Bombed them, too.

Discovery is gonna be fun.

So please do!

For good reason. While you might (probably, almost certainly,) are good with food safety; a lot of people are not.

They have to legislate/regulate for the worst.

In mark 7 and mat 15, Jesus calls the pharisees hypocrites for not stoning unruly children.

So this is actually totally on brand.

(It’s the same story.)

"the firings will continue until morale improves."

I just want to scritch the noggin fluff. I bet it's sublime....

to be clear.. it's pretty clear from his writings he had no idea how the african slaves were being, uh, sourced? I don't know what he thought was going on down there, but he did get to a point where he saw slavery of any form as evil.

but yeah. it's a fascinating progression and thing to settle on. "enslaving local people" is somehow more offensive than "enslaving foreign people and shipping them in." I rather imagine he got to know a few of the locals. came to respect them, see them as humans and not something as lesser, but he never had that experience with african people, until, well, maybe he did. if that makes sense.

I think OP is referencing Bartoleme de las Casa, who was rather more of an anomaly than representative of mainstream Spanish society. He's also complicated by the fact that when he first went to the Spanish colonies, he spent over a decade exploiting the ever living shit out of indigenous peoples. (IIRC, he was studying the book of Sirach and became convicted.) As he transitioned into being an abolutionist (one of the first? if not the first,) he suggested using foreign (african) slaves instead, which the spanish adopted as a law

But I'm not sure it's really fair to say Bartoleme represents all (or even most) Spanish at the time.

There may have been others before the 18th century, but I can't find them.

oh. They fired him?

They didn't even take the loot he stole. he was jailed for a bit during trial. and then he was let out. With no charges, keeping his share of the loot... and letting him go on a fourth voyage at all is kinda a tacit approval of his methods.

He's like the killer cop they just fire and let go back to work in another agency. Or that asshole manager they send in to get get store/plant/whatever under budget and move on out when things are under control.

not exactly a ringing condemnation of assholery.

But they kinda did. After they brought him back for trial… they just let them go, and there was a fourth voyage a couple years later.

Eventually he just retired in Spain and while they didn’t give him the full amount of wealth he was owed…. That wasn’t out of moral outrage.

Because there is gravity in space.

"orbit" is just what we call the sweet spot between moving fast enough to not hit the planet or mooon or whatever and not so fast that you escape it's gravity (even though it still affects you. just not enough to make kissy noises as you fall back to it.)

So SD's, etc- the big ships- aren't technically in orbit. they're using repulsors to stay up and float above a specific point. So when they start falling... yeah. They're still going the way they were going before.

fair.

but also it leads to my headcanon that Anakin was actually using the force to dominate her mind. (maybe subconsciously, but maybe not.)

The first step is always listening.

Of course, understanding also helps.

So the reason the moon has a curved path is because of the earth’s gravity. Its velocity relative to earth is high enough that as the earth pulls the moon at 9.8 m/s^2^ , it misses the earth entirely. This pulls the moon into a circular trajectory, and that’s what we call an orbit.

Big ships in Star Wars are not “in orbit” in this sense. They’re relying on technobabble and dohickeys to stay up in the sky- above a specific part of the planet.

So when those engines stop providing power, they fa ll to the planet.

You know what else is at an all time high?

Corporate ownership of homes. Funny, huh?

Uh, you’re right about the acceleration.

I’m not sure what you’re on about with the second point?

Are you suggesting that because geosynchronous orbits exist they’re always in geosynchronous? We see big ships (imperials 2’s) in all sorts of different elevations. They’re very clearly not orbiting- anything other than geosynchronous for that planet is going to require some kind of lift to keep it at elevation- and probably some amount of lateral/tangential speed to keep above a city.

Their repulsors could do the job (but probably bring in the engines for some reason… but we won’t get into that.)

Or are you suggesting that the orbit around the sun is somehow significant enough to affect the position of a ship able to transit most systems within hours?

It might be in a heliocentric orbit (along with the planet) but it’s still not orbiting the planet unless it’s moving with a tangential velocity roughly equal to the orbital velocity.

This is probably for the best. Just scrape it up and let it be.

It acted like a natural pond. Water slowly filtered out through the granite and was replaced, filtering it, keeping it clean, but also letting it be still.

Which. Only still water reflects.

If you add a pool filter and circulation system (and that would be a massive, useless expense,) it won’t reflect like it was designed to do.

This is what happens when you vote for geriatric imbeciles more concerned with grifting a nation and fucking kids than working for Americans as president.

Spicy kitties are the best kitties.

So I'm a bit weird.

for tracking everything, I use VSCodium. Everything is in text files; I also record audio of the sessions and run that through a voice to text to get transcripts of each session locations are also doodled onto maps that marks out time between major locations. (so going from SwampyAssWater to Shitloads 'o Sand takes 14 days, which, if I'm putting random encounters has 14 chances for something to happen. or "random" encounters, heh. Mostly it's just a way of marking time as a consequence if something has a deadline.)

When I'm running a session, I'm mostly working out of the session master file which links to the location notes, important character notes, etc; and I have access to all their character and NPC files, etc.

I try to keep everything flexible, because my party loves to throw wrenches in. (I also love to give them wrenches to lead them a certain way anyhow and then TPK them for it. Just kidding. i would never do that.) (although the cleric is now being chased by the very horny daughter of Talos. He tried to murder her because they thought she was the BBEG hiding in plain sight; by using an unmovable rod and the tide to drown her... and it turns out she's into that....)(okay, so maybe they're gonna get TPK'd if talos catches up to them. Or maybe there's gonna be a wedding. we'll see how the dice roll.)