Pumped for 1 country 2 systems Dresden.

Jfc did we drive her away AGAIN!? I am once again insisting nobody do anything about anything while I am asleep/busy.

Seriously thinking of becoming a mod just to prevent this petty bullshit from tanking the site again

Glad you took a break, and very glad you’re back.

China understands the assignment tiles entire land area in solar panels

I would like to second this comment. JFC this is just a website even if it serves a useful purpose. Chill for the love of god.

Comrades! We should all unanimously ask comrade STT, our leader and our teacher, to be again the General Secretary of Hexbear!

Several are sacred, but there are sometimes traditions of climbing them for religious purposes (mostly in times of desperation).

You know, famine stalks the land so you climb the forbidden mountain to beg the gods for mercy.

But those things are usually remembered in oral history and we’ve got no record of that.

Probably, yes (though I might add Hillary always claimed Tenzing and him reached the top together and deserve equal credit). It’s just about conceivable that some local had done it but unlikely since the mountain is well known enough that it would have been legendary.

Fun fact. K2 is so remote and hostile that K2 is in fact it’s original name. It’s barely even visible from the farthest regular human travel in the region and there’s no reason to go there. It is, to this date, much more deadly than going to space So we can be pretty damn sure K2 was climbed by Lacidelli first.

I migrated from the previous Kalpa.

The UK deliberately stalled German efforts at Imperialism (which, like all imperialism, is bad), which threatened in turn German food security as its population increased. France wanted the coal and iron of the Rhineland and vengeance for the collapse of the Second Empire.

Germany saw the writing on the wall and began to look for a way to force the issue, thinking its better ships and more trained crews could carry them once France fell. Meanwhile A-H was trying to stabilise the empire and stop being racist to Hungarians by its usual tactic of being racist to Slavs (and conquering the Balkans would solve its own food crisis). The Serbians responded by going proto-fascist and shooting the heir to the throne and the least racist major leader. Russia wanted to conquer A-H, thinking that it was unstable and that there were definitely no issues in Russia politically or militarily. A-H said “bring it!” and looked forwards to having the border east of Kharkov.

Italy wanted the Mediterranean coast and Tyrol and a continuation of the eternal mountain wars

Every one of these assholes had it coming.