Historical materialism. Understanding that a person is largely shaped by their conditions allows you to realise that expurging brainworms is really hard, but not impossible.
It also allows you to realise that being nice to you and having your interests at heart are two very, very different things.
Jfc did we drive her away AGAIN!? I am once again insisting nobody do anything about anything while I am asleep/busy.
Seriously thinking of becoming a mod just to prevent this petty bullshit from tanking the site again
Glad you took a break, and very glad you’re back.
Several are sacred, but there are sometimes traditions of climbing them for religious purposes (mostly in times of desperation).
You know, famine stalks the land so you climb the forbidden mountain to beg the gods for mercy.
But those things are usually remembered in oral history and we’ve got no record of that.
Probably, yes (though I might add Hillary always claimed Tenzing and him reached the top together and deserve equal credit). It’s just about conceivable that some local had done it but unlikely since the mountain is well known enough that it would have been legendary.
Fun fact. K2 is so remote and hostile that K2 is in fact it’s original name. It’s barely even visible from the farthest regular human travel in the region and there’s no reason to go there. It is, to this date, much more deadly than going to space So we can be pretty damn sure K2 was climbed by Lacidelli first.
I migrated from the previous Kalpa.
The UK deliberately stalled German efforts at Imperialism (which, like all imperialism, is bad), which threatened in turn German food security as its population increased. France wanted the coal and iron of the Rhineland and vengeance for the collapse of the Second Empire.
Germany saw the writing on the wall and began to look for a way to force the issue, thinking its better ships and more trained crews could carry them once France fell. Meanwhile A-H was trying to stabilise the empire and stop being racist to Hungarians by its usual tactic of being racist to Slavs (and conquering the Balkans would solve its own food crisis). The Serbians responded by going proto-fascist and shooting the heir to the throne and the least racist major leader. Russia wanted to conquer A-H, thinking that it was unstable and that there were definitely no issues in Russia politically or militarily. A-H said “bring it!” and looked forwards to having the border east of Kharkov.
Italy wanted the Mediterranean coast and Tyrol and a continuation of the eternal mountain wars
Every one of these assholes had it coming.
The longbow, while progressive for it’s time in its suppression of the dying heavy cavalry feudal order, was supplanted in turn by the nascent proletarian crossbow and it’s ability to collectivise the means of destruction.
I support the restoration of our Admin and the suppression of the revisionist-factionalist anti-mod group.
Yeah, not really sure what has happened and as we are some of the most active posters, that worries me a little. Things seem to be blowing up and getting resolved while we’re asleep.
This sounds fine. What was decided before was also fine, to me. Please get @carcosa back I really am of the opinion this was a minor struggle session at worst and this isn’t a capital offense it was just a slightly badly implemented solution to a real issue.
Yeah I read theory.
I’m sad to see them go, but we can still do the dunking, we just need to provide analysis and I think that’s an extremely useful step.
I know we all love the dunks but yeah especially random twitter chuds dunking should serve a purpose outside petty catharsis.
lathe powers on
A few, animal farm and Homage to Catalonia does a lot of it, though the latter is an essential read once you’re a bit more read up on the SCW.
But mostly, they’ve been told by pretty much everyone that the USSR was evil.
Oh man yeah. Did you know literal bride selling (as in selling a wife you didn’t want) was a thing in England until the 1800s (admittedly often used as a way of mutual divorce)
Finally the revisionism will stop!
Agreed, I’d also suggest a high but finite comment limit too, perhaps 100 comments a day in the comm