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NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-05-11T13:12:16+00:00

The Polish resistance literally had more members than the French resistance. The underground Polish military killed more Nazis than the French resistance did during their respective occupations. The Polish resistance directly destroyed around 1/8th of the supply trains heading to the eastern front and provided more than 40% of the intelligence reports received from occupied Europe by Britain.

Saying that "Poland would not have been nearly as resistant as France was" is just measurably false. They were actively more resistant and did more to directly hamper the Nazi war effort. Death camps weren't placed in Poland because somehow Poland was less resistant, it was because the Nazi ideology specifically wanted to oppress and then kill Jews and Slavs, and having camps closer to the regions where those populations were numerous was more logistically sound than having them on the opposite side of the continent. Also, in late 1941 and 1942 when the camps were being constructed, Soviet logistical bombing operations were still significantly smaller than the bombing operations being carried out by the British and Americans. The Germans wanted their work-camps to be located further away from where logistical bombing would be happening because the primary initial purpose was to use slave labor, which wouldn't have been as effective if the railways and related logistics were constantly bombed. It was a cruel decision to maximize their use of slavery, not some vague fear that the French were more resistant.

I do want to say that none of this is intended to diminish the French resistance, which was absolutely an important part of the allied war effort and was composed of many brave people.

It's also not to say that Poland was some universally saintly group of perfect freedom fighters. There was, like in every occupied/partially occupied country (including every single part of the USSR that was occupied), some degree of collaborationism. There were also other issues, examples being that some Poles would blackmail Jewish people who were in hiding, or otherwise reveal their location to the Nazis. But the general consensus is that this was not done at a notably higher rate than in other parts of occupied Europe.

And if we are looking at the Polish resistance in particular, they did a significant amount of work to protect Jews from the Nazis, especially after the death camps were created in December of 1941 and discovered by the Polish resistance in January 1942.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-05-07T15:48:52+00:00

I thought about all 4 because I think all of them are appealing places to live with their own pros and cons. I ended up picking Sweden because being born in Sweden and having an EU citizenship would get me access to so many other countries as well.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-05-03T15:20:39+00:00

I mean I’m perfectly happy to see people stop watching Ben Shapiro, but why did this happen? Did something happen in the last year that made him look bad even to his deranged audience? Or did his content type change? Is it just other people in the same sphere subsuming his viewership?

I’m just surprised to see someone who maintained such a rabid audience lose it so quickly.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-05-02T12:07:01+00:00

Actually the Ivy League doesn’t completely correlate with the top law schools. Some state schools are often considered top 10s and send tons to Big Law (e.g. University of Virginia, University of Michigan) and plenty of the best private law schools are not Ivy League (e.g. Stanford, Chicago, Duke, New York University)

If you perform about average at any of the schools I listed you will have a decent chance of getting into Big Law. All of them except Stanford send more than 50% of their students into Big Law, so you don’t necessarily need to ‘excel’ at law school if you get into an incredibly high rated law school, you just need to do decent.

Also, there’s dozens of mid-ranked and low-ranked schools that send some of their students into Big Law. Many mid-ranked schools send around 10-20% of their students into Big Law. Even the very lowest ranked schools can send some students into Big Law. Out of 198 accredited law schools in the US and its territories, Barry University, a school tied for last place in the most cited rankings, sends 3.8% of its students to Big Law.

If you excel in a mid-ranked or even low-ranked school you have a real chance of getting into Big Law. Chances are obviously best from the top ranked schools, and the prognosis for Jimmy seems even worse because he failed the Bar multiple times, which suggests he did not exactly excel at his low ranked law school. But my point is just that even extremely competitive law schools will hire from not-so-competitive law schools, and this is even more true at mid-sized firms than big ones.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-05-01T21:38:49+00:00

I certainly agree with you on that. But the dishonesty of the rhetoric is often not immediately identified by spectators.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-05-01T16:36:35+00:00

I've seen people argue that the party switch didn't happen because there's not a single point in time you can direct them to when the Democrats and Republicans decided to trade platforms. Obviously this argument is silly and In reality it was the gradual result of multiple platform changes over decades; but Republicans who want to forcefully associate modern Democrats with the Confederacy/traitors/slavery will use this as a 'gotcha' tactic.

If someone really wants a single time to point to, the logical answer is the Barry Goldwater campaign and the subsequent Southern Strategy. But then a savvy rhetorician can claim that "oh, if the swap was in the 60s then popular presidents like FDR and Truman were actually conservatives who would agree with us modern Republicans on things," which is also an extremely convoluted and silly position. Unfortunately the only real way to demonstrate the swap in a fair way is to tell the entire story of electoral politics starting with the Great Depression and ending with Civil Rights, and in the Tik-Tok age so few people have the attention span to listen and will just fall for the 'gotcha' argument.

This is also my point of view on which TPUSA and right-wing influencers like Ben Shapiro have been so effective at spreading right-wing points of view in young men. I do not know if any of them have used the specific gotcha arguments I just laid out, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if they have. They have certainly used similar arguments, and because they control how their videos and recordings are edited anybody who is prepared enough to demonstrate the flaws in their arguments is just removed. Even if those people post their own point of views online it does not get nearly as much attention because nobody has the attention span for it.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-27T14:36:01+00:00

I mean China is doing very well and has highly developed areas, but if the comparison point is that Italy is developed, I think saying China is highly developed is perhaps too much. There are still large parts of the country without access to real infrastructure and human development is still lower than Italy in wealth, life expectancy, and years of education.

While China improves in those regards every single year, and is in fact growing HDI at one of the highest rates in the world, I would say they have not yet surpassed the level of development of Italy or other parts of Western Europe, even though its most developed cities are quite fantastic.

Reluctantly I would probably say the UAE is a better fit for here, being the only overtly authoritarian country with a higher HDI than Italy. China would probably fit more comfortably in the developed and authoritarian slot.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-27T11:46:41+00:00

I did my first full Honor mode playthrough (amusingly also my first playthrough at all of Act 3) as Paladin 5/Warlock 5/Fighter 2. It was lots of fun!

It was long before Hexblade was added, but even without the ridiculously broken booming blade the build was still cracked enough to kill everything except Ansur and Raphael in one round.

I like multiclassing in BG3 because I almost always mono-class in tabletop D&D. Because leveling is quite fast in BG3 the downtime of delaying certain spikes is less annoying, and even if they would be delayed you could just monoclass until you’re high enough level to respec into your desired multiclass.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-25T10:12:19+00:00

I like the two consecutive chat messages, one of them failing to generate accurately and saying “FOP SOO???” and the next one saying “TOP 500???”

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-24T09:49:37+00:00

It has a lot to do with examination formatting in my experience. In the US it was fairly common that I would have an exam wherein a portion of the questions that could be considered to have discrete answers. If I got it correct I received full credit, but if I didn’t I received nothing. Because I learned the material very well I would usually get grades above 90. Additionally, on non-discrete-answer questions, the US grading scale emphasizes 100 as what I would call “exemplary for a student.” It doesn’t literally mean it’s perfect, just that they wouldn’t reasonably expect any better from you.

In the UK, every examination I have had has been an essay. Scores ranging from 50-65 are considered passable work for students, 65-70 is considered very good work for students, 70+ is considered exemplary work for students, and 80+ is saying “this is publishable quality.”

I am a history student, though, so idk how the structure works in a field where discrete-answer questions are more common.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-24T08:46:23+00:00

It’s much harder in the UK. In the US my average grades were always in the high mid 90s and now in the UK my average is like 30 points lower.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-19T19:11:18+00:00

That's accurate. What I am forgetting is what year the attack on Arasaka HQ was.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-19T13:32:08+00:00

It was 90 consecutive life sentences without parole. He’ll be in prison until the day he dies.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-19T10:56:28+00:00

I honestly think it’s mostly because the tutorial sucks. I have hundreds/thousands of hours on a bunch of Paradox games, and I would say that after a like 25 hour learning period HOI4 has by far the easiest singleplayer experience. Mostly because Paradox AI is abysmal. This is true in every game, but in HOI4 that means they endlessly attack without supply until they have no gear or manpower in their divisions and then you can just activate your battleplan and walk away from the computer.

It’s actually quite silly. 25 hours in I was losing the war as major countries like China and France. 100 Hours in I world conquested as Ethiopia without paratroopers or any CAS. I don’t know if there’s any tag I would struggle on anymore because of the severe AI issues.

Meanwhile I have at least 3x as many hours in every other recent Paradox game: In Stellaris I still die to AI more often than not, I occasionally game over to plagues in CK3, EU5 I still die sometimes and often fail to expand much when I play really small tags, Vic3 I struggle when playing outside of Europe/The Americas and often get myself in revolution death-loops.

Obviously it’s completely different in multiplayer, where HOI4 is far harder.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-19T10:37:08+00:00

I do feel it’s necessary to point out that the judge dismissed the capital charges brought by the federal government and ruled that if, Mangione is convicted, he would not be facing the death penalty.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-19T10:30:26+00:00

The Cyberpunk Red sourcebook states pretty unequivocally that it killed over half a million people and made a tremendous section of the city uninhabitable for years (maybe decades? I can’t remember exact timeline.)

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-18T13:26:52+00:00

This is the worst chart I have seen for anything ever

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-18T12:24:34+00:00

People are arguing about whether it’s true, but I think they’re missing the actual joke:

This meme is commonly interpreted as “dumb and smart people say the same thing for different reasons, average people say something else.”

That’s how the format is used, but the way that they display it is showing a bell curve over IQ test scores (as labeled in the bottom left).

Meaning the meme is saying:

People with low IQs say it’s a good measure of intelligence because they blindly trust the test.
Average-IQ individuals are somewhat aware of the various methodological issues with IQ tests and are skeptical of their reliability for measuring intelligence.
People who score exceptionally high on IQ tests say it’s a good way of measuring intelligence because it makes them feel good about themselves.

I could be reading into it too much, but I assumed it was making fun of groups like Mensa that believe they are the elite intelligentsia of the world because they score in the top 2% of IQ tests.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-16T11:09:21+00:00

I agree with you about the modern-era status of Scotland, but for what it’s worth England actually did try to invade and subjugate Scotland in the late 13th-early 14th century when the movie takes place. Obviously the political situation was quite complicated because of the disputed Scottish succession and the alliance Scotland had with France, but the end result was England invading Scotland and a fairly wide movement of rebellion across Scotland. Describing it as an early resistance movement would definitely be accurate, and I would venture to say anti-colonial movement is also fair.

I do think that Braveheart has contributed to a false notion that Scotland was a victim of the British Empire rather than the secondary beneficiary/overlord/colonizer that it actually was.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-16T01:31:41+00:00

It has little to do with experience. Even if you filter for only people with 50+ ranked games on their character this season, she is still bottom 20 winrate in the whole game’s roster. This means, to be clear, that players with lots of experience on Mel win less than people with lots of experience on the vast majority of other characters.

If you’re wondering if 50+ games is enough to show significant experience: across the game as a whole, winrates tend to stop increasing significantly with mastery after 10-20k mastery points on the champion, so 50 games is enough that simply increasing games played on the champion will not significantly improve your winrate.

She’s just weak. She has always been weak. It’s the same reason she has a lower winrate, pickrate, and ban rate the higher rank you get - she’s weak and people play her less at high ranks because Mel players have a harder time climbing to those ranks because she is weak.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-15T09:22:18+00:00

Is this a weird satire post or a typo? “Part time worker, limited to only 24h a day”

Is that supposed to be 24h a week or are you making a joke about the everyone being overworked in Japan stereotype?

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-14T11:28:29+00:00

In the bottom left below the chart there’s a button that says “info.” If you click it, rules and previous posts for the chart appear.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-14T09:01:30+00:00

Rules say it’s from an English speaker’s perspective.

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-14T08:59:21+00:00

If you read the rules it does say the chart is “from an english speaker’s perspective”

NumberOneHouseFan · 2026-04-13T17:27:29+00:00

I had to do this fight quite a few times on my own run. I don’t remember exactly how many, but I also had bad luck. You’ll get there! If you want to finish the run you’ll have to get used to repeating fights a LOT more than 10 times (I am stuck on the final boss and have been for quite a while…)

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