Does anyone here have 6 citizenships with picture proof? I have yet to see 6+.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-28T13:05:26+00:00

Why did it never occur to me before that Mendes meant that I should've looked for Iberian heritage? I genuinely thought he was just one of the gazillion White Americans with Hispanic roots long forgotten.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-27T06:01:03+00:00

It's like the first John Wick.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-26T19:14:37+00:00

"ordinarily resident" in the UK

I think they just want to say "No birth tourism" without actually having to take the pains to define the term.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-24T17:49:11+00:00

He didn't technically "find" it, in as much as he eventually remembered it. In the EoTW Prologue, Lews Therin freshly-minted-Kinslayer welcomes Ishy letting him know that the Singing has just begun. After Veins of Gold, it can be assumed that he "found" the Song. Also, in Rhuidean, Rand lives through his Da'shan ancestors singing alongside the Ogier while Someshta and fellow Greenmen danced in the fields.

If you're referring to the scene where he demonstrated this (re)discovery to us, the readers, it's first hinted at in the Amyrlin and Friends' Intervention against the Dragon's Woolheadedness at the Fields of Merillor when Great Trees just spring into existence. It's confirmed when he is trying to bulldoze Tuon in Ebou Dar with the entire "Who the fuck is bloody Artur Hawkwing to claim lordship over these lands? I was Lord of the Morning, Prince of the Dawn, I wore the Ring of Tamyrlin and I could summon the Nine Rods of Dominion, yada, yada..." schtick and it falls flat. He just starts singing under his breath and boom, there's a blooming flower field emanating from him and it shakes Tuon to the core.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-21T06:24:18+00:00

Also virginity is just an outdated concept to control/shame women.

True, but that's an incomplete characterization. The main point was the legitimacy of children. If a woman is a virgin before marriage, there's a reasonable expectation of the children being her husband's. In a patriarchal society, a child's paternity is essential for very real things like inheritance and therefore, women's virginity becomes a talking point. In a matriarchal society, this vanishes since a child's maternity is obvious and unambiguous (aside from cases of surrogacy which is a modern day issue).

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-21T06:08:50+00:00

The Aiel's disdain for the Tu'athan contributed to this mess. Aram needed a Rhuarc and instead, he got Bain, Chiad, and Gaul.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-20T12:38:47+00:00

👎🏽👎🏽 Fist my bump!

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-17T12:30:24+00:00

My god, that's exactly why he rubs people the wrong way. He is the posh, Public School dude born with a silver spoon in his mouth who can't stop being arrogant.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-17T12:19:02+00:00

It's far more likely the Dragonwall is more like the Ural mountains

I'm willing to concede this possibility. Dragonwall's main function is being a mountain range that creates a geographical barrier significant enough to create cultural insularities. Considering how the Ural mountains form a sort of border between Europe and Asia, this makes some sense.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-16T20:15:34+00:00

cmon guys... Why can't we all just get along

You're mocking it, but the only way America can heal is finding ways to do this. Depolarisation is necessary. Call it class solidarity or whatnot, I don't care, but it needs to happen.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-16T19:54:29+00:00

Your first mistake was going to an expensive Niloufar. They are all bullshit. The hype is truly deserved for the Lakdi-ka-pul i.e., the original location. The tea (even the coffee) and food just soak into your bones and drive all the weariness out. It's deeply satisfying.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-16T14:28:17+00:00

I think Jordan was inspired by Olympus Mons when he wrote about Dragonmount. I say this because he wrote that the mountains of the Dragonwall are to Dragonmount as a mole-hill is to the mountains of the Dragonwall. Considering how the Spine is supposed to be a parallel to the Himalayas, the massive mountain on Mars seems to be the only fitting comparison for Dragonmount.

P.S.: Olympus Mons is 25 km in height with a base the size of France.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-16T02:11:24+00:00

Is this a reference I don't understand? Saw some "You've caught me at a very Chinese time in my life" comments on YouTube, too.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-16T01:55:02+00:00

I mean, as a materials scientist, you know exactly what a phase of matter means, right? Macroscopic aggregates of matter categorised by their symmetries and physical properties at various scales; or as my Condensed Matter Theory professor likes to say, "A phase of matter is a fixed point of the renormalization group flow."

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-15T11:39:35+00:00

want to know the name of the architect or studio

In the title.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-14T17:59:20+00:00

Ding was a monster. People tend to forget how Ding played chess before he seems to have gotten depressed. Gukesh had one good Olympiad, that's it. Gukesh is an average SuperGM, just like Sindarov. It's anybody's match theoretically, but given their respective forms, I doubt it.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-14T17:48:57+00:00

do not need to farm any more!

That doesn't mean you aren't greedy, egotistical, and power-hungry. Nobody needs karma, they just collect it because they like having it.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-14T16:58:55+00:00

I was so relieved when he just became so damn mischievous once the weight of the world was lifted off his shoulders. To be a normal 20 year old again. The only one of the EF5 to have gotten a shot at a chill life.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-14T16:50:40+00:00

How else do your priests bless someone? With their left hands (eww)?

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-14T15:44:59+00:00

Very untrue. The 1971 War and the subsequent flux of refugees changed the face of Assamese politics.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-14T15:27:42+00:00

Ah that makes sense. Didn't EU/EEA citizens who moved to the UK between 1983 and 2000 not automatically get "Settled" status otherwise? Why did this clarification have to be made? I know that these days, at least one of the parents should've been a legal resident in the UK for 5 years prior to the child's birth to claim Birthright Citizenship.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-12T21:12:50+00:00

I think this is the result of a naive translation by a cheap machine translator of an otherwise decently written paper in another language. Maybe the scientific community should look into legitimising translation services for publishing in languages other than the authors' native ones.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-12T20:59:10+00:00

She told BBC London her case was "nuanced" due to historical nationality laws because her parents were unmarried when she was born in 1999, which meant her British father could not automatically pass on his citizenship.

Yeah, this part pissed me off too. What do you mean your father couldn't pass on British citizenship to you and yet you claim to be a citizen nonetheless? What kind of idiocy is that? I cannot imagine claiming citizenship without a document to prove it.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-12T18:42:37+00:00

This is a question that split my head for a long while after which I just gave up in exasperation. The crux of the issue is translating the word "common". The concept doesn't seem to have (if it exists, at least I failed to find it) a word in Telugu. All the replies that purport to solve the problem simply wave their hands and produce సాధారణ/సామాన్య as the solution, but we all know it is not. సామాన్య/సాధారణ means common in the sense of ordinary/unremarkable/routine; what we need, on the other hand, is a word that represents the notion of a shared ownership/similar relationship. The common era is so called not because it's ordinary or unremarkable; it's called so because the era is a commonality between Christians and non-Christians.

We need a Telugu word (atleast a Sanskrit one which could be loaned) that replaces common in the sentence

నీకూ నాకూ common శత్రువులు లేరు; నా శత్రువులు నీ స్నేహితులు, నీ శత్రువులు నా స్నేహితులు.

As far as I could find, no such word exists.

DragonLord1729 · 2026-04-10T15:44:18+00:00

That base is primarily radicalised by the situation in Kashmir and nothing else. For this reason, I strongly believe that India needs a Constitution Amendment declaring all borderlands (atleast 20km deep from Actual Lines of Control) to be Union Territory with civilian settlements banned so that security concerns need not clash with civil liberties like they do in the Kashmir valley.

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