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This could be in a medical textbook as an illustration of the patient perspective of ADHD …

But does it work?

I really want an explanation or better yet, source for this one.

Poetic justice if that’s really the reason …

Your comment certainly sounds like the USSR wasn’t expansionist while Kennan was there.

I’d assume that many of these battles did shape modern China in some way. It’s not like China was always a unified block, there were several times when local rulers carved out independent territories from it. If said local rulers had won all the important battles, there might be more than one state on the territory that is known as China today.

Arguably, it’s a historical accident that China was relatively isolationist when the European powers started to get into overseas colonization. A different ruler/dynasty in China might have acted very differently, and rulers tend to get decided by battles, especially when the dynasty changes; e.g. at one point Genghis Khan ruled China, and that guy was certainly not content with ruling just China.

The USSR wasn’t expansionist?

That’s basically a technical, and those usually have massive logistics advantages!

The imperial system isn’t special, every country used to have its own measuring system and in most of Europe, the pre-metric measuring systems used to be just as dumb as imperial. Brits were a bit late with metric and still haven’t fully adopted it, but that still makes them smarter than someone who sticks with the old crap.

Maybe Plato’s ideas were just different from the mainstream. Atlantis in Plato’s writing was part of an allegorical narrative, anyway, and it’s not like it’s unheard of for port cities to sink or otherwise be destroyed by water.

Sure. Lack of material goods and modern science is an issue.

IIRC that eruption did sink a major minoan city that was near the volcano. The minoan civilization was already mythical to the classical Greeks, and neither them nor modern scientists know/knew how to read the minoan script.

Year 1900 life expectancy seems like it would be more severely impacted by industrialization than agriculture. But yeah, hunter-gatherers don’t just drop dead at 32.

Hunter-gatherers definitely had a lower quality of life in many material ways, but I’d assume that they were doing pretty well in terms of social and psychological wellbeing.

Or food security. But there’s definitely a golden middle, most of our work seems to only serve the enrichment of people who are detrimental to society.

Call him “Karl” or “Carolus” and replace the fractur typeface with period-accurate and much more readable Carolingian minuscule and I’m game.

I always err on the side of too much jacket. Done a lot of sweating and jacket-carrying.

What does Fidel Castro have in common with Adolf Hitler?

It would never have become so widespread if there wasn’t at least a minority that genuinely enjoys it, though.

I found that pipes can be nice, once in a while. I don’t understand the appeal of cigarettes, though.

IIRC slavery itself wasn’t even really the issue. AFAIK the bible is generally in favor of slavery, or at least servants-practically-treated-like-slaves depending on the translation. It’s more about how incredibly badly he treated his slaves. You might think that’s just how slaves are treated, based on 19th century chattel slavery in the USA, but in antiquity and earlier in the mediterranean (which includes the levant), slaves weren’t generally treated that badly. Not saying that it was all fun and games, but there were somewhat stricter rules on what treatment was socially acceptable compared to colonies in the Americas.

TFW you’re a 16th/17th century sailor, and suddenly you’re in a forest and a plumber demands an answer from god

what are those??

Seriously, why do those shoes look like the mafia is going to make him disappear in the harbor?

Also, hateful church figures were a dime a dozen. Ask Martin Luther about Jews, if you dare … and John Calvin drowned “adultering” women while he ruled Geneva.

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Neat!
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Probably because it was actually a show for ~10 yo kids, so the style the 90s dub studios were doing was appropriate.

Don’t they get into copyright issues with that?

Eventually titles like this will be necessary, because all the good short names have already been used.

Or play against friends!