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Casey Finnigan posted:so apparently both Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Nicholas were really into chopping wood. once they were rendered politically irrelevant. anything to get away from the wife and kids
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Casey Finnigan posted:so apparently both Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Nicholas were really into chopping wood. once they were rendered politically irrelevant. Chopping wood owns and gives you big shoulders
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Apr 20, 2022 23:54
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If you've never split logs, you should try. It's really therapeutic, especially if you're stressed about something complicated. Just a simple, achievable, repetitive task, which is also good exercise, that accomplishes something tangible and creates a big pile of stuff that you can burn for fun and warmth
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Apr 20, 2022 23:59
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For a while i lived in a house that was just dogshit for heating and the main source of warmth on the first floor was a wood burning furnace and i will testify that when you're stressed or angry, splitting chunks of wood is amazing catharsis and it's useful work
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Apr 21, 2022 02:05
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Having tired muscles and sitting down in front of the fire you helped create with your chopping is an A+ incredible feeling
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Apr 21, 2022 02:23
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bunch of tsarists and kaiser lovers in here... if you like to chop wood so much go marry nicholas and wilhelm and chop wood with them. oh wait, you can't, they're dead
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Casey Finnigan posted:bunch of tsarists and kaiser lovers in here... if you like to chop wood so much go marry nicholas and wilhelm and chop wood with them. oh wait, you can't, they're dead Way to crush my dreams you dick 
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Casey Finnigan posted:bunch of tsarists and kaiser lovers in here... if you like to chop wood so much go marry nicholas and wilhelm and chop wood with them. oh wait, you can't, they're dead You're obviously a distressed former imperial functionary, probably Inspector of the Imperial Firewood. Before the Revolution, you had four apprentices, all of whom were lesser sons of the nobility, all of whom had fathers who were paying you vast sums just to keep their children officially employed and in the Palace. You kept your aged Father on the payroll as Tender of the Tinder, and all he had to do was sit by a big pile of kindling, smoking his pipe. You gave your failing Mother a stipend, enrolling her as Prosecutor of the Imperial Will, and all she had to do was occasionally embroider a fabric copy of the Imperial Crest, which would be laid on a trainload of cut wood, to denote that its use was reserved for the Emperor. You kept all your nieces and nephews employed either inspecting, policing, examining, or otherwise measuring the quality of the Imperial firewood, because of course only the highest quality woods could be burned in the Palace of our Emperor. But really all these jobs were complete nonsense, and the recipients of those Imperial stipends sent back at least 80% of their incomes to you. Your head butler was in the budget as a Woodsman, his salary paid by the Purse. Your valets and footmen were on the books as loggers. Your gourmet chef, kidnapped from his restaurant in Paris when he snuck out to the alley to meet a thickly-accented Eastern beauty whom be believed loved him for him, was enrolled as the head cook of the logging camp which all the records showed your 47 room mansion to be. All in all, 145 different people depended on your siphoning away of funds from the Treasury. None of their incomes came from you personally, they were all officially servants of the State, as were you. And your job was only to provide wood for the fireplaces of the Emperor. The Revolution took all that away. No wonder you hate the idea of splitting logs!
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What's the general opinion or """take""" about what happened to Lin Biao? I'm partial towards believing that he wasn't plotting a coup but his son was, because failsons are an universal constant throughout human history, but my knowledge on the whole affair barely goes beyond wiki surfing, so I'm wondering what more knowledgeable people might think.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:That was one way to do it. It still loving sucked for all involved, however Will this fit as a thread title?
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Weka posted:Will this fit as a thread title? Yes
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Man it's weird how the guys who ran their empires into the ground liked looking at a pile of firewood and saying to themselves "this was once a mighty and thriving thing that gave life and sustenance to millions of living beings and I, with my own two hands, have turned it into naught but fuel for the all-consuming fire, devourer of worlds." Probably also why G.W boasted so much about 'clearing brush' on his ranch while he was president.
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sullat posted:Man it's weird how the guys who ran their empires into the ground liked looking at a pile of firewood and saying to themselves "this was once a mighty and thriving thing that gave life and sustenance to millions of living beings and I, with my own two hands, have turned it into naught but fuel for the all-consuming fire, devourer of worlds." Probably also why G.W boasted so much about 'clearing brush' on his ranch while he was president. lol chop some wood, loser
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sullat posted:Man it's weird how the guys who ran their empires into the ground liked looking at a pile of firewood and saying to themselves "this was once a mighty and thriving thing that gave life and sustenance to millions of living beings and I, with my own two hands, have turned it into naught but fuel for the all-consuming fire, devourer of worlds." Probably also why G.W boasted so much about 'clearing brush' on his ranch while he was president. This disrespect of the Sassanids will not stand!
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https://mobile.twitter.com/felix_bohr/status/1520308330153054208 i want a giant bold type hitler dead newspaper
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interesting but "both sides-y" article today with some stuff I didn't know about https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/04/29/jfk-nixon-bunkmates-00028388
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https://mobile.twitter.com/JeremiahJenne/status/1522358828175556608 i dunno seems like it was kind of polite for us to warn them
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May 8, 2022 02:41
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I can't believe I forgot to post this here https://www.bayoubrief.com/2021/09/26/holes-in-the-story-huey-p-long-carl-weiss-and-the-american-spectacle-of-conspiracy/
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Some Guy TT posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/JeremiahJenne/status/1522358828175556608 Here's a quote from a southern Illinois paper in late April of 1882, if you're curious about the national mood in flyover country at the time quote:WEEKLY ADVOCATE, Belleville, Illinois, Friday, April 21, 1882, page 8, col. 3
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A mass grave of Brits from the Napoleonic wars was found in Holland. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61391848 quote:The remains were found outside the city's old wall in November 2020 and then researched by forensic anthropologist April Pijpelink. Allegedly they died from "unsanitary conditions" which they would have been used to, being English. Seems fishy.
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Nah, that's not weird. They probably all caught something particularly horrible even if their trauma wounds had healed. Before modern medicine people died in droves from disease, especially soldiers kept in close confines, like in an 18th century field hospital.
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May 11, 2022 03:07
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Until the discovery of penicillin, disease during wars always killed more people than violence.
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May 11, 2022 03:56
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Disease is just repeated micro-violence.
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May 11, 2022 05:32
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what was the cross-over point when weaponry finally started killing more people than disease? the First World War?
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City storming/sacking. Can't die of disease if you're already dead.
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gradenko_2000 posted:what was the cross-over point when weaponry finally started killing more people than disease? the First World War? Yes, but it depends on how you count the 1918 influenza and who you count as a soldier. The Crimean War was especially bad for people dying from stuff other than combat, even worse than the ACW, somehow.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Yes, but it depends on how you count the 1918 influenza and who you count as a soldier. Yeah and that's just death and not those how had to be carried off the front due to coming down sick. Flu knocked out more US soldiers then the Germans did in October 1918. quote:In October 1918, as the American Army was locked in battle with the Germans in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, 1,451 Americans died from the flu. More 3rd Infantry Division Soldiers were evacuated from the front with influenza than because of wounds suffered in combat.
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Grevling posted:A mass grave of Brits from the Napoleonic wars was found in Holland. the British Invasion of zeeland in the 1809 was an absolute shitshow. the landing site was (and still is) one of the wettest, dankest regions of the Netherlands. the Brits hoped they could capture Antwerp in a lightning strike, but wet weather and ineffective communication bogged them down long enough for French and Dutch reinforcements to show up. so now the Brits were stuck having conquered nothing but a strategically useless bog. also, turns out lots of men and bogs don’t really go well together so swamp diseases ran rampant through the British forces. imho, actually a pretty darkly comedic example of the arrogance and delusions of grandeur of the British empire: a bunch of unqualified noblemen coming up with a ‘cunning plan’ to end the war that inevitably leads to disaster and failure. Churchill, and his idiotic Baltic and Gallipoli plans, avant la lettre
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Chamale posted:Until the discovery of penicillin, disease during wars always killed more people than violence. These men are only living in disease conditions because of the threat of violence from their own commanders
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War and Pieces posted:These men are only living in disease conditions because of the threat of violence from their own commanders Those kind of conditions soldiers and mercenaries (but I repeat myself) just used to desert en-masse. Like read up on 17th and 18th century warfare. But nationalism is a hell of a drug.
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I remember hearing that the Habsburg armies fighting Napoleon required officers to oversee enlisted if they had to go take a poo poo in the woods because they'd run away otherwise
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StashAugustine posted:I remember hearing that the Habsburg armies fighting Napoleon required officers to oversee enlisted if they had to go take a poo poo in the woods because they'd run away otherwise
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Chamale posted:Until the discovery of penicillin, disease during wars always killed more people than violence. Food poisoning killed more american soldiers during the spanish-american war than combat did.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/nytimes/status/1524423228516704263
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that number seems incredibly low
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Raskolnikov38 posted:that number seems incredibly low
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Raskolnikov38 posted:that number seems incredibly low Yeah, that number seems like it would probably be in line with overall mortality for children in that age range for the time. No way that's true.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:This is the reason boys don't go to the bathroom together anymore, while girls still do. thanks napoleon
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Raskolnikov38 posted:that number seems incredibly low anywhere from 500 to infinity can be a lot
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