Determinism is the belief that all events occur due to pre-existing circumstances that are beyond our control.

Dungeons & Dragons or D&D is a tabletop role-playing game. Players create fantasy characters and embark on a journey through a world built by the Dungeon Master, fighting monsters, completing quests, and interacting with all sorts of magic.

Players create characters, choose their class, species, and abilities, maneuver them through role-playing and combat, and work cooperatively with each other. The Dungeon Master often writes the setting, writes quests, referees the rules, and controls every monster and non-player-character the players interact with. Campaigns are often fluid, with the story changing depending on the actions the players decide to take.

You are a friend group of young adults who want to start a DND campaign. You are all semi-experienced.

The House of Elders, also known as the Guurti, is the upper house of the Parliament of Somaliland. Members of the Guurti are appointed by Somaliland’s clans and subclans. The Guurti is similar to the US Senate, with most laws having to be approved by it, requiring a two-thirds majority in the lower house to overturn its veto.

Jubilee is a youtube debate and discussion show with a focus on political content. Prominent shows include Surrounded, where 1 famous figure debates against 20-25 others and Middle Ground, where politically opposed participants discuss to find common ground. The show has hosted popular figures such as Jordan Peterson, Charlie Kirk, Pete Buttigeg, and Alex O'Connor.

Leadership decapitation is a strategy that targets the top leadership of violent or criminal organizations typically through capture, assassination, or other means of removal to disrupt or dismantle the group.

Small Liberal Arts Colleges are unique from typical universities in a few significant ways. SLACs typically enroll only a few thousand students, are nearly entirely residential, and privately run. Academically, SLACs focus more on undergraduate teaching than on research, emphasizing small class sizes, generalist curriculums, and the humanities.

There are about 600 SLACs across the United States, with about 5% of American undergraduates enrolled in one. Some of the top SLACs are Williams College in Massachusetts, Bowdoin College in Maine, and Middlebury College in Vermont.

The "broke man" trope is a recurring narrative in romance media where a female protagonist chooses a man who is financially struggling or working class and often opposes social norms over a wealthier, more materially successful man. These stories often emphasize true love prevailing over financial uncertainty.

Universalism is the belief that God will save every individual and allow them to reach heaven regardless of their beliefs or actions. For sinners, Hell is therefore not eternal, as they will at some point be saved.

The Catholic Church is currently losing ground in the West to nonbelief and to the rise of Evangelical Protestantism in many parts of the developing world.