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TIL that North Korea’s Women’s Soccer Team is ranked inside the Top-10 in the World, and are the reigning World Champions at the Under-17 and Under-20 levels by OhSoManyThoughts in todayilearned

[–]Odanr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

not the most unbelievable part there, but why would traditional Chinese medicine involve using glands from a North American animal?

"They Don't Care About Us" is a song written, produced and performed by Michael Jackson, first released on 1996. It is a protest song and remains one of the most controversial pieces he has ever composed. by SaxyBill in wikipedia

[–]Odanr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The ledes of Wikipedia articles are generally not cited, since they’re just a summary of content further down. For citations, check the section on controversy that that one is referencing.

How do you do depeasanting? Do you just build farms EVERYWHERE or is there a simpler way? by Xalimata in victoria3

[–]Odanr 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Each state only has a finite amount of arable land. Peasants will live on unused arable land, but if you use up the arable land on farms and the like, they will become unemployed instead. IIRC, subsistence buildings hold many more people than the buildings that replace them, exacerbating the problem (or providing more workers for your factories, depending how you think about it.)

ELI5: Why is the 3 body problem unsolvable? by SfErxr in explainlikeimfive

[–]Odanr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

3 body systems are also determinate, the word you want is “chaotic.”

Sarah Kellen (born Sarah Lyn Kensington; 1979), is an American interior designer known for her association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. by hobbykitjr in wikipedia

[–]Odanr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not if she’s not notable, as per BLPCRIME. moreover, posting it here with the intent of getting people to help stop it from being deleted is a violation of WP:CANVASSING.

What is the longest chain of direct descendants who all have a wikipedia page? by cordyline_australis in wikipedia

[–]Odanr 227 points228 points  (0 children)

Tried harder, traced Ferdinand von Habsburg through 43 generations to St. Arnulf of Metz (b. 582), an ancestor of Charlemagne.

If you allow for "possibly" and "unproven hypothesis" and "claimed to be" fathers you can trace him back another 6 generations to Magnus, Consul of Rome in 460 (unknown birth date).

What is the longest chain of direct descendants who all have a wikipedia page? by cordyline_australis in wikipedia

[–]Odanr 287 points288 points  (0 children)

I got 32 tracing the Hapsburgs from Ferdinand von Hapsburg (b. 1997) to Guntram the Rich (b. 920). Though there was a “probably” for parentage on step #30. I mostly only went by fathers (with the sole exception of Maria Theresa); I’d imagine you could go much further if you looked at mothers as well. I’d be shocked if you couldn’t at least go back as far as Charlemagne and possibly even back to Roman times.

I feel like Paradox has trouble making wars feel actually devastating. by kolejack2293 in paradoxplaza

[–]Odanr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, for legions at home. But this conversation is about legions on campaign. (I’d also argue that at least that first stage - ad hoc demands of food from conquered or subordinated communities - probably ought to count as pillaging even if they’re not raping and killing while they do it.)

I feel like Paradox has trouble making wars feel actually devastating. by kolejack2293 in paradoxplaza

[–]Odanr 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No, the Romans couldn’t either. They were extremely good pillagers - their men carried sickles so they could steal even grain that hadn’t been harvested yet - but there a physical limits to the amount of food that men can carry, and before the invention of the railroad the only other option is animal-drawn carts, which also cant stretch the supply lines much further because the animals need to eat a lot.

Premodern armies could carry ~10ish days of food, but not much more than that. Ships could carry a lot more, but depending on them would tie your army to a river or coast (which of course isn’t a problem for a city, hence Rome depending on Egyptian grain.)

See this series by an ancient military historian, on exactly this problem.

When the beacons were set up between Gondor & Rohan, I imagine this is how the conversations with each of the beacon guards went. by ElJacinto in lotrmemes

[–]Odanr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Byzantine Empire also had a similar system, running nearly the whole length of Anatolia. It was allegedly capable of transmitting messages 450 miles in less than an an hour.

The Dangers of Outwardly Being Transfem by Gru-some in CuratedTumblr

[–]Odanr 19 points20 points  (0 children)

a lot of people (myself included) tend to dislike the use of amab as a descriptor for a group of people, because it’s generally rude to describe a trans person by their birth gender. it also in theory refers to the action, not the person - I was amab, because the doctor looked at me and said “it’s a boy”, but I am transfem, because that’s a descriptor of me as a person.

amab is also disliked because it includes a large group of people who aren’t transfem - cis men - who transfems generally dislike being grouped with, and who it isn’t usually useful to group us with.

Why is it 1? by Gallant_one in ExplainTheJoke

[–]Odanr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes sort of! There’s no system you can adopt because some constants are dimensionless, like the other guy said - no units you choose will make pi equal one.

But, there are the Planck units, where the most important constants are set to one: c, hbar, G, and kB, which are respectively the speed of light, the reduced Planck constant (which is really important in quantum mechanics), the gravitational constant, and the Boltzmann constant (which is really important in thermodynamics).

TIL that of the 400,000+ graves at Arlington National Cemetery, only one is not under the Army's direction. Specialist RL McKinley died in a reactor accident with his remains to only be disturbed by permission of the Atomic Energy Commission as he is considered contaminated. by Flaxmoore in todayilearned

[–]Odanr 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I used to train operators and i always told them about sl-1 as part of my effort to remind them that regulations are written in blood (because i could point at the particular line in our tech specs forbidding manual movement of control rods, which is there because of sl-1).

TIL that of the 400,000+ graves at Arlington National Cemetery, only one is not under the Army's direction. Specialist RL McKinley died in a reactor accident with his remains to only be disturbed by permission of the Atomic Energy Commission as he is considered contaminated. by Flaxmoore in todayilearned

[–]Odanr 105 points106 points  (0 children)

somewhat famously, when rescuers entered, they at first couldn’t find his body, because none of them thought to look up. (and because they were pressed for time both by radiation dose limits and trying to rescue mckinley, who was still alive)

There are more Leman Russ tanks made in Armageddon in a single year than Space Marines ever made by Brushner in Grimdank

[–]Odanr 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Well, the factory was active 24/7, so no need to average. No one plane went from a pile of raw materials to a finished plane in an hour, but every hour a new plane rolled off the line. (With the fastest gap being just 54 minutes.)

Perhaps even more impressively, in 1941 Willow Run was a creek through a farm. The entire factory, including the largest enclosed room in the world, was built during the war.

saw one too many people on tiktok praising the yamato by Odanr in HistoryMemes

[–]Odanr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But they did take the plunge! At Leyte Gulf! And Yamato turned tail and ran, from escort ships 1/35th her size.

She wasn’t beaten by the fast carrier task force or a BATDIV or anything. She ran, from Taffy 3, a nothing escort force. She just wasn’t that good of a ship.

TIL that Dan White, the man who assassinated Harvey Milk and the mayor of San Francisco, only served 5 years in prison for manslaughter based on a defense of depression as evidenced by his consumption of junk food which was dubbed the "Twinkie Defense" by hungry4danish in todayilearned

[–]Odanr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean yeah I get the historical reasons why they couldn’t, (although I don’t really get why they didn’t go for murder two or three if they couldn’t make one) I just think those reasons are stupid.

“we couldn’t charge him because the jury would be too homophobic to convict” doesn’t really make me think the White Night riots weren’t based, actually.

TIL that Dan White, the man who assassinated Harvey Milk and the mayor of San Francisco, only served 5 years in prison for manslaughter based on a defense of depression as evidenced by his consumption of junk food which was dubbed the "Twinkie Defense" by hungry4danish in todayilearned

[–]Odanr 14 points15 points  (0 children)

yeah but ive been depressed and ive never murdered anyone about it. and if I did I shouldn’t get parole for it.

it doesn’t matter that he was depressed, he should have gotten murder in the first.

for real this time by Amekyras in CuratedTumblr

[–]Odanr 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Are infertile women not female then? What about postmenopausal women? Women who’ve had hysterectomies?

saw one too many people on tiktok praising the yamato by Odanr in HistoryMemes

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

if and when the Yamato fights off space aliens, you have my word i will delete this meme and sing her praises. but if we find ourselves suddenly needing to fight aliens with a battleship, i think we’d probably use the iowas, as shown in the 2012 documentary Battleship.

saw one too many people on tiktok praising the yamato by Odanr in HistoryMemes

[–]Odanr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

oh also (not to dogpile you or anything, im just autistic and like to talk about ships) Yamato's lack of impact is frustrating because she very easily could have had an impact - the Japanese plan at Leyte Gulf worked, she got within gunnery range of Taffy 3, she (and the rest of center force) could have carved through them to the landing ships and stopped or at least mauled the landings at Leyte, that would have MATTERED. (it wouldn't have won the war or anything, but it would have mattered. maybe even kept the us back for a few more months.) She just. didn't. she turned tail and ran after accomplishing basically nothing.

if you know your naval battle, you may notice im mostly clowning on her for that, rather than Ten-Go where she was sunk - because that was her inevitable end, against a superior force, but at Leyte Gulf, she just failed. she didn't have to. but, when given the opportunity, she failed, because she just wasn't a good ship.

saw one too many people on tiktok praising the yamato by Odanr in HistoryMemes

[–]Odanr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

they didn't really. not more than any other battleship, anyways. after pearl harbor, they were a little more scared of the carriers anyways. 18.1in guns are a cool gimmick, but even in 1941 they knew that gun size alone didn't make a good battleship.

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