posts, 0a4: Simplify lengthy footnote

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@@ -195,31 +195,17 @@ second one isn't really worth it.
 [^1]: "Târg" may also denote a small town in this language. Hey, don't
     blame me, I'm just the messenger.
 
-[^2]: I don't know how else to put it, so who knows, someone apter
-    than me at this linguistics/history thing might illuminate me.
-
-       "Curtea Domnească" is literally "the court of the Domn", where
-    "Domn" is what local rulers called themselves. The word comes from
-    the Latin "Dominus", i.e. a master, ruler, king, etc. However,
-    Wallachia and Moldavia weren't ever really sovereign, much like,
-    despite tons of pretense, today's Romania isn't really a sovereign
-    -- sovereign entities don't abide by whatever random rules are set
-    in place by external parties, do they? And so, much like today's
-    Romania sucks up to NATO and the EU, medieval Wallachia sucked up
-    to the High Porte. Yes, Vlad and Ștefan did burn and impale a few
-    thousands of Ottoman fuckers when they tried to undermine their
-    religious independence, but they still paid that tribute to keep
-    their heads in place.
-
-       So then, I think it'd way too much to say that Wallachian and
-    Moldavian voyvods were "Domini" in the true sense of the
-    word. Lords, surely, and "pământeni", i.e. of the land, as opposed
-    to the more recent Phanariote rule; but they paid well to hold
-    their castles and, as can be seen in Vlad the Third's case, they
-    otherwise paid with their life once external (and local, for that
-    matter) support ceased to exist.
+[^2]: "Curtea Domnească" is literally "the court of the Domn", where
+    "Domn" was locally used to denote the absolute owner and ruler
+    over some particular piece of land. The word comes from the Latin
+    "Dominus", i.e. a ruler, master, in other words, a lord who is
+    [given][concedo-hoc] dominion over some domain.
+
+       What can I say. The more things change, the more they stay the
+    same.
 
 [logz-1938822]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-28#1938822
 [ov-wiktionary]: http://archive.is/YJRl4
+[concedo-hoc]: http://trilema.com/2019/concedo-hoc/
 [logz-1935969]: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-09-13#1935969
 [altemberger]: /posts/y05/07d-klausenburg.html#selection-296.0-296.3