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I'll be visiting Japan in september and just wanted to know if there was much in the way of community there. Obvs not like in the west but anything at all?

Hi, will be flying Calgary to Tokyo and was wondering how the recline feature is on these premium economy seats? I saw a warning on seatguru and from pictures I've looked at they seemed directly in front of the bulkhead. But has anyone sat in these seats before and if so were you able to push the seats back well enough?

Thanks

What's with the grey police truck at this corner? I was there last week and I saw the van flashing its lights, and then I was back there yesterday and same thing with another cop car beside it too.

What does this mean? Like someone who cultivates knowledge or something?

And does the term "geeljire iyo aqonjire" have any special significance or is it just two random words that aren't in a saying?

Anyone know of any decent recipes involving coconuts? I was thinking that there must be some but I can't think of any.

Doesn't have to be desserts/waax macaan stuff too.

Edit: Also what are the various words for coconut in afkeena for that matter?

So I've been going through a reread and I'm up to aCoS in the chapter right after Cadsuane BAMFs her way in. It's Merana's POV and she's thinking about her accomplishments as a Gray, namely stopping three wars and preventing a dozen others. I feel like the Blue, Red and to some extent Green and Brown ajahs are seen as the most competent at accomplishing their tasks with others being viewed as various degrees of useless.

I find that the Gray doesn't get the respect it deserves. If a single sister was able to stop or prevent 15 conflicts - even if she is the most accomplished Gray alive, and I doubt that Merana is anything but a very good but not legendary Gray - that's gotta count for some

So there are a few things that we know about scientific advancement in the AoL. We know that they had vacuoles which allowed one to step outside of time. We know that they had expeditions to other planets through channeling gateways by using full circled of like 70+ people.

Was there ever a mention of colonies on other worlds? Do we think it likely that there could be such colonies? And what would have happened to them, in the Breaking, would they have been cut off since male channelers went crazy and circles greater than 13 couldn't be made any more?

Weird questions but I've been fascinated with a civilization achieving a Star trek level of planetary exploration but through the use of m

So I was thinking about the amount of criticism that the Aes Sedai's based hierarchy gets after a recent post. And this is criticism both among readers but also in-world in the thoughts and even words of quite a fair few Aes Sedai. I feel like, for all that this system's ineffectiveness is pretty clear, there are some key reasons why it stuck around and also ought to stick around in the world that the Aes Sedai have.

But how does such a system happen?

Imagine that you're part of the fledgling group of women that are assembling the new White Tower in the time immediately after the breaking. Who are these women and what values do they hold? Is it fair to say that channelers after the breakin

Anyone know of a decent place in GTA to get some macawis? My shit is looking threadbare and I need to stock up.

With the exception of the deep Maritimes, in particular Newfoundland, Anglophone Canadians pretty much sound the same with the exception of those with an immigrant background. As far as I know there aren't really any anglophone Canadian accents.

This is not the case in the US where you have distinct accents(southern variations, New Englander-Northeastern, Midwest). And then you have the UK with many accents in a relatively small area. France has also noticeable differences in France with people from the north, from the Ile de France and from the south sounding different to some extent.

Why doesn't the same exist in anglophone Canada?

This is not a fully-formed thought but it just came to me on a reread. So we see in RoW that Dalinar is beginning to take on a holy status to some members of the Vorin church, and presumably others. The more obvious reaction to this is to treat it as foreshadowing to him possibly assuming a shard, be it a reconstituted Honor-type shard, Odium's, or some mixture of the two.

But what if instead it is setting up his martyrdom? That theme of self-sacrifice comes up a lot in the series, and particularly its more religious/Jesus-y aspects. There's a lot of religious iconography of this with the Oathpact and the Heralds being quasi-deities, and even Honor probably making a kamikaze run on Oldium

I always thought that the word hawayn was a word for counselor/advisor/guide, but I also just realized that it's another word for women. Assuming I hadn't misinterpreted it all this time, is there a link between the two different meanings?

Hey folks, so I saw quite a few Tylin-related posts and how her actions quite clearly constitute rape. Now to us today(and even as far back as when I first got heavily involved with the WoT community 10ish years ago give or take), it seems obvious. But what was the in the mid/late 90s when aCoS first came out? The reason I ask is I've been watching reruns of 30 Rock and some of the joke themes is stuff that today would never fly and that we rightfully acknowledge as inappropriate(sexual harassment of subordinates, basically rampant tokenism, etc...) and that show is not even that old.

Have the mores changed that much vis-a-vis Tylin's actions in about 20-25 years or was it also overwhelmi