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Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then…

This week on the blog! We're looking at the movie motif of having a whole bunch of archers 'fire' at once and discussing what is volley fire for and both why archers couldn't do it and why they wouldn't do it even if they could!
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Not as impressive imo since Kagame took over the country by force after and the guys who did the genocide were his enemies

Going Down Swinging The Point of Putting Up a Fight

Here. I wrote about the point of deciding to just fight and die on a hill rather than endlessly calculating the best moment to put up an opposition.

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What’s more sympathetic than wanting to get back at the people who killed your family?

Reich was just the normal name for stuff too, guess the nazis just ruined it by association

Yep once they’re in, 2/3 needed though

You can have them take drug tests but can’t bar them from office for failing one

Pettifogging Tammany hall hucksters

Weird this post is from 30 September 1938

Are you Wide Awake yet?

Sure happy we have the dumbest president since Warren G. Harding

This is open corruption. Paramount pays the president tens of millions of dollars for a completely frivolous legal claim, and then Trump gives Paramount a pass on antitrust law. Trump isn’t enforcing the laws, he’s collecting a toll from corporations in exchange for looking the other way.

The white stag..

“Lame boring mommy who likes rules and raising the minimum wage is out, cool fun daddy who lets you say slurs and do neo-imperialism is in!”

What if they’re funny? I know a guy who makes the ads part of his animations and it’s genuinely funny and entertaining

> It was more than a little embarrassing to read this in public

But that didn’t stop you

I know how we won the war on Christmas and everything, but I’m a bit concerned about how Santa has remilitarized the Rhineland..

Hold on this whole operation was your idea

A Shaanxi peasant getting hauled before a struggle session in 1952 for being a landlord, after getting his land during the land reform

You just want to do another speakership game

Bro thinks he’s on the team

Yoon is impeached

Just dumb to think money is the problem now. Corporations aren’t paying Trump for influence, they’re paying him because he’s blackmailing them. It’s not a bribe, it’s protection money.

And most potential solutions increase cost which is already high

For retributive/punitive reasons? Or for like societal or general deterrence reasons?

Hospitals in the U.S. are required to treat sick people who show up regardless of ability to pay. Granted if you have a long term problem it gets trickier.

This was my experience of Rome. You can be walking down the tiniest street and then out of nowhere some guy on a motorbike will come racing down. Still better than US cities but just because something is old and organic doesn’t mean it’s pedestrian friendly

people often whine that SROs aren't proper and healthy housing. I don't really agree but I can see the point. problem is the alternative is not an actual apartment, but the street

A narrow walkway in Tokyo. The sides of the street are lined with shops and what look to be residences.

If we want better fashion culture in the US, we have to lower the cost of housing and commercial real estate, support independent craftspeople, build denser neighborhoods, improve walkability, and get rid of overly restrictive zoning laws. Let kook culture thrive.

Wonka is quite a lib movie actually. Innovative disrupter breaks up a cartel who was coasting on mediocre product due to monopoly power? Based