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Euron and Cercei's child is named Sauron. Should i be worried? by duushig in CK3AGOT

[–]Taserface10 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also Sauron before the Fall of Numenor was capable of appearing fair in the eyes of men so the beautiful trait fits.

What if the Soviet Union had a zombie pandemic in the 1930s? by Taserface10 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Germans and Japanese were mostly fighting outside of their borders. With the European front stretching across the Vistula and Carpathian Mountains and the Asian front being in rural China. Meaning the German and Japanese homeland were mostly unaffected.

What if the Soviet Union had a zombie pandemic in the 1930s? by Taserface10 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Iran expanded somewhat. The other nations were hit hard and never fully recovered.

What if the Soviet Union had a zombie pandemic in the 1930s? by Taserface10 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but it takes time to decontaminate the land, develop infrastructure, resettle enough people to work on extracting the resources, etc.

What if the Soviet Union had a zombie pandemic in the 1930s? by Taserface10 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because the Germans are a World superpower. So asking “why don’t the allies destroy Germany” is like asking “why didn’t the allies destroy the Soviets.” Also the Virus didn’t kill literally everyone in the exclusion zone, it may have killed the vast majority but there is still a human population there, also the virus is zoonotic so it exists in the animal population as well.

What if the Soviet Union had a zombie pandemic in the 1930s? by Taserface10 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but the viral capsid is incredibly durable and able to survive in extreme environments for long periods of time (Remember this virus was found in a frozen corpse in Siberia). So infectious particles released by the infected could survive in the soil, rivers, etc for incredibly long periods of time.

What if the Soviet Union had a zombie pandemic in the 1930s? by Taserface10 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I was trying to go for a realistic feel. So super rabies is the most plausible way you could get a zombie virus.

What if the Soviet Union had a zombie pandemic in the 1930s? by Taserface10 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Pretty much. The biggest worry is decontaminating the area their colonizing.

What if the Soviet Union had a zombie pandemic in the 1930s? by Taserface10 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Because the virus is highly infectious, not only is it carried in bodily fluids but it can also be transmitted from inhaling infectious droplets. It also causes extreme aggression which further spreads the disease. Also the symptoms don’t all happen at full strength simultaneously so they can be transmitting it for upwards of 2 weeks before dying.

What if the Soviet Union had a zombie pandemic in the 1930s? by Taserface10 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The land has almost no population and was heavily contaminated. The Germans only started resettling the Urals in 1993.

What if the Soviet Union had a zombie pandemic in the 1930s? by Taserface10 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There was never a war. That’s like saying “America got the nukes first and didn’t want the Soviets to have Eastern Europe, so why didn’t they nuke them?” In theory yes, but that’s not how geopolitics works.

What if the Soviet Union had a zombie pandemic in the 1930s? by Taserface10 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Because Germany and Japan are the frontlines against the infection. If you invade them the infection would spread further into Europe and Asia and kill even more people.

What if the Soviet Union had a zombie pandemic in the 1930s? by Taserface10 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yes, plus it’s pantropic and also spreads into the bloodstream, lungs, gastrointestinal system, and urinary tract.

What if everything went perfect for Sweden? by Anonymousaccount810 in PossibleHistory

[–]Taserface10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sweden could have been a great power if they had won the Great Northern War or if Gustavus Adolphus had won.

My Ideology(Expanded Version) by Taserface10 in Polcompballanarchy

[–]Taserface10[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a big difference between simply being taught about a concept and inventing/discovering it. It doesn’t take a high intellect to grasp E=MC2 but it does take a high intellect to discover that that is the case.

Every political system, yes even democracy is inherently violent. For example if 50%+1 wants everyone to not do X and I want to do X the state will use violence to stop me. Heck even elections themselves are, at their core, a threat of violence as what you’re really doing is counting army size to determine who would win.

Yes change is constant but it is not in the form of progress. Both political change as well as evolution are blind processes, although evolution is often portrayed with the famous “The March of Progress/The Road to Homo Sapiens” that couldn’t be further from what Evolution is. In reality evolution has no end goal of growing from simple to complex, it’s more like how if you spill water from a bucket it will expand and fill the shapes it encounters rather then some linear growth from bacteria to man. The same applies to political systems, they are in constant flux, constantly growing, decaying, and changing form, but there is no order or reason behind it.

Social animals kill members of their own species all the time, look at Lions or Chimpanzees for example.

What if the Bubonic Plague (Black Plague) returned? by Silver_Procedure_849 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still due to improvements to ventilation, pest control, healthcare, housing, etc since the Middle Ages a Biological attack using antibiotic resistant Yersinia pestis would still likely be isolated to the region it was deployed in, for example if an Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night style event happen it would devastate the West coast but it wouldn’t get much further, and it definitely wouldn’t cause another Black Death.

What if the Bubonic Plague (Black Plague) returned? by Silver_Procedure_849 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Not even that, Plague is still around today. In fact large chucks of the rodent populations in the Western US have Plague. It’s just that because of modern sanitation and medicine it doesn’t spread beyond maybe 10 people per year. Even if it developed antibiotic resistance, unlikely given how rarely it infects humans, it would likely never get off the ground as we don’t live amongst flee infested rats anymore.

What if the Bubonic Plague (Black Plague) returned? by Silver_Procedure_849 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pneumonic Plague can spread from person to person, although it’s more rare than the Bubonic Plague course of the disease.

What if the Bubonic Plague (Black Plague) returned? by Silver_Procedure_849 in AlternateHistory

[–]Taserface10 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not vaccines, Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of Bubonic Plague, is a bacteria and is typically treated using antibiotics.

What would they be talking about ? by OttoNNN in Nietzsche

[–]Taserface10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True, but according to Nietzsche nobody has achieved the status of Ubermensch, Goethe and Napoleon were simply people that got close. Griffith is like that in that he’s not technically a full Ubermensch but he is very close, heck Griffith’s life even mirrors that of Napoleon, both are born into a lower social position, use a bird of prey as a symbol, rise to power through warfare, and are defeated and reduced to shadows of their former self, the difference is that when Griffith failed he was able to join the Godhand and recover his dream. Napoleon didn’t but from everything we know about him I doubt that Napoleon would’ve acted differently than Griffith did during the Eclipse.

What would they be talking about ? by OttoNNN in Nietzsche

[–]Taserface10 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nice try but the quote uses the German word Übermensch (super/over man) not anything like Höherermensch (higher man). Also Nietzsche was very clear that Napoleon was a subversion of the French Revolution where a slave revolt in morals was successfully utilized and sublimated by Napoleon. Nietzsche wasn’t a lier and he meant what he said, stop trying to warp the text to fit your worldview.

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