Europe had practical seafaring since antiquity. European naval technology during the discovery of the Americas was on par with other Eastern Hemisphere naval powers.

The naval technology empowered the discovery, but it isn’t like Europe was special at the time.

Also, it still took a while to bypass the Silk Road. Even when Europe did, it still ran into an issue that China wouldn’t trade for any European manufactured goods, just gold and silver.

I think that a lot of the arguments regarding why Europeans did better compared to near peers goes to variations in social differences between Europeans and other near peer civilizations.

It also includes the destruction of extended clan networks, independent universities, and higher wages for Europeans compared to others parts of the world.

Vikings were colonizers, though. England was somewhat colonized under the Danelaw and Dublin was founded as a Viking colonizer’s stronghold. It just happened to be that Viking colonies in the New World were in Northern Canada, a place where large settlements still don’t exist.

Which of their product lines could turn dev time into money?

Which makes it work really well for stealth layoffs. If you don’t have a manager willing to bend the rules for you, you either have to show up or the company has a reason for firing you.

And if you do have a manager willing to bend the rules for you, they now have the ability to recind that offer if performance drops.

I don’t.

I wonder how long Ethiopia will take to fill the dam.

It is easier to hire a billing specialist instead of a nurse.

There are a lot of positions out there that, due to education and experience requirements, the industry can’t fill.

The concrete mailbox ban isn’t there due to a booby trap ban.

There are a lot of regulations regarding what can be near roads as their presence can provide a potential hazard to traffic. This includes a mailbox. Mailboxes are designed to be within the clear zone, the area that needs to be kept clear of obstacles, in order to allow mailmen to deliver mail to them. So, in order for them to be within the clear zone, they have to be designed to break away when hit by a car.

This has nothing to do with the intent of the person hitting the mailbox.

For some like Gates, they probably want to keep the list private since they are on it; I feel like this was a big reason for his divorce.

For others, it is likely centered around the idea that Trump will let them do whatever they want as monopolies. It will shoot themselves in the foot as other countries dump US tech, but they will be able to keep their domains within the USA.

I feel like EU countries who are neutral are going to run into issues when the EU creates a union military.

China put a planning halt on building new subways in 2020 and its construction industry is in freefall. It built a lot of impressive infrastructure, but the nation overbuilt a lot and is still processing dealing with it.

That’s a common handshake for some women. I wouldn’t take it as meaning anything special.

I’ve also shook hands with other women who’ve had firm handshakes.

I feel more that autism and ADHD only got diagnosed if you were very disruptive or completely incapable of handling society.

Yeah. The last time that I was in Mexico, they were very glowing of AMLO’s presidency.

Feel free. I made him a character that wouldn’t be a face or a leader and I think I made one that worked. His depth can be added as needed.

All of them? Yeah, I could see starvation because they supply so much physical food that I don’t see the economy being able to sustain such a hit to supply.

I wouldn’t support it because there are reasons why the current fast food infrastructure has been built. I feel like you’d curl the monkey paw when getting rid of fast food.

Mike the human fighter. His catchphrase is “Hi, I’m Mike!”

This is his current identity. He’s cycled through several identities before when he’s had to go on the run when previous jobs went bad and he needed to get out of Dodge.

He’s not very smart as a character, but he has a set of skills that are useful to the group. He’s also the blandest character in the group, which he hopes makes it so people don’t pay attention to him when he goes into various cities where people might recognize him.

He has sailing experience, which has been useful on this campaign. He’s also a Tavern Brawler, which has proven useful when dealing with magical creatures beyond just dealing damage.

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If Ukraine can get invaded by countries for a strategic interest, then neutrality isn’t a viable option for defense for Ukraine. You could even argue that Finlandization isn’t even a viable option any more for Ukraine since given that accepting being in Russia’s sphere of influence doesn’t provide some diminished form of territorial sovereignty.

And Russia may feel threatened by Western encroachment into areas controlled by the former Soviet Union, but those peoples no longer under Soviet/Russian control appear to taking major steps as sovereign entities to resist Russian reestablishment of its former sphere of influence. If anything, increased Russian belligerence has caused formerly neutral countries to reject neutrality as neutrality no longer protects countries from being invaded due to strategic interest.