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  • I doubt they’d be that dominant. Having lots of land is great, but having the technology to exploit harsher land only means that you’re bringing that harsher land up to (economic) parity with less harsh land

    You also need people to actually do the work, and Russia’s population is large but not that large. It’s about the same as Mexico or Bangladesh, or to Germany and France together. Compare that to some of the world’s heavy hitters; the US has more than twice what Russia has, the EU has three times, and China and India have ten times

    To make a comparison: how dominant is Canada in the world? It’s also huge, cold, and resource-rich. It’s wealthy enough to develop basically whatever it wants in its territory. It’s doing great. But is it massively out-competing Germany, France, or the UK?











  • As I understand it (which could be wrong, I have no particular knowledge on this topic), he ran as a member of a different party that has not faced the same legal classifications. He used to be a councillor for NPD, which is the one a court described as Nazi-like and unconstitutional. In this election he ran for Free Saxons, who do appears to be far-right loons in their own way but who don’t seem to be so clearly Nazi-ish. NYT is right to point out his connection to NPD, though








  • It is, but if trains can carry cargo across the mountains far faster and cheaper than trucks then it will remove a lot of the heaviest and loudest traffic from the roads. I don’t imagine that the locals are demanding that there be no traffic whatsoever, and tourist traffic is - while not always welcome - much more likely to be beneficial to them than passing cargo. The Bavarian link is definitely an issue, and a substantial one, but also one that they have some time to solve



  • There’s not a solid answer on exactly what it is, though given that I made the video I’m sure I don’t need to re-iterate what I think. A lot of people, myself included, think that it was a part of the Lands Between that got hidden away because of a few different things. The Suppressing Pillar inscription and Miyazaki’s own statements make it pretty direct, in my opinion, but there are various other smaller things. I’ve seen some people argue that it’s an afterlife of a sort, or that it’s entirely within Marika’s dreams, but I don’t personally find those explanations particularly convincing or satisfying. Whatever it is, it was at some point “obscured by the Erdtree”, and there is literally a colossal veil hanging over the entire sky to reinforce that