So I know the root cause of what happened to western Rome is still debated, but what about Byzantium? What theories are there for why they started to have these problems after a few more centuries of prosperity?

To add to that, once the title did pass to one of those guys, after he’d basically been locked up his whole life. It did not go well.

Sounds like a woke Biden policy that might get rolled back.

You could in theory make a channel with a bunch of different stable whistle frequencies, and add some other aerodynamic feature that kicks it through them. I doubt you could reasonably do more than a few notes that way, though, and you probably have to hit them in order.

More likely it’s just multiple bullets, as the other reply said.

I’m going to guess the military wasn’t the main audience here, but rather your typical gun nuts.

Come for the jokes, stay for the unprompted washing machine reviews.

So not off-grid, exactly. (Although the grid in any poor country’s cities will not be up bougie, Western specs on reliability)

Yeah, an actual African would use wood for the replacement stock, because why not, and they have enough practice fixing their own shit with hand tools it might look exactly like the original.

Plus or minus some uninhabited ocean it (as in the two continents) comes very close.

No u.

If you’re actually interested in Chinese justice vs. American justice, and how that’s related to rule of law vs. party leadership, there’s interesting things to say.

However, a month old account coming in and fixating on race, which wasn’t even mentioned in OP but rather later in response to someone else, seems more like trolling.

I mean, you can argue with .ml about political philosophy or economics, but it’s a waste of time because that’s not their real motive. You might as well argue rocketry with a moon landing denier.

“These places you have funny ideas about are real places to me, and they’re not like that” is more productive. They can either actually engage, or run away to protect themselves.

Unfortunately, the revolution had trouble extending to their many colonies, and they’ve trailed the rest of Europe on being sorry.

No, you got called out on basically being a left-themed orientalist, and now want to run away.

I have family in adjacent, politically similar countries. Most likely, you’re a white person with no connections to Asia who likes to project fantasies on it, which is why you’re on .ml.

It’s a Liberal concept, not a Western one. Tudor England or whatever worked the same way before the age of revolutions. As did everything else all the way back to prehistory, more or less.

Yup, you can write anything. The USSR also guaranteed freedom of speech in it’s constitution, IIRC.

People who are purely Western often forget it, but laws that actually apply to everyone all the time are a very recent phenomenon. Historically, and in other places, they’re more like guidelines for what to do when there’s no other major considerations.

Is there ever really a sane phase, though?

Yeah, IIRC there’s Hitler quotes expressing his displeasure with it. Partly because what they dug up in Germany was obviously not from a great civilisation.

Hitler: Of course, and there’s nothing unwholesome in the meth either.

I really doubt they’ll actually stick to this in practice. Keep in mind, China is not a place with binding rule of law.

When it gets in the way of whatever industrial expansion, workers rights to not have toxic rocket fuel falling on them or to get paid for their house being demolished aren’t even respected.