LupineTroubles

Taking that much land inland is truly against the spirit of the nation of Venice.

I don't think there is any hypocrisy between straddling Byzantium with debt and representing their misfortunes at the time like the Earthquake in Gallipoli or repeated civil wars with events so you have to react to them and navigate them within game mechanics and the game rewarding you doing exact same steps in exact same order with rewards that bypass game mechanics and give you bunch of free stuff so you can take everything easily once you survive the first few years.

Besides Byzantium is favorite country if every deus vulting GSG fan so they get the first DLC anyway above and before many other countries and regions both ascendant and troubled at this time so complaining about them specifically is silly too. We will likely see them given silly amount of momentum for recovery that they compete with Ottomans on expansion into Balkans and Anatolia soon enough.

That's right little Byzantium you are in Ottoman country now, enjoy the earthquakes.

Would you have more fun if there were no obstacles?

This estimation is based on nominal GDP per capita, Turkey currently has higher GDP per capita than Malaysia but these economic predictions that extend further than 5 years are either alarmist or smug with no real basis since they barely ever do anything but extend current trends over standard models. Likely nobody was predicting in 2007 that UK would fall so far behind US in terms of GDP per capita by 2030.

Sure! I didn't because it was not a podcast about this topic specifically but just that episode. It was specifically this episode and it is available on spotify. Gist of it is that they are cutting grants, disallowing student mobility and weaponizing funding to force particular ideologies in the curriculum.

I had listened to an American professor from University of Chicago talking about the manner and magnitude of which the US government is currently outright undermining entire research of American universities in a podcast. It really sounded grim and unprecedented, for narrowest of ideological brain rot too about wokeness and Israel mainly. It is especially funny and ironic in light of all the fearmongering about how "The Left" is preventing science too.

It's interesting how a derogatory term like lunatic was actually less judgmental in its original inception since it implied a common human condition rather than implying an essential character of a person.

You can never forget the one who got away.

It's well appreciated.

All politics converge ultimately at hating Turks.

I understand now what you mean especially in regards to gender neutral and explicitly degendered, though I have my reservations of the supposed gender neutral or degendered words that use masculine form as default form still even if they obviously serve that function in terms of grammatical gender. I suppose I was thrown off by the set criteria and them being used as requirements. Nevertheless I think there are many languages that use gender neutral terms that can be bent way better to be degendered proactively than using default masculine forms in Romance languages in this regard.

There is a lot of inertia to lingua franca and because English cemented itself as such at such a crucial time of internet age globalization I don't think it will be toppled any time soon because it completely left the anglophone world, it is also a pleasant and flexible language without a language academy so it serves that function really well. I also especially don't think Esperanto will replace it, nor do I think a sign language will. In regards to Esperanto both because I don't think it is useful or widespread enough for that and in terms of sign language because I think learning a second language comes easier to most people than learning a sign language.