If you squint you can see Cubs/White Sox here too. Cubs fans being the rich, white North Shore types and Sox fans being the working-class South Side Irish or Black/Hispanic. Obviously, there's tons of exceptions and reality is far far far more nuanced, but who ever lets reality get in the way of a narrative?
Into the Cincoverse - The Cinco de Mayo EU Thread and Wikibox Repository
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It retains the name European Cup, at least; I can flesh out some details there too!
This easter egg has had me thinking about East and Southeastern Asia for the past few days. Considering the lack of a pacific theatre of WW2 ITTL, will we perhaps see a slightly more authoritarian Japan with lèse-majesté laws like those of OTL Thailand?
Probably more than slightly. I think Thailand is a good comparison.
Nope.
I’ve got a Hawaii update for 1920 in docket, but I can do something in this EU thread for it too
Maybe Alaska too, I sometimes forget that Alaska is part of Cincoverse America ( I assume it's like TL 191)
And something about Germany if possible,that‘d be great.
And maybe some tv shows from the Cincoverse.
Perhaps something like “The Sopranos but in Sequoyah” or my sitcom suggestion that I learned from @traveller76 that is a lot like some Indian sitcom, that the Ottoman state definitely did not heavily supported as a good example of cohabitation between different ethnic groups in the Empire.
Refresh me it’s been a minute since read (half of) TL191
I’ve got a rough idea of what I could do, there’s some moving parts I still want to figure out there.
Same goes for Europe writ large. There’s a reason so many of my posts are about Canada lol
Ah yes I’d forgotten this one in particular
2024 PRA Postseason Preview - First Weekend
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It is the first weekend of May, which means it is now the PRA postseason. As such, it is time to preview the Championship Finals Playoff, the Championship Play-In, and Sunday night's US Open Cup Final.
US Open Cup Final - Buffalo Bison v. Chicago Bears
For the first time since 2013, no Playoff team is appearing in the Open Cup Final, making this year's edition much more than just a potential landmine game for a team needing to heal up before the meat of May. Bears, having narrowly missed the sixth position, now get a chance at silverware as they face off against Buffalo, the first Second Division club to appear in the Open Final since 2011. We'd rather be Bears in this matchup - the Bison didn't make it into the Play-In, after all, and Bears looked sound all throughout the fall - as the winningest club in PRA history adds yet another Open Cup to their trophy case.
Play-In
Friday night also sees the first Play-In game, with Chargers RFC - who took the 14th position in the table for the second consecutive year - will hope that Pete Carroll, brought onboard in the winter break, can keep them up out of the Second Division through the Play-In once again. They will face off in the first Play-In match against fourth-placed Second Division Los Angeles Aztecs, making a short trip down the highway; while we'd probably rather be Chargers after they escaped the guaranteed drop, Aztecs are no slouch.
Saturday afternoon's matchup will be a very different affair, as Seattle heads out east to Boston in a rematch of the 2015 Championship Final. Redskins narrowly evaded the permanent drop and bid adieu thus to Green Bay, but if we're being honest, we'd probably rather be Seattle here. The Redskins look tired, old, and gassed, and a thirty-year run in the top division for a storied club looks to be drawing to a (hopefully for them, brief) end; Seattle supporters, meanwhile, will be ecstatic at a chance to face off against West Coast rivals Chargers the following weekend for a chance to return to the first flight after the humiliation of "First to Worst" two years ago.
US Open Cup Final - Buffalo Bison v. Chicago Bears
For the first time since 2013, no Playoff team is appearing in the Open Cup Final, making this year's edition much more than just a potential landmine game for a team needing to heal up before the meat of May. Bears, having narrowly missed the sixth position, now get a chance at silverware as they face off against Buffalo, the first Second Division club to appear in the Open Final since 2011. We'd rather be Bears in this matchup - the Bison didn't make it into the Play-In, after all, and Bears looked sound all throughout the fall - as the winningest club in PRA history adds yet another Open Cup to their trophy case.
Play-In
Friday night also sees the first Play-In game, with Chargers RFC - who took the 14th position in the table for the second consecutive year - will hope that Pete Carroll, brought onboard in the winter break, can keep them up out of the Second Division through the Play-In once again. They will face off in the first Play-In match against fourth-placed Second Division Los Angeles Aztecs, making a short trip down the highway; while we'd probably rather be Chargers after they escaped the guaranteed drop, Aztecs are no slouch.
Saturday afternoon's matchup will be a very different affair, as Seattle heads out east to Boston in a rematch of the 2015 Championship Final. Redskins narrowly evaded the permanent drop and bid adieu thus to Green Bay, but if we're being honest, we'd probably rather be Seattle here. The Redskins look tired, old, and gassed, and a thirty-year run in the top division for a storied club looks to be drawing to a (hopefully for them, brief) end; Seattle supporters, meanwhile, will be ecstatic at a chance to face off against West Coast rivals Chargers the following weekend for a chance to return to the first flight after the humiliation of "First to Worst" two years ago.
I don't believe I tipped my hand one way or another on it falling or not falling, just that 1957 can be considered the end of an era that the book is covering - for whatever reason.
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(Although given what we've talked about there's a very real chance that this timeline's version of me is a Chicago Cardinals fan - the Bears feel like the Liberal team in Chicago.)
True, though the sport as a whole is (or was at one point) a hair more Lib coded. Sort of like how the vast, vast majority of NBA fans are Democrats, disproportionately, compared to say the NFL
1984 Clanton nuclear incident
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The 1984 Clanton incident was a Level 5 nuclear accident in Clanton, Alabama, Confederate States that occurred on August 11, 1984. The Clanton Site was the largest power plant in the Confederate States, built between 1978 and 1984 for the Alabama Power Company (APC) by a consortium led by Deutsche Atom AG, the main German atomic energy contractor. The site was home to three operational reactors with a nameplate capacity two hundred megawatts above the Westinghouse Base, and the fourth reactor was meant to come online that November. At 7:44 AM, due to an improperly-maintained valve in Unit Two, a fire broke out in the reactor control cabling and destroyed most of it, thus raising the question of whether the reactor could be turned off and as smoke billowed out of the reactor house, there were further fears of major radioactive leakage in an area halfway between Birmingham and Montgomery. A thirty kilometer radius around the plant was evacuated on August 12, a day after the fire had been put out, and engineers from Deutsche Atom were able to manually repair and turn off the reactor.
The incident was a huge public relations disaster for Deutsche Atom specifically and the nuclear industry generally, which until then had been on an exponential growth path in the 1970s and early 1980s. The pace of reactor construction slowed dramatically in the second half of the 1980s, only to pick up against starting in the early 1990s after the 1988-89 oil crisis. The standardized "base designs" offered by Westinghouse, the chief American competitor to Deutsche Atom, became increasingly popular, and designs incorporating better containment safeguards and firestopping proliferated not just in nuclear construction but also in other construction.
The incident also became a major political affair in the Confederacy, where APC and the Alabama government were accused in a series of mounting scandals of a cover-up of how severe the incident actually was and suppressing reports suggesting that more radioactive dust and ash had been released than previously thought; it was a major factor in the electoral victory in 1986 of political outsider and former rugby player Bart Starr as Governor. The fire was also a major factor into investigations of bribery by Deutsche Atom and other German firms of Confederate political officials, which eventually spread beyond the state level to Richmond and was one of the raft of allegations in the successful impeachment and conviction of President Edwin W. Edwards in late 1986; as such, the Clanton fire was both a major factor in the domestic politics of the mid-1980s Confederacy already roiled by the violence of the racial conflict known as the Problems, and a major break in the deepening economic ties between Dixie and Germany.
The incident was ranked as Level 5 on the Nuclear Scale Event, only one of two incidents to ever rank that high, the other being the 1999 Blayais nuclear accident in France; about two hundred cancer deaths in central Alabama between 1986 and 1996 are thought to be linked to the Clanton fire.
The incident was a huge public relations disaster for Deutsche Atom specifically and the nuclear industry generally, which until then had been on an exponential growth path in the 1970s and early 1980s. The pace of reactor construction slowed dramatically in the second half of the 1980s, only to pick up against starting in the early 1990s after the 1988-89 oil crisis. The standardized "base designs" offered by Westinghouse, the chief American competitor to Deutsche Atom, became increasingly popular, and designs incorporating better containment safeguards and firestopping proliferated not just in nuclear construction but also in other construction.
The incident also became a major political affair in the Confederacy, where APC and the Alabama government were accused in a series of mounting scandals of a cover-up of how severe the incident actually was and suppressing reports suggesting that more radioactive dust and ash had been released than previously thought; it was a major factor in the electoral victory in 1986 of political outsider and former rugby player Bart Starr as Governor. The fire was also a major factor into investigations of bribery by Deutsche Atom and other German firms of Confederate political officials, which eventually spread beyond the state level to Richmond and was one of the raft of allegations in the successful impeachment and conviction of President Edwin W. Edwards in late 1986; as such, the Clanton fire was both a major factor in the domestic politics of the mid-1980s Confederacy already roiled by the violence of the racial conflict known as the Problems, and a major break in the deepening economic ties between Dixie and Germany.
The incident was ranked as Level 5 on the Nuclear Scale Event, only one of two incidents to ever rank that high, the other being the 1999 Blayais nuclear accident in France; about two hundred cancer deaths in central Alabama between 1986 and 1996 are thought to be linked to the Clanton fire.
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Breaking my unofficial rule on writing about events that happened before 1990 (the year I was born and thus an easy cutoff) but scrolling through older entries I saw that this was specifically requested, and gives a nice taste of the 1980s, too.
If the 6 year pattern continues, that means he's ousted just a year before the election.