Zompist Bboard Again

Here is a (fictional) video demonstrating how to pretend to be crazy in order to distract a lone gunman (do not attempt): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uto5MhAV_W4 On a more serious note, the existence of hostage-negotiation teams and their experience defusing situations involving an armed opponen...

io sta leie une libre sobre une xudade platonike en skotlandia i su sistema de gobierne basa de ::la republika:: de n::platon::n. por ehemple hente de gardia no usa nombre i tode garda solo usa numere en lugar de nombre aktual le xudade nesisita tode hente de xudade partisipa en sexon seksual par to...

Note that most countries don't have the feudal structure that people reference when they talk about gun-owning "nobles" vs. "peasants"

Here's a gullah text: https://cdstar.eva.mpg.de/bitstreams/EA ... /13_gt.pdf

How is fashion expressed in your conworld?

IRL formal business fashion is derived from Brummel’s simplification of court dress

Would Morocco’s crown-backed Istiqlal party and the minister-founded Authenticity and Modernity Party be considered an example of competitive semi-democratic party system?

Pastor Gordon terrified my brother when he described how he punished his daughters for not helping his wife when she had a knee injury by making them sleep in the garage (like Amy Chua, Tiger Mom). My brother was afraid dad would kick him out of the house and force him to freeze to death in the str...

Me: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2021/10/05/storytelling-cringe-and-the-banality-of-shadows/#more-7518 Cosmic lolcow he signature trait of cringe characters is being smart in a shallow, low-cunning sort of way, but unable to resist an overpowering drive to do consequentially dumb, jackass-grade things...

Don't bring a gun to a fistfight

In a way, this is very common in premodern societies. I remember reading something about the ottoman government, for example, having some institutional method of giving representation to ethnic or religious groups, something like "the christians get a guy at court" kind of deal. the estat...

The Republic of the Land of the Crimson Sun (Ángyó mūr qōf) is a republic in lower Xâklà Llû. It is divided conventionally into the Highlands, the Lowlands and the Twin Deltas. Around 80% of the population lives in the Lowlands and the Deltas. This is reflected by the percentage of people who identi...

What most people need when they say “community” are 1-2 friends in driving distance

He certainly has some very bizarre ideas, from reading that thread. He has the idea that parents are sovereigns over their kids. Works for the AEI and the Institute of Family Studies so what do you expect? Any organization with the word "Family", or for that matter, "Parent(s)",...

He certainly has some very bizarre ideas, from reading that thread. He has the idea that parents are sovereigns over their kids. Works for the AEI and the Institute of Family Studies so what do you expect? Also he believes in going to war with China over Taiwan https://mobile.twitter.com/lymanstone...

Has anyone played The Ur Quan Masters

Lymann Stone, who is a China expert in Twitter, argues that parents are at the top of the “school chain” and so have rights over teachers and even the principal to restrict them from teaching CRT and the like

https://mobile.twitter.com/lymanstoneky ... 6357920773

many conservatives argue for the democratizing power of civil society and intermediate groups (I don't know if this is the formal term used internationally, but it's what the 1980 constitution of chile calls them): the idea is that if people organize themselves into interest groups, from community ...

so, from a conworlding perspective, I'd say a secular religion can look like whatever you want it to look, you just have to make it so it has philosophical arguments and makes a big deal out of how rational they are, and about how good reason is, and about how they definitely don't believe in 'supe...

Apparently I don't know if my female friend considers me to be her friend but i don't know how to ask politely