The Soviets were about to invade the Japanese empire when the US dropped the atomic bombs. They did this just to prevent Japan from falling in USSR’s sphere of influence.

However, you might still be thankful as South Korea likely wouldn’t exist otherwise, being instead merely the agrarian South of a juche unified Korea.

Maybe it would be so unusual to not believe in God that it wasn’t worth mentionning.

Maybe he found a good spot where the vegetation wasn’t as dense and tall?

Also, it’s the 19th century. How long has it been since native populations were much higher? Could have been an overgrown old field.

Why do you not simply follow Indian recipes for lentils? What’s preventing you from doing it?

If it’s ingredients and you have no Indian groceries in your city, then look for a recipe that uses ingredients you have, or look up substitutions. For example, I believe you can use lemon juice instead of amchur powder.

That’s awesome.

But what about “seconhand smoke”, if I may call it that?

You’d be surprised at the mental gymnastics they can pull off.

If the new country refuses to assume the debt, creditors can hesitate to lend to it because they can expect that the same thing can happen again. It depends on their perception of the new government, or of its new constitution and laws.

The days of the US empire are over; and now begins the age of a new Chinese empire.

How is that going to protect us from the US?

Yea how does this even make economic sense?

Well, your solution works. But if you want to subdivide the season into neat and regular weeks, it’s not possible. So the next best thing is subdividing the year into weeks while disregarding the seasons.

Don’t subdivide the 73-day seasons.

Instead, subdivide the year into 73 5-day weeks.

A year made up of 5 seasons and 73 weeks.

Which is also why I hate that our calendar starts at year 1.

Not if you divide by 5. It gets you 73 days each.

Some parts of Japan, such as Hokkaido, can be considered to be colonized as its native people are the Ainus, not the Yamato people (the Japanese ethnicity).

The Yamato themselves didn’t didn’t exist for 40’000 years. It was during the 4th century BC to the 7th century CE that their main ancestors, the Yayoi and the Toraijin, migrated to Japan and displacd the Joumon people to the North. The latter had been in Japan for a much longer time.

The US is the one that has all the cards but it’s the EU that’s unfair? How does that work?

Sorry, I misread your comment.

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I’ve never tried this.

I love so many things about Rise of Nations that it wouldn’t fit in a Lemmy post.