Well by the nature of this concept of a "mandate from heaven", he kind of have to take this position. If the founder of the Ming dynasty claims he now has the legitimate devine right to rule China by taking this mandate from the preceding Yuan dynasty, then by definition the Yuan dynasty must have been at one point legitimate. After all, if they were never legitimate, and then you took the mandate to rule from them, that would mean your own mandate is also illegitimate.

Therefore the official stance of EVERY major Chinese dynasty has to be that the previous dynasty gained the mandate of heaven legitimately, but then lost said mandate due to poor rule, thereby allowing the new dynasty to claim the mandate and begin the cycle anew.

Interesting side note about the mandate is that there was once a physical symbol of it in the form of a massive jade seal made by the first emperor of China around 220 BCE, which survived multiple pronged periods of interdynastic chaos, until eventually the Heirloom Seal of the Realm was finally lost to history somewhere around the Song to Yuan dynasties. Zhu's forces looked very hard for the seal as they took over the country from the retreating Mongol five, but came up empty.

Although if Tiberius really did assassinate Germanicus, he would have done it whether Germanicus set foot in Egypt or not. Not only was Germanicus more popular than Tiberius's own son Drusus, he also has closer bloodline to Augustus himself, being the grandson of Augustus' sister Octavia.

It wasn't just Egypt, although Egypt was particularly key to the Emperor. Most Roman provinces were also not given to the senate to appoint a governor. Only a small subset of centrally located provinces along Italy itself and the Mediterranean were called "senatorial provinces". The key frontier provinces, where most of the troops are (Britain, Danube, Rhine, Syria etc) were imperial provinces, where the Emperor directly appointed governors, again to make sure only the people he trusts are given military commands.

I believe the governor had to be of equestrian real, because the emperor didn't want a senator to oversee Egypt and potentially build a power base there.

Supposedly senators were not even allowed to VISIT Egypt, let alone govern it, such was its importance.

They'll most lushly be fine. There hasn't been a fatal accident on a Soyuz for over 50 years, since Soyuz 11 back in 1971. They are like 120 launches more without any catastrophic accidents. It is a primitive craft in many ways, but easily the most reliable spacecraft in human history.

I think he had a working Soyuz module. So he could have dipped at any time.

New podcast about him just dropped, called the last soviet. I think I'm going to have a listen, because it really was a fascinating story.

Yet western press is very careful about saying Ukraine and not "The Ukraine" in their reporting, as well as Kyiv, and not Kiev, despite the fact that the latter terms have been used for a hundred years.

They do it because the Ukranians asked them to do so. The Turks have made the same request, but I guess nobody really cares in the western press.

And give them an excuse to void the contract and lose out on 40 million bucks? Just go out there on opening day and start chucking some INTs. That'll solve the playing for them problem without losing a single dollar.

Well if they were truly incompetent, they'd somehow mess up the release paperwork and miss the deadline, thereby giving Carr a 40 million dollar payday next week!

We can keep these benefits and then quit anytime we want?

Yes. Unless of course, war were declared.

--sirens blaring--

What's that?

War were declared.

A year or 2 as the Chargers OC might make Kellen look pretty good.

At least 3 major battery makers in China have stated they are planning on mass production of sodium ion batteries sometime this year. Could be very interesting to see how these batteries perform if they do manage it.

BYD is even claiming their sodium battery may be dense enough to go into their cheapest upcoming car, which could be a game changer if it really is feasible.

Waze seems utterly incapable of search, period. With GMap I can just say navigate to the closest library/Burger King/whatever, and it'll find it and immediately plot a route to it. With Waze it'll find you a Starbucks 3 counties over for some reason and decide that is somehow the closest place you requested.

I think it is only the baseball HoF which pulls that stringent shit. All the other HoFs let mostly anyone of note in, which is why Rudy being snubbed for so long is such a mystery.

How he couldn't even make the HoF until 2021 is beyond me.

Alright there Elon, you're already "running" 3 companies, at least wait until Twitter is in the ground before you go after another CEO gig.

Actually a moderately successful FBS coach is way way more lucrative. Just look at the money super agent Jimmy Sexton got for James Franklin, Mel Tucker, and Jimbo Fisher! All getting nearly 10 million a year just based on like 1 good year of results.

Mourniho wasn't getting jobs just on the initial praise through. He was successful or better at each stop, winning league titles, UEFA Champions League, Europa league etc.

What you want is Doc Rivers. Luck into one championship when your GM creates one of NBA's earliest superteams for you, then ride the coattails of that one trophy for the next 15 years, blowing one playoff after another (damn near blew a 3-0 lead last year! ), sometimes throw your own players under the bus after those losses, yet never without a job, and somehow makes it onto the NBA's top 15 coaches of all time list, because the American basketball world loves to screw over Rudy T for some reason.

But but the Great Elon told me that for the low low price of 15,000 USD, my car would drive itself (one day soon, definitely, like next year probably, if inky we didn't have all those pesky government regulators) , and just like people, all it needs are some cameras, and none of the lidar, radar, ultrasonic crap being used by dinosaur "legacy" auto!

The reason is because it was AWESOME

I've no clue if he is actually a crook or not, but I'm pretty certain most of that money is going to end up in somebody's offshore accounts rather than spent on actual rebuilding.

But it is his favorite place!

Also I think in hindsight, AMD spinning off global foundries was a really good move. Maybe at the time it was because AMD didn't have to money to keep and maintain their own fab, so they had to become a contract manufacturer. However in later years we would see that not having their own fab meant AMD could be agile about the design of their next gen PC and server chips. So long as TSMC or Samsung could make it, then AMD can design it. But Intel was forced to only make chip designs that can be made to a good yield in their own fabs.

It is super impressive that Intel is a much bigger company that until recently only did CPUs, and nVidia is a much bigger company that mostly does GPUs, while AMD does BOTH yet has survived all this time.

Many signals cross the midline all over the brain.

The corpus callosum is literally the largest fiber tract in the nervous system, and its job is to link the two cerebral hermitage hemispheres so they can communicate with each other.

But as the fascinating split brain experiments have shown, even if you completely sever the callosum in a fully developed adult brain, it still requires specific conditions to show that the hemispheres are acting much more independently than normal.