ComradePlatypus [fae/faer]

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  • Taken with a grain of salt. But in China, there’s old laws on the books for breaking up the marriage of soldiers by having an affair. I believe it goes both ways but controversially it has been used relatively recently to send a guy to prison for 10mths. (https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1718)

    But apparently (I heard this on twitter but I’m trying to find a better source), there’s a case bouncing around their various courts where a wife of a PLA soldier had an affair with a woman. And the judges are trying to work out if they recognise lesbian relationships on the same level as heterosexual, which would be a landmark precedent (albeit one that might send the woman to prison) or if they accept that lesbians are exempt from the laws against cucking soldiers.

    And like if true it’s kind of a funny set of possible outcomes. (Though they might just strike the law down too)











  • I’m not a huge Fallout-head, so I don’t know all of the lore. But I guess I figured that the reason the settlements are still so ramshackle is because resources are scarce and organizing the brainpower/manpower to really develop would be difficult in an apocalyptic wasteland where everyone and everything is trying to kill you, or take what little you have.

    That’s okay. For reference in Fallout 1, it was 84 years post bombs dropping, people in Shady Sands were living in adobe houses, with farms, wells etc. In LA they were living in reclaimed ruins, but were restarting industry by reloading bullets for other communities. The hub had large scale water purification facilities and lots of trading via Brahmin caravan (trailers built out of car trays/axles). The post apocalyptic Wild West was actually finishing up, the NCR is formed as one of the endings.

    In Fallout 2 it was 165 years post bomb. NCR had new red brick houses, paved roads, electricity etc. industrial mining uranium and gold had resumed in Broken Hills and Redding. The Shi in San Francisco were building new power armour suits, and had the capacity to build vertibirds once given the blueprints etc. There was lawlessness and poor communities still around the fringes and the interstitial areas but it was post-post-apocalypse in major cities albeit fragile and tenuous.

    So Fallout 3 and 4 which are even later (>200 years) have been criticised for being so primitive when the solution is just a prequel (which they ultimately did with 76).