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"The form of government I advocate for is the best one when it's executed 'properly'" is a line of argument that vindicates every single form of government. Except communism. Even on paper, it doesn't work. As often as I hear the tired excuse of "that wasn't real communism", all you have to do is t...

Replying to multiple people, so forgive me if I quote one of your posts without your name attached. Also, I'm still wondering about how devastating anti matter engines would be to an ecology if activated in atmosphere, since I'm not sure what the magnitude of the ecological disaster they pose is. De...

Since we're on the subject of names, I found something curious: despite being pretty famous in Nordic and Germanic folklore, and once having been a very popular girl's name, Gunnhilda (Gonnhildr, Gunhildr, and various other variations) no longer appears to exist as a name. According to statistics on...

I can trace my ancestry back for 700 years (one branch I can only go back ~300 years), and for nearly every one of those ancestors I have dates of birth, marriage, and death, profession, place of residence, etc. We kept very good records, mostly written into various iterations of the family Bible, a...

Wealthy, courageous king Warrior prince Infamous warrior So, all together, I suppose my name would mean "wealthy, brave, and infamous warrior-king". If the Treaty of Versailles hadn't banned titles of nobility to Germans, I would be entitled to add "of wrath" or "wrathful" after my name. We, uh, ear...