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961.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
5-6% of the purchase price still seems like a huge amount. Of course I don’t really know how many houses decent agents tend to sell per year.
962.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The system broke down when they stopped trying to disperse immigrants across wide areas and directly integrate them into the social/military system. Instead they allowed them to settle as a group, maintain their own leadership and armi
963.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I agree, just saying that it wasn’t the cornerstone of Mediterranean trade networks at the point anymore? Also weren’t the main ‘goods’ exported from the area north to the black sea mainly slaves and grain? IIRC The demand for slaves in the
964.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Yes but the Portuguese had no real part in that trade and the return of investment for their initial expeditions was massive. They would have still been extremely profitable even if the prices of spices in Europe was a bit lower.
965.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Presumably the people who are actually any good at this are off running their own businesses etc. So who are you left with? A small of number of “retired” ex-executives who might actually be quite good at ‘coaching’ and a huge number of gr
966.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The increase in damage due to the higher weight is insignificant if semis and other heavy vehicles are allowed on that road. Also you could just get a slightly smaller cars since EVs tend to be a bit more space efficient.
967.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Because, as a hunter, if you're hunting solely for some weird joy of killing things, you're a sociopath. Or honest both to others and yourself.
968.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Why? It has nothing to do with my dietary “philosophy” harvest just seems like very silly word to use in this case for no straightforward reason. It not like anybody would say that they “harvest” farm animals (I hope)?
969.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
For what? There was a significant influx from the Balkans and Ukrainian steppes etc. during the the Ottoman period due to the extensive importation of slaves. But otherwise the Turkish population at least in the west and most other coastal
970.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Usually technically the Greeks since the Turks settled the region much later.. I don’t really know why would that ever matter at this point though.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> still was centuries ahead from what had been happening I don’t think that’s the right attitude to take, history is not necessarily “linear” all the time. e.g. there was a period during the Reconquista when Jews and moderate Muslims wer
972.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Roman Empire's "hands-off" governance model Is really not something that would describe the medieval Roman empire (or pre-medieval one as well to be fair) very well. It was the most centralized state in Europe well into
973.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Constantinople was a just a small city state at this point since the empire had lost most of its territory centuries earlier. Most trade with the east was done through the Levant and Egypt.
974.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I generally quite enjoyed the podcast but I found it a bit weird how in the episode about the Aztecs the author was so adamant to call them by their actual name that the ‘Aztec’ people used themselves. However he had no issue at all with th
975.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> because of all slaves Ottomans brought into Istanbul. The genetic makeup of Anatolia did not change that much due to the Turkic invasion. Moat people in Turkey are still descendants of the Greeks, Armenians, Kurds and other who lived t
976.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Even before the official collapse the western half hardly had any of these. The Goths who took Italy for themselves were infact the army of the Western Empire which was basically dead for years now. The Gothic king simply realized that ther
977.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The official language did not change to Greek until the empire nearly collapsed as a result of the plague, Persian wars and the Arab invasion. The state that emerged from this was were different to the Roman Empire rules by Justinian in man
978.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
They didn’t really consider these two halves to be separate states, the empire was viewed as universal and indivisible by most. Having multiple emperors was perfectly acceptable though, if not entirely practical most of the time.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> harvest it at Thanksgiving. That’s s such a weird way to describe the killing of a wild animal, as if it was a pumpkin you were growing in your back yard. Not that I’m saying that there something inherently about hunting in general.
980.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Except there wouldn’t and nobody would care
981.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
They won’t be able to export them to other countries then
982.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
You could. Or you could buy the Series X. It should be pretty obvious that Series > One > 360. I think it’s absolutely baffling that somebody might find such a perfectly logical and reasonable naming system confusing.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
At this point though the PC gaming market is indistinguishable from Xbox which is just a closed down Windows PC with DRM. AFAIK all Xbox games are supposed to be available on PC anyway?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
X > S Seems pretty intuitive..
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Fact is that the famine could have easily be averted or at least reduced to a huge extent by the government.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Also post WW1 Germany or rather post armistice pre-Versailles when hundreds of thousands died and millions suffered from malnutrition due to the allied blockade (which they maintained “just in case” Germany decided to restart the war..)
987.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
It works in some cases and doesn’t in others. That’s basic microeconomics.
988.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The USSR managed to catastrophically mismanaged its agricultural policy to such a degree that people would had actually been at the risk of starvation there without food imports from the west which lasted for decades. So what you’re implyin
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
To be fair former Warsaw pact countries didn’t necessarily really have that many shortages during the cold war. Yes certain products were hard to get but famine or even malnutrition weren’t a real concern
990.
by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Why do you think Turkey suddenly switched sides after a failed coup?. Switched sides to whom? What are you talking about?

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