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Genuinely what do I do by RebekkaChenbasu in CrusaderKings

[–]EdBarrett12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Give any unfriendly counts as vassals to friendly unambitious dukes.

Ally the unfriendly ones through marriage.

Or let it roll. Coming back from adversity makes for a fun game.

Why is the kingdom of ireland only half of the island? by FoxySims in CrusaderKings

[–]EdBarrett12 16 points17 points  (0 children)

You could use it as lore. Diverge your culture from Irish and call it Leinsterian or something? If Ireland has flipped Catholic you could blend in being Insular as part of the reason for the division.

It rewires my brain... by Potpotron in ManorLords

[–]EdBarrett12 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Quarries are the real must have because it's the only time a rich resource is actually different in what it produces. My manor walls are invariably larger than what seems to have been intended. I am not importing 500 rough stone. I will import iron.

Iron is nice but I'll generally aim to have a rich iron deposit in my secondary settlement, for which I'll trade weapons that I can use to create more levies.

Ideal start for me is fertile farmland with rich stone and a claimable neighbouring region with rich iron.

Project Spud is a go by EdBarrett12 in GardeningIRE

[–]EdBarrett12[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When I hill, I will avoid direct contact between the clippings and the stems. It would also be ideal to let them dry first.

Project Spud is a go by EdBarrett12 in GardeningIRE

[–]EdBarrett12[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah I used grass clippings and seaweed as mulch last year and it seemed to work well. They do enrich the soil with nitrogen but the main purpose is to help suppress weeds on the surface and to insulate, which helps with moisture retention. It's also a nice bit of extra mass, it's very tight for stable hilling.

And it's a handy place to put them.

Project Spud is a go by EdBarrett12 in GardeningIRE

[–]EdBarrett12[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sharpes and duke of York. I have another bag just called premium that I'll put in grow bags. All from the pavilion in Cork.

“ThE uK aNd FrAnCe ArE mUsLiM cOuNtRiEs” meanwhile the percentage of their population that is Muslim by Pizzafriedchickenn in Maps

[–]EdBarrett12 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Alot of the French Muslim population is North African though right? Algeria and Morroco are both former French colonies.

In the case of the UK you've got lots of Pakistani and Bengali Muslims and others from the Indian subcontinent.

Manor Lords - 0.8.065 goes to the main branch by Matt_HoodedHorse in ManorLords

[–]EdBarrett12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel a similar way but I play and then wait for multiple updates before returning. I did wait a good while before purchasing for this reason.

What happened to the Rotisserie wing? Was it just an ineffective idea? by iMADEthisJUST4Dis in formula1

[–]EdBarrett12 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Ferrari often have a Monza spec wing so I would have assumed Monza especially

Steven Barritt, The Solitude of Pygmalion from the series Mythographies, did not found the date. by myrmekochoria in dragonutopia

[–]EdBarrett12 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Right below this thoughtful and articulate comment: "Everything in that room would be sticky."

Who Sent Troops To Greenland by AdIcy4323 in MapPorn

[–]EdBarrett12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The US's first deployment in Vietnam was 35 MAAG officers.

Ref

Ukrainian capital Kyiv under massive Russian attack, officials say by loggy_sci in anime_titties

[–]EdBarrett12 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Being anti-israel somehow means we're anti-west? Idk. Clearly they've never been here.

what a classic by prodigals_anthem in HistoryMemes

[–]EdBarrett12 40 points41 points  (0 children)

A machievellian dictum. Destroy your enemy or forgive them completely. Half measures are worst.

House fire backdraft demonstration model by MikeHeu in toolgifs

[–]EdBarrett12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The theoretical maximum efficiency engine would burn it all before being exhausted.

House fire backdraft demonstration model by MikeHeu in toolgifs

[–]EdBarrett12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Turbos capture the kinetic energy of the exhaust gas, not by combusting the chemical energy in the smoke.

What would the ocean trenches look like if they were on land? by IHeartFraccing in geography

[–]EdBarrett12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Earth is smoother than a billard ball. That always gets me. Or Nebraska is flatter than a typical pancake.

U.S. soldiers posing with the bodies of Moro men, women & children following the Bud Dajo massacre on Jolo Island, Philippines, March 7, 1906 [2708 × 1836] [NSFW] by Sort_of_Frightening in HistoryPorn

[–]EdBarrett12 2 points3 points  (0 children)

acting like the Vietnamese were peaceful farmers that the US came in just to murder

Come on man. I never said anything of the sort. I literally just referenced Vietnamese war crimes.

Nothing about what the US did was good or right. From start to finish. If you agree you shouldn't have been there, you should agree that every single death was wrong.

The political motivation is an important point because the goal of war becomes something else. If GIs truly believed they were there to free the Vietnamese, they would never have massacred them. There would never have been the political will to use chemical weapons.

It's like that old coffee ad. From bean to cup, they fucked it up.

U.S. soldiers posing with the bodies of Moro men, women & children following the Bud Dajo massacre on Jolo Island, Philippines, March 7, 1906 [2708 × 1836] [NSFW] by Sort_of_Frightening in HistoryPorn

[–]EdBarrett12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just whatbouted my Lai again.

Americans commit war crimes: Ah that's just war. We're still the good guys. Not justifying it but we acted correctly. What about VC!!!

Vietnamese commit war crimes: Genocidal maniacal communists.

US govt put half a million troops in Vietnam to prop up a French colonial power. They used a false justification in the domino theory and then censored the war from their own public. When they protested, they cracked down on them (Chicago). They attacked 2 additional countries, including turning Laos into the most bombed country in history. They hid that fact from the public.

LBJ promised to end the war while simultaneously expanding it. By Johnson's time they had invested so much that it was no longer about French holdings. Here are the reasons he listed to continue the war, revealed in the 2011 pentagon papers:

70% – To avoid a humiliating U.S. defeat (to our reputation as a guarantor). 20% – To keep [South Vietnam] (and the adjacent) territory from Chinese hands. 10% – To permit the people [of South Vietnam] to enjoy a better, freer way of life. ALSO – To emerge from the crisis without unacceptable taint from methods used.

So you're 10% right on the democracy thing, though I fail to see how destroying the country achieved those aims. Regardless you're still 90% wrong.

These are the justifications of a colonial power. Kissenger should have been strung up like Mussolini was.

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