Defend this man's decision to bomb hundreds of thousands of civilians.
>>1232376
end a war with TWO giant atomic bombs to ensure that people will be too horrified to ever actually use nuclear weapons
bigger question; will our nukes even work if we need them?
>>1232376
The US was already engaging in a prolonged bombing run of the japanese islands. he just cut it down from a couple of weeks to one week.
>>1232396
Yes because they don't only shoot from silos. Subs, Naval ships, and planes all can shoot them
How does anyone argue that qualia are reducible to what we conventionally think of as physical brain states? It just doesn't follow.
Do you think that cranes are incapable of explaining the origin of qualia and that a skyhook is necessary?
Do you think that qualia are changeable over time due to evolution?
>>1232138
why not? I haven't seen any good arguments for qualia not being reducible to the physical brain
>>1232161
How about the argument that it doesn't follow? You can't describe the color red in terms of conventional bio-chemistry you can only describe corollary elements like wave lengths of light and optical nerves and neurons. How does the phenomenonal experience we call 'red' just magically pop-out of such a system regardless of how compact and complex you make it?
Is man an animal? Some religions would seem to imply otherwise.
The picture is not quite related
Do you think humans just magic'd into existence with no biological ancestors?
>>1232076
Some religions seem to imply that.
>>1232076
obviously our biological ancestor is Adam
what went wrong?
>>1231958
Ĝi ne gajnis teron
>>1231958
It sounds too much like Mexican.
Has any flag with green on it ever been successful?
How did Chess become THE intellectual game, at least in the western world? It often seems to be the first thing that comes to mind in the popular consciousness if you want to portray someone as either a nerd or an intellectual competitive person; they'll inevitably be good chessplayers.
>>1231735
Lenin.
He believed that it was "gymnastics for the brain", based on the same outdated ideas that I have learned Latin in school.
They believed that there is some kind of "universal intelligence" (don't know how to say this in English, tho) and that this can be trained by learning Latin grammar or playing chess, but modern psychologists all have shown that if you teach a child how to play chess the child will simply become good at chess.
And if you learn how to speak latin you'll simply become good at latin but it doesn't give you some sort of "universal intelligence" you then can also use to, say, build cars or whatever.
>>1231770
this.
blame the commies.
before them chess was just some obscure board game from India that only poo-in-the-loos played.
So we know South Asia, Japan, Southeast Asia, Near & Far Oceania, Australia and the Americas were populated with Australoid peoples but why do we never talk about their cultural imprints and impacts?
Sugarcane, Banana, Taro, breadfruit were domesticated by them. Look at how they influenced the world.
The world's oldest pottery was crafted by them.
The first humans to expand out of Africa went all the way down to South America via the Bering Strait.
So let's post about interesting subjects and images surrounding Australoids. Seems neat to me.
I remember reading somewhere that the entirety of the population of the Americas, excluding the Inuits, descended from a group of around a hundred individuals.
Oh a couple of other interesting things I remember reading somewhere. There were Native Americans in possession of small amounts of Chinese pig iron from unknown sources before being in contact with Europeans. There was a Native American tribe around the great lakes region that had some European DNA from long before the 1500s.
I'm too lazy to look for sources or confirm this shit but I'd like it if someone would because I wouldn't mind reading up on this stuff again it's interesting.
>>1231471
Jomon =/= Australoid
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>>1231394
How big will nations be?
>>1231399
We are currently claiming the nations now, for example the ottoman empire is over 8000 claims and i still need to finish some of its borders
I wanna learn about China in the 3rd cent. AD
What are some good English language books on the topic /his/
>>1231255
/his/ is for shitposting and /pol/ lite. If you actually want to learn fuck off to /r/eddit or something. I'm 100% serious.
>>1231255
xuesanguo.tumblr.com
Not joking.
I would tell you Records of the Three Kingdoms but I'm not sure an English translation even exists.
What is Jerusalem worth?
>>1231239
TELL ME ABOUT BALDWIN! WHY DOES HE WEAR THE MASK?
>>1231358
>>1231358
If you take his mask off, it would be extremely painful.
What happened to this great Empire?
The Hundred Years War
>>1230411
It disbanded.
King John
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>>1203629
>>1203629
>>1203629
Requests for more of these.
>>1230153
Is there a more overrated King than Richard the Lionheart?
In fact I'll go a step further, he was a bad king.
>calling a homosexual bad at something
Enjoy doing community service for hate speech
He made Salahuddin al Ayyubi his bitch
>>1230007
He was a "great king" because he failed to retake the holy lands. I like people who don't fail to take the holy lands.
>In the early modern period many Irishmen and women fled to Spain as a result of political and military turmoil in their homeland. The belief that the Gaelic Irish were descended from Míl Espáine and his Spanish followers was current in Spain as well as Ireland, and as a result the Irish in Spain were given all the rights and privileges due to Spanish subjects. In 1680 King Charles II of Spain issued a decree stating that "the Irish in Spain have always enjoyed the same privileges as Spaniards. This has always been the practice and is actually so today."[17] King Philip V of Spain issued decrees in 1701 and 1718 confirming these rights, stating that the Irish were to be treated as native Spaniards. In 1791, in response to fears about the French Revolution, royal orders were given to create registers of all foreigners then in Spain and to extract an oath of allegiance from them. Three Irish natives living in Cadiz agreed to sign the register, but refused to take the oath which Spaniards were not required to take. The three appealed to the Royal Council in Madrid, who decreed (having consulted the attorney-general) that "the taking of the oath, to which all foreigners have been directed to submit, shall not be extracted from the Irish, seeing that by the sole fact of their settling in Spain the Irish are regarded as Spaniards and have the same rights."[17] King Charles IV of Spain issued a decree in 1792 confirming this decision by his council.[18]
What's the connection between the Irish and the Spanish? I know the Spanish attempted to help the Irish at some point in the 1500s. How are Spanish-Irish relations today?
>What's the connection between the Irish and the Spanish?
My guess would be the whole Catholic thing and not being British
>Catholic
>Celtiberians, theories about where the Irish came from
>Dislike for England
>proximity (Spain and Portugal were the closest Catholic nations - discluding secular France - to Ireland)
>>1229165
>What's the connection between the Irish and the Spanish?
Irish mythology claims that the Irish came from Galicia, which is what the Míl Espáine thing is referring to. Around the same time of the reformation Spain was at odds with England and positioning themselves as the defender of Catholics. The Irish were under the thumb of the English yet remained staunchly Catholic. They sought aid on the continent and Spain provided it. After the Gaelic lords failed in their rebellion they were given political asylum in Spain and were welcomed by the kings and nobility. Many became Spanish nobles in their own right, often owning estates in the new world. IIRC the current chieftain of the O'Neills is a lord somewhere in the hispanic Caribbean. Over the next century and a half Irish rebels, young men and second sons often went to serve in continental armies, Spain and France being the most popular
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Wild_Geese
>How are Spanish-Irish relations today?
As good as those between any two European nations. Irish people are very fond of Spaniards and I think they are fond of us too. On the other hand Irish people are also supportive of independence for Catalonia and Basqueland.
show me your best trolleys, /his/
>>1228945
On the ground?
>>1228945
On me. The hard part is trying not to get hard.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
Life is still more interesting than death, no matter what happens.
So instead of killing yourself, try to look onto your hardships as an epic adventure.
>>1228249
Of all the times in human history, you were lucky enough to experience meme-culture. Here's to America's first meme-president #can'tstumpfthedrumpf