Greatnate

Good wine likely means that it's not spoiled, ie fermented but not vinegar. You can't really store grape juice pre-refrigeration without yeast. IDC what S. Bacchiocchi says, the ancient jews didn't have sodium benzoate.

ALOT of what? Your nation is at best worth $5M.

You could pm Phiney or Prefontaine.

There's no such thing as leavened wine. Wine is aged long after the carbonation has dissipated. Unless you maybe mean champagne? But it's doubtful that it was around in biblical times.

No, but they read the part about love thy neighbor. Maybe it's not in the Quran.

Sweetie, not everyone who drinks becomes drunk. There is a profound difference. Drinking fermented wine != being drunk, you would know if you tried it sometime.

That's good to know. If I end up long term in a community with an Episcopal church I may have to check it out. Liberal doctrine with High Church services tends to be what I prefer. At that point the local difference between Lutheran, Methodist, and Episcopal might be the quality of the pastor. Although, when I was a practicing Methodist, I did miss the tiny wafers and terrible wine.

A good protector in the Syndicate and a promising alliance in Sparta. Good to see.

1. Mainline Liberal Christian Protestants 100% (Ding-ding, I'd put my ideal church somewhere between very liberal Lutheran and Northern Methodist) 2. Liberal Quaker 97% 3. Orthodox Quaker 85% (I had no idea there were multiple Quaker sects) 4. Unitarian Universalism 83% (Out of all the flavors of Christianity, UU is the porridge flavor, I can't imagine practicing it) 5. Reform Judaism 77% (It's a bit interesting that the liberal branches of Christianity and Judaism have more in common with each other than the conservative branches of their own faiths, but it's probably a side effect of the quiz structure). As a followup I took their Christian sect selection quiz, surprise surprise: 75% Lutheran, 75% Methodist. Although I did score 100% Anglican, a sect that I don't really know much about being originally from Minnesota where it was Lutheran, Catholic, and other.

Fermentation is caused by microorganisms, in the case of producing drinkable ethanol (wine, beer, liquor) that microorganism is always a species of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). In the case of baking bread, strains of S. cerevisae that produce the most carbon dioxide are preferred for their leavening effect. Wine and Beer yeasts are selected for alcohol tolerance, flocculation, attenuation, temperature tolerance, and byproducts (compounds that alter the flavor). All these yeasts are the same species, and for much of human history were the same strains in their home regions. Fermentation can also be carried out by Lactobacillales (lactic acid) and Acetobacter (acetic acid). Although by some definitions Acetobacter doesn't ferment since it requires oxygen. Under the more common industrial definition, any useful compound produced by bacteria is done so by "fermentation," which means the huge catalog of modified E. coli strains count as fermenting bacteria. tl;dr Wine, beer, and bread are all produced by the same organism. You may now return to your regularly scheduled bashing your head against the wall/arguing with Khalifah.

Good luck guys! Analytical, paperless, and no reps? I might be in love.

It's a tough call between CK2 and EU3/4 at this point. I think by the end of it's development cycle, EU4 will probably be a better game than CK2. Horse Lords has been a blast though, nothing like conquering your enemies and dismantling everything they've build over generations so you can get a few hundred more horsemen.

Oil and coal go up every 100 infra, nuclear goes up every 1,000 infra. What's the issue? Edit: Double quote.

Congrats guys.

Congrats on the upgrade guys!

o/ Rose o/ Alpha

The previous treaty expired in a month, it's been a month, this treaty does not expire. Edit: No new lines are draw this day VK, just a temporary line made more permanent.

o/ to continued friendship!

Pirates in Space?

Quality >Bloc post.

Dacia votes for New Zebes Metroid is the bomb.

SRD or riot.

No, you would have to apply and then get war declared on you for the raid to go through. As always, your bank status at the start of the war is what counts at the end of the war.

Protection is extended to applicants because raiding applicants raids the alliance bank. Nobody is going to not protect their cash.

Inactive: 7 days. Raiding: A war for cash, not infra damage. Vagrant State: You mean unaligned inactive? Vacation: The separator from valid inactives and invalid inactives. You're gone for a week? Vacation mode. You aren't? No vacation mode. TL;DR you want to raid inactive applicants. The validity of this act depends on whether Sheepy coded applicant raiding properly or not. Does it hit the bank? If it does, expect a response. Instead you want universal and mathematical rules for treatment, those will never happen. Also, rules where the raidee pays the raider? Good luck.