It sounds like you’re dealing with a multinational company.

There may be value in having all employees operate in the company’s ligua franca over a better language as it provides practice to employees to function in the common language.

It may be easier for you to function in Spanish now, but you may have to interface with employees in the future where they know English and not Spanish.

How do you help those who can’t speak Spanish?

Europe had practical seafaring since antiquity. European naval technology during the discovery of the Americas was on par with other Eastern Hemisphere naval powers.

The naval technology empowered the discovery, but it isn’t like Europe was special at the time.

Also, it still took a while to bypass the Silk Road. Even when Europe did, it still ran into an issue that China wouldn’t trade for any European manufactured goods, just gold and silver.

I think that a lot of the arguments regarding why Europeans did better compared to near peers goes to variations in social differences between Europeans and other near peer civilizations.

It also includes the destruction of extended clan networks, independent universities, and higher wages for Europeans compared to others parts of the world.

Vikings were colonizers, though. England was somewhat colonized under the Danelaw and Dublin was founded as a Viking colonizer’s stronghold. It just happened to be that Viking colonies in the New World were in Northern Canada, a place where large settlements still don’t exist.

I don’t.

The concrete mailbox ban isn’t there due to a booby trap ban.

There are a lot of regulations regarding what can be near roads as their presence can provide a potential hazard to traffic. This includes a mailbox. Mailboxes are designed to be within the clear zone, the area that needs to be kept clear of obstacles, in order to allow mailmen to deliver mail to them. So, in order for them to be within the clear zone, they have to be designed to break away when hit by a car.

This has nothing to do with the intent of the person hitting the mailbox.

That’s a common handshake for some women. I wouldn’t take it as meaning anything special.

I’ve also shook hands with other women who’ve had firm handshakes.

Feel free. I made him a character that wouldn’t be a face or a leader and I think I made one that worked. His depth can be added as needed.

All of them? Yeah, I could see starvation because they supply so much physical food that I don’t see the economy being able to sustain such a hit to supply.

I wouldn’t support it because there are reasons why the current fast food infrastructure has been built. I feel like you’d curl the monkey paw when getting rid of fast food.

Mike the human fighter. His catchphrase is “Hi, I’m Mike!”

This is his current identity. He’s cycled through several identities before when he’s had to go on the run when previous jobs went bad and he needed to get out of Dodge.

He’s not very smart as a character, but he has a set of skills that are useful to the group. He’s also the blandest character in the group, which he hopes makes it so people don’t pay attention to him when he goes into various cities where people might recognize him.

He has sailing experience, which has been useful on this campaign. He’s also a Tavern Brawler, which has proven useful when dealing with magical creatures beyond just dealing damage.

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I imagine my morality falling into a kin kith system as resources are stretched thin.

Lately?

Was [it] ever fully forgotten?

Among some people, yes. For some, there is a willful ignorance.

I’d rate the Italians as less problematic, but the Imperial Japanese have a lot of blood on their hands as well.

And as horrific chattel slavery has come out to be, there are still whitewashers of it.

It seems like you have two questions combined into one. First, is why do people do historic reenactment of wars? Second, why do Americans choose this war?

For the first answer, performing historic reenactment of wars isn’t solely an American thing. It is common for Europeans to reenact Napoleonic war battles. I’ve also seen cases of people dressing up as Roman soldiers in military camp. Beyond that, historical reenactment of various forms of veracity are common in different parts of the world as a type of cosplay. Wars end up being a popular thing to cosplay because there is narrative conflict; it is a real life story.

Why the American Civil War? It is a very significant war in American history, one of the three most important wars. Compared to World War II, it isn’t problematic to depiction both sides fighting; it is a lot more problematic for people to dress in Nazi, Imperial Japanese, or even fascist Italian uniforms. Compared to the American Revolution, the uniform matches more modern fashion, so it is easier to buy equipment to cosplay. Also, the equipment was mass produced, so it is easier to buy replica equipment, including firearms.

It is important to keep in mind that corporations, at that time the Constitution was written, usually required a law to be passed for each corporation. There is also some federal regulation due to the interstate commerce clause.

Unfortunately, the US being a somewhat more homogeneous country at its inception

It was never a homogeneous country at its inception. The colonies were considered to be internally sovereign and the initial federal government was little more than a mutual defense fact, a joint military, and customs union.

Hell, the Continental Congress which conducted the war consisted of representatives of the various colonial legislatures.

I imagine that these kinds of issues come up a lot in other federal systems. Not all decisions are made at the national level, with significant decisions made at the local or state level. Hell, a lot of federal agencies’ jobs is to be a resource for states, in both budget and technical expertise.

States in the United States have a lot of the competencies that nations in the EU do, including state run militaries. It is just usually hard for a lot of non-Americans to understand how much power is given away.

It gets worse.

A lot of incorporation law is done at the state level, so most corporations are incorporated in Delaware where there are no corporate taxes and specialized corporate law courts.

A lot of credit and gift cards are out of South Dakota because that state has favorable credit card and gift card laws.

A lot of the laws of the country are written at the state level by design.