You’re right, as the medieval period progressed a lot changed. Those 1000 years were very different across space as well as time.
The conversation has also not been distinct with serf vs. peasant, which is an important distinction in conversations like this.
Thank you for the extra details and pointing out there Lords did still work to retrieve serfs.
I always figured it was due to vulgar culture not usually leaving written records prior to that.
So we get 37 plays written as popular culture, it makes sense that we get a lot of newly attested words used in the popular culture of the day.
Well post 1893, sure.
But even today, until we had a new class of mega-rich, let’s call them Billionaires - the nuevo-riche were always quick to be thrown under the bus by old money.
Now the power dynamic has shifted, but the billies will still, and do, chuck millionaire cronies to the crowds if it means avoiding responsibility and comeuppance.
The arbitrary cutoff size being to ensure continuity of the scientific consensus in popular awareness when I was a child isn’t a stupid rule.
Not even when a larger kuiper belt object is found.
Not even, when since mass is the primary means of estimating size until we fly a probe out there, we estimate a smaller but much with much more mass object to be larger and we debate a 10th planet yet again.
I watched the side boobvideo on invaneko, for science, to ensure no barriers to the video.
But I agree, they’re at best inconsistent.
Just make a TV series of adaptions of Pinter plays.
They’re basically all bottles, with a heavy sense of meance and "off"ness.
Oh, and Inside No. 9, which finished last year is all self contained stories with tight cast in often a single set. And it is one of the best pieces of TV ever.
Sadly/Unsurprisingly no-one goes from peasant to lord, short of being family of Jean of Arc.
I don’t think there’s another case of peasant to upper nobility in a single generation.
While true, it was next to impossible to keep track of people - there were no borders or division.
If a lord was offering a better deal (or their old Lord was too despotic), serfs could and would pack up and leave and there wasn’t much their old lord could do about it.
The other part of people moving to the towns was inventions of new tools such as better looms and improvements in metallurgy to make more precise tools.
Yes, that they don’t/didn’t have enough freedom is always a legitimate reason to invade an occupy a nation.
You could try Invidious, or another alternative front end.
I’m only down with the “Pluto is a planet” crowd, if they rep Ceres and at least one of the others (Eris, Hamuhea, Makemake, or one of the others I forget) too.
So there’s no version of the solar system where there’s only 9 planets. It’s 11+ lads.
If only there was some way to bring the physical infrastructure without the misogynistic social structures…
Sane use of hyperbolic naming, helps show your commitment to the safety of women.
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I often forget to flip innocent/criminal when clicking when you do it with the clue, so feeling pretty chuffed to have gotten the perfect solve.
Being doing them for getting on for 2 months now. One of my favourite daily puzzles at the mo.
I didn’t say don’t take him back to be processed.
I just don’t see the need for him to be cuffed once the police know it’s a skipping rope and he’s no threat.
As for “no big deal”, it’s also about optics and respect. A lot of law enforcement techniques are about imposing lack of personhood on someone and by limiting those impositions it shows that the individual isn’t a threat and is being treated as something other than a criminal.
A troubled teen runaway cosplaying as his dead teen crush cosplaying as himself cosplaying as a travelling actor cosplaying as a professional torturer?
Seems to be true, which since The Canary is a UK publication and would have to face British libel laws if not isn’t a surprise… But due to magnitude I had to check… Here are some I found before I decided to go do something else.
Dan Norris MP refuses to step down after arrest on sexual offences Former Barnet Councillor Spared Jail after Admitting Child Sex Offences [Former Labour MP Ivor Caplin arrested in Paedophile Sting Operation] (https://londondaily.com/former-uk-labour-mp-ivor-caplin-arrested-in-paedophile-sting-operation)
But processed with the guy in cuffs?!
This is the sort of stuff that shows our bobbies are becoming ever more like Americans’ pigs.
One could certainly make the case that the two missiles into the sea near Cyprus were unintentional misses, which shows an attempt to preemptively attack. But even that was earlier the same day it all happened,
The strikes into other Middle Eastern countries, seem, especially early on, to be primarily targeting fossil fuel facilities, US military locations, and airfields.
So, at least to me - any assistance we provide to the US is aiding their war of aggression and belligerence, which is a repetition of Iraq. The British people deserve better than to be the back up attack dog of the US bully.
“The explosions came shortly after Prime Minister Keir Starmer authorized the United States to conduct what Britain described as defensive strikes against Iranian missile sites from British bases on the island.”
In Iran strikes Europe for first time, hits British base in Cyprus , which was one of the top results when I searched for the event to find out more.
You’re not wrong, but I’ve also seen people calling Pluto-Charon binary dwarf planets.
But yes, the IAU tends to only pin down definitions when one is becoming unworkable - in this case the ever larger numbers of trans-Neptune objects that were potential planets.