[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yeah, sorry. I am a bit bitter rn; coupled with a tendency to be extremely nitpicky about stuff, this is not a nice combination. Thanks for the reminder not to dump that stuff in the wrong communities. Doing a good job as a mod.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but both the historically military role of thain and the resistance were defensive in nature. Unlike the very civilised elves, gondorians, rohirim etc. hobbits never waged wars of conquest or subjugation. At least as far as the transmitted history goes. Hell, Aragorn spends most of his reign conquering.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If the US would start bombing North Korea, China would take an interest. That is far higher risk than Iran which has no big allies that could do more than inconvenience the US.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He only proposed the cat thing to show how ridiculous it is to apply quantum mechanics to macroscopic objects. Unfortunately the sarcasm was missed and it became the standard example of quantum mechanics.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago* (14 children)

    Other way around. If your fantasy / sci-fi novel does not sell well, rebrand it as a new groundbreaking "history". Include how it gets ridiculed by main stream science that does maliciously ignore all the evidence.

    You have instantly gained a huge, uncritical customer and fan base.

    Edited a few typos.

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