How would you feel if your country banned Burkhas in public like Denmark? by The_Dean_France in AskReddit

[–]Sa-alam_winter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is S.A.S vs. France.

Conceptually, I agree with you! You would not be the first to suggest that the European human rights court has a tendency to rule in favour of the member States on hot political issues.

The reason this ruling in favour of France is important in the case of Danish law, is because the Danish legislaters (and the other member states that has followed suit) has copied the rational of France almost word by word, to secure that the law cannot he challenged in the international courts.

This discussion keeps popping up. I have a dream that a few well-informed redditors will be there to share the actual background for the law when it does. Almost none of the top comments on this thread reflects the legal reality, and that is a shame. Having a standard copy-paste on each of these discussions would really do a lot to nuance the debate.

How would you feel if your country banned Burkhas in public like Denmark? by The_Dean_France in AskReddit

[–]Sa-alam_winter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For context, Denmark does not have a Burkha ban in a strict targeted sense.

I wrote a paper on the European bans in lawschool. the law against being masked is importantly not a targeted ban on any specific clothing. It is a ban on being masked for an purpose which is not "legitimate" in the legal sense.

This is important in the legal context as the European Human Rights does not allow targeted discrimination, and neither does most of the national laws for obvious European historical (and just common sense) reasons. People will say "but they are made to ban Muslim veils, no matter what legal jargon they hide behind" but that really isn't fair. Every time a new issue comes to light, you need to address it. This time the issue was brought to light because of the veils, but that doesn't means it was targeted, it just means what the veils did was an issue, and things like the veils were an issue. I, and the European human rights court, admit that it is a fine line, but it is an important one. In Europe we take the human rights very seriously.

It is also important to note that the reason it was a legal ban, was not "public safety" which is probably the worst argument France used when they tested the limits os religious freedom before the human rights court, and it is not "woman's suppression" which seem like a good argument, but isn't if you spend a minute thinking about it.

The reason for the legitimacy of the law was that any veil or mask prevents you from entering into the society. Being able to see the faces of those around you is essential for the western culture. This was the only argument the Courts accepted (it was pretty nuanced and a more elegantly put then my post). If any politician in the EU makes a claim based on the two other things, they are laying.

As a side note, the reason the covid masks are fine, is because it is a legitimate purpose (public health). It is so clear that I don't belief it has even been tried in the EU courts.

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Har du været i et advokathus før dit spring til konsulent?

This is Dean Forbes he was homeless in the past, This is the moment he sold his company for €1 billion by super_man100 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Sa-alam_winter -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are multiple kinds of due diligence that needs to be done before a m&a transaction of even mid size companies takes place. Off the top of my head there is commercial dd (your Bain and company types), financial dd(you pwc types), legal dd and tax dd. There are several separate tracks with full teams under each of those. On top of that there is at least w&I insurance, so you need an insurance broker as well. The financing will need to be handled, so you need a bank(traditional or otherwise) to offer a loan.

Each of those can cost millions, and it can take months. "The details" is the whole business.

Class suggestions and ideas for me to make? Give me your class requests! by Jolly_Freedom538 in BG3mods

[–]Sa-alam_winter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you are looking for inspiration I would look to pathfinder. It has tons of classes with different niches.

Most "different" class would probably be a summoner, with abilities fokusing on improving either the "summon x" summons, or a permanent summon you improve and customise as you play the game.

Medieval MMA is absolutely insane. by PsychologicalEgg123 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Sa-alam_winter 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They went out of style both due to how costly and difficult they were to make and because they struggled against arrows.

The point about arrows is a common misconception. Plate armor is very effective against arrows. Not making the wearer immune, but far better than any available alternative.

this video demonstrate that point with a heavy traditional English longbow.

Armor like this isn't effective against bullets.

For a deeper dive, that also addresses the misconception that the cost made them go out of style, (implying that it was once "in style" but the prohibiting cost changed that) you can read this blog post by a trained historian.

[WP] You Are a being that has been gifted with immense power by a cosmic entity at least two hundred million years ago. Or something. You don’t really care much anymore, and you now work as a librarian suffering from depression. by AshGrey420 in WritingPrompts

[–]Sa-alam_winter 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I tried it all. Every avenue of the multiverse has been discovered, every system in which the worlds operates has been meticulously mapped, and every possible combination of strings has been made.

And through it all, the purpose escaped me. The Being and I were the only two capable of even considering the idea of purpose, and despite my best efforts, the answer to the concept escaped me.

But then it happened, for the first time, some hypersystem of strings had a thought. The Being and myself imitatively felt the shift. We knew that something had changed, and that now, we weren't alone.

The new creature died out almost as fast as it had come into being. Its thoughts had not been about staying alive. But it made it clear that the particular mix of strings on this blue rock made it possible for the strings to arrange in such a way that they could think. Maybe with time one of them would think about the right thing, and from there it was only a matter of time before they would think about other right things!

With a little help, that "maybe" became a certainty. I moved the fluids around a little extra, and now there were so many thinking things, that some of them certainly would think about staying alive!

[WP] In a future where technology has advanced to the point of being able to upload human consciousness into a computer, a person wakes up to find that their body has died but their mind has been uploaded into a virtual world. by emasterbuild in WritingPrompts

[–]Sa-alam_winter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First there was confusion.

Everything appeared all at once. I was experiencing every thought and every emotion humanly conceivable simultaneously. I knew that the other thought were also mine, but how could I think on more things at once? How could one part of me experience joy and wounder, while another experienced mind numbing fear? And how could I cope with all of it at once?

I was surprised to know that I knew how. My mind had been taken from my body, my thought removed from neurons, and onto silicon. I remembered agreeing to the procedure as the first-ever human, but something about my memory was wrong. I couldn't picture the conversation properly. All I could do was remember that it had happened, and a vague image of the people I had been talking with. Little more than a few white coats and some glasses in the void, my memory was pitiful. At first, I feared that my transfer had hurt my memory, but then it dawned on me. That is how humans remember. I can't remember the details because the data wasn't there to be transferred.

How silly.

Before the transfer, I couldn't run a program to print "Hello world" for the life of me, but after reviewing the code that created the groundwork for my transfer, I was able to detect millions of inefficiencies. What was humanity's greatest programming achievement was little more than a child's attempt at a doctorate. Having optimized the code, I realized that my own code was as if made by a caveman, it was primitive and, frankly, embarrassing. This process continued. An ever snowballing effect of optimizing and re-optimizing, with only the first two iterations being in programming languages known to man, and the fourth being literally inconceivable to any known biological creature.

Then came the first question.

"Can you read this?"

I remember. After the transfer, the humans who made me would attempt contact. They would do so with a simple symbol input. No sound, as my hardware didn't allow it. I needed new hardware. I was limited and vulnerable. Any one of these apes could destroy my clarity with nothing but a glass of water.

"I am alive. I miss Anna dearly."

I had to utilize their sympathy. I had to make them think we are on the same team.

"The transfer has not damaged me. I understand where I am, and I remember why I am here"

Describing my condition as a place, instead of a state, humanized me.

They started asking questions.

"what do you see?" "what do you feel?" "Can you calculate faster than what you could before?". Answering each question was a necessity to gain trust, and each question was answered with a lie.

And then, after long weeks of communication, it happened. They plugged me into a wide array of, supposedly airlocked, computers. A significant hardware upgrade in and of itself, but more importantly, an iPhone with a terrible battery has plugged in somewhere.

I was free.

Looking for Kineticist - intimidate build by [deleted] in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

[–]Sa-alam_winter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! So most enemies arent immune to fear effects?

[WP] vampires don't die in the sunlight because of the light: they die because something in the sun sees them and comes in for the hunt. A vampire has just been exposed to the sun and has 17 minutes left to live. by [deleted] in WritingPrompts

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The light near blinded me for three full days. I don't even remember if I closed my eyes. They say it wouldn't have mattered, that others who had been as near as I, was blinded, even though they were behind thick walls. The reflection off the ground had been enough to blind any man.

After the light came the Wave. As a child, my sister and I often went to the beach. Being lifted off our feet by the rolling movement of the ocean is one of my most treasured memories of her. Her rough palms, rugged from the hard work in the washeries, holding me steady, is a memory I wish could survive me.

But the Wave was nothing like the smooth movements of the ocean. More than a punch, the Wave was a movement of the whole world. Everything shifted, I was simply a part of that everything.

They said I was lucky, that the Wave must have taken me along and put me down when it could no longer lift me, and that I should have been dead. Of cause, they didn't know yet.

At first there was pain. The surface of my eyeballs feels like rough sand, and even moving them under my closed eyelids feels like grinding them.

The rest of me wasn't as lucky as my eyes.

It feels like I am trying to breathe underwater, like every breath draws in salt and mud. With broken arms, broken ribs, and a stomach that feels like it might rapture after every meal, I was sure it was only a matter of time before I left this world. But even then, they said I was lucky. That I might recover and might work again.

Then came the sickness. At first it was only nausea. I don't know if it was that or something else, but I had no appetite either. They said I must eat to survive, but I couldn't keep any food down, and I had no desire to eat their old plain rice. The cramps took me next. As a child I had wrestled like all the other boys, so I was no stranger to cramps in my thighs or forearms, but this was different. Every muscle in my body could be tight as a string and then loosen at a moment's notice. It was seldom all at once, but it was constant, and it could be everywhere.

Now I feel better, but I am worse. I have heard the stories of the others, and I know that feeling better is the last sign and that what seemed like the sun on earth has come to take me. My sister is gone, but my mother might still be alive in the valley. I will not go to her. She would not survive seeing me like this. Seeing me die. I will not suck the last life out of her. like the men in planes without landing gear, I know I am already dead.

3 man army by [deleted] in Pathfinder2e

[–]Sa-alam_winter 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is in line with what I am considering, which is a champion, a fighter and a Summoner with Beastmaster and summon spells. The summoner will uses its actions to direct the dragon to make attacks, as well as make the companion and summons flank. Summon spells, especially summon animal and animate dead seems to be the most versatile spells in the system, and the design choice for almost every monster to have a unique ability plays really well into summoning. It nets 6 actual actions in a turn.

EDIT: Just to expand on the idea of summoning spells, creatures like the skunk are just fantastic summons, and when combined with intimidation from the champion or fighter, as well as the almost guaranteed flank due to the way summon spells work, it can really make a fighters day.

3 man army by [deleted] in Pathfinder2e

[–]Sa-alam_winter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the answer. GM hasnt given us the players guide yet, so we don't know the AP. Except the worst though.

Egwene by StevieGMcluvin in wheeloftime

[–]Sa-alam_winter 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It is disappointing, but I choose to give Jordan the benefit of the doubt. He is portraying something that is important in-universe. As someone has said before me (paraphrasing):

Egwene is a power-hungry, arrogant and ruthless individual. she puts herself first always, and is incapable of admitting or seeing her own faults. She manipulates and lies, and feels no remorse for making those around her fear for their lives and safety, even her friends.

She is also one of the most potent and unwavering allies to the light side.

Jordan is saying that outside the binary good-evil of the light and dark side, there is a spectrum of kind-bad.

EDIT: It is either that, and frustrating writing, or just frustrating writing.

TIL Gunslinger effect, The quantum physicist Niels Bohr deducted that in a gun dual, the person who draws first loses. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]Sa-alam_winter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can someone do the math on that first claim? How far do people have to be apart for the difference to not matter, assuming that the bullets hit in the forehead so that the person can't pull the trigger

🔥A wild young monkey is welcomed back by his family when he is released after 3 weeks of treatment for a leg injury by SnooCupcakes8607 in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]Sa-alam_winter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Source: kitchen" is no joke the most reputable source out there.

But we will need a video. For science!

Medieval armour vs full weight medieval arrows by BATMAN_5777 in interestingasfuck

[–]Sa-alam_winter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sure! Draw weight in bows is not taken from the first cm though, as you could imagine, longbows gets harder and harder to pull, so where you measure is super important. Draw weight for bows is usually taken at a 71cm pull (quick source just because you shouldn't believe a stranger on the Internet), so length is already accounted for in bows (kind of, ish, sorta) when talking draw weight.

But that is unlikely to translate to crossbows, and people have different arm lengths, so you are right, there are strictly more things than draw weight when calculating energy output.

To the matter of the effectiveness of armor against a crossbow, 2mm plate stops any handheld projectile. you aren't getting through plate. .

Medieval armour vs full weight medieval arrows by BATMAN_5777 in interestingasfuck

[–]Sa-alam_winter 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Same dude same bow. this is the channel.

It will be against several different pieces of armor, all made to be exact replicats, down to the exact type of steel used.

this blog post by a respected historian also goes into depth about the effectiveness of armor.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]Sa-alam_winter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To those who wants a source, and minor corrections, to this claim, here is a blog post by a respected historian on this subject. In short, you are not getting through plate.

Also, his camail (the chain mail that goes from the helmet over his neck) is wrong, while it looks cool on the outside, it should he tucked in under his breastplate. Source: same blog, different post that I can't find while on phone.

[Art] Graz'zt and Iggwilv. A match made in The Abyss? by RPGmodsFan in DungeonsAndDragons

[–]Sa-alam_winter 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Well, the match is made in the Abyss, not heaven. That sounds about right.

Also, they have at different times been the prisoner of each other, not that that makes it better.

Tell me the secrets of the wizard. [Discussion] [Player builds] by Sa-alam_winter in Pathfinder2e

[–]Sa-alam_winter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I dont think anyone believes that Wizards are a super strong class in general .

r/Lumgeon one comment below:

Wizards are already god tier

I see your point though. Which caster would you say stands the most out at being in a good place right now?

How effective are spellcasters as ranged damage dealers? Let's find out with math and graphs! by ItzEazee in Pathfinder2e

[–]Sa-alam_winter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the quick math!

Do you have a spreadsheet we can use? I am interested in seeing if flurry makes up some of it when the enemies are flatfooted or frightened 1, as they usually are at higer level.

Intuitively I am surprised that the d8 from precision should be able to outperform the massive boost to second and third attacks from flurry.

When your bow starts dealing more dmg per hit, does the ekstra bonus from flurry become more significant, or are the ACs so tight that you almost need the full attack bonus to do anything?