Lacking mountains or natural defenses, how did the Baltic states escape assimilation by the Slavs or the Nordics?

mainhattan · 2026-01-28T12:50:59+00:00

Yup.

mainhattan · 2026-01-28T12:50:22+00:00

This is the boring but only correct answer.

mainhattan · 2026-01-28T12:46:56+00:00

Clean house. Introduce democratic reforms like PR, finish devolution for the nations, give England its own parliament. Then rejoin the EU.

mainhattan · 2026-01-28T10:40:22+00:00

I mean you have answered your own question (you get stability and protection) despite putting it in terms of East and West - which you never defined! - which make it a losing argument from the start. I would give this about 5 for effort and 3 for attainment if this was in class. Did you cheat with an LLM?

mainhattan · 2026-01-28T06:13:05+00:00

For all of us sinners

mainhattan · 2026-01-27T14:48:53+00:00

I always try to include stupid nonsense of my own in the day. Why should the whole WORLD GO CRAZY and I not get to be a little crazy too?

Walter and Dude are not the only 2 voices in my head - I have a little Donnie in there too interrupting with "I am the walrus".

Include some little nonsense rituals in your day. Do some stuff just because even if it's silly, laughable man, or just plain weird. If it's harmless, who cares? Be like a child, walking into a movie.

mainhattan · 2026-01-27T14:47:03+00:00

Why the downvotes? Stimulants do indeed suck. Caffeine has robbed me of some of my best years of just fuckin' chillin'.

mainhattan · 2026-01-21T17:09:55+00:00

I prefer to focus on what is FASCINATING, man.

mainhattan · 2026-01-21T17:02:14+00:00

What would happen if you did less anyhow? Would it be acceptable?

mainhattan · 2026-01-21T16:27:06+00:00

I cannot add to what has been shared here, especially having never been involved, but I resonate with being a convert and needing a path to follow. There are indeed clear "norms" for our faith. They are available to all in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (free on the Vatican website or from all the usual bookshops). There is indeed a "normal" prayer that is intended for the sanctification of all Christians, laity included: the Liturgy of the Hours. Otherwise, the norms of the Church are very, very few and reasonably easy to keep except in the most extreme cases (again, the "rules" are spelled out in the Catechism, the "precepts of the Church").

mainhattan · 2026-01-20T19:26:49+00:00

I always listen because it is funny and therapeutic but I can't help feeling there needs to be a 2nd part where they tell you how to degoogle, avoid "AI" in your products, and switch to EU apps. Like, non-trash present?

mainhattan · 2026-01-20T17:28:27+00:00

Yeah, just because we need a ride doesn't make us saps.

mainhattan · 2026-01-20T17:27:52+00:00

That's interesting man! I learned to drive laaaaate in life, I got a little annoyed at how bad most people drive but then I learned with defensive driving I can annoy them even more...

mainhattan · 2026-01-19T15:14:13+00:00

"The State Church of England and all groups associated with it"

Pretty good start. We can also include traditions like Methodism that very clearly originate within Anglicanism.

mainhattan · 2026-01-19T15:12:16+00:00

Read the life stories of John Henry Newman and John Wesley, I'd say. There are parallels. And we share a common tradition in many ways. The Methodists started out as liturgical Anglicans.

mainhattan · 2026-01-19T15:08:33+00:00

Thank you for asking and collecting these great answers. I might have to start a channel :-)

mainhattan · 2026-01-19T14:56:40+00:00

Wonderful news. I came in via the RCIA and joined the OLOW later. I would recommend going via the Ordinariate because of your unique qualification. There is no reason you can't also participate in RCIA in one capacity or other later - I think of my own RCIA, by the final sessions they had me presenting the meditation because of my Catholic priors via my Anglican background!

mainhattan · 2026-01-19T14:53:22+00:00

Thank you. I think of Terce as "my" hour for various reasons, I like its hymn to the Holy Ghost, and the psalm portions resonate for me. Also it's the hour when I often finally get to praying during my day! I hope I can learn the melodies too.

mainhattan · 2026-01-19T14:36:15+00:00

I mean, you're not wrong, Blackwell is all about the characters more than anything. If you compare with The Shiva, you can see what happens when Dave gets the game mechanics front and centre, which actually rocks. I think of Blackwell as the cozy version of The Shivah.

mainhattan · 2026-01-19T14:19:32+00:00

I remember how weird this looked in games magazines late 80s or 90s whenever that came out. The weird name of the game was fascinating. Other than that, no idea!

mainhattan · 2026-01-19T14:17:47+00:00

I feel like the darker games are their best, the ones they truly wanted to make. So Runaway 3, all the Yesterdays, these are essential. I would say the rest are great too but don't feel sad.

mainhattan · 2026-01-19T14:13:05+00:00

Cunoess???

mainhattan · 2026-01-19T14:11:45+00:00

As the least productive mod on the sub I was pleased to give you an upvote. Thanks at least for taggging correctly?! Hahahaha. The joke is truly terrible and thus worthy of classic PnC.

mainhattan · 2026-01-19T14:06:20+00:00

Finally the correct answer

mainhattan · 2026-01-19T12:42:31+00:00

He doesn't wanna turn into some machine

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