Ban Blabblub sounds like an old Star Wars EU character.

Also live in Texas, presumably.

So when I worked at a grocery store (not in dairy mind) there was a daily limit of how many gallons if milk they could put down the drain. It was relatively small, like 10 gallons or something. So if anything more than 10 spoiled you'd have to do it over several days.

I'm familiar with this theory and actually appreciate the better thematic resonance of someone who works with dirt and clay being the Son of God...but that doesn't make my joke funny which is what's really important here.

Well, Jesus was a carpenter after all.

It has a different name that holds to the theme and the alliteration in every language. The actual reason it's named RRR is because it's the combined talents of Actors N.T. Rama Rao Jr, Ram Charan and director SS Rajamouli. Apparently (I'm American so this is like...7th hand knowledge), that's roughly the equivalent of if it was 1996 and Tom Cruise and Will Smith made a movie with Steven Spielberg.

Submarines are (almost) always in total stealth mode. This started during the Cold War. Soviet and American subs would track each other and try to find each other while avoiding detection themselves because total global thermonuclear war could start like...any second and knowing where the enemy's ballistic missile submarines were was not something you wanted to wait on. Keeping submarine locations secret is so important that even commanders didn't know beyond a vague area they were ordered to patrol.

Active sonar (the pings) is rarely used in general, as it's sort of like sneaking around in a forest and turning on a spotlight. If you've been seen but you don't know where the enemy is, it is worth shining it around, but if you have no idea where the enemy is, active sonar gives away your position at a much further distance than it reveals enemy positions. Instead passive sonar is used, listening for the displacement of water by the hull and propeller.

My honest answer for a recent movie that left me in a good mood is the bizarrely named 4th Rebuild of Evangelion movie: Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time. The character gets over his shit, figures out how he wants to live his life and fucking goes for it, helping others along the way and flirting healthily with another woman his age.

The eastern seaboard of the United States is roughly the same size and density as Japan.

Good. We can either change the way we live, or climate change will do it for us.

As with any group that has existed for 400 years or so, the group's history is imperfect obviously, but equality is one of the four central "testaments" of the religion (along with truth, simplicity and peace). So they were earlier to abolition than most religious groups as an example. They also did smaller things like using set price tags rather than unlisted prices or bartering because different prices for different people is inherently unfair.

This reminds me of early Quaker congregations that would segregate their discussions by gender and then come back together and present what each group had decided they should do. This was so that women did not have to agree with their husbands in public, even though they actually disagreed.

It's not even sustainable for companies. Companies always have to grow which means they always have to change, which means they regularly kill their profitable sectors with shake ups in an attempt to be even more profitable.

I mean...Greece has been called Greece since Roman times, but never by the Greeks who call it "Hellas" or more accurately Ἑλλάς (Ellás), so maybe it's not a great example of our understanding of foreign places.

Edit: To add, India is named after the "Indus River", which is actually in Modern Pakistan. Europeans imported the Persian name of Hindustan for a while, but the actual name for it locally is Bharat.

My point about the Mughals is that while the empire itself existed for hundreds of years, it did not cover the whole of the continent for hundreds of years. Your points about China is a good one though.

I do feel like you've missed my overall point however, so I'll explain it more clearly. India was not a homogenous entity when Europeans arrived there. It was a bunch of different people all slammed together by foreign empires. The Mughals were as foreign to a Mysorean or Bengali as the British were. We as westerners (meaning your average Redditor, I don't know you specifically) would do well to imagine them as complexly as they deserve.

Sure, a lot of European countries are newer than most Americans think, but those are much smaller than the entire Indian subcontinent and often much more closely tied as a culture or ethnicity. This is not like German Unification, this is what happens when people decide that Swedes, Germans, the French, Spanish and Portuguese should all be one country, and then throw on Turkey because fuck you I guess.

That's all true, though I'd like to add that the Mughal empire's dominion over the whole subcontinent was uhhh...short lived. Here's the place 51 years after your map, as an example: LINK

India was not a country when the British arrived. It's basically what would happen if aliens showed up in Europe, conquered the whole thing and smashed it together saying "these are all Christians, they're basically the same," and then left several centuries later being like "Okay now please get along."