'Medieval' China is broad obviously, but the question is basically if any of the Chinese imperial governments ever dabbled with policies amounting to having claim over objects of historical worth or of interest to scholars, or if such things were of any interest at all depending on the regime.

Is there a suicide pact going on or something?

I understand where the emphasis in education comes from in Asian culture through Confucius. And in Imperial China, one of the only ways to gain social mobility was to do well enough on the Imperial Exam so that you would get appointed a government official.

Nowadays studying and education is still very much part of Asian culture but why is there a particular emphasis for Asian parents to encourage their kids to become doctors and lawyers rather than being the traditional civil servant? I mean the value of education to Asian cultures is still the same, that hasn't changed really, but nowadays most Asian parents don't want their kids to become high ranking civil servants, but doctors, engineers, and lawyers instead. Why is that?

Correct me if I'm wrong but being a scholar-official was one of the most respectable jobs in Chinese/Asian culture, when did that change to doctors and lawyers and engineers?

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Following the advance of the Mandarin class, more and more land is needed to feed the swelling population, now numbered at over 50 millions.

The area highlighted contains much fertile land, and offers us considerably more clout in our campaign to finally close the gap between the Northern and Southern portions of our great country.

All in good fun (mostly)

Historiographic VS Historical:

Historiography is the study of how we make historical narratives, aka modeling history and the study of the study of history. When you make a game like CK, you make historiographical claims. If you want to represent crime in a city simulator, for example, you have to say why it happens, how it works, it’s effects, etc. The inaccuracies with CK 3 here are meant to be about the underlying systems, not the events. I don’t want the game to be railroaded into the course of actual history, and I bring this up because the defense “this is a sandbox game and I want to replace Catholicism with Adamism or whatever” is sometimes thrown around, and is irrelevant to the points here. I’m also only looking at the things I think would be interesting to implement in a game, not things that basically can’t be represented in a fun or approachable way.

Secular Kings:

• Your standing with the Church has no bearing on your legitimacy, unless excommunicated there’s no real problem in terms of your relationship with your subjects for conflict with the church/pious posturing. (contrast with needing coronation in CKII, not saying we need that mechanic, or even that that was the best way to do it, just an example of how to think about things)
• Tenets of the various faiths do not fully represent their differences/structure/impact on society. Before, expecting CKII levels of bespoke mechanics for a modular new system was perhaps too much, but in light of the new Culture system, where even the most droll Traditions still do so much and bespoke mechanics are represented, this sticks out.
• Court Priests are wholly passive, they don’t try to represent the desires of the church (or exploit their positions). As a result, though they are meant to remove diplomacy with tons of Baron level characters, they instead remove diplomacy and management of religious characters in general.
• There are no religious “end-goals”, so to speak, outside of reforming a faith. Unless you want to replace your religion it is only a means to gain levies, gold, and potentially claims. Things like getting religious relics to make your city into a minor pilgrimage site, patronizing monastic orders and religious scholars, etc. are not represented, despite being actual motivators for medieval rulers. (more on that at the end)

States and Clans:

• Obviously Byzantium is not meant to be Feudal, they’ve talked about representing it better in DL

Dr. Odanes, Chief Exobiologist of the first Sol mission (previously named Barren Sector #177-013) Log #1994.

The rest of the galaxy don’t really understand the beauty of the so-called deathworlds. You neither, of course, you big piece of drek. You call yourself a xenobiologist but you are not much more than a desk bureaucrat.

Let me made something clear from the beginning. You all had been seeing just too many class B horror films. A deathworld is much more than a supermassive planet with hellish temperatures, seismic activity and an atmosphere made of noxious gases with creatures that can tear us apart without blinking an eye.

I know you have been reading the reports. I have seen my name in the news. Brave okhaxi defies hellworld full of meat eaters. Drek, you even passed the photograph of me petting a Great Dane. That was a dreking pet! Her name was Fuzzy and despite her size she was very polite although a bit clumsy. Definitely not a ravenous meat eating monster.

You just don’t understand.

I am not sending further reports. This is the last one. As I said, I’ve been seeing the news. The galactic community made a big fuss over the discovery of the Sol system and its peculiar third planet, but that was expected. What was not expected was the representatives being so malleable by the pressure of the popular opinion.

Suggesting that we should glass the entire planet? Really? The Galactic Gazette is supposed to be a reputable news source, not a tabloid.

You don’t understand deathworlds. Really. Neither do you understand humans, but I’m not going deeper in that subject. Humans are beyond your comprehension just as they are beyond our standardized testing, they are just too diverse to fit in the categorization. And yes, you could trace some ‘evolutionary’ traits common to most of them, but even that is so reductionist that I want to squeeze the necks of the ‘scholars’ who write the first draft of ‘Introduction to hoomanity’.

But I digress.

Deathworlds are not to be glassed, they are to be conserved.

You thought our crops are fragile? Of course, they need an ecosystem virtually free of predators and a temperature fluctuation not greater than a couple degrees. And thats it. 90% of the surface of our dear planet is suitable for 90% of our species! We live in a dreking paradise. Only a dreking super nova could wipe us from the surface of our planet.

Here in Sol III there is not only ‘one way’ to survive, there are millions of ways, millions of geneti

Part I

Throughout the storied history of planet Earth, countless species in the animal kingdom have battled malicious viruses and bacterial strains; all with varying degrees of success. While these microscopic invaders wreaked havoc on the host’s embattled immune system, it did so without support or assistance from any other microscopic species. In essence, we were often able to overcome these internal attacks because they came from only one pathogen at-a-time.

We ‘knew’ they were primitive life forms; wholly incapable of complex mental function, or self-awareness. Any empirical evidence to the contrary would’ve suggested a significant level of sentience we weren’t willing to entertain. The human race was so fixated on its perceived ‘superiority’, that we refused to consider the possibility of species outside the animal kingdom being able to communicate with different life forms too. Our scientific community and religious leaders assured our fragile little egos that humanity is unique.

“Only we can communicate with each other in a meaningful way.”; They told us. We thought of these one-celled parasites attacking our bodies as unthinking, mindless ‘germs’ intellectually unaware of their own existence, or the greater world outside the body of their hosts. Those ‘facts’ made us feel important and special but they were recently proven very wrong.

In a surprising level of collaboration that went initially undetected, the viral and bacterial kingdoms started attacking their human hosts in a deliberate, calculated fashion. This highly unusual partnership was unlike anything we’d experienced before. Their tandem attacks meant that previously developed natural immunity or lab vaccines only had a minimal impact.

Deaths spiraled globally from what was previously curable conditions. This hidden disease alliance led the leading virologists astray because they were still targeting specific strains. Besides offering malicious pathogens safety in numbers and greater gene variety, their united front afforded them unparalleled resistance to what had been our most effective treatment options.

There was also the devastating effect of natural evolution as a bringer of beneficial adaption. In ‘comparing notes’ and sharing their inherent biological strengths via reproduction, it allowed the rise of super strains produced through organized cross-breeding. Even the ‘common cold’ mutated. It was able to weaponize itself tenfold against thousands of years of mammalian re

There have been multiple claims against socialists that Benito Mussolini's Fascist party was socialist due to Mussolini being an ex-member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and his party being the sole decision maker on economic policies

This argument has been used to attack socialism through association with Fascist policies. It has also led to confusion, as Fascism is normally associated with far-right-wing views.

So then what actually is Fascism?

Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. The first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I, before spreading to other European countries. Opposed to anarchism, democracy, liberalism, and Marxism, fascism is placed on the far right-wing within the traditional left–right spectrum.

Fascists saw World War I as a revolution that brought massive changes to the nature of war, society, the state, and technology. The advent of total war and the total mass mobilization of society had broken down the distinction between civilians and combatants. A military citizenship arose in which all citizens were involved with the military in some manner during the war. The war had resulted in the rise of a powerful state capable of mobilizing millions of people to serve on the front lines and providing economic production and logistics to support them, as well as having unprecedented authority to intervene in the lives of citizens. Fascists believe that liberal democracy is obsolete and regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and to respond effectively to economic difficulties. A fascist state is led by a strong leader (such as a dictator) and a martial law government composed of the members of the governing fascist party to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society. Fascism rejects assertions that violence is automatically negative in nature and views imperialism, political violence and war as means that can achieve national rejuvenation. The extreme authoritarianism and nationalism of fascism often manifests a belief in racial purity or a master race, usually synthesized with some variant of racism or bigotry of a demonized "Other"; the idea of racial purity has motivated fascist regimes to comm

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Postmortem

When the Petrel got close enough to Earth-space to start sending messages, things got crazy quickly. First, the entire ship needed to be quarantined to prevent possible contamination from the alien species, and then suitable research facilities needed to be organized to investigate the artifacts. Representatives from every faction had opinions about every aspect. What does it mean to humans that another space-faring species has been found? Who will go recover the wreckage and how? How will first contact with this species be implemented to avoid a similar catastrophe to this one, or worse, biological contamination from humans to the aliens? Accidentally killing one ship is bad, but what if humans accidentally kill off an entire planet? It wasn’t long before a massive research effort and its parallel diplomatic effort were under-way.

The first breakthrough came from Information Specialist Almasi Mwangi herself. On the long journey back to human space, she had successfully identified markers in the recovered data storage media that allowed her to separate recordings of voice and video from other digital data. This meant that some of the alien ship’s logs could be replayed. This was jumped on by linguists who, by comparing the alien’s logs of the encounter with the Petrel’s logs of the encounter were able to construct a sort of Rosetta Stone for the alien language. This in turn led to learning the ship’s name (Dawnflower), the names of the crew, how their communications equipment worked, how their star charts worked, and much, much more. Humans now knew where the rladii-occupied planets were and how to communicate with them. It also caused bureaucrats and intelligence services across the Factions to realize how vulnerable humans were to other aliens capturing a human ship. There were going to have to be some serious redesigns for future deep-space ships.

Another set of breakthroughs came from a team headed up by Danish physician and biologist Mark Ruthgar and his team. The frozen pair brought back were indeed a middle aged male and female (named Gnolder and Nagla, according to the linguists), and the female was pregnant. This gave the biologists an unexpected bonanza of information about anatomy and reproduction, as well as tissues for understanding what dis

TLDR : This is a sum of the most important Universal Basic Income experiments (when you hand over enough cash to people to survive, for free, without any conditions), that shows that it works in alleviating all social issues, poverty, illnesses, unemployment and lack of education, proving to be far more effective than traditional traditional welfare state approaches, with its monstruous bureauratic conundrum, while costing much less money too !

London, May 2009 – An experiment is under way. Its subjects: thirteen homeless men. They are veterans of the street. Some have been sleeping on the cold pavement of the Square Mile, Europe’s financial center, for going on forty years. Between the police expenses, court costs, and social services, these thirteen troublemakers have racked up a bill estimated at £400,000 ($650,000) or more.

Per year. The strain on city services and local charities is too great for things to go on this way. So Broadway, a London-based aid organization, makes a radical decision: From now on, the city’s thirteen consummate drifters will be getting VIP treatment. It’s adiós to the daily helpings of food stamps, soup kitchens, and shelters. They’re getting a drastic and instantaneous bailout. From now on, these rough sleepers will receive free money. To be exact, they’re getting £3,000 in spending money, and they don’t have to do a thing in return.

How they spend it is up to them. They can opt to make use of an advisor if they’d like – or not. There are no strings attached, no questions to trip them up.

The only thing they’re asked is: What do you think you need?

“I didn’t have enormous expectations,” one social worker later recalled.

But the drifters’ desires proved eminently modest. A telephone, a dictionary, a hearing aid – each had his own ideas about what he needed. In fact, most were downright thrifty. After one year, they had spent an average of just £800. Take Simon, who had been strung out on heroin for twenty years. The money turned his life around. Simon got clean and started taking gardening classes. “For some reason, for the first time in my life, everything just clicked,” he said later. “I’m starting to look after myself, wash and shave. Now I’m thinking of going back home. I’ve got two kids.” A year and a half after the experiment began, seven of the thirteen rough sleepers had a roof over their heads. Two more were about to move into their own apartments.

“This is a bad idea,” my best friend Alfie was yelling in my ear above the pounding music. “This is beyond a bad idea. This is such a bad idea that the horror movie protagonist creeping around the haunted mansion in her underwear with nothing but a flickery flashlight would stop, look you dead in the eye, and tell you that this is a fucking stupid, terrible, horrible, bad idea.”

I felt some of Alfie’s beer slosh down the front of my shirt. As usual, he couldn’t hold his drink. We were crammed like sardines into the sticky basement of the least-shitty bar in my hometown, and I’d just finished telling Alfie that I was going to a remote town in the Pyrenees mountains to look for my father.

I remember his response verbatim, because as it turned out, I should have heeded his advice. But that came later.

For the moment, I was trying to make Alfie understand that while my father hadn’t disappeared--not quite--I still felt like I was owed an explanation. My father Jamie had been a professor of sociology, a hardworking man who always came home smelling like orange peels, chalk dust, and desk polish. For most of my childhood, I remember him being quiet, kind, and fair. What he did to our family when I was a teenager, though, was anything but.

My father’s area of study was medieval witchcraft, and his views on the topic were controversial. The scholarly consensus about the thousands of witch trials that plagued Europe was that they were a result of small-town feuds, mass hysteria, hallucinogenic fungi in the food supply, or some combination of the three. My father, however, had a different opinion.

He was convinced that, despite the exaggerations and persecutions, there had to be a grain of truth at the bottom of it all. His career was spent proving that a cult of witches--or at least people who believed they were witches--had really existed, and persisted up to the present day. The hunt for evidence to back up such an extraordinary claim led him to obscure locales around the world, but he always came back with lots of stories, local sweets, and a sunburn on his beaky nose. Until his last trip.

A few days before my father was due back from Spain--almost twenty years ago now--we received a letter, postmarked Madrid. In it, my father described how he’d fallen in love with his research assistant, he was moving to the mountains for a simpler life, and that--although he was very sorry--he was sure we’d understand and that it was all for the best.

The

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> TIL many mainstream historians, including prominent Jewish scholars, now believe the holocaust might have happened out of the coincidental initiative of low-level Nazi bureaucrats. Top Nazi brass might not have wanted it after all. > > Remember what you were taught about the Wannsee conference and the final solution? Yeah, it turns out no order, budget or plan were ever found for the holocaust. > > The only possible explanation is it must have happened spontaneously.

Thousands of clerks randomly got the idea and means to murder millions of Jews. There was nothing poor Hitler, Eichmann and all could do about it. There couldn't be any other explanation.

Let's take another moment to appreciate the fact that r_conspiracy insists such a massive undertaking happened by chance, and that they insist it's "the only possible explanation". These people will spend countless hours making up explanations for why two people from the same region have similar first names.

*Record scratch, freeze frame*

Yep, that’s me. Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Yale University, published in all the leading journals, feted and dined by the foremost corporate research departments, recipient of all the academic honors that matter and most of the ones that don’t: you’re probably wondering how I ended up here, on a Reddit forum-the slums of the internet-casting my pearls before the credulous, mouth-breathing, denizens of nosleep? Well, I guess I’m here for the same reason everyone else is. To tell you a story. A true one.

Now, this story may not fit in with the usual fare presented in this subreddit, tired clichés trotted out limply in amateurish prose, but I do hope you’ll stick around, nevertheless. I expected this story to be published with acclaim in a journal like Nature, Lancet¸ or Science; to have my discoveries read by the finest minds in science and leave them burning with jealousy and a sense of their own intellectual inadequacy. Instead, I suppose, I will have to settle for the anonymity of an internet forum designed for those with the attention span of a goldfish suffering from catastrophic brain damage.

In the heyday of experiments, a professor could condition a child to be scared of Santa Claus, let a gang of sociopathic undergrads play prison guard on each other, or give unsuspecting subjects LSD just to see what would happen, all in the name of science, and be hailed a hero for his efforts.

To my great regret, I missed that brief, wonderful, moment in time, and am instead subject to the petty bureaucrats of Yale’s Experimental Ethics Review Board. Those puffed toads, swaddled so tightly within the comforting cocoon of academic administration that it’s a wonder they ever emerge at all to bestow us poor, benighted professors, who fritter away our time conducting actual research, with ever more inscrutable acronyms and unnecessary paperwork to parse. They would never have understood the promise behind my proposal.

I knew from the beginning that with this particular experiment, I would be pursuing the well-trod path of seeking forgiveness rather than permission. However, I was sure that when the results were presented, such forgiveness would be forthcoming.

Since we’re all friends here together on the internet, I suppose there is no need to be coy about my experiment: I planned, no more and no less, to prove that there is no life after death.

This may sound merely grandiose if one is inclined to be

All of the Primarchs are sat down in the palace auditorium and given the Primarch Cognition and Aptitude Test by headmaster Malcador. Who pulls the highest overall score?

Magnus, the Scholar? Guilliman, the bureaucrat? Perturabo, the math whiz? Dorn, the…I don’t know but he seems smart, and probably hasn’t skipped a homework assignment ever.

I included Vulkan because, as far as I know, he’s the only one to invent something that the Emps directly stated he couldn’t do himself (the amulet that destroys Terra in the event of Big E’s failure).

Corax the geneticist, Lorgar the philosopher, Horus the dick, and Ferrus get honorable mentions as I ran out of options in the poll, and it’s awful hard for Ferrus to think without a head.

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So, I’m a white-washed ethnically Asian female who was born and raised in Canada- basically I’m as “Western” as you can get- I didn’t even get into reading about politics or researching the history of my own family’s home country. I grew up with white friends in a predominantly white community, so I really didn’t embrace my Asian background at all until Covid hit, actually.

But once I actually started researching Asian history, which then segued into contemporary politics and started paying attention to the English-speaking circles regarding Asian countries, I’ve noticed a pretty repetitive phenomenon. It's the obsession that some white people have with Asian countries and a complete lack of tolerance for actual Asian people who disagree with them. Apparently, white voices take so much precedence, even more than Asian ones, when it comes to politics of a foreign Asian country, and it’s always from a completely Western POV, a typically insensitive one. Coming from a western pov isn’t necessarily a bad thing on its own- each country is going to have its own interests in mind. But it’s a few things that really make it ridiculous. It’s the utter lack of self-awareness and lack of respect these (typically white, a lot of the times American) westerners have. These Western “Asian” experts are typically:

1. Foreigners who assume they know better than actual Asians because somehow Asians are incapable of scrutinizing their own governments (once again we’re monolithic to them!)
2. They think that, unlike Asian nationals, they have the righteous unbiased opinion blessed by the Free Press and Free Speech Jesus and are therefore the Voice of Reason Overseas™
3. Foreigners from WESTERN nations that typically have butted their ASSES in fucking up other countries, puppeteering wars in Asian countries or colonizing them, and then having the audacity to speak over the Asians whose countries’ governments are now an indirect result of the actions of said Western countries. The fucking audacity.
4. Pretty much have zero respect for the English-speaking nationals who try and weigh in an inside perspective in their country’s politics, who are, well, a literal actual citizen of the country. Then accuse the nationals of being brainwashed, anti-American, saying the leader/president/prime minister their country supports is bad (because said leader usually has policies that oppose typically Western interests) and that the country's citizens are stupid for sup

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Firstly, hello and welcome all!

This post is to be the first in a monthly series exploring the world of Golarion, storytelling and world-building utilizing Paizo's timekeeping system to chronicle current events and create various segments.

To those unaware, Golarion uses Absalom Reckoning (Avistan and Garund) and Imperial Calendar (Tian Xia) to organize and specify date, which runs concurrently with our own Gregorian calendar. For the purposes of these posts, I will be using the Absalom Reckoning unless exploring a character's point of view or a narrative scenario that would utilize a different timekeeping system.

Under Absalom Reckoning, the year is our own (2022) plus an additional 2,000 years, setting it at 4,722 AR.
Under Imperial Calendar, the year is our own (2022) plus an additional 4,500 years, setting it at 6,522 IC.

As the first in this series, I'll be spending a portion of this post lightly summarizing major events in Golarion rather than detailing specific events, expect later posts to cover events on a significantly more micro scale and be more concerned with fleshing pieces of the setting ways in which I hope to be useful to you all. (For example, I'd initially intended to detail how I imagine events for Irahai, leader of Mendev, had likely progressed over the three years of her leadership, and search for/create specific Demons and other named characters who may be used by GM's when storytelling in the region before bouncing to describing what I imagine the new House of Perfection is up to after it's renewal four years ago.).

With that out of the way, let us begin!

##The Basics -Tar-Baphon has been imprisoned on the Isle of Terror for around three years (4719-4722), bolstering his forces and seeking ways to break out of his impromptu prison. By now, it would be fair to say the Orcs of Belkzan who made enemies with the Whispering One cult now actively need to fight off undead forces, or alternatively have just begun to notice the increase in attacks surrounding orc tribes are facing from this old enemy.
-The Runelords, Sorshen and Balarmius officially established New Thassilon around four years ago (4718-4722) and took their place as leaders, opposing each other both politically and morally.
-The Pathfinder Society has been established for four-hundred and fifteen years (4307-4722), currently their sights are set on Razmiran, having established the nation's first lodge in the city of Xer in Gozran 29, 4720 AR. This has

For a broad overview of Vicky 3, check out my announcement coverage on IGN: https://www.ign.com/articles/paradox-reveals-victoria-3-a-long-awaited-sequel-to-a-grand-strategy-series

For everything else...

CAVEAT: Everything I saw was very work-in-progress. Anything could change, especially specific numbers.

KEY: This is a simulation. It's not a map painter. Military conquest is not the main focus. Victoria 3 is more about diplomatic maneuvering, shaping your society and laws, building and industrializing your economy, and "tending the garden" of your nation.

• 1836 - 1936.

• 4 ticks per day, so the number of ticks per campaign is similar to EU4.

• The map is divided into States and Provinces. There are about 730 States at game start, which are the smallest unit you will interact with for purposes of politics and economics.

• It's possible to split existing states, such as when you demand a Treaty Port in a war or Diplomatic Play. This creates a new State that is only one Province in size. Even at game start there are some cases of having more than one State, gameplay-wise, within a single "State Area."

• Provinces are subdivisions that you usually only interact with for maneuvering armies and when colonizing (which is done one Province at a time as you add more Provinces to your Colonial State), and there are roughly the same number of individual Provinces as in HoI4. (According to Google, that's around 13,000 - roughly 18 Provinces per State on average.)

• Visually, urbanization will spread across individual Provinces within a State.

• The pre-alpha map we saw looks better than HoI4 but worse than CK3/Imperator. They did say specifically that it isn't done yet. You can definitely zoom in further than HoI4, so I'd say the map overall feels bigger than the HoI4 map. Zoomed all the way out it looks very similar to the Vicky 2 paper map. Zoomed in you can see realistic clouds and stuff drifting over the landscape. Railroads are visible.

• Well over 100 playable countries, but not all countries are playable. Most of Africa, parts of inner South America, and a few surviving native tribes in North America (including the Lakota, Dakota, and Cree) were not playable. These are "Decentralized Countries." Post-launch, they want to make them playable eventually. But they want to do them right because the gameplay experience should be significantly different. All the Decentralized Countries have names and governments. There are no "uncolonized" provin

They say a nation is made up of its denizens, and by extension, shaped by them. This statement is more true in Rovina’s case then it may first appear, and not for the most obvious reasons. Rovina, and it’s predecessor states post-Landing, have always been defined by how Humans and Elves, and eventually Half-Elves, have interacted and related with one another. Social standing, economic dis/parity, cooperation, oppression, and more. Due to the long and intimate history the three races share with each other over the centuries of cohabitation, unique theories and philosophies have appeared regarding their particular geo-social circumstances. These facts form the basis of the state central Race Relations Theory, which will be the focus of this post.

As the name suggests, the Theory presents a systematic overview of the past and current relationship between Rovina’s ‘Three Races’, those of course being the Elves, Half-Elves, and Humans. The most broad and simplistic overview of the Theory is; to provide a framework to examine the general attitude and feeling the Three Races have for one another, both past and in the present. But Race Relations also covers ways to highlight grievances within any particular relationship, ways to mend it, and other near-philosophical inquiries and methods for any one race to reach out and connect with the other.

The theory was first coined by Prof. Islidur Gorusuyev, an influential Half-Elven intellectual and writer, among other talents. Islidur was driven by several factors to write about the subject and to propose the theory as a legitimate concept. The late 300’s into the 200’s BCE was a turbulent time of ideas, challenges, and conflict, as the Early Modern Period gave way to the age of imperialism and nationalism, and paved much of the way for the future Republican Era in turn. Islidur was motivated to study the meteoric rise of his own Half-Elven community, which within a century or so, managed to eclipse both the Human and Elven populations, both in the breadth of their social positions, as well as in sheer numbers.

But the unbeknownst sociologist was also interested in the shifts of social relations separate and in conjunction to this population rise. Nationalism, class conflict, and suffrage were major causes of the day that rocked the Rovina progenitor states, causing the various communities to formulate their own responses to the rapidly shifting social landscape. This concept was explored in his influential ess

A very merry unbirthday cake day to me! 🎉🤩 Hi there, my awesome friends! Feeling ready for the update? I can’t wait, getting through this week with my sanity intact has been a heroic feat, ngl! I’m back with my tradition of posting a “small” something right before RC drops the new episodes... this time I actually had decided to anticipate a little (I wanted to post it on Wednesday… good job me!), for celebrating my cake day (thanks to the dear friends who noticed in my stead #always-with-my-head-in-the-clouds)... you can see how that went! 😅😬 Oh well... I'm finally here! And to be completely honest, the real reason I wrote this post is that I just needed an excuse to bask once again in the perfection of this poster:

Have you ever seen something more beautiful?

I'n not ashamed to admit that I kept ging back to the original post just to look at its awesomeness. After I got accustomed to the divine beauty of this art, I noticed four constellations in the background, standing out from the homogeneous starry sky. The curiosity got the best of me, and I started looking into Mesopotamian star charts, delving into a topic I was familiar with but I never really “dissected”. I got reminded/found out a great deal of interesting things, and I especially noticed that astronomy is the perfect shortcut to deal with the Sumerian civilisation as a whole, in order to get acquainted with the story setting before it even started! Of course, the infos about it will be those somewhat relevant to the matters at hand, but feel free to ask anything you are curious about these ancient and sophisticated civilisations, who lived in Mesopotamia, the “Land between Two Rivers” (since it seems that some are not very familiar with them… one more reason to talk about it, before TFT airs! Ask in the comments whatever you are curious about, if you want!)

Let’s get into it! Bear with me, for a little while: after a swift introduction, we will move right away to our Sumerian friends! In modern astronomy, the heavenly vault is divided into 88 parts, each one of them corresponding to a constellation. Now, in purely scientific terms, constellations do not mean anything: they are just imaginary lines drawn between stars, or rather, the projection of stars on the heavens from our earthly point of view, created in the past for a plethora of reasons, from th

I am sending this message from the year 2089. Things have never been so good in all of human history, and some of you will still be here to see it.

If you don’t believe me, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry.

I know you are all busy building, and I don’t want to waste your time, so I’ll simply explain what happened.

On average, every year, the value of a bitcoin continued to grow at an over 250% annualized return, that is, of course, until hyperbitcoinization began in earnest. Arguably, hyperbitcoinization began with the genesis block, but when the US government started printing trillions of dollars during the old pandemic of 2019, the world, en masse, began to lose faith in their unit of account, the US dollar.

The largest demographic in the US, the Baby Boomers, began retiring. They held most of their wealth in their homes and retirement accounts (mostly equities), and as they watched the financial markets and real estate pump and dump continuously, due to money printing and government handouts, tempered by schizophrenic fiscal policy, they realized there would eventually be no demand for their overpriced homes and Amazon stock (I’m not sure what this company did, but I’ve read about it being very large), and started to cash out.

This, coupled with small countries beginning to adopt Bitcoin as currency, led the way to broader de-dollarization. China, for a few years, attempted a digital Yuan, but a civil war ended their dream by destabilizing CBDC rollout, all the while debtor countries in the Chinese Belt and Road initiative realized they could simply convert their treasuries to Bitcoin, and clear their debts in the weakened Yuan currency after a year or two, thus securing their financial freedom.

Back in the US, all hell broke loose when Vanguard, Fidelity and Schwab started metering retirement account redemptions. I don’t want to oversimplify those years, but scams abounded and confusion was the norm. Many lost their life savings while others 500x-ed what they had by buying Bitcoin as soon as possible. In all, it became clear when the dust had settled, that the digital scarcity of Bitcoin was the enforceable unit of account.

One famous couple, whose son had been telling them to buy Bitcoin since 2020, lost everything in their retirement accounts. That is, until one Thanksgiving when he logged into the long forgotten Swan website and realized their auto DCA of $50 a week had been running continuously for the last 10 years. They

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

COVID-19 vaccine developer faces losing his job

The insanity of policies

When policy gets in the way of science, it can get ridiculous as previously shown with a potential flu vaccine. Here is a short link filled background.

Professor Nikolai Petrovsky, published novel vaccine developer with two decades of experience is the Research Director of Vaxine Pty Ltd and Professor of Medicine, Flinders University

He is potentially facing being stood down by Flinders University because of his refusal. It will be hard to put the anti-vaxxer spin on this by our infallible government and media, and will be interesting to see how this plays out. More propaganda, maybe, to 'inform' the public?

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

London, May 2009 – An experiment is under way. Its subjects: thirteen homeless men. They are veterans of the street. Some have been sleeping on the cold pavement of the Square Mile, Europe’s financial center, for going on forty years. Between the police expenses, court costs, and social services, these thirteen troublemakers have racked up a bill estimated at £400,000 ($650,000) or more.

Per year. The strain on city services and local charities is too great for things to go on this way. So Broadway, a London-based aid organization, makes a radical decision: From now on, the city’s thirteen consummate drifters will be getting VIP treatment. It’s adiós to the daily helpings of food stamps, soup kitchens, and shelters. They’re getting a drastic and instantaneous bailout. From now on, these rough sleepers will receive free money. To be exact, they’re getting £3,000 in spending money, and they don’t have to do a thing in return.

How they spend it is up to them. They can opt to make use of an advisor if they’d like – or not. There are no strings attached, no questions to trip them up.

The only thing they’re asked is: What do you think you need?

“I didn’t have enormous expectations,” one social worker later recalled.

But the drifters’ desires proved eminently modest. A telephone, a dictionary, a hearing aid – each had his own ideas about what he needed. In fact, most were downright thrifty. After one year, they had spent an average of just £800. Take Simon, who had been strung out on heroin for twenty years. The money turned his life around. Simon got clean and started taking gardening classes. “For some reason, for the first time in my life, everything just clicked,” he said later. “I’m starting to look after myself, wash and shave. Now I’m thinking of going back home. I’ve got two kids.” A year and a half after the experiment began, seven of the thirteen rough sleepers had a roof over their heads. Two more were about to move into their own apartments.

All thirteen had taken critical steps toward solvency and personal growth. They were enrolled in classes, learning to cook, going through rehab, visiting their families, and making plans for the future. “It empowers people,” one of the social workers said about the personalized budget. “It gives choices. I think it can make a difference.” After decades of fruitless pushing, pulling, pampering, penalizing, prosecuting, and prot

The doctor says it terminal.

London, May 2009 – An experiment is under way. Its subjects: thirteen homeless men. They are veterans of the street. Some have been sleeping on the cold pavement of the Square Mile, Europe’s financial center, for going on forty years. Between the police expenses, court costs, and social services, these thirteen troublemakers have racked up a bill estimated at £400,000 ($650,000) or more.

Per year. The strain on city services and local charities is too great for things to go on this way. So Broadway, a London-based aid organization, makes a radical decision: From now on, the city’s thirteen consummate drifters will be getting VIP treatment. It’s adiós to the daily helpings of food stamps, soup kitchens, and shelters. They’re getting a drastic and instantaneous bailout. From now on, these rough sleepers will receive free money. To be exact, they’re getting £3,000 in spending money, and they don’t have to do a thing in return.

How they spend it is up to them. They can opt to make use of an advisor if they’d like – or not. There are no strings attached, no questions to trip them up.

The only thing they’re asked is: What do you think you need?

“I didn’t have enormous expectations,” one social worker later recalled.

But the drifters’ desires proved eminently modest. A telephone, a dictionary, a hearing aid – each had his own ideas about what he needed. In fact, most were downright thrifty. After one year, they had spent an average of just £800. Take Simon, who had been strung out on heroin for twenty years. The money turned his life around. Simon got clean and started taking gardening classes. “For some reason, for the first time in my life, everything just clicked,” he said later. “I’m starting to look after myself, wash and shave. Now I’m thinking of going back home. I’ve got two kids.” A year and a half after the experiment began, seven of the thirteen rough sleepers had a roof over their heads. Two more were about to move into their own apartments.

All thirteen had taken critical steps toward solvency and personal growth. They were enrolled in classes, learning to cook, going through rehab, visiting their families, and making plans for the future. “It empowers people,” one of the social workers said about the personalized budget. “It gives choices. I think it can make a difference.” After decades of fruitless pushing, pulling, pampering, penalizing, prosecuting, and protecting, nine notorious vagr

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.