Floofshy overflow

"I didn't consent to having this much agency in our relationship"

"in my history of china, I actually renamed all the historical figures to have english sounding names since I didn't want to exoticize the region"

nationalist movements with 0 supporters: * Tunisian Vandal restorationalism - they view vandal rule in Tunisia as the true period of independence from foreign rule and cultural influence, and thus wish to add more germanic elements to the local Tunisian culture. * Double Sicilians - they fight for the creation of a modern state with the boarders of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1816 to 1861), as a definitely the natural boarders of a real nation. * Neo-scythian - claim to be the real inheritors of scythian nationhood, and see Huns as evil colonialist oppressors. Occasionally they complain about the Slavs, because of the lack of modern Huns, but 1. the Slavs showed up too late to really to be to blame, and 2. the Slavs suffered enough and criticizing them makes you look like a Nazi. * European Nobility nationalist - they view the European nobility as a distinct ethnic group with their own unique culture and heritage, more related to each other than their former subjects, and thus the European nobility deserve some land somewhere to make a Noble Nation-state (to be clear, the potential state is a democracy, they are NOT monarchists). * Heptarchians - technically 7 different nationalist movements, but they are united in calling for the fracturing of England into East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex, and Wessex. The Sussexians are particularly eager to end the influence of danelaw in their country.

I wonder how society would respond to an explicitly orientalist work, like "this fantasy story is set in the fake version of Asia that the romans and medievals made up". so like with the blemmies, the dog-headded people, and the men with one gaint foot they use as a sunshade.

in general, any regulation which industry supports is suspicious and likely anti-competitive (by increasing regulatory burden which hurt small firms more) and anti-innovative (by encoding assumptions about how an industry is shaped) and potentially pointless (since apparently corporations are doing it already)

"I used to be a race realist, but then I learned about vitamin D supplementation and sun-screen, and that point you've covered all the biological differences; so there isn't any reason to prevent whites from going outside anymore."

I think the difference between me and people who really hate colonialism is that they don't even feel a little bit that they are a colonist by virtue of their birth.

given that I learned that "turkey" could be an insult from Turkey (now Türkiye)'s announcement that they were changing their english name's spelling, it didn't really help them avoid that implication.

we don't really know why the low interest rate period from 2008 to 2022 happened, or why it ended. (particularly, why didn't inflation start happening sooner?) So it could totally start happening again; even if we ignore the possibility of Trump influencing the Fed when he replaces him.

Because the word Admiral is derived from the same Arabic word as the title "Emir" (like the emirates of the United Arab Emirates), English could have called those Arab princes "Admirals" and the states "Admiralities".