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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> because the medieval Latins traded more with the Arabs than they did with Byzantium That’s really not even remotely true. The Empire was the primary foreign market for all the Italian merchant republics. They almost always had a signif
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Define Supremacist. Summary of your comments in this and sibling threads
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
“Official” is not a synonym of “dominant”, though? Is it?
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Even in Rome itself a pound of black pepper cost only ~4 days wages for a low-skill laborer
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Which is not particularly helpful when you can openly bribe Supreme Court justices with not repercussions..
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> civil cases for damages would be against the state, not the state representative Isn’t that the same as QI?
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> An old guard who had belief in the process going by it even when dealing with To be fair the situation in Germany was multipolar. Hindenburg wasn’t a huge fan of democracy or especially of one run by Catholics, liberals and socialists
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
To be fair there is still a very long way to go if you look at the actual details. > There are a lot of parallels between Weimar Germany and the current state of the USA It might be dysfunctional but largely in very different ways (unles
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> It had armed gangs, both right and left-wing, fighting in the streets And even moderate ones. > completely failed monetary policy IIRC during the period between 1923 and the Great Depression (i.e. majority of its existence) it was r
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> It just gave the leader certain rights, and suddenly Hitler became the dictator, creating Nazi Germany Not it didn’t give him those rights. The parliament (including moderate parties) explicitly granted him the power to so whatever he
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> otherwise a politician paid by putin could remove the ability for the president to fire the nuclear weapons. You can’t have randos deciding what the leader can do. No, apparently it’s much easier and safer to just pay off the president
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
And you’re are free to sue the government in that case. The DOJ won’t prosecute the president for ordering something like that even after he leaves office..
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Because there isn’t? Just frame the assassination as fighting domestic terrorists or some other nonsense.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Depends, people keep saying stuff about “Europe” as if it’s some single monolithic place. In any case very few people live in old town houses built prior to the late 19th century (in those places have their own issues) and there was plenty
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
it was, if we pay attention to the context and phrasing
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> as creative as thinking the earth is flat. No, it’s just very basic (completely orthodox) supply/demand economics
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Not for everyone, but there are customers. A tiny, insignificant number which could never justify the cost
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Prussia was a state that included plenty of culturally in no way Prussian territories in the 1800s. Calling someone from Cologne Prussian was about as silly as claiming that Belgian Walloons were Dutch prior to 1830. Most people who lived i
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Or more likely Prussian, or some other pre-modern political identity Prussia, let alone Prussian “identity” is not something that existed well into the mid to late modern era.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Most Yiddish speakers (or even their ancestors for many generations) didn’t live in Germany, though.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Wouldn’t a system where you need bribe a large number of bureaucrats (who might have differing opinions and priorities) still be more robust than one where you just need to bribe a couple of corrupt Supreme Court justices like now? > th
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Why? I don’t agree that wouldn’t be at all acceptable. And even > 90% would be very expensive to achieve in winter in much of Europe (of course there are alternatives to solar so it’s not such a huge issue)
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
Well… over 80 million of people live in Germany: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/monthly-gener... Over-provisioning by 7x might not be extremely practical. I guess there is a lot of space in Spain t
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Just by buying an electric vehicle I already have more than enough batteries to solve these problems for my household. Not if you live in Northern Europe. Solar is basically worthless there during winter. I’m not even talking about pol
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> We call that the 'night Or winter sufficiently close to the north pole (i.e. significant proportion of Europe). Days get short and it’s usually cloudy so solar becomes extremely inefficient.
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> all the power to everything from small remote weather stations through houses to large islands Not without very large capacity gas/etc. plants available on standby (unless you’re fine with will below 99% availability)
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
So far nuclear has been extremely safe compared to some other energy sources (especially coal).
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> Does coal kill rich people? Certainly, they still breathe the same air, don’t they? > Nuclear meltdown does. I’m pretty sure that nuclear meltdowns are much, much easier to avoid. Even in Chernobyl almost all the casualties (shortte
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
> 200m+ Were are you getting this from? In any case if we look at the actual data nuclear has been extremely safe compared to burning fossil fuels. Add up all the nuclear disasters that have ever happened and adjusted by MWh generated it
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by ffgjgf1 2y ago
You do know that as good as it might have been that TV show was still mostly fictional?

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