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[Neonivek]

Ok difficult question...

So the Romanov family of Russia was murdered during an uprising...

Yet this isn't unusual in history and some of the time it is completely deserved (One of the Roman Military rebellions was created because the current ruler was entirely mad... Yet unlike a LOT of rebellions... They didn't chose to rule themselves and instead gave the right of rulership to essentially another candidate)

Nor is it unusual that it is completely undeserved with rulers who basically bleed out the wazoo for their people but their problems running so deep that they basically couldn't do anything for them.

Nor is it unusual that it is kind of a middle ground... Where the rulership is just completely ineffectual as they live in luxury as everyone around them rots.

So... How much did they deserve or not deserve it? Well in a broad term (I know... no one deserves it)... Or I guess it could be "How much was it karmic?"

[Comrade P.]

You're asking the wrong question, not a difficult one.

Whether or not they deserved it is a thing one can decide for themselves after they've assessed the objective facts (which I encourage you to seek).

One thing I can tell you, should they be left alive, we wouldn't end our civil war in late twenties of XXth century. And civil war is always a great turmoil - moreso in the context of recent restructuring of Europe in WWI.
So I really stand undecided. On one hand, taking a family to the basement and shooting them in cold blood is appalling. Russian Orthodox church canonised Nicholas II and his family as martyrs.
On the other hand lies a plethora of speculations, good and bad ones. But a world as we know it would be different were they alive.

[TheBiggerFish]

I'm not a big fan of chocolate in general, but coconut-filled chocolates are basically equivalent to genocide.

You take that back!

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm not a big fan of chocolate in general, but coconut-filled chocolates are basically equivalent to genocide.

You take that back!

You're right, humanity hasn't been around long enough, when we meet aliens it might turn out there are acceptable forms of genocide.

[Neonivek]

Ok asked the anime thread and I didn't get an answer (and stupid me... I might end up needing to ask what half-doors are used for again... because I can never remember and I am a burden on everyone!)

In Japanese Spiritualism... What does spirit purification do?

Anime seems... inconsistent on what it does exactly... sometimes depicting it as straight up bad.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Good luck. I've looked up actual scholars to try and get a grasp on Shinto and Japanese folklore because of how sparse Wikipedia was, and it's still the most slippery and incomprehensible thing.

That's eastern religion for you.

[redwallzyl]

Good luck. I've looked up actual scholars to try and get a grasp on Shinto and Japanese folklore because of how sparse Wikipedia was, and it's still the most slippery and incomprehensible thing.

That's eastern religion for you.

its because its not a real religion but folk tradition that's been forcibly centralized. its like reforming a religion in CK2 but in real life.

[Aklyon]

Good luck. I've looked up actual scholars to try and get a grasp on Shinto and Japanese folklore because of how sparse Wikipedia was, and it's still the most slippery and incomprehensible thing.

That's eastern religion for you.

its because its not a real religion but folk tradition that's been forcibly centralized. its like reforming a religion in CK2 but in real life.

Terrible but with some nice bonuses if you survive to the end with your favored religion still the majority one in the land?

[Frumple]

its because its not a real religion but folk tradition that's been forcibly centralized.

... doesn't that describe most religions in human history? Shanghaied folk tradition is, well. Tradition. For religions, heh.

[redwallzyl]

its because its not a real religion but folk tradition that's been forcibly centralized.

... doesn't that describe most religions in human history? Shanghaied folk tradition is, well. Tradition. For religions, heh.

kind of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Shinto is the specific thing with Shinto though. its different from what happened in other places. it was deliberately artificially constructed from earlier traditions as a tool of the state.

[Parsely]

If someone accurately fires a rifle at you from 450 yards away, what would reach you first, the bullet or the sound of the gunshot?

[Rolan7]

The bullet.  That's the case even at long range, after a bullet has experienced considerable drag forces.
And even if you're using an assault rifle rather than a bolt-action sniper rifle.  AK47 muzzle velocity is 716m/s, speed of sound is 340m/s.

[Baffler]

Worth noting though is that both are fast enough that the delay at that range between the bullet hitting the wall or whatever next to you and the report from the rifle would be less than half a second. Probably imperceptible to most people.

[Egan_BW]

It does mean that getting shot in the head would be silent from your perspective, though. At best, you'd see the muzzle flash if you're really paying attention.

[GiglameshDespair]

If someone accurately fires a rifle at you from 450 yards away, what would reach you first, the bullet or the sound of the gunshot?

Unless the rifle ammo is subsonic, the bullet will.

450 yard is around 400 metres. Pretty much all calibres are going to still be supersonic at that distance.