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  2. Posted

    Tedd has been so certain for so long that there is a hard limit to how much shrinkage magic can cause that seeing someone exceed that limit just because they didn't know it was a limit must be a startling revelation

    And Tedd's life has been little besides a series of startling revelations over the last few years

  3. Posted

    14 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    something which would be just triggered by magic locally and then spreading normally ... well, such spreading would be limited by speed of light and would therefore NEVER reach MOST of universe.

    Who says "Magic" pays attention to Einstein's silly speed limits?
    Remember, in the EGS Universe, the "Laws" of Physics are actually polite suggestions.

    By the way, it would only need to spread at about forty trillion times the speed of light to encompass everything as far as the CMB in less than a day
    Is that wand made of Adrenaline charged Tachyons on Steroids?

  5. Posted

    There are a dozen Ibis walking across the yard in front of me, feeding as they go along

    What I find amusing is that they originally roosted on and around a lamp post on the other side of the parking lot

    Two of the birds stayed perched on top of the lamp post, while the rest slowly walked and pecked their way across the cold and hard lot, finding nothing as they went

    When the flock reached the other side of the lot and actually started eating things they found the the recently mowed grass, the two perched bids swooped down and joined the breakfast party

    Somehow, this seems like it should be a management motivational poster

  9. Posted

    Will someone please just zappa the Ashley?

    She needs to be transformed
    She needs to transform herself
    She needs to transform someone else
    And all these transformations need to be safe, without embarrassment, and reversible
    Otherwise, Ashley will never be able to relax

    Also, Yes Nanase, you are just entirely too cool
    I'm surprised that local glaciation isn't triggered when you and Susan are in the same room

  10. Posted

    3 hours ago, Illjwamh said:

    Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Tehran with the only world leader worse than Hitler.

    When both were active, it would be rather difficult to say with certainty whether Stalin or Hitler was the worse hominid life form

    Stalin's reputation had the "benefit" of a decade of operating without Corporal Schicklgruber providing a counterpoint

  11. Posted

    30 minutes ago, The Old Hack said:

    wasn't the Demotic cursive script based on a simplification of hieroglyphs

    Yes
    I forgot about that
    But I tend to think of the Demotic script as a transitional phase into what would become the written form of the Coptic language

    Also, "Simplified" does not necessarily equate to "Shorthand"

     

  13. Posted

    Assassination is actually a fiscally responsible way to manage an Empire

    First, you don't need to provide for your ruler's retirement
    (You might even be able to underwrite the cost of his state funeral by selling ad space and corporate naming rights)

    Second, you avoid the need for elaborate succession procedures
    If the royal guards allow you to get that close to the current king, then they obviously are willing to accept you as the next king
    And if the old king is dead and the king's personal army says that you're the new king, who is going to argue?  (Other than the next guy with a bigger army, but you should have dealt with him before going on your regicide spree)

  15. Posted

    7 minutes ago, Illjwamh said:

    declaring the Québécois to be a nation within Canada. Oh great, they're never going to shut up about this.

    For better or worse, they won't shut up about it in a Language (Creole? Dialect? Accent? Patois?) that is not particularly well known outside Quebec

    In a way, this reminds me of a situation in Greece.  When the Ottoman Empire finally died in the early twentieth century and left Greece to be fully controlled by Greeks for the first time in hundreds of years, there was a request from some Greek people directed towards the Greek Orthodox Church asking for The BIble to be translated into modern Greek.  Apparently, multiple generations of foreign occupation caused the language to diverge from the Classical Greek of Antiquity

    In Quebec, after Britain took over Canada, the first reaction was to eliminate or suppress Francophone culture.  Eventually, Anglophonic Canada decided it wasn't worth the effort and stopped actively persecuting the Québécois.  But by this time, the French descended language used secretly in Canada was no longer identical to the language of Metropolitan France

    Oh well, as long as our Viking Overlords don't demand that we go back to drunk singing with potatoes in our mouths...

  18. Posted

    12 minutes ago, hkmaly said:

    It's both slow and imprecise, with lot of errors happening on way. Well, usually ; it's true memes tend to be quite resistant in this regard.

    That's because most memes are themselves errors that are incredibly resilient and are often only stopped by being displaced by a faster spreading meme

  21. Posted

    If you really want specifics about the various congregations that claim descent from the Abrahamic Covenant, (at least those with a significant presence in the United States) I would suggest The Handbook of Denominations from Abingdon Press

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handbook_of_Denominations

    The fourteenth edition is available from the publisher for about $30, but can be acquired at Amazon for under $20

    As I said, it is currently in the 14th edition, but previous editions are still useful if you happen to find it in the library (I have the 12th at home)
    This can be found in both public libraries (although as a reference book, they might not allow it to be checked out) and in the libraries of many places of worship (membership in said congregation may be required even for in-library research)

    Tactful without sacrificing accuracy, much of the information is drawn from official sources of the various denominations

    It gives the historical background of the various broad stroke religious traditions and then goes into specifics about various denominations within those traditions

    https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Denominations-United-States-14th/dp/1501822519

    https://www.abingdonpress.com/product/9781501822513/

    For example, I'm Methodist.  When I was a child, church attendance dropped off sharply in the summer.  Attendance also dropped for the Presbyterian Church across the street.  So for several years our two congregations would share Sunday Services in July and August.  The Hymnals were different, and you had to forgive Debts instead of Trespasses.  But other than that, there wasn't much difference that the under-ten-year-old version of me could see.  It wasn't until I was quite a bit older that I began to notice the differences between the Reform and Arminian movements.  It wasn't until I was able to study The Handbook that I approached understanding.

     

  25. Posted

    7 hours ago, The Old Hack said:

    You know, this explains a lot of what I always did find strange about the Pharaohs. How many of them did you end up reincarnated as, anyway?

    There is a reason why all the ruling males of the final dynasty shared the name Ptolemy and all the females used the name Cleopatra

    Why do you think a certain Scandinavian monarchy habitually alternates between just two King names?

    It isn't to make the "people" think the ruling house is somehow more stable than any other part of the Government

    If you need to manage a country over several lifetimes, forgetting details like the username and passwords you used two centuries ago can be quite inconvenient