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  1. Yukkuri Oniisan

    Yukkuri Oniisan 『Procrastinator Archwizard Translator and Writer』

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    Like the tittle said.

    Now lets start from me.
    https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/10/reviews/000910.10willot.html

    A book review that debunked American Gun culture obsession with an image of civilian personal gun ownage as the decisive factor for the revolution and frontier.
    Really enlightening to me since what the author pointed out really make sense to me.
    So the gun culture obsession that the American possess today are fabrication view build by arms industry and not a view generally held by Americans prior to Civil War.


    So what yours?
     
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    tocos10 Even more then the greatest Poster

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    Back them though there never was a push to violate the second amendment. People appreciate what they might lose not what they know they will have.
     
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    Crazyh3 Well-Known Member

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    I sat next to the person in the article when I went to this school.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-33475120

    He got horrendously bullied at his next school and this kind of showed me what happens when you horrendously bully someone who was originally quite a nice person.
     
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    9gag.com
     
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    makenai89 The Divine Procrastinator

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  6. Yukkuri Oniisan

    Yukkuri Oniisan 『Procrastinator Archwizard Translator and Writer』

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    I like reading articles like this:

    http://www.geocurrents.info/place/r.../global-warming-and-siberia-blessing-or-curse

    Global warming a curse and a gift to modern Russia.
    Actually I just read an article of permafrost retreat due to global warming, but since most permafrost is located in Scandinavia, Russia and Canada, I search for an article to elucidate the geopolitic effect of it. This is quite enlightening. Methane and Carbon traps in Siberia is really worrying... Because I live in tropical nations, the tropical storms could get bigger as the climate become more wetter.
     
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  7. Yukkuri Oniisan

    Yukkuri Oniisan 『Procrastinator Archwizard Translator and Writer』

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    Simon [The Pure One's Chief Steward][Demon Beast]

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    A lot of the news I read is more WTF than enlightening.
     
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    makenai89 The Divine Procrastinator

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    Yukkuri Oniisan 『Procrastinator Archwizard Translator and Writer』

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    Are you a writer troubled to create a world trapped in medieval world for thousand years?

    Read this:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_equilibrium_trap

    The high-level equilibrium trap is a concept developed by environmental historian Mark Elvin to explain why China never underwent an indigenous Industrial Revolution, despite its wealth, stability, and high level of scientific achievement. Essentially, he claims that the Chinese pre-industrial economy had reached an equilibrium point where supply and demand were well balanced. Late imperial production methods and trade networks were so efficient and labor was so cheap that investment in capital to improve efficiency would not be profitable.

    I use this concept to make a Space-faring civilization in my story freeze their tech-development for about 4000 years (why research new when the old is reliable and cheaper?) so that my newcomer space-civ although relatively technological backwards surprisingly catching up fast and employ many technological method beyond common sense...
     
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    Yukkuri Oniisan 『Procrastinator Archwizard Translator and Writer』

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    makenai89 The Divine Procrastinator

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    The author was overestimating JSDF, I think, what with implying GATE as JSDF's propaganda. But...well, that was thought-provoking, indeed...
     
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    prongsjiisan Apostle of Violence

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