@bipedleek @EPM106 Or rather, he's changed his mind by the time he writes Fire and Blood
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The Squeaking Pips
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The Squeaking Pips
@squeakingpips
I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph.
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@bipedleek @EPM106 In Fire and Blood, GRRM definitely has the commander of city watch on the small council, it's mentioned several times.
By the main story it does seem like he changes his mind. Slynt is briefly elevated but wasn't on Robert's council and none of his successors are on it.
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The small council is a mickey mouse institution. the masters of law and ships serve seemingly no function, and no one is concerned about their vacancy through the war of the five kings
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@bipedleek @EPM106 Master of laws might have been intended to rule on disputes between lords paramount, given they had primacy in their own domains. So a more specialised role vs the Hand ending up as something more akin to a regent, with a more generalist purview.
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@bipedleek @EPM106 It is a small council position.
GRRM probably messed up a bit by also calling Master of Laws "Justiciars" which was historically basically the role the Hand of the King.
Maybe explicable by the fact that Aegon I didn't enforce a legal code on all kingdoms so (cont.)
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@Egglikesf1 @EPM106 Manfryd Redwyne was Jaehaerys' MoS (and first non-Velaryon) and Tyland Lannister was Viserys I's
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@EPM106 Presumably they’re in charge of the gold cloaks? I think they mention Daemon being master of laws once maybe that’s where the idea to make him commander of the city watch came from
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This Nottingham inquiry is quite something. Glad the families kept pushing in the face of tremendous institutional failure. The guy seems to have just been rampaging around for years.
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@SaysSimulation Europe is poor and doesn't make anything but actually it's where America has offshored all industry for the past 75 years because of lax labour laws and plentiful human capital but really its full of freeloading immigrants. Clears it up, thanks.
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The trade relationship needs to be redefined to the benefit of American workers, where many jobs and industries are on-shored again.
At that point, we'll be free to be best buds with our European cousins, as we should be. It's for the best, for both sides.
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First level. The RW base tends to view Europe as military freeloaders who insult us & see themselves as being more sophisticated. Bad combination.
Second level. The European people didn't do this to us, rather, our own "elites" did. Part of the trans-Atlantic elite alliance
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eugyppius@eugyppius1
MAGA accounts on here routinely express more hatred, rejection, and vilification of Europeans than they do of their country’s genuine geopolitical rivals and enemies. It’s amazing but true.
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@helpfulfella Anyway... anyone from Hiroshima in the audience tonight?
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Haha the little pause and stutter when he realise it hasn’t landed
Nick Sortor@nicksortor
🚨 LMFAO HOLY CRAP! President Trump just dropped an INSANE one-liner in front of the Japanese PM in the Oval REPORTER: Why didn't you tell Japan before the Iran war? TRUMP: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why did you not tell me about PEARL HARBOR!? Right?" 🤣🔥
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@FrenlyOfficer ACKSHUALLY QUEEN CHARLOTTE WAS A BRAVE POC
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Reminder that canonically there are no blacks in the Bridgerton novels.
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@WergildBlake @0rang3youglad Your mental model is about 100 years out of date. Go and look at the price of Scottish Opera tickets and compare with what you'd pay to a gig by a well-established pop musician.
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@0rang3youglad They’re often very very expensive as well, which makes their audience smaller & only those who can pay.
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have to be incredibly immature to not grasp that ballet and opera are very old world arts with very niche followings and that's exactly what he fears happening to movies, not because it says anything about the quality of the art, but about the interest people have in it.
Allison Floyd@AllisonRFloyd
I said he fucking sucks and I stand by it.
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@squeakingpips I’m not educated enough to tell you if he was pre or post Set demonization. They actually used to love Set.
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Tunc acceptabis sacrificium iustitiae, oblationes, et holocausta: tunc imponent super altare tuum vitulos (in a MacMillianly manner)
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@royllovians Some HIPsters push it i.e. this recording of a 16th century Requiem where the gospel chant is given a distinctly microtonal twist based on the argument that the composer spent a year in Spain and might have been influenced by hearing the call to prayer
youtube.com/watch?v=1YF8AX…
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@royllovians unlikely to be solved one way or another - I find people pick the aesthetic they prefer and work backwards from that. But there's enough continuity in the classical tradition at least that I don't think it would sound too alien. Different, but recognisable.
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Although we should go further—even modern Western music before audio recording may have sounded alien to us. Listening to early audio recordings of popular and classical singing, they seemed to use an insane amount of vibrato, as if the vibrato was the entire point of it
Roy@royllovians
I have a strong suspicion that until late medieval and renaissance Europeans invented happy-sounding string and wind instruments, all music throughout all of history had the wailing, nasally, caterwauling quality that many global music traditions have to the modern Western ear
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