On the plus side, at least she's willing to get the vaccine now. Silver linings, I guess?

CK has never really focused on battles on that scale though, and I don’t think the game as it’s constructed right now could handle that (how do you account for allied armies coming in after the battle starts?). It’s not a bad idea at all for a Paradox game, but this hypothetical game would have to be built from the ground up with those kinds of battles in mind.

A company dealing with internal problems like that (and Paradox should be trying to remedy workplace harassment) generally doesn't mean that literally every single thing happening within the company gets put on hold until the issue is dealt with. It certainly wouldn't affect the writing of a small dev diary that probably took an hour or two at most to write up.

That's a problem for management to deal with, not individual developers.

While CK3 generally does a better job with religion in CK3 than CK2 did (it gets points just for making a more concrete distinction between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism), Islam in general needs a rework for CK3. Splitting Sunni into Ash'ari, Maturidi, Muwalladi and Almohadi doesn't make a whole lot of sense historically, and the differences between those different sorts of Sunni Islam could be better represented with traits and event chains.

There's gotta be countless thousands of Salman Khans out there. Like that name is Pakistan's version of John Smith.

C. S. Lewis was Anglican, but to Jack Chick that would have basically been the same thing as Catholicism.

Links for anyone lazy

Altai Throat Singing

Batzorig Vaanchig - Chinggis Khaanii Magtaal

Özgür Baba - Dertli Dolap

Peter Pringle - The Epic of Gilgamesh in Sumerian

Trio Mandili - Kakhuri

I love how all these warnings from the mods are in both English and French.

If I do respond to something, a lot of the time I'll leave like one comment and then disable inbox replies. I don't have the patience to get into long arguments on the internet the way I used to when I was a teenager.

I definitely want epidemics as a mechanic added back in at some point, since diseases of all kinds had a huge impact on the pre-modern world. But maybe a few years down the road once covid is less of an issue.

The bit where he effectively offered to pay for sex using city funds maybe?

By that logic, work dress codes and language fluency requirements are also socialism with dashes of authoritarianism. Requiring people get a vaccine against an infectious disease to work in an environment with lots of other people is no different from asking construction workers to wear hard hats and steel-toed shoes.

Not everything you dislike is communism

Millions of Native Americans, in fact. There are about 5 million Natives in the US today, close to 1.7 million in Canada, and tens of millions of Natives and people of partial Native descent in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

Remember vaccines were a normal, accepted, even welcomed, part of modern life for over 100 years before the great Autism lie....

Shoutout to hbomberguy's video on Andrew Wakefield. It's a long one, but it's a very good rundown of where the modern anti-vaccine movement started.

Which honestly is very in-character for a person who spends their free time on /r/stupidpol

Ah yes, discrimination (requiring a group of people who travel all over the continent be vaccinated against a nasty disease that spreads like wildfire and has serious long-term consequences if somebody unvaccinated catches it)

Christian Science is a wack-ass cult which claims that all illnesses are caused by the person who's sick not being faithful enough, and that prayer alone can cure any illness.

Now I'm curious about how Norse names would get translated or transliterated into Arabic

Methane gas exposure from melting ice caps and melted permafrost making the oxygen levels drop and air toxic to breathe/plants unable to grow.

This is quite literally never going to happen; not the melting of permafrost and the ice caps, but there being enough methane being released by the permafrost to make the atmosphere toxic to humans and plants. While there is melting happening in the ice sheets and permafrost, the permafrost is melting so slowly that it'll take somewhere between several thousand and well over ten thousand years for it to melt completely, even with the current massive rate of warming in the arctic.

Melting permafrost has and will continue to contribute to methane emissions (and thus to climate change), but that methane alone isn't being released in nearly high enough quantities for it to turn the atmosphere toxic. That specific idea is nonsense.

As always, there's a relevant xkcd

Bernier is trying so hard to be Canada's Nigel Farage, and has failed spectacularly at that.

He's getting downvoted because he compared actual, real world suffering and oppression to the provincial government requiring people to get vaccinated against a deadly disease in order to go to hockey games. It's among the most whiny, selfish sort of statements one could possibly make.

Also, if governments over the world did literally nothing the death toll from covid would be much, much higher than 4.5 million or so. Hell, it's probably a lot higher than that already, considering that there was an uptick of deaths reported as simple pneumonia between November 2019 and March 2020, and that the information about that from a lot of countries is pretty unreliable (Turkmenistan's authoritarian government, for instance is insisting that they've had no covid cases or deaths, which is absolute nonsense).