it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there
Neither the UK or the US wanted to deal with any of this bullshit a second time. I honestly cannot imagine how fucking mad people in the UK were when the Germans pulled shit AGAIN.
And, AGAIN, the US tried to stay the fuck out of it. They tried SO HARD.
Never underestimate the spite of "I don't wanna be here, but we're getting this fucking DONE."
Polyamory is safe for work. Polyamory is safe for kids. Polyamory is safe for day time tv. Polyamory isn’t more sexual than any other relationship and it can be just as romantic, sweet, and healthy.
Reblogging again cause I tried this site last night and if you need background noise to focus this is perfect for that, I was locked the fuck in on a task. And it’s also just gorgeous to listen to
There's a very funny thing that happens in transhuman science fiction where sometimes an author will turn out to be a reactionary conservative who thought he was writing dystopian fiction and intended all the sickass radical body modification stuff to be scary, but he assumed that was obvious and forgot to put it in the actual text.
It's like the literary version of those breathless propaganda thinkpieces where they accidentally make their political opponents sound cool as hell because they have no idea how it reads to anyone whose brain hasn't spent the last thirty years being pickled in fear juice.
If you're building defenses *during* a zombie apocalypse you gotta use what's on hand, but building this *before* a zombie apocalypse, this is a terrible choice. You'd be better off with a normal (very tall) metal fence, with metal bars that you can see between. Not only would that let your garden, solar panels and home get some FUCKING SUNLIGHT, but you could see and attack zombies through the fence with polearms. And it's easy to find and repair issues with the fence; zombies put a hole in one of these shipping containers (not hard if there's a lot of zombies) and repairs are a much bigger job. Also, you have to kill zombies that are now INSIDE YOUR WALLS.
These walls make the only avenue of attacking zombies shooting down from the walls and towers. Which massively reduces your attack angles, means you can't get any that happen to be attacking from a blind spot, and means that your defence is completely reliant on bullets. If the problem is zombies (which, traditionally, are not known for their marksmanship), this is an awful defence against them. A normal metal bar fence would be much better.
if there was someone who you believed was in extreme danger of having their soul lost for all eternity and your reaction to that is mocking rather than praying for them with all of your might then you simply don’t have the supernatural virtue of charity, full stop
One of the most common ways you preserve pork without refrigeration is keeping it in really salty water. This makes the pork borderline inedible because it’s so salty. What you don’t see in medieval fantasy is people soaking their meat in water for a bit before they cook it.
That’s also a reason to boil your meat though. Like yeah meat tastes better if you sear it first but sometimes you’ve gotta get that salt out.
Also medieval peasants had more meat than you’d think because of these preservation methods. You can feed a pig scraps for the whole year and then butcher it at the start of winter and preserve the meat. Because of this they also often had access to lard.
Medieval peasants also didn’t eat chicken very often. That’s a source of eggs. If you’re lucky enough to own a cow it’s also unlikely you’d eat it unless it’s on its way out anyways. That’s a good source of milk. It’s more advantageous to keep a cow or chicken alive than to eat them.
These days chicken is usually the cheapest form of meat available. If someone is eating a chicken in a medieval setting though it’s either because they didn’t need that chicken anymore or because they’re rich enough to have chickens for eating.
If we’re talking mutton, European sheep are more often kept for wool or milk while middle eastern or African sheep are more often kept for eating. Europeans would of course eat sheep sometimes but it’s another one of those cases where it makes more sense to keep the animal alive rather than eating it.
Fat from a fat tailed sheep makes for good cooking fat if your setting is more middle eastern or North African inspired. European settings would prefer butter, lard, or olive oil depending on where exactly they are.
Goats weren’t super popular in Europe during medieval and ancient times. Very common in the Middle East and North Africa though both for milk and for meat.
A cow or ewe must have a calf or lamb every year to produce milk. Half of those offspring will be male, and thus will not produce milk. Ergo they were eaten, because you only need one bull or ram for a much larger number of breeding females.
The limiting factor for livestock keeping in the medieval period was winter fodder--there was enough summer grazing for the spring births in fallow fields that they fertilized with their manure , but not enough hay and grazing to get them through the winter. So the lambs--all the males and some of the females--would be butchered in the fall. A bull calf might be butchered as veal (or "baby beef", depending on timing) its first fall or might be over-wintered and butchered as beef the following fall. A few of the older ewes would be butchered as mutton, replaced with female lambs from the spring births. A female calf would be traded, sold, or kept as a replacement.
Similarly, half of the chicks born would be male, destined for spring/early summer butchering. (Or caponed, castrated, though that's much more difficult with a bird.) Chicken is a lean meat, though, and rather tough in a free-range bird, so it was usually stewed rather than roasted. Capon was a bit of a luxury food due to the difficulty of castrating them. Geese were much more popular due to the fattier meat.
Pork was plentiful due in part to the large size of a sow's litter. Over-winter one sow, and you get eight piglets or so, much more than a cow's single calf or a ewe's one to four lambs. Even if you didn't keep your own sow, buying piglets to raise and fatten was common. Most medieval pigs would forage rather than being fed scraps--hence the ubiquity of swineherd as a humble occupation.
Not a bad price for the 1874 Moondance Inn bed & breakfast in Red Wing, MN. The 6bd, 10ba, 7,603sqft home comes fully furnished and it's chock full of stuff. $783,900.
Of course, you don't have to run a B&B, it would make a phenomenal single family home, too. Enter a wide, open, hall with lovely round stairs.
To the right is a sunny sitting room.
And, on the other side there's a very large reception room with a beautiful big fireplace and bright blue ceiling.
Vintage powder room with an original wall cabinet.
Because it's a B&B, the dining room has several separate tables and this is a huge dining room.
The large commercial kitchen also has a counter with snacks and things.
it's such a big house. Look at the length of this hall.
The bedrooms are certainly spacious.
Vintage-y updated bath. There are 10 baths!
This bedroom has a tub in the room.
The sink is also in the room, just outside the water closet. Several of the bedrooms have the same tub. And, they also have separate water closets.
This upper floor looks like a first aid station.
Isn't this a beautiful finished attic? It's a lovely place for the guests to gather and socialize.
And, look at this stone wall up here.
This looks like an arts & crafts and potting room in the basement.
I'm wondering if this delightfully colorful apt. is the owner's quarters.
It's nice and cheerful up here. Look at the little raised area.
There's a full bath up here, too..
Behind the house there's a lovely patio and arbor.
This looks like an original carriage house.
This is a storage room, I think above the garage, but it has potential. Look at the walls.
This 2006 house in Duluth, MN is called an "Artisan Estate" b/c it's a skillfully handcrafted modern version of a Craftsman style home. 3bds. 2ba. 1,956sqft, $1.2m.
Look at the painting on the fireplace chimney, and it's a tree that goes all the way up to the ceiling.
The living room is pretty. The woodwork is very beautifully done and notice that for authenticity they used radiators. They must've bought them at an architectural salvage yard.
They look like they came from a Victorian home.
This is a nice touch. I've never seen anything like this in an original Craftsman. You never see a 2nd fl. mezzanine, let alone a curved balcony.
The dining area is in the rounded tower at the back of the house.
Beautiful cabinetry and counters.
Look at the built-in benches.
Large primary bedroom.
This bath is in the tower. So pretty.
Looks like a child's room. Very nice.
Also on the property there's this adorable little studio that looks like a lighthouse.
It's more like a rental or guest cottage, and has a kitchenette.
And, it has a little sleep loft. The trap door in the ceiling must go up into the top of the "lighthouse."
