XiaCobolt [she/her, she/her]

A MiG jet can carry a kinzhal supersonic missile with a nuclear warhead. So I don’t know why a big ol’ ship can’t.

Saints Row 2 stays winning. Choose any of six voices. Gender slide, not binary. Pronouns just the Boss. Can wear all clothes not locked behind gender .

It was weird, there was all this talking about how she was going to die of kidney failure immediately but there was no mention of dialysis.

Twisting a lock of my hair coquettishly

“…and you say you want to kill him, that’s so interesting”

Also fighting and war through history has ranged from serious trying to kill each other and doing a little show to impress the fellas. Depending on material circumstances of the time.

For every silly weapon made to be shown off there’s also something like the Iklwa (Zulu short stabbing spear) for killing.

Honestly improvised peasant weapons go hard AF, a while ago I had this cool idea for a hammer/sickle symbol for the Hussites that’s a crossed threshing flail and a straightened scythe (how peasants would rotate the blade 90 degrees to make a glaive). Maybe making the sign of the cross because of the Hussite’s “heretical” Christian beliefs.

A quick dive back into the research says it’s still debated but generally the rough consensus is peasants having flails would have been super common, as they were a threshing tools. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia they were somewhat present as weapons, in Western and Central Europe they would have been pretty rare (and high to late medieval period) but not unheard of. They would have been the Nunchaku of their era. Like a French knight might think it an odd choice if a peer wielded one.

This article is interesting https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9252/4/1/9

They’re kind of designed for a very specific niche, particularly in 18th century naval combat where you want to fill a narrow space with multiple shots and the heavy smoke from the powder prior to attempting to board so that the defenders either get hit, take cover, can’t see for the smoke or are disorientated by the noise.

I think there’s debate about whether a ball on chain flail was ever actually designed used as a serious weapon in the middle ages. We know straight length weapons like morningstars, war hammers and maces were and peasants used threshing flails in revolts.

But there’s not many archaeological examples of non ceremonial or farming flails. Like a flail designed for fighting. There’s drawing in marginalia but they also draw dick trees and rabbits fighting snails.

Most evidence we have is mounted knights would use lances first, as they were longest but also easily lost or broken, then swords as they still had decent reach if you’re riding by someone, and maces if you got scrunched together against other cavalry, for short range and armour piercing.

I guess it’s a new Holy Roman Empire, because otherwise Snoop Dogg needs to get the votes of the Prince Electors to be King of the Romans, then the Pope can crown him Holy Roman Emperor.

Katie Perry was in space for 11 mintues. Valentina Tereshkova was in space 3 days.

Also a major factor in choosing her was she was a competitive parachutist and the Soviet Space program had you eject and parachute from high altitude rather than ride the capsule down. Which sounds intense but is a lot more straightforward and safe (if you know how) when you think about it.

Hands off the lathe, there’s already a critically acclaimed alt fiction they could adapt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler's_Daughter

I mean the best situation is if you can do a Puyi like the Chinese, if only so fuckers aren’t complaining a century later.

Eh. The Tsar Nicholas was pretty hated by the time of his abdication. Had a white warlord rescued him, they wouldn’t have restored him, rather just used him to help themselves be Tsar.

Likewise there were not shortage of noble whites to make Tsar with the family gone, had the Bolsheviks been less successful.

I’m team better scenario would have been trial and execution for Nicholas. Rehabilitation for the rest (under close scrutiny in Siberia).

From memory it is debated how much Moscow knew and at what point they gave their permission. The whole Civil War was a mess and the fog of war was dense.

Yeah I’ve worrying that.

These guys suck and are being hypocrites to save money.

Interestingly the catholic stance on abortion is relatively new from the 19th century. Prior to that abortion was considered the better alternative to infanticide.

The 90s cartoon which is quite good, issues mentioned elsewhere aside, renewed a lot of interest in Tintin.

So I think Tintin in the Congo was released in English more for collectors, it’s still often absent from collected editions or the back cover of single books.

Like Destination Moon, Explorers on the Moon, The Calculus Affair, The Red Sea Sharks, Tintin in Tibet and the Castafiore Emerald are all back to back. That’s such a good run all in a ten year period.

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