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Except for lack of slaves, everything you have listed isn't "more advanced" but merely "different".

Its no great secret, he does a better job because its easier to keep people fresh when you have by far the strongest squad.

Quite a few YouTube videos came out when they news broke Dunk & Egg TV Series: BOTH LEAD ROLES OFFICIALLY CAST!!! (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms)

The internal combustion engine won't stay the same. It will lose 150 kW of power. That's why they're tinkering with the aerodynamics. They need to reduce drag to avoid embarrassingly low speeds on the straits. And the ICE will run full throttle in slow corners to charge the battery because recuperation from braking won't be enough.

If one opens the Westeros.org page, there is a link to a article about the casting, with photos.

Jon's story is very familiar because it's the same one of the Night's King. A woman, Arya in this case, led Jon astray from his sworn duties.

So, Israel has titted Iran's tat, I guess we should be expecting an Iranian tat in the coming weeks. Potential silver lining (though feels a bit gross calling it that), but perhaps the escalation between Israel and Iran will help Ukraine in that Iran will be less able to supply Russia with the hardware it needs to keep prosecuting its war of aggression.

I should have clarified that the main benefits were to the landowners and factory owners but I guess the capacity for greater food production had some wider benefits. It must be nearly 50 years since I studied this stuff but a quick google to refresh my memory revealed that the top 100 wealthiest landowners in the 19th century were all members of House of Lords, so farm workers never stood a chance.

Jhogo, Aggo, and Rakharo are the three young Dothraki men who guard Daenerys. These three are her Bloodriders. They are part of her growing number of Queensguards. Ser Jorah and Ser Barristan are the two from Westeros. Three cadets are in training to join. The term "Bloodrider" changed and acquired more meaning after Daenerys became the Mother of Dragons. It is said that one needs to have Targaryen blood, the blood of the dragon, in order to bond with a dragon. That normally means carrying Valyrian genes. And that is acquired from birth. But Daenerys is special. Just as she was reborn and became the Mother of Dragons, the Unburnt, Azor Ahai, etc. The Bloodriders were also reborn. It's like getting baptized. The day they knelt to Daenerys they became blood of the dragon. Not just as her bodyguards but kinsmen by blood through bonds forged by magic. She refers to them many times, blood of my blood. Daenerys saying that carry more significance than someone else saying it. I am not saying the Bloodriders will ride dragons. Perhaps one will. It fits the story to have one of the riders be a Dothraki.

Those wetas look scary to me. Please keep them in New Zealand, thank you.

This is really something very small but there is a post on Facebook about the fact the main actors for the Duncan and the Egg series that is going to be filmed have been cast, and Duncan is going to be played by a former footballer who has started an acting career by the name of Peter Claffey. He’s so new he doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. I asked the question so how tall is he, since I couldn’t find the answer anywhere (about 6’5”) and I just saw my question got a “like” by…Sean Bean. I think it’s the real Sean Bean, but who knows for sure, his identity could have been appropriated. But I am inordinately pleased.

No reports of casualties yet. *fingers crossed* US officials don’t seem surprised or overly concerned. All this posturing though…

It's the story of Azor Ahai told another way. The Dothraki spun the story according to what they know about in order to make it make sense in their reality. They know horses, grass, and khalasars. So this great leader will mount the stallion and bind the khalasars together to follow her. It is the same event just seen from the eyes of different people and they composed tales and legends for their own people.

Kinda cool that we will be able to see a nova with the naked eye in our life times, kinda meh that no one will notice it except those who know where to look. Also pretty cool that astronomers are able to be this precise about when it's going to happen. Though I guess it needs to happen before anyone can say the predictions were correct.

This is all escalating quickly and I don't like it one damn bit.

Why have 22 episode television seasons died out really enjoying this show !

How Bran treats Hodor is very troubling. He knows better and still continues to invade Hodor's mind. Bran is the most severe kind of slaver. He controls Hodor in body and mind. Hodor has no agency and gets forcefully used to satisfy a sick voyeurism.

Mine is so vanilla it's almost embarrassing to mention it in a serious thread: spiders. Though it's not really even a complete phobia, little spiders that I know can't bite me in any way that I can feel it don't bother me at all. So I guess the real phobia is being bitten by a spider. Interestingly the two critters I have some fear of are the two critters that I got bitten by when I was a kid and had no phobias up to that point. I got bitten by a [non poisonous] spider when playing with a spider and by a weta* when playing with a weta. I was obviously freaking the two critters out and they were probably afraid for their life, hence the bite. So if I had been more aware of their fears at the time I probably would not have those fears now. *what is a weta? Cockroaches in groups give me the ick, but definitely not a phobia.

Yes, a *check notes* good thing here. Picture the GDP growth enjoyed by ruthlessly exploited workers!

Many poorer farmers and tenants in Britain were effectively forced off the land by successive Enclosure Acts, which enclosed previously common land in the hands of wealthy landowners. Marx saw it as systematic theft of communal property. It had benefits in more efficient agriculture (and more profitable for landowners) and, of course, led to a steady supply of industrial workers who could be ruthlessly exploited until they were able to collectivise.

Thank god it wasn't restricted to 8eps like almost everything has been lately. Would love more as well, its just fantastic.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/19/middle-east-crisis-live-updates-iran-israel-today-explosions-isfahan#top-of-blog Fuck.

It's not a game, but an art... Yeah, me too. Getting kicked around by y'all once in a while helps keep the AI Chatbot that runs my brain from getting too full of itself.

Fevre Dream was great. The ending resonates with me till this day. Both volumes of Dreamsongs are on my TBR shelf, as is The Ice Dragon.

That poor tarantula. (I definitely had to look that name up, didn’t recognize it at all)