14th - 16th century AD was a time of great innovation in art! Many of the artistic ‘rules’ that assist in accurate depictions were developed then, moving away from the more static and flat depictions of the earlier medieval period. Cutting edge!

Of course, modern art like this will never catch on!

May many respiratorially challenged small dogs bless you, my child! 🤚

Japan had been forcibly opened to trade by the US Navy a decade before the US Civil War, so in 1879 they were getting news like any other 19th century country - photographs, newspapers, and telegraphs. The Civil War had been over for 14 years at that point, but was still a major topic in US culture, so any Japanese fellow who wanted to find out about the details would find it fairly easy to do so.

Most large wars do not kick off due to one event,

Alex, what is “The invasion of Poland”?

Even better - the cat’s name was Louis XIV.

To what reason? The story is replicated a milion times at least by now, you will probably find it and alternative stories all over any major search engine or LLM.

… to demonstrate that you understand it, not that LLM sloppers can regurgitate it.

I will only participate in wars if i am the target of it just as i never throw the first punch. Defensivism?

… would you like to elaborate how WW2 started.

… this is a photo from WW2.

Fucking what

https://youtu.be/hT8h4UmuN1Q?list=RDhT8h4UmuN1Q&t=135

Explanation: JRR Tolkien, a foundational writer of fantasy in the mid-20th century AD, disliked ‘dwarfs’ as the plural of ‘dwarf’, and ‘elfs’ as plural of ‘elves’.

So when writing his (eventually immensely popular and influential) books, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, he used ‘dwarves’ and ‘elves’, even making special note of it so the reader didn’t think he just made a mistake. Considering Tolkien was an English professor who specialized in linguistic history, who was gonna try and tell him that they were a bigger authority than him on how antiquated words should be inflected?

This usage is now standard in English, replacing ‘dwarfs’ and ‘elfs’ almost entirely.

For most of the shuttle, yes, but the removal of the paint from the tank specifically was because the tank had a foam coating that was not actually meaningfully protected by the paint.

Found the Kerbal Space Program player?

Back when NASA was flinging things into space for the first time, the tolerances that were even possible were extremely tight. Every pound mattered (every pound still matters, but because we have other things to do once we get to space nowadays, plus every pound is expensive).

600 pounds of white paint for the fuel tank was considered unnecessary, once the engineering team figured that it didn’t actually protect the special foam covering of the fuel tank anyway. Thus the distinctive orange color!

Novgorod, my love

Yeah, unfortunately, nuclear power should have been heavily invested in about… 50 years ago. The “The best time was yesterday, the second-best time is now” line doesn’t apply with advancements in other energy sources and the sheer time it takes to build and get a nuclear plant operational. The best time was yesterday - now is perhaps the worst time.

Still, it is always good to push back on anti-nuclear sentiment. Every nuclear plant kept running is a massive amount of fossil fuels removed from power generation. I remember when Merkel closed a ton of nuclear plants in Germany for dogshit PR reasons, handing power back to fossil fuel suppliers.

Mood tho, minus fortnite

placenta - a layered cake. It’s kind of gross to compare a layered cake with the structure/organ/whatever developed in pregnancy, but eh.

Oh, is that why people looked at me weird when I started talking how delicious a good placenta is?

ānus - it was supposed to be any ring. Not just “that” one. (…ānus dēlendus est!)

Julia… will you marry me? [presents anus as she tears up and nods]

But by far the weirdest one IMO is neither native to Latin nor borrowed, it’s inherited: Romanian “a dezmierda” to caress, to pet. It’s etymologically “to disenshittify”. As in, you got some baby, baby did #2, you need to take care of it, right? It’s gross and cute at the same time.

lmao

Yeah, jousting armor can reach like, triple that weight, or more. THAT sort of thing you definitely won’t be going anywhere on foot with, lmao.

People who practice HEMA in armor or Bohurt can be frighteningly fast even in all that gear.

Moving around is fine - you can run, jump, spin, do whatever you like, in full armor like that. It’s something like ~30 pounds, which is bad, but not deabilitating,

The issue that arises is fatigue - it’s horrible to make a march in, and takes time to take on and off. So while there would often be a core of heavy infantry outfitted like this, most infantry would prefer lighter armor.

The only armor that would be legitimately unable to be used on foot would be jousting armor, which was immensely heavy because it was meant to protect the user entirely during sport (the, well, joust).