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    Draka WI: IJN destroyed at Truk in April of 1944

    This reminds me of Proof Through the Night (https://archiveofourown.org/works/832883/chapters/1584717), a classic in the genre of "nuke the Draka", of which you may already be aware but which is always worth re-reading.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I think there is a subtle difference between things which were unexpected-at-the-time and things which, from a current perspective, look-like-alternate-history-but-arent. Possibly the difference is something about things which happened against wide historical trends. But it may just be "They...
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I think that this sign at the end of that road is talking about Scotland House and Ireland Cottages...
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    I do find it irritating when I come across something I know quite well in books (a city as a setting, or an activity I do as a hobby, or some bit of (alternate) history I am familiar with) and they get... not necessarily "big" things wrong (though that can also be irritating), but the small...
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    I enjoy Walton's writing (though I bounced a bit off My Real Children), but despite her using AH as background in several of her works, she uses it as a narrative world building convenience, rather than appearing to care very much for the plausibility or logic of it.
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    Alternate History General Discussion

    Wasn't there some advanced soviet aircraft which, when a captured example was examined by the US, was using vacuum tubes (possibly to better resist EMP)? Again, no source, so probably me misremembering or a myth.
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    AH Challenge: What border quirks can you think of?

    They do it in Europe, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia%E2%80%93Serbia_border_dispute (including some more terra nullius (give or take Liberland))
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    Advancements in technologies made obsolete before they were perfected IOTL

    Living room, sitting room, drawing room, lounge, front room, family room, "den": I think they all mean similar rooms which people do miscellaneous "stuff" in which isnt eating, cooking, sleeping or other essentials of life. Im not convinced there is a generational or regional split: I suspect a...
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    Alternate History in Star Trek part 14

    What is the long Nick Clegg story?
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    Advancements in technologies made obsolete before they were perfected IOTL

    That would be it... funnily enough googling "Amtrack" didn't bring it up.
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    Advancements in technologies made obsolete before they were perfected IOTL

    Wasn't there a post-apocalypse (book) series from the...80s? 90s? which featured the remnant US (I seem to recall the government having devolved in to a theocratic-personality-cult-dictatorship, but that probably doesn't narrow it down in these sort of stories) military traveling around in...
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    Has the grey mode UI just changed so that certain boxes are blue instead of black for anyone else?

    In Dark mode, the page buttons (<Prev, 1,2 Next> etc.) are now yellow text on blue background... I feel they were not that before?
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    Prequel Problems: Rogue One

    I may have said this before, but it turns out the thing what you need in a film for it to be a Star Wars film is a proper theme-tune-over-text-crawl and the contents of the rest of the film doesn't really matter very much. R1 didn't have one, therefore logically must be terrible and not worth...
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    Review: The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal

    I enjoyed these (and The Relentless Moon), but more for the "1950s America IN SPACE!" vibe than the "hard" AH (which I hadn't actually noticed, despite President Dewey). I did, unusually for me, listen to them first (actually, I'm not sure I have even read them as words). Audible has Koval...
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    Things that were invented at the wrong time and in the wrong order

    As a possibly interesting note, I understand that several of the ideas now thought of as "group theory" were also developed (and proven, for certain values of proven) independently in the context of English change ringing (which is quite concerned with the order bells of different notes ring...
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