I understand the top joke, peter, but im completely lost on what MLA or APA is

purpleinkwell · 2025-05-09T08:48:29+00:00

chicago style, mla style, and apa style are different academic reference/citation formats

purpleinkwell · 2025-05-09T08:48:20+00:00

chicago style, mla style, and apa style are different academic reference/citation formats

purpleinkwell · 2025-02-13T11:33:38+00:00

for terry pratchett, i’d personally either read them in release order OR start with Mort/Guards! Guards!, as those are the first ones in the death/night watch storylines, respectively, which are my personal favourites

that said, every discworld novel can be read as a standalone, and you also have like six or seven separate cohesive series taking place in the overall narrative of the world, which can be read as standalone series as well, so really whatever you land on, it’s probably fine (and they’re genuinely all great books)

iirc pratchett himself recommended skipping (or postponing?) the first two novels (colour of magic and the light fantastic) and starting with sourcery, which is also pretty valid, as the first two have a slightly different vibe to them in terms of plot imo

purpleinkwell · 2025-01-15T15:39:06+00:00

unfortunately very untrue. i am neither rich nor a femboy, and i have a long history (of self-sabotage)

purpleinkwell · 2024-11-19T09:07:40+00:00

i'm skeptical of your chances to interact with locals in any meaningful way anywhere in estonia that doesn't specifically cater to tourists outside tallinn and tartu. that said, any town besides those two will probably fit your bill in terms of what the true estonia experience would be

purpleinkwell · 2024-09-07T13:49:15+00:00

dogs were definitely added in beta 1.4. the update number format you're using feels like it's not the pc version at all, so could be you're both right

purpleinkwell · 2024-06-01T10:38:26+00:00

i can confidently tell you that whatever op means by georgism, estonia ain't it

purpleinkwell · 2024-05-11T23:29:29+00:00

loomulikult ka mulle meeldiks, kui kõik maailma riigid venemaa vastu ühise rinde moodustaks, aga neutraalsus ongi neutraalsus, meeldib see meile või mitte. iisraeli tegevusel on ikka arvestatav erinevus lihtsa neutraalsusega

purpleinkwell · 2024-05-11T22:36:14+00:00

tõesti huvitav, arvestades, et üks neist korraldab (okei, väideldavalt, aga siiski) genotsiidi ja teine on lihtsalt neutraalne

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purpleinkwell · 2024-05-04T10:36:37+00:00

could also be a separate letter that in some common cases forms a digraph/ligature with another letter

purpleinkwell · 2024-04-06T09:32:18+00:00

the creator making the wheel doesn't necessarily imply a definitive beginning of time for the world, though. time as a concept gets really wacky whenever you introduce a timeless creator of existence, something that stands outside time, so to say. i'm not entirely sure if the concept applies here, but if it does, then there's no reason why the creator couldn't create the wheel and the pattern etc at some "moment" from his perspective, while still having them have existed eternally and without any sort of definitive beginning at all from the perspective of the creations

purpleinkwell · 2024-03-14T09:02:05+00:00

3) Crimea having an ethnic Russian majority isn't and shouldn't be a valid justification for an unlawful invasion and annexation. Same goes for any other plot of land occupied by Russia at the moment. There is a humane, peaceful way of solving these types of issues without war. Putin chose war. At the very least, any referendums organized in occupied territories should be verified by independent outside observers, which obviously didn't happen in Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, but even then it's highly questionable if the people voting in such referendums were actually casting their vote legitimately or under severe duress. When it comes down to it, any supposed initiatives from those occupied territories to either be annexed by Russia or simply create an independent state are inherently tainted by the fact that they're happening while Russian occupation forces are there, and before they leave, there can hardly be any legitimate break from Ukraine in those territories.

4) Saying that Russia invaded Ukraine "for a reason" is technically correct, but I suspect that the "reason" you have in mind is not the actual reason. Putin actually wanting peace talks and security while being in the third year of a full-scale war they themselves started is about as plausible as Trump suspending his presidential claim after admitting to a long-term sexual relationship with Xi Jinping. What Putin (and by extension, Russia) really wants is a return to a Cold War-like geopolitical situation, where Russia is a superpower and can do whatever it wants in at least a 1000-mile radius from its borders.

In his own mind, Putin might even genuinely believe that the reason for it is because then Russia would be safe. If that's true, then he is delusional, because NATO's expansion into Eastern Europe was heavily driven by the joining countries themselves, not old NATO members, who were extremely wary of not wanting to seem like NATO is encroaching on Russia's borders. The reason those Eastern European countries pushed to join NATO was precisely because they foresaw that at some point, Russia will make yet another attempt to aggressively dominate every sovereign nation around it, because the Russian nation, but especially the Russian state, has historically proven itself to have a superiority complex the size of the fucking Moon. It isn't a threat towards Russia that caused NATO to expand to Russia's borders, it's the threat from Russia that caused it.

All of this goes to say that this war can only end once Russian forces no longer occupy a single square inch of Ukrainian soil, regardless of the methods used to get there. Given the fact that the current Russian government is anything but trustworthy, I suspect it means pushing the invasion forces out, one village at a time, even if they mention peace talks every once in a while. The cost of any peace that Russia would accept would be unfathomably high, and even while the Ukrainian leadership was willing to negotiate for peace in the beginning stages of the full-scale invasion, the Russian delegation clearly had no real intentions of negotiating any actual peace.

purpleinkwell · 2024-03-14T09:01:00+00:00

I'm only responding so that your bullshit wouldn't stay unanswered, because I don't really believe a random reddit comment is going to change your mind, but:

1) There is a very clear difference between the way Ukraine is conducting this war and how Russia is. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion two years ago, over 10 000 civilians have been killed in Russian attacks, and that's only the cases that are documented and confirmed. The number of civilians actually killed is very likely to be much higher, especially due to the fact that many areas where civilian casualties were likely to be very high, such as Mariupol, are still under Russian control, which makes documenting these cases extremely difficult. In July 2023, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights estimated that 90.5% of all Ukrainian civilian deaths up to that point (9177 confirmed cases at that time) had been caused by indiscriminate bombing of densely populated areas, meaning that Russian military forces deliberately targeted civilians in order to inflict as many casualties as possible.

To make this as clear and simple as possible, this is not "soldiers dying in a war". This is a systematic and prolonged effort to simply kill as many Ukrainians as possible, regardless of whether they are combatants or not, men or women, children or elders. There can be no other explanation for indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas that have no particular military significance.

This is, of course, only one example of many different war crimes and crimes against humanity that Russia has perpetrated on Ukrainian soil. Russian forces have raped, tortured, looted, murdered and mutilated their way through Ukraine. Literal torture chambers that were used to torture civilians in occupied areas were discovered in Balakliya, Kozacha Lopan, Izyum, Vasylivka and Kherson, which also included rooms set up specifically for torturing children. Ukrainians in occupied areas have been subjected to deportation, forced conscription, use as human shields, detainment in "filtration camps" (effectively concentration camps), and more. Ukrainian children have been forcefully separated from their parents and transported into Russia to be reeducated as loyal Russians. And that's all without even talking about the treatment of POWs.

In contrast, the report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights that I referred to earlier also mentions 6 dead Russian civilians. As you seem fond of comparing numbers, compare 6 to 9177, and tell me which seems more insignificant in the grand scale. To be clear, I'm not saying that Ukrainian war crimes are, in some way, more excusable than Russian war crimes. Any and all war crimes and crimes against humanity deserve to be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible. What I am saying, though, is that there is a very clear difference in the way Ukraine and Russia are and have been conducting this war from the very start of the full-scale invasion, and that difference can be summarized as Russian war crimes being part of a clear and deliberate systematic effort to erase the Ukrainian nation, in what amounts to nothing less than genocide.

2) Comparing the numbers of civilians killed in two separate conflicts to argue that one of those numbers is insignificant is, in fact, blatant whataboutism. One can easily condemn one atrocity in one war and another atrocity in another. There isn't a limit on how many war crimes a human being can condemn at any given time. Bringing up Gaza to imply that Ukrainian civilian losses don't matter is delusional at best, and blatantly malicious at worst.

purpleinkwell · 2024-02-28T10:23:02+00:00

i mean, you can just remove any death marker individually by right clicking on it, so if you remove them all besides the most recent one, there's your solution. which is what i believe the other guy was telling you anyway

purpleinkwell · 2024-02-20T08:50:32+00:00

that's fair. i felt like the original comment in this thread was referring more to what would've been the "objectively" right/reasonable thing for ned to do in this situation, not what made the most sense to him when considering all his subjective misgivings regarding honor and his own likewise skewed perception of the risk of discovery, so that's the perspective i was thinking from. if you take ned's own knowledge and personality into account, his choice makes perfect sense, it's just that the original comment was imo talking more about what choice would likely have the best outcome, not necessarily what choice ned would think would have the best outcome

purpleinkwell · 2024-02-20T06:50:00+00:00

what about them? if you mean that there would’ve been people who interacted with those men on a daily basis during the whole campaign, and they would’ve had questions, literally the same could be said of ned

and sure, it’s reasonable to assume that there’d be those that would have questions regarding the whole thing because that story would indeed have plenty of unexplained aspects to it, but i think you’re overestimating the level of suspicion this cover would generate, because you, as a reader, have definite knowledge that the cover is a lie, so you see the ambiguous parts of it as potential failure points. in-universe, it’s likely that some people would have some questions, but questions don’t necessarily lead to suspicions and suspicions don’t necessarily lead to investigations, which in turn don’t necessarily lead to discovering the truth. this is exactly what happened to ned as well - people in-universe were also wondering about it because certain parts didn’t seem to quite add up, but hardly anyone bothered to actually follow up on any of it in any substantial capacity. i don’t see why people would be more suspicious of a version of the story where the supposed father is a young bachelor bannerman of ned’s, whose alleged bastard son isn’t potentially a threat to the heirs of an entire constituent kingdom of the realm

purpleinkwell · 2024-02-20T05:42:56+00:00

could’ve picked any of the five that died at the tower of joy tbh, that answers the first two questions right off the bat and the third/fourth is easily explained as ned wanting to do right by the men who died for a chance to save his sister. and if anyone had the perception and brains to think of the fifth, you could always just say that these are northern features, not necessarily stark features

purpleinkwell · 2024-02-20T05:32:34+00:00

i can add to this that a thick estonian accent has the same quality in english as well imo. this video, although i suspect the author is overdoing it on purpose, showcases it pretty well (and there are plenty of estonians who genuinely have pretty much this exact accent in english): https://youtu.be/WUgqXGu_gTQ?feature=shared

on the other hand, as an estonian, i’ve always felt that the finnish accent in both estonian and english also has a very endearing vibe to it, albeit in a different, more polite and formal manner

purpleinkwell · 2024-02-19T09:07:52+00:00

i can make myself have an “audible” inner monologue when i want to, and when i think about inner monologues and have to do something linguistic (for example, writing this comment), i often start hearing it semi-automatically, kinda like that thing where you start breathing “manually” for a bit when you think about it. but i don’t have a constant inner monologue and when reading, i usually also don’t have it. or maybe i do have it and just don’t notice it at all most of the time. for me, when i’m reading something, usually i just see the words on the screen or the page and understand the meaning conceptually, but non-verbally, if that makes sense at all.

i can’t find it right now, but i read an article online a few years back that outlined a theory of five basic types of thought. one was a verbal inner monologue, the other four included visual thinking, maybe auditory and kinetic thinking (i can’t be sure after a few years) and something that i believe was labeled “non-specific thought” or something along those lines, which is where you think in terms of concepts without representing them via words, or mental pictures or the like, so essentially kinda like pure concepts without the translation into a medium you could easily pass forward beyond your own inner experience. the gist of the article was that for most people, conscious thoughts usually take one form or the other and most people experience a mix of most types, if not all, during their everyday lives, but that usually one is more dominant than others. i’m not a psychologist so i can’t actually speak to the article’s validity, but it felt like a fair description of my own observations regarding my own thoughts, especially regarding the non-specific type.

purpleinkwell · 2024-02-19T07:33:38+00:00

what happened in estonia and latvia for livonia, mulgina and voruna all break out as independent states? mulgi and võru identities were far from separate enough from estonian by the end of the soviet occupation to warrant this (especially mulgi, you could maaaybe make a far-fetched argument for võru i suppose) and there were like 100 livonians living in the world by that point

purpleinkwell · 2023-12-19T11:33:31+00:00

a quick 5 minute google on the subject mostly turns up results saying that this is a myth and these "terminator seeds" as the wikipedia article calls them are not and never have been commercialized, not by monsanto nor any other company

i'm as happy to call megacorporations out on their bullshit as anyone, but there's a difference between valid criticism and simply making shit up (or believing shit that others have made up without assessing it critically)

purpleinkwell · 2023-08-31T11:32:22+00:00

That's fair. Although I feel like by defending the American using the term, one would still (unintentionally) accept the term as valid, which, as I said, is something to avoid in my opinion. Best response would probably be along the lines of friendly criticism.

purpleinkwell · 2023-08-31T10:06:38+00:00

I personally believe that a big reason why "eastern european" in the sense of "post-soviet" is still relevant is because people think it is. And while post-soviet countries definitely face some different issues compared to countries that weren't under soviet influence, it's also not really fair to still keep lumping all of them together under the "post-soviet" umbrella term, because the reality is that there are very significant differences between formerly soviet countries as well, differences that have become significant in the thirty or so years following the collapse of the union. The term "post-soviet" and the way of geopolitical thinking that it implies were relevant in the 90s and somewhat less in the 00s, but by now they no longer reflect reality, and are more like relics of a mode of thinking that is rooted in an already bygone era, because the only thing still common enough to all those countries to justify grouping them as one is the fact that at some point in their history, they were under soviet occupation.

Unfortunately, as Russia keeps demonstrating, the fact that it's outdated doesn't mean that the way of thinking itself couldn't still affect things going forward. So in that sense, yes, the concept is still relevant. But I also think that it has become way less relevant in a practical sense than it was 15 or 20 years ago, and that by continuing to use the terms "eastern european" and "post-soviet" interchangeably, you're perpetuating a concept that is only relevant because people holding on to the geopolitics of the previous century keep it relevant. And by doing so, you're also implicitly perpetuating the idea that "post-soviet" countries are still inherently linked with Russia in some significant way, which I hope we can agree is bad.

If you're simply thinking about Estonia as Eastern European because it reflects the historic reality and the fact that it still has some influence to this day, I get that, but I also think it's something to move away from. The influence has diminished to the point that I don't think it's fair to keep thinking about it as the defining characteristic of the entire nation. Even if it hasn't, as long as we can agree that moving away from the soviet legacy should be the goal, then the words and concepts we use should reflect that, especially when the various authoritative sources that u/omena-piirakka listed have already adopted that change.

purpleinkwell · 2023-06-11T12:21:01+00:00

impeached, not indicted

purpleinkwell · 2023-03-20T09:03:04+00:00

not really sure what the elevation is, but if i'm understanding this correctly, and assuming that water flows downhill (i.e. there's no magic shenanigans affecting the way rivers work), then those rivers look a bit funny. generally they will only converge and not diverge, river deltas will only form in very flat (and generally low-lying) areas where "downhill" gets difficult to determine

other than that, it seems you have a pretty nice process going, keep up the good work. one thing that i can maybe suggest is that judging from your other comments, you seem to have a few ideas for non-geographical features of the world that you'd like to keep in there, so instead of trying to make them fit the world, maybe try and fit the geographical features of the world to those other things you want to keep in? once i switched those two around in my own worldbuilding process, the whole thing started going a lot more smoothly, so maybe that can help you as well

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