That, and there isn’t necessarilly room for 3 competitors. As the A380 demonstrated, at the very top of the market there isn’t room for one competitor.

She wanted to eliminate slavery because she hated being a slave. And yeah, she wants to remove threats to her power. That’s normal monarch stuff. Despite modern sensibilities of just ruling, it’s not even the ethically wrong choice since the alternative is often dysfunction and civil war. The Ottomans took succession…

The jury model isn't the problem. It's that the case was allowed to go to trial in the first place. Normally shit like this is shot down early on account of there being insufficient evidence.

One of those people complains to their States Attorney office, said office spends 15 minutes investigating this man, his history, and this nonsense, then files charges first thing in the morning. The money, what’s left of it (it’s already being spent on pickup trucks and trashy home decor as I type) either gets…

I’m no fan of any big company (if they want me to shill for them, they can pay me PR flack money).

Goddamnit America.

Most medieval armies were conscripted peasants armed with farm tools or crude weapons. Knights as we know them now with plate armor and such didn’t show up until fairly late in the period.

Ehh...most of Europe was illiterate because it was dirt poor and had no system of education. Byzantium (the east half of the Roman Empire which survived to the late medieval period) was fairly literate for the time and was still a monarchy. In no small part because it was the only nation rich enough and old enough to…

Bron doesn’t hate the throne. He seems to view it as a natural outgrowth of the brutal world he lives in. The guy with the most money and the most paid goons gets to call himself king. He hates the pretensions of nobility. In they end, they’re all like Bronn (using violence to get/stay rich), but they refuse to admit…

It did work for Dr. Octopus in Spiderman 2.

It’s not just disrespect. Refusing to bend the knee is a declaration of future hostility. It’s refusing to surrender. It’s also stupid since he was just given blanket amnesty.

It feels like they’re building this last plot to draw 3 seconds of drama before Dany does the right thing in the end and Jon dies anyway making it all moot regardless.

Democracy isn’t a guarantee of universal welfare. See Rome. The Senate, despite lofty ideals, was always a group of Romes richest old men who almost always pursued their own interests at the expense of others.

Not bending the knee is synonymous with not surrendering. It’s a declaration of future resistance (i.e. war), even if you’re disarmed at the moment.

Good news: most commercially sold sunscreens use titanium or zinc oxide.

Bringing the second sons over means surrendering her people to the slavers or anarchy. She wants that throne, but she isn't ready to condemn her people to that.

Euron is a magically awesome badguy, clearly. A magical little pirate dude.

Because you don’t want a berserk dragon and a headless army of trained foreign soldiers wandering the seven kingdoms. That’s a different, and worse, kind of problem than waiting a week or 3 and beating them in your backyard. You also look like a shitbag and might turn Dany into a martyr. Then you have a wandering…

There were Dothraki retreating with Jorah. They didn’t really show how many, but apparently something approaching half of the horde is left if you go by the map scene this week. Same with the unsullied, but we don’t know how many survived the Dragonstone ambush.

I’m stuck on how the other guy emphasizes the “use” in “do not use it”