I'm afraid I've never made any myself. There's a wide variety of them available pretty cheap in most shops here, and also I am fortunate enough to live somewhere where the tap water is really good
It's (an) Earth, mid 18th century. Mega-Ghana is the world's leading great power, having crusaded both Christianity and Islam more or less out of existence centuries ago. The place that I actually live in real life was just conquered by England, although this problem is somewhat mitigated by the fact that the (Visigothic) king of Spain invaded England and renamed it to "Nouveau France" several centuries ago. Such is the nature of a multiplayer Paradox megacampaign
The Iron Dome isn't magic and intercepting rockets is not a fully solved problem. It's usually able to intercept something like 90% of incoming rockets that it attempts to intercept. Part of its design is an ability to evaluate how dangerous a rocket is by judging where it is going to land, and it ignores those that it expects not to land in populated areas. During the crisis in May 2021 there were about 4,000 rockets launched over the course of a week, and the Dome managed about 90% of those. 400 rockets hitting targets is obviously still a lot of damage. But the thing is, the difficulty of intercepting each individual rocket goes up if you have to deal with several at once, and this current round of rockets may have been as many as 5,000 in one day. If Iron Dome takes x seconds to deal with one rocket and each rocket flies for 5x seconds, then launching 10 rockets at once means that the Dome just hasn't got time to deal with them all before they land.
That doesn't say anything one way or the other about foul play. But it's not weird that an advanced anti-rocket system was overwhelmed; that's just one of the known ways to defeat a system like that.
About a quarter of the MPs in parliament haven't got degrees. Plenty of their staff won't have either.
$500,000,000 over 25 years is less than a dollar per person per year. Let's not pretend that the number you've come up with there is some bank-breaking extravagance for a large economy over the course of decades.
Surely this is more like adding a couple extra constituencies that are a bit geographically splintered? I know the powers and structure aren't identical to MPs, but it's not like you're voting to just give three specific guys jobs for life
Funnily enough, Last Samurai belongs in the first category too. There were some real-life white military officers who were employed as advisors and ended up fighting against the Meiji government in the late 18th century. They were French, though, not American.
Youtuber Max Miller did an episode on ancient pizza in which he attempts to recreate a Roman pizza based on a fresco from Pompeii and a poem usually attributed to Virgil. He went with cheese, dates, pomegranate seeds, and a sauce similar to pesto. Which honestly sounds great to me
At least according to an atheist Jewish ex of mine, it's fine to use "Jewish" to refer to the ethnicity too. She would just specifically "ethnically Jewish" or "religiously Jewish" or whatever else if it wasn't clear from context - neither being more or less Jewish than the other.
Rare, yeah, but still a valid possibility. But the main part I wanted to bring up is that the sentence you were referring to actually already includes "scarlet" as an ordinary colour, so the red one in the accompanying picture fits just fine
The full sentence is "Their small, fine scales are usually brass or bronze in color, sometimes ranging to scarlet, rust, gold, or copper-green." So a red one is kinda like a real life human with ginger hair; uncommon, but not weird. There's also the bit about dragonborn with a particularly strong influence of their draconic ancestor shortly afterwards that says, "These dragonborn often boast scales that more closely match those of their dragon ancestor - bright red, green, blue, or white, lustrous black, or gleaming metallic gold, silver, brass, copper, or bronze."
In terms of the value of military equipment committed to Ukraine, EU+UK are ahead of the USA when taken together by IFW Kiel's numbers. That's only military aid by the way, not factoring in humanitarian aid or housing refugees and such. That's not to say the US isn't pulling its weight, of course. It is. Just don't go around saying nobody else is, because they are
We do probably want both. Even if we end plastic production completely tomorrow, we need to work out a way to clean up all the plastic we've already dumped all over the world
I'm afraid I've never made any myself. There's a wide variety of them available pretty cheap in most shops here, and also I am fortunate enough to live somewhere where the tap water is really good