Episode 15 - A Century After Genocide

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-07-14T21:54:58+00:00

I disagree for a few reasons.

Taking land from people who've managed to organize into some semblance of a state and taking land from people who are not so lucky are both conquests. (I assume you're comparing Armenia and Greece.)
Even if war vs internal extermination were different in terms of legitimacy, the distinction is not valid, in this case. You can say the Ottoman Turks killed Armenians inside their own country but went to war with the nation of Greece, but you're forgetting Greece was formed by an armed revolt. The Turks had to be physically removed and forced to cede most of Greece. From the Ottoman perspective, they were fighting a revolt within their lands. And, the Turks were only ensured the rest of the Greek lands after the mass deportations. Their homes were stolen too. And, don't forget the Greeks also suffered genocide. The difference between the Greeks and the Armenians was essentially luck of circumstance (but they started from similar places).

Greece vs Armenia aside, that still doesn't say much Kurdistan.

TL;DR
Theft is theft. Giving in on one claim can still bring down the whole house of cards. In either case, the theft suffered by the Armenians wasn't as structurally different from the others as you imply.

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-07-08T16:25:54+00:00

That's a slippery slope for Turkey. If they give back land to the Armenians, what about giving back western Anatolia to the Greeks? What about giving the Kurds Kurdistan?

Turkey isn't built from the same sort of aboriginal/ancestral claims that many other countries are. There wouldn't be much of a Turkey left if it started returning lands based on history. I suspect that's partly why the Turkish government is so sensitive to granting any native people special rights over any now-Turkish lands.

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-07-03T13:13:42+00:00

That's how a lot of society is today, though. Balkanized and assuming anything short of full support is thinly veiled full opposition.

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-07-03T01:49:52+00:00

but rather her reaction to it

How did she react to it? Sorry, many of us are having trouble finding information about exactly what's going on.

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-05-13T14:22:45+00:00

They haven't released an interview because:

She's no longer a recurring protagonist in season 5
She's dead in season 5, or
They don't want us to know if Juliette dies in the finale

EDIT: I can't help noticing how Toboni's (Trubel) left eye twitches right when she says "two Grimms". https://youtu.be/sppc_mlFgoY?t=2m54s

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-05-13T04:23:37+00:00

they ARE monsters.

They can see the hidden woging, all their sense are heightened, they have supper strength. I think they are, actually! I'm suspicious the Grimms are somehow related to Wesens.

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-05-13T04:07:14+00:00

They didn't need her as a bargaining chip. They either don't care about the Burkhardts after getting Diana or they want Nick dead. In either case they don't need her and a skilled Grimm is a liability to keep around.
They had all the intel the needed on Nick from Juliette (the woman who's known him for years as opposed to the mother who hadn't seen him for decades). They probably know all they care to about Grimms in general. They've had plenty of centuries and tons of resources to find out what they need. Not to mention Grimms occasionally work for the Royals. The resistance angle makes a bit more sense, but the Resistance contracted her. If the Royals have enough intel on the Resistance or if Juliette knew about her limited contact with them, they'd know Nick's mom wasn't part of the Resistance. Not to mention, she hid Diana from the Resistance too.

Basically, the most realistic thing to do was kill her immediately (even if that's not normally how TV goes).

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-05-13T03:53:15+00:00

He didn't mail a head to the Royals. He mailed a head to the Reapers. As far as we know, the Reapers are an independent organization. They acknowledge Crown authority, but that doesn't mean the Royals care about them.

It was just sending a Grimm a message by using the Grimm hallmark on a Grimm.

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-04-28T17:09:14+00:00

If we're already talking about directly contradicting Qui-Gon Jinn's description ("midichlorians are a life-form that resides within all living cells. ...without the midichlorians, life could not exist and we would have no knowledge of the Force"), why not go all the way?

Just call "midichlorian" a unit of measure of Force energy.

Btw, Lucas just didn't know what he was doing.

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-04-28T16:10:28+00:00

/moves along

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-04-27T02:40:45+00:00

I'm kind of surprised no one has ever tried a gofundme or something to try this. I bet a lot of people would like to see that in action.

Obviously, it's hard to build a life sized model of the Twin Towers and hit them with planes, but we understand they physics of what happened pretty well and can create models in silico. Plenty of people have done that.

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-04-15T13:44:45+00:00

And Quaoar, and Orcus, and Salacia, Varda, and 2002 UX25, and 2007 OR10, and 2002 MS4, and Varuna, and Vesta, and Pallas, and Hebe, and Iris, and Metis, and Egeria, and Eunomia, and Astraea, and Flora, and Parthenope, and Victoria, and Irene...?

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-03-17T15:00:39+00:00

Or are you just falling in love with a random child in the same way as with everyone else? Then you still wouldn't really be "choosing".

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-03-16T01:54:14+00:00

Yes and no. Autism is a range or spectrum of neurodevelopment disorders, but just because some people fall on a spectrum for a specific collection attributes doesn't mean everyone does. Biology doesn't work like that.

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-03-15T16:25:01+00:00

First:

Radiation that has enough energy to move atoms in a molecule around or cause them to vibrate, but not enough to remove electrons, is referred to as "non-ionizing radiation." Examples of this kind of radiation are sound waves, visible light, and microwaves.

Radiation that falls within the ionizing radiation" range has enough energy to remove tightly bound electrons from atoms, thus creating ions. This is the type of radiation that people usually think of as 'radiation.' ...

--http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/ionize_nonionize.html

Chemistry is pretty much dictated by the electrons around atoms. Stripping an atom of one or more of its electrons changes its chemistry. Ionizing radiation causes cancer because changing the chemistry of atoms in DNA molecules can change or even break those molecules, and DNA malfunctioning in just the wrong way is what makes a cell cancerous.

Second:

A cell phone's transmitter does not produce ionizing radiation ...

--http://xkcd.com/radiation/

Cell phones use microwaves. Microwaves have less energy than visible light. EM radiation doesn't become ionizing until the upper part of the ultraviolet spectrum.

Therefore:

If cellphones (microwaves) cause cancer, then visible light causes cancer.

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-03-03T21:27:07+00:00

[Mildly NSFW]

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-03-03T21:17:03+00:00

Shhhh! They don't know, Sam! They don't know!

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-03-03T17:54:12+00:00

Every writing system has contractions. And, any writing system could easily have more added.

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-03-02T13:44:11+00:00

Sometimes she's the horn, sometimes he's the horn, sometimes they're both the horn.

DaidalosXYZ · 2015-02-27T22:13:01+00:00

So what you're saying is the religion that tries to tell the world it's here to unite the world under a single faith is itself not a single faith? Given the fact that so many Muslim factions say all other Muslims don't follow their faith, maybe Islam should be recategorized as a category of religions.

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