it is in these history books, its like 400 books to the right. There are a LOT of nations and a LOT of cultures that have happened in history. Thats the thing about history. It's fucking MASSIVE.

the man who made the art is from poland. Horse meat is eaten in poland.

likely something about the fact that periods follow a vaguely similar cycle to the moon phases and something about "water of the womb" or the fact that the oceans are often refereed to as the womb of the world.

On the primary topic of the thread tho, idk why anyone would assume the government WOULDN'T take advantage of a big world wide event to strengthen its power. Nothing is sacred, nothing is tragic, everything bad that happens is just an excuse to justify power plays.

just going to point out that the statement " reports of people dying of natural causes or unrelated illnesses" doesn't really mean anything.
Natural Causes just means dying of illness. A death where the person only has covid would be a death by natural causes, covid is an illness, natural causes is dying to an illness rather than a homicide, accident, etc. The same is true of "dying of old age." Old people don't just fall over dead simply for their age. Dying "from old age" is dying from an illness that commonly kills old people. A person will live until something kills them, human's don't just die of age.
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When someone dies, everything that is actively degrading their health is a cause of death. A person that has the flu and also has an infection in their lung from a bullet wound, the infection, the flu, and the wound are causes of death, none are "just also there" they are all actively causing death. The same is true replacing any of those with covid.
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white chocolate, from a culinary viewpoint, is actually not chocolate. The defining feature of chocolate is the ingredient "cocoa solids" which are the solid biproduct of one of the processes refining the cocoa plant. White chocolate does not have this and as such isn't in the family of foods "chocolates".
Milk chocolate is just dark chocolate mixed with sugar and milk basically, its got all the same "chocolate" parts as dark chocolate has.
now chocolate neither reads as a word nor sounds like a word spoke to me lol

ah yes, i cannot wait until the siblings are played by cast that dont even look alike or anything like the animated character, itll be a white chick with red hair and freckles to play the girl and a big 6'2 elderly black man to play the boy lol

@bluelagoon
wait, BOTH were wrong?
how is supplying a fuck ton of religious texts infringing on someone's right to religious freedom? you aren't forced to follow the tenants and lifestyle given by the religious text when supplied a free copy of it by a stranger. How in the hell is giving access to banned religious text doing anything other than helping religious freedom?

the egyptians are to blame for the 24 hour thing
they allocated a nice even 10 hours to the day and put a transition hour for dawn and dusk. They then allocated 12 hours to the night based on the movement of the stars, giving about 40 minutes to the rise and fall of their star groups relative to each other.
The hours also were not set amounts of time during the day, they expanded and contracted as the seasons passed as the sun took longer or shorter to reach dusk, always having that shifting duration of daylight divided into 10 hours.

probably some connection chain from "minorities tend to be more likely to be disadvantage" and then connecting that to "disadvantaged people tend to be more likely to be affected by barriers to voting" making it more likely that a racial minority be made barred from voting by circumstance from anti-fraud measures than a white person.
The issue with calling that anything similar to "racist" is that it implies malice, it implies that reason for implementing fraud reduction is racially charged, that its intent isnt to stop voter fraud but to negatively affect minorities through a 2 or 3 chainlink indirect path, which is absolutely ridiculous.

context
dream is a minecraft influencer whose primary audience is children
technoblade is another minecraft influencer whose primary audience is also children.
the cake has technoblade's minecraft character on it. Dream's child fanbase reacted how children often do, by being awful to people that like a different entertainer than them.

Elections are an interesting logistical problem. There has to be some level of fraud deterrent. If there wasn't every election could be effectively "DDoS" attacked through sending in more fake absentee ballots than exist possible real ones. You put too much deterrent in place and you start to deter real votes too, said deterrents tend to affect legitimate votes of the disadvantaged variety first as well. Kicking people while they are down sorta thing. Gotta find a way to deter the crime while affecting people's right to vote in the smallest way possible. Functionally speaking there isnt a way to have security in voting without removing privacy, without putting barriers that catch real voters in the crossfire.
That's before you get to the fact the people in power dont understand the technology being used for voting. They don't understand the voting machines or how results are communicated across the country. We've also left voting machines in unlocked unguarded rooms before soooooooo

someone that has expensive rifles generally tend to be able to afford a gun safe, good luck burgling guns from that.

to be fair, the easiest way to stop hitler from becoming hitler is to stop world war 1. Hitler became who he was from a mixture of his upbringing, spoiled by his mother and abused and beaten out of hatred and disappointment by his father, and world war 1. To elaborate on that last bit, Hitler was a big patriot during that time, he went and fought for his country and was proud of his service, he gets back from the war to see a country that doesn't support its military and subsequently got pulled into the national socialist movement, a movement that heavily propogandized the problems in the war being blamed on jews, claiming they acted to hinder the war effort. That mixed with the extreme state being being lost from coming home to a homeland that didnt appreciate him all let to Hitler becoming the man he ended up being, a person who had an enemy and a country to fix that he felt only he could fix correctly.

*opens floorboards*

Australia at this point basically has a "not so hidden" shadow council that is just the corporations. It's like they saw America's corporation based political corruption and said "we can do that but bigger."
Their equivalent of a president took a long ass vacation in Hawaii when their big bush fire stuff happened and he's probably still going to get another term because he advances corporate interests

this is dumber by far
wearing a mask into a restaurant at least stops you breathing on people sitting down at tables/booths while you are in transit to your table/booth. Once you sit down the physical solid barriers between the booths that are common now are likely a far better measure than the masks themselves at that point anyways. It at least makes some level of logical sense before you start into the whole "legal requirement rather than a CDC guideline" thing
this shit is at no point effective at all, since the masks are just cut up, there's no point during the entire "scenario" that the mouth and nose arent covered,

yea, we hunt for food here to supplement our food supply, killing a deer is going to be cheaper than the equivalent amount of meals made from purchased food, just need 2 rounds or 2 "shots" worth of powder, cap, and bullet depending on the season.
Hell, my tribe even still officially supports classes to teach people how to make traditional hunting bows with simple tools, not to mention the fact we've had enough "Boil Warnings" from heavy storms, ice storms, and flash floods fucking the water infrastructure here that even the more urban folk round here likely realize that boiling water when you dont know if its clean is a good step to staying alive.