Schwitzguebel [he/him]
Total War games? They are pretty fun you get to throw your stack of dudes into another stack of dudes and the Warhammer series might just be the best because rather than throw roman dudes against carthage dudes you get to throw dinos and lizard dudes against zombie pirate dudes and giant hermit crabs at each other. Every faction is very different not just how they look but also how they play on the strategic map and on the battlefield.
Oh shit cultural genocide isn’t real? Thank god that means the the irish weren’t kept from speaking you know irish or that occitan is still a thriving and alive language, hey all those kids that got ripped from their families because they were roma and had to be ‘civilized’ it’s ok it’s a relatively peaceful integration program.
I’m sorry should we stop using the word cultural genocide because it could be used against leftist countries? Seriously fuck off if a government has systemically kept a people from speaking their language or passing on their culture or stop the teaching of said language and culture or tries to “educate” children in order to get rid of the ‘unwanted’ cultural elements I’m going to call it cultural genocide. If your honest line of thinking is “We shouldn’t use words like cultural genocide because it could be used against countries like China” let me both put your mind at ease and tell you what I think. People already use that language and will continue to use that language whether all leftists stop using it or not, and second I don’t fucking care about China, I’m not talking about China, I’m talking about cultural genocide being a real thing that has been used successfully and unsuccessfully to exterminate certain cultures, and I use exterminate quite deliberately here, I could give you other examples of cultural genocide where you can then go “Ok mass graves in Catalonia, enforced Castilian in schools as well as myriad of other things done under Franco were bad, but can we please not call it cultural genocide let’s just call it Castillianization.” like can we only call something a cultural genocide when it’s accompanied by smokestacks burning people, like it needs more violence because you imagine the whole thing as a completly non-violent affair.
I just imagine that person as the one american person a couple years back in my country, that ran the washing machine after 11pm and got locked in the washing machine room by a pissed off guy in the building, called the police and got fined by them for making noise during the night hours. That experience left them so traumatized they fled back to the USA and have to compulsively make really shitty burgers after 11pm.
As someone that does powerlifting myself, the biggest driver of muscle/strength growth is volume. The rep range during training makes one perform better relatively in that range so for example doing doubles and triples makes one better at doing doubles and triples and doing high rep sets makes one better at those sets and not as good at singles, doubles triples etc.
Uh some actual research on this instead of just “trust me bro” Schönfeld meta-study that basically says "higher training vol. = higher muscle growth (to a point) might add others later during the day.