back in my day we just said SWIM unreservedly supports crimes.

Frankly I’m in favour of whatever keeps them harmlessly busy.

(you can’t be mad at me my mum is Polish)

This isn’t real please stop spreading misinformation

In the era of muskets in that style pike formations and cavalry were very significant. So yes!

Once rifles replaced muskets accuracy got pretty good, alongside advancements in artillery and armour became obselete

amusingly that armour design is probably more practical than most fantasy armour, although the skirts are a bit long for mud, the shoes are no good, the width of the skirts would snag on stuff when standing in formation but we can assume the petticoat is dress uniform.

My one major concern is the plates interfering with kneeling, but that wasn’t a universal tactic so I’ll give it a pass. also if you might still be able to and they’d sort of shield you while you did if you could manage so who knows.

edit: nerd points from my dearest, she highlights that the musket shown is of the correct style for the stand the woman is holding.

Sagan. Feynman would insert several anecdotes about how clever he was an how much sex he had in there.

you could still survive by immersing yourself in cool water but yeah.

I think we had a 48 the other year with like 70% humidity and that was interesting. At one point I tried to get something done in the sun and almost immediately started experiencing heat stroke. I ended up going into the bush and lying down in a creek for a while. A surprising number of people had the same idea, it was almost nice except for the whole “wow the Apocalypse is starting” thing.

Oh yeah they open up libraries near me cause otherwise people might cark it.

I’m not trivialising anything, but outside of the tropics you don’t need AC to survive those temps. Just keep wetting yourself down and stay out of the sun and you’ll be right. Unless you’re not in a good state prior.

wait 100 F is only 38 degrees?

Wow that’s funny. I’ve seen so many people complain about extreme heat below 100 F.

I get that what you’re not used to is difficult but like 38 degrees is a relatively ordinary (now) summer day for me.

From how people spoke about it I thought 100 F was more lile 45

So if you ask a group of 5 leftists of any sort how they imagine society might be structured you’ll get 6 answers. Anarchists are no different, it’s difficult because it’s off the map yeah?

The common thread is a society with no involuntary impositions of power and authority. That isn’t no rules, many societies in the past and present have varying degrees of hierarchy and even within the same society the degree of hierarchy can change depending on what groups of people are doing.

you know how when you organise a family gathering nobody is “in charge” exactly? people select tasks they are suited to or feel it’s their turn to do and go about doing them. People might choose to defer decisions to another person but always retain the ability to withdraw that consent and so on?

Anarchists imagine a society more like that, where when a person wants something done they assemble a group of people, communicate their ideas, reach a consensus on whether it should or shouldn’t be done, if people agree then they organise themselves into a group to accomplish the task.

It’s really not so different from how you probably conduct yourself most of the time. It’s actually kinda rare for people to use coercive violence to get people to cooperate. Anarchists think we can all just take a few more steps towards being anarchists all the time.

As to why would it be better? well what feels better: cooking at a community gathering or working at a restaurant with your boss breathing down your neck?

fun fact: it’s actually called a bastard sword because you shout “bastard” when you’re hit with it.