33rd Street and Park Avenue South. NYC. 1964. The armory was demolished in 1970. Photographer unknown. Original 35mm slide collection of Susan Fensten.
US ancestries by Wordsum score.
Top 3: European Jews 7.36 ยท English/Welsh 7.04 ยท Scottish 6.93
Bottom 3: Other Asian 4.89 ยท Other Hispanic 4.82 ยท American-only Black 4.64
Correlation with g = 0.7
Today in 1759, a British army under James Wolfe lays siege to the fortress city of Quebec. The 78-day standoff ends when the redcoats draw the French out onto the Plains of Abraham and defeat them in less than an hour. Wolfe dies in the battle but New France falls to the British.
Capitalism sees every new crises as a way to fill gaps and innovate new techniques to manage its domain(s). Every โaccelerationistโ is a capitalist no matter what they purport to believe or idealisms they claim to represent.