Well, specifically in china. Thata what i found fascinating about china, its been continously "civilized" longer than anywhere else on earth. This guy was writing poems complaining about being a pencil pusher at the same time as my illiterate ancestors lived in an english swamp
Everyone’s stopped talking about it for some reason, but the defense of Minneapolis was the most seismic victory against Trumpism. That was supposed to be the blueprint for their autocracy and it was defeated and humiliated by astounding collective action from ordinary Americans.
reading this thread of retail workers going 'we are constantly on skeleton crews so nothing works, it sucks' I'm struck by how many people in education I know are experiencing something similar
of course this would happen. And they all don’t even know. Chills thinking about the moment they find out the obvious — what we all already know. I’m scared for them, but not myself or the ones who know. People need to know but if you don’t know it might be too late. Know now.
They don't want you to know this but the wholesale destruction of the Caribbean through the establishment of plantations using African chattel slaves to produce sugar and tobacco was the first instance of treatlerism in modern times
The proliferation of Substacks, like the mediocre literary works of French officers on the eve of the Revolution, betrays a bored and unoccupied elite.
Unfortunately this has activated my most niche nerd special interest: the logistics of how stuff gets made. And the answer is any sizable bakery. Your average suburban Starbucks will have like 20 people working on any given day and they don’t even make anything on site.
The New York Times report on the rescued US airman falsely implies local Iranians aided him.
I asked Julian Barnes, co-author of the report, what the evidence was for this. His Response: 'Oh, Iranians didn't assist the airman. This was speculation "from our Iran experts."
(The article never clarifies that this was pure speculation, without any evidence; it has not been edited to indicate that in Barnes's own assessment the airman was not assisted by local Iranians; and it is being used to manufacture consent for this war, based on the conspiracy theory that 'Iranians want this.' Do better, @nytimes. Very disappointing.)
Three dozen industry insiders say the public is failing to grasp the severity of the situation while revealing that they themselves have failed to grasp the severity of the situation.
Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran.
My best summary: this war is dumb as hell.
https://t.co/KyKLgCIq3k