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So, does TTL Objectivism begin with Rice or was it founded by someone else?Author Swap
Ayn Rand was a Russian-American author best known for works of fantasy, horror and gothic romance. Her most iconic works, The Vampyre Lestat and Akasha Shrugged, are widely considered to be the defining works of contemporary vampire literature. Both works have been adapted into films multiple times (the former three times and the latter twice) and have been cited by contemporary authors as key influences on their works. Rand has been credited with creating the urban fantasy genre by some, though this is somewhat disputed.
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Anne Rice is an American author best known as the leading figure in the modern American Objectivist movement. Rice has written a number of nonfiction philosophical works on the virtue of rational self-interest, metaphysics and free market economics that have been praised by other Objectivists such as Nicholas Brendan and Yaron Brooks. Rice is also a novelist whose works regularly espouse Objectivist themes. Interview with an Architect and The Rational John Galt are her most prominent works. She is a highly controversial figure owing to her hardline political beliefs and tendency towards dogmatism, but has a cult following among right-wingers.
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So, does TTL Objectivism begin with Rice or was it founded by someone else?
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Interesting. Where did you come up with the term Royal?This isn't a wikibox, but it is a list that could be posted on Wikipedia... and honestly I had no idea which thread to put it in, so I thought I'd put it in here.
Alternate decimalization of British currency, designed to minimize the disruption of getting people to learn a new currency.
Currency immediately prior to decimalization, same as OTL, 1968:
Coins
Half-penny (½d)
Penny (1d)
Threepence (3d)
Sixpence (6d)
Shilling (1/-) (=12 pence)
Florin (2/-)
Half-crown (2/6)
Crown (5/-)
Notes
Ten shillings (10/-)
Pound (=20 shillings)
Five pounds
Ten pounds
TTL's alternate decimalization involves the pound being deprecated and the main British unit of currency being the royal (ℛ), equivalent to 5 pounds. This way, there are 100 shillings in a royal.
Currency following this alternate decimalization, 1973:
Coins
Half-penny: Withdrawn
Penny (1d)
Threepence (3d)
Sixpence (6d)
Shilling (1/-) (=12 pence). New decimal notation: ℛ0.01
Florin (2/-). New decimal notation: ℛ0.02
Half-crown: Production stopped (though still legal currency)
Crown (5/-). New decimal notation: ℛ0.05
Ten shillings (10/-): changed from a note to a coin. New decimal notation: ℛ0.10
Notes
Twenty shillings (formerly, and still colloquially, known as a pound). New decimal notation: ℛ0.20
One royal (formerly known as five pounds). New decimal notation: ℛ1.00
Two royal (formerly known as ten pounds). New decimal notation: ℛ2.00
Five royal (New note; equals 25 pounds). New decimal notation: ℛ5.00
Ten royal (New note; equals 50 pounds). New decimal notation: ℛ10.00
Fifteen years later, to simplify the currency to a fully-decimal system, and also due to the lack of need for the smallest coin any more, the one-penny coin is abolished, as is the concept of the penny.
Currency ITTL, 1990:
Coins
Penny: Withdrawn
Quarter-shilling (ℛ0.00¼) (formerly known as threepence)
Half-shilling (ℛ0.00½) (formerly known as sixpence)
Shilling (ℛ0.01)
Two shillings, a.k.a Florin (ℛ0.02)
Five shillings, a.k.a. Crown (ℛ0.05)
Ten shillings (ℛ0.10)
Twenty shillings (ℛ0.20): changed from a note to a coin
Notes
One royal (ℛ1.00)
Two royal (ℛ2.00)
Five royal (ℛ5.00)
Ten royal (ℛ10.00)
Over the next 30 years, the quarter- and half- shillings would end up being withdrawn due to their low value. Here are the coins and notes in circulation in TTL 2020, along with their equivalent in OTL money.
Currency ITTL, 2020:
Coins
Quarter-shilling: Withdrawn 1998
Half-shilling: Withdrawn 2016
Shilling (ℛ0.01) - OTL: £0.05
Two shillings (ℛ0.02) - OTL: £0.10
Five shillings (ℛ0.05) - OTL: £0.25
Ten shillings (ℛ0.10) - OTL: £0.50
Twenty shillings (ℛ0.20) - OTL: £1.00
Fifty shillings (ℛ0.50): Introduced 1998 - OTL: £2.50
Notes
One royal (ℛ1.00) - OTL: £5.00
Two royal (ℛ2.00) - OTL: £10.00
Five royal (ℛ5.00) - OTL: £25.00
Ten royal (ℛ10.00) - OTL: £50.00
IIRC, the term "Royal" was proposed IOTL for an alternate decimalization, for an amount of money equalling 100 old pence. This, of course, never happened. Think I read that somewhere a while ago.Interesting. Where did you come up with the term Royal?
I decided to do a Star Trek infobox that doesn't follow the continuity of either Discovery or that clusterfuck known as Axanar. I imported some Discovery characters though just for fun
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The Klingons were brutal, especially compared to Starfleet who never targets civilians. And this 397 million is spread out across dozens of planetsUh wow. That's a lot of Starfleet civilian casualties.
This actually sounds like an interesting idea. Could I perhaps do some senatorial, gubernatorial, and mayoral elections using this concept?ME-GOV 2002 with an electoral college, plus each county's electoral votes.
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For mayoral it might not work that well since there aren't usually that many subdivisions of cities that are easily useable.This actually sounds like an interesting idea. Could I perhaps do some senatorial, gubernatorial, and mayoral elections using this concept?
Sure, I picked it off a tweet saying that, pardon my current politics, Beto would have won Texas's EC last year.This actually sounds like an interesting idea. Could I perhaps do some senatorial, gubernatorial, and mayoral elections using this concept?
Quick question, how did you calculate EV?Sure, I picked it off a tweet saying that, pardon my current politics, Beto would have won Texas's EC last year.
Multiplied the number of counties by 8.7 (the average number of representatives per state), rounded, apportioned by Huntington Hill, then added two to the results.Quick question, how did you calculate EV?
This amuses me because Wolff and Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre (AKA Supernatural Law) merged the two once when it did a parody of the sexy vampire trend.Author Swap
Ayn Rand was a Russian-American author best known for works of fantasy, horror and gothic romance. Her most iconic works, The Vampyre Lestat and Akasha Shrugged, are widely considered to be the defining works of contemporary vampire literature. Both works have been adapted into films multiple times (the former three times and the latter twice) and have been cited by contemporary authors as key influences on their works. Rand has been credited with creating the urban fantasy genre by some, though this is somewhat disputed.
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Anne Rice is an American author best known as the leading figure in the modern American Objectivist movement. Rice has written a number of nonfiction philosophical works on the virtue of rational self-interest, metaphysics and free market economics that have been praised by other Objectivists such as Nicholas Brendan and Yaron Brooks. Rice is also a novelist whose works regularly espouse Objectivist themes. Interview with an Architect and The Rational John Galt are her most prominent works. She is a highly controversial figure owing to her hardline political beliefs and tendency towards dogmatism, but has a cult following among right-wingers.
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