SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
23hr ago
Yup. Seems fairly trivial as soon as you accept that not all names are English and aren't meant to be pronounced with the fucked up "rules" of English pronunciation.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
17th to 19th century American West was very much an outlier. I won't say similar things never happened elsewhere but they were a rarity. Even in the rest of America that was an exception as there wasn't a sizable body of people who expanded the frontier by conquest for an expanded length of time and then replaced the original people more than culturally. Ultimately the amount of wealth that can be gathered by that route for ordinary men is limited (almost as a tautology - where would masses of men they get such wealth from?)
It was fairly often the norm for the man to gather enough wealth to support himself and his family before getting married (although even that depended very much on the time and place) but that involved traditional boring stuff like working as a farm hand etc.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
I am not sure this is a good top level CW post. In large parts it is basically the format of Scott's link posts, each line with a link and a sentence or three of hot takes.
I for one vastly prefer it over posts that spend half a dozen pages to say what could be said in two paragraphs or, even worse, AI augmented slop employed as a sort of one man gish gallop meant to drown everyone who disagrees in pages and pages and fucking endless pages of text, as favored by one prominent poster here.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
The idea presumably would be that if you can degrade the IRGC's capabilities, since they act as kind of the internal suppression force (being a sizeable army/navy in their own right), the regime won't be able to maintain control over a populace in revolt. At least, that's my take on it.
How would this work when IRGC (presumably) consists largely of true believers and their suppression capabilities are of the "we'll shoot you on the street", and not the "we'll use a highly centralized apparatus to eliminate key dissidents"? That is, when killing a bunch of leaders doesn't actually degrade on the street capabilities of the organization (unlike with the nuclear program or traditional state leadership).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
Men would often get married later [...], having returned to their poor home towns as impressive figures with money in their pockets to whisk away
No, they really wouldn't. The vast majority of men in history were subsistence farmers who never traveled particularly far from their home and certainly didn't "work on the frontier" (except sometimes when that meant starting a farm on the "frontier" and staying there).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
My God, that double-necked guitar/bass must weigh a fucking ton though.
Now imagine if it was based on a Les Paul instead of a Strat.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
5d ago
They play a simultaneously incoherent and very danceable style of microtonal music.
At first I was "Wait, you can't really play microtonal music on a guitar". Then I saw the frets of said guitar...
This is also the first time I've ever seen someone use those weirdo pedals that /r/guitarpedals loves such that they sound actually musical.
super expensive radio-quality mic
Ah, the cliche Shure SM7B, used mostly by people who have no idea why you'd choose it and who don't even know how to use it. Aka the less colored more upscale version of the uniquituous SM57 / SM58. Although at 400e it's hardly "super expensive" considering there are plenty of fairly run of the mill microphones that cost 1000e or more. Still, you can easily get that same "sound" from any number of cheap 100-200e cardioid electret mics (or even the cheap SM57 and a bit of EQ). All without looking like a goddamn idiot.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
Isn't that how English has behaved for the last N hundred years?
Is that the case outside Germany and Austria?
I can't recall having ever seen it anywhere else and quite a few people make fun of Germans for that (eg. Herr Doktor Doktor Professor Someone). Sure, in academic and some professional contexts you would say Dr Someone but not in normal life. Unless you were German, of course.
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