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> scholars gain power from their belief but I rarely see that in western works. That's becuase the Chinese cultivation stuff is loosely based on a mythologized version of Taoist practice. I think. The western stuff is often rebadged JRPGs which are rebadged DND which is rebadged Tolkien Naval...

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Pretty sure there are millions of queer and straight women whose lived experience is completely otherwise, and who present a bit "masculine" independent of their parents' childrearing practices. I'll leave further explanation to women who actually have personal experience there. And who may...

> there are rss feeds. For chapters and so on. Probably not for author or novel stats. If it weren't for cloudflare or something, OP could probably just scrape it with wget or something.

I find they're distracting and don't contribute positively to the story. And they shouldn't be necessary. I do read a lot of manga, but that stuff hits different.

> Who is in his harem? Everyone but Peach.

I'm mostly burnt out on Japanese isekai webnovels for the same slavery and ubdefined female characters reason. I think the writers have trained on a corpus of thin, JRPG-based settings with crappy 2D female characters. Also bone-deep cultural sexism. :blob_blank: In other peeved, we need a...

It's a bootstrapping process. ❤️‍?:blob_blank: If you have a cleared, fire-safe patch of backyard, I'd just take a empty 500mL food can, toss a bit of paper towel in it for wicking, then burn the stuff.

In the US, slave owners thought they had the right to the labor of others. And did force that. Not the only time or place chattel slavery has popped up. Horrifically evil. More recently, the US has a lot of people in prison for say, pot possession, who are forced to work.

Every right is a constraint on the actions of others - if you have a right to clean air and water, I can't build a lead smelter next door and just pollute the fuck out of everything. (See also carbon emissions.) If you have a right to property, I can't take your stuff. If you have a right to...

Since Rights are neither insentient nor sapient, they're incapable of suffering, so there is no reason to extend them Rights. Unless it's to help them bootstrap sentience.

Isn't this just setting up and knocking down definitions?

Well, certainly a dragon might achieve (or feign) godhood for tax reasons.

Even non-sentient ones? Also, which rights? (Marriage would be a biggie.) And, if they accidentally eat their conjugal partner, is that cannibalism? More importantly, should they pay taxes?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/ > Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago > A new investigation shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation...

Dragons' relationship to humanity, floods, and God? > "In the past, there used to be Dragon King miao shrines all over China, for the folk to engage in the worship of dragon kings, villages in farm countries would conduct rites dedicated to the Dragon Kings seeking rain.[7]"...

I think you're claiming it's been a conspiracy to sell electric cars and destroy civil liberties since the 1960s. Now, why would Big Oil and the car industry politicize a scientific topic? Are you suggesting they have financial motives increating discord and a smokescreen for you to point at...

And we can see them from space: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/99/graphic-measuring-carbon-dioxide-from-space/ Pretty sure we can measure hypothetical ocean-floor CO2 emissions through boring but ongoing seawater sampling and oceanography generally, and have eliminated them...

The word "may" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Seeing as how atmospheric chemists, climatologists, oceanographers, and earth science people in general are looking at their datasets (Including old-school thermometers and unprecedented droughts, heat domes, and extreme weather events), their...

I'd be concerned if they interfered with politics or the economy.