Hexboare [they/them]

Ellen Meiksins Wood’s pretty compelling argument was that capitalism arose first as agrarian capitalism in England with the enclosure of common property, the imposition of market relations (tenants needing to rent and dependent on markets rather than substance farming) and the relationship between the 200 or so landowning family who dominated the state.

Wood also brings the idea of improvement of productive capacity as a critical definitional element of capitalism - which I think is really crucial.

So for example, you say what if the Greeks or Romans deployed steam technology in an industrial way. And someone else might respond “oh well, they didn’t have the metallurgical technology to prepare the high quality steel required to use steam technology to further mechanise production”. But if you’re a medieval business owner, you’re not really thinking that if you invested in the metallurgical tech tree, you’ll let steam power - with the exception of the capitalist hell bent on increasing output in a highly competitive environment.

Technological development is driven primarily by social relations - which is why you have marvels like the Antikythera mechanism with a complex system of 60+ gears sinking to the bottom of the Mediterranean and the technology otherwise being basically unused in Greek society.

Not really new, they’ve backed that cartel for ages

https://world.time.com/2014/01/14/dea-boosted-mexican-drug-cartel/

The U.S. government allowed the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel to carry out its business unimpeded between 2000 and 2012 in exchange for information on rival cartels, an investigation by El Universal claims.

Citing court documents, the Mexican newspaper reports that DEA officers met with top Sinaloa officials over fifty times and offered to have charges against cartel members dropped in the U.S., among other pledges.

I would be more interested in debt by income decile. 30 percent is something government could cop for 3 percent inflationary pressure over ten years (assuming repayment perfectly translates into domestic consumption impacts)

Kola will still be deeper

South America is also okay in the high (47 teragrams of soot) scenario - nukes in the northern hemisphere, impacts in the northern hemisphere

That’s a no trade scenario and just models current production

stale gameplay slop story

Contemporary setting is a mistake too

I will buy a cd key and crank the hacks online though

Bear in the mind that this is the Portuguese energy company saying the issue was temperature swings in Spain, not a Spanish power company

Better tweet that fascist granddaughter

Every worker a small business owner with one employee

Compensation can be good, but they have to work within a legal system that doesn’t easily facilitate their corporate structure and ultimately “the workers get paid well” falls short of my expectations

Huawei is one of the 996 companies (72 hour work week) so that ain’t great

200ft/60m of soil before detonation

Surely you’d be mad not to bury everything a couple hundred metres further underground

It was a social market experiment

I think the shift from a three tier to two tier administrative sub-national structure would be mirrored in Vietnamese party/political structures - e.g. the district party office is merged with the relevant functions of the provincial and communal offices

They don’t have whole engines yet, but apparently aren’t far off

Even the bigger responses targetting power infrastructure have been quite gentle compared to the classic ‘destroy all civilian infrastructure’ approach

To be fair, one of them (Sylvester Turner) is from a cursed seat - both him and his predecessor died like a few months after being elected

me with my basket of groceries that’s just caviar I don’t know what they’re complaining about