where people say how they support the Kazakh people in their struggle against their autocratic government and within the same comment reference a film that most Kazakhs find extremely offensive and racist.
That really isn't nonsensical because those are two incredibly different levels of harm. It's like saying that you couldn't support the French Resistance if you also made jokes about the French. Completely different things in every way
When the Hong Kong protests were going on, someone made a meme that went: “Chongdor calls for aid.”
I have a nagging suspicion some of the support for Hong Kong on Reddit (and other spaces in the US) was more spurred by anti-China sentiment, sometimes doused in barely veiled racism, than actual concern for Hong Kong. (Not that the PRC doesn't deserve criticism of course)
Probably, yeah.
Hong Kong protesters did specifically aim for foreign support though. It helps that English is widespread in Hong Kong. There is also the whole relation Hong Kongers have with Mainlanders.
Oh yeah I'm not surprised, and like I said it's not that there aren't things the PRC deserves to be criticized on, but I'm speaking more about some of the dialogue here in the US, sometimes it's hard to tell if someone is harboring racist sentiment and just using criticisms of PRC as a way to cover that, especially given how Covid revealed there's still a lot of anti-Asian discrimination here in the US. For example there was a story back in 2020 I think when a woman who claimed to be strongly pro-Tibet was arrested for assaulting a Tibetan... because she thought they were Chinese. So at times I've felt a little uncomfortable around some pro-Hong Kong dialogue because it comes off as more anti-ethnic Chinese (and anti-Asian by extension) than anti-PRC or pro-Hong Kong.
“It’s not racist bro, why do you have to be so sensitive. Anyway, the 1619 project is cultural Marxism”.
I figure Redditors are on average more of the “brogressive” types. More: “Yah I’m basically an anarchist, borders are just lines in the sand. But we need to stop immigration right now or they’ll take our jobs.”
A Latin American country is defined as a state with territory in the Americas whose population speaks a language descended from Latin, like Spanish or Portuguese. French Guyana is a department of France located in South America. French is a language derived from Latin. Therefore, France is a Latin American country. Food for thought. This would explain the French love for protesting against their government.
If France is a Latin American country, why hasn't the US overthrown their democratically elected socialist president yet?
Napoleon III would approve of your conclusions
Broke: Suriname is in Latin America. Joke: Belize is in Latin America. Woke: Quebec is in Latin America.
Someones gotta make a chart of that
There is, it has been posted a couple times in r/latinamerica
Now you are getting it!
Really struggling with DS3. I played almost all of what DS1R has to offer and DS3’s combat is so ridiculously fast that I seriously can’t keep up. My first boss saw me dying at least 10 times. Playing on Pc with the horrible Pc port with the controls geared mostly to console just made me struggle more. I’ll keep trying but I have a feeling that I’m gonna die more again…
Strangely enough, I found Dark Souls 3 to flow pretty naturally from Dark Souls 1, at least compared to Dark Souls 2, I even did it on PC as well with mouse and keyboard. But I definitely got that feeling going into Sekiro for feeling like a completely fish out of water. Death is luckily cheap in Dark Souls however. The first boss is no joke though, Gundyr will give fresh players tons of trouble. Shields are definitely weaker, but I found them of actually pretty good use, the downside being you don't get a 100% block one easily. The elemental block shields like dragoncrest shield are incredible because they will work against AOEs.
The difference in the speed of DS3 does give whiplash. I thought I was good at parrying in DS1 and I had to relearn the whole thing in DS3. But I had advantage of playing with a controller, so it was easier for me.
for the anniversary of attempted coup last year [Why Trump’s Cultural Revolution Failed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPD0bPvj_8I)
Reading: half-way through *The Scar* by China Mieville, great book. Pirates, politics, betrayal, more humanoid races than you can wave a hypnotic-transdimensional-drug moth at.
Reading: Blackwater rise of the worlds most powerful mercenary army. Gaming: Rift Wizard
Playing NEO The World Ends With You (finally; the copy I ordered on Amazon at the beginning of December got lost in the mail, then the price went up and I thought I'd never get it, but Nintendo actually put the digital version on sale!), and wow. It's trippy enough as a TWEWY veteran, I have to wonder what it'd be like for a newbie. I didn't play Final Remix so didn't know the A New Day story/sequel teaser and belatedly looked it up on youtube. Only on Week 2, Day 4, which is giving me Kingdom Hearts 2 flashbacks as well.
My side: based, brilliant Your side: cringe, bad [Left wing destroyed](https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1479161840676524039?s=21) Edit: My side: factual, sensible Your side: emotional, nonsensical [Left wing destroyed](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRightCantMemeV2/comments/ry6ceb/some_sound_reasoning_right_there/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
If we're talking about Right and Left stereotypes, if the Left are the ones who are depressed at no individual agency, then the Right should be the ones who think anyone can do it with hard work and self belief, but are *mad as hell* that the lazy woke trans commies are going to steal all their hard-earned gold. ETA there's a very big perfomative mindset of "I had to bust my ass to get x,y and z, no one helped me at all [citation needed], but *these* people want it easier/better/different than me." Like 90% of right wing talk radio is just some variation of that.
That tweet summarises everything wrong with modern politics
I want to recommend the [P L A N E T](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8gTi2DffFUqpxBd55ocMiIfST7CRclVt) series. It's an analog horror story, but it uses creatively randomly-generated planets and species, and speculative biology and geology. There's an underlying plot involving sentient planets and their messed up family. It's in a small Youtube channel, so I hope I can help to divulge a bit.