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Isn't it usually along the Huai? That was the point of division for the Jin (晉) and the Sixteen Kingdoms, as well as the Southern Song and the Jin (金). This puts the entire Yangtze delta area unambiguously within the "South", rather than it being bisected by the Yangtze into North and South, at least if you follow the old course of the river before it became a Yangtze tributary.
(I realise I'm nitpicking and this comment is more being a pedant for the other commenters, as you clearly suggest that the Yangtze delta is "Southern" in another comment)
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3d ago
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3d ago
Nah, like, shitty photographs from banquets and such, reunion parties, the like. That and stuff like yearbook photographs. I don't stalk peoples' instagrams, not having one myself.
Half of them don't seem to curate their images at all anyway
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3d ago
Notably, true polyploidy is generally not compatible with life for humans, so the number of actual children with this with this should round to zero. Mixoploidy with a mosaic of diploid and polyploid cells -- usually diploid-triploid mosaics? -- can survive beyond infancy but usually have, uh, developmental challenges. I haven't heard of a viable mixoploidy with diploid and haploid cells.
For better or worse we're not grapes or fish.
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4d ago
TBH I kinda get it, liking tomboys isn't weird at all
Most of my experience with this is seeing people liking tomboys (or at least otherwise girly-girls acting tomboyish), but the idea of it is at least acceptable enough that トモちゃんは女の子！ was popular enough to get an anime.
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4d ago
I feel like if I just go through my female high school classmates' photographs (and how they aged) a good double digit number at the very least would be prettier than her. She's, like, second quartile at best?
Some of it might also be the makeup. An ex of mine who was extremely pretty when you used East Asian makeup techniques and products, or hell, didn't use any makeup at all, looked shockingly bad when she got her makeup done by a Western professional.
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5d ago
I think even in East Asian reckoning Christine Fang is not that good looking?
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5d ago
Ok, but before there were women, there were apes, and before there were apes there were mammals, and before...
And before humans (+ tree shrews) decided to torture themselves, chili peppers produced capsaicin to repel mammals, ergo eating modern kimchi is morally impermissible because it’s a profanation of its natural function?
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7d ago
wars CANNOT be a smashing success just by blowing things up. They have to achieve the political goal. War is politics!
I admit I had more confidence that people in this forum had at least heard of Clausewitz…
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14d ago
Maybe I'm expecting to much, but when you're hashing stuff out with an actual medical graduate on managing their college loan payouts and they're more than a little clueless while a friend of mine and I are just going 'No... this is easy', it kind of makes you re-think alot of things.
I’ve heard colleagues grouse about needing to do mathematics when “the reason [they] got into medicine was to get away from maths!” I’ve also seen frankly shocking levels of statistical ignorance in the doctor population.
One thing that stuck with me is an informal experiment a friend of mine did many years ago — he asked a few dozen consultants what a p-value indicates. I think he got a grand total of one correct answer. And these are people who are supposed to be regularly reading (and sometimes writing) academic papers!
With a huge caveat that I'm not a historian, let alone a military historian of classical China, my understanding is that:
Riverine warfare becomes much more important starting with the Huai, at least in comparison to cavalry warfare, and northern states tended to have significantly weaker maritime capabilities due to the lack of necessity for this in conquering the North China Plain;
An inability to exert power along the Huai river and Huainan for a southern state means that a northern state is able to exert much more initiative in trying to attack the Yangtze proper;
Conversely, being able to hold the Huai river/Huainan gives a lot more slack for a southern defender before an invader can reach the Yangtze.
So it is perhaps less that the Huai is exceptionally defendable as much as that the Huai river and gatekeeps the Jiangnan area; a northern state able to dominate the Huai river and its surrounds is more likely to be a credible threat to the south both in terms of maritime capability as well as logistically. On the other hand, a southern Chinese state that was capable of exerting power over the Huai would not necessarily find itself being able to dominate the plains north of it.
This is of course only part of it. As you know, another way of conquering a southern state based on the Yangtze is from upstream, as with the eventual conquest of Wu, or the fall of southern Song after the fall of Xiangyang.
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