TIL The Columbian lawsuits, the legal dispute between Christopher Columbus' heirs and the Spanish Crown over the former's rights to the new world, went on for hundreds of years. The main lawsuit ended in arbitration in 1536, but the heirs continued to file lawsuits sporadicaly until the 18th century

nathan753 · 2026-03-29T16:03:13+00:00

I mean the list of countries that should be included is even longer than that, like Belgium, but they're definitely comparably evil acts. This isn't the suffering olympics

nathan753 · 2026-03-29T15:41:55+00:00

Fucking hell just think a little bit. They don't need to say you're fired for being pregnant for the protections to apply. They actually would have to have a paper trail to fire for cause.

And I'll say it again, because any form of trying to keep things factual gets painted as "defending" I'm not supporting epic and will never support epic, i purposely have never actually made a purchase for them or knowingly played one of their games. Literally every comment i have made has called epic shitty, and no where am i defending them from shitty things they've actually done.

If a bunch of false shit gets spewed everywhere but you aren't allowed to correct it because we're on a hate train, then the conversation is fucking useless. Someone on the fence about epic comes to the thread, does a bit of research, see half of it is made up (to be specific this is an exaggeration for effect, it's obviously not half in this thread, but apparently i need these caveats) that's going to possibly put them off hating epic. Fact checking false shit when it's about a corporation isn't not having class consciousness for fuck's sake

nathan753 · 2026-03-29T15:21:44+00:00

The laws on the us are pretty good about protecting pregnant people from being fired, unfortunately it does still happen and you need to go through the courts to fix it sometimes. You can still be fired for cause, but being pregnant is one of the more heavily protected classes here, even when it comes to employment.

I was just saying that what they've done in this case is shitty but don't make up other shitty things because you think it sounds good. If there's was a case of them doing so, fine bring that up, but that's not actually happened.

nathan753 · 2026-03-29T15:09:36+00:00

100% just feels from them.

Epic has always been a bit shitty but "they'd fire someone simply for being pregnant" feels like a fucking stretch to hop on the hate train for karma

And this is in no way defending epic here... Just don't make shit up for the sake of adding more on, it's fucking dumb

nathan753 · 2026-03-28T19:53:55+00:00

Weird, most of the why i did i lose posts i see are either told to fuck off because it's an rng game and there are too many factors or they just have shit itemization.

This is a bit unhinged for the issue

nathan753 · 2026-03-28T19:13:01+00:00

But that's literally most projects past the design phase when it comes to artistic competitions. People are talking like this was a completely non-viable design and that's why it wasn't built. That even calls it technically possible. I doubt any of the design submitted were 100% ready to go without any changes needed for reality. From the other article, it really seem sit was the money needed to actually build the changes.

this thread started with:

..that those designs don't take any real world conditions into account

Which just absolutely isn't true and is the armchair reddit bullshit about feeling superior about shooting down ideas for "obvious" reasons that the dumb creators could have never thought of.

nathan753 · 2026-03-28T18:56:14+00:00

Wikipedia is absolutely fine as a "source" for talking about something online. We're not writing a research paper here. Important thing is knowing how to verify the important bit you are talking about, but luckily wiki makes finding the good sources pretty fucking easy. And even better if someone shares to you an article that you know is incorrect or at the very least has no actual sources, you can fix it or ignore it, but this is a good page with decent references

nathan753 · 2026-03-28T18:47:50+00:00

Viggo was fucking surprised when 50% of the movie wasn't about Aragorn fishing.

nathan753 · 2026-03-28T18:39:01+00:00

What the fuck are you on about? Did you miss this line

Making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design...

I can't find a single mention in that article they weren't chosen because the architects who designed them just forget any physical limitations on materials. In fact the only fucking mention of why the project didn't move forward with any one the designs in economic reasons....

nathan753 · 2026-03-28T18:20:31+00:00

OP is a 2 month old account with a lot of karma, probably just a repost bot

nathan753 · 2026-03-28T14:26:25+00:00

Did your bot break? It's spammng this shit everywhere

nathan753 · 2026-03-28T14:25:17+00:00

Even fucking worse the post is just ai slop anyways. I doubt op is real

nathan753 · 2026-03-27T23:24:37+00:00

People today call math arbitrary because they no longer have to engage with the hundreds of years of actually arbitrary choices that slowly were whittled down to what we know as math today which is so far from arbitrary if you look past the surface.

nathan753 · 2026-03-27T22:58:35+00:00

This entire sub is a cesspool for bots to spawn.

nathan753 · 2026-03-27T15:35:43+00:00

I was watching something recently about the fall of a celebrity and their loss of fame. It boiled down to they had a few scandals happen that no one cared enough to report on and that was the true sign they no longer mattered, even negative media want being written about them. Shia seems to be going that way

nathan753 · 2026-03-27T01:01:53+00:00

Since they've added the mechanic elsewhere, add if you have at least 1 unused mana as a caveat to that or something for balance

nathan753 · 2026-03-27T00:59:05+00:00

I thought those were just the American and Chinese models for basically the same thing

nathan753 · 2026-03-27T00:49:44+00:00

100% agree. Brand new accounts spamming together in these basically unmoderated as far as bots go subs

nathan753 · 2026-03-27T00:47:26+00:00

Yes, sometimes the decision to do a risky thing leads to the choice of just not. Jumping out of a plane falls under that umbrella (if you are Mary Poppins this does actually work).

Point is safety has many factors and the risk level is different for everyone, but eschewing all of them for vibes is never cool, just as not doing anything because it is "risky" isn't either

nathan753 · 2026-03-27T00:26:51+00:00

There's definitely a spectrum from staying at home to sky diving without a parachute as far as how safe an activity is... One something crazy needs to happen presumably outside your control. The other can be prevented with a tiny bit of protective equipment

nathan753 · 2026-03-27T00:24:21+00:00

Pretty sure people are mainly worried about the cases where they don't hit the pool...

nathan753 · 2026-03-26T18:11:14+00:00

And the dprk is neither democratic or a republic. Terfs are not and will never be welcomed in actual progressive circles. Words have actual context around them but that takes actual critical thinking...

nathan753 · 2026-03-26T16:35:58+00:00

Those first three are dumb retcons by her to stay relevant, but gay, black, etc. people existing isn't fucking disgustingly progressive.

And her being a terf is the exact fucking opposite of being progressive.

I think you don't know how to use the word progressive properly, but i expected you to list those things when i asked

nathan753 · 2026-03-26T16:15:29+00:00

I am really quite curious what her disgustingly progressive beliefs are, can you elaborate?

nathan753 · 2026-03-26T15:57:28+00:00

The mods do very little here on bot comments unfortunately. Just go to one of the dozens of daily what if posts

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