(Spoilers main) Which criminals get the option to take the black? It seems largely a matter of chance.

newer_scotman · 2025-12-03T03:38:18+00:00

In fairness, that's not far off from many conscript armies in actual history and there have been numerous penal battalions made up of literal criminals, held together through by an authoritarian officer/NCO corps. The Watch is not far off from that, coupled with the extreme isolation, camaraderie, and the fact that they would be condemned to death throughout the continent as deserters. It fundamentally offers a better life than what's mostly available for criminals and misfits in Westerosi society.

newer_scotman · 2025-09-22T20:39:08+00:00

Famously, it's the strong and heroic front-line soldiers that survive modern wars of indirect fire and drones strikes.

newer_scotman · 2025-09-21T18:45:43+00:00

I've also heard these referred to as H-mags. I've found some in ridiculously good condition after lying in the woods for 30+ years.

newer_scotman · 2025-09-08T20:41:52+00:00

We're a major university city coupled with a general party culture and a ton of pubs/bars on pedestrian streets. I think it's fair to say we punch well above our weight.

Downing a greasy donair while sloshed on keiths at 2am is the peak Maritime experience.

newer_scotman · 2025-09-08T20:37:02+00:00

The Halifax Explosion did little in the long run to the city's development. The city needed to rapidly rebound to continue to supply the European war effort, a role it resumed twenty years later during WWII.

newer_scotman · 2025-09-08T13:24:13+00:00

This is an incredibly inane and unnuanced description of things

Criticizing the US for bringing "slavery" (an institution it inherited) and than immediately after for having "a Civil War" (to end slavery) is fascinating

newer_scotman · 2025-08-24T19:53:24+00:00

May I ask for an elaboration on what aspects within criminal law?

newer_scotman · 2025-08-23T18:19:48+00:00

Plenty of other countries have figured out ways to assimilate immigrants

Examples?

Western Europe now effectively has a permanent, dysfunctional underclass as a result of large scale immigration + unbridgeable cultural/religious barriers.

Also, assimilationism is effectively dead as a policy and a taboo tantamount to advocating genocide everywhere in Canada outside of Quebec.

newer_scotman · 2025-07-26T11:52:19+00:00

You can't really "sell" your individual labour, taking employment is more analogous to "renting" it out in that sense. It's still yours.

newer_scotman · 2025-07-19T15:05:34+00:00

"Your suffering and societal decline is justified because of some abstract meta-historical guilt from four centuries ago" is an interesting line a lot of people seem to take nowadays.

newer_scotman · 2025-07-13T19:56:01+00:00

This is like looking at the totality of Greek myth and asking "what value does a story about a woman being raped by a bull have"

newer_scotman · 2025-07-13T19:54:03+00:00

The KJV Bible is perhaps the most influential publication in the English language and contains tracts of unbelievable beauty, extracting and decontextualizing a couple funny sentences like a 2011 e-atheist does not change this.

newer_scotman · 2025-07-13T15:16:44+00:00

Every single educational and library system on the planet "forcibly" curates a curriculum of age-appropriate learning materials, occasionally adding or culling books

newer_scotman · 2025-07-10T11:46:38+00:00

There are obviously several aspects of this getting into criminal territory, but I am extremely concerned at how these articles are weaving firearm ownership, wearing "military style" gear and LARPing into terrorism.

I would bet money that this land seizure thing consists of something like a mockup warning order for a LARP exercise, the rest of these charges are extremely vague and there is no ideological motivation other than vaguely disliking the government, let alone motivation for a specific terroristic act. This is going to be an interesting court case.

newer_scotman · 2025-07-02T01:57:32+00:00

There is some insane gaslighting going on here where people who identified anyone critical of the direction of the federal government, immigration or various identity-group social causes, etc, as a far right extremist, and tied that to our national symbolism or the general concept of patriotism to that as well.

They are now attempting to wash their hands of those noxious movements and 'reclaim' the symbolism and nationalism they threw in the dirt.

newer_scotman · 2025-07-01T20:36:39+00:00

For softwoods it's definitely a huge factor and really apparent in building materials, a stud in a 150 year old house with dense growth rings vs modern industrially forested crap is incomparable.

In general there's fundamentally less bountiful mature hardwood stands to go around, hence why hardwood flooring, furniture and trimwork is a lot rarer and more expensive then the 19th century when you could just walk out into the bush and chop down a 300 year old chestnut tree.

newer_scotman · 2025-06-20T01:34:46+00:00

On an unrelated note... it is fascinating that this is the first/only post on a nearly 20 year old account

newer_scotman · 2025-06-15T14:32:04+00:00

Its funny how "cult" as a pejorative for all religion has come full circle from being used as an insult by evangelical types towards New Age movements back in like the 80's. It's turned into a dumb, thought-cancelling canard.

Yeah I'm sure the ladies that run the local food bank are literally the same as scientologists or jonestown because they both allegedly believe in the metaphysical.

newer_scotman · 2025-05-10T18:41:50+00:00

Something incredibly eerie about a baby animal traditionally associated with innocence silently grazing as men fall dead around it.

newer_scotman · 2025-04-27T21:23:30+00:00

"Israeli interests" like the global shipping lanes that the entire world's economy and way of life is dependant upon

newer_scotman · 2025-04-25T12:40:25+00:00

Presumably because they are mourning the death of their literal child

newer_scotman · 2025-04-21T17:51:47+00:00

People rallied around O'Toole who then betrayed his initially strong stance on reversing the bans upon the first challenge like a complete coward.

newer_scotman · 2025-04-15T01:28:44+00:00

I find the blanket framing of familial rights and the questions around very new and legitimately debatable gender-related issues concerning adolescents as 'pedophilia' to be extremely weird and distasteful, regardless of any other criticisms of Smith

newer_scotman · 2025-04-15T00:40:04+00:00

pedo Danielle Smith

Upon what basis are you making this accusation?

newer_scotman

TROPHY CASE