PugJesus
History Major. Cripple. Vaguely Left-Wing. In pain and constantly irritable.
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7·2 小时前Traditions take generations to change, and change this past century has been… very rapid.
Counterpoint: When one is running a comically evil global empire, incompetence becomes a redeeming quality.
If success and leader competence were more closely linked, I might agree. As it stands, it seems more like assisting the international normalization of incompetence, like the family wreath of Early Modern Europe all over again.
Nichevo.
It’s fairly common across cultures, due to the highly transactional nature of pre-modern family formation, for families to pay either dowry or bride-price. The former usually when labor is plentiful in society (“I have enough people already; you want me to take another mouth to feed? Pay me”); the latter when labor is at a premium (“My son needs a work-partner-I mean, wife! I’ll give you a good price to give up a pair of hands from your own farm-I mean, family!”)
Explanation: After WW2, fascism in Europe largely ‘fell out of fashion’ with the fall of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. The two holdouts were Francoist Spain and Salazar’s Portugal. Portugal had, despite its far-right leanings, sided with the Allies during WW2 (unofficially), and hence was given a ‘hands-off’ treatment in the postwar period. Spain’s Francisco Franco, who had likewise declared neutrality, but in reality sided heavily with the Nazis, had no such ‘credit’ to fall back on to prevent becoming a pariah in the post-war order.
‘Luckily’, a daub of paint and a few of the more ‘revolutionary’ types shuttered to desk jobs, and Franco could re-invent himself as ‘just’ a right-wing anti-Communist! Nazi support? No clue what you’re talking about! Franco had always been aligned with the West, he just really hated Communists!
The Cold War being what it was, that was enough for the West to tolerate and trade with his fucked regime until it was overthrown internally in the 1970s, after Franco’s death.
Explanation From Original OP:
In India like in most cultures it was considered preferable to have a son, however in India, having a daughter meant a heavy financial burden for the family since it is a custom to give a dowry (goods or lump sum of money) to the husband of the daughter when she got married
This lead to many poor families to simply kill their infant daughters if they had any since the family did not want to commit to a hefty dowry.
Ultrasound Technology became first available in the 1980s in India and then became widespread in the 1990s which slightly curbed the infanticide problem. However, ultrasound technology now caused a massive increase in Feticide (removal of fetus) since now parents could use ultrasounds to find out if their unborn child was male or female, and if it was the latter, the fetus would be removed
This prompted the Indian government to ban the usage of ultrasound technologies for the purpose of finding out the sex of the fetus in 1996 because their demographic shifted massively with there being more men then women
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Explanation: “Impugnare debemus?” - “Should we fight?”
In Ancient Rome, omens were very important. Interpreting even everyday signs as omens could be ominous (ha) of victory or defeat… which is why Roman military forces often kept some ‘standardized’ means of taking omens around, so the men wouldn’t go looking for omens in the sky or other such hard-to-control observations before battle. One such commonly kept omen was that of sacred birds, often chickens. If they ate when fed on a given day, it was a good omen - and if they ate eagerly, a very good omen! If they didn’t eat, it was a bad omen. A good omen meant attacking was auspicious (cheer, men, cheer!); a bad omen meant attacking was inauspicious (we’ll give the men a day to shake some of that anxiety before trying the omens again tomorrow).
… as one might expect, the priest taking care of the chickens would generally have very little problem observing them eat eagerly, as chickens are… well, hungry little fellows. If the chickens didn’t eat, it was either the priest telling you not to fight (such as by feeding the chickens before taking the omens), or the chickens legitimately throwing you for a loop - at which point, even if you aren’t a superstitious ancient Roman, maybe you want to take a rain check and try tomorrow instead. J-just for the sake of the enlisted men, of course, who are always superstitious!
Famously, one Roman admiral, upset that the birds did not eat on a given day (thus saying not to give battle), tossed the birds in the ocean, saying “If they will not eat, let them drink!”
… he lost the ensuing battle, and when he returned to Rome, was stripped of his command and humiliated for his failure/incaution/impiety.
1·3 小时前One might call it a burning rage at the injustice of the system.
3·3 小时前Might they be F1 grenades?
I don’t have a good eye for firearms in general, but I would guess a Nagant M1895 just by like, probability/availability. Also I think that’s a loading gate on the side of it, which would be unusual in other revolvers of this period.
You crazy
You only need to feed your own family, not export
Yes, that’s the labor necessary to feed one’s own family under traditional subsistence farming.
You think grain sows itself, weeds itself, protects itself from animals, harvests itself, gathers itself, threshes itself, and stores itself for the farmer, who can laze their days away in the warm sun?
You think pre-modern farmers were out there fucking watching their children starving to death in a famine every decade or two because they were busy playing the fiddle instead of trying to grow and store as much food as they could, year-after-year?
4·8 小时前The cherries look so satisfyingly plump that I want to hold them, despite knowing it’s just bas-relief.
You know how it is - never want to run into that one enemy type you didn’t prepare for!
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Gorgeous contrast!