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Intersting. Did they wait until after the election to 1. not interfere 2. because we would have immunity or 3 by coincidence?

Wait til he hears Sweden has 5 Nobel prizes we didn't give him!

The president sets foreign policy. Dems need a supermajority to override him and optimistic scenarios give them 51 senators

I like it

Can u be a bit more specific? When, where, who does this apply to? What sources? How would an sick person be treated?Do you have specific examples?

Gaaääähh öööö

That's understood. When you say a president did X, it never means they did it alone

Afroman - Lemon Pound Cake

Charlemagne's literacy is discussed at length in Einhard’s Life of Charlemagne (Vita Karoli Magni).

It should be noted that Charlemagne was only half "illiterate" and that this term isn't a very fair description. That is he could read but not write well.

Knowing how to read and how to write were not as connected back then as now. A ruler would dictate letters and a scribe would pen them.

Charlemagne not only spoke Frankish and Latin, but could also read in Latin, which was the main language of writing.

He however didn't himself write. But he wanted to learn. The reason for him keeping these books by his pillow, according to Einhard, was because he was trying to learn how to write late in life.

His personal tutor, Alcuin of York, also taught him rhetoric and astronomy. He has been accused by some, quite unfairly, of "killing Latin" , because he pioneered a writing reform bringing back old forms of writing, that meant that the difference between spoken vernacular and written church Latin grew, speeding up the separation of vernacular and formal language. It would have been interesting to learn writing which such a tutor.

Charlemagne's learning was however only partially successful, likely due to him not having the time and starting to learn it quite late.

Charlemagne was actually deeply interested in learning and became a major patron of education and helped stimulate the Carolingian Renaissance, including reforms to schools, manuscript copying, and Latin scholarship.

He also loved being read to while he ate! Einhard mentions he would have people read Augustine to him during meals.

It may be most fair to call him literate with bad handwriting.

I recommend Alessandro Barbero's lectures on Charlemagne - he speaks at length on the subject

Guys don't downvote him - I can confirm it is often used for "most effective tactics available" in the Age of Empires community.

See here link, link 2

Or this video

It may or may not have started as short for metagame, but the understanding that it is short for "most effective tactics available" has become very widespread in the community

The gymnastics are getting so hard but voters are getting so good at gymnastics they are going AfD instead

A follow up question - can you reverse the question - are revolutions more likely to happen in times of growing political strength of the oppressed?

In fact - my understanding is like this: you can even argue some of the most famous revolts happened instead when there was rapid improvement - such as the improvement in GDP/capita after the Black Death led to the very strong improvement of the situation of the poor.

Since there was a lack of labour , poor people demanded and got better wages. But oppressive government tried to guard the privileges of the upper classes...

This was followed by some very famous revolts:

Major medieval peasant like the Jacquerie (1358), Ciompi Revolt (1378), English Peasants’ Revolt (1381), Harelle and Maillotin revolts (1382).

Other political improvements like getting more rights or representation preceded the Glorious Revolution (calling of parliament), French Revolution (calling of estates general - and before it gradual expansion of the power of the bourgeoisie met by reaction), and the fall of the Soviet Union (Perestroika - preceded by 60-80s with less repression and much better living conditions than any time before).

Would you say there is an argument in academia for the other way around - that improvents or more rights can cause momentum that challenges the government? Or that a government reaction to a less privileged group that is improving their standing provoking that group to use its new strength?

Crimea has suspicious color shade

We should send Trump's top prosecutor to investigate

Ancient Europe

Having sex with slaves (and having them at all). Seneca the Elder supposedly said “Impudicitia in ingenuo crimen est, in servo necessitas, in liberto officium.” Being butt-fuckd is a crime for a citizen, a necessity for a slave and a moral obligation for a freedman.

Medieval Europe.

Having sex with others present in the room. Privacy wasn't always possible for common people.

18th Century Europe

Having a mistress outside marriage was quite common among upper classes. Royal mistresses were sometimes publicly recognized.

Until mid 20th Century

Prostitution was more widespread and carried less stigma for clients.

Mid 20th Century

Less stigma for sex with those lower in work hierarchy

1960-2000 Northern Europe

Public nudity or toplessness more accepted. Less stigma of sex during intoxication

NATO should maximally expand - it's a purely defensive alliance (despite Trump's failed attempts to get them to join Iran war) - and the only hope for democracy in eastern Europe

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I wonder why

In an international context they definitely are. Most of American politics is economically right wing compared to other countries.

Introduction of universal health care or legal minimum days off would make America more like other countries

Why did it exist?

Sverige stödjer inte folkmord. Vi har bara andra problem än ständiga problem i Mellanöstern att fokusera på

Hursomhelst har inget av detta något med Israel eller Mellanöstern att göra.

Is it plausible that it have something to do with having lots of babies too, as was maybe more common in Medieval times?

Babies will tend to wake you up either way, and sleeping arrangements might have made it difficult to sleep a full night?

For example there was a man convicted of rape because he had his finger in hos gf, she consenting, he smelled his finger, and after he said he wad checking she didn't have sex with someone else.

Therefore, the given consent was not valid, since she didn't understand the motive of his sexual act at the time of consent etc.

I.e., it can get weird

Who is recognizing that claim?

Epstein

That level of trolling is just not OK anymore