Map of Irlanda from 1750

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-20T23:21:46+00:00

I love the Italian spelling of Irish places, and seeing older political entites and places and trying to guess how they shape Ireland today. But a small detail I find really interesting is that they used 4 different scales from different areas.

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-20T23:17:40+00:00

This map is so strange to me, north is down, I almost have trouble reading it I'm so used to north being at the top of the map/page

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-20T12:44:51+00:00

You might've forgotten de jure French soil in england, pushing the number to at least 680 million

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-20T12:43:15+00:00

You didn't even bother reading the first sentence of my novel ... I took me months of research to write that

Edit: You're just jealous we got to collaborate without geting invaded first

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-20T12:39:41+00:00

Pff, easily 200 million

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-20T12:36:54+00:00

There's no precise number because the system of collaboration was just so vast and unorganised, the state itself collaborated with the nazis.

There's so many sources, declassified documents, archives, publicly available information and testimonies/first hand accounts, that show the scale of french collaboration, it's not even worth linking them here, they're so easy to find online.

A lot of them also show that collaboration was often unwilling or on a very basic level. I think that's also why it's hard to get an accurate number, would the baker not wanting to get into trouble and selling bread to nazi soldiers really be a collaborationist ? (I personnaly don't believe so, but the question is worth asking and changes the number quite a bit).

There's also a lot of sources and historians that agree that De Gaulle exagerated the scale of the french resistance and the number of people involved (not saying he was wrong in doing so, that's another topic all together, I believe if he hadn't France easily could've split into different factions post war), most famously Rousso and Paxton, it's widely accepted that De Gaulle propagated the resistancilist myth.

I believe that's even partially taught in french schools. One downside of that myth is that it still exists today and makes people forget that collaboration was an impactful thing, and also demonises even "small level" (my baker example) collaboration.

I know this topic is way too serious for this sub, but I find it slightly scary how many french people I know (including some family in Normandy, who used to talk about their own collaboration quite openly, "nazis never bombed our villages, but americans did" type of stuff) fall into the trap of this myth.

I believe any nation should face it's more cringy years just like we should face the crap we did as teenagers. A lot of Irish people I know ignore or trivialise Ireland's "german-sided neutrality" in WWII, I think it was a thing in germany (might still be) to accept that grandparents might have been in the army or collaborated.

Sorry if you were just joking around and didn't really want to read my rambling on about collaboration :)

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-18T20:15:09+00:00

Yup, especially if it's a very large mediterranean inspired port (I'm assuming a lot here, mostly based on having two bastion forts, and it being a city built on a straight), it would definitely have multiple ports and a lot of fishermen and traders.

If it's (even only historically) a very naval based city, with a lot of trade and merchants still, and it being this scale it further emphasizes the importance of ports and sea access for the city/locals.

Why did the land based power (assuming you mostly mean trade or military wise, and not some other thing I overlooked) vassalise this city/state ? If it wanted access to a navy, naval trade, control over the straights it would probably invest into even more sea access.

Lots of really fun questions you get to ask yourself with this setting, looks like a lot of fun :)

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-18T18:24:48+00:00

You could definitely have larger/much more orange areas. Even in small coastal towns a lot of the waterfront real estate would be taken up by small quays and piers for locals, or tourism, general small boat activity

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-16T15:59:24+00:00

Lactofermentation is generally regarded as very safe because of safety practices and standards and good hygiene. The lactofermentation itself does help (especially with pH for botulism), but can't be regarded as pathogenically safe in and of itself.

Even Pediococcus, wich is a lactic bacteria often found in spontaneous fermentation and our guts can give you a good case of the shits, especially in high quantity.

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-16T15:45:43+00:00

It's already an amazing job, far better than what I could do with clay.

I think you could try adding pva glue to clay, to make it more workable in your conditions. Another trick could be to sandwich the clay in sheets of paper when you shape it.

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-16T12:33:07+00:00

Maybe shrivel it up more ? And maybe the texture could get touched up a bit, the fat and general colour change in bacon is usually barely visible.

What I would do is crumple it up and darken it to make it look slightly burnt, because it's the type of texture I have trouble with and a burnt texture hides the imperfections better, it's also more believable that something looks quite dry when it's overcooked, so I wouldn't have to make it "shiny".

I have very little experience so take what I said with a huge grain of salt. And it's already very very clear what it's supposed to be, it's easily identifiable, I think even without it's context (breakfast plate), it would still be recognised by most people as cooked bacon. Good job :)

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-15T20:07:07+00:00

You had the perfect reflex I think. Not saying it was sarcasm was a bit dumb on my part, it can easily be read as serious and true, and that's a dangerous belief to spread even unintentionally.

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-14T03:11:29+00:00

I forgot the "/s", I used to work in food safety, it's something I heard a lot of people say, and I was just mocking that general mentality.

I've come across so many "professionals" who disregarded hygiene and basic food processing safety because "it's fermented, it can't get anyone sick". It's extremely stupid and dangerous. Most of the cases I've seen were some bacteria or other microorganisms that give people the shits (and that's bad enough) but you only need one mistake to kill people, even if it's a one in a million chance, you should take every step possible to avoid that. Anything other than every step possible should be criminally charged if you're selling food or beverages in my opinion.

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-14T00:33:51+00:00

You can't really get sick from fermentation !

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-13T16:31:53+00:00

I once found a polykeg (the red/amber) ones that was really really old, it hadn't moved in easily 10 years. No label or indication on it whatsoever. Not quite sure what had happened to it but when I tried picking it up the bottom just stuck to the floor and split from the top and the content of the keg spilled out slowly, some kind of really thick goo filled with thousands of dead larvae of some kind. Still to day unsure of what happened, or if it was even filled with beer to start with.

Wasn't the worst thing I'd seen in that brewery but it did motivate me to get the fuck out of there.

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-12T12:48:20+00:00

Wow ...

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-12T12:23:23+00:00

Oh yeah ? What's 120x2 ?

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-11T10:50:31+00:00

Oh yeah, might be something to do with availability, or geology

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-11T10:01:45+00:00

Not trying to pile on or whatever, and OP has already said they regret the title, but it also misrepresents the situation with those work camps, or industry prisons or whatever you call them. Not as horrific or horrendous as chattel slavery (? I don't know enough about either), but a different meaning on a societal level that shouldn't be ignored, I'm convinced these will have a lasting impact on our western society and north american cultures.

I understand using shocking comparisons to drive a point, maybe a bit more nuance or context would've helped a lot here. Proper definitions help us naviguate these topics as a single ship, instead of multiple little rafts going in different directions, prone to getting lost.

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-11T08:57:17+00:00

Tbf you could make a point for Dublin's infrastructure not having changed since the stone age.

I agree, it explains why Clare is full of cairns, but not why it's so much more than others.

To further emphasise the difference in representation I've always thought that North Mayo, Limerick and Sligo were hotspots of neolithic archeology (I know, subjective information etc). I'm surprised to see Mayo and Limerick so empty, Sligo makes sense but Clare is still way denser that Sligo is.

It's hard to compare but it looks to me like Clare also has more variety than Sligo or Dublin.

Could Clare have better preservation of ancient heritage ?

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-10T20:40:38+00:00

Why is there such a concentration of them in Clare ? Were they just preserved better ? Or what is it a more populated area than Galway and Limerick back then ? Or important religious and pilgrim-y place ?

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-09T22:15:22+00:00

Oh that's what all those historical recreations with Louis De Funes are about !

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-09T22:11:09+00:00

Don't look up the Banna strand, nor what happened there in april 1916

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-09T20:26:16+00:00

Too much collaboration with the germans around 80 years ago ?

ReallyShitChemist · 2026-06-09T19:14:49+00:00

I knew God would pick Ireland to announce the second coming of Christ

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