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  • Technically the only 100% necessary qualifications to be pope are:

    1. Be a man
    2. Be (specifically) Catholic

    And a third extremely common but not strictly necessary qualification of: Be a Cardinal.

    I’m pretty sure Trump is some flavor of Baptist, which does in theory prevent his rise to the papacy, unless he specifically converts from whatever flavor of Baptist to Catholicism. But that risks alienating the evangelical protestants that fucking hate Catholics and think the papacy is the satanic antichist.


  • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldBingo
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    2 parties is the inevitable outcome of FPTP, there’s no legalistic enforcement of 2 parties, it’s simply the most viable strategy in this voting system. They very quickly became the biggest and out-competed all the others except when*… (see how the Whigs fell, the conservative Democrats split in north and south and the progressive Republicans rose to prominence) Washington was right to deride the 2 party system but the framers were building an electoral system long before we had some extremely serious mathematics done about making voting systems more fair, and also proving that no voting system can be perfectly fair and satisfy all fairness criteria.

    And they also weren’t one homogeneous group either, they all wanted different things and came to compromise about how to go about doing it, some wanted a centralized army to stand up to outside forces, others saw that as a risk, capable of waging war internally. They were working off of the collective knowledge of the Greeks, Romans, and more contemporary writers like Voltaire, Hobbes, and Rousseau. They didn’t have the next 250 years of political philosophy that would develop that we know today.



  • Domination victory is literally one of the victoru conditions of Civ 6. You’re allowed to go full steamroll and go to war with everyone. Some of the civs are focused on going to war and expanding quickly through warfare like the Aztecs. Just don’t be surprised when you keep attacking other civs and the other players use the other diplomatic strategies to their advantage.

    I’m Civ it’s also important to know how the other players perceive you and how to manipulate that perception to your advantage. Manufacture Casus Belli, poke and prod until others make the first attack and you “defend” yourself by taking their cities. You’ll be less of a warmonger.







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  • Fun bit of additional trivia about him, he was injured, shot in the leg while serving on the American side. After his defection, there is a likely apocryphal tale where he captured some Americans and asked what would happen if the situation were reversed. He was told his leg would get full burial honors and the rest of him would be hanged for treason. Funny enough there is a memorial of a leg at Saratoga for the injury he sustained and his importance at the battles in Saratoga but has nothing mentioning his name or the rest of his body. Which honestly is a level of pettiness to aspire to.


  • I really like X.Y.Z

    X is for major overhauls. Y is for a new individual feature added or dramatically reworked, Z is for bug fixes, updates and polish.

    Like Blender is currently on 3.6. They had a dramatic major program wide overhaul a few years ago. And since then have been adding new features and reworking old ones in major 3.X releases, and occasionally have smaller updates and fixes in between, giving us 3.X.Y updates.