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I think it kinda looks like an mix between a Luger P08 and a M1911

I own a .22 rifle made for kids and styled after Roy Rodgers' gun from the TV show. It was a different time and kids knew better than to kill each other.

Since this is history... Wham-O were the disc of choice until the 80s

https://ultiworld.com/2013/03/18/when-wham-o-was-king-why-the-innova-v-discraft-debate-is-old-news/

>I think some people are mistranslating the term for indentured servitude in the Qing and Ming laws as "chattel slavery".

I understand indentured servitude to be: a contract of specified time or monetary amount in which an individual is to work for the contract holder until their obligations are fulfilled. I do know that there was a large segment of indentured workers in China up to the modern era - but are these really the same "slaves" being referenced by the translated Qing legal code? I would think indentured workers had some fundamental rights, like the right to marry (as was the case in Europe and colonial Americas).

Under the Qing legal code, the "slaves" were prohibited from marrying, even with permission from their masters. The "slaves" were also prohibited from misrepresenting themselves as freedmen or "honourable persons" (which I take to mean ordinary citizens). Penalties for injuring or kidnapping a "slave" are also reduced compare to committing same acts on an ordinary citizen. In turn, certain crimes committed by "slaves" have increased penalties relative to an ordinary citizen. These "slaves" as referenced seem to be inherently treated as second class subjects by the Qing legal system.

Could Qing indentured workers or slaves be sold or traded at will by their masters? Were their children born free or become indentured/enslaved themselves?

Thanks for commenting :).

Asset inflation is not monetary inflation. That rather is the point. To the extent that is has any use at all, CPI models monetary inflation.

I'd expect them to be decorrelated. Trying to make the correlated brings real problems.

It's big. It's heavy. It's wood!

Also they put the group Wham! Together and created the character Wammu in JoJo

But not when compared to Italy. A Bavarian didn't look at a Dortmunder like an inferior race the way a Milano did and does think of a Sicilian. A Bavarian would recognize a Dortmunder as a German. Divisions in Germany were religious (Protestant North vs. Catholic South) and economic (the North industrialized earlier than the south). The peasants were mostly illiterate and knew nothing of one another. The educated classes had the philosophy that unification would elevate the whole of the German people who, without a state, were (in their words of the time) otherwise no different than the Jews.

The Italians were throwing off the yoke of an alien culture (the Austrians) and the north effectively conquered the south.

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I’ve done this math with every possible asset class, it’s far more accurate than any inflation calculator ever is. Way to not prove any point.

This.

It's worth noting that while Germany was not 'unified' until the 19th century, the regions of Germany had long histories together both of war and cooperation and political connection. The Holy Roman Empire had a long history and its final phases were integral to the formation of Germany.

It's not that Germany was more unified exactly, so much that Germany came into being with a history that made unification into a nation state a smoother process.

Italy in contrast had a long history of division, factional regionalism, and was rapidly unified without that same history of cooperation and political partnership. Its history of distinct and independent city states, dukedoms, and kingdoms didn't carry the same experience of working together into modern Italy like modern Germany.

I guess we could say Germany was more unified, but I think that boils the history down a bit too much.

I can go with this. Germans were by no means homogenized, but they were more than the Italian states. Divisions in Germany today tend to be the prosperous West vs. the still re-emerging East. In Italy, there's outright racism directed toward southerners. Italy is more like the former Yugoslavia.

Plus, while both Italy and Germany were ruled by the Holy Roman Empire, the transfer to a more Austria-based kingdom would have been less severe to the Germans than the Italians, who would have felt driven to unite in order to remove an invading alien culture as opposed to Germans just wanting statehood. Maybe. I wasn't actually there.

It needed to be clean. Never used it in combat, but it was a hoot to target practice with, given the lack of appreciable recoil.

I own several Powermaster crossbows and have had one of the aluminum prods snap when I fired it. Luckily nobody was hurt. All of the ones I have in firing condition have had the prods replaced with spring steel.

What rolls down stairs alone or in pairs, and over your neighbor's dog? What's great for a snack, And fits on your back? It's log, log, log

It's because it actually does and did have the same Problems, but they were less felt and viewed as less of a Problem. A person from North Germany and one from far east or south will have trouble understanding one another if they speak dialect.

The political structures that emerged were fundamentally different though, Germany in both its modern form and its 1871 form is a Federal State (and in the German Empire the States even had their own armies), whilst Italy is not, and has never been. (A result of the two States formation history)

Italy was unified by Force by Garibaldi and the House of Savoy, in a manner of mixed coup and conquest, but significantly unlike Germany, which whilst having a war for hegemony, ultimately formed by consensus.

As such, the cultural polarisation of "these people are enforcing their will on us" - i.e. North Italy (remember the King was from the House of Savoia in the North) over South Italy was more significantly felt. Whereas in Germany, the regions were at least somewhat represented.

Silver was $40 an ounce in 2011. Now it's $25 bucks. You just discovered why pegging currency to a metal is a bad idea.

Remember kids: guns are toys! Toys that make bad people go away when you play with them 🤩

I would note that Italy also had a an influx of different peoples in the wake of the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Obviously there were goths, but also Lombards that moved into the north.

I would also point out that trade made many aristocratic families and their corresponding cities crazy wealthy without the corresponding land and population. Their long links to the Mediterranean allowed them to develop monopolies with Eastern trade as the gateway to the Catholic west. This is probably why mercenaries were so popular - money, but not a lot of foot soldiers. This might be how they could stay divided as long as they did, and not conquered by someone else. It also made them rivals and emphasized some of their local culture as a matter of pride.

For some reason this reminds me of ren and stimpy.

Germany wasn't united and it isn't now.

Ask someone from Bavaria if they feel the same as someone from the norther regions

In some ways the US is one of the oldest countries; at least in terms of continuous form of government. Older than Germany and Italy anyway. But it simply isn’t a useful way to view things. America acts in nearly every way like a young country.

Next step is "WAMUU", toys from the aztec gods

IIRC Germany was technically a confederal system with the non-Prussian parts of the state having representation, in contrast the North of Italy conquered the South.